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Evolutionary Psychology
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Evolutionary Playwork
- By Bob Hughes.
Published September 2011
Play is a crucial component in the development of all children. In this fully updated and revised edition of his classic playwork text, Bob Hughes explores the complexities of children’s play, its meaning and purpose, and argues that adult-free play is essential for the psychological well-being of…
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Grounding Sociality
Neurons, Mind, and Culture
- Edited by Gün R. Semin, and Gerald Echterhoff.
Published November 2010
This volume concerns the longstanding intellectual puzzle of how individuals overcome their biological, neural, and mental finitude to achieve sociality. It explores how humans take each other into account, coordinate their actions, and are able to share their inner states and to communicate.…
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Starting from Scratch
The Origin and Development of Expression, Representation and Symbolism in Human and Non-Human Primates
- By John Matthews.
Published October 2010
This book compares the beginning of symbolic thought in human infancy with that of our close primate relatives, the chimpanzees. The author investigates the precursors of symbolism by studying the actions and interactions of a small group of these intelligent, non-human primates who live in…
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Adaptive Origins
Evolution and Human Development
- By Peter LaFrenière.
Published September 2010
In this text, students are invited to rethink psychology by grounding it in the natural sciences with the understanding that evolutionary and developmental processes work together with culture to solve problems of human adaptation. These processes are cast as interdependent:…
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Social Psychology of Visual Perception
- Edited by Emily Balcetis, and G. Daniel Lassiter.
Published April 2010
This volume takes a contemporary and novel look at how people see the world around them. We generally believe we see our surroundings and everything in them with complete accuracy. However, as the contributions to this volume argue, this assumption is wrong: people’s view of their world…
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Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind
- Edited by Mark Schaller, Ara Norenzayan, Steven J. Heine, Toshio Yamagishi and Tatsuya Kameda.
Published September 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 shaped by culture. These two perspectives on the human mind are not incompatible, but, until recently, their compatibility has resisted…
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Comparative Psychology
Evolution and Development of Behavior, 2nd Edition
- By Mauricio R. Papini.
Published May 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 is to introduce the student to evolutionary and developmental approaches to the study of animal behavior.…
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Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology
- Edited by Charles Crawford, and Dennis Krebs.
Published March 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 deal with those ancient problems, and the ability of the resulting evolved psychological mechanisms to deal with…
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The Psychology of Physical Attraction
- By Viren Swami, and Adrian Furnham.
Published November 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, and artists. This book begins the task of providing a scientific look at physical attraction, by offering an overview of…
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The Caveman Mystique
Pop-Darwinism and the Debates Over Sex, Violence, and Science
- By Martha McCaughey.
Published October 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 Caveman Mystique traces such claims about the hairier sex through…
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