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The last 20 years have witnessed tremendous growth in theoretical and empirical work on emotions, including groundbreaking work on anger, disgust, pride, shame, sexual jealousy, romantic love, and more. Such work has demonstrated that emotions pervade nearly all aspects of psychological life, and that emotions are key to survival and reproduction and are therefore prime targets of natural selection. Emotions have also been implicated in a variety of psychological disorders, from the obvious (depression, anxiety) to the much less so (schizoid personality disorder, borderline personality disorder).
In The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions, Laith Al-Shawaf and Todd K. Shackelford have gathered a group of leading scholars in the field to present a centralized resource for researchers and students wishing to understand emotions from an evolutionary perspective. Together, the chapters provide a comprehensive overview of the literature, with a special focus on 1) conceptual foundations of evolutionary approaches to the emotions, 2) specific emotions, such as love, jealousy, anger, pride, disgust, shame, and others, 3) the importance of emotions in daily life, and 4) emotion disorders. The volume consists of four parts; the first part covers conceptual foundations of evolutionary approaches to the emotions (Evolution and the Emotions: Conceptual Foundations). The second part consists of specific emotions (Evolutionary Approaches to Specific Emotions). The third part focuses on the role of emotions in daily life, including spheres such as friendship, romantic relationships, morality, and politics (Evolutionary Approaches to Emotions in Daily Life). The fourth and final part consists of chapters on distinct emotion disorders (Evolutionary Approaches to Emotion Disorders).
Comprehensive and integrative in nature, this Handbook is as an essential resource for students and scholars from a diversity of fields wishing to build upon our theoretical and empirical understanding of the emotions.
Contents
Foreword: A Bounty of Riches in Understanding Human Emotions - David M. Buss
Introduction: Introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions - Laith Al-Shawaf
Part 1: Understanding Emotions from an Evolutionary Perspective
Chapter 1: Basic Emotion Theory: A Beginner's Guide - Daniel Cordaro
Chapter 2: The Past Explains the Present: Emotional Adaptations and the Structure of Ancestral Environments - John Tooby and Leda Cosmides
Chapter 3: Evolution, Emotion, and Facial Behavior: A 21st Century View - Alan J. Fridlund and James A. Russell
Chapter 4: Social Emotions Are Governed by a Common Grammar of Social Valuation: Theoretical Foundations and Applications to Human Personality and the Criminal Justice System - Coltan Scrivner, Daniel Sznycer, Aaron W. Lukaszewski, & Laith Al-Shawaf
Chapter 5: The Motivational Architecture of Emotions - Marco Del Giudice
Part 2: Evolutionary Approaches to Specific Emotions
Chapter 6: The Recalibrational Theory: Anger as a Bargaining Emotion - Aaron Sell and Daniel Sznycer
Chapter 7: Shame - Mitchell Landers, Daniel Sznycer, and Laith Al-Shawaf
Chapter 8: The Neutralization Theory of Hatred - Aaron Sell, Coltan Scrivner, Mitchell Landers, and Anthony C. Lopez
Chapter 9: Disgust: An Emotion for Pathogen Avoidance - Tara J. Cepon-Robins
Chapter 10: The Evolved Nature of Pride - Jessica L. Tracy, Eric Mercadante, and Zachary Witkower
Chapter 11: Romantic Love - Jaclyn K. Doherty & Claudia C. Brumbaugh
Chapter 12: Neuroendocrine Mechanisms for human emotional attachments- Heather Habecker and Mark V. Flinn
Chapter 13: Regret - Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, Trond Viggo Grøntvedt, and Mons Bendixen
Chapter 14: The Elements of Gratitude - Riley N. Loria, Debra Lieberman, and Eric J. Pedersen
Chapter 15: Caring and the Evolution of Guilt: A Biopsychosocial Approach to a Pro-Social Emotion - Paul Gilbert
Chapter 16: A Coordination System to Support Host Immunity - Joshua M. Schrock, Lawrence S. Sugiyama, and J. Josh Snodgrass
Chapter 17: The Origins of Boredom - Yijun Lin and Erin C. Westgate
Chapter 18: Kama Muta: The Cuteness Emotion - Kamila Knutsen Steinnes, Johanna Katarina Blomster Lyshol, Janis H. Zickfeld, Thomas Schubert, and Beate Seibt
Chapter 19: Curiosity: A Behavioral Biology Perspective - Coltan Scrivner
Chapter 20: An Evolutionary Perspective on Positive Emotions - Amanda P. Kirsch, Erika B. Langley, Carley Vornlocher, and Michelle N. Shiota
Chapter 21: How Jealousy Works - David M.G. Lewis, Laith Al-Shawaf, and Kortnee C. Evans
Chapter 22: Chronic Pain, Recuperation, and Care-Eliciting: Evolutionary and Signaling Theory Perspectives - Christopher H. Cantor and Kenneth D. Craig
Chapter 23: Contentment: The Evolution of Indestructible Well-Being - Daniel Cordaro
Chapter 24: Happiness - Stefan M.M. Goetz and Glenn E. Weisfeld
Chapter 25: Grief - Heidi Martin and Carol Cronin Weisfeld
