John Tooby

CHAPTER 4 THEPODULAR NATURE OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY (2009)

Leda Cosmides, John Tooby

The goal of research in evolutionary psychology is to discover and understand the de-sign of the human mind. Evolutionary psychology is an approach to psychology, in which knowledge and principles...

Deszlp.nedfor social exchange? (2009)

Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, Albert Einstein

faced in the past, it reliably develops in all normal human gs, it develops without any conscious effort and in the absence explicit instruction, it is applied without any conscious aware-of its...

Presented at the Evolution and Human Behavior Meetings, Ann Arbor, Michigan. April 1988. (2009)

John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, Cambridge Ma, Leda Cosmides

Coalitional aggression evolved because it allowed participants in such coalitions to promote their fitness by gaining access to disputed reproduction enhancing resources that would otherwise be...

London, England 87 The Cognitive Neuroscience of Social Reasoning (2009)

Michael S. Gazzaniga, A Bradford Book, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby

ABSTRACT Cognitive scientists need theoretical guidance that is grounded in something beyond intuition. They need evolu-tionary biology's "adaptationist program": a research strategy...

Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange (2009)

L. Cosmides, J. Tooby, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, George C. Williams

Is it not reasonable to anticipate that our understanding of the human mind would be aided

CHAPTER 7 Evolutionary Psychology (2009)

Leda Cosmides, John Tooby

and the Emotions Evolutionary psychology is an approach to the psychological sciences in which principles and results drawn from evolutionary biology, cogni-tive science, anthropology, and...

.EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ENIGMA OF INTELLIGENCE (2009)

R. J. Stanberg, Of Human Intelligence, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby

Evolution brought brains and minds into a world initially devoid of inteUlgent life. The evolutionary process designed the neural machinery that generates in-tehgent behavior, and important insights...

Consider the Source: The Evolution of Adaptations for Decou pling (2009)

Leda Cosrnides, John Tooby

Humans are often considered to be so distinct a species that they are placed outside of the natural order entirely, to be approached and analyzed independently of the rest of the living world....

London, England 8 O Toward Mapping the Evolved Functional Organization of Mind and Brain (2009)

Michael S. Gazzaniga, A Bradford Book, John Tooby, Leda Cosmides

ABSTRACT The human brain is a biological system produced by the evolutionary process, and thus, cognitive neuroscience is itself a branch of evolutionary biology. Accordingly, cogni-tive...

The Psychological Foundations of Culture INTRODUCTION: THE UNITY OF SCIENCE (2009)

John Tooby, Leda Cosmides

One of the strengths of scientific inquiry is that it can progress with any mixture of empiricism, intuition, and formal theory that suits the convenience of the investigator. Many sciences develop...

Special issue on: Evolved Constraints of Cultural Evolution Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture, Part I Theoretical Considerations (2009)

John Tooby, Leda Cosmides

Culture is the ongoing--. oroduct of the evolved osvches.. of individual humans living in e groups. Progress in our understanding of culture as a phenomenon depends an progress in uncovering the...

Conceptual Integration (2009)

Leda Cosmides, John Tooby (eds, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, H. Barkow

The Adapted Mind is an edited volume of original, commissioned papers centered on the complex, evolved psychological mechanisms that generate human behavior and

THE NEW COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCES Second Edition (2009)

Michael S. Gazzaniga, A Bradford Book, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby

Most cognitive neuroscientists recognize the need for re-liable sources of theoretical guidance. Many have taken a bottom-up approach, tuming'to cellular and molecular

Functional Organization of Mind and Brain (2009)

M. Grrzzanigrs, John Tooby, Leda Cosmides

ABSTRACT The human brain is a biological system pro-duced by the evolutionary process, and so cognitive neuro-science is itself a branch of modem evolutionary biology. Accordingly, cognitive...

ComntentaylPinker & Bloom: Language and selection Toward an adaptationist psycholinguistics (2009)

John Tooby, Leda Cosrnides

Could and Lewontin (1979) have intimated that the biological and behavioral sciences are infused with Panglossian adapta-760 BEirAVlORAL AN0 BRAIN SCIENCES (1990) l3:4 tionism. If only it were true,...

Ciba Foundation Symposium 208 CHARACTERIZING (2009)

John Wley, Ida Cosmides, John Tooby

charity (Registered Charity No. 313574). It was established in 1947 by the Swiss chemical and pharmaceutical company of CIBA Limited now Ciba-Geigy Limited. The Foundation operates independently in...

The Role of Evolutionary Biology and Computational Theories in Cognitive (2009)

M. Gazzanlga, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby

ABSTRACT The cognitive neuroscience of central pmccssca is currently a mystery. The brain u a vast and complex collec-tion offitnctionally integrated circuits. Recognizing that nat-ural selection...

