Evolutionary psychology and information systems research : a new approach to studying the effects of modern technologies on human behavior
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Ned F Kock
- ناشر : New York ; London : Springer
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2010
- شابک / ISBN : 9781441961396
Description
Preface; Contents; Contributors; About the Editor; About the Authors; Part I Theoretical and Conceptual Issues; 1 Evolutionary Psychology and Information Systems Theorizing; References; 2 Group-Level Evolution and Information Systems: What Can We Learn From Animal Colonies in Nature?; References; 3 Applying Evolutionary Psychology to the Study of Post-adoption Information Technology Use: Reinforcement, Extension, or Revolution?; References; 4 The Behavioral Ecology of Human Foraging in an Online Environment: Of Omnivores, Informavores, and HunterGatherers; References.
Evolutionary Psychology (EP) attributes much human behavior to evolved psychological traits - psychological adaptations that evolved to solve recurrent problems in human ancestral environments. Traits like the mental capacity for acquiring language, or the ability to infer emotion by looking at a human face, or the ability to cooperate, or even the universal fear of snakes and spiders, are viewed by EP practitioners as the basis for how humans behave. That behavior is in turn affected by environmental factors: what language will be learned? What emotions are displayed most often? Cooperate in. Read
