Overview

The last 20 years have witnessed tremendous growth in theoretical and empirical work on emotions, including groundbreaking work on anger, disgust, pride, shame, sexual jealousy, romantic love, and more. Such work has demonstrated that emotions pervade nearly all aspects of psychological life, and that emotions are key to survival and reproduction and are therefore prime targets of natural selection. Emotions have also been implicated in a variety of psychological disorders, from the obvious (depression, anxiety) to the much less so (schizoid personality disorder, borderline personality disorder).In The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions, Laith Al-Shawaf and Todd K. Shackelford have gathered a group of leading scholars in the field to present a centralized resource for researchers and students wishing to understand emotions from an evolutionary perspective. Together, the chapters provide a comprehensive overview of the literature, with a special focus on 1) conceptual foundations of evolutionary approaches to the emotions, 2) specific emotions, such as love, jealousy, anger, pride, disgust, shame, and others, 3) the importance of emotions in daily life, and 4) emotion disorders. The volume consists of four parts; the first part covers conceptual foundations of evolutionary approaches to the emotions (Evolution and the Emotions: Conceptual Foundations). The second part consists of specific emotions (Evolutionary Approaches to Specific Emotions). The third part focuses on the role of emotions in daily life, including spheres such as friendship, romantic relationships, morality, and politics (Evolutionary Approaches to Emotions in Daily Life). The fourth and final part consists of chapters on distinct emotion disorders (Evolutionary Approaches to Emotion Disorders). Comprehensive and integrative in nature, this Handbook is as an essential resource for students and scholars from a diversity of fields wishing to build upon our theoretical and empirical understanding of the emotions.

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Author:   Laith Al-Shawaf (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs) ,  Todd K. Shackelford (Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychology, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Oakland University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN:  

9780197544754

ISBN 10:   0197544754
Pages:   1432
Publication Date:   28 May 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   To order  

