Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Psychology

This wide-ranging collection demonstrates the continuing impact of evolutionary thinking on social psychology research. This perspective is explored in the larger context of social psychology, which is divisible into several major areas including social cognition, the self, attitudes and attitude change, interpersonal processes, mating and relationships, violence and aggression, health and psychological adjustment, and individual differences. Within these domains, chapters offer evolutionary insights into salient topics such as social identity, prosocial behavior, conformity, feminism, cyberpsychology, and war. Together, these authors make a rigorous argument for the further integration of the two diverse and sometimes conflicting disciplines.

Among the topics covered:

• How social psychology can be more cognitive without being less social.
• How the self-esteem system functions to resolve important interpersonal dilemmas.
• Shared interests of social psychology and cultural evolution.
• The evolution of stereotypes.
• An adaptive socio-ecological perspective on social competition and bullying.
• Evolutionary game theory and personality.
  Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Psychology has much to offer students and faculty in both fields as well as evolutionary scientists outside of psychology. This volume can be used as a primary text in graduate courses and as a supplementary text in various upper-level undergraduate courses.

Focuses on integrating evolutionary theory with social psychology Presents cutting edge empirical research and theoretical advances that have been made in the last few years Provides a broad overview of the integration of social and evolutionary psychology Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Virgil Zeigler-Hill received his Ph.D. in social-personality psychology in 2004 from the University of Oklahoma. He is a member of the faculty in the Department of Psychology at Oakland University. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and books. His primary research interests are in four interrelated areas: self-esteem, narcissism, cognitive representations of the self, and interpersonal relationships.

Lisa L. M. Welling received her Ph.D. in experimental psychology in 2008 from the University of Aberdeen. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Lisa Welling has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles and has presented at numerous international conferences. Her work focuses largely on the biological and social factors that influence mate choice, preferences, and behavior.

Todd K. Shackelford received his Ph.D. in evolutionary psychology in 1997 from the University of TexasAustin. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, where he is Co-Director of the Evolutionary Psychology Lab. He led the founding of new Ph.D. and M.S. programs, which launched in 2012. Shackelford has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles and chapters and has edited 10 volumes, and his work has been cited over 7,000 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.

Inhalt
How can an Understanding of Evolutionary Psychology Contribute to Social Psychology?.- Part I: Social by Design: How Social Psychology can be More Cognitive without Being Less Social.- Social-Cognitive Development from an Evolutionary Perspective.- Modularity.- Evolutionary Psychology and Emotion: A Brief History.- Religiosity.- The Evolution of Social Cognition.- Part II: The Emergent Self.- Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Identity.- Self-Esteem.- Your Sociometer is Telling You Something: How the Self-Esteem System Functions to Resolve Important Interpersonal Dilemmas.- Self-Deception.- Evolutionary Cyberpsychology 2.0: Revisiting Some Old Predictions and Posting Some New Ones in the Age of Facebook.- Part III: Attitudes and Attitudinal Change.- Attitudes: An Evolutionary Perspective.- Conformity: Definitions, Types, and Evolutionary Grounding.- The Darwinian Mystique? Synthesizing Evolutionary Psychology and Feminism.- Nothing in Human Behavior Makes Sense Except in the Light of Culture: Shared Interests of Social Psychology and Cultural Evolution.- Part IV: Interpersonal Processes.- Prosocial Behavior.- Groups.- Why Do Humans Help Their Friends? Proximal and Ultimate Hypotheses from Evolutionary Theory.- Evolutionary and Social Psychological Perspectives on Human Cooperation.- Language and Communication.- The Evolution of Stereotypes.- A Biosocial Model of Status in Face-to-Face Groups.- Part V: Mating and Relationships.- Attraction and Human Mating.- Evolutionary Developmental Perspectives on Male Androphilia in Humans.- Familial Relationships.- A Life History Approach to the Dynamics of Social Selection.- Part VI: Violence and Aggression.- War and Aggression.- Social Competition and Bullying: An Adaptive Socio-Ecological Perspective.- Dangerous Terrorists as Devoted Actors.- Part VII: Health and Psychological Adjustment.- The Parasite-Stress Theory of Sociality and the Behavioral Immune System.- Happiness.- Part VIII: Individual Differences.- Evolutionary Game Theory and Personality.- Evolutionary Perspectives of Personality.- The Roots of Narcissus: Old and New Models of the Evolution of Narcissism.- Conclusion: Integrating Evolutionary Psychology and Social Psychology: Reflections and Future Directions .