Feeling Good: An Evolutionary Perspective on Life Choices by Menelaos Apostolou

Description: Feeling Good by Menelaos Apostolou Every day, people make life choices that, ideally, increase their evolutionary fitness – the chances of survival and successful reproduction – and lead to positive feelings of fulfilment, accomplishment, and happiness FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Every day, people make life choices that, ideally, increase their evolutionary fitness – the chances of survival and successful reproduction – and lead to positive feelings of fulfilment, accomplishment, and happiness. Sometimes, however, individuals experience quite the opposite: feelings of sadness caused by fitness-decreasing choices. Fortunately, many advancements in evolutionary theory and evolutionary psychology have increased humans capacity as a species to address the question of how to live a life characterized by more positive than negative feelings.Feeling Good reveals anyone can learn how to trigger mechanisms that generate positive feelings and increase positive fitness levels. The key is to employ an evolutionary perspective on how mental mechanisms generate feelings in relation to our life choices.From an insightfully evolutionary perspective, Feeling Good examines how to find and keep a mate, make good career decisions, build a solid social network, deal with death and negative influences, and make life choices in general that can lead to better and more sustainable mental and physical health. Menelaos Apostolou deepens our understanding of human nature by exploring what is good and evil in an evolutionary sense as well as in relation to religious dogmas; and whether making fitness-increasing life choices can lead to more good or more evil acts. Author Biography Menelaos Apostolou is an assistant professor for the School of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Law at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. His previously published works include Sexual Selection under Parental Choice: The Evolution of Human Behavior. In addition, he has authored more than 50 scientific articles. Table of Contents Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1 The Evolved Nature of Positive andNegative Feelings 2 Following the Fitness-Increasing Direction:Considerations and Challenges 3 Human Polymorphism or Why We AreNot All the Same 4 Discovering and Accepting Who You Are andWho Others Are 5 What Makes a Fitness-Increasing Mate? 6 The Challenges of Mating 7 Creating a Fitness-Increasing Marriage 8 The Challenges of Parenting 9 Career and Money in the Evolutionary Perspective 10 Relatives, Friends, Acquaintances, and theBuilding of a Social Network 11 Evolutionary Insights for Better Mental Health 12 Evolutionary Insights for Better Physical Health 13 Good, Evil, and the Evolutionary Perspective 14 Some Further Considerations Conclusion Index Details ISBN1412863333 Author Menelaos Apostolou Language English Year 2016 ISBN-10 1412863333 ISBN-13 9781412863339 Format Paperback Short Title FEELING GOOD Media Book Illustrations black & white illustrations Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2016-03-30 AU Release Date 2016-03-30 NZ Release Date 2016-03-30 US Release Date 2016-03-30 Subtitle An Evolutionary Perspective on Life Choices Pages 228 Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc Publication Date 2016-03-30 Alternative 9781412862691 DEWEY 155.7 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Imprint Routledge Place of Publication New York We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139921856;

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