The Evolution of Violence

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Shackelford, Todd K. (Editor), Hansen, Ranald D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Evolutionary Psychology
• Subjects: Psychology.; Clinical psychology.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Cognitive psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Cognitive Psychology.

Our contemporary capacity for understanding and empathy suggests that people are becoming less disposed to violence. At the same time, current developments in war technologies and the popularity of blood-soaked movies and video games point to the opposite conclusion. The works of Darwin hold crucial...

Table of Contents:

• Intimate Partner Violence in Evolutionary Perspective
• War Before Civilization – 15 Years On
• Violence in Literature: An Evolutionary Perspective
• Evolutionary Perspectives on Child Welfare Law
• Warfare and Human Nature
• Sexual Selection and the Psychology of Intergroup Conflict
• Evolutionary Behavioral Genetics of Violent Crime
• The Evolutionary Psychology of Sibling Conflict and Siblicide
• Aggression Grows Up: Looking Through an Evolutionary Developmental Lens to Understand the Causes and Consequences of Human Aggression
• Adaptation and Coherence: Evolutionary and Dynamical Perspectives on Human Violence
• Violence and Aggression in Women.