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1 online resource (xi, 379 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Note |
Sequel to: Handbook of evolutionary psychology. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
PART I: METHODOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHIE CONSIDERATIONS -- Public policy and personal decisions: the evolutionary context / Charles Crawford -- Essence of evolutionary psychology: an introduction / Charles Crawford, Catherine Salmon -- Beyond sociobiology: a kinder and gentler evolutionary view of human nature / Maria G. Janicki -- Darwin and evolutionary moral psychology / Harmon Holcomb -- PART II: COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES -- Mentalism and mechanism: the twin modes of human cognition / Christopher Badcock -- Self-deception: helping and hindering public and personal decision making / Michele K. Surbey -- Ancestral emotions, current decisions: using evolutionary game theory to explore the role of emotions in decision making / Timothy Ketelaar -- Natural law and natural selection: deontic reasoning as part of evolved human nature / Laurence Fiddick -- PART III: REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS -- Marital cooperation and conflict / Margo Wilson, Martin Daly -- Pornography debate: what sex differences in erotica can tell about human sexuality / Catherine Salmon -- Why don't men pay child support? Insights from evolutionary psychology / Todd K. Shackelford, Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford -- Evolutionary life history perspective on rape / Randy Thornhill, Craig T. Palmer -- Women in the workplace: evolutionary perspectives and public policy / Kingsley R. Browne -- Is psychopathy a pathology or a life strategy? Implications for social policy / Kirsten N. Barr, Vernon L. Quinsey -- Cultivating morality and constructing moral systems: how to make silk purses from sows' ears / Dennis L. Krebs -- Darwinism and public policy: the view from political science / Robert S. Robins. |
| Summary |
This volume's aim is to start the process of using theory and findings of evolutionary psychology to help make the world a better place to live. Taking evolutionary psychology explicitly into applied areas, it includes a reasonable scope of applications from pornography to psychopaths and from morality to sex differences in the workplace. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Evolutionary psychology.
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Evolutionary psychology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Crawford, Charles (Charles B.)
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Salmon, Catherine.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Evolutionary psychology, public policy, and personal decisions. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, ©2004 0805843779 0805849467 (DLC) 2003054726 (OCoLC)52410474 |
| ISBN |
1410609898 (electronic book) |
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9781410609892 (electronic book) |
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0805843779 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780805843774 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0805849467 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780805849462 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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