Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life (35 page)

Status

accumulating

aggression and

blocked paths to

competing for

desire for

male/high/low

mating market and

Stereotypes

functional projection and

racial

self-protective

Strangers

antipathy toward

attractive

harm from

homicidal fantasies about

outgroup

sexual relations with

Subjective judgments

Subselves

affiliative

different

ebb and flow of

economic

functional

motivational

parental

segregated

on vacation

Sundie, Jill

Sunstein, Cass

Superorganism
(Hölldoebler and Wilson)

Survival

Swinging single subself

described

Team player subself, described

Television, marriage and

Testosterone

Thaler, Richard

Theory of the Leisure Class
(Veblen)

Thornhill, Randy

Times of India,
marital ads from

Tiwi, case of

Tiwi of North Australia, The
(Hart and Pillig)

Todd, Peter

Tooby, John

Townsend, John Marshall

Triumph of Sociobiology
(Alcock)

Trophy wives

Trost, Melanie

Tversky, Amos

Tybur, Josh

Unnatural things, natural things and

U.S. General Social Survey

Utility theory

Van Heck, Guus

Van Orden, Guy

Veblen, Thorstein

Vershure, Beth

Violence

expense/dangers of

poverty and

relationship

responding with

romance and

status-linked

Vohs, Kathleen

Waldrop, Mitchell

Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
(Capra)

Weeden, Jason

on mating strategies

religion/politics and

West, Steve

Wilbur, Chris

Wilde, Oscar

Wilson, David Sloan

Wilson, E. O.

Wilson, Margo

Winfrey, Oprah

Wolfgang, Marvin

Young, Quincy

Younger men

older women and

younger women and

Younger women

older men and

preference for

younger men and

Zierk, Kristin

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kenrick, Douglas T.

Sex, murder, and the meaning of life : a psychologist investigates how evolution, cognition, and complexity are revolutionizing our view of human nature / Douglas T. Kenrick.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN : 978-0-465-02342-4

1. Cognitive science. 2. Evolution (Biology) 3. Human evolution. 4. Social psychology. 5. Sex. 6. Aggressiveness. I. Title.

BF311.K386 2011

153—dc22

 

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