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1. Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind

   Edited by Mark Schaller, Ara Norenzayan, Steven J. Heine, Toshio Yamagishi, Tatsuya Kameda

   An enormous amount of scientific research compels two fundamental conclusions about the human mind: The mind is the product of evolution; and the mind is shaped by culture. These two perspectives on the human mind are not incompatible, but, until recently, their compatibility has resisted...

   Published September 1st 2009 by Psychology Press
2. Evolution and Social Psychology

   Edited by Mark Schaller, Jeffry A. Simpson, Douglas T. Kenrick

   Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

   Why do we think about and interact with other people in the particular ways that we do? Might these thoughts and actions be contemporary products of our long-ago evolutionary past? If so, how might this be, and what are the implications? Research generated by an evolutionary approach to social...

   Published May 23rd 2006 by Psychology Press
3. The Psychological Foundations of Culture

   Edited by Mark Schaller, Christian S. Crandall

   How is it that cultures come into existence at all? How do cultures develop particular customs and characteristics rather than others? How do cultures persist and change over time? Most previous attempts to address these questions have been descriptive and historical. The purpose of this book is to...

   Published July 31st 2003 by Psychology Press