Further Reading and Viewing

Non-fiction

 

Topics below are listed roughly in their order of appearance in the book.

References are in standard American Psychological Association format, except that I’ve also included each first author’s first name. For works with more than two authors, only the first author’s name is given, followed by ‘et al.’ Abbreviations: “J.” = “Journal”, “NY” = New York ”, “U.” = “University.”

For readers who want more detail and citations for particular facts, findings, and ideas, this book’s website (provisionally www.geoffrey-miller.com) includes a complete set of over 1,200 endnotes and over 1,600 references. Whenever facts, books, people, products, or organizations are not specifically noted, details can be easily accessed from the Web by searching the relevant name through Google.com or Wikipedia.org. Except where otherwise noted in those endnotes, all quotations in the book are from Robert Fitzhenry (1993) The Harper Book of Quotations.

 

 

The Nature of Capitalism and Consumerism

 

Bowles, Samuel, et al. (2005). Understanding Capitalism. NY: Oxford U. Press.

De Soto, Hernando (2003). The Mystery of Capital. NY: Basic Books.

Galbraith, John K. (1952). American Capitalism. NY: Houghton Mifflin.

Hart, Stuart L. (2007). Capitalism at the Crossroads. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Publishing.

Lindblom, Charles E. (2002). The Market System. New Haven, CT: Yale U. Press.

Muller, Jerry Z. (2003). The Mind and the Market. NY: Anchor.

Reich, Robert B. (2007). Supercapitalism.NY: Knopf.

The Psychology of Happiness Versus Runaway Consumerism

 

Bruni, Luigino, & Porta, P. L. (Ed.). (2007). Handbook on the Economics of Happiness.Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Easterbrook, Gregg (2004). The Progress Paradox. NY: Random House.

Frank, Robert H. (2000). Luxury Fever. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press.

Frey, Bruno S. (2008). Happiness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Gilbert, Daniel T. (2006). Stumbling on Happiness. NY: Knopf.

Kasser, Tim (2002). The High Price of Materialism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Kasser, Tim, & Kanner, A. D. (2004). Psychology and Consumer Culture. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Lane, Robert E. (2000). The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies. New Haven, CT: Yale U. Press.

Nussbaum, Martha C., & Sen, A. (Eds.). (1993). The Quality of Life. NY: Oxford U. Press.

Scitovsky, Tibor (1992). The Joyless Economy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Weiner, Eric (2008). The Geography of Bliss. NY: Twelve.

 

Consumerism and Capitalism in Historical Context

 

Acemoglu, Daron, & Robinson, J. A. (2006). Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. NY: Cambridge U. Press.

Bernstein, William J. (2008). A Splendid Exchange. NY: Atlantic Monthly Press.

Carrier, James G. (2006). A Handbook of Economic Anthropology. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Cohen, Lizabeth (2003). A Consumer’s Republic. NY: Alfred A. Knopf.

Clark, Gregory (2007). A Farewell to Alms. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press.

Collins, Robert M. (2002). More. NY: Oxford U. Press.

Cross, Gary (2000). An All-consuming Century. NY: Columbia U. Press.

Davidson, James (1997). Courtesans and Fishcakes. NY: St. Martins Press.

Earle, Timothy (2002). Bronze Age Economics. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Fogel, Robert W. (2004). The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100. NY: Cambridge U. Press.

Frank, Thomas (1997). The Conquest of Cool. Chicago, IL: U. Chicago Press.

Galbraith, John K. (1958). The Affluent Society. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Jardine, Lisa (1998). Worldly Goods. NY: W. W. Norton.

Johnson, Allen, & Earle, T. (2000). The Evolution of Human Societies. Stanford, CA: Stanford U. Press.

Landes, David S. (1999). The Wealth and Poverty of Nations. NY: W. W. Norton.

Leach, William (1993). Land of Desire. NY: Pantheon Books.

Sale, Kirkpatrick (2006). After Eden. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Schama, Simon (1997). The Embarrassment of Riches. NY: Vintage.

Schor, Juliet B., & Holt, D. (Eds.). (2000). The Consumer Society Reader. NY: New Press.

Wilk, Richard R., & Cliggett, L. (2004). Economies and Cultures. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Twitchell, James B. (1999). Lead us Into Temptation. NY: Columbia U. Press.

 

Globalization and Consumerism Across Cultures

 

Bhagwati, Jagdish (2007). In Defense of Globalization. NY: Oxford U. Press.

Friedman, Thomas L. (2000). The Lexus and the Olive Tree. NY: Anchor.

Friedman, Thomas L. (2005). The World is Flat. NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Levinson, Marc (2006). The Box. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press.

McMillan, John (2003). Reinventing the Bazaar. NY: W. W. Norton.

Sachs, Jeffrey (2006). The End of Poverty. NY: Penguin.

Sassen, Saskia (2006). Territory, Authority, Rights. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press.

Sen, Amartya (2000). Development as Freedom. NY: Knopf.

Shiller, Robert J. (2003). The New Financial Order. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press.

Singer, Peter (2004). One World. New Haven, CT: Yale U. Press.

Stiglitz, Joseph E. (2002). Globalization and its Discontents. London: Penguin Books.

 

Evolutionary Biology

 

Carroll, Sean B. (2006). The Making of the Fittest. NY: W. W. Norton.

Dawkins, Richard (2006). The Selfish Gene. Oxford, UK: Oxford U. Press.

Nowak, Martin A. (2006). Evolutionary Dynamics. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.

Ridley, Mark (2003). Evolution. London: Blackwell.

Wilson, David S. (2007). Evolution for Everyone. NY: Delacorte Press.

Animal Behavior (Especially Primates and Parasites)

 

Alcock, John (2005). Animal Behavior. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer.

Combes, Claude (2005). The Art of Being a Parasite. Chicago: U. Chicago Press.

Maestripieri, Dario (Ed.). (2005). Primate Psychology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press.

Nelson, Randy J. (2005). An Introduction to Behavioral Endocrinology. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer.

Poulin, Robert (2006). Evolutionary Ecology of Parasites. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press.

Strier, Karen B. (2005). Primate Behavioral Ecology. NY: Allyn & Bacon.

 

 

Human Evolution

 

Boyd, Robert, & Silk, J. (2005). How Humans Evolved. NY: Norton.

Dunbar, Robin I. M. (2005). The Human Story. London: Faber & Faber.

Jobling, Mark A., et al. (2003). Human Evolutionary Genetics. NY: Garland Science.

Sawyer, G. J., et al. (2007). The Last Human. New Haven, CT: Yale U. Press.

