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contagious ideas in the behavioral sciences. Anticipating later evolutionary views of human�…

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selection. Their powerful influences have been documented in all sexually reproducing�…

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mechanisms of mind that define what it means to be a human being? Evolutionary�…

This article proposes a contextual-evolutionary theory of human mating strategies. Both men
and women are hypothesized to have evolved distinct psychological mechanisms that�…

A comprehensive and accessible approach to personality theory and research with a
renewed focus on contemporary findings In the newly revised 15th edition of Personality�…

The first edition of Frans de Waal's Chimpanzee Politics was acclaimed not only by
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Why does performing certain tasks cause the aversive experience of mental effort and
concomitant deterioration in task performance? One explanation posits a physical resource�…

Gut Reactions is an interdisciplinary defense of the claim that emotions are perceptions in a
double sense. First of all, they are perceptions of changes in the body, but, through the body�…

This volume presents a scholarly analysis of psychopathic and sociopathic personalities and
the conditions that give rise to them. In so doing, it offers a coherent theoretical and�…

Sexual and asexual reproduction are found throughout the plant and animal kingdoms.
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