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Evolution of the Psyche
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David H. Rosen, MICHAEL C. Luebbert
Book Code: C6312
ISBN: 0-275-96312-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96312-5
248 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 1/30/1999
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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  • Endorsement From Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
    Professor of Psychology, University of Chicago
    Author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience:     With this volume, evolutionary psychology has come of age. In addition to dealing with tried-and-true issues such as sexual strategies, it shows that the evolutionary paradigm can shed new light on complex issues such as creativity, insight, humor, memory, dreams, mental disorders, treatment, and forgiveness...a truly exciting book.
  • Endorsement From Robert Hogan
    McFarlin Professor of Psychology
    University of Tulsa:     Evolutionary psychology is the new paradigm for the study of the mind and human nature. Although earlier writers fixated on sexual politics, this marvelous book of readings goes beyond sex to analyze memory, creativity, insight, humor, aesthetics, and mental illness...it is an indispensable introduction to the topic.
Description: Rosen and Luebbert have edited a collection providing a diverse sampling of theoretical and scientific approaches to understanding important markers connected with the evolution of the psyche. Markers from our evolutionary path can be discerned in the structure of the human brain, in our similarities to our infrahuman ancestors, and in contemporary behaviors that, as the essays make clear, continue to serve purposes best understood in our original environment of evolutionary adaptedness. Written by some of the leading investigators in this field, they show why evolutionary psychology is the most useful paradigm for overcoming the current disintegration of the psychological sciences. All those with an interest in the origin of the human mind will find this book enlightening. It is an important collection for students, scholars, and other researchers of the psyche.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction by David H. Rosen and Michael C. Luebbert
  • Evolutionary Psychology: A New Paradigm for Psychological Science by David M. Buss
  • Sex and Mating: Sexual Strategies, Trade-offs, and Strategic Pluralism by Lorne Campbell, Jeffry A. Simpson, and Minda Orina
  • Historicity and Evolution of the Mind by William G. Graziano and Renee M. Tobin
  • Evolution of the Symbolic Self by John J. Skowronski and Constantine Sedikides
  • Evolution and Creativity by Steven M. Smith and Thomas B. Ward
  • An Evolutionary Perspective on Insight by Benton H. Pierce
  • The Evolution of Humor: Do Those Who Laugh Last? by Jyotsna Vaid
  • Evolutionary Memory by Holly L. Huston, David H. Rosen, and Steven M. Smith
  • On the Evolution of Interest: Cases in Serpent Art by Brett Cooke
  • The Survival Value of Forgiveness by Michael C. Luebbert
  • The Evolutionary Significance of Archetypal Dreams by Holly L. Huston
  • An Evolutionary Approach to Psychiatric Disorders: Group-Splitting and Schizophrenia by John Price and Anthony Stevens
  • An Evolutionary Perspective on Treatment by Anthony Stevens and John Price
  • Index
LC Card Number: 98-24561
LCC Class: BF701
Dewey Class: 155
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