religion and group conflict
sex and mating
socialization, human behavior as product of
See also evolutionary psychology “staying alive” theory of female criminality
stepparents, dangers
stereotypes
Stone Age body and brain
suicide
suicide bombers and Islam
Sulloway, Frank J.
“superior customer service policy,”
sweets preference
Syrian women and crime
systemizers (male brain)
tan, attractiveness of
Tasaday (hoax)
teenage boys and older women
temperaments
terrorist groups (traditional)
testes (size), female promiscuity
theft vs. robbery
Thomas, Kristin Scott
“token resistance,”
Tooby, John
Trivers, Robert L.
Trivers-Willard hypothesis
trivial altercations, homicides
truth as guiding principle in science
Turney, Lee Anne
TV and friendships
uxoricide (killing of one’s wife)
Vassilyev, Mrs. Feodor
violence
sex ratio at birth and
See also crime and violence virgins, suicide bombing
waist (small)
“War on Terror,”
Washington Post
wealth personal network and kin
polygyny and
sex ratio at birth
Welles, Orson
Whitmeyer, Joseph M.
Willard, Dan E.
willingness to invest in woman
Wilson, Margo
worshiping of animate objects
Wright, Robert
xenophobic attitudes
Yamagishi, Toshio
Yanomamö: The Fierce People (Chagnon)
youth (age) and ideal female beauty
Zeta-Jones, Catherine
About the Author
Alan S. Miller Until his very untimely death in January 2003 at the age of 44, Alan S. Miller was Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Hokkaido University, Japan. He was also Affiliate Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. He received his BA from UCLA and his PhD from the University of Washington, and had served on the faculties of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Florida State University. His last home institution, Hokkaido University, is one of Japan’s elite national universities, and Professor Miller was the first non-Japanese academic to be given a permanent, tenured position there. The Department of Behavioral Sciences at Hokkaido University is the leading department in Japan in the area of evolutionary psychology.
Professor Miller was the author of more than twenty-five articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, writing in the areas of crime and deviant behavior, religion, and cross-cultural social psychology. He has written an academic book (with Satoshi Kanazawa) that explores the origin and nature of social order in contemporary Japanese society, Order by Accident: The Origins and Consequences of Conformity in Contemporary Japan (Westview, 2000).
Satoshi Kanazawa Satoshi Kanazawa is Reader in Management and Research Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology, University College London, and in the Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London. He received his MA from the University of Washington and his PhD from the University of Arizona, both in sociology. He was the first sociologist to introduce modern evolutionary psychology into sociology. His evolutionary psychological work has appeared in peer-reviewed scientific journals in all the major social sciences (sociology, psychology, political science, economics, and anthropology), as well as biology, and he has published more than sixty articles and chapters. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Evolutionary Psychology and Managerial and Decision Economics. His work has been widely featured in the mass media in several continents, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Times (London), Time, Psychology Today, the Times Higher Education Supplement, and the Times Education Supplement, and he has been interviewed on the BBC World Ser vice, BBC Radio 4, and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, among other TV and radio shows. With Alan S. Miller, he is coauthor of Order by Accident: The Origins and Consequences of Conformity in Contemporary Japan (Westview, 2000).
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