Daniel Fessler
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American psychologist; professor of biological anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Daniel Fessler is a professor of biological anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, working in the fields of evolutionary psychology, evolutionary anthropology, and evolutionary medicine. He was an editor-in-chief of journal of Evolution and Human Behavior.
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Published Works
- Nobody's watching? Subtle cues affect generosity in an anonymous economic game. (2005) (1092)
- Disease avoidance and ethnocentrism: the effects of disease vulnerability and disgust sensitivity on intergroup attitudes (2006) (488)
- Elevation Leads to Altruistic Behavior (2010) (354)
- Angry men and disgusted women: An evolutionary approach to the influence of emotions on risk taking (2004) (261)
- Harm, Affect, and the Moral/Conventional Distinction. (2007) (236)
- Elevated disgust sensitivity in the first trimester of pregnancy: Evidence supporting the compensatory prophylaxis hypothesis (2005) (227)
- Elevated ethnocentrism in the first trimester of pregnancy (2007) (214)
- Shame in Two Cultures: Implications for Evolutionary Approaches (2004) (209)
- Meat Is Good to Taboo: Dietary Proscriptions as a Product of the Interaction of Psychological Mechanisms and Social Processes (2003) (204)
- Domain-specific variation in disgust sensitivity across the menstrual cycle (2003) (186)
- The strategy of affect: Emotions in human cooperation. (2003) (185)
- Disgust sensitivity and meat consumption: a test of an emotivist account of moral vegetarianism (2003) (177)
- Anxiety and Intergroup Bias: Terror Management or Coalitional Psychology? (2004) (173)
- Do representations of male muscularity differ in men's and women's magazines? (2005) (171)
- Small-scale societies exhibit fundamental variation in the role of intentions in moral judgment (2016) (154)
- Conflict, sticks and carrots: war increases prosocial punishments and rewards (2012) (148)
- Third-party attitudes toward sibling incest: Evidence for Westermarck's hypotheses (2004) (139)
- Reproductive Immunosuppression and Diet (2002) (138)
- Progesterone's effects on the psychology of disease avoidance: Support for the compensatory behavioral prophylaxis hypothesis (2011) (133)
- Toward an Understanding of the Universality of Second Order Emotions (2001) (129)
- Sexual dimorphism in foot length proportionate to stature (2005) (124)
- From appeasement to conformity: Evolutionary and cultural perspectives on shame, competition, and cooperation. (2007) (123)
- Normative Bias and Adaptive Challenges: A Relational Approach to Coalitional Psychology and a Critique of Terror Management Theory (2005) (121)
- Trade-offs in a dangerous world: women's fear of crime predicts preferences for aggressive and formidable mates (2011) (111)
- Weapons Make the Man (Larger): Formidability Is Represented as Size and Strength in Humans (2012) (95)
- Oral Contraceptives Suppress Ovarian Hormone Production (2010) (84)
- Detecting affiliation in colaughter across 24 societies (2016) (79)
- Negatively-Biased Credulity and the Cultural Evolution of Beliefs (2014) (79)
- Political Orientation Predicts Credulity Regarding Putative Hazards (2017) (78)
- Reproductive immunosupression and diet. An evolutionary perspective on pregnancy sickness and meat consumption. (2002) (77)
- No Time To Eat: An Adaptationist Account Of Periovulatory Behavioral Changes (2003) (75)
- Race Bias Tracks Conception Risk Across the Menstrual Cycle (2009) (69)
- Marching into battle: synchronized walking diminishes the conceptualized formidability of an antagonist in men (2014) (68)
- Conceptual and empirical challenges to the "Authentic" versus "Hubristic" model of pride. (2014) (63)
- The Effect of Age on Death Disgust: Challenges to Terror Management Perspectives (2005) (63)
- Foundations of the Crazy Bastard Hypothesis: Nonviolent physical risk-taking enhances conceptualized formidability☆ , ☆☆ (2014) (62)
- Supplemental Online Material to accompany Holbrook et al.'s "Looming large in others’ eyes: Racial stereotypes illuminate dual adaptations for representing threat versus prestige as physical size" (2015) (59)
- Guarding the perimeter: The outside-inside dichotomy in disgust and bodily experience (2006) (56)
- Disgust versus Lust: Exploring the Interactions of Disgust and Fear with Sexual Arousal in Women (2015) (56)
- Emotions and cost–benefit assessment: The role of shame and self-esteem in risk taking. (2001) (54)
- The kiss of death: three tests of the relationship between disease threat and ritualized physical contact within traditional cultures (2017) (52)
- Madmen: An Evolutionary Perspective on Anger and Men’s Violent Responses to Transgression (2010) (52)