 

 

Evolutionary Psychology

 

Buss, David M. (Ed.). (2005). The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. NY: Wiley.

Buss, David M. (2008). Evolutionary Psychology. NY: Allyn & Bacon.

Cartwright, John (2008). Evolution and Human Behavior. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Crawford, Charles, & Krebs, D. (Eds.). (2008). Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology. NY: Taylor & Francis.

Dunbar, Robin I. M., & Barrett, L. (Eds.). (2007). The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. NY: Oxford U. Press.

Gangestad, Steven W., & Simpson, J. (Eds.). (2007). The Evolution of Mind. NY: Guildford Press.

Kenrick, Douglas T., & Luce, C. L. (Eds.). (2004). The Functional Mind. NY: Pearson.

Pinker, Steven (2002). The Blank Slate. NY: Viking.

Platek, Steven M., et al. (Eds.). (2006). Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Segerstråle, Ullica C. O. (2001). Defenders of the Truth. NY: Oxford U. Press.

 

 

Consumerism in Evolutionary Context

Conniff, Richard (2002). The Natural History of the Rich. NY: W. W. Norton.

Frank, Robert H. (2007). The Economic Naturalist. NY: Basic Books.

Gandolfi, Arthur E., et al. (2002). Economics as an Evolutionary Science. Pis cataway, NJ: Transaction.

Neiva, Eduardo (2007). Communication Games. NY: Mouton de Gruyter.

Saad, Gad (2007). The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Seabright, Paul (2005). The Company of Strangers. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press.

Shermer, Michael (2007). The Mind of the Market. NY: Times Books.

 

 

The Evolutionary Psychology of Certain Kinds of Products

Flesch, William (2008). Comeuppance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press. [fiction]

Gottschall, Jonathan, & Wilson, D. S. (Eds.). (2005). The Literary Animal. Evanston, IL: Northwestern U. Press. [fiction]

Hersey, George L. (1999). The Monumental Impulse. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [architecture]

Pollan, Michael (2007). The Omnivore’s Dilemma. NY: Penguin. [food]

Salmon, Catherine, & Symons, D. (2001). Warrior Lovers. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. [fiction]

Wansink, Brian (2006). Mindless Eating. NY: Bantam. [food]

 

 

Sexual Selection, Sexual Evolution, and Sex Differences

 

Baron-Cohen, Simon (2004). The Essential Difference. London: Penguin.

Buss, David M. (2003). The Evolution of Desire. NY: Free Press.

Campbell, Anne (2002). A Mind of her Own. NY: Oxford U. Press.

Ellis, Lee (2008). Sex Differences. NY: Psychology Press.

Ellison, Peter T. (2003). On Fertile Ground. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press.

Judson, Olivia (2002). Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to all Creation. NY: Owl Books.

Kauth, Michael E. (Ed.). (2007). Handbook of the Evolution of Human Sexuality . NY: Routledge.

Mealey, Linda (2000). Sex Differences. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Thornhill, Randy, & Gangestad, S. W. (2008). The Evolutionary Biology of Human Female Sexuality. NY: Oxford U. Press.

 

 

 

Social Critiques of Runaway Consumerism and Workaholism

Bell, Daniel (1996). The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. NY: Basic Books.

Conley, Lucas (2008). Obsessive Branding Disorder. NY: PublicAffairs.

De Graaf, John, et al. (2005). Affluenza. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler.

Ehrenreich, Barbara (2001). Nickel and Dimed. NY: Henry Holt.

Frank, Thomas, & Weiland, M. (Eds.) (1997). Commodify your Dissent. NY: W. W. Norton.

Gini, Al (2000). My Job, my Self. NY: Routledge.

Hirsch, Fred (1995). Social Limits to Growth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press.

Hochschild, Arlie (2003). The Managed Heart. Berkeley, CA: U. California Press.

Klein, Naomi (2002). No Logo. NY: Picador.

Klein, Naomi (2008). The Shock Doctrine. NY: Picador.

Lasch, Christopher (1991). The Culture of Narcissism. NY: W. W. Norton.

Lasn, Kalle (2000). Culture Jam. NY: Harper.

Locke, John L. (1999). The De-voicing of Society. NY: Simon & Schuster.

Marcuse, Herbert (1956). Eros and Civilization. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Marcuse, Herbert (1964). One-dimensional Man. Boston: Beacon Press.

Packard, Vance (1959). The Status Seekers. NY: David McKay.

Packard, Vance (1960). The Waste Makers. NY: Van Rees Press.

Remnick, David (Ed.). (2001). The New Gilded Age. NY: The Modern Library.

Schor, Juliet B. (1992). The Overworked American. NY: Basic Books.

Schor, Juliet B. (1998). The Overspent American. NY: Basic Books.

Taylor, Mark C. (2004). Confidence Games. Chicago, IL: U. Chicago Press.

Whybrow, Peter C. (2006). American Mania. NY: W. W. Norton.

Environmental Critiques of Runaway Consumerism

 

Ayres, Robert U., & Ayres, L. W. (2002). A Handbook of Industrial Ecology. Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar.

Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique, & Coppolillo, P. (2005). Conservation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press.

Brown, Lester R. (2008). Plan B 3.0. NY: W. W. Norton.

Diamond, Jared (2005). Collapse. NY: Penguin.

Hayden, Andres (2000). Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet. London: Zed Books.

McDonough, William, & Braungart, M. (2002). Cradle to Cradle. NY: North Point Press.

McKibben, Bill (2007). Deep Economy. NY: Times Books.

Myers, Norman, & Kent, Jennifer (2004). The New Consumers. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Papanek, Victor (1995). The Green Imperative. NY: Thames and Hudson.

Rosenzweig, Michael (2003). Win-win Ecology. NY: Oxford U. Press.

Sale, Kirkpatrick (2007). Human Scale. Buffalo, NY: BlazeVOX Books.

Slade, Giles (2007). Made to Break. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press.

Strasser, Susan (1999). Waste and Want. NY: Henry Holt & Co.

Weyler, Rex (2004). Greenpeace. Emmaus, PA: Rodale.

 

 

 

Corporate Power, Media Influence, and Lobbyists

Bakan, Joel (2004). The Corporation. NY: Free Press.

Frank, Thomas (2000). One Market Under God. NY: Doubleday.

Heinz, John P., et al. (1997). The Hollow Core. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press.

Korten, David C. (2001). When Corporations Rule the World. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Publishers.

Nestle, Marion (2002). Food Politics. Berkeley, CA: U. California Press.

Palast, Greg (2004). The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. NY: Plume.

