The Evolution of Psychopathology

Todd K. Shackelford received his Ph.D. in evolutionary psychology in 1997 from the University of Texas-Austin. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, where he is Co-Director of the Evolutionary Psychology Lab. He led the founding of new Ph.D. and M.S. programs, which launched in 2012. Shackelford has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles and chapters and has edited 10 volumes, and his work has been cited over 7,000 times. Much of Shackelford's research addresses sexual conflict between men and women, with a special focus on testing hypotheses derived from sperm competition theory. Since 2006, Shackelford has served as editor of Evolutionary Psychology. Virgil Zeigler-Hill received his Ph.D. in social-personality psychology in 2004 from the University of Oklahoma. He is a member of the faculty in the Department of Psychology at Oakland University. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and books. His primary research interests are in four interrelated areas: self-esteem, narcissism, cognitive representations of the self, and interpersonal relationships.

Evolutionary Foundations of Psychiatric Compared to Non-Psychiatric Disorders.- Taking People As They Are: Evolutionary Psychopathology, Uncomplicated Depression, and the Distinction between Normal and Disordered Sadness.- Depression: Is Rumination Really Adaptive?.-  The Evolution of Social Anxiety.- Jealousy, Infidelity, and the Difficulty of Diagnosing Pathology: A CBT Approach to Coping with Sexual Betrayal and the Green-Eyed Monster.- Evolved Vulnerability to Addiction: The Problem of Opiates.- Criminology's Modern Synthesis: Remaking the Science of Crime with Darwinian Insight.- Excruciating Mental States.- Anthropathology: The Abiding Malady of the Species.