★This is a book that confronts misunderstandings that surround evolutionary psychology.
★ Evolutionary psychology, the most fascinating tool in understanding humans.
★ From the foundation of evolutionary psychology to the latest research results.
★ Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea’s 2019 Sejong Book of Liberal Arts Division

The first South Korean evolutionary psychologist Jeon Joonghwan introduces to the general reader the latest research achievements in evolutionary psychology, which has made progress over the years, and confronts the suspicions, misunderstandings and prejudices surrounding evolutionary psychology. In this book, he explains what use evolutionary psychology has for the reader, and how the human mind, behavior and nature relate with each other.

As an evolutionary psychologist, Jeon Joonghwan studies about why people believe that disgusting behavior is wrong. Jeon graduated from the Department of Biology at Seoul National University(SNU), earned a master’s in behavioral ecology at SNU, and earned his doctorate in evolutionary psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He currently serves as an associate professor at the Kyung Hee University Humanitas College(International Campus).

Part I Foundation of Evolutionary Psychology
01 The Origin of Evolutionary Psychology
02 What is Evolutionary Psychology?
03 Common Misunderstandings
Part II The Survival
04 How to Get Food and Sort It Out?
05 Eating or Being Eaten
06 Avoid Pathogens!
Part III Sex and Mating
07 Mating Strategies of Male and Female
08 Preference for Long-term Spouse
09 Preference for Short-term Sex Partners
10 Beautiful Faces
11 Mating Season for Human
Part IV Family and Blood Ties
12 Blood Is Thicker than Water
13 Conflicts within the Family Are Natural
14 A Whole Village Is Needed to Raise a Child
15 Heart Melting Cuteness
Part V Communal Living
16 Identifying the Swindlers
17 You Will Be Blessed One Day for Your Virtues
18 Why Is Friendship Precious?
19 The Evolutionary Root of Violence
20 Leadership Instinct
Part Ⅵ Learning and Culture
21 Rocks Cannot Learn
22 Why do We Go to School?
23 Culture Is Biology
24 Culture Derives from the Human Nature
Part VII Applied Evolutionary Psychology
25 Why do Conservatives and Progresses Exist?
26 The Mystery of Morality
27 Why Are Personalities Different?
28 Why does Our Mind Get Sick?