Postman, Neil (2005). Amusing Ourselves to Death.NY: Penguin.

Rushkoff, Douglas (1999). Coercion. NY: Riverhead Books.

Schlosser, Eric (2001). Fast Food Nation. NY: Harper Perennial.

Tye, Larry (1998). The Father of Spin. NY: Crown.

Evolution, Development, and Childhood

 

Bjorklund, David F., & Pelligrini, A. D. (2002). The Origins of Human Nature. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Bloom, Paul (2005). Descartes’ Baby. NY: Basic Books.

Ellis, Bruce J., & Bjorklund, D. F. (Eds.). (2005). Origins of the Social Mind. NY: Guilford Press.

Harris, Judith R. (1998). The Nurture Assumption. NY: Free Press.

Hewlett, Barry S., & Lamb, M. E. (Eds.). (2005). Hunter-gatherer Childhoods . New Brunswick, NJ: Aldine Transaction.

Hrdy, Sarah B. (1999). Mother Nature. NY: Ballantine.

Salmon, Catherine, & Shackelford, T. K. (Eds.). (2008). Family Relationships. NY: Oxford U. Press.

Weisfeld, Glenn (1999). Evolutionary Principles of Human Adolescence. NY: Basic Books.

 

Children as Consumers, Consumer Socialization

 

Linn, Susan (2004). Consuming Kids. NY: New Press.

Louv, Richard (2008). Last Child in the Woods.Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin.

McNeal, James U. (2007). On Becoming a Consumer. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann.

Schor, Juliet B. (2004). Born to Buy. NY: Scribner.

 

Consumer Behavior, Marketing, Advertising, and Branding in General

 

Aaker, David A. (2007). Strategic Market Management. NY: Wiley.

Baker, Michael J. (2005). The Marketing Book. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann.

Batey, Mark (2008). Brand Meaning. NY: Routledge.

Buttle, Francis (2008). Customer Relationship Management. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann.

Gerzema, John, & Lear, E. (2008). The Brand Bubble. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Hawkins, Del I., Best, R. J., & Coney, K. E. (2003). Consumer Behavior. NY: McGraw-Hill.

Kotler, Philip, & Armstrong, G. (2007). Principles of Marketing. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.

Levitt, Theodore (1983). The Marketing Imagination. NY: Macmillan.

Neumeier, Marty (2005). The Brand Gap. Indianapolis, IN: New Riders/Hayden.

Schmitt, Bernd, & Simonson, A. (1997). Marketing Aesthetics. NY: Free Press.

Twitchell, James B. (2005). Branded Nation. NY: Simon & Schuster.

Wells, William D., et al. (2005). Advertising. NY: Prentice-Hall.

Walker, Rob (2008). Buying In. NY: Random House.

Weitz, Barton A., & Wensley, R. (Eds.). (2002). Handbook of Marketing. NY: Sage.

Zaltman, Gerald, & Zaltman, L. H. (2008). Marketing Metaphoria. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

 

 

The Psychology of Economics and Consumer Decision-Making

Ariely, Dan (2008). Predictably Irrational. NY: HarperCollins.

Becker, Gary S. (1998). Accounting for Tastes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press.

Camerer, Colin (2003). Behavioral Game Theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press.

Frank, Robert H. (2007). Microeconomics and Behavior. NY: McGraw-Hill.

Frey, Bruno S., & Stutzer, A. (Eds.). (2007). Economics & Psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Gigerenzer, Gerd (2007). Gut Feelings. NY: Viking.

Gladwell, Malcolm (2007). Blink. NY: Back Bay Books.

Glimcher, Paul W., et al. (Eds.). (2008). Neuroeconomics. NY: Academic Press.

Harford, Tim (2008). The Logic of Life. NY: Random House.

Haugvedt, Curtis P. et al. (2008). Handbook of Consumer Psychology. NY: Routledge.

Levitt, Steven D., & Dubner, S. J. (2005). Freakonomics. NY: William Morrow.

Schwartz, Barry (2004). The Paradox of Choice. NY: HarperCollins.

Shiller, Robert J. (2001). Irrational Exuberance. NY: Broadway.

Underhill, Paco (1999). Why we Buy. NY: Simon & Schuster.

 

 

Emotions and Motivations Relevant to Consumer Behaviour

 

Evans, Dylan, & Cruse, P. (2004). Emotion, Evolution, and Rationality. Oxford, UK: Oxford U. Press.

Gagnier, Regina (2001). The Insatiability of Human Wants. Chicago, IL: U. Chicago Press.

Lewis, Alan (Ed.). (2008). The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behavior. NY: Cambridge U. Press.

Lewis, Michael, et al. (Eds.). (2008). Handbook of Emotions. NY: Guilford Press.

Nesse, Randolph M. (Ed.). (2001). Evolution and the Capacity for Commitment . NY: Russell Sage.

Panksepp, Jaak (2004). Affective Neuroscience. NY: Oxford U. Press.

 

 

Cultural Analyses of Consumerism, Marketing,

Advertising, and Media in General

 

Baudrillard, Jean (1998). The Consumer Society. NY: Sage.

Benjamin, Walter (2002). The Arcades Project. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.

Bloom, Paul N., & Gundlach, G. T. (Eds.). (2000). Handbook of Marketing and Society. NY: Sage.

Bourdieu, Pierre (1984). Distinction. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press.

Brooks, David (2000). Bobos in Paradise. NY: Simon & Schuster.

Chomsky, Noam (2002). Manufacturing Consent. NY: Pantheon.

Cowen, Tyler (1998). In Praise of Commercial Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press.

Deleuze, Gilles, & Guattari, F. (1987). A Thousand Plateaus. Minneapolis, MN: U. Minnesota Press.

Douglas, Mary, & Isherwood, B. (1980). The World of Goods. London, UK: Penguin.

Ewan, Stuart (1999). All-consuming Images. NY: Basic Books.

Frank, Robert L. (2007). Richistan. NY: Crown Books.

Graeber, David (2001). Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value. NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

 

 

Cultural Analyses of Certain Kinds of Products

Agins, Teri (2000). The End of Fashion. NY: Harper. [clothing]

Battelle, John (2006). The Search. NY: Portfolio. [Google and search engines]

Belk, Russell W. (2001). Collecting in a Consumer Society. London: Routledge.

