Feeling Good

Every day, people make life choices that, ideally, increase their evolutionary fitness - the chances of survival and successful reproduction - and lead to positive feelings of fulfilment, accomplishment, and happiness

Menelaos Apostolou

Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1 The Evolved Nature of Positive andNegative Feelings 2 Following the Fitness-Increasing Direction:Considerations and Challenges 3 Human Polymorphism or Why We AreNot All the Same 4 Discovering and Accepting Who You Are andWho Others Are 5 What Makes a Fitness-Increasing Mate? 6 The Challenges of Mating 7 Creating a Fitness-Increasing Marriage 8 The Challenges of Parenting 9 Career and Money in the Evolutionary Perspective 10 Relatives, Friends, Acquaintances, and theBuilding of a Social Network 11 Evolutionary Insights for Better Mental Health 12 Evolutionary Insights for Better Physical Health 13 Good, Evil, and the Evolutionary Perspective 14 Some Further Considerations Conclusion Index