Applied evolutionary psychology
By: edited by S. Craig Roberts
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780199586073
Subjects: Psychological Adaptation; Biological Evolution
Description: This title considers how basic evolutionary thinking is being applied to a wide range of special social, economic, and technical problems. It draws together a collection of renowned academics from a very disparate set of fields, whose common interest lies in using evolutionary thinking to inform their research.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Applying evolutionary psychology / S. Craig Roberts; title: The evolutionary psychology of economics / Paul H. Rubin and C. Monica Capra; title: The evolution of business and management / Nigel Nicholson; title: The social animal within organizations / Abraham P. Buunk and Pieternel Dijkstra; title: The evolved child : adapted to family life / David F. Bjorklund and Patrick Douglas Sellers II; title: Application of evolutionary psychology to academic learning / David C. Geary; title: Serial monogamy and clandestine adultery : evolution and consequences of the dual human reproductive strategy / Helen E. Fisher; title: The evolutionary psychology of mass politics / Michael Bang Petersen; title: Gender equity issues in evolutionary perspective / Bobbi S. Low; title: The evolution of charitable behaviour and the power of reputation / Pat Barclay; title: Altruism as showing off : a signalling perspective on promoting green behaviour and acts of kindness / Wendy Iredale and Mark van Vugt; title: Evolutionary perspectives on intergroup prejudice : implications for promoting tolerance / Justin H. Park; title: The evolutionary psychology of criminal behaviour / Aurelio José Figueredo, Paul Robert Gladden, and Zachary Hohman; title: War, martyrdom, and terror : evolutionary underpinnings of the moral imperative to extreme group violence / Scott Atran; title: Evolutionary theory and behavioural biology research: implications for law / David J. Herring; title: Motivational mismatch : evolved motives as the source of, and solution to, global public health problems / Valerie Curtis and Robert Aunger; title: Mental health and well-being : clinical applications of Darwinian psychiatry / Alfonso Troisi; title: Evolutionary perspectives on sport and competition / Diana Wiedemann, Robert A. Barton, and Russell A. Hill; title: Why we buy : evolution, marketing, and consumer behaviour / Vladas Griskevicius, Joshua M. Ackerman, and Joseph P. Redden; title: Evolutionary psychology and perfume design / S. Craig Roberts and Jan Havlicek; title: Television programming and the audience / Charlotte De Backer; title: News as reality-inducing, survival-relevant, and gender-specific stimuli / Maria Elizabeth Grabe; title: Media naturalness theory : human evolution and behaviour towards electronic communication technologies / Ned Kock; title: Evolutionary psychology, demography, and driver safety research : a theoretical synthesis / David L. Wiesenthal and Deanna M. Singhal; title: Evolutionary robotics / Dylan Evans and Walter de Back.