List of works - Leda Cosmides

Adaptations in humans for assessing physical strength from the voice.

scientific article

Category-specific attention for animals reflects ancestral priorities, not expertise

scholarly article

Coevolution of cooperation, causal cognition and mindreading

scientific article

Cognitive Adaptations for n-person Exchange: The Evolutionary Roots of Organizational Behavior.

scientific article

Colloquium paper: adaptive specializations, social exchange, and the evolution of human intelligence

scientific article

Constituents of political cognition: Race, party politics, and the alliance detection system.

scientific article

Cross-cultural differences and similarities in proneness to shame: an adaptationist and ecological approach.

scientific article published on 29 June 2012

Cross-cultural evidence of cognitive adaptations for social exchange among the Shiwiar of Ecuadorian Amazonia

scientific article

Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride

scientific article published on 6 February 2017

Decisions and the evolution of memory: multiple systems, multiple functions

scientific article

Detecting cheaters.

scientific article published on 29 September 2005

Does morality have a biological basis? An empirical test of the factors governing moral sentiments relating to incest

scientific article published in April 2003

EVOLUTION AND EPISODIC MEMORY: AN ANALYSIS AND DEMONSTRATION OF A SOCIAL FUNCTION OF EPISODIC RECOLLECTION.

scientific article published on April 2009

Evolution of direct reciprocity under uncertainty can explain human generosity in one-shot encounters ⬇️

scientific article published on July 25, 2011

Evolution of fairness: rereading the data

scientific article published in July 2010

Evolutionary Psychology

Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, part I

article

Evolutionary psychology: new perspectives on cognition and motivation

scientific article published on January 2013

Formidability and the logic of human anger

scientific article published on 03 August 2009

Group Cooperation without Group Selection: Modest Punishment Can Recruit Much Cooperation

scientific article

Human adaptations for the visual assessment of strength and fighting ability from the body and face.

scientific article published in February 2009

Human cooperation shows the distinctive signatures of adaptations to small-scale social life.

scientific article published in January 2016

Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

scientific article published on March 2011

Invariances in the architecture of pride across small-scale societies

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Kin selection, genic selection, and information-dependent strategies

article

Looking Under the Hood of Third-Party Punishment Reveals Design for Personal Benefit

scientific article

Meeting now suggests we will meet again: implications for debates on the evolution of cooperation

scientific article

Merely opting out of a public good is moralized: an error management approach to cooperation

scientific article

Perceptions of race ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: April 2003)

Physically strong men are more militant: A test across four countries

Regulatory adaptations for delivering information: The case of confession

scientific article

Relative status regulates risky decision-making about resources in men: Evidence for the co-evolution of motivation and cognition

scientific article published on March 2008

Reply to McNally and Tanner: Generosity evolves when cooperative decisions must be made under uncertainty.

scientific article published on 25 October 2011

Selective impairment of reasoning about social exchange in a patient with bilateral limbic system damage

scientific article

Shame closely tracks the threat of devaluation by others, even across cultures

scientific article published on 22 February 2016

Support for redistribution is shaped by compassion, envy, and self-interest, but not a taste for fairness

scientific article published on 17 July 2017

The Adapted Mind

book by Jerome H. Barkow

The Ancestral Logic of Politics

scientific article published on 13 May 2013

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) ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2003

The ancestral logic of politics: Upper body strength regulates men’s assertion of self-interest over economic redistribution

The architecture of human kin detection

scientific article

The content of our cooperation, not the color of our skin: an alliance detection system regulates categorization by coalition and race, but not sex.

scientific article

The ecological rationality of helping others: Potential helpers integrate cues of recipients' need and willingness to sacrifice

The grammar of anger: Mapping the computational architecture of a recalibrational emotion

scientific article

The past explains the present

The psychosemantics of free riding: Dissecting the architecture of a moral concept ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: June 2012)

The true trigger of shame: social devaluation is sufficient, wrongdoing is unnecessary

article by Theresa E. Robertson et al published September 2018 in Evolution and Human Behavior

Theory of mind broad and narrow: reasoning about social exchange engages ToM areas, precautionary reasoning does not.

scientific article published in January 2006

To punish or repair? Evolutionary psychology and lay intuitions about modern criminal justice.

scientific article published on November 2012

Toward an evolutionary taxonomy of treatable conditions

scientific article

What Are Punishment and Reputation for? ⬇️

scientific article published on September 26, 2012

Who Deserves Help? Evolutionary Psychology, Social Emotions, and Public Opinion about Welfare

scientific article published on 28 May 2012

List of works by Leda Cosmides

Adaptations in humans for assessing physical strength from the voice.