The Evolutionary Psychology of the Emotions and Their Relationship to Internal Regulatory Variables (2009)

John Tooby, Leda Cosmides

Evolutionary psychology is an attempt to unify the psychological, social, and behavioral sciences theoretically and empirically within a single, mutually consistent, seamless scientific framework....

Klein Priming et al. exceptions PRIMING EXCEPTIONS: A TEST OF THE SCOPE HYPOTHESIS IN NATURALISTIC TRAIT JUDGMENTS (2009)

Stanley B. Klein, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, Sarah Chance

Trait judgments draw on two kinds of memory: (a) trait summaries, which provide information in the form of a generalization, and (b) memories of episodes in which a person behaved in ways that are...

KLEIN SELF AND ET AL. OTHERS ON THE ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT PERSONALITY TRAITS: DOES LEARNING ABOUT THE SELF ENGAGE DIFFERENT MECHANISMS THAN LEARNING ABOUT OTHERS? (2009)

Emily R. Murray, John Tooby

We report the case of R. J., an individual with autism. R. J.’s developmental disorder has impaired his ability to retrieve episodic memories as well as his ability to acquire consensually shared...

THE EMERGENCE OF EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: WHAT IS AT STAKE? (2009)

John Tooby, Leda Cosmides

THE THEORY OF evolution by natural selection has revolutionary implications for understanding the design of the human mind and brain, as Darwin himself was the first to recognize (Darwin, 1859)....

Other pathways to the Evolution of Adaptations for Altruism (2008)

W. G. Runciman, J. Maynard, John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, ...

reciprocal altruism; evolutionary psychology. Summary. The classical definition of altruism in evolutionary biology requires that an organism incur a fitness cost in the course of providing others...

Review TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences Vol.7 No.4 April 2003 173 Perceptions of race (2008)

Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, Robert Kurzban

Until recently, experiments on person perception had led to two unwelcome conclusions: (1) people encode the race of each individual they encounter, and (2) race encoding is caused by computational...

Relative status regulates risky decision making about resources in men: evidence for the co-evolution of motivation and cognition (2008)

Ermer, Elsa, Cosmides, Leda, Tooby, John

Relative social status strongly regulates human behavior, yet this factor has been largely ignored in research on risky decision making. Humans, like other animals, incur risks as they compete to...

Theory of mind broad and narrow: Reasoning about social exchange engages ToM areas, precautionary reasoning does not (2006)

Ermer, Elsa, Guerin, Scoft A., Cosmides, Leda, Tooby, John, Miller, Michael B.

Baron-Cohen (1995) proposed that the theory of mind (ToM) inference system evolved to promote strategic social interaction. Social exchange-a form of co-operation for mutual benefit -involves...

Neurocognitive adaptations designed for social exchange (2005)

Leda Cosmides, John Tooby

If a person doesn’t give something to me, I won’t give anything to that person. If I’m sitting eating, and someone like that comes by, I say, “Uhn, uhn. I’m not going to give any of this to...

Knowing thyself: The evolutionary psychology of moral reasoning and moral sentiments (2004)

Leda Cosmides, John Tooby

Abstract: “Ought ” cannot be derived from “is, ” so why should facts about human nature be of interest to business ethicists? In this article, we discuss why the nature of human nature is...

The second law of thermodynamics is the first law of psychology: Evolutionary developmental psychology and the theory of tandem, coordinated inheritances (2003)

John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, H. Clark Barrett

Organisms inherit a set of environmental regularities as well as genes, and these two inheritances repeatedly encounter each other across generations. This repetition drives natural selection to...

Selective impairment of reasoning about social exchange in a patient with bilateral limbic system damage (2002)

Valerie E. Stone, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, Neal Kroll, Robert T. Knight

Paper presented a novel & surprising result, received international media coverage. Impact Factor = 10.452.

Selective impairment of reasoning about social exchange in a patient with bilateral limbic system damage (2002)

Valerie E. Stone, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, Neal Kroll, Robert T. Knight

Paper presented a novel & surprising result, received international media coverage. Impact Factor = 10.452.

Punitive sentiment as an anti-free rider psychological device (2002)

Michael E. Price, Michael E. Price, Leda Cosmides, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, John Tooby

Those who contribute to a public good sometimes experience punitive sentiments toward others. But is the system that produces these sentiments an adaptation and, if so, which collective action...

Punitive Sentiment as an Anti-Free Rider Psychological Device (2002)

Michael E. Price, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby

Those who contribute to a public good sometimes experience punitive sentiments toward others. But is the system that produces these sentiments an adaptation and, if so, which collective action...

