1.What Is Adaptive Memory? / Michael P. Toglia -- Section 1 Adaptive Memory: What Are the Factors that Drove the Natural Selection of Memory? -- 2.Evolution, Memory, and the Role of Self-Referent Recall in Planning for the Future / Stanley B. Klein -- 3.Remembering Cheaters / Axel Buchner -- 4.Living, Dying, and Remembering: The Encoding Processes Involved in Survival Processing / Joshua Hart -- Section 2 Adaptive Memory: A Special Case for Survival Information and Processing? -- 5.Adaptive Memory: Survival Processing, Ancestral Relevance, and the Role of Elaboration / Mary H. Derbish -- 6.On the Domain-Specificity of Survival Processing Advantages in Memory / Anne M. Cleary -- 7.Survival Processing, Attention, and Interference / Stephanie Kazanas -- 8.Cognitive and Social Factors in the Study of Survival Memory / Eileen M. Dacey -- 9.Survival Processing Does Not Improve Paired-Associate Learning / Brock R. Brothers

10.Proximate Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying the Survival Processing Effect / Meike Kroneisen -- Section 3 Adaptive Memory in Distinctive Populations -- 11.Memory Errors in Adaptive Recollections / Johan van Beers -- 12.The Adaptive Value of Survival Processing in Childhood Trauma Victims / Tom Smeets -- 13.Recognizing Others: Adaptive Changes to Person Recognition Throughout the Lifespan / Fiona N. Newell -- 14.Perceptual Versus Conceptual Memory Processes in a Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) / Kelly W. Mosteller -- 15.The Development of Adaptive Memory / David F. Bjorklund -- 16.Adaptive Memory: Controversies and Future Directions / James S. Nairne.