- Synchronized behavior increases assessments of the formidability and cohesion of coalitions (2016) (51)
- The implications of starvation induced psychological changes for the ethical treatment of hunger strikers (2003) (51)
- Luteal phase immunosuppression and meat eating. (2001) (51)
- Stranger danger: Parenthood increases the envisioned bodily formidability of menacing men (2014) (48)
- Examining the terminal investment hypothesis in humans and chimpanzees: associations among maternal age, parity, and birth weight. (2005) (48)
- Moral parochialism and contextual contingency across seven societies (2015) (46)
- Friends Shrink Foes (2013) (46)
- On the deep structure of social affect: Attitudes, emotions, sentiments, and the case of “contempt” (2016) (45)
- Pseudoparadoxical impulsivity in restrictive anorexia nervosa: a consequence of the logic of scarcity. (2002) (42)
- A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Role of Foot Size in Physical Attractiveness (2005) (42)
- Sizing up the threat: The envisioned physical formidability of terrorists tracks their leaders’ failures and successes (2013) (42)
- Men’s Physical Strength Moderates Conceptualizations of Prospective Foes in Two Disparate Societies (2014) (40)
- Disgust as a Mechanism for Decision Making Under Risk: Illuminating Sex Differences and Individual Risk-Taking Correlates of Disgust Propensity (2018) (38)
- The role of cognition and emotion in cooperation (2003) (37)
- A Burning Desire: Steps Toward an Evolutionary Psychology of Fire Learning (2006) (35)
- Bound to Lose: Physical Incapacitation Increases the Conceptualized Size of an Antagonist in Men (2013) (35)
- The Perception of Spontaneous and Volitional Laughter Across 21 Societies (2018) (34)
- From Whence the Captains of Our Lives: Ultimate and Phylogenetic Perspectives on Emotions in Humans and Other Primates (2010) (34)
- The Role of Disgust in Norms, and of Norms in Disgust Research: Why Liberals Shouldn’t be Morally Disgusted by Moral Disgust (2015) (32)
- An evolutionary explanation of the plasticity of salt preferences: prophylaxis against sudden dehydration. (2003) (31)
- On the Morality of Harm: A response to Sousa, Holbrook and Piazza (2009) (30)
- Evolutionary determinants of polycystic ovary syndrome: part 2. (2016) (29)
- Ectoparasite defence in humans: relationships to pathogen avoidance and clinical implications (2018) (29)
- Varying versions of moral relativism: the philosophy and psychology of normative relativism (2012) (27)
- Sex Differences in Relative Foot Length and Perceived Attractiveness of Female Feet: Relationships among Anthropometry, Physique, and Preference Ratings (2007) (26)
- Of pathogens and party lines: Social conservatism positively associates with COVID-19 precautions among U.S. Democrats but not Republicans (2020) (24)
- Evolutionary Psychology and Evolutionary Anthropology (2015) (24)
- Reproductive immunosuppression and diet. An evolutionary perspective on pregnancy sickness and meat consumption. Commentaries. Author's reply (2002) (24)
- Infant mouthing behavior: the immunocalibration hypothesis. (2004) (23)
- Not just dead meat: An evolutionary account of corpse treatment in mortuary rituals (2017) (21)
- Effects of emotions and social processes on bounded rationality (2001) (21)
- Return of the lost letter: Experimental framing does not enhance altruism in an everyday context (2009) (21)
- Kinship intensity and the use of mental states in moral judgment across societies (2020) (20)
- Dressed to kill? Visible markers of coalitional affiliation enhance conceptualized formidability. (2016) (20)
- Rape is not less frequent during the ovulatory phase of the menstrual cycle (2003) (20)
- Recontextualizing the Behavioral Immune System Within Psychoneuroimmunology (2014) (19)
- Testing the Affiliation Hypothesis of Homoerotic Motivation in Humans: The Effects of Progesterone and Priming (2015) (18)
- Further challenges to the "Authentic"/"Hubristic" model of pride: conceptual clarifications and new evidence. (2014) (18)
- Karo Batak Cousin Marriage, Cosocialization, and the Westermarck Hypothesis (2011) (17)
- Response to “Hormonal Correlates of Pathogen Disgust: Testing the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis” (2018) (16)
- If looks could kill: anger attributions are intensified by affordances for doing harm. (2013) (15)
- Starvation, serotonin, and symbolism. A psychobiocultural perspective on stigmata (2002) (15)
- Assets at Risk: Menstrual Cycle Variation in the Envisioned Formidability of a Potential Sexual Assailant Reveals a Component of Threat Assessment (2015) (15)
- Subclinical Primary Psychopathy, but Not Physical Formidability or Attractiveness, Predicts Conversational Dominance in a Zero-Acquaintance Situation (2014) (15)
- Elevation, an emotion for prosocial contagion, is experienced more strongly by those with greater expectations of the cooperativeness of others (2019) (14)
