The Parasite Stress Theory of Values and Sociality Infectious Disease History and Human Values Worldwide 1st edition by Randy Thornhill, Corey Fincher ISBN 3319080390 9783319080390

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ISBN 10: 3319080390
ISBN 13:  9783319080390
Author: Randy Thornhill, Corey Fincher

This book develops and tests an ecological and evolutionary theory of the causes of human values—the core beliefs that guide people’s cognition and behavior—and their variation across time and space around the world. We call this theory the parasite-stress theory of values or the parasite-stress theory of sociality. The evidence we present in our book indicates that both a wide span of human affairs and major aspects of human cultural diversity can be understood in light of variable parasite (infectious disease) stress and the range of value systems evoked by variable parasite stress. The same evidence supports the hypothesis that people have psychological adaptations that function to adopt values dependent upon local infectious-disease adversity. The authors have identified key variables, variation in infectious disease adversity and in the core values it evokes, for understanding these topics and in novel and encompassing ways. Although the human species is the focus in the book, evidence presented in the book shows that the parasite-stress theory of sociality informs other topics in ecology and evolutionary biology such as variable family organization and speciation processes and biological diversity in general in non-human animals.

The Parasite Stress Theory of Values and Sociality Infectious Disease History and Human Values Worldwide 1st Table of contents:

1. Background and Overview of the Book

2. Evolutionary Aesthetics, Values, and Methodology

3. The Parasite-Stress Theory of Values

4. Human Values Research Prior to the Parasite-Stress Theory

5. Collectivism–Individualism, Family Ties, and Philopatry

6. Mating Systems, Mate Choice, Marriage, Sexual Behavior, and Inbreeding

7. Personality

8. Interpersonal Violence

9. Religiosity

10. Democracy and Other Governmental Systems

11. Economics, Values, and Cognitive Ability

12. Wars, Revolutions and Coups, and the Absence of Peace Across the World

13. Biodiversity and the Parasite-Driven Wedge

14. Reflections, Criticisms, and Future Research

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