Evolutionary psychology and motivation
By: Jeffrey A. French, Alan C. Kamil, and Daniel W. Leger, volume editors ; presenters, Martin Daly ... [et al.]
Contributors: French, Jeffrey A.; Kamil, Alan C.; Leger, Daniel W.; Daly, Martin, 1944-
Series: Current theory and research in motivation ;; v. 47; Nebraska Symposium on Motivation ;; v. 47
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Lincoln, Neb; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Genetic psychology -- Congresses; Psychology, Comparative -- Congresses; Motivation -- congresses
Genres: Congresses.; congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction :; title: Fear and loathing of evolutionary psychology in the social sciences -- Daniel W. Leger, Alan C. Kamil, and Jeffrey A. French; title: Risk-taking, intrasexual competition, and homicide -- Martin Daly and Margo Wilson; title: Adaptive design, selective history, and women's sexual motivations -- Steven W. Gangestad; title: Pheromones and vasanas : the functions of social chemosignals -- Martha K. McClintock ... [et al.]; title: The adaptive toolbox : toward a Darwinian rationality -- Gerd Gigerenzer; title: Cognitive strategies and the representation of social relations by monkeys -- Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney; title: Motivation and melancholy : a Darwinian perspective -- Randolph M. Nesse.