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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.
Evolutionary Psychology and Thanatology: Responses to Death
Evolutionary Psychology and Thanatology: Responses to Death
Introduction
Like humans, at some point(s) during their lives group-living nonhuman animals (hereafter: ‘animals’) will probably encounter death in members of their own and other species. The dying and dead individuals may be complete strangers, acquaintances, or others with whom strong emotional bonds are shared (e.g., kin, close friends). Evolutionary thanatology seeks to understand the origins, diversity, mechanisms, and functions of humans’ and other species’ behavioral and emotional reactions toward the dying and the dead (Anderson et al., 2018). Although most research in this field focuses on intra-species phenomena, responses toward sick, injured, or the corpses of other species are also of interest, as ...
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