The Sage Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology: Applications of Evolutionary Psychology

552 Pages·2020·5.726 MB·English

by  Todd K. Shackelford (editor)

The SAGE Handbook of
Evolutionary Psychology
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The SAGE Handbook of
Evolutionary Psychology
Applications of Evolutionary Psychology
Edited by
Todd K. Shackelford
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Contents
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes vii
Notes on the Editor and Contributors ix
PART 1 INTEGRATION WITHIN PSYCHOLOGY
1. Evolutionary Psychology and Counseling and Psychotherapy 3
Cezar Giosan
2. Evolutionary Psychology and Psychiatry 24
Riadh Abed and Paul St John-Smith
3. Evolutionary Psychology and Suicidology 51
John F. Gunn III, Pablo Malo, and C. A. Soper
4. Evolutionary Psychology and Mindfulness and Meditation:
Easing the Anxiety of Being Human 94
James Carmody
5. Evolutionary Psychology and Environmental Sciences 107
Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Joelson M. B. Moura, Risoneide
Henriques da Silva, Washington S. Ferreira Júnior, and Taline C. Silva
6. Evolutionary Psychology and Public Health 123
Simon Russell
7. Animal Ethics and Evolutionary Psychology 144
Diana Santos Fleischman
PART 2 APPLICATIONS TO LAW AND ORDER
8. Evolutionary Psychology and Political Institutions 171
Michael Latner and Elissa Feld
9. Evolutionary Psychology and Crime 188
Joseph L. Nedelec
10. Evolutionary Psychology and Policing: The Balance Between
Aggression and Restraint 203
Lois James
11. Evolutionary Psychology, Jurisprudence, and Sentencing 221
Eyal Aharoni and Morris B. Hoffman
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12. Evolutionary Psychology and Incarceration 243
Alina Simona Rusu
13. Evolution and Punishment 258
Anthony Walsh, Cody Jorgensen, and Jessica Wells
14. Evolutionary Psychology and Corrections and Rehabilitation 277
Ian A. Silver and Jamie Newsome
15. Evolutionary Psychology and Organized Crime 296
Russil Durrant
16. Evolutionary Psychology and Warfare 316
Anthony C. Lopez
PART 3 APPLICATIONS TO TECHNOLOGY, COMMUNICATIONS,
AND THE FUTURE
17. Evolutionary Psychology and Artificial Intelligence: The Impact of
Artificial Intelligence on Human Behaviour 333
Holly Wilson, Paul Rauwolf, and Joanna J. Bryson
18. Evolutionary Psychology and Robotics 352
Robert Finkelstein
19. Evolutionary Psychology and Dangerous Driving Behaviour 374
Deanna Singhal and David Wiesenthal
20. Evolutionary Psychology and Mass Media 398
Gayle S. Stever
21. Evolutionary Psychology and Communication 417
Ned Kock
22. Evolutionary Psychology and Climate Change: Understanding the Impact
of Time Perspective on Carbon Emissions across 75 Countries 435
Mark A. Caudell
23. Evolutionary Psychology and Thanatology: Responses to Death 457
James R. Anderson
24. Evolutionary Psychology and Reproduction 477
Stephen Whyte and Benno Torgler
25. Evolutionary Psychology and Cyberwarfare 499
Robert Finkelstein
Index 515
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
FIGURES
2.1 Life history strategy trade-offs 29
3.1 Summary of posited antisuicide defences 68
3.2 A tentative mapping of hypothesized types of antisuicide mechanisms
(keepers) across common diagnostic categories of mental disorder 74
4.1 Alarm-related components of experience forming a cycle of distress 97
4.2 Memory, imagination and emotion are symphonies of three interwoven
experiential components 99
4.3 Components recognized as differentiated and connected 100
4.4 Attention shifts from differentiated components to arousal-neutral sensations
of breathing 101
4.5 Re-perceiving reduces distress through a perceptual/attentional shift from
what the thought is about – ‘I’m going to pass out’ – to the thought as
an event in the mind/awareness – ‘This is a thought’ 101
5.1 Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness definition (EEA), original version
and extended version 110
5.2 Structure of the human naturalist mind 112
6.1 The impact of the food supply on the expression of obesity 125
6.2 Key determinants of psychological mechanisms and behaviour strategies 129
7.1 Charitable donations towards animal organizations as compared to animal use 151
9.1 Age-specific birth rates (per 1,000 women per year) in the 10 neighborhoods
with the longest life expectancy compared to the 10 neighborhoods with
the shortest life expectancy 198
10.1 Police balance between aggression and restraint 213
15.1 The basic dimensions of organized crime 298
19.1 GAM factors included in the investigation of modelling of aggressive or
risky driving 384
19.2 Domestic box-office history for the Fast and Furious movies 389
