Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind

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He then migrated to the University of Michigan, where he taught for 11 years before accepting his current position at the University of Texas at Austin. See "Support Material" below for new online resources, including PowerPoint slides and Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank. Buss examines human behavior from an evolutionary perspective, providing students with the conceptual tools needed to study evolutionary. And, if my wife fell in love with me because I’m more eloquent, why on earth would she have done that? In 1990 he set up the first undergraduate module in Evolutionary Psychology at a British University.

Reader and Workman outline how evolutionary thinking can enhance the core areas of psychology: social, developmental, biological, cognitive, and individual differences/abnormal psychology.

David Brooks An argument against the old view that there is no such thing as human nature, that we’re all culturally determined.

Páginas(503 no total) muito boas maioria das ilustrações fotos e tabelas são coloridas algumas preto e branco. Nigel Warburton Wright has a degree of evangelism about him, but he’s not saying this is the only way to achieve a better life. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published. For example, looking at mating strategies, they might interview 1,000 men and show them pairs of pictures and say: ‘which of these images do you prefer?But rather than arguing that we are innately altruistic, he makes a more subtle claim—that we are fundamentally groupish. Despite its popularity among intellectuals during much of the twentieth century, he argues, the doctrine of the Blank Slate may have done more harm than good. To help, here's our list of books by winners of the Nobel literature prize that have been recommended on Five Books. Who speeds through traffic lights, who doesn’t stop at traffic lights, it’s the people in the nice cars.

While Mating in Captivity shows why the domestic realm can feel like a cage, Perel's take on bedroom dynamics promises to liberate, enchant, and provoke. I thought it must be quite obscure, so I was almost disappointed to find that lots of evolutionary psychologists love this book.

It's a timely book about how and why violence has steadily decreased throughout our history, and how we can continue this trend. In Why Buddhism is True, Wright leads readers on a journey through psychology, philosophy, and a great many silent retreats to show how and why meditation can serve as the foundation for a spiritual life in a secular age.

For example, while debates on sexual assault are unlikely to be comfortable, the information offered here can be useful in addressing the crime. So we know that there will have been pressure to behave morally, in the way other people think of it. If you start to trust people—because there’s this ultimate punishment—things like language become a lot more plausible, because you’ve got a reason to tell the truth. In terms of understanding homicide as a psychological phenomenon, this is not to suggest that murderers are actually making evolutionary calculations in an explicit way, right?But I think it was Daly and Wilson who first actually collected the data, and proved that this was so. But I didn’t hesitate to include a controversial book because I think much of evolutionary psychology is.