Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Sexual Psychology and Behavior

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction to Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Sexual Psychology and Behavior

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Evaluating Evidence of Mate Preference Adaptations: How Do We Really Know What Homo sapiens sapiens Really Want?

      • David P. Schmitt

      Pages 3-39

3. Sexual Adaptations in Men

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. Adaptation and Sexual Offending

      • Joseph A. Camilleri, Kelly A. Stiver

      Pages 43-67

   3. Sexual Selection on Human Voices

      • David A. Puts, Leslie M. Doll, Alexander K. Hill

      Pages 69-86

   4. Agreement and Individual Differences in Men’s Preferences for Women’s Facial Characteristics

      • Benedict C. Jones

      Pages 87-102

   5. Male Adaptations to Female Ovulation

      • Erik M. Lund, Saul L. Miller

      Pages 103-117

   6. (Mis)reading the Signs: Men’s Perception of Women’s Sexual Interest

      • Carin Perilloux

      Pages 119-133

   7. Bodily Attractiveness as a Window to Women’s Fertility and Reproductive Value

      • Jaime M. Cloud, Carin Perilloux

      Pages 135-152

   8. Social and Environmental Conditions Intensifying Male Competition for Resources, Status, and Mates Lead to Increased Male Mortality

      • Daniel J. Kruger

      Pages 153-172

   9. Male Production of Humor Produced by Sexually Selected Psychological Adaptations

      • Gil Greengross

      Pages 173-196

   10. Male Adaptations to Retain a Mate

       • Valerie G. Starratt, Michele N. Alesia

       Pages 197-205

4. Sexual Adaptations in Women

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207

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   2. Evolutionary Psychology and Rape Avoidance

      • William F. McKibbin

      Pages 209-222

   3. Female Orgasm

      • Lisa L. M. Welling

      Pages 223-241

   4. Female Adaptations to Ovulation

      • Lisa L. M. Welling, David A. Puts

      Pages 243-260

   5. Women’s Preferences for Male Facial Features

      • Lisa M. DeBruine

      Pages 261-275

   6. Women’s Disgust Adaptations

      • Diana Santos Fleischman

      Pages 277-296

   7. Female Perceptions of Male Body Movements

      • Bernhard Fink, Bettina Weege, Nick Neave, Bettina Ried, Olival Cardoso Do Lago

      Pages 297-322

This volume in the Springer Series in Evolutionary Psychology presents a state of the art view of the topic of sexuality and sexual behavior drawing on theoretical constructs and research of noted individuals in the field. Comprehensive and multi-disciplinary, this book seeks to provide a broad overview without sacrificing the complexity of a multi-faceted approach. The book is framed by introductory and closing sections that provide a context for the range of ideas contained within. Ample space is provided in designated sections that focus on key areas of sexuality from both male and female perspectives and that include information from primate studies. This volume can serve as a graduate text in sexual behavior in evolutionary terms and as a guide for further research.

• dominance signals
• evolutionary perspectives on human behavior
• evolutionary perspectives on sexual psychology
• facial characteristics
• female mating psychology
• genetic deigns
• homosexual psychology and behavior
• human mating behaviors
• human sexual behavior
• male mating competitions
• reproductive selection
• sex and evolution
• sexual adaptations in men
• sexual adaptions in women
• sexual psychology
• sexual selection
• sexual strategy issues
• sperm competition
• women's fertility and reproductive value
• sexual behaviour

"Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Sexual Psychology and Behavior is one of the first volumes in this series. It contains 20 informative and thought-provoking chapters on human sexual cognition and behavior. Most of the chapters (17 of 20) are organized into two sections: Male Sexual Adaptations and Female Sexual Adaptations.
The chapters are appreciably diverse, covering topics such as mate preferences (e.g., for facial characteristics and body types), physical manifestations of evolutionarily relevant information (e.g., body shape as an indicator of female fertility), sexual behavior (e.g., forced copulation), mating cognition (e.g., perception of sexual interest), and intrasexual competition (e.g., restricted eating among women). Sensibly, some important themes recur across various chapters, such as ovulatory cycle effects (which appear in chapters on men’s sensitivity to female ovulation, male mate retention, female rape avoidance, female preferences for male characteristics, female disgust sensitivity, to name a few)...In conclusion, the editors of this book did an excellent job soliciting chapters on a variety of topics within human sexual psychology and behavior from an evolutionary perspective. The chapters are generally well written, and most of them present richly detailed literature reviews or helpful introductions to competing theories on a single topic. This book will appeal to researchers and connoisseurs of evolutionary psychology who will benefit from the mix of chapters containing tidy summaries and helpful comparisons of competing theories."
Christina M. Brown, PsycCRITIQUES
August 11, 2014, Vol. 59, No. 32, Article 7

• Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, USA

  Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford, Todd K. Shackelford

Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford is currently a special lecturer at Oakland University, Department of Psychology. She received her Ph.D. at Florida Atlantic University in 2011 with areas of specialization in evolutionary psychology and developmental psychology.

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).

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