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Sex, murder, and the meaning of life a psychologist investigates how evolution, cognition, and complexity are revolutionizing our view of human nature
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- ISBN: 9780465023424 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0465023428 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (xiii, 238 p.) : ill. - Publisher: New York : Basic Books, c2011.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Standing in the gutter : how did an innocent young student accidentally fall in with a band of intellectual revolutionaries? -- Why playboy is bad for your mental mechanisms : when is beauty bad for you? -- Homicidal fantasies : why have most of us had at least one fantasy about committing murder? -- Outgroup hatred in the blink of an eye : why can't we all just get along? -- The mind as a coloring book : why doesn't cultural variation support the blank slate view of the mind? -- Subselves : the three faces of thee -- Reconstructing Maslow's pyramid : where are the missing bricks in the classic pyramid of needs? -- How the mind warps : why do men and women forget different people and regret different things? -- Peacocks, Porsches, and Pablo Picasso : why do men go out of their way to avoid a Consumer Reports best buy? -- Sex and god : when is godliness just another mating strategy? -- Deep rationality and evolutionary economics : why are behavioral economists only half right when they say that our economic choices are irrational? -- Bad crowds, chaotic attractors, and humans as ants : why your parents were right about the company you keep -- Conclusion: looking up at the stars : how does research on unsavory and taboo topics converge into a grand view of human nature and answer the question : what is the meaning of life? |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Cognitive science Evolution (Biology) Human evolution Social psychology Sex Aggressiveness |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
