Overview
- Combines theoretical concepts with current empirical evidence
- Balanced between male and female perspectives
- Focus on human rather than primate evolution
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Evolutionary Psychology (EVOLPSYCH)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Introduction to Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Sexual Psychology and Behavior
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Sexual Adaptations in Men
Keywords
- dominance signals
- evolutionary perspectives on human behavior
- evolutionary perspectives on sexual psychology
- facial characteristics
- female mating psychology
- genetic deigns
- homosexual psychology and behavior
- human mating behaviors
- human sexual behavior
- male mating competitions
- reproductive selection
- sex and evolution
- sexual adaptations in men
- sexual adaptions in women
- sexual psychology
- sexual selection
- sexual strategy issues
- sperm competition
- women's fertility and reproductive value
- sexual behaviour
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Reviews
The chapters are appreciably diverse, covering topics such as mate preferences (e.g., for facial characteristics and body types), physical manifestations of evolutionarily relevant information (e.g., body shape as an indicator of female fertility), sexual behavior (e.g., forced copulation), mating cognition (e.g., perception of sexual interest), and intrasexual competition (e.g., restricted eating among women). Sensibly, some important themes recur across various chapters, such as ovulatory cycle effects (which appear in chapters on men’s sensitivity to female ovulation, male mate retention, female rape avoidance, female preferences for male characteristics, female disgust sensitivity, to name a few)...In conclusion, the editors of this book did an excellent job soliciting chapters on a variety of topics within human sexual psychology and behavior from an evolutionary perspective. The chapters are generally well written, and most of them present richly detailed literature reviews or helpful introductions to competing theories on a single topic. This book will appeal to researchers and connoisseurs of evolutionary psychology who will benefit from the mix of chapters containing tidy summaries and helpful comparisons of competing theories."
Christina M. Brown, PsycCRITIQUES
August 11, 2014, Vol. 59, No. 32, Article 7
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford is currently a special lecturer at Oakland University, Department of Psychology. She received her Ph.D. at Florida Atlantic University in 2011 with areas of specialization in evolutionary psychology and developmental psychology.
Todd K. Shackelford received his Ph.D. in evolutionary psychology in 1997 from the University of Texas–Austin, his M.A. in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1995, and his B.A. in psychology from the University of New Mexico in 1993. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Oakland University (http://www.oakland.edu/psychology) in Rochester, Michigan, where he is Co-Director of the Evolutionary Psychology Lab (www.ToddKShackelford.com). He led the founding of new Ph.D. and M.S. programs (http://www.oakland.edu/psychology/grad/), which launched in 2012. Shackelford has published over 280 peer-reviewed articles and chapters and has edited 10 volumes, and his work has been cited over 7,500 times. Much of Shackelford’s research addresses sexual conflict between men and women, with a special focus on testing hypotheses derived from sperm competition theory. Since 2006, Shackelford has served as editor of Evolutionary Psychology (www.epjournal.net).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Sexual Psychology and Behavior
Editors: Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford, Todd K. Shackelford
Series Title: Evolutionary Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0314-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0313-9Published: 08 March 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5354-7Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-0314-6Published: 08 July 2014
Series ISSN: 2197-9898
Series E-ISSN: 2197-9901
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 418
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sexual Behavior, Gender Studies, Psychology Research