The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Family Psychology (Oxford Library of Psychol

The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Family PsychologyAuthor(s): Catherine Salmon, Todd K. Shackelford\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780195396690, 978-0195396690\nSynopsis\nRelationships with family are important to our emotional health and can play a significant role in our social success. We need our families and yet frequently have a great difficulty understanding them. Hundreds of books have been published with the goal of improving understanding and relationships among family and relationships; few, if any, have done so with an evolutionary approach. The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Family Psychology focuses on the reasons underlying family behavior and how a greater understanding of these factors can help us to better understand our own family behaviors. Recognizing that a deeper understanding of human families can be found through an understanding of similar phenomena in other specie.