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Cosmides, L., Guzmán, R., & Tooby, J. (2018). The evolution of moral cognition. In The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology, Aaron Zimmerman, Karen Jones, and Mark Timmons, editors. New York: Routledge Publishing.
Sznycer, D.*, Delton, A. W*., Robertson, T. E., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (In press). The ecological rationality of helping others: Potential helpers integrate cues of recipients’ need and willingness to sacrifice. Evolution and Human Behavior. doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.07.005 (*indicates joint first authors)
Sznycer, D., Ermer, E., & Tooby, J. (2018). Why do people think that others should earn this or that? Comment on Boyer and Petersen. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, e189.
Sznycer, D., Xygalatas, D., Agey, E., Alami, S., An, X.-F., Ananyeva, K. I., Atkinson, Q. D., Broitman, B. R., Conte, T. J., Flores, C., Fukushima, S., Hitokoto, H., Kharitonov, A. N., Onyishi, C. N., Onyishi, I. E., Romero, P. P., Schrock, J. M., Snodgrass J. J., Sugiyama, L. S., Takemura, K., Townsend, C., Zhuang, J.-Y., Aktipis, C. A., Cronk, L., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2018). Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(39), 9702–9707.
Sznycer, D., Xygalatas, D., Alami, S., An, X-F, Ananyeva, K., Fukushima, S., Hitokoto, H., Kharitonov, A., Koster, J., Onyishi, C., Onyishi, I., Romero, P., Takemura, K., Zhuang, J-Y, Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2018). Invariances in the architecture of pride across small-scale societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi/10.1073/pnas.1808418115.
Robertson, T.,* Sznycer, D.,* Delton, A., Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (2018). The true trigger of shame: Social devaluation is sufficient, wrongdoing is unnecessary. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39, 566-573. (*indicates joint first authors)
Sznycer, D., Lopez Seal, M. F., Sell, A., Lim, J., Porat, R., Shalvi, S., Halperin, E., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2017). Support for redistribution is shaped by compassion, envy, and self-interest, but not a taste for fairness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Sell, A., Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Lim, J., Krauss, A., Feldman, A., Rascanu, R., Sugiyama, L., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2017). The grammar of anger: Mapping the computational architecture of a recalibrational emotion. Cognition, 168, 110–128.
Sznycer, D., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2017). Adaptationism carves emotions at their functional joints. Invited commentary in Psychological Inquiry, 28(1), 56–62.
Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Curry, O. S., De Smet, D., Ermer, E., Kim, S., Kim, S., Li, N. P., Lopez Seal, M. F., McClung, J., O, J., Ohtsubo, Y., Quillien, T., Schaub, M., Sell, A., van Leeuwen, F., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J. (2017). Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(8), 1874–1879. (Supplemental Information)Fiddick, L., Brase, G., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (in press, 2017). Rethinking relevance: Repetition priming reveals the psychological reality of adaptive specializations for reasoning. Evolution and Human Behavior.
Sell, A., Sznycer, D., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., Krauss, A., Nisu, S., Ceapa, C., Petersen, M. B. (in press, 2017). Physically strong men are more militant: A test across four countries. Evolution and Human Behavior. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.11.002
Eisenbruch, A. B., Grillot, R. L., Maestripieri, D., & Roney, J. R. (2016). Evidence of partner choice heuristics in a one-shot bargaining game. Evolution and Human Behavior, in press.
Eisenbruch, A. B., & Roney, J. R. (2016). Conception risk and the ultimatum game: When fertility is high, women demand more. Personality and Individual Differences, 98, 272-274.