Bradsher, Keith (2002). High and Mighty. NY: Public Affairs. [SUVs]

Chaplin, Heather, & Ruby, A. (2006). Smartbomb. NY: Algonquin Books. [videogames]

Clark, Taylor (2007). Starbucked. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. [coffee]

Denton, Sally, & Morris, R. (2001). The Money and the Power. NY: Knopf. [gambling]

Glasmeier, Amy K. (2000). Manufacturing Time. London: Guilford. [watches]

Blumenthal, Howard J., & Goodenough, O. R. (2006). This Business of Television . NY: Billboard Books.

Hart, Matthew (2001). Diamond. NY: Walker & Co.

Horst, Heather, & Miller, D. (2006). The Cell Phone. NY: Berg.

Illouz, Eva (1997). Consuming the Romantic Utopia. Berkeley, CA: U. California Press. [courtship products]

Johnson, Steven (2005). Everything Bad is Good for You. NY: Riverhead Books.

Kahney, Leander (2006). The Cult of Mac. San Francisco, CA: No Starch Press. [computers]

Kushner, David (2004). Masters of Doom. NY: Random House. [computer games]

Levy, Steven (2007). The Perfect Thing. NY: Simon & Schuster. [iPods]

Ling, Rich (2004). The Mobile Connection. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.

Manning, Robert D. (2000). Credit Card Nation. NY: Basic Books.

Mead, Rebecca (2007). One Perfect Day. NY: Penguin. [weddings]

Radosh, Daniel (2008). Rapture Ready! NY: Scribner. [Christian products]

Reichert, Tom, & Lambiase, J. (Eds.). (2006). Sex in Consumer Culture. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Seagrave. Kerry (2002). Vending Machines. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

Singh, Simon, & Ernst, E. (2008). Trick or Treatment. NY: W. W. Norton. [alternative medicine]

Steiner, Wendy (2001). Venus in Exile. NY: Free Press. [modern art]

Velthius, Olav (2005). Talking Prices. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press. [contemporary art]

 

 

Costly Signaling Theory, Mutations, and Fitness Indicators

Bradbury, Jack W., & Vehrencamp, S. L. (1998). Principles of Animal Communication . Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates.

Hauser, Marc D., & Konishi, M. (Eds.). (2004). The Design of Animal Communication . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Maynard Smith, John, & Harper. D. (2004). Animal Signals. NY: Oxford U. Press.

Ridley, Mark (2001). The Cooperative Gene. NY: Free Press.

Searcy, William A., & Nowicki, S. (2005). The Evolution of Animal Communication . Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press.

Smith, David L. (2007). Why we Lie. NY: St. Martin’s Press.

Zahavi, Amotz, & Zahavi, A. (1997). The Handicap Principle. NY: Oxford University Press.

 

 

The Nature and Psychology of Status

 

De Botton, Alain (2004). Status Anxiety. NY: Penguin.

Frank, Robert H. (1985). Choosing the Right Pond. Oxford, UK: Oxford U. Press.

Lareau, Annette, & Conley, D. (Eds.). (2008). Social Class. NY: Russell Sage Foundation.

Seabrook, John (2001). Nobrow. NY: Vintage.

Silverstein, Michael J. (2006). Treasure Hunt. NY: Portfolio.

Silverstein, Michael J., & Fiske, N. (2003). Trading Up. NY: Penguin.

Thomas, Dana (2007). Deluxe. NY: Penguin.

 

 

Conspicuous Consumption, Positional Goods, and Inequality

English, James F. (2005). The Economy of Prestige. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press.

Frank, Robert H., & Cook, P. J. (1995). The Winner-take-society. NY: Free Press.

James, Oliver (2008). The Selfish Capitalist. London: Vermillion.

Rothkopf, David (2008). Superclass. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.

Veblen, Thorstein (1899). The Theory of the Leisure Class. NY: Macmillan.

 

 

Alternatives to Consumerism: Voluntary Simplicity, Thrift

 

Elgin, Duane (1993). Voluntary Simplicity. NY: Quill.

Fox, Nichols (2002). Against the Machine. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Hawken, Paul (2008). Blessed Unrest. NY: Penguin.

HonorÈ, Carl (2005). In Praise of Slowness. NY: HarperOne.

Luhrs, Janet (1997). The Simple Living Guide. NY: Broadway.

Merkel, Jim (2003). Radical Simplicity. Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada: New Society Publishers.

Stanley, Thomas (2000). The Millionaire Mind. Kansas City, KS: Andrews McMeel Publishing.

Evolution of Culture and Society

 

Baumeister, Roy F. (2005). The Cultural Animal: Human Nature, Meaning, and Social Life. NY: Oxford U. Press.

Barkow, Jerome H. (2005). Missing the Revolution. NY: Oxford U. Press.

Boyd, Robert, & Richerson, P. J. (2005). The Origin and Evolution of Cultures . Oxford, UK: Oxford U. Press.

Schaller, Mark, & Crandall, C. S. (Eds.). (2004). The Psychological Foundations of Culture. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Sperber, Dan (1996). Explaining Culture. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

 

 

Psychology of Culture, Fads, Fashions, and Memes

Blackmore, Susan (1999). The Meme Machine. Oxford, UK: Oxford U. Press.

Heath, Chip, & Heath, D. (2007). Made to Stick. NY: Random House.

Shennan, Stephen (2002). Genes, Memes, and Human History. London: Thames & Hudson.

Surowiecki, James (2005). The Wisdom of Crowds. NY: Anchor.

 

 

Person Perception and Social Cognition

Ambady, Nalini, & Skowronski, J. J. (Eds.). (2008). First Impressions. NY: Guilford Press.

Cacioppo, John T., et al. (Eds.). (2006). Social Neuroscience. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Cialdini, Robert (2008). Influence. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Dalrymple, Theodore (2007). In Praise of Prejudice. NY: Encounter Books.

Fiske, Susan T., & Taylor, S. E. (2008). Social Cognition. NY: McGraw-Hill.

Fletcher, Garth J. O. (2002). The New Science of Intimate Relationships. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

Funder, David C. (1999). Personality Judgment. NY: Academic Press.

Gosling, Samuel D. (2008). Snoop. NY: Basic Books.

Kenrick, Douglas T., et al. (2005). Social Psychology. NY: Allyn & Bacon.

Schaller, Mark, et al. (Eds.). (2006). Evolution and Social Psychology. NY: Psychology Press.

The Web, Social Networking, Online Games, and New Media

 

Boellstorff, Tom (2008). Coming of Age in Second Life. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press.

Castronova, Edward (2005). Synthetic Worlds. Chicago, IL: U. Chicago Press.

Gillin, Paul (2007). The New Influencers. Sanger, CA: Quill Driver Books.

Kelly, Richard V. (2004). Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.

