- Hardcover: 456 pages
- Publisher: Pearson; 1 edition (23 Nov 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0205193587
- ISBN-13: 978-0205193585
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 17.8 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Evolutionary psychology is a new and revolutionary science, rapidly growing in scientific practice and media attention. David Buss, a leading researcher in the field, has written the first comprehensive text on the subject, introducing students to a new perspective on the fascinating puzzles of human nature. Composed of cutting-edge research and featuring an engaging writing style, the author offers compelling scientific answers to the profound human questions of love and work. Beginning with a historical introduction, the text logically progresses by discussing adaptive problems that humans face, and ends with a unifying chapter showing how the new field of evolutionary psychology encompasses all branches of psychology.
Each chapter is alive with the subjects that most occupy our minds: sex, mating, getting along, getting ahead, friends, enemies, and social hierarchies. Why is child abuse 40 times more prevalent among step-families than biologically intact families? According to one study, why did 75% of men but 0% of women consent to have sex with a complete stranger? Buss explores these intriguing quandaries with his vision of psychology in the new millennium as a new science of the mind.
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In the first edition, Evolutionary Psychology was the premier and original text for the burgeoning field of evolutionary psychology. The third edition, containing a major update involving nearly 400 new references, continues this legacy.
David Buss, one of the foremost researchers in the field, has thoroughly revised his already enormously successful text to provide an even more comprehensive overview of this dynamic field. Using cutting-edge research and an engaging writing style, the third edition of Evolutionary Psychology ensures that you will master the material presented.
Highlights of the Third Edition
- Expanded coverage of issues in clinical and psychopathology
- Expanded coverage of culture and learning
- New coverage of testosterone and human mating
- New coverage of work on parenting and kinship adaptations
- Expanded coverage of fMRI and other neuroscience findings
- New work on adaptations linked with ovulation
- New section on the evolution of intelligence
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I wish more textbooks were like this. The only one that really comes to mind is Animal Social Behavior by Wittenberger. Like that one, this book impresses by the quality of the arguments. He never just comes up with 'this is the way it is, so learn it'. He often presents an hypothesis, then lists predictions that can be made from that hypothesis and suitable tests, and then evidence to support or disprove it. You learn something about the scientific method as well as the subject matter.
I admit I dismissed evolutionary psychology for a long time, arguing that we are no longer subject to darwinian evolution, but are subject to rapid cultural evolution. However, this book shows exactly why I was wrong, and how much we can learn from the sort of interesting questions that an evolutionary perspective inspires.
A nice antidote to the influence of behaviourism, which still seems to be present in sociology and feminist ideology. Just so long as we remember that not all behaviour is an adaptation.
I admit I dismissed evolutionary psychology for a long time, arguing that we are no longer subject to darwinian evolution, but are subject to rapid cultural evolution. However, this book shows exactly why I was wrong, and how much we can learn from the sort of interesting questions that an evolutionary perspective inspires.
A nice antidote to the influence of behaviourism, which still seems to be present in sociology and feminist ideology. Just so long as we remember that not all behaviour is an adaptation.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Excellent, thorough and highly recommended introduction covering the fundamentals in rich detail. Based on excellent principles and covering all the main areas of human social cognition and behaviour and found it rewarding to read. David Buss is clear and turns complex ideas, knowledge, research and findings in evo psyche into an accessible book for anyone approaching this perspective.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I do zoology, my fiends do psychology, this book manages to almagamate the two with unsurpassed ease. At times is enjoyable as well as interesting and his use of references is both accurate and up to date.
Omly drawback may be the price fro some of us poverty stricken students
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