Full Description
Each chapter in this volume poses a public policy issue related to violence, describes aspects of evolutionary psychology that are relative, and then posits public policy recommendations based on this psychological model. Topics covered also include psychopathy, despotism, and suicide bombings. This volume is designed as an accessible way for policymakers outside of academia to learn about new theoretical developments.
Evolutionary psychology—a relatively new theoretical model of psychology—provides valuable and exciting insights on human violence and public policy issues related to human violence, from war and terrorism to rape and criminality. To this end, each chapter in this volume poses a public policy issues related to violence, describes aspects of evolutionary psychology that are relative and then posits public policy recommendations based on this psychological model. Topics covered also include psycopathy, despotism, and suicide bombings. This volume, designed as an accessible way for policymakers outside of academia to learn about new theoretical developments, also explodes the myths about evolutionary psychology, such as the false claim that it justifies immoral behavior or focuses only on humans' ugly underbelly.
While appealing to policymakers across foundations and agencies, this collection will also interest scholars and teachers focused on evolutionary psychology, public policy, criminal justice, security, public affairs, sociology, and anthropology.
Contents
Foreword by Joseph Graves Jr. Preface by Richard W. Bloom and Nancy K. Dess The Evolution of Scientific Psychology and Public Policy: On Violence and Its Antidotes by Richard W. Bloom The Social Implications of Evolutionary Psychology: Linking Brain Biochemistry, Toxins, and Violent Crime by Roger D. Masters Psychopathy as an Adaptation: Implications for Society and Social Policy by Stuart Kinner Combating Rape: Views of an Evolutionary Psychologist by Linda Mealey Mate Homicide: TBA by David Buss Fear and Death and Social Behavior: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski An Evolutionary Perspective on Intercultural Conflict: Basic Mechanisms and Implications for Immigration Policy by Harold D. Fishbein and Nancy K. Dess Global Conflict Resolution: An Anthropological Diagnosis of Problems with World Governance by Christopher Boehm Violence and Its Antidotes: Promises and Pitfalls of Evolutionarily Aware Policy Development by Nancy K. Dess Index
