Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Schaller, Mark; Kameda, Tatsuya; Yamagishi, Toshio; Heine, Steven J.; Norenzayan, Ara

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind is the first scholarly book to integrate evolutionary and cultural perspectives on human psychology. The contributors include world-renowned evolutionary, cultural, social, and cognitive psychologists. These chapters reveal many novel insights linking human evolution to both human cognition and human culture - including the evolutionary origins of cross-cultural differences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136950506
• Artikelnr.: 43822372

Autorenporträt

Arie W. Kruglanski is Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland. He is recipient of the National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Award, the Donald Campbell Award for Oustanding Contributions to Social Psychology, the University of Maryland Regents Award for Scholarship and Creativity and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. He was Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, and is Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. He has served as editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, and as editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and as Associate Editor of the American Psychologist. His interests have been in the domains of human judgment and decision making, the motivation-cognition interface, group and intergroup processes, the psychology of human goals, and the social psychological aspects of terrorism. His work has been disseminated in over 250 articles, chapters and books and has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, Deutsche Forschungs Gemeineschaft, the Ford Foundation and the Israeli Academy of Science. He has been members of several NAS panels on the social and behavioral aspects of terrorism and presently serves as co-director of the National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism.

Inhaltsangabe

A. Norenzayan
M. Schaller
S.J. Heine
Introduction. Part 1. How Evolution and Culture Fit Together. P. Rozin
Towards a Cultural/Evolutionary Psychology: Cooperation and Complementarity. R.F. Baumeister
The Human Mind and the Evolution of Cultural Animals. C-Y Chiu
Y. Kim
A. Chaturvedi
Collective Evolution: Revisiting Donald Campbell's Legacy. Y.C. Dutton
C. Heath
Cultural Evolution: Why Are Some Cultural Variants More Successful Than Others? L.A. Kirkpatrick
From Genes to Memes: Psychology at the Nexus. Part 2. Evolutionary Bases of Cultural Phenomena. S.W. Gangestad
Exploring the Evolutionary Foundations of Culture: An Adaptationist Framework. S. Solomon
J. Greenberg
T. Pyszczynski
F. Cohen
D.M. Ogilvie
Teach these Souls to Fly: Supernatural as Human Adaptation. A.F. Shariff
A. Norenzayan
J. Henrich
The Birth of High Gods: How the Cultural Evolution of Supernatural Policing Influenced the Emergence of Complex
Cooperative Human Societies
Paving the Way for Civilization. R.M. Nesse
Social Selection and the Origins of Culture. T. Kameda
M. Takezawa
Y. Ohtsubo
R. Hastie
Are Our Minds Fundamentally Egalitarian? Adaptive Bases of Different Socio-Cultural Models about Distributive Justice. Part 3. Evolutionary Universals and Cross-Cultural Differences. D. Roberson
Color in Mind
Culture and Language. T. Yamagishi
N. Suzuki
An Institutional Approach to Culture. S. Kitayama
N.A. Bowman
Cultural Consequences of Voluntary Settlement in the Frontier: Evidence and Implications. M. Daly
M. Wilson
Cultural Inertia
Economic Incentives
and the Persistence of "Southern Violence". M. Schaller
D.R. Murray
Infectious Diseases and the Evolution of Cross-Cultural Differences. D.T. Kenrick
S. Nieuweboer
A.P. Buunk
Universal Mechanisms and Cultural Diversity: Replacing the Blank Slate with a Coloring Book. Indexes.