The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology: Volume 1, Foundations

456 Pages·2022·2.61 MB·English

by  Todd K. Shackelford

The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives
on Sexual Psychology
Volume 1: Foundations
The interface of sexual behavior and evolutionary psychology is a
rapidly growing domain, rich in psychological theories and data, as
wellascontroversiesandapplications.Withnearlyeightychaptersby
leadingresearchersfromaroundtheworld,andcombiningtheoretical
andempiricalperspectives,TheCambridgeHandbookofEvolutionary
PerspectivesonSexualPsychologyisthemostcomprehensiveandup-
to-date reference work in the field. Providing a broad yet in-depth
overviewofthevariousevolutionaryprinciplesthatinfluencealltypes
of sexual behaviors, the handbook takes an inclusive approach that
draws on a number of disciplines and covers nonhuman and human
psychology.Itisanessentialresourceforbothestablishedresearchers
and students in psychology, biology, anthropology, medicine, and
criminology, among other fields. Volume 1: Foundations addresses
foundational theories and methodological approaches.
todd k. shackelford is Distinguished Professor and Chair in the
Department of Psychology and Director of the Center for
Evolutionary Psychological Science at Oakland University in
Michigan, USA.
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The Cambridge Handbook of
Evolutionary Perspectives
on Sexual Psychology
Volume 1: Foundations
Edited by
Todd K. Shackelford
OaklandUniversity,Michigan
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Contents
List of Contributors page vii
Preface ix
Part I. Foundations of Evolution 1
1 NaturalSelection
anna g. b. sedlacek 3
2 SexualSelection
mohammad atari 21
3 InclusiveFitnessTheory
carey j. fitzgerald and brittany lorentz 54
4 AdaptiveProblemsintheDomainofHumanSexuality
kelly asao 72
5 Adaptations,By-products,andSpandrels
jaroslav flegr 87
6 EvolvedPsychologicalMechanisms:PropertiesandEvidence,
MisconceptionsandMismatches
samuel pearson and william von hippel 114
Part II. Middle-Level Theories 135
7 ParentalInvestmentTheory
farid pazhoohi 137
8 Parent–OffspringConflict
catherine a. salmon and jessica a. hehman 160
9 TheoryandEvidenceforReciprocalAltruism
masanori takano and genki ichinose 182
10 LifeHistoryTheoryandMatingStrategies
aurelio jose´ figueredo and mateo peÑaherrera-aguirre 213
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11 SpermCompetitionTheory
tara delecce 242
12 SexualConflictTheory
ulrika candolin 264
13 Cross-SpeciesComparisons
martha escobar, francisco arcediano,
zebulon k. bell, and jordyn truax 280
14 Cross-CulturalMethodsinSexualPsychology
marina l. butovskaya 304
15 BehavioralGenetics
severi luoto and michael a. woodley of menie 327
16 SexDifferencesandSexSimilarities
jessica l. engelbrecht and john e. edlund 360
17 IndividualDifferencesinSexualPsychology
aurelio jose´ figueredo and catherine a. salmon 390
18 ExperimentalMethodsinSexualPsychology
carey j. fitzgerald and jody a. thompson 414
Index 433
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Contributors
francisco arcediano, Oakland University, USA
kelly asao, Westminster College, USA
mohammad atari, University of Southern California, USA
zebulon k. bell, Oakland University, USA
marina l. butovskaya, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
ulrika candolin, University of Helsinki, Finland
tara delecce, Oakland University, USA
john e. edlund, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
jessica l. engelbrecht, The New School for Social Research, USA
martha escobar, Oakland University, USA
aurelio jose´ figueredo, University of Arizona, USA
carey j. fitzgerald, Oregon Institute of Technology, USA
jaroslav flegr, Charles University, Czech Republic
jessica a. hehman, University of Redlands, USA
genki ichinose, Shizuoka University, Japan
brittany lorentz, University of Calgary, Canada
severi luoto, University of Auckland, New Zealand
farid pazhoohi, University of British Columbia, Canada
samuel pearson, University of Queensland, Australia
mateo peÑaherrera-aguirre, University of Arizona, USA
catherine a. salmon, University of Redlands, USA
anna g. b. sedlacek, University of Texas at Austin, USA
masanori takano, CyberAgent, Inc., Japan
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jody a. thompson, Newberry College, USA
jordyn truax, Oakland University, USA
william von hippel, University of Queensland, Australia
michael a. woodley of menie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
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Preface
A few previous handbooks have addressed the interface of sexual behavior
