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2023
Rational inferences about social valuation Journal Article
In: Cognition, vol. 239, pp. 105566, 2023.
Reply to Greene: No version of the dual process model can explain rational performance by people who made compromise moral judgments Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, vol. 120, iss. 24, pp. e2220909120, 2023.
Cognitive foundations for helping and harming others: Making welfare tradeoffs in industrialized and small-scale societies Journal Article
In: Evolution and Human Behavior, 2023.
Why punish cheaters? Those who withdraw cooperation enjoy better reputations than punishers, but both are viewed as difficult to exploit Journal Article
In: Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 50–59, 2023.
2022
Experimental Induction of Friendship Jealousy: Comparing the Effects of Time versus Mental Coordination with an Interloper Journal Article
In: Psykhe, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 7, 2022.
A moral trade-off system produces intuitive judgments that are rational and coherent and strike a balance between conflicting moral values Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, vol. 119, no. 42, pp. e2214005119, 2022.
Motivations to reciprocate cooperation and punish defection are calibrated by estimates of how easily others can switch partners Journal Article
In: PLOS One, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. e0267153, 2022.
Partisans use emotions as social pressure: Feeling anger and gratitude at exiters and recruits in political groups Journal Article
In: Party Politics, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 845–853, 2022.
2021
Adaptationism: A metanormative theory of rationality Book Chapter
In: Knauff, Marcus; Spohn, Wolfgang (Ed.): Handbook of Rationality, pp. 633-644, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2021.
The evolutionary psychology of conflict and the functions of falsehood Book Chapter
In: Barker, David C.; Suhay, Elizabeth (Ed.): The Politics of Truth in Polarized America, pp. 131-150, Oxford University Press, New York, 2021.
2020
Evolutionary psychology as the crystalizing core of a unified modern social science. Journal Article
In: Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 390, 2020.
Natural selection and the nature of communication Book Chapter
In: Floyd, Kory; Weber, Rene (Ed.): The handbook of communication science and biology, pp. 21–49, Routledge, 2020, ISBN: 9781351235587.
2019
The evolution of moral cognition Book Chapter
In: Zimmerman, Aaron; Jones, Karen; Timmons, Mark (Ed.): The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology, Routledge Publishing., New York, 2019.
The ecological rationality of helping others: Potential helpers integrate cues of recipients' need and willingness to sacrifice Journal Article
In: Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 34–45, 2019.
2018
Invariances in the architecture of pride across small-scale societies Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, vol. 115, no. 33, pp. 8322–8327, 2018.
The true trigger of shame: Social devaluation is sufficient, wrongdoing is unnecessary Journal Article
In: Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 566–573, 2018.
Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, vol. 115, no. 39, pp. 9702–9707, 2018.
Why do people think that others should earn this or that? Journal Article
In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 41, pp. e189, 2018.
2017
The grammar of anger: Mapping the computational architecture of a recalibrational emotion Journal Article
In: Cognition, vol. 168, pp. 110–128, 2017.
Support for redistribution is shaped by compassion, envy, and self-interest, but not a taste for fairness Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, vol. 114, no. 31, pp. 8420–8425, 2017.
Adaptationism carves emotions at their functional joints Journal Article
In: Psychological Inquiry, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 56–62, 2017.
Physically strong men are more militant: A test across four countries Journal Article
In: Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 334–340, 2017.
Rethinking relevance: Repetition priming reveals the psychological reality of adaptive specializations for reasoning Journal Article
In: Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 366–375, 2017.
Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, vol. 114, no. 8, pp. 1874–1879, 2017.
2016
Shame closely tracks the threat of devaluation by others, even across cultures Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, vol. 113, no. 10, pp. 2625–2630, 2016.
Human cooperation shows the distinctive signatures of adaptations to small-scale social life Journal Article
In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 39, pp. e54, 2016.
Looking under the hood of third-party punishment reveals design for personal benefit Journal Article
In: Psychological science, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 405–418, 2016.
2015
Adaptations for reasoning about social exchange Book Chapter
In: Buss, David M. (Ed.): The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, 2nd edition, vol. 2, Chapter 25, pp. 584–627, Wiley Online Library, 2nd, 2015, ISBN: 9780471264033.
The theoretical foundations of evolutionary psychology Book Chapter
In: Buss, David M. (Ed.): The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, 2nd edition, vol. 1, Chapter 1, pp. 3–87, Wiley Online Library, 2nd, 2015.
