**Sept 6. Week 3: Evolutionary Social Psychology**
In which we read about the application of evolutionary theory to social psychology generally, and then examine a couple of active research programs within the evolutionary psychology framework.
**Readings**
Neuberg S, Kenrick DT, Schaller M (2010) Evolutionary social psychology. In *Handbook of Social Psychology*, ed. Fiske ST, et al. (Wiley, New York), 5th Ed, 2, pp 761–797.
Schmitt, D. P., & Pilcher, J. J. (2004). Evaluating evidence of psychological adaptation: How do we know one when we see one?. *Psychological Science, 15*(10), 643-649.
Bolhuis, J. J., Brown, G. R., Richardson, R. C., & Laland, K. N. (2011). Darwin in mind: New opportunities for evolutionary psychology. *PLoS Biology, 9*(7), e1001109.
Delton, A. W., & Robertson, T. E. (2016). How the mind makes welfare tradeoffs: Evolution, computation, and emotion. *Current Opinion in Psychology, 7*, 12-16.
For the truly ambitious (optional):
Kaplan, H. S., & Gangestad, S. W. (2005). Life history theory and evolutionary psychology. *The handbook of Evolutionary Psychology*, 68-95.
