PSY6112-8 - Evolutionary Psychology

Semester Credits: 3 Weeks: 8

Evolutionary psychology is a new approach to thinking about human nature, and how the evolved human being interacts with environments to produce patterns of cognition, emotion, and behavior. This course examines the ideas and research that forms the basis for evolutionary psychology including topics such as survival as the main human motivation, and how that motivation influences spheres of human behavior such as mating, kinship, aggression, altruism, and warfare.