Constituents of political cognition: Race, party politics, and the alliance detection system Journal Article
In: Cognition, vol. 140, pp. 24–39, 2015.
Group cooperation without group selection: Modest punishment can recruit much cooperation Journal Article
In: PLOS One, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. e0124561, 2015.
Regulatory adaptations for delivering information: The case of confession Journal Article
In: Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 44–51, 2015.
2014
Keeping the benefits of group cooperation: Domain-specific responses to distinct causes of social exclusion Journal Article
In: Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 472–480, 2014.
The human anger face evolved to enhance cues of strength Journal Article
In: Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 425–429, 2014.
The content of our cooperation, not the color of our skin: An alliance detection system regulates categorization by coalition and race, but not sex Journal Article
In: PLOS One, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. e88534, 2014.
2013
Evolutionary psychology: New perspectives on cognition and motivation Journal Article
In: Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 64, pp. 201-229, 2013.
The ancestral logic of politics: Upper-body strength regulates men’s assertion of self-interest over economic redistribution Journal Article
In: Psychological science, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 1098–1103, 2013.
Meeting now suggests we will meet again: Implications for debates on the evolution of cooperation Journal Article
In: Scientific Reports, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1747, 2013.
Merely opting out of a public good is moralized: An error management approach to cooperation. Journal Article
In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 105, no. 4, pp. 621, 2013.
2012
Genic selection and adaptationism: Are we moving forward or back? Inproceedings
In: Brockman, John (Ed.): Edge.org, Edge Foundation Inc, New York, 2012, (Response to Steve Pinker's essay, "The false allure of group selection").
What are punishment and reputation for? Journal Article
In: PLOS One, vol. 7, iss. 9, pp. e45662, 2012.
Cross-cultural differences and similarities in proneness to shame: An adaptationist and ecological approach Journal Article
In: Evolutionary Psychology, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 352-370, 2012.
To punish or repair? Evolutionary psychology and lay intuitions about modern criminal justice Journal Article
In: Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 682–695, 2012.
Who deserves help? Evolutionary psychology, social emotions, and public opinion about welfare Journal Article
In: Political Psychology, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 395–418, 2012.
The psychosemantics of free riding: Dissecting the architecture of a moral concept. Journal Article
In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 102, no. 6, pp. 1252, 2012.
2011
Evolution of direct reciprocity under uncertainty can explain human generosity in one-shot encounters Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, vol. 108, no. 32, pp. 13335–13340, 2011.
Reply to McNally and Tanner: Generosity evolves when cooperative decisions must be made under uncertainty Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, vol. 108, no. 44, pp. E972–E972, 2011.
Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality. Nature 471 Journal Article
In: Nature, vol. 471, iss. 7339, pp. E1-4, 2011.
Adaptation Book Chapter
In: Hogan, P. D. (Ed.): The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011.
Evolutionary psychology Book Chapter
In: Hogan, P. D. (Ed.): The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
2010
Evolution of fairness: Rereading the data Journal Article
In: Science, vol. 329, no. 5990, pp. 389–389, 2010.
Adaptations in humans for assessing physical strength from the voice Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 277, no. 1699, pp. 3509–3518, 2010.
Adaptive specializations, social exchange, and the evolution of human intelligence Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, vol. 107, no. supplement_2, pp. 9007–9014, 2010.
Coevolution of cooperation, causal cognition and mindreading Journal Article
In: Communicative & integrative biology, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 522–524, 2010.
Groups in mind: The coalitional roots of war and morality Book Chapter
In: Høgh-Olesen, Henrik (Ed.): Human morality and sociality: Evolutionary and comparative perspectives, pp. 91–234, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Evolutionary Psychology and Criminal Justice: A Recalibrational Theory of Punishment and Reconciliation Book Chapter
In: Høgh-Olesen, Henrik (Ed.): Human morality and sociality: Evolutionary and comparative perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Decentralize, adapt and cooperate Journal Article
In: Nature, vol. 465, no. 7296, pp. 292–293, 2010, (Institute for Ecological Analysis: Should security systems learn from nature?).
2009
Formidability and the logic of human anger Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, vol. 106, no. 35, pp. 15073–15078, 2009.
Human adaptations for the visual assessment of strength and fighting ability from the body and face Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 276, no. 1656, pp. 575–584, 2009.
Evolution and episodic memory: An analysis and demonstration of a social function of episodic recollection Journal Article
In: Social Cognition, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 283–319, 2009.