Decisions and the evolution of memory: Multiple systems, multiple functions (2002)

Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, Stanley B. Klein, Stanley B. Klein, Sarah Chance, Sarah Chance, ...

Memory evolved to supply useful, timely information to the organism’s decision-making systems. Therefore, decision rules, multiple memory systems, and the search engines that link them should have...

Dialogue (2001)

Tooby, John., Cosmides, Leda.

SubStance - Issue 94/95 (Volume 30, Number 1&2), 2001

Toward an evolutionary taxonomy of treatable conditions (1999)

Leda Cosmides, John Tooby

The definition of disorder as a harmful dysfunction (J. C. Wakefield, 1999) is a useful concept, anchored in the recognition that the evolved human architecture consists of a collection of functional...

Individuation, counting, and statistical inference: The role of frequency and whole-object representations in judgment under uncertainty (1998)

Gary L. Brase, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby

Evolutionary approaches to judgment under uncertainty have led to new data showing that untutored subject reliably produce judgments that conform to may principles of probability theory when (a) they...

Evolutionizing the cognitive sciences: A reply to Shapiro and Epstein (1998)

John Tooby, Leda Cosmides

We have argued that the social sciences—anthropology, economics, sociology—will be revolutionized when their practitioners realize that theories about the evolved architecture of the human mind...

Evolutionary Psychology: A (1997)

John Tooby

Humans, like all other organisms, were created through the process of evolution. Consequently, all innate human characteristics are the products of the evolutionary process. Although the implications...

Better than Rational (1994)

Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, Evolutionary Psychology, The Invisible H

http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or...

The psychological foundations of culture (1992)

John Tooby, Leda Cosmides

One of the strengths of scientific inquiry is that it can progress with any mixture of empiricism, intuition, and formal theory that suits the convenience of the investigator.

The past explains the present: Emotional adaptations and the structure of ancestral environments (1990)

John Tooby, Leda Cosmides

Present conditions and selection pressures are irrelevant to the present design of orga-nisms and do not explain how or why organisms behave adaptively, when they do. To whatever non-chance extent...

Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, Part II. Case study: A computational theory of social exchange (1989)

Leda Cosmides, John Tooby

Models of the various adaptive specializations that have evolved in the human psyche could become the building blocks of a scientific theory of culture. The flrst step in creating such models is the...

Adaptation versus phylogeny: The role of animal psychology in the study of human behavior (1989)

John Tooby, Leda Cosmides

Advocates of Darwinian approaches to the study of behavior are divided over what an evolutionary perspective is thought to entail. Some take "evolution-mindedness"; to mean...

Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization

Kurzban, Robert, Tooby, John, Cosmides, Leda

Previous studies have established that people encode the race of each individual they encounter, and do so via computational processes that appear to be both automatic and mandatory. If true, this...

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

Stone, Valerie E., Cosmides, Leda, Tooby, John, Kroll, Neal, Knight, Robert T.

Social exchange is a pervasive feature of human social life. Models in evolutionary biology predict that for social exchange to evolve in a species, individuals must be able to detect cheaters...

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

Sugiyama, Lawrence S., Tooby, John, Cosmides, Leda

On the basis of evolutionary game theory, it was hypothesized that humans have an evolved cognitive specialization for reasoning about social exchange, including a subroutine for detecting cheaters....

Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization

Kurzban, Robert, Tooby, John, Cosmides, Leda

Previous studies have established that people encode the race of each individual they encounter, and do so via computational processes that appear to be both automatic and mandatory. If true, this...

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

Stone, Valerie E., Cosmides, Leda, Tooby, John, Kroll, Neal, Knight, Robert T.

Social exchange is a pervasive feature of human social life. Models in evolutionary biology predict that for social exchange to evolve in a species, individuals must be able to detect cheaters...

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

Sugiyama, Lawrence S., Tooby, John, Cosmides, Leda

On the basis of evolutionary game theory, it was hypothesized that humans have an evolved cognitive specialization for reasoning about social exchange, including a subroutine for detecting cheaters....

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

Lieberman, Debra, Tooby, John, Cosmides, Leda

Kin-recognition systems have been hypothesized to exist in humans, and adaptively to regulate altruism and incest avoidance among close genetic kin. This latter function allows the architecture of...

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

New, Joshua, Cosmides, Leda, Tooby, John

Visual attention mechanisms are known to select information to process based on current goals, personal relevance, and lower-level features. Here we present evidence that human visual attention also...

Cognitive adaptations for n-person exchange: the evolutionary roots of organizational behavior

John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, Michael E. Price

Organizations are composed of stable, predominantly cooperative interactions or n-person exchanges. Humans have been engaging in n-person exchanges for a great enough period of evolutionary time that...