Table of Contents

Foreword: A Bounty of Riches in Understanding Human Emotions - David M. Buss Introduction: Introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions - Laith Al-Shawaf Part 1: Understanding Emotions from an Evolutionary Perspective Chapter 1: Basic Emotion Theory: A Beginner's Guide - Daniel Cordaro Chapter 2: The Past Explains the Present: Emotional Adaptations and the Structure of Ancestral Environments - John Tooby and Leda Cosmides Chapter 3: Evolution, Emotion, and Facial Behavior: A 21st Century View - Alan J. Fridlund and James A. Russell Chapter 4: Social Emotions Are Governed by a Common Grammar of Social Valuation: Theoretical Foundations and Applications to Human Personality and the Criminal Justice System - Coltan Scrivner, Daniel Sznycer, Aaron W. Lukaszewski, & Laith Al-Shawaf Chapter 5: The Motivational Architecture of Emotions - Marco Del Giudice Part 2: Evolutionary Approaches to Specific Emotions Chapter 6: The Recalibrational Theory: Anger as a Bargaining Emotion - Aaron Sell and Daniel Sznycer Chapter 7: Shame - Mitchell Landers, Daniel Sznycer, and Laith Al-Shawaf Chapter 8: The Neutralization Theory of Hatred - Aaron Sell, Coltan Scrivner, Mitchell Landers, and Anthony C. Lopez Chapter 9: Disgust: An Emotion for Pathogen Avoidance - Tara J. Cepon-Robins Chapter 10: The Evolved Nature of Pride - Jessica L. Tracy, Eric Mercadante, and Zachary Witkower Chapter 11: Romantic Love - Jaclyn K. Doherty & Claudia C. Brumbaugh Chapter 12: Neuroendocrine Mechanisms for human emotional attachments- Heather Habecker and Mark V. Flinn Chapter 13: Regret - Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, Trond Viggo Grøntvedt, and Mons Bendixen Chapter 14: The Elements of Gratitude - Riley N. Loria, Debra Lieberman, and Eric J. Pedersen Chapter 15: Caring and the Evolution of Guilt: A Biopsychosocial Approach to a Pro-Social Emotion - Paul Gilbert Chapter 16: A Coordination System to Support Host Immunity - Joshua M. Schrock, Lawrence S. Sugiyama, and J. Josh Snodgrass Chapter 17: The Origins of Boredom - Yijun Lin and Erin C. Westgate Chapter 18: Kama Muta: The Cuteness Emotion - Kamila Knutsen Steinnes, Johanna Katarina Blomster Lyshol, Janis H. Zickfeld, Thomas Schubert, and Beate Seibt Chapter 19: Curiosity: A Behavioral Biology Perspective - Coltan Scrivner Chapter 20: An Evolutionary Perspective on Positive Emotions - Amanda P. Kirsch, Erika B. Langley, Carley Vornlocher, and Michelle N. Shiota Chapter 21: How Jealousy Works - David M.G. Lewis, Laith Al-Shawaf, and Kortnee C. Evans Chapter 22: Chronic Pain, Recuperation, and Care-Eliciting: Evolutionary and Signaling Theory Perspectives - Christopher H. Cantor and Kenneth D. Craig Chapter 23: Contentment: The Evolution of Indestructible Well-Being - Daniel Cordaro Chapter 24: Happiness - Stefan M.M. Goetz and Glenn E. Weisfeld Chapter 25: Grief - Heidi Martin and Carol Cronin Weisfeld Chapter 26: Fear: An Evolutionary Perspective on Its Biological, Behavioral, and Communicative Features - Katherine O'Connell, Shawn A. Rhoads, and Abigail A. Marsh Chapter 27: The Evolutionary Functions of Sadness: The Cognitive and Social Benefits of Negative Affect - Joseph P. Forgas Chapter 28: Humor - Glenn E. Weisfeld and Carol Cronin Weisfeld Chapter 29: Compassion: An Evolutionary Account - Jennifer L. Goetz and Emiliana Simon-Thomas Part 3: Emotions in Different Domains of Life Chapter 30: Emotions and Status Hierarchies - Patrick Durkee Chapter 31: Emotions in Politics - Florian van Leeuwen and Michael Bang Petersen Chapter 32: On the Proximate and Ultimate Functions of the Social Emotions with Regard to Cooperation - Diego Guevara Beltran, Michelle N. Shiota, & Athena Aktipis Chapter 33: Emotion, Sickness, and Care for the Sick - Leander Steinkopf Chapter 34: Emotions and Olfaction - Laura Schäfer & Ilona Croy Chapter 35: Emotion and Nonverbal Communication - Elena Svetieva Chapter 36: Emotions and Intergroup Conflict - Christian Kotoye and Melissa M. McDonald Chapter 37: Emotions and Reconciliation - Yohsuke Ohtsubo and Adam Smith Chapter 38: Emotions in Co-Rumination: An Evolutionary Developmental Perspective - Jessica L. Calvi and Jennifer Byrd-Craven Chapter 39: An Evolutionary Approach to Emotion Regulation - Michael A. Kisley Chapter 40: More than a Feeling: The Comparative Psychology of Emotion - Jennifer Vonk, Lauri Torgerson-White, Jared Edge, and Bridget Benton Chapter 41: Emotion and Empathy in Great Apes -Zanna Clay and Diane