1st Edition
Feeling Good An Evolutionary Perspective on Life Choices
By Menelaos Apostolou
Copyright 2016
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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Every day, people make life choices that, ideally, increase their evolutionary fitness – the chances of survival and successful reproduction – and lead to positive feelings of fulfilment, accomplishment, and happiness. Sometimes, however, individuals experience quite the opposite: feelings of sadness caused by fitness-decreasing choices. Fortunately, many advancements in evolutionary theory and... Read more
Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1 The Evolved Nature of Positive andNegative Feelings 2 Following the Fitness-Increasing Direction:Considerations and Challenges 3 Human Polymorphism or Why We AreNot All the Same 4 Discovering and Accepting Who You Are andWho Others Are 5 What Makes a Fitness-Increasing Mate? 6 The Challenges of Mating 7 Creating a Fitness-Increasing Marriage 8 The Challenges of Parenting 9 Career and Money in the Evolutionary Perspective 10 Relatives, Friends, Acquaintances, and theBuilding of a Social Network 11 Evolutionary Insights for Better Mental Health 12 Evolutionary Insights for Better Physical Health 13 Good, Evil, and the Evolutionary Perspective 14 Some Further Considerations Conclusion Index
Biography
Menelaos Apostolou
