Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity are Revolutionizing our View of Human Nature .

Kenrick writes like a dream.Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Biology and Neurology, Stanford University author of A Primates Memoir and Why Zebras Dont Get Ulcers What do sex and murder have to do with the meaning of life? Everything.
In Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life, social psychologist Douglas Kenrick exposes the selfish animalistic underside of human nature, and shows how it is intimately connected to our greatest and most selfless achievements. Masterfully integrating cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, and complexity theory, this intriguing book paints a comprehensive picture of the principles that govern our lives. As Kenrick divulges, beneath our civilized veneer, human beings are a lot like howling hyenas and barking baboons, with heads full of homicidal tendencies and sexual fantasies. But, in his view, many ingrained, apparently irrational behaviorssuch as inclinations to one-night stands, racial prejudices, and conspicuous consumptionultimately manifest what he calls Deep Rationality.
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Authors: Douglas T. Kenrick

Date: 2021

Upload Date: 5/31/2022 12:52:09 PM

Format: epub

Pages: 256

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Language: English

ISBN / ASIN: 0465020445

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