Krasnow, M.M., Delton, A.W., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2016). Looking under the hood of third-party punishment reveals design for personal benefit. Psychological Science, 27(2), 1-14. doi: 10.1177/0956797615624469Sznycer, D., De Smet, D., Billingsley, J., & Lieberman, D. (2016). Coresidence duration and cues of maternal investment regulate sibling altruism across cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111(2), 159–177. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000057. (Supplemental Information)
Sznycer, D.,Tooby, J., Cosmides, L., Porat, R., Shalvi, S. & Halperin, E. (2016). Shame closely tracks the threat of devaluation by others, even across cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(10), 2625-2630. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1514699113 (Supplemental Information)
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2016). Human cooperation shows the distinctive signatures of adaptations to small-scale social life. [Peer commentary on “Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence” by P. Richerson et al.]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39. doi:10.1017/S0140525X15000266
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2015). Adaptations for reasoning about social exchange. In Buss, D. M. (Ed.), The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, Second edition. Volume 2: Integrations. (pp. 625-668). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Eisenbruch, A. B., Simmons, Z. L., & Roney, J. R. (2015). Lady in red: Hormonal predictors of women’s clothing choices. Psychological Science, 26(8), 1332-1338.
Krasnow, M.M., Delton, A.W., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2015). Group cooperation without group selection: Modest punishment can recruit much cooperation. PLoS ONE, 10(4): e0124561. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0124561
Pietraszewski, D. Curry, O.S., Petersen, M.B., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2015). Constituents of political cognition: Race, party politics, and the alliance detection system. Cognition, 140. 24–39. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2015.03.007
Sznycer, D., Schniter, E., Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (2015). Regulatory adaptations for delivering information: the case of confession. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36(1), 44-51. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.08.008.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2015). The theoretical foundations of evolutionary psychology. In Buss, D. M. (Ed.), The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, Second edition. Volume 1: Foundations. (pp. 3-87). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Delton, A.W. & Sell, A. (2014). The Co-Evolution of Concepts and Motivation. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23, 2, 115 – 120. DOI: 10.1177/0963721414521631
Pietraszewski, D. & Schwartz, A. (2014). Evidence that accent is a dedicated dimension of social categorization, not a byproduct of coalitional categorization. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35, 51-57.
Pietraszewski, D., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2014). The content of our cooperation, not the color of our skin: Alliance detection regulates categorization by coalition and race, but not sex. PLoS ONE, 9(2): e88534. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088534
Pietraszewski, D. & Schwartz, A. (2014) Evidence that accent is a dimension of social categorization, not a byproduct of perceptual salience, familiarity, or ease-of-processing. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35, 43-50.
Robertson, T. E., Delton, A. W., Klein, S. B., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2014). Keeping the benefits of group cooperation: Domain-specific responses to distinct causes of social exclusion. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35, 472-480.
Sell, A, Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2014). The human anger face evolved to enhance cues of strength. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35(5). 425 – 429.
Klein, S.B.(2013). The temporal orientation of memory: It’s time for a change of direction. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2013.08.001
Delton, A.W., Nemirow, J., Robertson, T.E., Cimino, A., & Cosmides, L. (2013). Merely opting out of a public good is moralized: An error management approach to cooperation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/a0033495. Advance online publication.
*Petersen, M.B., *Sznycer, D., Sell, A., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J.(2013). The ancestral logic of politics: Upper-body strength regulates men’s assertion of self-interest over economic redistribution. Psychological Science, 24, 7, 1098-1103. DOI: 10.1177/0956797612466415. (paper includes supplemental information)
* indicates joint first authorship
*Krasnow, M.M., *Delton, A.W., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2013). Meeting now suggests we will meet again: Implications for debates on the evolution of cooperation. Nature Scientific Reports, 3, 1747; DOI:10.1038/srep01747.
* indicates joint first authorship
Lukaszewski, A. (in press).Testing an Adaptationist Theory of Trait Covariation: Relative Bargaining Power as a Common Calibrator of an Interpersonal Syndrome. European Journal of Personality; DOI: 10.1002/per.1908.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2013). Evolutionary psychology: New perspectives on cognition and motivation. Annual Review of Psychology, 64, 201-229. (for a copy of the pdf click here)
Pietraszewski, D. & German, T.C. (2013). Coalitional psychology on the playground: Reasoning about indirect social consequences in preschoolers and adults. Cognition, 126(3), 352-363.
Petersen, M.B., Sell, A., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2012). To punish or repair? Evolutionary psychology and lay intuitions about modern criminal justice. Evolution & Human Behavior. Advance online publication.
