Lance Workman, Will Reader

Evolutionary Psychology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A classic introduction to the fascinating science of evolutionary psychology, now in full colour and including the latest research updates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 508
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 208mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1302g
• ISBN-13: 9781108483155
• ISBN-10: 1108483151
• Artikelnr.: 60906742

Autorenporträt

Lance Workman is Visiting Professor of Psychology at the University of South Wales, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a freelance science writer. He was previously Head of Psychology at Bath Spa University, and for 7 years was the interviews editor for The Psychologist. His teaching and research interests are in biological and evolutionary psychology, and he has published widely on both human and animal behaviour. Workman regularly comments on developments in psychology in the media and national press, and has hosted his own series on psychology for Radio Wales.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to evolutionary psychology
2. Principles of evolutionary change
3. Sexual selection
4. The evolution of human mate choice
5. Cognitive development and the innateness issue
6. Social development
7. The evolutionary psychology of social behaviour: kin relationships and conflict
8. The evolutionary psychology of social behaviour: reciprocity and group behaviour
9. Evolution, thought and cognition
10. The evolution of language
11. The evolution of emotion
12. Evolutionary psychopathology and Darwinian medicine
13. Evolution and individual differences
14. Evolutionary psychology and culture
Glossary
References
Index.