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Applied Evolutionary Psychology

S. Craig Roberts

Abstract

Evolutionary psychology aims to understand and describe human behaviour in the light of past and continuing selection and adaptation. Still a young and developing discipline, the past couple of decades has seen enormous progress. As the science matures, its scope is inevitably beginning to broaden towards tackling contemporary issues in human society. To date, however, concerted effort to apply principle to practice has been patchy and limited in extent. This book aims to provide a foundation for an incipient focus on applications of evolutionary psychology. It draws together a collection of r ... More

Keywords: applied psychology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary biology, evolutionary social psychology, applied issues, human behaviour, social psychology

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2011 Print ISBN-13: 9780199586073
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2012 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586073.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

S. Craig Roberts, editor
Department of Psychology University of Stirling, UK

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

List of contributors

Chapter 1 Applying evolutionary psychology

S. Craig Roberts

Section 1 Business

Chapter 2 The evolutionary psychology of economics

Paul H. Rubin and C. Monica Capra

Chapter 3 The evolution of business and management

Nigel Nicholson

Chapter 4 The social animal within organizations

Abraham P. Buunk and Pieternel Dijkstra

Section 2 Family

Chapter 5 The evolved child: adapted to family life

David F. Bjorklund and Patrick Douglas Sellers II

Chapter 6 Application of evolutionary psychology to academic learning

David C. Geary

Chapter 7 Serial monogamy and clandestine adultery: evolution and consequences of the dual human reproductive strategy

Helen E. Fisher

Section 3 Society

Chapter 8 The evolutionary psychology of mass politics

Michael Bang Petersen

Chapter 9 Gender equity issues in evolutionary perspective

Bobbi S. Low

Chapter 10 The evolution of charitable behaviour and the power of reputation

Pat Barclay

Chapter 11 Altruism as showing off: a signalling perspective on promoting green behaviour and acts of kindness

Wendy Iredale and Mark van Vugt

Chapter 12 Evolutionary perspectives on intergroup prejudice: implications for promoting tolerance

Justin H. Park

Chapter 13 The evolutionary psychology of criminal behaviour

Aurelio José Figueredo, Paul Robert Gladden, and Zachary Hohman

Chapter 14 War, martyrdom, and terror: evolutionary underpinnings of the moral imperative to extreme group violence

Scott Atran

Chapter 15 Evolutionary theory and behavioural biology research: implications for law

David J. Herring

Section 4 Health

Chapter 16 Motivational mismatch: evolved motives as the source of—and solution to—global public health problems

Valerie Curtis and Robert Aunger

Chapter 17 Mental health and well-being: clinical applications of Darwinian psychiatry

Alfonso Troisi

Chapter 18 Evolutionary perspectives on sport and competition

Diana Wiedemann, Robert A. Barton, and Russell A. Hill

Section 5 Marketing and communication

Chapter 19 Why we buy: evolution, marketing, and consumer behaviour

Vladas Griskevicius, Joshua M. Ackerman, and Joseph P. Redden

Chapter 20 Evolutionary psychology and perfume design

S. Craig Roberts and Jan Havlicek

Chapter 21 Television programming and the audience

Charlotte De Backer

Chapter 22 News as reality-inducing, survival-relevant, and gender-specific stimuli

Maria Elizabeth Grabe

Section 6 Technology

Chapter 23 Media naturalness theory: human evolution and behaviour towards electronic communication technologies

Ned Kock

Chapter 24 Evolutionary psychology, demography, and driver safety research: a theoretical synthesis

David L. Wiesenthal and Deanna M. Singhal

Chapter 25 Evolutionary robotics

Dylan Evans and Walter de Back

End Matter

Index