Krasnow, M.M., Cosmides, L., Pedersen, E. & Tooby, J. (2012). What Are Punishment and Reputation for? PLoS ONE 7(9): e45662. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0045662 (UCSB Press Release)
Delton, A. W. & Robertson, T. E. (2012). The social cognition of social foraging: Partner selection by underlying valuation. Evolution and Human Behavior, 33, 715-725.
Krasnow, M. M. & Delton, A. W. (2012). Is there evidence for special design of a group-selected psychology? Comment on Steven Pinker’s The false allure of group selection. Edge. (Full)
*Sznycer, D., *Takemura, K., *Delton, A. W., Sato, K., Robertson, T., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2012). Cross-cultural differences and similarities in proneness to shame: An adaptationist and ecological approach. Evolutionary Psychology, 10(2), 352-370. (Supplemental)
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Petersen, M.B., Sznycer, D., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2012). Who Deserves Help? Evolutionary Psychology, Social Emotions, and Public Opinion about Welfare. Political Psychology, 33 (3), 395-418.
Delton, A. W., Cosmides, L., Guemo, M., Robertson, T. E., & Tooby, J. (2012). The Psychosemantics of Free Riding: Dissecting the Architecture of a Moral Concept. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0027026 (Supplemental)Griskevicius, V., Tybur, J. M., Ackerman, J. M., Delton, A. W., Robertson, T. E., & White, A. E. (2012). The financial conequences of too many men: Sex ratio effects on saving, borrowing, and spending.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102 (1), 69-80. doi: 10.1037/a0024761
Klein , S. B., Robertson, T. E., Delton, A. W., Lax, M. L. (2012). Familiarity and personal experience as mediators of recall when planning for future contingencies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38, 240-245.
Delton, A. W., Krasnow, M. M., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2011). Reply to McNally and Tanner: Generosity evolves when cooperative decisions must be made under uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, E972.
Griskevicius, V., Delton, A. W., & Robertson, T. E., Tybur, J. M. (2011). Environmental contingency in life-history strategies: Influence of mortality and socioeconomic status on reproductive timing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 241-254.
Sznycer, D., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2011). Evolutionary psychology. P.D. Hogan (Ed.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lim, J., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2011). Adaptation. P.D. Hogan (Ed.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
*Delton, A. W, *Krasnow, M. M., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2011). Evolution of direct reciprocity under uncertainty can explain human generosity in one-shot encounters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 13335-13340. (Further Discussion)
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Lukaszewski, A. W. & Roney, J. R. (2011). The Origins of Extraversion: Joint Effects of Facultative Calibration and Genetic Polymorphism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37(3), 409–421.
Griskevicius, V., Tybur, J. M., Delton, A. W., & Robertson, T. E. (2011). The influence of mortality and socioeconomic status on preferences for risk and delayed rewards: A life history theory approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 1015-1026.
Klein, S. B., Robertson, T. E., & Delton, A. W. (2011). The future-orientation of memory: Planning as a key component mediating the high levels of recall found with survival processing. Memory, 19, 121-139.
Krasnow, M. M., Truxaw, D., Gaulin, S. J. C., New, J., Ozono, H., Uono, S., Ueno, T., & Minemoto, K. (2011). Cognitive adaptations for gathering-related navigation in humans. Evolution and Human Behavior, 32, 1–12.
Barrett, H.C., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2010). Coevolution of cooperation, causal cognition and mindreading. Communicative & Integrative Biology 3:6, 522-524.
Delton, A. W., Krasnow, M. M., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2010). Evolution of Fairness: Rereading the data. Science, 329(5990), 389.
Delton, A. & Cimino, A. (2010). Exploring the evolved concept of newcomer: Experimental tests of a cognitive model. Evolutionary Psychology, 8(2), 317-335.
Cimino, A. & Delton, A. (2010). On the perception of newcomers: Toward an evolved psychology of intergeneration coalitions. Human Nature, 21, 186–202.
Sell, A., Bryant, G., Cosmides, L. Tooby, J., Sznycer, D., vonRueden, C., Krauss, A., & Gurven, M. (2010). Adaptations in humans for assessing physical strength from the voice, Proceedings of the Royal Society London, (Biological Sciences), 277, 3509-3518.
