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.

Evolutionary Psychology and Climate Change: Understanding the Impact of Time Perspective on Carbon Emissions across 75 Countries

Evolutionary Psychology and Climate Change: Understanding the Impact of Time Perspective on Carbon Emissions across 75 Countries

Evolutionary psychology and climate change: understanding the impact of time perspective on carbon emissions across 75 countries
Mark A. Caudell

Introduction

For the last 40 years, Darwinian approaches to human behavior have been successfully applied to understanding a diverse range of behaviors operating at both individual and group levels (Buss and Shackelford, 1997; Smith, 2000; Tooby, 2018; Tooby and Cosmides, 1988). Despite these successes, the leveraging of these approaches to contextualize and address global issues has been limited (Caudell and Quinlan, 2016; but see Sörqvist and Langeborg, 2019). This is unfortunate given that many of the behaviors driving global issues, including resource consumption dynamics, ...

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