A. Austry Chapter 42: Emotions in Dogs: Neuroscientific, Behavioral, and Comparative Perspectives - Miiamaaria V. Kujala and Juliane Bräuer Chapter 43: Comparative Psychology of Frustrative Nonreward - Carmen Torres and Mauricio R. Papini Chapter 44: Emotional Vigilance - Guillaume Dezecache and Hugo Mercier Chapter 45: More than PMS: The Influence of Hormones on Emotion - Lisa L.M. Welling, Virginia E. Mitchell, Jenna Lunge, and Mercedes Hughes Chapter 46: Defect or Design Feature? Toward an Evolutionary Psychology of the Role of Emotion in Motivated Reasoning - Timothy Ketelaar Chapter 47: The Emergence of Emotionally Modern Humans: Implications for Language and Learning - Sarah Blaffer Hrdy & Judith M. Burkart Chapter 48: Positive Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of Psychological Growth - Nicole A. Wedberg, Glenn Geher, Brianna McQuade, and Dayna M. Thomas Chapter 49: Are There Really So Many Moral Emotions?: Carving Morality at Its Functional Joints - Léo Fitouchi, Jean-Baptiste André, and Nicolas Baumard Chapter 50: Emotion and Women's Intrasexual Mating Competition - Maryanne L. Fisher Chapter 51: Emotions across Cultures - Roza G. Kamilo&glu, YongQi Cong, Rui Sun, and Disa A. Sauter Chapter 52: The Role of Emotion in Second- and Third-Party Punishment - Julia Marshall and Katherine McAuliffe Chapter 53: Leadership as an Emotional Process: An Evolutionarily Informed Perspective - Sirio Lonati, Zachary H. Garfield, Nicolas Bastardoz, and Christopher von Rueden Chapter 54: The Negative Effect of Ostracism and Other Forms of Social Exclusion on Emotions - Eric D. Wesselmann, Michaela Pfundmair, Jennifer R. Spoor, and Wesley G. Moons Chapter 55: Natural Selection and Human Emotions - Laura Betzig Chapter 56: Evolution, Emotions, and the American Legal System - Keelah E. G. Williams and Carlton Patrick Part 4: Emotions in Psychopathology Chapter 57: The Harmful Dysfunction Analysis: An Evolutionary Approach to Emotional Disorders - Jerome C. Wakefield and Jordan A. Conrad Chapter 58: Anxiety and Phobias - Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, Miriam Lindner, Kristen Hagen, and Simen Mjøen Larsen Chapter 59: Credible Sadness, Coercive Sadness: Depression as a Functional Response to Adversity and Strife - Edward H. Hagen and Kristen L. Syme Chapter 60: Evolutionary Perspectives on Eating Disorders - Riadh Abed Chapter 61: Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Evolutionary Roots and Emotional Profiles - Anna Z. Czarna, Monika Wróbel, Logan F. Folger, Nicholas S. Holtzman, Jennifer R. Daley, and Joshua D. Foster Chapter 62: Addiction and Substance Abuse - Russil Durrant Chapter 63: Rethinking the Neurodiversity Debate from a Harmless Dysfunction Perspective: The Implications of DSM Category Evolutionary Heterogeneity - Jordan A. Conrad & Jerome C. Wakefield Chapter 64: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Post-Combat Reintegration: An Evolutionary Model - Hector A. Garcia Chapter 65: An Evolutionary Approach to Emotional Difficulties in Borderline Personality Disorder - Lawrence Ian Reed, Cameryn Cooley, and Sara Okun Chapter 66: An Evolutionary Perspective on Psychopathy - Virgil Zeigler-Hill and Gracynn R. Young Chapter 67: Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders, Hypochondriasis, and Behavioral Addictions - Vlasios Brakoulias Afterword: Evolutionary Emotion Research at the Crossroads - Marco Del Giudice Index

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Laith Al-Shawaf is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. Dr. Al-Shawaf has published dozens of scholarly papers, and his popular science essays have been translated into several languages. His empirical research is focused on emotions, with additional emphases on cross-cultural research, cognition, and individual differences. The Association for Psychological Science (APS) has named him a Rising Star, he has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, and he has won additional awards for both research and teaching. Todd K. Shackelford is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Dr. Shackelford has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and has also edited many Oxford Handbooks. Much of Dr. Shackelford's research addresses sexual conflict between men and women, notably infidelity in long-term relationships. Dr. Shackelford is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Society.

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