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 The last 20 years have witnessed tremendous   growth in theoretical and empirical work on   emotions, including groundbreaking findings on   anger, disgust, pride, shame, sexual jealousy,   romantic love, and more. Such work has   demonstrated that emotions pervade nearly all   aspects of psychological life, and that emotions   are key to survival and reproduction and are   therefore prime targets of natural selection.   Emotions have also been implicated in a variety   of psychological disorders, from the obvious   (depression, anxiety) to the much less so   (schizoid personality disorder, borderline   personality disorder).

 In The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the   Emotions, Laith Al-Shawaf and Todd K.   Shackelford have gathered a group of leading   scholars in the field to present a centralized   resource for researchers and students wishing to understand emotions from an evolutionary   perspective. This book offers a cutting edge   approach to the literature, with a special focus   on 1) conceptual foundations of evolutionary   approaches to the emotions, 2) specific   emotions, such as love, jealousy, anger, pride,   disgust, shame, and others, 3) emotions in daily   life, and 4) emotion disorders. 




Comprehensive and integrative in nature, this Handbook is as an essential resource for students and scholars from a diversity of fields wishing to build upon our theoretical and empirical understanding of the emotions. ​

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