Standing in the gutter : how did an innocent young student accidentally fall in with a band of intellectual revolutionaries? -- Why playboy is bad for your mental mechanisms : when is beauty bad for you? -- Homicidal fantasies : why have most of us had at least one fantasy about committing murder? -- Outgroup hatred in the blink of an eye : why can't we all just get along? -- The mind as a coloring book : why doesn't cultural variation support the blank slate view of the mind? -- Subselves : the three faces of thee -- Reconstructing Maslow's pyramid : where are the missing bricks in the classic pyramid of needs? -- How the mind warps : why do men and women forget different people and regret different things? -- Peacocks, Porsches, and Pablo Picasso : why do men go out of their way to avoid a consumer reports best buy? -- Sex and god : when is godliness just another mating strategy? -- Deep rationality and evolutionary economics : why are behavioral economists only half right when they say that our economic choices are irrational? -- Bad crowds, chaotic attractors, and humans as ants : why your parents were right about the company you keep -- Conclusion: looking up at the stars : how does research on unsavory and taboo topics converge into a grand view of human nature and answer the question : what is the meaning of life?.

道格拉斯•肯里克，亚利桑那州立大学心理学教授，获得亚利桑那州立大学博士学位。他是人类行为与进化学会执行委员会的成员，已发表180多种科学论文和书籍，包括现已发行至第五版的畅销书《社会心理学》。著述发表在《行为与脑科学》、《心理学评论》、《人格与社会心理学杂志》、《演化与人类行为》、《新闻周刊》、《纽约时报》和《今日心理学》等国家媒体上。