21.1 Path model showing a costly trait and its relationship with fitness 421
21.2 Probability of evolution of a new costly trait 423
21.3 Variation of the expected ratio between p and p 424
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21.4 The evolution of oral speech in humans 425
22.1 Effect of time orientation on total fertility as a function of education 446
22.2 Effect of time orientation on total fertility as a function of mortality level 447
22.3 Effect of time orientation on carbon emissions per capita as a function
of investment in education 448
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TABLES
2.1 Tinbergen’s four questions 27
3.1 The fitness costs of suicide 54
7.1 Days of suffering per kilogram of food weight produced by the animal adjusted
for the badness of each day of life as estimated by animal welfare researchers 158
15.1 Approaches to defining organized crime 297
15.2 The functional structures of organized crime groups in relation to the key
evolutionary processes that facilitate cooperation 305
18.1 Processes of mind and their computational equivalents 354
21.1 Oral speech and the two common characteristics of costly traits 426
22.1 Descriptive statistics for Model 1 441
22.2 Variable correlations for Model 1 441
22.3 Data sources, years, and future orientation scores 443
22.4 Descriptive statistics for Model 2 445
22.5 Variable correlations for Model 2 445
22.6 Relationship between total fertility rates, time orientation, mortality,
and parental investment 446
22.7 Effect of time orientation and education on carbon emissions 448
BOX
2.1 Pathways for the persistence of disease and disorder 28
2.2 Evolutionary theories of depression 33
5.1 Structure and behavior of the human naturalistic mind 113
Notes on the Editor
and Contributors
THE EDITOR
Todd K. Shackelford received his Ph.D. in evolutionary psychology in 1997 from the University
of Texas at Austin. Since 2010, 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. In 2016, he was appointed Distinguished Professor by the Oakland University
Board of Trustees. He led the founding of new Ph.D. and M.S. programs which launched in
2012. Shackelford has published around 300 journal articles and his work has been cited over
22,000 times. Much of Shackelford’s research addresses sexual conflict between men and
women, with a special focus on men’s physical, emotional, and sexual violence against their
intimate partners. Since 2006, Shackelford has served as editor of the journal Evolutionary
Psychology, and in 2014 founded the journal Evolutionary Psychological Science as
Editor-in-Chief.
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Riadh Abed FRCPsych, Qualified in medicine from Baghdad and trained in psychiatry in the
UK. Retired Psychiatrist, Medical Director and Hon. Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of
Sheffield, UK. Currently is a medical member of Mental Health Tribunals, Ministry of Justice,
UK. He is author of a number of novel evolutionary hypotheses on eating disorders, obsessive
compulsive disorder and schizophrenia and has published both theoretical as well as research
articles on a range of evolutionary psychiatry subjects. He is founding chair of the Evolutionary
Psychiatry Special Interest Group (EPSIG) at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK.
Eyal Aharoni is an Associate Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neuroscience at
Georgia State University in Atlanta. His research investigates violence risk assessment and the
influence of emotion, cognitive bias, and other extra-legal factors on legal decision-making.
Prior to his current appointment, Aharoni served as a Research Associate for the RAND
Corporation. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship with appointments at The MIND Research
Network for Neurodiagnostic Discovery and the University of New Mexico Psychology. He
has also held research positions at the Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior
and the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research. Aharoni earned his PhD in
psychology at UC Santa Barbara where he also served as a research fellow for the MacArthur
Foundation’s Law and Neuroscience Project.
Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque received his Ph.D. in biology in 2001 from the Universidade
Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil. He is Full Professor of the Department of Botany at Universidade
Federal de Pernambuco, Pernambuco, Brazil. In 2011, he led the founding of new Ph.D. program
in Ethnobiology and Nature Conservation. Albuquerque has published around 316 journal articles,