Maybe It's Time - Evolutionary Psychology and More . . .

Here are more links from Bookforum's Omnivore blog. This collection begins with a series of articles from the journal, Evolutionary Psychology. It's easy to dismiss this newer field of psychology as reductionist, since their primary agenda is to understand human behavior within an evolutionary context, a move that often reduces human complexity to what Dawkins called "the selfish gene."

While there is more than that to human behavior and experience, there are also a few folks in this camp who are not completely reductionist, so there is hope for evolutionary psychology as a field of study.

Maybe it's time

DEC 21 2012 

3:00PM

• From Evolutionary Psychology, S. Craig Roberts (Stirling), Mark van Vugt (VU Amsterdam), and Robin I. M. Dunbar (Oxford): Evolutionary Psychology in the Modern World: Applications, Perspectives, and Strategies; Anthony C. Little and S. Craig Roberts (Stirling): Evolution, Appearance, and Occupational Success; Carey J. Fitzgerald and Kimberly M. Danner (Oakland): Evolution in the Office: How Evolutionary Psychology Can Increase Employee Health, Happiness, and Productivity; and Nathan Oesch (Oxford) and Igor Miklousic (Ivo Pilar): The Dating Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Emerging Science of Human Courtship. 

• Newspapers have life cycles — and maybe it's time for the Washington Post to die. 
• Steven Hill and Robert Richie on why America can't pass gun control: Hint — it's not the NRA or a gun-loving culture. 
• Roy Gutman goes inside Turkey’s Kurdish insurgency: No sex, no swearing, no Quran. 
• If only Marx had used emoticons: There is something about email that turns irony, wit and style into trouble, but could misunderstandings be avoided by using little winky faces? No, says Jonathan Wolff.