Kirby, Justin, & Marsden, P. (Eds.). (2005). Connected Marketing. London: Butterworth-Heinemann.

Li, Charlene, & Bernoff, J. (2008). Groundswell. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Mansell, Robin, et al. (Eds.). (2007). The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies. NY: Oxford U. Press.

Meadows, Mark S. (2008). I, Avatar. Indianapolis, IN: New Riders Press.

Tapscott, Don, & Williams, A. D. (2008). Wikinomics. NY: Portfolio.

Weber, Larry (2007). Marketing to the Social Web. NY: Wiley.

 

 

Physical Attractiveness, Beauty Culture, and Physical Fitness Indicators

Cooper, Pamela (1998). The American Marathon. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse U. Press.

Etcoff, Nancy (1999). Survival of the Prettiest. NY: Doubleday.

Farrell-Beck, Jane, & Gau, C. (2002). Uplift. Philadelphia, PA: U. Pennsylvania Press.

Hersey, George L. (1996). The Evolution of Allure. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Jablonsky, Nina G. (2006). Skin. Berkeley, CA: U. California Press.

Kolata, Gina B. (2003). Ultimate Fitness. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.

Kuczynski, Alex (2006). Beauty Junkies. NY: Doubleday.

Morris, Desmond (1985). Bodywatching. NY: Crown.

Peiss, Kathy (1998). Hope in a Jar. NY: Henry Holt & Co.

Rhodes, Gillian, & Zebrowitz, L. A. (Eds.). (2001). Facial Attractiveness. Westport, CT: Ablex.

Rothman, Sheila M., & Rothman, D. J. (2003). The Pursuit of Perfection. NY: Pantheon.

Stearns, Stephen C., & Koella, J. C. (2008). Evolution in Health and Disease. NY: Oxford U. Press.

Voland, Eckart, & Grammer, K. (Eds.). (2003). Evolutionary Aesthetics. Berlin: Springer.

 

 

Mental Fitness Indicators: Language, Art, Music, Humor, Creativity

Dutton, Denis (2008). The Art Instinct. London: Bloomsbury Press.

Eysenck, Hans J. (1995). Genius. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U. Press.

Levitin, Daniel (2006). This is Your Brain on Music. NY: Dutton.

Martin, Rod (2007). Psychology of Humor. Boston: Elsevier Academic Press.

Mithen, Steven J. (2005). The Singing Neanderthals. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson.

Murray, Charles (2003). Human Accomplishment. NY: HarperCollins.

Nettle, Daniel (2001). Strong Imagination. Oxford, UK: Oxford U. Press.

Pinker, Steven (1994). The Language Instinct. NY: Morrow.

Provine, Robert R. (2000). Laughter. NY: Viking.

Simonton, Dean K. (1999). Origins of Genius. NY: Oxford U. Press.

Strauss, Neil (2005). The Game. NY: ReganBooks.

 

 

Personality Traits

Canli, Turhan (Ed.). (2006). Biology of Personality and Individual Differences . NY: Guilford.

Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas, & Furnham, A. (2005). Personality and Intellectual Competence. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Funder, David C. (2006). The Personality Puzzle. NY: W. W. Norton.

Furnham, Adrian (2008). Personality and Intelligence at Work. Psychology Press.

Furnham, Adrian, & Heaven, P. (1999). Personality and Social Behaviour. London: Arnold.

John, Oliver P., et al. (2008). Handbook of Personality. NY: Guilford Press.

Matthews, Gerald, Deary, I., & Whiteman, M. (2004). Personality Traits. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U. Press.

McCrae, Robert R., & Costa, P. T. (2003). Personality in Adulthood. NY: Guilford Press.

Millon, Theodore, et al. (Eds.). (2003). Psychopathy. NY: Guilford Press.

Nettle, Daniel (2007). Personality. Oxford, UK: Oxford U. Press.

Pervin, Lawrence A., & John, O. P. (Eds.). (1999). Handbook of Personality Psychology. NY: Guilford Press.

Intelligence

 

Deary, Ian J. (2001). Intelligence. Oxford, UK: Oxford U. Press.

Deary, Ian J., et al. (2008). A Lifetime of Intelligence. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Emery, Nathan, et al. (Eds.). (2008). Social Intelligence. NY: Oxford U. Press.

Geary, David C. (2005). The Origin of Mind. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Herrnstein, Richard J., & Murray, C. (1994). The Bell Curve. NY: Free Press.

Jensen, Arthur R. (1998). The g Factor. London: Praeger.

Roberts, Maxwell J. (Ed.). (2007). Integrating the Mind. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.

Lynn, Richard (2008). The Global Bell Curve. Augusta, GA: Washington Summer Publishers.

Matthews, Gerald, et al. (2004). Emotional Intelligence. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Sternberg, Robert J., & E. L. Grigorenko (Eds.) (2002). The General Factor of Intelligence. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Sternberg, Robert J., & Kaufman, J. C. (Eds.) (2002). Evolution of Intelligence . Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

 

Behavior Genetics, Genomics, and Neurogenetics

 

Carey, Gregory (2002). Human Genetics for the Social Sciences. NY: Sage.

Jones, Byron C., & Mormede, P. (Eds.). (2006). Neurobehavioral Genetics. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Lesk, Arthur (2007). Introduction to Genomics. NY: Oxford U. Press.

Pagel, Mark, & Pomiankowski, A. (Eds.). (2007). Evolutionary Genomics and Proteomics. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer.

Parens, Erik, et al. (Eds.). (2005). Wrestling with Behavioral Genetics. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins U. Press.

Plomin, Robert, et al. (2008). Behavioral Genetics. NY: Worth Publishers.

Ridley, Matt (2003). Nature via Nurture. NY: HarperCollins.

 

Education, Credentialism, and Intelligence

 

Bok, Derek (2004). Universities in the Marketplace. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press.

Carson, John (2007). The Measure of Merit. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press.

Karabel, Jerome (2005). The Chosen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Miyazaki, Ichisada (1981). China’s Examination Hell. New Haven, CT: Yale U. Press.

Molnar, Alex (2007). School Commercialism. NY: Routledge.

Murray, Charles (2008). Real Education. NY: Crown Forum.

Phelps, Richard P. (Ed.). (in press). The True Measure of Educational and Psychological Tests. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Springer, Sally P., & Franck, M. R. (2005). Admission Matters. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Veblen, Thorstein (1918). The Higher Learning in America. NY: B. W. Huebsch.

Wolf, Alison (2003). Does Education Matter? NY: Penguin Global.

