The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions (OXFORD LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY SERIES)

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. Cover The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword: A Bounty of Riches in Understanding Human Emotions Contributors Introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions Part 1 Understanding Emotions from an Evolutionary Perspective 1. Basic Emotion Theory: A Beginner’s Guide 2. The Past Explains the Present: Emotional Adaptations and the Structure of Ancestral Environments 3. Evolution, Emotion, and Facial Behavior: A 21st-​Century View 4. Social Emotions Are Governed by a Common Grammar of Social Valuation: Theoretical Foundations and Applications to Human Personality and the Criminal Justice System 5. The Motivational Architecture of Emotions Part 2 Evolutionary Approaches to Specific Emotions 6. The Recalibrational Theory: Anger as a Bargaining Emotion 7. Shame 8. The Neutralization Theory of Hatred 9. Disgust: An Emotion for Pathogen Avoidance 10. The Evolved Nature of Pride 11. Romantic Love 12. Neuroendocrine Mechanisms for Human Emotional Attachments 13. Regret 14. The Elements of Gratitude 15. Caring and the Evolution of Guilt: A Biopsychosocial Approach to a Pro-​Social Emotion 16. Lassitude: A Coordination System to Support Host Immunity 17. The Origins of Boredom 18. Kama Muta: The Cuteness Emotion 19. Curiosity: A Behavioral Biology Perspective 20. An Evolutionary Perspective on Positive Emotions 21. How Jealousy Works 22. Chronic Pain, Recuperation, and Care-​Eliciting: Evolutionary and Signaling Theory Perspectives 23. Contentment: The Evolution of Indestructible Well-​Being 24. Happiness 25. Grief 26. Fear: An Evolutionary Perspective on Its Biological, Behavioral, and Communicative Features 27. The Evolutionary Functions of Sadness: The Cognitive and Social Benefits of Negative Affect 28. Humor 29. Compassion: An Evolutionary Account Part 3 Emotions in Different Domains of Life 30. Emotions and Status Hierarchies 31. Emotions in Politics 32. A Socio-​functional Perspective on Emotion and Cooperation 33. Emotion, Sickness, and Care for the Sick 34. Emotions and Olfaction 35. Emotion and Nonverbal Communication 36. Emotions and Intergroup Conflict 37. Emotions and Reconciliation 38. Emotions in Co-​Rumination: An Evolutionary Developmental Perspective 39. An Evolutionary Approach to Emotion Regulation 40. More than a Feeling: The Comparative Psychology of Emotion 41. Emotion and Empathy in Great Apes 42. Emotions in Dogs: Neuroscientific, Behavioral, and Comparative Perspectives 43. Comparative Psychology of Frustrative Nonreward 44. Emotional Vigilance 45. More than PMS: The Influence of Hormones on Emotion 46. Defect or Design Feature? Toward an Evolutionary Psychology of the Role of Emotion in Motivated Reasoning 47. The Emergence of Emotionally Modern Humans: Implications for Language and Learning 48. Positive Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of Psychological Growth 49. Are There Really So Many Moral Emotions? Carving Morality at Its Functional Joints 50. Emotion and Women’s Intrasexual Mating Competition 51. Emotions across Cultures 52. The Role of Emotion in Second-​ and Third-​Party Punishment 53. Leadership as an Emotional Process: An Evolutionarily Informed Perspective 54. The Negative Effect of Ostracism and Other Forms of Social Exclusion on Emotions 55. Natural Selection and Human Emotions 56. Evolution, Emotions, and the American Legal System Part 4 Emotions in Psychopathology 57. The Harmful Dysfunction Analysis: An Evolutionary Approach to Emotional Disorders 58. Anxiety and Phobias 59. Credible Sadness, Coercive Sadness: Depression as a Functional Response to Adversity and Strife 60. Evolutionary Perspectives on Eating Disorders 61. Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Evolutionary Roots and Emotional Profiles 62. Addiction and Substance Use 63. Rethinking the Neurodiversity Debate from the Harmful Dysfunction Perspective: The Implications of DSM Category Evolutionary Heterogeneity 64. Post-​Traumatic Stress Disorder and Post-​Combat Reintegration: An Evolutionary Model 65. An Evolutionary Approach to Emotional Difficulties in Borderline Personality Disorder 66. An Evolutionary Perspective on Psychopathy 67. Obsessive-​Compulsive and Related Disorders, Hypochondriasis, and Behavioral Addictions Afterword: Evolutionary Emotion Research at the Crossroads Index "This book provides a cutting-edge overview of emotion science from an evolutionary perspective. Section 1 outlines different ways of approaching the study of emotion, Section 2 covers specific emotions from an evolutionary perspective, Section 3 discusses the role of emotions in a variety of life domains, and Section 4 explores the relationship between emotions and psychological disorders. Experts from a number of different disciplines - psychology, biology, anthropology, psychiatry, and more - tackle a variety of "how" (proximate) and "why" (ultimate) questions about the function of emotions in humans and nonhuman animals, how emotions work, and their place in human life. This volume documents the explosion of knowledge in emotion science over the last few decades, outlines important areas of future research, and highlights key questions that have yet to be answered"-- Provided by publisher