Cosmides, L., Barrett, H.C., & Tooby, J. (2010). Adaptive specializations, social exchange, and the evolution of human intelligence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107 pp. 9007-9014.
Klein, S. B., Robertson, T. E., & Delton, A. W. (2010). Facing the future: Memory as an evolved system for planning future acts. Memory and Cognition, 38, 13-22.
Tooby, J., and Cosmides, L. (2010). Groups in Mind: The Coalitional Roots of War and Morality, from Human Morality & Sociality: Evolutionary & Comparative Perspectives, Henrik Høgh-Olesen (Ed.), Palgrave MacMillan, New York, pp. 91-234.
Petersen, M., Sell, A., Tooby, J., and Cosmides, L. (2010). Evolutionary Psychology and Criminal Justice: A Recalibrational Theory of Punishment and Reconciliation, from Human Morality & Sociality: Evolutionary & Comparative Perspectives, Henrik Høgh-Olesen (Ed.), Palgrave MacMillan, New York, pp. 72-131.
Lukaszewski, A. W. & Roney, J. R. (2010). Kind toward whom? Mate preferences for personality traits are target specific. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31 (1), 29-38.
Sell, A., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2009). Formidability and the logic of human anger. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(35) pp. 15073-15078.
Klein, S., Cosmides, L., Gangi, C., Jackson, B., Tooby, J. & Costabile, K. (2009). Evolution and episodic memory: An analysis and demonstration of a social function of episodic recollections. Social Cognition, 27 (2), 283-319.
Sell, A., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., Sznycer, D., Von Rueden, C., & Gurven, M. (2009). Human adaptations for the visual assessment of strength and fighting ability from the body and face. Proceedings of the Royal Society London (Biological Sciences), 276, 575-584.
Tooby, J., Cosmides, L., Sell, A., Lieberman, D. & Sznycer, D. (2008). Internal regulatory variables and the design of human motivation: A computational and evolutionary approach. In Andrew J. Elliot (Ed.) Handbook of approach and avoidance motivation. pp. 251-271. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2008). The evolutionary psychology of the emotions and their relationship to internal regulatory variables. In M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones & L. F. Barrett (Eds.), Handbook of Emotions, 3rd Ed. (pp. 114-137.) NY: Guilford.
Ermer, E., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2008). Relative status regulates risky decision making about resources in men: evidence for the co-evolution of motivation and cognition. Evolution and Human Behavior 29, 106–118.
Lassek, W. & Gaulin, S. J. C. (2008). Waist-hip ratio and cognitive ability: Is gluteofemoral fat a privileged store of neurodevelopmental resources? Evolution and Human Behavior 29, 26-34.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2008). When falsification strikes: A reply to Fodor. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral psychology. (pp. 143-164) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2008). Can evolutionary psychology assist logicians? A reply to Mallon. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral psychology. (pp. 131-136) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2008). Can a general deontic logic capture the facts of human moral reasoning? How the mind interprets social exchange rules and detects cheaters. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral psychology. (pp. 53-119) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Kenrick , D. T., Delton, A. W., Robertson, T. E., Becker, D. V., & Neuberg, S. L. (2007). How the mind warps. In J. P. Forgas, M. G. Haselton, & W. Von Hippel (Eds.), The evolution of the social mind: Evolutionary psychology and social cognition (pp. 49-68). New York: Psychology Press.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2007). Evolutionary psychology, ecological rationality, and the unification of the behavioral sciences. Comment on A framework for the unification of the behavioral sciences by Gintis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30(1), 42-43.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2007). The evolved architecture of hazard management: Risk detection reasoning and the motivational computation of threat magnitudes. Comment on Why ritualized behavior? Precaution systems and action parsing in developmental, pathological and cultural rituals by P. Boyer & P. Lienard in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 631-633.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2007). Review of Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Trust and the Human, Science and Cultural Theory by Barbara Herrnstein Smith. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 82(1), 35.
