This course is available on the BSc in Psychological and Behavioural Science. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. This course discusses the relations between cognition and culture using evolutionary perspectives. The course is therefore suitable for students enrolled in other programmes who wish to enrich their understanding by drawing on detailed understanding of the psychological and cultural processes that underpin thought and behaviour, and to locate them in an evolutionary setting.
This course is available on the BSc in Psychological and Behavioural Science. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. This course discusses the relations between cognition and culture using evolutionary perspectives. The course is therefore suitable for students enrolled in other programmes who wish to enrich their understanding by drawing on detailed understanding of the psychological and cultural processes that underpin thought and behaviour, and to locate them in an evolutionary setting.
10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the LT.
1. Essay in the LT 2. Take-home multiple choice quiz in the LT 3. Group-based presentation in the LT
Dunbar, R. I. & L. Barrett (Eds.). (2007). Oxford handbook of evolutionary psychology. Oxford:? Oxford University Press. Haidt, J. (2012). The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. Pantheon Henrich, J. (2016). The secret of our success: How culture is driving human evolution, domesticating our species, and making us smarter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Kitayama, S., & Cohen, D. (Eds.) (2007). Handbook of Cultural Psychology. New York: Guilford Press. Kurzban, R. (2011).? Why everyone (else) is a hypocrite:? Evolution and the modular mind.? Princeton, NJ:? Princeton University Press. Laland, K. N. and Brown, G. R. (2002). Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour. Oxford University Press Nisbett, R. L. (2003). The Geography of Thought. Free Press.? Pinker, S. (2002). The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. New York: Viking. Richerson, P. J., & Boyd, R. (2005). Not by Genes Alone: How culture transformed human evolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.? Students will be expected to read essential readings plus additional reading from the primary literature per class. These readings will be provided in the course outline.
Essay (100%, 2500 words) in the LT.