Chapter 26: Fear: An Evolutionary Perspective on Its Biological, Behavioral, and Communicative Features - Katherine O'Connell, Shawn A. Rhoads, and Abigail A. Marsh
Chapter 27: The Evolutionary Functions of Sadness: The Cognitive and Social Benefits of Negative Affect - Joseph P. Forgas
Chapter 28: Humor - Glenn E. Weisfeld and Carol Cronin Weisfeld
Chapter 29: Compassion: An Evolutionary Account - Jennifer L. Goetz and Emiliana Simon-Thomas
Part 3: Emotions in Different Domains of Life
Chapter 30: Emotions and Status Hierarchies - Patrick Durkee
Chapter 31: Emotions in Politics - Florian van Leeuwen and Michael Bang Petersen
Chapter 32: On the Proximate and Ultimate Functions of the Social Emotions with Regard to Cooperation - Diego Guevara Beltran, Michelle N. Shiota, & Athena Aktipis
Chapter 33: Emotion, Sickness, and Care for the Sick - Leander Steinkopf
Chapter 34: Emotions and Olfaction - Laura Schäfer & Ilona Croy
Chapter 35: Emotion and Nonverbal Communication - Elena Svetieva
Chapter 36: Emotions and Intergroup Conflict - Christian Kotoye and Melissa M. McDonald
Chapter 37: Emotions and Reconciliation - Yohsuke Ohtsubo and Adam Smith
Chapter 38: Emotions in Co-Rumination: An Evolutionary Developmental Perspective - Jessica L. Calvi and Jennifer Byrd-Craven
Chapter 39: An Evolutionary Approach to Emotion Regulation - Michael A. Kisley
Chapter 40: More than a Feeling: The Comparative Psychology of Emotion - Jennifer Vonk, Lauri Torgerson-White, Jared Edge, and Bridget Benton
Chapter 41: Emotion and Empathy in Great Apes -Zanna Clay and Diane A. Austry
Chapter 42: Emotions in Dogs: Neuroscientific, Behavioral, and Comparative Perspectives - Miiamaaria V. Kujala and Juliane Bräuer
Chapter 43: Comparative Psychology of Frustrative Nonreward - Carmen Torres and Mauricio R. Papini
Chapter 44: Emotional Vigilance - Guillaume Dezecache and Hugo Mercier
Chapter 45: More than PMS: The Influence of Hormones on Emotion - Lisa L.M. Welling, Virginia E. Mitchell, Jenna Lunge, and Mercedes Hughes
Chapter 46: Defect or Design Feature? Toward an Evolutionary Psychology of the Role of Emotion in Motivated Reasoning - Timothy Ketelaar
Chapter 47: The Emergence of Emotionally Modern Humans: Implications for Language and Learning - Sarah Blaffer Hrdy & Judith M. Burkart
Chapter 48: Positive Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of Psychological Growth - Nicole A. Wedberg, Glenn Geher, Brianna McQuade, and Dayna M. Thomas
Chapter 49: Are There Really So Many Moral Emotions?: Carving Morality at Its Functional Joints - Léo Fitouchi, Jean-Baptiste André, and Nicolas Baumard
Chapter 50: Emotion and Women's Intrasexual Mating Competition - Maryanne L. Fisher
Chapter 51: Emotions across Cultures - Roza G. Kamilo&glu, YongQi Cong, Rui Sun, and Disa A. Sauter
Chapter 52: The Role of Emotion in Second- and Third-Party Punishment - Julia Marshall and Katherine McAuliffe
Chapter 53: Leadership as an Emotional Process: An Evolutionarily Informed Perspective - Sirio Lonati, Zachary H. Garfield, Nicolas Bastardoz, and Christopher von Rueden
Chapter 54: The Negative Effect of Ostracism and Other Forms of Social Exclusion on Emotions - Eric D. Wesselmann, Michaela Pfundmair, Jennifer R. Spoor, and Wesley G. Moons
Chapter 55: Natural Selection and Human Emotions - Laura Betzig
Chapter 56: Evolution, Emotions, and the American Legal System - Keelah E. G. Williams and Carlton Patrick
Part 4: Emotions in Psychopathology
Chapter 57: The Harmful Dysfunction Analysis: An Evolutionary Approach to Emotional Disorders - Jerome C. Wakefield and Jordan A. Conrad
Chapter 58: Anxiety and Phobias - Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, Miriam Lindner, Kristen Hagen, and Simen Mjøen Larsen
Chapter 59: Credible Sadness, Coercive Sadness: Depression as a Functional Response to Adversity and Strife - Edward H. Hagen and Kristen L. Syme
Chapter 60: Evolutionary Perspectives on Eating Disorders - Riadh Abed
Chapter 61: Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Evolutionary Roots and Emotional Profiles - Anna Z. Czarna, Monika Wróbel, Logan F. Folger, Nicholas S. Holtzman, Jennifer R. Daley, and Joshua D. Foster
Chapter 62: Addiction and Substance Abuse - Russil Durrant
Chapter 63: Rethinking the Neurodiversity Debate from a Harmless Dysfunction Perspective: The Implications of DSM Category Evolutionary Heterogeneity - Jordan A. Conrad & Jerome C. Wakefield
Chapter 64: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Post-Combat Reintegration: An Evolutionary Model - Hector A. Garcia
Chapter 65: An Evolutionary Approach to Emotional Difficulties in Borderline Personality Disorder - Lawrence Ian Reed, Cameryn Cooley, and Sara Okun
Chapter 66: An Evolutionary Perspective on Psychopathy - Virgil Zeigler-Hill and Gracynn R. Young
Chapter 67: Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders, Hypochondriasis, and Behavioral Addictions - Vlasios Brakoulias
Afterword: Evolutionary Emotion Research at the Crossroads - Marco Del Giudice
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