Summary
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Evolutionary psychology is an important and rapidly expanding area in the life, social, and behavioral sciences, and this Handbook represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference text in the field today. Chapters in this Handbook address real-world and practical applications of evolutionary psychology such as applications to medicine, psychiatry, law, and technology. The SAGE Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology is an essential resource for researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students in all areas of psychology, and in related disciplines across the life, social, and behavioral sciences. Part 1: Applications to Health and Well-Being, Part 2: Applications to Law and Order, and Part 3: Applications to Technology, Communications, and the Future.
Evolution and Punishment
Evolution and Punishment
Introduction
In the opening words of The Scarlet Letter, first published in 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote: ‘The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison’ (1879: 1). Hawthorne's words are a reminder of two things we cannot avoid – human mortality and depravity, and that we must make provisions for both. We sadly commit our departed loved ones to the ground for obvious reasons, and ...
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