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Social Psychology of Visual Perception

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 it with complete accuracy. However, as the contributions to this volume argue, this assumption is wrong: people’s view of their world is…
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Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind

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

Comparative Psychology
  • 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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Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology

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

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

The Caveman Mystique
  • 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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Evolution and the Social Mind

Evolutionary Psychology and Social Cognition

Evolution and the Social Mind
  • Edited by Martie G. Haselton, and William von Hippel.
  • Series Edited by Joseph P. Forgas.

Published March 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 that considers these activities in light of evolutionary adaptations for solving problems of survival faced by our ancestors over…
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The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption

The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption
  • By Gad Saad.

Published January 2007

The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption by Gad Saad applies Darwinian principles in understanding our consumption patterns and the products of popular culture that most appeal to individuals. The first and only scholarly work to do so, this is a captivating study of the adaptive reasons behind our…
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Evolution and Social Psychology

Evolution and Social Psychology
  • Edited by Mark Schaller, Jeffry A. Simpson and Douglas T. Kenrick.

Published May 2006

Why do we think about and interact with other people in the particular ways that we do? Might these thoughts and actions be contemporary products of our long-ago evolutionary past? If so, how might this be, and what are the implications? Research generated by an evolutionary approach to social…
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