Overview
- 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)
Keywords
- aggression
- aggression in women
- child wefare law
- evolution
- evolution of violence
- evolutionary perspective
- evolutionary psychology
- human aggression
- human nature
- human violence
- murder
- partner violence
- psychology of intergroup conflict
- rape
- sexual conflict theory
- sexual selection
- siblicide
- sibling conflict
- sperm competition
- violence
- violence in literature
- violence in women
- violent crime
- warfare
About this book
Reviews
Steven Pinker
Editors and Affiliations
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