- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- List of contributors
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Chapter 1 Applying evolutionary psychology -
Chapter 2 The evolutionary psychology of economics -
Chapter 3 The evolution of business and management -
Chapter 4 The social animal within organizations -
Chapter 5 The evolved child: adapted to family life -
Chapter 6 Application of evolutionary psychology to academic learning -
Chapter 7 Serial monogamy and clandestine adultery: evolution and consequences of the dual human reproductive strategy -
Chapter 8 The evolutionary psychology of mass politics -
Chapter 9 Gender equity issues in evolutionary perspective -
Chapter 10 The evolution of charitable behaviour and the power of reputation -
Chapter 11 Altruism as showing off: a signalling perspective on promoting green behaviour and acts of kindness -
Chapter 12 Evolutionary perspectives on intergroup prejudice: implications for promoting tolerance -
Chapter 13 The evolutionary psychology of criminal behaviour -
Chapter 14 War, martyrdom, and terror: evolutionary underpinnings of the moral imperative to extreme group violence -
Chapter 15 Evolutionary theory and behavioural biology research: implications for law -
Chapter 16 Motivational mismatch: evolved motives as the source of—and solution to—global public health problems -
Chapter 17 Mental health and well-being: clinical applications of Darwinian psychiatry -
Chapter 18 Evolutionary perspectives on sport and competition -
Chapter 19 Why we buy: evolution, marketing, and consumer behaviour -
Chapter 20 Evolutionary psychology and perfume design -
Chapter 21 Television programming and the audience -
Chapter 22 News as reality-inducing, survival-relevant, and gender-specific stimuli -
Chapter 23 Media naturalness theory: human evolution and behaviour towards electronic communication technologies -
Chapter 24 Evolutionary psychology, demography, and driver safety research: a theoretical synthesis -
Chapter 25 Evolutionary robotics - Index
Applying evolutionary psychology
Applying evolutionary psychology
- Chapter:
- Chapter 1 Applying evolutionary psychology
- Source:
- Applied Evolutionary Psychology
- Author(s):
S. Craig Roberts
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The chapter highlights the growing influence of evolutionary perspectives on psychology and social studies in general. It distinguishes the approaches of mainstream and evolutionary psychology based on proximate and ultimate levels of explanation for human behaviour. It is argued that ultimate (or functional) perspectives on behaviour contribute unique and important insights into human behaviour that are missed by standard social science approaches. Similarly to how the new discipline of evolutionary medicine is providing new ways of looking at health and disease, an applied evolutionary psychology may become increasingly influential in the development of more comprehensive understanding of human behaviour and contemporary issues.
Keywords: applied evolutionary psychology, proximate explanation, ultimate explanation, human behaviour, evolutionary medicine
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- List of contributors
-
Chapter 1 Applying evolutionary psychology -
Chapter 2 The evolutionary psychology of economics -
Chapter 3 The evolution of business and management -
Chapter 4 The social animal within organizations -
Chapter 5 The evolved child: adapted to family life -
Chapter 6 Application of evolutionary psychology to academic learning -
Chapter 7 Serial monogamy and clandestine adultery: evolution and consequences of the dual human reproductive strategy -
Chapter 8 The evolutionary psychology of mass politics -
Chapter 9 Gender equity issues in evolutionary perspective -
Chapter 10 The evolution of charitable behaviour and the power of reputation -
Chapter 11 Altruism as showing off: a signalling perspective on promoting green behaviour and acts of kindness -
Chapter 12 Evolutionary perspectives on intergroup prejudice: implications for promoting tolerance -
Chapter 13 The evolutionary psychology of criminal behaviour -
Chapter 14 War, martyrdom, and terror: evolutionary underpinnings of the moral imperative to extreme group violence -
Chapter 15 Evolutionary theory and behavioural biology research: implications for law -
Chapter 16 Motivational mismatch: evolved motives as the source of—and solution to—global public health problems -
Chapter 17 Mental health and well-being: clinical applications of Darwinian psychiatry -
Chapter 18 Evolutionary perspectives on sport and competition -
Chapter 19 Why we buy: evolution, marketing, and consumer behaviour -
Chapter 20 Evolutionary psychology and perfume design -
Chapter 21 Television programming and the audience -
Chapter 22 News as reality-inducing, survival-relevant, and gender-specific stimuli -
Chapter 23 Media naturalness theory: human evolution and behaviour towards electronic communication technologies -
Chapter 24 Evolutionary psychology, demography, and driver safety research: a theoretical synthesis -
Chapter 25 Evolutionary robotics - Index
