The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Parenting

by Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford (Editor), Todd K. Shackelford (Editor)

Overview

The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Parenting provides a comprehensive resource for state-of-the-art research on how our evolutionary past informs current parenting roles and practices. Featuring chapters from leaders in the field, the Handbook is designed for advanced undergraduates, graduates, and professionals in psychology, anthropology, biology, sociology, and demography, as well as many other social and life science disciplines. It is the first resource of its kind that brings together empirical and theoretical contributions from scholarship at the intersection of evolutionary psychology and parenting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190674687
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/24/2021
Series:	Oxford Library of Psychology
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	10.30(w) x 7.40(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford received her Ph.D. in evolutionary developmental psychology in 2011 from Florida Atlantic University. She currently teaches at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan and is Co-Director of the Evolutionary Psychology Lab. Her research over the years has been evolutionarily inspired and has had the broader goal of gaining a more comprehensive understanding of violence and conflict in families and romantic relationships. Her research interests and publishing cut across the psychological domains of forensics, development, social, personality, clinical, and criminology.

Todd K. Shackelford received his Ph.D. in evolutionary psychology in 1997 from the University of Texas at Austin. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, where he is Co-Director of the Evolutionary Psychology Lab. In 2016, he was appointed Distinguished Professor by the Oakland University Board of Trustees. Shackelford has published approximately 300 journal articles and his work has been cited over 22,000 times. Much of Shackelford's research addresses sexual conflict between men and women, with a special focus on men's physical, emotional, and sexual violence against their intimate partners. Since 2006, Shackelford has served as editor of the journal Evolutionary Psychology, and in 2014 founded the journal Evolutionary Psychological Science as Editor-in-Chief.

Table of Contents

About the Volume Editors
Contributors
Part I: Foundations of Parenting
1. Evolutionary Perspectives on Parenting
Tomás Cabeza de Baca and Bruce J. Ellis
2. Developmental Perspectives on Parenting
Rochelle F. Hentges and Meredith J. Martin
3. Parenting and Culture
Kathryn Coe and Kyle J. Clark
4. Social and Personality Perspectives on Parenting in an Evolutionary Context
Jose C. Yonga and Norman P. Li
5. Cultural Perspectives on Parenting
Judi Mesman and Rosanneke A. G. Emmen
6. The Cradle of Humankind: Evolutionary Approaches to Technology and Parenting
Geoff Kushnick
7. Politics and Parenting
Nicholas Kerry and Damian R. Murray
8. Parental Influence and Sexual Selection
Menelaos Apostolou
Part II: Maternal and Paternal Psychology and Behavior
9. Evolutionary Perspectives on Maternal Parenting
Catherine Salmon and Jessica Hehman
10. The Effects of Maternal Prenatal Stress on Fetal and Child Development: An Evolutionary Perspective
Vivette Glover
11. The Relationship Between Parenting and Identity Styles Among Adolescents in South Africa: A Focus on the Mother-Adolescent Relationship
Nicolette Vanessa Roman, Marsha van Heerden, Eugene Lee Davids, and Kerstin Adonis
12. Maternal Aggression
Vibeke K. Ottesen
13. Maternal Relationships With Adolescents
Jamie M. Gajos and Kevin M. Beaver
14. Maternal Investment in Adolescent Daughters and Sons: A Bioecological Perspective
Mary B. Eberly Lewis and Trinity Hoenig
15. Father Involvement in Different Family Systems Across Cultural Communities: Links to Childhood Development
Jaipaul L. Roopnarine, Anton de Kom, and Elif Dde Yildirim
16. Paternal Relationships With Sons and Daughters
Lambrianos Nikiforidis
Part III: Other Kin and Nonkin Parenting
17. Allomothering, Evolution, and the Environment
Sarah Radtke
18. Adoptive Parenting Is More Complex Than Evolutionary Theory Would Predict: Evidence From Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Jessica A. K. Matthews, Ellen E. Pinderhughes, and Martha L. Pott
19. Grandparental Investment
Paula Sheppard
20. Aunts and Uncles
Antti O. Tanskanen and Mirkka Danielsbacka
21. Inferences of Parental Abilities Through Facial and Bodily Features
Mitch Brown, Donald F. Sacco, Kaitlyn Holifield, Kelsey Drea, and Alicia Macchione

Editorial Reviews

"Weekes-Shackelford and Shackelford have brought together a well-organized, sequential foray into the scholarship on parenting ... This text will be quite useful as a reference supporting graduate students and instructors in sociology or psychology disciplines." — J. S. St. Clair, CHOICE

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