“Evolution for Everyone”: A Course that Expands Evolutionary Theory Beyond the Biological Sciences

Table 2 Modules and associated material as taught in fall 2008

	Material linking animals and humans	Experiment(s)	Research techniques	Statistical techniques	Papers assigned
Economics	Optimal Foraging Theory, Hawk–Dove Models elaborated into full market systems	Sequential Prisoner’s Dilemma; games measuring risk, loss and ambiguity aversion (see Burks et al. 2008)	Economic games	t tests	Bshary and Noë (2003)
Mating & Dating	Description of ecological influences on mating systems and relevance to human societal and individual choices	Mating Intelligence Survey (Geher and Kaufman 2007)	Surveys, subject recruitment	Chi square, correlation	Garcia and Reiber (2009), Bressler et al. (2006)
Personality and Strategies	Discussion of research in animal personality and how factors relate to the Big 5	Big 5 Mini-Markers^b (Saucier 1994), Bullying Survey (see Gallup et al. 2009) with Hand-Grip Strength Measurement	Scale formation	Correlation, regression	Nettle and Clegg (2006), Leenaars et al. (2008)
Cultural Psychology^a	A discussion of how group-living animals adopt best strategies for survival	Hofstede Cultural Values Survey (available at http://stuwww.uvt.nl/∼csmeets/∼1st-VSM.html)	–	Regression	–

^aBeing the last module of the semester, the treatment of Cultural Psychology was less thorough as more time was invested in preparation of the final project
^bA measure of the five primary factors of personality, first described by Thurstone (1934)

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