Stories
- Article
Good animals, bad humans?
Could an animal be more evolved than a human? Victorian psychologists thought that in some cases the answer could be ‘yes’.
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
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Why all of us are evil
Science proves that we’re all capable of evil: your secret fantasy about killing someone you hate is surprisingly normal. But the way to better moral choices is to fight emotional instinct.
- Book extract
Winter blues and the story of SAD
In ‘Chasing the Sun‘ Linda Geddes reveals why for some people, winter is literally depressing, showing how we first came to recognise seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
Catalogue
- Books
Evolutionary thought in psychology : a brief history / Henry Plotkin.
Plotkin, H. C. (Henry C.)Date: [2004], ©2004- Books
- Online
The handbook of evolutionary psychology / edited by David M. Buss.
Date: [2005], ©2005- Books
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Studies in the evolutionary psychology of feeling / by Hiram M. Stanley.
Date: 1895- Books
Studies in the evolutionary psychology of feeling / by Hiram M. Stanley.
Stanley, Hiram M. (Hiram Miner)Date: 1895- Videos
Big science : evolutionary psychology - genetics.
Date: 1995