Evolutionary Psychology

Catalog description

This course examines how important aspects of human thinking, emotion, and behavior have been shaped by our long biological evolution through the processes of natural selection and sexual selection. Its focus is to identify and explain what factors are universal in human psychological functioning and their community with non-human species. Topics covered in this course include: explanations of human evolution, intelligence, thinking and problem solving in regard to social relations, mate selection, evolutionary explanations of psychological disorders such as phobia and depression, gender differences, parenting, aggression, cooperation, dominance and territoriality.