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The Evolution of Violence

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Editors:
  1. Todd K. Shackelford

    1. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, USA

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  2. Ranald D. Hansen

    1. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, USA

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  • Includes a Foreword by Steven Pinker
  • Multidisciplinary approach to violence as an aspect of human behavior
  • Builds on an evolutionary perspective
  • Features innovative empirical and theoretical insights
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Evolutionary Psychology (EVOLPSYCH)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Intimate Partner Violence in Evolutionary Perspective

    • David M. Buss, Joshua D. Duntley
    Pages 1-21

  3. War Before Civilization—15 Years On

    • Lawrence H. Keeley
    Pages 23-31

  4. Violence in Literature: An Evolutionary Perspective

    • Joseph Carroll
    Pages 33-52

  5. Evolutionary Perspectives on Child Welfare Law

    • David J. Herring
    Pages 53-72

  6. Warfare and Human Nature

    • Steven A. LeBlanc
    Pages 73-97

  7. Sexual Selection and the Psychology of Intergroup Conflict

    • Carlos David Navarrete, Melissa M. McDonald
    Pages 99-116

  8. Evolutionary Behavioral Genetics of Violent Crime

    • Kevin M. Beaver, Joseph L. Nedelec, Joseph A. Schwartz, Eric J. Connolly
    Pages 117-135

  9. The Evolutionary Psychology of Sibling Conflict and Siblicide

    • Catherine A. Salmon, Jessica A. Hehman
    Pages 137-157

  10. Aggression Grows Up: Looking Through an Evolutionary Developmental Lens to Understand the Causes and Consequences of Human Aggression

    • David F. Bjorklund, Patricia H. Hawley
    Pages 159-186

  11. Adaptation and Coherence: Evolutionary and Dynamical Perspectives on Human Violence

    • Robin R. Vallacher, Christopher Brooks
    Pages 187-209

  12. Violence and Aggression in Women

    • Catharine P. Cross, Anne C. Campbell
    Pages 211-232

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 233-244
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About this book

This volume is an interdisciplinary exploration of our understanding of the causes and consequences of violence. Represented in its chapters are noted scholars from a variety of fields including psychology, anthropology, law, and literature. The contributions reflect a broad scope of inquiry and diverse levels of analysis. With an underlying evolutionary theme each of the contributors invoke their separate areas of expertise, offering empirical and theoretical insights to this complex subject. The multi-faceted aspect of the book is meant to engender new perspectives that will synthesize current knowledge and lead to a more nuanced understanding of an ever timely issue in human behavior. Of additional interest, is a foreword written by world renowned psychologist, Steven Pinker, and an afterword by noted evolutionary scholar, Richard Dawkins.

Reviews

"This collection represents the scientific and intellectual richness of the contemporary understanding of violence from an evolutionary perspective, and amply demonstrates why an understanding of the biological roots of violence (and nonviolence) is indispensable to our species’ attempt to reduce it."
Steven Pinker

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford, Ranald D. Hansen

About the editors

Todd K. Shackelford received his Ph.D. in evolutionary psychology in 1997 from the University of Texas–Austin, his M.A. in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1995, and his B.A. in psychology from the University of New Mexico in 1993. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Oakland University (http://www.oakland.edu/psychology) in Rochester, Michigan, where he is Co-Director of the Evolutionary Psychology Lab (www.ToddKShackelford.com). He led the founding of new Ph.D. and M.S. programs (http://www.oakland.edu/psychology/grad/), which launched in 2012. Shackelford has published over 280 peer-reviewed articles and chapters and has edited 10 volumes, and his work has been cited over 7,500 times. Much of Shackelford’s research addresses sexual conflict between men and women, with a special focus on testing hypotheses derived from sperm competition theory. Since 2006, Shackelford has served as editor of Evolutionary Psychology (www.epjournal.net).

Ranald D. Hansen is a Professor of Psychology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He also serves as the CEO of Innovation Emporium, Inc., a company focused on knowledge management, creating sustainable industry-university partnerships, and educational environment optimization. His research in cognitive science and psychophysiology has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. A significant portion of this work was directed toward developing a model derived from an evolutionary science perspective for integrating emotive and cognitive processes. In the past decade he has participated in creating multiple regional innovation drivers, including technology accelerators and innovation zones.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Evolution of Violence

  • Editors: Todd K. Shackelford, Ranald D. Hansen

  • Series Title: Evolutionary Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9314-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-9313-6Published: 10 November 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5421-6Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-9314-3Published: 09 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2197-9898

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-9901

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 244

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Cognitive Psychology

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