and evolutionary psychology, but none have been as comprehensive as The
Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology.
These previous handbooks focused on the links between sexual psychology
and behavior withinasingledomain oftheevolutionarypsychological litera-
ture, such as the Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence,
Homicide, and War (published in 2012, edited by Shackelford and Weekes-
Shackelford) and the Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Family Psychology
(published in 2011, edited by Salmon and Shackelford). Weekes-Shackelford
and Shackelford about a decade ago co-edited Evolutionary Perspectives on
Human Sexual Psychology and Behavior (2012, published by Springer
Nature). In addition to being somewhat outdated, that volume focused on
humans, whereas the current volume includes work on nonhumans.
Furthermore, the Weekes-Shackelford and Shackelford volume included just
twentychaptersinasinglevolume,whereasthecurrenthandbookboastsnearly
eightychaptersacrossfourvolumesand,therefore,ismorecomprehensive.
The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual
Psychology comprises four volumes of around twenty chapters each.
Chapters in Volume 1: Foundations address foundational theories and meth-
odological approaches. Chapters in Volume 2: Male Sexual Adaptations
address theory and research focused on sexual adaptations in human males.
ChaptersinVolume3:FemaleSexualAdaptationsaddresstheoryandresearch
focusedonsexualadaptationsinhumanfemales.Finally,chaptersinVolume
4: Controversies, Applications, and Nonhuman Primate Extensions address
controversies and unresolved issues; applications to health, law, and pornog-
raphy; and nonhuman primate evolved sexual psychology.
Evolutionary psychology is a vital area of the modern discipline of psych-
ology and, indeed, ofthe social,life, and behavioral sciences. The Cambridge
Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology is the most
comprehensive modern handbook for the field that addresses sexual psych-
ology and behavior. The four volumes provide a rich overview of the most
important theoretical and empirical work in the field. This handbook is
directed primarily to researchers and graduate students, but it will also be
usefulforadvancedundergraduates.Itprovidesacomprehensiveoverviewof
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the state of the art in evolutionary perspectives on sexual psychology that
affords both established researchers and students a rich and current under-
standing of the discipline.
Unlike most previous volumes in this area, which have been relatively
narrow in coverage, The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives
on Sexual Psychology is broad and inclusive. In addition to the research
groups pioneering the field of evolutionary psychology in the Western world
(e.g., Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States), there is rapidly
growing interest in this field in other parts of the world. For example, there
has been a substantial increase in the contributions of Asian and South
American scholars to evolutionary psychology in recent years. The
Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology
provides these new scholars with a wide-ranging summary of this exciting
and ever-expanding field.
The selection of chapters and contributors for the handbook was deter-
mined by focusing on the breadth of the literature while attempting to maxi-
mizetheinternationalappealofthiswork.Chaptersaresufficientlylengthyto
afford detailed reviews of the relevant topics, but contributors also were
encouraged to avoid excessive description of individual studies. In addition,
contributors were instructed to include reference to work conducted by
scholars outside of North America and Europe in order to increase the
breadth of coverage and to generate additional interest in the handbook and
the field among scholars from other parts of the world. Where research from
other countries or cultures was not available, contributors were asked to
providetheir professionalevaluation ofpotentialculturalinfluencesonavail-
able empirical findings and to outline the degree to which available findings
are likely to generalize cross-culturally.
I hope readers find the four volumes of The Cambridge Handbook of
Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology as exciting to read as it was
for me to organize and edit. I am grateful to each of the several dozen
contributorsfromaroundtheworldfortheirtime,attention,andcommitment
to this unique resource, and to the editorial staff at Cambridge University
Press.
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