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Answering pressing questions regarding employee selection and mobbing culture in the workplace, Andrew R. Timming explores the unique intersection of the biological sciences and human resource management. With a rich set of theoretical and empirical chapters, the author shines an innovative light on the fields of human resource management, organizational behavior and evolutionary psychology, engaging with the nature vs. nurture debate as well as offering a ground-breaking explanation for workplace bullying, unconscious bias, and employee selection decision-making. At times poignant and controversial, the book illustrates the dark side of human nature, with a unique focus on our primordial instincts. An excellent exploration into an emerging area, this Footprint will be ideal for human resource management and organizational behavior academics, as well as those interested in applied evolutionary, social, organizational, and experimental psychology.

Personnel management. --- Evolutionary psychology.

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Although most will be at least somewhat familiar with the biological role hormones play during puberty and pregnancy, many are likely unaware that hormones - chemical messengers that are secreted by cells and that travel through the body to reach specialized receptors - impact multiple aspects of our lives from conception onward. Behavioral endocrinology and evolutionary psychology are complementary disciplines wherein scholars seek to understand human behavior. Evolutionary psychologists contend that human psychology and behavior are functional outcomes of natural and sexual selection pressures encountered in the ancestral environment. In this view, selection pressures designed adaptations of the mind and body, which produce behavior through a variety of psychological, neurological, and physiological mechanisms.

Evolutionary psychology --- Human behavior --- Endocrine aspects

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Fruits de l’évolution et de la sélection naturelle, nous avons gardé certains comportements et modes de pensée anciens, remontant à la préhistoire. Ils induisent des biais cognitifs qui peuvent encore avoir leur utilité – il vaut mieux prendre un bâton tordu pour un serpent que l’inverse –, mais ils viennent aussi fausser nos décisions quotidiennes, ou nous conduire à attribuer aux autres des pensées qu’ils n’ont pas. Les capacités cognitives de l’homme de Cro-Magnon, qui lui ont permis de constituer de grands groupes sociaux, nous ont menés à perfectionner nos capacités de coopération… mais aussi de dissimulation et de tromperie.Introduction ludique à la psychologie évolutionniste, ce livre montre le face-à-face déroutant entre un « vieux » cerveau et une réalité en partie immuable mais souvent renouvelée. Appréhender les biais de notre psychologie est sans doute un atout pour se connaître et comprendre les autres.

Psychologie génétique. --- Psychologie évolutionniste. --- Evolutionary psychology --- Genetic psychology

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This introduction to one of the most exciting approaches to psychology is the best one out there-authoritative, lively, and balanced. It manages to be both theoretically sophisticated and accessible to a wide range of students interested in human nature and how it got that way."- Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, USA"The 6th edition of David Buss's Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind, provides students with a thoroughly updated version of the best evolutionary psychology textbook on the market.

Evolutionary psychology --- Human evolution --- Psychology --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Human beings --- Origin --- Evolutionary psychology - Textbooks --- Human evolution - Textbooks --- Developmental psychology --- Evolution. Phylogeny

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Virtually all theories of how humans have become such a distinctive species focus on evolution. Here, Michael Tomasello proposes a complementary theory of human uniqueness, focused on ontogenetic processes. His data-driven model explains how those things that make us most human are constructed during the first years of a child's life. Tomasello assembles nearly three decades of experimental work with chimpanzees, bonobos, and human children to propose a new framework for psychological development between birth and seven years of age. He identifies eight pathways that starkly differentiate humans from their closest primate relatives: social cognition, communication, cultural learning, cooperative thinking, collaboration, prosociality, social norms, and moral identity. In each of these, great apes possess rudimentary abilities. But then, Tomasello argues, the maturation of humans' evolved capacities for shared intentionality transform these abilities into uniquely human cognition and sociality. The first step occurs around nine months, with the emergence of joint intentionality, exercised mostly with caregiving adults. The second step occurs around three years, with the emergence of collective intentionality involving both authoritative adults, who convey cultural knowledge, and coequal peers, who elicit collaboration and communication. Finally, by age six or seven, children become responsible for self-regulating their beliefs and actions so that they comport with cultural norms. Built on the essential ideas of Lev Vygotsky, Becoming Human places human sociocultural activity within the framework of modern evolutionary theory, and shows how biology creates the conditions under which culture does its work.--

Developmental psychology. --- Evolutionary psychology. --- Ontogeny. --- Socialization. --- Piaget. --- Vygotsky. --- collective intentionality. --- cooperative thinking. --- false belief. --- great apes. --- joint attention. --- joint intentionality. --- shared intentionality theory.