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Print Price: $135.00

Format:
Hardback
600 pp.
7" x 10"

ISBN-13:
9780199738182

Publication date:
January 2012

Imprint: OUP US

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology

Edited by Jennifer Vonk and Todd K. Shackelford

Series : Oxford Library of Psychology

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology ambitiously brings together an eclectic and provocative body of work from some of the brightest minds in comparative psychology and evolutionary psychology, highlighting the strengths and insights of each field. Across chapters, readers will come to appreciate the new field of "comparative evolutionary psychology," which successfully combines laboratory and field approaches, drawing on diverse methodologies and theoretical viewpoints to elucidate the mysteries of animal behavior and cognition. This comprehensive volume includes coverage of:

* Unique specializations in a wide range of taxa from insects, cephalopods, reptiles, corvids, canines, cetaceans, and primates
* Communication, cooperation, social learning, memory and cognitition in different species
* Controversial theories about the evolution of sometimes surprising abilities in species, both phylogenetically close to and distant from humans.

Suitable for seasoned researchers and graduate students alike, this volume reflects a range of views on human and non-human behavior and cognition, and advances these topics in a wide range of species.

Readership : This volume is intended for undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers in fields as diverse as comparative, evolutionary, cognitive, developmental and biological psychology, as well as biology, zoology, anthropology, and ecology.

Section I: Introduction to Comparative Evolutionary Psychology
1. Jennifer Vonk and Todd Shackelford: Toward Bridging Gaps: Finding Commonality among Evolutionary and Comparative Psychologists
2. Louise Barrett: Why Behaviorism isn't Satanism
3. Kirsten Andrews and Ljiljana Radenovic: Confronting Language, Representation, and Belief: A Limited Defense of Mental Continuity
Section 2: Cognitive Specializations
4. Aaron Sell: Evolved Cognitive Specializations
5. Jayden van Horik, Nicola Clayton, and Nathan Emery: Convergent Evolution of Cognition in Corvids, Apes and other animals
6. Robin Dunbar and A.J. Sutcliffe: Social Complexity and Intelligence
7. Jennifer Mather: Cephalopod Intelligence
8. Anna Wilkinson and Ludwig Huber: Cold-blooded cognition: Reptilian Cognitive Abilities
9. Kelly Jaakkola: Cetacean Cognitive Specializations
10. Erika Cartmill and Dario Maestripieri: Primate Cognitive Specializations
11. Adam Miklosi: The Evolution of Canine Cognition
Section 3: Memory
12. Caroline R. Raby and Nicola Clayton: Episodic Memory and Planning
13. Miranda Feeney and William Roberts: Comparative mental time travel: Is there a cognitive divide between humans and animals in episodic memory and planning?
14. Jonathan Crystal: Animal Models of Human Cognition
15. David Smith, Mariana V. C. Coutinho, Joseph Boomer, and Michael Beran: Metamemory across Species
Section 4: Communication Systems
16. Irene Pepperberg: Symbolic Communication in the Grey Parrot
17. Klaus Zuberbuhler: Communication in Non-human Primates
18. Reginald B. Cocroft and Laura E. Sullivan-Beckers: Female preference functions provide a window into cognition, the evolution of communication, and speciation in plant-feeding insects
19. Heidi Lyn: Apes and the Evolution of Language: Taking stock of 40 years of Research
Section 5: Culture and Cooperation
20. Joan Silk and Bailey House: The Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Prosocial Behavior
21. Felix Warneken and Alicia P. Melis: The Ontogeny and of Phylogeny Cooperation
22. Alex Mesoudi and Keith Jensen: Culture and the Evolution of Human Sociality
23. Mark Sheskin and Laurie Santos: The Evolution of Morality: Which Aspects of Human Moral Concerns Are Shared With Non-Human Primates?
24. Lydia Hopper and Andrew Whiten: The Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology of Social Learning and Culture
25. Francys Subiaul: The Many Faces of Imitation: Cognitive and Motor Imitation in Children and Non-human Primates
26. Christophe Boesch: The Ecology and Evolution of Social Behavior and Cognition in Primates
Section 6: Conclusions and Future Directions
27. Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth: The Evolution of a Cooperative Social Mind
28. Sara Shettleworth: Darwin, Tinbergen, and the Evolution of Comparative Cognition
29. Jennifer Vonk and Todd Shackelford: Comparative Evolutionary Psychology; a United Discipline for the Study of Evolved Traits

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Jennifer Vonk, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast. Todd K. Shackelford, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of Psychology at Oakland University, and Director of the Evolutionary Psychology Lab at Oakland University.

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Special Features

Chapters include new findings and theoretical advances that have not been published or summarized elsewhere.
This volume brings together some of the leading scholars in the fields of comparative and evolutionary psychology - those with sometimes divergent viewpoints on popular, current topics.
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