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| Dr. David M. Buss is
a professor in the Department of Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology
at the University of Texas at Austin. Key research areas of current
interest: mating strategies, homicide, stalking, conflict between
the sexes, prestige, status, and social reputation. He is the author
of The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy is as Necessary as Love
and Sex; The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies Of Human
Mating; and Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science
Of The Mind. |
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Sex, Power,
and Conflict
Wednesday-Sunday March
5-9, 2003
Thurman J. White Forum Conference Center
(OCCE)
University of Oklahoma, Norman Campus
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This course will examine the mechanisms of the human mind through
the lens of evolutionary psychology. The course introduces the
fundamentals of evolutionary psychology--issues of natural and
sexual selection, adaptation, and evolved psychological mechanisms.
The primary content of the course will focus on human mating,
including the tactics people use to select, attract, retain,
and get rid of mates; the psychology of status, prestige, and
reputation; and the ways in which humans get into conflict with
each other, with a particular focus on homicide.
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The Seminar Reading List:
These books and articles supplied by OSLEP.
* The Selfish Gene (New Edition). Dawkins, R. (1989). New
York: Oxford University Press.
* The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
(Revised Edition). Buss, D.M. (2003). New York: Basic Books.
* Homicide Daly, M., & Wilson, M. (1988). Hawthorne,
NY: Aldine.
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