Evolutionary Psychology: Genes, Environments, and Time

ISBN-13: 9781352002942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 384 str.

Brett Pelham

Opis

`Big picture' text boxes will address interesting questions that either fly in the face of conventional academic thinking, or show how an understanding of evolution is necessary when addressing difficult questions. Finally, the book comes with a comprehensive testbank that the author has written himself.

Spis treści

1. Allosaurus and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day: Some basic evolutionary concepts 2. Evolutionary epistemology: research methods in evolutionary psychology 3. How did we get here? Genetics, Natural Selection, and Speciation 4. Let’s talk about sex: Promiscuity, ovulation, incest avoidance, and sexual jealousy 5. Will you never grow up?: Human development 6. Six children and a pickle barrel: Parenting, step-parenting, and grandparenting 7. Thinking hard or hardly thinking?: Evolution, thought, and language 8. Until someone gets hurt: Evolution and aggression 9. Is there an “I” in altruism?: Evolution and prosocial behaviour 10. Genes, schmenes: Evolutionary social and cultural psychology 11. Death be somewhat proud: Partial solutions to the problem of death 12. On the origin of specialness: And how to save a planet from it

O autorze

Brett Pelham received his PhD in social psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught and conducted research at UCLA, SUNY-Buffalo, Swarthmore College, St, Mary’s College of Maryland, and Georgetown University. He is currently a professor at Montgomery College, MD. He is the author of about 60 empirical papers and two other textbooks: Conducting Research in Psychology (5^th ed., SAGE) and Intermediate Statistics (SAGE). ​