C A Soper, PhD
Publications
2024
Soper, C. A. & Shackelford, T. K. (IN PRESS as at March 2024). Evolutionary perspectives on suicide. In U. Kumar (Ed.), Handbook of suicide prevention: Insights, strategies and approaches (Ch. 2). Singapore: Springer Nature.
2023
Soper, C. A. (2023). An integrated general theory of psychopathology and suicide, Evolutionary psychological science, 9, 491–511
Soper, C. A., & Shackelford, T. K. (2023). Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no. Evolution and Human Behavior, 44(2), 147–154.
Soper, C. A. (2023). Pain-brain theory explains the biology of faith-hope-love. International Journal of Existential Positive Psychology, 12(1).
2022
Soper, C. A., Malo Ocejo, P., & Large, M. M. (2022). On the randomness of suicide: An evolutionary, clinical call to transcend suicide risk assessment. In R. Abed & P. St John–Smith (Eds.), Evolutionary Psychiatry: Evolutionary Perspectives on Mental Health (pp. 134–152). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press and Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Soper, C. A., & Large, M. M. (2022). Comment on Favril et al.: Overstatement of the evidence for suicide risk assessment. Evidence–based mental health, 25(4).
Soper, C. A. (2022). Ethological problems with the interpersonal theory of suicide. OMEGA—Journal of Death and Dying. 1–23
Large, M. M., Soper, C. A., & Ryan, C. J. (2022). Suicide risk assessment. The Lancet Psychiatry, 9, 938–939.
2021
Soper, C. A. (2021). The evolution of life worth living: Why we choose to live. Cambridge, UK: Author.
Gunn, J. F., Malo, P., & Soper, C. A. (2021). Evolutionary psychology and suicidology. In T. K. Shackelford (Ed.), The SAGE Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (Vol. 3, pp. 51–93). London, UK: SAGE.
2019
Soper, C. A. (2019). Adaptation to the suicidal niche. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 5(4), 454–471.
Soper, C. A. (2019). Beyond the search for suigiston: How evolution offers oxygen for suicidology. In V. Zeigler–Hill & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Evolutionary Perspectives on Death (pp. 37–61). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
2018
Soper, C. A., & Shackelford, T. K. (2018). If nonhuman animals can suicide, why don’t they? Animal Sentience, 2 (20), 14.
Soper, C. A. (2018). The Evolution of Suicide. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
2017
Soper, C. A. (2017). Towards solving the evolutionary puzzle of suicide (PhD thesis). University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK.