Edited by Catherine Salmon and Todd K. Shackelford
Relationships with family are important to our emotional health and can play a significant role in our social success. We need our families and yet frequently have a great difficulty understanding them. Hundreds of books have been published with the goal of improving understanding and
relationships among family and relationships; few, if any, have done so with an evolutionary approach.
The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Family Psychology focuses on the reasons underlying family behavior and how a greater understanding of these factors can help us to better understand
our own family behaviors. Recognizing that a deeper understanding of human families can be found through an understanding of similar phenomena in other species, the volume demonstrates how an understanding of family ties can inform understanding of our relationships to non-kin.
Part One: Introduction
1. Catherine Salmon and Todd K. Shackelford: Towards an Evolutionary Psychology of the Family
2. Mark V. Flinn: Evolutionary Anthropology of the Human Family
3. Bernard Chapais: The Evolutionary History of Pair-bonding and Parental Collaboration
4.
Douglas W. Mock: The Evolution of Relationships in Non-human Families
Part Two: Human Families
5. Marco Del Giudice and Jay Belsky: Parent-Child Relationships
6. Catherine Salmon and James Malcolm: Parent-Offspring Conflict
7. Kermyt G. Anderson: Step-parenting, Divorce, and
Investment in Children
8. Anthony A. Volk: Adoption: Forms, Functions, and Preferences
9. Thomas V. Pollet and Ashley D. Hoben: An Evolutionary Perspective on Siblings: Rivals and Resources
10. Virginia Periss and David F. Bjorklund: Trials and Tribulations of Childhood: An Evolutionary
Perspective
11. Aaron T. Goetz and Gorge A. Romero: Family Violence: How Paternity Uncertainty Raises the Stakes
12. Harald A. Euler: Grandparents and Extended Kin
Part Three: Animal Families
13. Peter Hepper: Kin Recognition
14. Alan H. Krakauer and Emily H. DuVal: Kin
Selection and Cooperative Courtship in Birds
15. Carol M. Berman: Primate Kin Preferences: Explaining Diversity
Part Four: Fictive Families
16. John Archer: Pet Keeping: A Case Study in Maladaptive Behavior
17. James A. Serpell and Elizabeth S. Paul: Pets in the Family: An
Evolutionary Perspective
18. Hector N. Qirko: Fictive Kinship and Induced Altruism
19. Justin H. Park and Joshua M. Ackerman: Passion and Compassion: Psychology of Kin Relations within and beyond the Family
20. Daniel Brian Krupp, Lisa M. DeBruine, and Benedict C. Jones: Cooperation and
Conflict in the Light of Kin Recognition Systems
Part Five: Conclusions and Future Directions
21. David C. Geary, Drew H. Bailey, and Jonathan Oxford: Reflections on the Human Family
22. Gregory Gorelik, Todd K. Shackelford, and Catherine Salmon: Between Conflict and Cooperation:
New Horizons in the Evolutionary Science of the Human Family
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Catherine Salmon is an Associate Professor of Psychology at University of Redlands. Todd K. Shackelford is a Professor and Chair of Psychology at Oakland University.
