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    Applied evolutionary psychology / edited by S. Craig Roberts.

    • Title:Applied evolutionary psychology / edited by S. Craig Roberts.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Roberts, S. Craig.
    • Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Evolutionary psychology.
    • Medical Subjects: Adaptation, Psychological.
      Biological Evolution.
    • Edition:1st ed.
    • Description:xii, 436 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780199586073 (alk. paper)
      0199586071 (alk. paper)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Applying evolutionary psychology / S. Craig Roberts
      Section 1 Business
      2. evolutionary psychology of economics / C. Monica Capra
      3. evolution of business and management / Nigel Nicholson
      4. social animal within organizations / Pieternel Dijkstra
      Section 2 Family
      5. evolved child: adapted to family life / Patrick Douglas Sellers II
      6. Application of evolutionary psychology to academic learning / David C. Geary
      7. Serial monogamy and clandestine adultery: evolution and consequences of the dual human reproductive strategy / Helen E. Fisher
      Section 3 Society
      8. evolutionary psychology of mass politics / Michael Bang Petersen
      9. Gender equity issues in evolutionary perspective / Bobbi S. Low
      10. evolution of charitable behaviour and the power of reputation / Pat Barclay
      11. Altruism as showing off: a signalling perspective on promoting green behaviour and acts of kindness / Mark van Vugt
      12. Evolutionary perspectives on intergroup prejudice: implications for promoting tolerance / Justin H. Park
      13. evolutionary psychology of criminal behaviour / Zachary Hohman
      14. War, martyrdom, and terror: evolutionary underpinnings of the moral imperative to extreme group violence / Scott Atran
      15. Evolutionary theory and behavioural biology research: implications for law / David J. Herring
      Section 4 Health
      16. Motivational mismatch: evolved motives as the source of
      -and solution to
      -global public health problems / Robert Aunger
      17. Mental health and well-being: clinical applications of Darwinian psychiatry / Alfonso Troisi
      18. Evolutionary perspectives on sport and competition / Russell A. Hill
      Section 5 Marketing and communication
      19. Why we buy: evolution, marketing, and consumer behaviour / Joseph P. Redden
      20. Evolutionary psychology and perfume design / Jan Havlicek
      21. Television programming and the audience / Charlotte De Backer
      22. News as reality-inducing, survival-relevant, and gender-specific stimuli / Maria Elizabeth Grabe
      Section 6 Technology
      23. Media naturalness theory: human evolution and behaviour towards electronic communication technologies / Ned Kock
      24. Evolutionary psychology, demography, and driver safety research: a theoretical synthesis / Deanna M. Singhal
      25. Evolutionary robotics / Walter de Back.
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