 

 

 

The Evolution of Morality, Cooperation, Trust, and Social Capital

Binmore, Ken (2005). Natural Justice. Oxford, UK: Oxford U. Press.

De Waal, Frans B. M. (2006). Primates and Philosophers. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press.

Fukuyama, Francis (1996). Trust. NY: Free Press.

Gazzaniga, Michael S. (2005). The Ethical Brain. Washington, DC: Dana Press.

Hammerstein, Peter (Ed.). (2003). Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hauser, Mark (2006). Moral Minds. NY: Ecco.

Lin, Nan (2001). Social Capital. NY: Cambridge U. Press.

McCullough, Michael E. (2008). Beyond Revenge. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Ostrom, Elinor, & Ahn, T. K. (Eds.). (2003). Foundations of Social Capital. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Putnam, Robert D. (2000). Bowling Alone. NY: Simon & Schuster.

Ridley, Matt (1996). The Origins of Virtue. NY: Penguin.

Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter (Ed.). (2008). Moral Psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Skyrms, Brian (2003). The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U. Press.

Sober, Eliot, & Wilson, D. S. (1998). Unto Others. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press.

Wilson, David S. (2003). Darwin’s Cathedral. Chicago, IL: U. Chicago Press.

 

 

Communities, Co-Living, New Urbanism, and Housing Issues

 

Chiras, Dan, & Wann, D. (2003). Superbia. Gabriola, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers.

Etzioni, Amitai (Ed.). (1998). The Essential Communitarian Reader. Landham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Flint, Anthony (2006). This Land. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins U. Press.

Girouard, Mark (1985). Cities and People. New Haven, CT: Yale U. Press.

Jacobs, Jane (1993). The Death and Life of Great American Cities. NY: Modern Library.

Low, Setha (2005). Behind the Gates. NY: Routledge.

Mulgan, Geoff (2008). Living and Community. London: Black Dog Press.

Mumford, Lewis (1961). The City in History. NY: Harcourt.

Nelson, Robert H. (2005). Private Neighborhoods and the Transformation of Local Government. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.

Schama, Simon (1996). Landscape and Memory. NY: Vintage.

Waldheim, Charles (Ed.). (2006). The Landscape Urbanism Reader. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press.

 

 

Conspicuous Charity, Ethical Investment, and Business Morals

 

Bornstein, David (2007). How to Change the World. NY: Oxford U. Press.

Friedman, Benjamin M. (2006). The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. NY: Vintage.

Gini, Al, & Marcoux, A. M. (2008). Case Studies in Business Ethics. NY: Prentice-Hall.

Hancock, John (1999). The Ethical Investor. London: Financial Times/Prentice Hall.

Handy, Charles, & Handy, E. (2006). The New Philanthropists. London: William Heinemann.

Harrison, Rob, et al. (Eds.). (2005). The Ethical Consumer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Hollender, Jeffrey, & Fenichell, S. (2003). What Matters Most. NY: Basic Books.

Tapscott, Don, & Ticoll, D. (2003). The Naked Corporation. NY: Free Press.

Vogel, David (2006). The Market for Virtue. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.

Zak, Paul J. (Ed.). (2008). Moral Markets. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press.

 

 

Policy Implications, Consumption Taxes

 

Crawford, Charles, & Salmon, C. (Eds.). (2004). Evolutionary Psychology, Public Policy, and Personal Decisions. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Doherty, Brian (2008). Radicals for Capitalism. NY: PublicAffairs.

Epstein, Richard A. (2003). Skepticism and Freedom. Chicago, IL: U. Chicago Press.

Frank, Robert H. (2007). Falling Behind. Berkeley: U. California Press.

Friedman, Milton (2002). Capitalism and Freedom. Chicago, IL: U. of Chicago Press.

Goodenough, Oliver R., & Zeki, S. (Eds.). (2006). Law and the Brain. NY: Oxford U. Press.

Kuran, Timur (1995). Private Truths, Public Lies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press.

McCaffery, Edward J. (2006). Fair not Flat. Chicago, IL: Chicago U. Press.

McCaffery, Edward J., & Slemrod, J. (Eds.). (2006). Behavioral Public Finance. NY: Russell Sage Foundation.

Mulgan, Geoff (2006). Good and Bad Power. London: Allen Lane.

Postrel, Virginia (1998). The Future and its Enemies. NY: Touchstone.

Rubin, Paul H. (2002). Darwinian Politics. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U. Press.

Seidman, Laurence (1997). The USA Tax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Singer, Peter (2000). A Darwinian Left. New Haven, CT: Yale U. Press.

Somit, Albert, & Peterson, S. A. (Eds.). (2003). Human Nature and Public Policy. NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Sowell, Thomas (2007). A Conflict of Visions. NY: Basic Books.

Tabb, William K. (2004). Economic Governance in the Age of Globalization. NY: Columbia U. Press.

Witt, Ulrich (2003). The Evolving Economy. Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar.

Young, H. Peyton (1998). Individual Strategy and Social Structure. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press.

The Future of Consumerism

 

Gershenfeld, Neil (2005). Fab. NY: Basic Books.

Giddens, Anthony (2006). Europe in the Global Age. Malden, MA: Polity.

Gimore, James H., & Pine, B. J. (2000). Markets of One. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Hutton, Will (2006). The Writing on the Wall. NY: Free Press.

Khanna, Tarun (2007). Billions of Entrepreneurs. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Kurzweil, Ray (2005). The Singularity is Near. NY: Viking.

Meredith, Robyn (2008). The Elephant and the Dragon. NY: W. W. Norton.

Pine, B. Joseph, & Gilmore, J. (1999). The Experience Economy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Rifkin, Jeremy (2001). The Age of Access. NY: Tarcher/Putnam.

Rifkin, Jeremy (2004). The European Dream. NY: Tarcher/Putnam.

Sachs, Jeffrey (2008). Common Wealth. NY: Penguin.

Steffen, Alex (Ed.). (2006). Worldchanging. NY: Abrams.

Turner, Fred (2006). From Counterculture to Cyberculture. Chicago, IL: U. Chicago Press.

Von Hippel, Eric (2006). Democratizing Innovation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Wright, Robert (2001). Nonzero. NY: Vintage.

Young, Simon (2006). Designer Evolution. Amherst, MA: Prometheus Books.

Yunus, Muhammed (2007). Creating a World Without Poverty. NY: PublicAffairs.

 

 

Previous Books by Geoffrey Miller

Miller, Geoffrey (2000). The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature. NY: Doubleday.

