Introduction: Themes, tasks, methods; Historical and biological constraints; Myths and human thought about human beings; Biological constraints; Evolution and the genetics of behavior; General principles of evolution; Human evolution; Sociobiology and behavior genetics; Minds, (bodies), and schemas; Minds and bodies; The nature of schemas; Consciousness; A constructivist approach to consciousness; Limited capacity and the utility of consciousness as a serial device; The feedback function of consciousness; Constructions of consciousness; Memory and consciousness; Some speculations about the evolution of consciousness; Emotion; Emotions: Approaches, problems, and myths; Understanding hot emotions: causes, consequences, and constructions; Difference detection: Discrepancies are important; The construction of emotion; Some special problems of the emotions; Evaluation: The culture of emotion; The contemporary scene; Some speculations about the evolution of emotion; The origin and role of values in human thought and action; What is value?; Sources of values; Conclusion: Interdependence, biology, and a contradiction; The social fabric: Aggression and other human characteristics; The functions of society; Aggression; A look at alternative social organizations; Commentary; Differences among people: Intelligence and gender; The problem of intelligence; Sex and sex differences; Some general comments on individual differences; Morality, Freedom, and Power; Morality and human nature; Rationality and universality; Freedom, constraints, and power: What does it mean to feel free?; Cognition and Language; The categories of thought; Language; World and mind: Structure and representation; Reductionism - mind is not brain, or vice versa; Concluding thoughts; Appendix: Psychology as a reflection of cultural values; Choicepoints in the history of psychology; Physics envy, and doing psychology without experiments.
