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The Evolved Mind
: Jeon Joonghwan's Fundamental Evolutionary Psychology

Author

Jeon Joonghwan

Publisher

Humanist Publishing Group Inc.

Categories

Science & Technology

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #Evolutionary psychology
  • #psychology
  • #science
  • #evolution
  • #the mind

Copyright Contact

Lim Jaehee

  • Publication Date

    2019-01-18
  • No. of pages

    432
  • ISBN

    9791160801880
  • Dimensions

    150 * 220
Overview

Professor Jeon Joonghwan, the first Korean doctor in evolutionary psychology, writes about the origin and foundations of evolutionary psychology, misunderstandings and debates on this discipline, as well as recent studies and cases for the general public.

Book Intro

The first South Korean evolutionary psychologist Jeon Joonghwan introduces to the general reader the latest research achievements in evolutionary psychology, which has made progress over the years, and confronts the suspicions, misunderstandings and prejudices surrounding evolutionary psychology. In this book, he explains what use evolutionary psychology has for the reader, and how the human mind, behavior and nature relate with each other.

For the reader who is tired of countless books on evolutionary psychology that all seem alike or that only touch on light topics intertwined with everyday life, or that lean too heavily on sex and the mating phenomenon, it is time to read this book. Evolutionary Mind deals with various research topics by covering all the theories that form the foundation of evolutionary psychology, such as survival, sex and mating, family and kinship, group life, leadership, reputation, friendship, violence, learning, culture, politics and morality, and by examining the latest research trends. The book presents a TV drama as an example to discuss what qualities men and women expect in their partners, explains the psychology of the masses raving about Ryan, a Kakao Friends character, and tells a more familiar and vivid story of human psychology. It goes on to share the history of the birth of evolutionary psychology as an academic discipline, showing how Edward Wilson's sociobiology is different from Richard Dawkins's “selfish gene,” and why sociobiology is criticized for being racist and leaning toward the far right, along with the trends and debates of theories representing evolutionary psychology. We highly recommend this book to readers who are as interested in the science of evolutionary psychology as in evolutionary psychology itself. 

"All psychology is evolutionary psychology." As Steven Pinker explains, evolutionary psychology is not a subdivision of psychology, but an approach that presents an evolutionary explanation of all human psychological phenomena. It is also a science that identifies and verifies characteristics of human psychology that have adapted to the environment. Evolutionary psychology, which explains the functions for which our evolutionary mind was designed, will become a new guide in controlling the shadows of human nature.

About the Author

Jeon Joonghwan



As an evolutionary psychologist, Jeon Joonghwan studies about why people believe that disgusting behavior is wrong. Jeon graduated from the Department of Biology at Seoul National University (SNU), earned a master's in behavioral ecology at SNU, and earned his doctorate in evolutionary psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He currently serves as an associate professor at the Kyunghee University Humanitas College (International Campus). His books include The Old Tool Box and Human Nature Is the Answer.

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