Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life : A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity Are Revolutionizing Our View of Human Nature (CD-Audio)

from TheBoltChick

This book had some interesting information, but I felt it lacking in actual substance. The passages seemed highly anecdotal without real statistics to back things up. In a research type book, I think those "hard numbers" are very important. Without that, I felt much of the time I was getting the ...

from melydia

I suspect most people's objections to psychological research that demonstrates a trend toward our more base instincts (e.g., it's all about mating!) is rooted in a basic misunderstanding of how said research is conducted. It's a series of surveys and other tests administered to a semi-random grou...

from rivkat

Free LibraryThing Early Reviewer book. If you want to know what evolutionary psychology is up to these days, at least in its popular face, this wouldn't be a bad start. He's very impressed with his rebelliousness against political correctness. He says of one experiment that his results show that ...

from cmwilson101

Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life by Douglas Kenrick is a very engaging review of the latest research in the field of evolutionary psychology (that is, explaining our actions from an evolutionary perspective). What could be a dry non-fiction book is light, humorous, and interesting, primarily ...

from gordsellar

I should, before reviewing, disclaim that this was a free book from Librarything, which I got on the condition that I review it. Douglas Kenrick's Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity Are Revolutionizing Our View of Human Natur...