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Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
Geoffrey Miller
Viking Adult, 2009
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Identify relations between consumerism and natural selection
• Examine elements of human culture that fit within a biological context
• Learn ways we could change our culture to include some features of prehistoric social life
• Understand how marketing takes advantage of culture
• Understand what is meant by “consumerist narcissism” and the fundamental consumerist delusion
• View conspicuous consumption as fitness signaling
• Explore the relation of general intelligence and the Big Five personality traits to fitness signaling
• Use approaches to increasing happiness while decreasing consumption
• Understand the public policy changes that could decrease consumerism
Geoffrey F. Miller, Ph.D., is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, University of New Mexico. He wrote The Mating Mind and coedited Mating Intelligence.
12 CE credits; 384 pages
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