Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Psychology (Hardcover)

How can an Understanding of Evolutionary Psychology Contribute to Social Psychology?.- Part I: Social by Design: How Social Psychology can be More Cognitive without Being Less Social.- Social-Cognitive Development from an Evolutionary Perspective.- Modularity.- Evolutionary Psychology and Emotion: A Brief History.- Religiosity.- The Evolution of Social Cognition.- Part II: The Emergent Self.- Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Identity.- Self-Esteem.- Your Sociometer is Telling You Something: How the Self-Esteem System Functions to Resolve Important Interpersonal Dilemmas.- Self-Deception.- Evolutionary Cyberpsychology 2.0: Revisiting Some Old Predictions and Posting Some New Ones in the Age of Facebook.- Part III: Attitudes and Attitudinal Change.- Attitudes: An Evolutionary Perspective.- Conformity: Definitions, Types, and Evolutionary Grounding.- The Darwinian Mystique? Synthesizing Evolutionary Psychology and Feminism.- Nothing in Human Behavior Makes Sense Except in the Light of Culture: Shared Interests of Social Psychology and Cultural Evolution.- Part IV: Interpersonal Processes.- Prosocial Behavior.- Groups.- Why Do Humans Help Their Friends? Proximal and Ultimate Hypotheses from Evolutionary Theory.- Evolutionary and Social Psychological Perspectives on Human Cooperation.- Language and Communication.- The Evolution of Stereotypes.- A Biosocial Model of Status in Face-to-Face Groups.- Part V: Mating and Relationships.- Attraction and Human Mating.- Evolutionary Developmental Perspectives on Male Androphilia in Humans.- Familial Relationships.- A Life History Approach to the Dynamics of Social Selection.- Part VI: Violence and Aggression.- War and Aggression.- Social Competition and Bullying: An Adaptive Socio-Ecological Perspective.- Dangerous Terrorists as Devoted Actors.- Part VII: Health and Psychological Adjustment.- The Parasite-Stress Theory of Sociality and the Behavioral Immune System.- Happiness.- Part VIII: Individual Differences.- Evolutionary Game Theory and Personality.- Evolutionary Perspectives of Personality.- The Roots of Narcissus: Old and New Models of the Evolution of Narcissism.- Conclusion: Integrating Evolutionary Psychology and Social Psychology: Reflections and Future Directions .