2008
Internal regulatory variables and the design of human motivation: A computational and evolutionary approach Book Chapter
In: Elliot, Andrew J. (Ed.): Handbook of Approach and Avoidance Motivation, pp. 251-271, Laurence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, 2008.
The evolutionary psychology of the emotions and their relationship to internal regulatory variables. Book Chapter
In: Lewis, Michael; Haviland-Jones, J. M.; Barrett, Lisa Feldman (Ed.): Handbook of Emotions, 3rd Edition, pp. 114-137, The Guilford Press, New York, 2008.
Relative status regulates risky decision making about resources in men: Evidence for the co-evolution of motivation and cognition Journal Article
In: Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 106–118, 2008.
Can a general deontic logic capture the facts of human moral reasoning? How the mind interprets social exchange rules and detects cheaters Book Chapter
In: Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter (Ed.): Moral Psychology. The evolution of morality: Adaptations and innateness, vol. 1, pp. 53–119, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2008.
When Falsification Strikes: A Reply to Fodor Book Chapter
In: Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter (Ed.): Moral Psychology. The evolution of morality: Adaptations and innateness, vol. 1, pp. 143-164, MIT Press, 2008.
Can Evolutionary Psychology Assist Logicians? A Reply to Mallon Book Chapter
In: Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter (Ed.): Moral Psychology. The evolution of morality: Adaptations and innateness, vol. 1, pp. 131-136, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2008.
2007
The architecture of human kin detection Journal Article
In: Nature, vol. 445, no. 7129, pp. 727–731, 2007.
Category-specific attention for animals reflects ancestral priorities, not expertise Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, vol. 104, no. 42, pp. 16598–16603, 2007.
Cheater detection mechanism Book Chapter
In: Baumeister, Roy; Vohs, Kathleen (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, pp. 138–140, Sage Thousand Oaks, CA, 2007.
Evolutionary psychology, ecological rationality, and the unification of the behavioral sciences Journal Article
In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 42–43, 2007.
Functional specialization and the adaptationist program Book Chapter
In: Gangestad, Steven W.; Simpson, Jeffy A. (Ed.): The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental questions and controversies, pp. 153–160, Guilford Press New York, NY, 2007.
The hominid entry into the cognitive niche Book Chapter
In: Gangestad, Steven W.; Simpson, Jeffry A. (Ed.): The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental questions and controversies, pp. 241–248, Guilford Press NY, 2007.
2006
Toward mapping the evolved functional organization of mind and brain Book Chapter
In: Sober, Elliott (Ed.): Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology, pp. 175–95, Citeseer, 3rd, 2006.
Evolutionary psychology, moral heuristics, and the law. Book Chapter
In: Gigerenzer, Gerd; Engel, Christof (Ed.): Heuristics and the Law (Dahlem Workshop Report 94), MIT Press, Dahlem University Press, 2006.
Theory of mind broad and narrow: Reasoning about social exchange engages ToM areas, precautionary reasoning does not Journal Article
In: Social Neuroscience, vol. 1, no. 3-4, pp. 196–219, 2006.
The evolved architecture of hazard management: Risk detection reasoning and the motivational computation of threat magnitudes Journal Article
In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 631–633, 2006.
The cognitive revolution: The next wave Journal Article
In: APS Observer, vol. 19, iss. 4, 2006.
Cognitive adaptations for n-person exchange: the evolutionary roots of organizational behavior Journal Article
In: Managerial and Decision Economics, vol. 27, no. 2-3, pp. 103–129, 2006.
Evolved neurocognitive programs as the foundations of cultural and social phenomena Inproceedings
In: The evolution of human brain , pp. 75-83, Foundation for the Future, Seattle, Washington, 2006.
2005
Reply to Berlinski’s “On the Origin of the Modern Mind” Journal Article
In: Commentary, vol. 119, pp. 14-15, 2005.
Conceptual foundations of evolutionary psychology Book Chapter
In: Buss, David M. (Ed.): The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, pp. 5–67, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2005.
Detecting cheaters Journal Article
In: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 505–506, 2005.
Neurocognitive adaptations designed for social exchange Book Chapter
In: Buss, David M. (Ed.): The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, Chapter 20, pp. 584-627, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2005.
Resolving the debate on innate ideas: Learnability constraints and the evolved interpenetration of motivational and conceptual functions Book Chapter
In: Carruthers, Peter; Laurence, Stephen; Stich, Stephen (Ed.): The Innate Mind: Structure and contents, pp. 305–337, Oxford University Press, New York, 2005.
