On the origin of an evolutionary psychologist psychology. In evolutionary psychology as maladapted psychology, robert richardson takes a critical look at evolutionary psychology by subjecting its ambitious and controversial claims to the same sorts of methodological and evidential constraints that are broadly accepted within evolutionary biology. In general, evolutionary psychology says that we should look for mates that have characteristics that tell us that they will help to ensure our survival as well as produce, and enhance the survival, of our children. Fully updated with the latest research and new learning features, it provides a thoughtprovoking overview of evolution and illuminates the evolutionary foundation of many of the. Some in the scientific community are criticizing the socalled posthoc claims of evolutionary psychology.
That is, leadership suitability may be contingent upon the match between facial cues indicating, e. Rogerss the evidence for evolution is different from these books in that it is meant to be a brutally. Evolutionary psychology is an approach that views human nature as the product of a universal set of evolved psychological adaptations to recurring problems in the ancestral environment. Evolutionary psychology the only book on body language. The foundations of practice and the most recent discoveries intheintriguing newfield of evolutionary psychology why is the mind designed the way it is. Evolutionary psychology news, research and analysis. List of books and articles about evolutionary psychology. David buss, one of the foremost researchers in the field, has thoroughly revised his already successful text with nearly 400 new references to provide an even more comprehensive overview of this dynamic field.
The evolutionary psychology of emotions and behavior martie g. Evolutionary psychology brain and cognitive sciences. Evolutionary psychology is part of the wikiproject biology, an effort to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to biology on wikipedia. Adaptationist thinking about physiological mechanisms.
Essential evolutionary psychology introduces students to the core theories, approaches, and findings that are the necessary foundations for developing an understanding of the evolutionary psychology. It seeks to identify which human psychological traits are evolved adaptations that is, the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection in human evolution. An evolutionary psychological perspective does not yield a single invariant hypothesis about aggression or any other behavioral phenomenon. Taking evolutionary psychology seriously the psychologist.
By takingaim at such questions, the science of evolutionary psychology hasemerged as a vibrant new discipline producing groundbreakinginsights. Thus, within evolutionary psychology, several hypotheses are sometimes proposed and put into scientific competition with each other. How does input from theenvironment interact with the mind to produce behavior. Evolutionary,psychology, the,new,science,of,the,mind. Psychologists study processes of sense perception, thinking, learning, cognition, emotions and motivations, personality, abnormal behavior, interactions between individuals, and interactions with the environment. Current research on the evolution and development of cognition and affect, including intuitive physics, biology, and psychology, language, emotions, sexuality, and social relations. Evolutionary psychology this is a wikipedia book, a collection of wikipedia articles that can be easily saved, imported by an external electronic rendering service, and ordered as a printed book.
A beginners guide is a uniquely accessible yet comprehensive guide to the study of the effects of evolutionary theory on human behaviour. A subreddit for individuals who appreciate evolutionary explanations for human behavior, emotion, memory, and perception. It offers a sound, brief and student friendly explication of how evolutionary theory has. What are the best books about evolutionary psychology. The new science of evolutionary psychology has generated considerable controversy since its rise in the 1990s, with critics and proponents taking shots at one another. Written specifically for the general reader, and for entrylevel students, it covers all the most important elements of this interdisciplinary subject, from the role of evolution. It has been suggested that this is because evolutionary psychology hypotheses are speculative and tend not to be testable or falsifiabl. But there seems to be hostility towards it among some scientists. This textbook offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the complex but fascinating science of evolutionary psychology. Essential evolutionary psychology sage publications ltd. Book this book does not require a rating on the projects quality scale. Skeptic magazine devoted an issue to the controversy in 1996 vol. This includes altruism, prisoner dilemmas, heuristics, and material inspired by steven pinker, john alcock, randal nesse, and robert trivers. How do qualities that men find attractive vary from the qualities that women find attractive.
One of my favorite discoveries in the blogoverse is the evolutionary psychology blog, by rob kurzban of the university of pennsylvania. Rather, one needs to a consider the entire set of traits and b trace the organisms phylogeny, that is, the ancestral forms that produced it. The human body evolved over eons, slowly calibrating to the african savanna on which 98 percent of human ancestry lived and died. Using cuttingedge research and an engaging writing style, the fourth edition of evolutionary psychology ensures that your students will master. Evolution and human development by peter lafreniere hove. The new science of the mind, provides students with a thoroughly updated version of the best evolutionary psychology textbook on the market. Written for undergraduate psychology students, and assuming little knowledge of evolutionary science, the third edition of this classic textbook provides an essential introduction to evolutionary psychology.
Here is a list of books on evolutionary psychology published 20072010, based on a search of worldcat. This website is a product of more than just my own opinion. The first book to explore the practical applications of the field of evolutionary psychology, looking. I am a nerd for primary research and hack and analyze the research into a format that is more practical and userfriendly. These considerations, coupled with the fact that it is essential to be intellectually persuasive to succeed in the. The evolutionary psychology of emotions and behavior. As evolutionary psychology is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding human nature, a range of courses grounded in evolution would be useful, especially those in genetics, animal behavior. Affective influences on social cognition and behavior. This book examines human psychology and behavior through the lens of modern evolutionary psychology. The combination of these forms resulted in the creation of the evolutionary perspective in the 19 th century. In defense of evolutionary psychology scientific american. In moving this observation to human behavior, it is impossible to ignore the evolutionary psychol. I have used several competitors of busss textbook in the past, and none are as successful in inspiring student enthusiasm for the field. Evolutionary psychology explains how humans evolved to become gossips.
A howto guide 6 psychological mechanisms designed to estimate the degree of relatedness between self and target e. The evolutionary perspective is based on the foundations of cognitive psychology as well as evolutionary biology. By focusing on the way mind and behavior have developed and adapted to evolutionary pressures the authors show the relevance of an evolutionary approach to all areas of psychology and have created a standalone text that will also complement. The 6 th edition of david busss evolutionary psychology. A longing for power and social status mixed with hormones and fear can have deadly consequences. Content topics are logically arrayed, starting with challenges of survival, mating, parenting, and kinship. Evolutionary developmental psychology evolutionary developmental psychopathology evolutionary educational psychology evolutionary ethics evolutionary neuropathology evolutionary psychology research groups and centers human nature international association for the cognitive science of religion.
Evolutionary psychology psychology today international. Unlike many books on the topic,which focus on abstractions like kin selection, this book focuses on darwinian explanations of why we are the way we areemotionally and morally. This is the discipline that explains modern behavior using theories of human. The ne w science of the mind, 5e provides students with the conceptual tools of evolutionary psychology, and applies them to empirical research on the human mind. Evolutionary psychology news public group facebook. Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in the social and natural sciences that examines psychological structure from a modern evolutionary perspective. Taking evolutionary psychology seriously robin dunbar argues that debates over the role of evolution in psychology have been largely misplaced although evolution played a significant role in psychology and the social sciences during the late 19th century, the opening decades of the 20th century witnessed a profound parting of the ways. An accessible introduction to the science of evolutionary psychology and how it explains many aspects of human nature. Evolutionary psychology news is a group for the dissemination of news and discussion of evolutionary. The purpose of evolutionary psychology is to identify evolved. It considers genetics, ethology, anthropology, biology and other aspects of science as well.
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