Category-specific attention for animals reflects ancestral priorities, not expertise

Coevolution of cooperation, causal cognition and mindreading

Cognitive Adaptations for n-person Exchange: The Evolutionary Roots of Organizational Behavior.

Colloquium paper: adaptive specializations, social exchange, and the evolution of human intelligence

Constituents of political cognition: Race, party politics, and the alliance detection system.

Cross-cultural differences and similarities in proneness to shame: an adaptationist and ecological approach.

Cross-cultural evidence of cognitive adaptations for social exchange among the Shiwiar of Ecuadorian Amazonia

Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame

Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride

Decisions and the evolution of memory: multiple systems, multiple functions

Detecting cheaters.

Does morality have a biological basis? An empirical test of the factors governing moral sentiments relating to incest

EVOLUTION AND EPISODIC MEMORY: AN ANALYSIS AND DEMONSTRATION OF A SOCIAL FUNCTION OF EPISODIC RECOLLECTION.

Evolution of direct reciprocity under uncertainty can explain human generosity in one-shot encounters ⬇️

Evolution of fairness: rereading the data

Evolutionary Psychology

Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, part I

Evolutionary psychology: new perspectives on cognition and motivation

Formidability and the logic of human anger

Group Cooperation without Group Selection: Modest Punishment Can Recruit Much Cooperation

Human adaptations for the visual assessment of strength and fighting ability from the body and face.

Human cooperation shows the distinctive signatures of adaptations to small-scale social life.

Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

Invariances in the architecture of pride across small-scale societies

Kin selection, genic selection, and information-dependent strategies

Looking Under the Hood of Third-Party Punishment Reveals Design for Personal Benefit

Meeting now suggests we will meet again: implications for debates on the evolution of cooperation

Merely opting out of a public good is moralized: an error management approach to cooperation

Perceptions of race ⬇️

Physically strong men are more militant: A test across four countries

Regulatory adaptations for delivering information: The case of confession

Relative status regulates risky decision-making about resources in men: Evidence for the co-evolution of motivation and cognition

Reply to McNally and Tanner: Generosity evolves when cooperative decisions must be made under uncertainty.

Selective impairment of reasoning about social exchange in a patient with bilateral limbic system damage

Shame closely tracks the threat of devaluation by others, even across cultures

Support for redistribution is shaped by compassion, envy, and self-interest, but not a taste for fairness

The Adapted Mind

The Ancestral Logic of Politics

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) ⬇️

The ancestral logic of politics: Upper body strength regulates men’s assertion of self-interest over economic redistribution

The architecture of human kin detection

The content of our cooperation, not the color of our skin: an alliance detection system regulates categorization by coalition and race, but not sex.

The ecological rationality of helping others: Potential helpers integrate cues of recipients' need and willingness to sacrifice

The grammar of anger: Mapping the computational architecture of a recalibrational emotion

The past explains the present

The psychosemantics of free riding: Dissecting the architecture of a moral concept ⬇️

The true trigger of shame: social devaluation is sufficient, wrongdoing is unnecessary

Theory of mind broad and narrow: reasoning about social exchange engages ToM areas, precautionary reasoning does not.

To punish or repair? Evolutionary psychology and lay intuitions about modern criminal justice.

Toward an evolutionary taxonomy of treatable conditions

What Are Punishment and Reputation for? ⬇️

Who Deserves Help? Evolutionary Psychology, Social Emotions, and Public Opinion about Welfare