Social exchange: The evolutionary design of a neurocognitive system Book Chapter
In: Gazzaniga, Michael S. (Ed.): The New Cognitive Neurosciences, III , pp. 1295-1308, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2005.
2004
Can a clash of cultures undermine this cross-border merger? Journal Article
In: Harvard Business Review, vol. 82, no. 5, pp. 40, 2004.
A theory of autobiographical memory: Necessary components and disorders resulting from their loss Journal Article
In: Social Cognition, vol. 22, no. 5: Special issue, pp. 460–490, 2004.
On the acquisition of knowledge about personality traits: Does learning about the self engage different mechanisms than learning about others? Journal Article
In: Social Cognition, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 367–390, 2004.
Knowing thyself: The evolutionary psychology of moral reasoning and moral sentiments Journal Article
In: vol. 4, pp. 93–128, 2004.
2003
The design of the maternal motivation system.(Comment on A. Wolf, Maternal sentiments: How strong are they?) Journal Article
In: Current Anthropology, vol. 44, pp. 45–46, 2003.
The second law of thermodynamics is the first law of psychology: Evolutionary developmental psychology and the theory of tandem, coordinated inheritances: comment on Lickliter and Honeycutt (2003). Journal Article
In: Psychological Bulletin, vol. 129, iss. 6, pp. 858-865, 2003.
Review of Religion Explained: The evolutionary origins of religious thought (by Pascal Boyer) Journal Article
In: Journal of Cognition and Culture, vol. 3, iss. 1, pp. 109-113., 2003.
Perceptions of race Journal Article
In: Trends in cognitive sciences, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 173–179, 2003.
Preserved knowledge of self in a case of Alzheimer's dementia Journal Article
In: Social Cognition, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 157–165, 2003.
Does morality have a biological basis? An empirical test of the factors governing moral sentiments relating to incest Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, vol. 270, no. 1517, pp. 819–826, 2003.
Evolutionary psychology: Theoretical foundations Book Chapter
In: Nadel, Lynn (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, pp. 54-64, Macmillan, Nature Publishing Group, London, 2003.
Evolutionary psychology: Applications and criticisms Book Chapter
In: Nadel, Lynn (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, pp. 47-53, Macmillan, Nature Publishing Group, London, 2003.
Group report: The role of cognition and emotion in cooperation Book Chapter
In: Hammerstein, Peter (Ed.): Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, vol. 90, pp. 125–152, MIT Press (Dahlem Workshop Reports), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2003.
2002
The Greatest Englishman Since Newton [Book review] Journal Article
In: The New York Times (Sunday Edition) , vol. 108, iss. 40, no. 7, pp. 12, 2002, (Review of Charles Darwin, vol. 2 by Janet Browne).
Selective impairment of reasoning about social exchange in a patient with bilateral limbic system damage Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, vol. 99, no. 17, pp. 11531–11536, 2002.
Cross-cultural evidence of cognitive adaptations for social exchange among the Shiwiar of Ecuadorian Amazonia Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, vol. 99, no. 17, pp. 11537–11542, 2002.
Is there something special about the self? A neuropsychological case study Journal Article
In: Journal of Research in Personality, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 490–506, 2002.
A social-cognitive neuroscience analysis of the self Journal Article
In: Social Cognition, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 105–135, 2002.
Decisions and the evolution of memory: Multiple systems, multiple functions. Journal Article
In: Psychological Review, vol. 109, no. 2, pp. 306-329, 2002.
Punitive sentiment as an anti-free rider psychological device Journal Article
In: Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 203–231, 2002.
Unraveling the enigma of human intelligence: Evolutionary psychology and the multimodular mind Book Chapter
In: Sternberg, Robert J.; Kaufman, James C. (Ed.): The evolution of intelligence, pp. 145–198, Laurence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 2002.
2001
Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, vol. 98, no. 26, pp. 15387–15392, 2001.
Priming exceptions: A test of the scope hypothesis in naturalistic trait judgments Journal Article
In: Social Cognition, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 443–468, 2001.
Evolutionary psychology and the brain Journal Article
In: Current Opinion in Neurobiology, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 225–230, 2001.
Does beauty build adapted minds? Toward an evolutionary theory of aesthetics, fiction, and the arts Journal Article
In: SubStance, vol. 30, iss. 94/95, no. 1, pp. 6–27, 2001.
Is human nature hidden in the genome? [Review of Human Natures, by Paul R. Ehrlich] Journal Article
In: Nature Genetics, vol. 29, pp. 363, 2001.