New, J., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2007). Category-specific attention for animals reflects ancestral priorities, not expertise. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104 (42), 16593-16603. (additional supplementary info – stimuli)
New, J., Krasnow, M. M., Truxaw, D. & Gaulin, S. J. C. (2007). Spatial Adaptations for Plant Foraging: Women Excel and Calories Count. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences, 274, 2679-2684. (more info)
Lieberman, D., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2007). The architecture of human kin detection. Nature, 445, 727-731. doi:10.1038/nature05510
Ermer, E., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2007). Functional specialization and the adaptationist program. In S. Gangstead & J. Simpson (Eds.), The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
Ermer, E., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2007). Cheater detection mechanism. In R. F. Baumiester & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (pp. 138-140). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Barrett, H.C., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2007). The hominid entry into the cognitive niche. In S. Gangstead & J. Simpson (Eds.), The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
Delton, A. W., Robertson, T. E., & Kenrick, D. T. (2006). The mating game isn’t over: A reply to Buller’s critique of the evolutionary psychology of mating. Evolutionary Psychology, 4, 262-273.
Ermer, E., Guerin, S., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., & Miller, M. (2006). Theory of mind broad and narrow: Reasoning about social exchange engages ToM areas, precautionary reasoning does not. Social Neuroscience, 1 (3-4), 196-219.
Tooby, J., Cosmides, L., & Price, M. (2006). Cognitive adaptations for n-person exchange: The evolutionary roots of organizational behavior. Managerial and Decision Economics, 27, 103-129.
Cosmides, L. (2006). The cognitive revolution: The next wave. APS Observer 19(4), 7, 23.
Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2006). Evolutionary psychology, moral heuristics, and the law. In G. Gigerenzer & Christoph Engel (Eds.), Heuristics and the Law (Dahlem Workshop Report 94). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Maner, J. K., Kenrick, D. T., Becker, D. V., Robertson, T. E., Hofer, B., Neuberg, S. L., Delton, A.W., Butner, J., & Schaller, M. (2005). Functional projection: How fundamental social motives can bias interpersonal perception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 63-78.
Cosmides, L, Tooby, J., Fiddick, L. & Bryant, G. (2005). Detecting cheaters. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(11), 505-506.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2005). Conceptual foundations of evolutionary psychology. In D. M. Buss (Ed.), The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (pp. 5-67). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2005). Neurocognitive adaptations designed for social exchange.In D. M. Buss (Ed.), The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (pp. 584-627). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2005). Reply to Berlinski’s “On the Origin of the Modern Mind”. Commentary, 119(2 Feb), 14-15. (MS doc).
Tooby, J., Cosmides, L. & Barrett, H. C. (2005). Resolving the debate on innate ideas: Learnability constraints and the evolved interpenetration of motivational and conceptual functions. In Carruthers, P., Laurence, S. & Stich, S. (Eds.), The Innate Mind: Structure and Content. NY: Oxford University Press.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2005). Social exchange: The evolutionary design of a neurocognitive system. In Michael S. Gazzaniga, (Ed.), The New Cognitive Neurosciences, III (pp. 1295-1308). Cambridge, MA: MIT press.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (May 2004). Can a clash of cultures undermine this cross-border merger? Harvard Business Review, 82(5), 40.
Klein, S., German, T., Cosmides, L. & Gabriel, R. (2004). A theory of autobiolographical memory: Necessary components and disorders resulting from their loss. Social Cognition, 22(5), 460-490.
Klein, S., Cosmides, L., Murray, E. & Tooby, J. (2004). On the acquisition of knowledge about personality traits: Does learning about the self engage different mechanisms than learning about others? Social Cognition, 22(4), 367-390.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2004). Knowing thyself: The evolutionary psychology of moral reasoning and moral sentiments. In R. E. Freeman and P. Werhane (Eds.), Business, Science, and Ethics. The Ruffin Series No. 4. (pp. 91-127). Charlottesville, VA: Society for Business Ethics.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2004). The design of the maternal motivation system. Current Anthropology, 44, S45-46. (Comment on A. Wolf).
Maner, J. K., Kenrick, D. T., Becker, D. V., Delton, A. W., Hofer, B., Wilbur, C. J., & Neuberg, S. L. (2003). Sexually selective cognition: Beauty captures the mind of the beholder. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 1107-1120.
