Standing in the gutter : how did an innocent young student accidentally fall in with a band of intellectual revolutionaries? -- Why playboy is bad for your mental mechanisms : when is beauty bad for you? -- Homicidal fantasies : why have most of us had at least one fantasy about committing murder? -- Outgroup hatred in the blink of an eye : why can't we all just get along? -- The mind as a coloring book : why doesn't cultural variation support the blank slate view of the mind? -- Subselves : the three faces of thee -- Reconstructing Maslow's pyramid : where are the missing bricks in the classic pyramid of needs? -- How the mind warps : why do men and women forget different people and regret different things? -- Peacocks, Porsches, and Pablo Picasso : why do men go out of their way to avoid a consumer reports best buy? -- Sex and god : when is godliness just another mating strategy? -- Deep rationality and evolutionary economics : why are behavioral economists only half right when they say that our economic choices are irrational? -- Bad crowds, chaotic attractors, and humans as ants : why your parents were right about the company you keep -- Conclusion: looking up at the stars : how does research on unsavory and taboo topics converge into a grand view of human nature and answer the question : what is the meaning of life?.

道格拉斯•肯裏剋，亞利桑那州立大學心理學教授，獲得亞利桑那州立大學博士學位。他是人類行為與進化學會執行委員會的成員，已發錶180多種科學論文和書籍，包括現已發行至第五版的暢銷書《社會心理學》。著述發錶在《行為與腦科學》、《心理學評論》、《人格與社會心理學雜誌》、《演化與人類行為》、《新聞周刊》、《紐約時報》和《今日心理學》等國傢媒體上。