Geher, Glenn, & Miller, G. F. (Eds.). (2007). Mating Intelligence: Sex, Relationships, and the Mind’s Reproductive System. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

 

 

Other Relevant Publications by Geoffrey Miller and Collaborators

Andrews, P. W., Gangestad, S. W., Miller, G. F., Haselton, M. G., Thornhill, R., & Neale, M. C. (2008). Sex differences in detecting sexual infidelity: Results of a maximum likelihood method for analyzing the sensitivity of sex differences to underreporting. Human Nature, 19, 347-373.

Arden, R., Gottfredson, L., & Miller, G. F. (submitted). Does a fitness factor contribute to the association between intelligence and health outcomes? Intelligence.

Arden, R., Gottfredson, L., Miller, G. F., & Pierce. A. (in press). Intelligence and semen quality are positively correlated. Intelligence.

Geher, Glenn, Miller, G. F., & Murphy, J. (2007). Introduction: The origins and nature of mating intelligence. In G. Geher & G. Miller (Eds.), Mating Intelligence: Sex, Relationships, and the Mind’s Reproductive System (pp. 3-34). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Greengross, Gil, & Miller, G.F. (2008). Dissing oneself versus dissing rivals: Effects of status, personality, and sex on the short-term and long-term attractiveness of self-deprecating and other-deprecating humor. Evolutionary Psychology, 6, 393-408.

Griskevicius, V., Tybur, J. M., Sundie, J. M., Cialdini, R. B., Miller, G. F., & Kenrick, D. T. (2007). Blatant benevolence and conspicuous consumption: When romantic motives elicit costly displays. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 85-102.

Haselton, Martie G., & Miller, G. F. (2006). Women’s fertility across the cycle increases the short-term attractiveness of creative intelligence. Human Nature, 17, 50-73.

Hooper, Paul, & Miller, G. F. (2008). Mutual mate choice can drive ornament evolution even under perfect monogamy. Adaptive Behavior, 16, 53-70.

Kaufman, Scott, et al. (2007). The role of creativity and humor in mate selection. In G. Geher & G. Miller (Eds.), Mating Intelligence: Sex, Relationships, and the Mind’s Reproductive System (pp. 227-262). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Keller, Matthew C., & Miller, G. (2006). Which evolutionary genetic models best explain the persistence of common, harmful, heritable mental disorders? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 385-404.

Klimentidis, Y. C., Miller, G. F., & Shriver, M. D. (in press). Genetic admixture, self-reported ethnicity, self-estimated admixture, and skin pigmentation among Hispanics and Native Americans. American Journal of Human Genetics.

Mendenhall, Zack, & Miller, G. (in preparation). Conspicuous consumption in World of Warcraft: Auction versus vendor prices reveal the price premium for conspicuously cool weapons.

Miller, G. F. (1994). Beyond shared fate: Group-selected mechanisms for cooperation and competition in fuzzy, fluid vehicles. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17, 630-631.

Miller, G. F. (1997). Mate choice: From sexual cues to cognitive adaptations. In G. Cardew (Ed.), Characterizing Human Psychological Adaptations (Ciba Foundation Symposium 208) (pp. 71-87). NY: John Wiley.

Miller, G. F. (1997). Protean primates: The evolution of adaptive unpredictability in competition and courtship. In A. Whiten & R. W. Byrne (Eds.), Machiavellian Intelligence II: Extensions and Evaluations (pp. 312-340). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U. Press.

Miller, G. F. (1998). How mate choice shaped human nature: A review of sexual selection and human evolution. In C. Crawford & D. Krebs (Eds.), Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology: Ideas, Issues, and Applications (pp. 87-129). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Miller, G. F. (1998). Waste is good. Prospect magazine, Feb., 18-23.

Miller, G. F. (1999). Sexual selection for cultural displays. In R. Dunbar, C. Knight, & C. Power (Eds.), The Evolution of Culture (pp. 71-91). Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh U. Press.

Miller, G. F. (2000). Marketing. In J. Brockman (Ed.), The greatest inventions of the last 2,000 years (pp. 121-126). NY: Simon & Schuster.

Miller, G. F. (2000). Memetic evolution and human culture. Quarterly Review of Biology, 75, 434-436.

Miller, G. F. (2000). Mental traits as fitness indicators: Expanding evolutionary psychology’s adaptationism. In D. LeCroy & P. Moller (Eds.), Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Reproductive Behavior (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 907) (pp. 62-74). NY: New York Academy of Sciences.

Miller, G. F. (2000). Sexual selection for indicators of intelligence. In G. Bock, J. Goode, & K. Webb (Eds.), The Nature of Intelligence (Novartis Foundation Symposium 233) (pp. 260-275). NY: John Wiley.

Miller, G. F. (2000). Evolution of human music through sexual selection. In N. L. Wallin, B. Merker, & S. Brown (Eds.), The Origins of Music (pp. 329-360). MIT Press.

Miller, G. F. (2000). Technological evolution as self-fulfilling prophecy. In J. Ziman (Ed.), Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process (pp. 203-215). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U. Press.

Miller, G. F. (2000). How to keep our meta-theories adaptive: Beyond Cosmides, Tooby, and Lakatos. Psychological Inquiry, 11, 42-46.

Miller, G. F. (2001). Aesthetic fitness: How sexual selection shaped artistic virtuosity as a fitness indicator and aesthetic preferences as mate choice criteria. Bulletin of Psychology and the Arts, 2, 20-25.

Miller, G. F. (2002). How did language evolve? In H. Swain (Ed.), Big Questions in Science (pp. 79-90). London: Jonathan Cape.

Miller, G. F. (2002). The science of subtlety. In J. Brockman (Ed.), The Next Fifty Years (pp. 85-92). NY: Vintage.

Miller, G. F. (2003). Fear of fitness indicators: How to deal with our ideological anxieties about the role of sexual selection in the origins of human culture. In Being Human: Proceedings of a Conference Sponsored by the Royal Society of New Zealand (Miscellaneous series 63) (pp. 65-79). Wellington, NZ: Royal Society of New Zealand.

Miller, G. F. (2006). The Asian future of evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary Psychology, 4, 107-119.

Miller, G. F. (2006). Asian creativity: A response to Satoshi Kanazawa. Evolutionary Psychology, 4, 129-137.

Miller, G. F. (2007). Sexual selection for moral virtues. Quarterly Review of Biology, 82, 97-125.

Miller, G. F. (2007). Brain evolution. In S. W. Gangestad & J. A. Simpson (Eds.), The Evolution of Human Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies (pp. 287-293). NY: Guilford Press.