Tooby, J., Cosmides, L. & Barrett, H. C. (2003). The second law of thermodynamics is the first law of psychology: Evolutionary developmental psychology and the theory of tandem, coordinated inheritances. Psychological Bulletin, 129(6), 858-865.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2003). Review of Religion Explained: The evolutionary origins of religious thought (by Pascal Boyer). Journal of Cognition and Culture, 3(1), pp. 109-113.
Cosmides, L., Tooby, J. & Kurzban, R. (2003). Perceptions of race. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7(4), 173-179.
Klein, S., Cosmides, L. & Costabile, K. (2003). Preserved knowledge of self in a case of Alzheimer’s dementia. Social Cognition, 21(2), 157-165.
Lieberman, D., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2003). Does morality have a biological basis? An empirical test of the factors governing moral sentiments relating to incest. Proceedings of the Royal Society London (Biological Sciences), 270(1517), 819-826.
Lieberman, D., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (in press). The evolution of human incest avoidance mechanisms: An evolutionary psychological approach. In A. Wolf & J. P. Takala (eds.), Evolution and the Moral Emotions: Appreciating Edward Westermarck. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Sell, A., Hagen, E., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2003). Evolutionary Psychology: Applications and Criticisms. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. (pp. 47-53). London: Macmillan.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2003). Evolutionary psychology: Theoretical Foundations. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. (pp. 54-64). London: Macmillan.
Stone, V., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., Kroll, N. & Knight, R. (2002). Selective Impairment of Reasoning About Social Exchange in a Patient with Bilateral Limbic System Damage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99(17), 11531-11536.
Sugiyama, L., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2002). Cross-cultural evidence of cognitive adaptations for social exchange among the Shiwiar of Ecuadorian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99(17), 11537-11542.
Klein, S., Cosmides, L., Costabile, K., & Mei, L. (2002). Is there something special about the self? A neuropsychological case study. Journal of Research in Personality, 36, 490-506.
Klein, S., Rozendahl, K., & Cosmides, L. (2002). A social-cognitive neuroscience analysis of the Self. Social Cognition, 20, 105-135.
Price, M. E., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2002). Punitive sentiment as an anti-free rider psychological device. Evolution and Human Behavior, 23, 203-231.
Klein, S., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., & Chance, S. (2002). Decisions and the evolution of memory: Multiple systems, multiple functions. Psychological Review, 109, 306-329.
Kurzban, R., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2001). Can race be erased?: Coalitional computation and social categorization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98(26), 15387-15392.
Klein, S. B., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J. & Chance, S. (2001). Priming exceptions: A test of the scope hypothesis in naturalistic trait judgments. Social Cognition, 19, 443-468.
Duchaine, B., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2001). Evolutionary psychology and the brain. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 11(2), 225-230.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2001). Does beauty build adapted minds? Toward an evolutionary theory of aesthetics, fiction and the arts. SubStance, Issue 94/95, 30(1), 6-27.
Tooby, J. (2001). Is human nature hidden in the genome? Nature Genetics, 29, 363.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2001). Unraveling the enigma of human intelligence: Evolutionary psychology and the multimodular mind. In R. J. Sternberg & J. C. Kaufman (Eds.), The evolution of intelligence. (pp. 145-198). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (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. Current Anthropology, 41(5), 803-804.
Fiddick, L., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2000). No interpretation without representation: The role of domain-specific representations and inferences in the Wason selection task. Cognition, 77, 1-79.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2000). Consider the source: The evolution of adaptations for decoupling and metarepresentation. In D. Sperber (Ed.), Metarepresentations: A multidisciplinary perspective. (pp. 53-115.) Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science. NY: Oxford University Press.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2000). Evolutionary psychology and the emotionsIn M. Lewis & J. M. Haviland-Jones (Eds.), Handbook of Emotions, 2nd Edition. (pp. 91-115.) NY: Guilford. (html)
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2000). Introduction. Evolution, Section X (Chapters 80-87). In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The New Cognitive Neurosciences, Second Edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (pp. 1163-1166.)