2000
Witchcraft accusations in anthropology: What kind of people will we become? Journal Article
In: Anthropology News, vol. 41, iss. 9, pp. 8, 2000.
Evolutionary psychology and the emotions Book Chapter
In: Lewis, Michael; Haviland-Jones, Jeannette (Ed.): Handbook of Emotions, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 91–115, Guilford, New York, 2000.
Toward mapping the evolved functional organization of mind and brain Book Chapter
In: The New Cognitive Neurosciences, Michael Gazzaniga (Ed.): Chapter 80, pp. 1167-1178, 2nd, 2000.
Consider the source: The evolution of adaptations for decoupling and metarepresentations Book Chapter
In: Sperber, Dan (Ed.): Metarepresentations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, vol. 10, pp. 53–116, 2000.
No interpretation without representation: The role of domain-specific representations and inferences in the Wason selection task Journal Article
In: Cognition, vol. 77, no. 1, pp. 1–79, 2000.
Cognitive adaptations for kin-based coalitions: human kinship systems at the intersection between collective action and kin selection. Comment on Group Nepotism and Human Kinship by Doug Jones Journal Article
In: Current Anthropology, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 803-804, 2000.
Introduction to Evolution Section X (Chapters 80-87) Book Chapter
In: Gazzaniga, Michael S. (Ed.): The New Cognitive Neurosciences, Second Edition. , pp. 1163-1166, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000.
The cognitive neuroscience of social reasoning Book Chapter
In: Gazzaniga, Michael S. (Ed.): The New Cognitive Neurosciences, Second Edition, Chapter 87, pp. 1259-1270, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000.
1999
View from the President's Window: The most testable concept in biology, Part 1 Miscellaneous
1999.
When and why do people avoid unknown probabilities in decisions under uncertainty? Testing some predictions from optimal foraging theory Journal Article
In: Cognition, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 269–304, 1999.
Toward an evolutionary taxonomy of treatable conditions. Journal Article
In: Journal of Abnormal Psychology, vol. 108, iss. 3, pp. 453-464, 1999.
Evolutionary psychology Book Chapter
In: Wilson, Robert Andrew; Keil, Frank C. (Ed.): The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999.
1998
Evolutionizing the cognitive sciences: A reply to Shapiro and Epstein Journal Article
In: Mind & Language, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 195–204, 1998.
Start with Darwin… Book Chapter
In: vol. 15, 1998.
Individuation, counting, and statistical inference: The role of frequency and whole-object representations in judgment under uncertainty. Journal Article
In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 127, pp. 1-19, 1998.
1997
Dissecting the computational architecture of social inference mechanisms Book Chapter
In: Characterizing human psychological adaptations (Ciba Foundation Symposium #208), pp. 132–156, Wiley, Chichester, 1997.
The multimodular nature of human intelligence Book Chapter
In: & J. W. Schopf, A. Schiebel (Ed.): Origin and evolution of intelligence , pp. 71-101, Center for the Study of the Evolution and Origin of Life, UCLA, 1997.
1996
Friendship and the banker's paradox: Other pathways to the evolution of adaptations for altruism Book Chapter
In: Runciman, Walter Garrison; Smith, John Maynard; Dunbar, Robin I. M. (Ed.): Evolution of Social Behaviour Patterns in Primates and Man. Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 88, pp. 119–144, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all? Rethinking some conclusions from the literature on judgment under uncertainty Journal Article
In: Cognition, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 1–73, 1996.
A logical design for the mind? (Review of The Psychology of Proof, by Lance J. Rips) Journal Article
In: Contemporary Psychology, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 448–450, 1996.
1995
From evolution to adaptations to behavior: Toward an integrated evolutionary psychology. Book Chapter
In: Wong, Rod (Ed.): Biological perspectives on motivated activities, pp. 11-74, Ablex Publishing, Norwood, NJ, 1995.
The language of the eyes as an evolved language of mind (Forward to Mindblindness) Book Chapter
In: Mindblindness: An essay on autism and theory of mind, by Simon Baron-Cohen, pp. xi-xviii, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1995.
Section Introduction: Evolutionary approaches to cognitive neuroscience Book Chapter
In: Gazzaniga, Michael S. (Ed.): The Cognitive Neurosciences, pp. 1181-1184, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1995.
