Psychology Press

Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind

Mark Schaller, Ara Norenzayan, Steven Heine, Toshio Yamagishi, Tatsuya Kameda

Not yet published — due 08/14/2009

An enormous amount of scientific research compels two fundamental conclusions about the human mind: The mind is the product of evolution; and the mind is...

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Comparative Psychology

Mauricio R Papini

Published 05/28/2008

Comparative Psychology (second edition) is a core textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in Comparative Psychology, Animal Behavior, and Evolutionary Psychology. Its main goal...

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Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology

Charles Crawford, Dennis Krebs

Published 03/18/2008

Evolutionary psychology is concerned with the adaptive problems early humans faced in ancestral human environments, the nature of the psychological mechanisms natural selection shaped to...

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The Psychology of Physical Attraction

Viren Swami, Adrian Furnham

Published 11/08/2007

People have long been interested in the complexities of human beauty, but until recently the science of attractiveness was largely left to poets, playwrights, philosophers,...

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The Caveman Mystique

Martha McCaughey

Published 11/01/2007

Has evolution made men promiscuous skirt chasers?  Pop-Darwinian claims about men's irrepressible heterosexuality have become increasingly common, and increasingly common excuses for men's sexual aggression. The...

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Evolution and the Social Mind

Joseph P Forgas

Published 03/15/2007

This book seeks to combine the study of human social cognition - the way we think, decide, plan and analyze social situations - with an evolutionary framework...

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Series Name: Sydney Symposium in Social Psychology 

The Evolution of Mind

Steven W Gangestad, Jeffry A Simpson

Published 03/02/2007

In the past two decades, an explosion of research has generated many compelling insights - as well as hotly debated controversies - about the evolutionary...

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