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2000). Toward mapping the evolved functional organization of mind and brain. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The New Cognitive Neurosciences, Second Edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Chapter 80, pp. 1167-1178.)
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2000). The cognitive neuroscience of social reasoning. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The New Cognitive Neurosciences, Second Edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Chapter 87, pp. 1259-1270.)
Rode, C., Cosmides, L., Hell, W., & Tooby, J. (1999). When and why do people avoid unknown probabilities in decisions under uncertainty? Testing some predictions from optimal foraging theory. Cognition, 72, 269-304.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1999). Towards an evolutionary taxonomy of treatable conditions. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 108, 453-464.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1999). Evolutionary psychology. MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. (pp. 294-297). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1998). Evolutionizing the cognitive sciences: A reply to Shapiro and Epstein. Mind & Language, 13(2), 195-204.
Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (1998). Start with Darwin… In M. S. Gazzaniga & J. Altman (Eds.), Brain and Mind: Evolutionary Perspectives. Vol. 5, pp.10-15. Strasbourg, France: Human Frontier Science Program.
Brase, G., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (1998). Individuation, Counting, and Statistical Inference: The role of frequency and whole object representations in judgment under uncertainty. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 127, 3-21.
Stone, V. E., Baron-Cohen, S., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J. and Knight, R. T. (1997). Selective impairment of social inference abilities following orbitofrontal cortex damage. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, M. G. Shafto and P. Langley (Eds.), London: Larwrence Erlbaum, p. 1062.
Turner, J., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Cosmides, L., Giesen, B., Hodgson, G., Maryanski, A., Shennan, S., Tooby, J., & Velichkovsky, B. (1997). Looking back: Historical and theoretical context of present practice. In P. Weingart, P. Richerson, S. Mitchell, & S Maasen (Eds.), Human by nature: Between biology and the social sciences. (pp. 17-64). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Thornhill, N., Cosmides, L., Maryanski, A., Meyer, P., Tooby, J., & Turner, J. (1997). Evolutionary theory and human social institutions: Psychological foundations. In P. Weingart, P. Richerson, S. Mitchell, & S Maasen (Eds.), Human by nature: Between biology and the social sciences. (pp. 201-252). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1997). Dissecting the computational architecture of social inference mechanisms. In: Characterizing human psychological adaptations (Ciba Foundation Symposium #208). Chichester: Wiley. (pp. 132-156).
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1997). The multimodular nature of human intelligence. In A. Schiebel & J. W. Schopf (Eds.), Origin and evolution of intelligence. Center for the Study of the Evolution and Origin of Life, UCLA. (pp. 71-101).
Cosmides, L.& Tooby, J. (1996). Think again. In: Betzig, L. (Ed.) Human Nature: A Critical Reader (pp. 292-294). NY: Oxford University Press
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1996). Friendship and the Banker’s Paradox: Other pathways to the evolution of adaptations for altruism. In W. G. Runciman, J. Maynard Smith, & R. I. M. Dunbar (Eds.), Evolution of Social Behaviour Patterns in Primates and Man. Proceedings of the British Academy, 88, 119-143.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1996). A logical design for the mind? (Review of The Psychology of Proof, by Lance J. Rips, 1994 MIT Press.) Contemporary Psychology, 41, 448-450.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1996). Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all?: Rethinking some conclusions of the literature on judgment under uncertainty. Cognition, 58, 1-73.