Miller, G. F. (2007). Mating intelligence: Frequently asked questions. In G. Geher & Miller, G. F. (Eds.), Mating Intelligence: Sex, Relationships, and the Mind’s Reproductive System (pp. 367-393). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Miller, G. F. (2007). Reconciling evolutionary psychology and ecological psychology: How to perceive fitness affordances. Acta Psycholigica Sinica, 39(3), 546-555.

Miller, G. F. (2007). Runaway consumerism explains the Fermi paradox. In J. Brockman (Ed.), What is Your Dangerous Idea? (pp. 240-243). NY: Harper Perennial.

Miller, G. F. (2008). Magnaminity, fidelity, and other sexually-selected virtues. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral Psychology (Vol. 1): The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness (pp. 209-243). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Miller, G. F. & Penke, L. (2007). The evolution of human intelligence and the coefficient of additive genetic variance in human brain size. Intelligence , 35, 97-114.

Miller, G. F., & Tal, I. (2007). Schizotypy versus intelligence and openness as predictors of creativity. Schizophrenia Research, 93, 317-324.

Miller, G. F., & Todd, P. M. (1995). The role of mate choice in biocomputation: Sexual selection as a process of search, optimization, and diversification. In W. Banzhaf & F. H. Eeckman (Eds.), Evolution and Biocomputation: Computational Models of Evolution (pp. 169-204). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Miller, G. F., & Todd, P. M. (1998). Mate choice turns cognitive. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2, 190-198.

Miller, G. F., Tybur, J., & Jordan, B. (2007). Ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings by lap-dancers: Economic evidence for human estrus? Evolution and Human Behavior, 28, 375-381.

Penke, Lars, Denissen, J. J. A., & Miller, G. (2007). The evolutionary genetics of personality. European J. of Personality, 21, 549-587.

Penke, L., Denissen, J. J., & Miller, G. F. (2007). Evolution, genes, and interdisciplinary personality research. European Journal of Personality, 21, 639-665.

Prokosch, Mark, Yeo, R., & Miller, G. (2005). Intelligence tests with higher g-loadings show higher correlations with body symmetry: Evidence for a general fitness factor mediated by developmental stability. Intelligence, 33, 203-213.

Sefcek, J. A., Brumbach, B. H., V·squez, G., & Miller, G. F. (2006). The evolutionary psychology of human mate choice: How ecology, genes, fertility, and fashion influence our mating behavior. Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality, 18, 125-182.

Shaner, Andrew, Miller, G. F., & Mintz, J. (2004). Schizophrenia as one extreme of a sexually selected fitness indicator. Schizophrenia Research, 70, 101-109.

Shaner, Andrew, Miller, G. F., & Mintz, J. (2007). Age at onset of schizophrenia: Evidence of a latitudinal gradient. Schizophrenia Research, 94, 58-63.

Shaner, Andrew, Miller, G. F., & Mintz, J. (2007). Mental disorders as catastrophic failures of mating intelligence. In G. Geher & G. Miller (Eds.), Mating Intelligence: Sex, Relationships, and the Mind’s Reproductive System (pp. 193-223). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Shaner, Andrew, Miller, G. F., & Mintz, J. (2009). Autism as the low-fitness extreme of a parentally selected fitness indicator. Human Nature, 19, 389-413.

Todd, Peter, & Miller, G. F.(1999). From Pride and Prejudice to Persuasion: Satisficing in mate search. In G. Gigerenzer & P. Todd. (Eds.), Simple Heuristics that Make us Smart (pp. 286-308). Oxford, UK: Oxford U. Press.

Tybur, Josh, Miller, G. F., & Gangestad, S. (2007). Testing the controversy: An empirical examination of adaptationists’ attitudes towards politics and science. Human Nature, 18, 313-328.

 

 

Fiction

 

Novels and short story collections contain some of the best thinking and writing about consumerism and its alternatives. The authors below (followed by their most relevant works) seem the most consistently thought-provoking.

 

Martin Amis, Success; Money; London Fields; The Information; Pornoland

Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman; The Handmaid’s Tale; Oryx and Crake

J. G. Ballard, Crash; High Rise; The Atrocity Exhibition; The Unlimited Dream Company; Cocaine Nights; Millenium People; Super-Cannes

Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine; Room Temperature; Vox; The Fermata; A Box of Matches

Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas; The Player of Games; The State of the Art; Use of Weapons; Excession; Look to Windward; The Algebraist; Matter

Douglas Coupland, Generation X; Shampoo Planet; Microserfs; Girlfriend in a Coma; Life after God; Miss Wyoming; Jpod

Philip K. Dick, We can Build You; Confessions of a Crap Artist; A Scanner Darkly; Lies Inc.

Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho; Glamorama

William Gibson, Neuromancer; Virtual Light; Pattern Recognition; Spook Country

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World; Island

Jeff Noon, Vurt; Pollen; Nymphomation; Pixel Juice

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club; Survivor; Choke; Lullaby; Diary; Haunted; Rant; Snuff

Frederick Pohl, Midas World

Neal Stephenson, Interface; Snow Crash; The Diamond Age, Anathem

Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting; Ecstasy; The Acid House; Porno; Filth

 

 

Films

 

Many films have provocatively and insightfully addressed various issues in the psychology of consumerism, marketing, product design, self-display, status signals, and prehistoric versus modern life, such as:

 

Amélie (2001), American Beauty (1999), American Psycho (2000), Apocalypto (2006), Artificial Intelligence (2001), A Scanner Darkly (2006)

Being John Malkovich (1999), Best in Show (2000), Blade Runner (1982), Boiler Room (2000), Boogie Nights (1997), Bowling for Columbine (2002), Brazil (1985), Breast Men (1997)

Cast Away (2000), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), The Corporation (2004)

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

Equilibrium (2002), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Existenz (1999)

Fight Club (1999)

The Game (1997), Gattaca (1997), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Groundhog Day (1993)

I, Robot (2004), Idiocracy (2006), The Insider (1999), Into the Wild (2007), The Island (2005)

Jerry Maguire (1996)

Koyaanisqatsi(1982)

Little Miss Sunshine(2006), Lord of War (2005), Lost in Translation (2003)

Magnolia (1999), Manufacturing Consent (1992), The Matrix (1999), Mean Girls (2004)

Requiem for a Dream (2000), Robocop (1987)

Scarface (1983), The Shape of Things (2003), Sideways (2004), Strange Days (1995)

The Tao of Steve (2000), Thirteen (2002), The Truman Show (1998), Total Recall (1990), Trainspotting (1996)

Wall Street (1987), WALL-E (2008), What Women Want (2000)

The Yes Men (2003)