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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.
List 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
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.
Summary
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.