Tooby, J, & Cosmides, L. (1995). The language of the eyes as an evolved language of mind. Forward to: Mindblindness: An essay on autism and theory of mind. By Simon Baron-Cohen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1995). From evolution to adaptations to behavior: Toward an integrated evolutionary psychology. In R. Wong (Ed.), Biological perspectives on motivated activities. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (Section editors). (1995). Section Introduction: Evolutionary approaches to cognitive neuroscience. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The cognitive neurosciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1995). Mapping the evolved functional organization of mind and brain. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The cognitive neurosciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1995). From function to structure: The role of evolutionary biology and computational theories in cognitive neuroscience. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The cognitive neurosciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1994). Better than rational: Evolutionary psychology and the invisible hand. American Economic Review, 84 (2), 327-332.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1994). Beyond intuition and instinct blindness: The case for an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science.Cognition, 50, 41-77.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1994). Origins of domain-specificity: The evolution of functional organization. In L. Hirschfeld & S. Gelman (Eds.), Mapping the Mind: Domain-specificity in cognition and culture. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1993). The lords of many domains. The Times Higher Education Supplement, London. (June 25). (html)
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1992). Cognitive adaptations for social exchange. In J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture. New York: Oxford University Press.Cosmides, L., Tooby, J. & Barkow, J. (1992). Evolutionary psychology and conceptual integration. In J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation` of culture. New York: Oxford University Press.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1992). The psychological foundations of culture. In J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture. New York: Oxford University Press.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1992). Ecological rationality and the multimodular mind. Center for Evolutionary Psychology Technical Report #92-1. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California, Santa Barbara.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1991). Reasoning and natural selection. Encyclopedia of Human Biology, vol. 6. San Diego: Academic Press.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1990). Toward an adaptationist psycholinguistics. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13, 760-762.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1990). The past explains the present: Emotional adaptations and the structure of ancestral environments. Ethology and Sociobiology, 11, 375-424.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1990). On the universality of human nature and the uniqueness of the individual: The role of genetics and adaptation. Journal of Personality, 58, 17-67.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1989). Evolutionary psychologists need to distinguish between the evolutionary process, ancestral selection pressures, and psychological mechanisms. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12(4), 724-725.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1989). Adaptation versus phylogeny: The role of animal psychology in the study of human behavior. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 2, 105-118.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1989). Kin selection, genic selection, and information-dependent strategies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12, 542-544.
Cosmides, L. (1989). The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selection task. Cognition, 31, 187-276.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1989). The innate versus the manifest: How universal does universal have to be? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12, 36-37.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1989). Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, Part II. Case study: A computational theory of social exchange. Ethology & Sociobiology, 10, 51-97.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1989). Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, Part I. Theoretical considerations. Ethology & Sociobiology, 10, 29-49.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1988). The evolution of war and its cognitive foundations. Institute for Evolutionary Studies Technical Report #88-1.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1987). From evolution to behavior: Evolutionary psychology as the missing link. In J. Dupre (Ed.), The latest on the best: Essays on evolution and optimality. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Tooby, J. (1987). Reply to R.J. Blumenschine’s “Characteristics of an Early Hominid Scavenging Niche.” Current Anthropology. 28(4), 399-400.
Tooby J. and DeVore, I. (1987). The reconstruction of hominid behavioral evolution through strategic modeling. In Primate Models of Hominid Behavior, W. Kinzey (Ed.) New York: SUNY Press.
Tooby, J. (1985). The emergence of evolutionary psychology. In: Emerging Syntheses in Science. Proceedings of the Founding Workshops of the Santa Fe Institute. Santa Fe, NM: The Santa Fe Institute.
Cosmides, L. (1985). Deduction or Darwinian Algorithms? An explanation of the “elusive” content effect on the Wason selection task. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University. University Microfilms #86-02206.Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7
Tooby, J. (1984). Reply to M. Blute’s “The sociobiology of sex and sexes today.” Current Anthropology. 25(2), 193-212.
Cosmides, L. (1983). Invariances in the acoustic expression of emotion during speech. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 9, 864-881.
Tooby J. (1982). Pathogens, polymorphism, and the evolution of sex. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 97, 557-576.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1981). Cytoplasmic inheritance and intragenomic conflict. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 89, 83-129.
Books
Barkow, J., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J., editors. (1992). The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture. New York: Oxford University Press.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1995). Section editors, “Evolutionary Approaches”. The cognitive neurosciences, (M. S. Gazzaniga, Ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2000). Section editors, “Evolution (Section X)”. The new cognitive neurosciences, Second edition, (M. S. Gazzaniga, Ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chapters 80-87.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (in press). Universal Minds: Explaining the new science of evolutionary psychology. (Darwinism Today Series). London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (in press). Evolutionary psychology: Foundational papers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
