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Index
Cover
Title Page
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Part V: Group Living: Cooperation and Conflict
Chapter 25: Adaptations for Reasoning About Social Exchange
Social Exchange in Zoological and Cultural Perspective
Selection Pressures and Predicted Design Features
Conditional Reasoning and Social Exchange
Do Unfamiliar Social Contracts Elicit Cheater Detection? (D5)
Adaptive Logic, Not Formal Logic (D3, D6)
Dedicated System or General Intelligence?
How Many Specializations for Conditional Reasoning?
Social Contract Algorithms or a Permission Schema? Looking for Dissociations Within the Class of Permission Rules (D1, D2, D4)
No Benefits, No Social Exchange Reasoning: Testing D1 And D2
Intentional Violations Versus Innocent Mistakes: Testing D4
A Neuropsychological Dissociation Between Social Contracts and Precautions
Precocious Development of Social Exchange Reasoning
Cross-Cultural Invariances and Dissociations in Social Exchange Reasoning
Does Domain-General Learning Build the Specialization for Social Exchange?
Conclusions
References
Chapter 26: Interpersonal Conflict and Violence
An Evolutionary Perspective on Conflicts of Interest
Violence as a Window on Interpersonal Conflict
Kinship Mitigates Lethal Violence
Intimate Partner Violence
Lethal Conflict in Other Relationships
References
Chapter 27: Women's Competition and Aggression
Rewards and Costs of Female Aggression
Proximate Mediators and Mechanisms
The Neuropsychology of Sex Differences in Response to Threat
Two-Way Selection, Women, and Competition
Escalation to Violence: Ecological and Cultural Moderators
Summary and Conclusion
References
Chapter 28: Prejudices: Managing Perceived Threats to Group Life
The Evolved Threat-Management Psychology Underlying Prejudices, Stereotypes, and Discrimination
Alliance-Based Prejudices and Conflict
Prejudice Against Foreigners: Warfare, Immigration, and Emigration
Reducing and Confronting Prejudices
Conclusion
References
Chapter 29: Leadership in War: Evolution, Cognition, and the Military Intelligence Hypothesis
Introduction
The Natural History of Leadership in War
The Legacy of Evolution for War Leadership Today
The Military Intelligence Hypothesis
Conclusions
References
Part VI: Culture and Coordination
Chapter 30: Cultural Evolution
Can Culture Evolve? Doesn't Evolution Require Genes or Replicators?
How Did We Evolve to be a Cultural Species?
The Psychology of a Cultural Species
Cultural Evolution
Culture-Gene Coevolution
Conclusion
References
Chapter 31: Morality
Introduction
Moral Phenomena: Cutting Morality at the Joints
Moral Judgments Coordinate in Conflicts
Coordination Explains Moral Phenomena
Conflict and Agreement Over Moral Contents
Moral Emotions
Conclusions
References
Chapter 32: The Evolutionary Foundations of Status Hierarchy
Definitions
An Evolutionary Psychology Perspective on Status
Evolved Status Mechanisms
Sex Differences in Status Striving
The Evolutionary Psychology of Leadership
Conclusions
References
Chapter 33: Reputation
Introduction
What Is Reputation?
Why Does Reputation Exist?
Influencing One's Reputation and the Reputations of Others
Types of Reputation
Reputation for Cooperation
Reputation for Aggression
Harnessing the Power of Reputation
Future Directions: Toward a More Comprehensive Science of Reputation
Conclusions
References
Chapter 34: The Evolution and Ontogeny of Ritual
The Functions of Ritual in Social Group Behavior
Cultural Transmission of Ritual
Motivational Mechanisms: Social Exclusion and Group Affiliation
The Ontogeny of Ritual Cognition
Conclusion
References
Chapter 35: The Origins of Religion
Two Puzzles of Human Psychology and Cultural Evolution
The Cultural Evolution/Cognitive By-Product Framework
Commitments to Big Gods Co-Emerge With Big Groups Across Cultures and History
Religious Solutions to the Problem of Large-Scale Cooperation
Religious Cooperation Is Shaped By, and Contributes to, Intergroup Conflict and Distrust
Conclusions and Implications
References
Chapter 36: The False Allure of Group Selection
Group Selection as an Explanation of the Traits of Groups
Group Selection as an Explanation of the Traits of Individuals
Do Humans in Fact Have Adaptations That Benefit the Group at the Expense of the Self?