From function to structure: The role of evolutionary biology and computational theories in cognitive neuroscience. Book Chapter
In: Gazzaniga, Michael S. (Ed.): The Cognitive Neurosciences, Chapter 79, pp. 1199-1210, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1995.
Mapping the evolved functional organization of mind and brain Book Chapter
In: Gazzaniga, Michael S. (Ed.): The Cognitive Neurosciences, Chapter 78, pp. 1185-1197, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1995.
1994
Better than rational: Evolutionary psychology and the invisible hand Journal Article
In: The American Economic Review, vol. 84, no. 2, pp. 327–332, 1994.
Beyond intuition and instinct blindness: Toward an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science Journal Article
In: Cognition, vol. 50, no. 1-3, pp. 41–77, 1994.
Origins of domain specificity: The evolution of functional organization Book Chapter
In: Hirschfeld, Lawrence; Gelman, Susan (Ed.): Mapping the Mind: Domain-specificity in cognition and culture, pp. 85-116, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1994.
1993
The lords of many domains Journal Article
In: The Times Higher Education Supplement, London, 1993.
Evolutionary psychology: A primer Online
1993, visited: 01.04.1993.
1992
Cognitive adaptations for social exchange Book Chapter
In: Barkow, Jerome H.; Cosmides, Leda; Tooby, John (Ed.): The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, pp. 163–228, Oxford University Press, New York, 1992.
The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture Book
Oxford University Press, New York, 1992, ISBN: 0-19-506023-7.
The psychological foundations of culture Book Chapter
In: Barkow, Jerome H.; Cosmides, Leda; Tooby, John (Ed.): The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, Chapter 1, pp. 19–136, 1992.
Evolutionary psychology and conceptual integration Book Chapter
In: Barkow, Jerome H.; Cosmides, Leda; Tooby, John (Ed.): The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, pp. 3-15, Oxford University Press, New York, 1992.
1991
Reasoning and natural selection Book Chapter
In: Encyclopedia of Human Biology, vol. 6, pp. 493-503, Academic Press., San Diego, CA, 1991.
1990
On the universality of human nature and the uniqueness of the individual: The role of genetics and adaptation Journal Article
In: Journal of Personality, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 17–67, 1990.
The past explains the present: Emotional adaptations and the structure of ancestral environments Journal Article
In: Ethology and sociobiology, vol. 11, no. 4-5, pp. 375–424, 1990.
Toward an adaptationist psycholinguistics Journal Article
In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 760–762, 1990.
1989
The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selection task Journal Article
In: Cognition, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 187–276, 1989.
Adaption versus phylogeny: The role of animal psychology in the study of human behavior Journal Article
In: International Journal of Comparative Psychology, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 105-118, 1989.
Evolutionary psychologists need to distinguish between the evolutionary process, ancestral selection pressures, and psychological mechanisms Journal Article
In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 724–725, 1989.
Kin selection, genic selection, and information-dependent strategies Journal Article
In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 542–544, 1989.
The innate versus the manifest: How universal does universal have to be? Journal Article
In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 36–37, 1989.
Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, part I: Theoretical considerations Journal Article
In: Ethology and sociobiology, vol. 10, no. 1-3, pp. 29–49, 1989.
Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, part II: Case study: A computational theory of social exchange Journal Article
In: Ethology and sociobiology, vol. 10, no. 1-3, pp. 51–97, 1989.
1988
The evolution of war and its cognitive foundations Technical Report
1988.
1987
From evolution to behavior: Evolutionary psychology as the missing link Book Chapter
In: Dupre, John (Ed.): The Latest on the Best: Essays on evolution and optimality, Chapter 13, pp. 277-306, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987.
The reconstruction of hominid behavioral evolution through strategic modeling Book Chapter
In: Kinzey, Warren G. (Ed.): The Evolution of Human Behavior: Primate models, Chapter 10, pp. 183–237, SUNY Press, New York, 1987.
Reply to Blumenschine: Characteristics of an early hominid scavenging niche Journal Article
In: Current anthropology, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 399-400, 1987.
1985
Deduction or Darwinian Algorithms? An explanation of the "elusive" content effect on the Wason selection task PhD Thesis
Harvard University, 1985.
The emergence of evolutionary psychology Inproceedings
In: Pines, D. (Ed.): Emerging Syntheses in Science. Proceedings of the founding workshops of the Santa Fe Institute , The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1985.
1984
Reply to M. Blute's "The sociobiology of sex and sexes today." Journal Article
In: Current Anthropology, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 205-206, 1984.
1983
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