Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind, 5/e provides students with the conceptual tools of evolutionary psychology, and applies them to empirical research on the human mind. Content topics are logically arrayed, starting with challenges of survival, mating, parenting, and kinship; and then progressing to challenges of group living, including cooperation, aggression, sexual conflict, and status, prestige, and social hierarchies. Students gain a deep understanding of applying evolutionary psychology to their own lives and all the people they interact with.

Table contents:

PART ONE – FOUNDATIONS OF EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY

Chapter 1. The Scientific Movements Leading to Evolutionary Psychology

Chapter 2. The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

PART TWO – PROBLEMS OF SURVIVAL

Chapter 3. Combating the Hostile Forces of Nature: Human Survival Problems

PART THREE – CHALLENGES OF SEX AND MATING

Chapter 4. Women’s Long-Term Mating Strategies

Chapter 5. Men’s Long-Term Mating Strategies

Chapter 6. Short-Term Sexual Strategies

PART FOUR – CHALLENGES OF PARENTING AND KINSHIP

Chapter 7. Problems of Parenting

Chapter 8. Problems of Kinship

PART FIVE – PROBLEMS OF GROUP LIVING

Chapter 9. Cooperative Alliances

Chapter 10. Aggression and Warfare

Chapter 11. Conflict between the Sexes

Chapter 12. Status, Prestige, and Social Dominance

PART SIX – AN INTEGRATED PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Chapter 13. Toward a Unified Evolutionary Psychology