A Summary of the Trouble With Group Selection
References
Part VII: Interfaces with Traditional Psychology Disciplines
Chapter 37: Evolutionary Cognitive Psychology
Introduction: Selective Pressures on Cognitive Mechanisms
Decision Making: Putting Information to Use
Memory: Retrieving and Forgetting Information
Representation of Information: Modern Practices Meet Evolutionary Constraints
Conclusions: The Advantages of Limited Cognitive Systems
References
Chapter 38: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology
Natural Selection will have its Greatest Effects on Early Stages of Development
Development is Constrained by Biological and Environmental Factors
Adaptations of Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence
Humans are an Inherently Social Species Beginning at Birth
Developmental Plasticity and Adaptive Individual Differences
Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 39: Evolutionary Social Psychology
Coalition Formation
Self-Protection
Disease Avoidance
Status
Mate Choice
Mate Retention
Parental Care
Dynamic Emergence: From Decision Rules to Cultural Norms
Conclusion
References
Chapter 40: The General Factor of Personality: A Hierarchical Life History Model
Evolutionary Theories of Personality Revisited
Attempted Empirical Tests of Evolutionary Personality Theories
Personality Traits as Resource Allocations
The Principle of Brunswik-Symmetry
A Hierarchy of Traits: The General Factor of Personality
The GFP in Historical Perspective
Modern Differential Psychology Constructs the GFP
Controversies Regarding the Interpretation of the GFP
Cognitive and Strategic Differentiation-Integration Theory
Empirical Tests of SD-IE Theory
Theoretical Interpretations of Empirical Tests of SD-IE
Conclusions
References
Chapter 41: The Evolution of Cognitive Bias
Foundations of Cognitive Bias
Heuristics
Biases as Artifacts
Error Management Biases
Conclusions
References
Chapter 42: Biological Function and Dysfunction: Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Psychopathology
Biological Functions
Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Psychopathology: Disorder as Failure of Designed Function
Conclusion
References
Chapter 43: Evolutionary Psychology and Mental Health
What Evolution Offers
Specific Disorders
Implications
References
Part VIII: Interfaces Across Traditional Academic Disciplines
Chapter 44: Evolutionary Psychology and Evolutionary Anthropology
Introduction
Some Lessons from Paleoanthropology
Understanding the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness
Case Study: The Evolution of Cooperation
Case Study: The Parasite-Stress Theory
Evolved Psychology and Cultural Evolution
Interpreting Cross-Cultural Variation and Cross-Cultural Uniformity
The Application of EP in EA
A Road Map for the Use of EA in EP
References
Chapter 45: Evolutionary Genetics
Introduction
Forces of Evolution
Maintenance Mechanisms
The Evolutionary Genetics Toolkit
Conclusion and Outlook
References
Chapter 46: Evolutionary Psychology and Endocrinology
Overview: The Role of Endocrinology in Human Evolutionary Psychology
Endocrine Signals and Mate Pursuit
Future Research in Evolutionary Endocrinology
References
Chapter 47: Evolutionary Political Psychology
What is Politics?
Principles of Evolutionary Political Psychology
Adaptations for Political Judgment
Adaptations for Political Behavior: Physical Dominance
Adaptations for Political Behavior: Coalitional Psychology
Adaptations for Political Behavior: Persuasion and Informational Vigilance
Mass Politics is a Both Strange and Familiar Place to the Evolved Mind
Conclusion
References
Chapter 48: Evolutionary Literary Study
Introduction
Human Nature, Cultural Norms, and the Arts
Imaginative Virtual Worlds and the Adaptive Function of the Arts
The Degree of Consensus About the Adaptive Function of the Arts
The Goals of Biocultural Research
Analyzing Meaning in Literary Representations
World Views of Authors and Critics
The Future
References
Part IX: Practical Applications of Evolutionary Psychology
Chapter 49: Evolutionary Psychology and Public Policy
Introduction
Beyond the Contradictions of Human Behavior: Evolutionary Challenges and Psychological Mechanisms
Why Sometimes Generous and Sometimes Greedy?
Why are People Sometimes Patient and Sometimes Impatient?
Implications for the Goals of Development Policies
Conclusion
References
Chapter 50: Evolution and Consumer Psychology
Introduction
Survival
Mating
Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 51: Evolution and Organizational Leadership
Adaptive Systems and Leadership
The Lessons of History
Theories of Leadership: An Evolutionary Critique
The Universal Leader—An Evolutionary Perspective
The Future of Leadership: An Evolutionary Perspective
References
Chapter 52: Evolutionary Psychology and the Law
Increasing Efficiency
Discovering Useful Patterns in Regulable Behavior
Uncovering Policy Conflicts
Sharpening Cost-Benefit Analyses
Clarifying Causal Links
Providing Theoretical Foundation and Potential Predictive Power
Assessing Comparative Effectiveness of Legal Strategies
Revealing Deep Patterns in Legal Architecture
Exposing Unwarranted Assumptions
Disentangling Multiple Causes
Increasing Accuracy
Increasing Law-Relevant Understanding About People
Generating New Research Questions
Conclusions
The Past Decade: An Update
References
Afterword
Author Index
Subject Index
End User License Agreement
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