- The relationship between susceptibility to nausea and vomiting and the possession of conditioned food aversions (2004) (14)
- Sizing up Helen: Nonviolent physical risk-taking enhances the envisioned bodily formidability of women (2014) (14)
- Windfall and Socially Distributed Willpower: The Psychocultural Dynamics of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations in a Bengkulu Village (2002) (14)
- Seeing storms behind the clouds: Biases in the attribution of anger (2013) (13)
- Reexamining Individual Differences in Women’s Rape Avoidance Behaviors (2013) (12)
- With God on our side: Religious primes reduce the envisioned physical formidability of a menacing adversary (2016) (12)
- The Relationship Between Familial Resemblance and Sexual Attraction (2011) (12)
- Cultural congruence between investigators and participants masks the unknown unknowns: Shame research as an example (2010) (11)
- Differences in Dietary Intake as a Function of Sexual Activity and Hormonal Contraception (2007) (11)
- Culture and Cognition (2012) (11)
- Evolutionizing grief: viewing photographs of the deceased predicts misattribution of ambiguous stimuli by the bereaved. (2013) (10)
- A small field with a lot of hornets : an exploration of shame, motivation, and social control (1995) (10)
- Neglected Natural Experiments Germane to the Westermarck Hypothesis (2007) (10)
- Suicide bombers, weddings, and prison tattoos: an evolutionary perspective on subjective commitment and objective commitment (2011) (10)
- The same, only different: Threat management systems as homologues in the tree of life (2015) (10)
- Testing a postulated case of intersexual selection in humans: The role of foot size in judgments of physical attractiveness and age (2012) (10)
- The case of the drunken sailor: On the generalisable wrongness of harmful transgressions (2012) (9)
- The Male Flash of Anger: Violent Response to Transgression as an Example of the Intersection of Evolved Psychology and Culture (2002) (9)
- Narcotics Anonymous: Anonymity, Admiration, and Prestige in an Egalitarian Community (2014) (8)
- The effects of corpse viewing and corpse condition on vigilance for deceased loved ones (2016) (8)
- The moral universalism- relativism debate (2013) (7)
- Insurmountable Heat: The Evolution and Persistence of Defensive Hyperthermia (2016) (7)
- Fear does not correspond to higher costs of rape among married women (2013) (7)
- Combat and Cooperation: War Increases Prosocial Punishments and Rewards (2011) (6)
- Confounds in moral/conventional studies (2015) (6)
- Boots for Achilles: Progesterone's Reduction of Cholesterol Is a Second-Order Adaptation (2013) (5)
- An evolutionary account of vigilance in grief (2017) (5)
- Agent versus appraiser moral relativism: an exploratory study (2014) (5)
- Contextual features of problem-solving and social learning give rise to spurious associations, the raw materials for the evolution of rituals (2006) (4)
- Datasets to accompany Holbrook et al.'s "Looming large in others’ eyes: Racial stereotypes illuminate dual adaptations for representing threat versus prestige as physical size" (2015) (4)
- The skin crawls, the stomach turns: ectoparasites and pathogens elicit distinct defensive responses in humans (2021) (4)
- Young flames: The effects of childhood exposure to fire on adult attitudes (2015) (4)
- Endocrinological effects of social exclusion and inclusion: Experimental evidence for adaptive regulation of female fecundity (2021) (3)
- BELIEVING CHICKEN LITTLE: EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ON CREDULITY AND DANGER (2018) (3)
- Baumard et al.'s moral markets lack market dynamics. (2013) (3)
- Moral parochialism misunderstood: a reply to Piazza and Sousa (2016) (3)
- Are mothers battling embryos or pathogens (2002) (3)
- Importing social preferences across contexts and the pitfall of over-generalization across theories (2012) (3)
- Dimorphic foraging behaviors and the evolution of hominid hunting. (2002) (3)
- Does observing reciprocity or exploitation affect elevation, a mechanism driving prosociality? (2019) (3)
- Electoral fortunes reverse, mindsets do not (2018) (3)
- May God Guide Our Guns (2018) (3)
- Twelve Lessons ( Most of Which I Learned the Hard Way ) for Evolutionary Psychologists (2010) (2)
- Gruesomeness conveys formidability: Perpetrators of gratuitously grisly acts are conceptualized as larger, stronger, and more likely to win. (2020) (2)
- Correction for Bryant et al., Detecting affiliation in colaughter across 24 societies (2016) (2)
- Sizing up the threat: The envisioned physical formidability of terrorists tracks their leaders’ failures and successes [Cognition 127/1 (2013) 46–56] (2013) (2)
- In memoriam: Margo Ings Wilson. (2010) (2)
- Live fast, die young and sleep later (2020) (1)
- Misconstruals Miss the Mark (2012) (1)
- Exploring the Roles of Conformity, Hazard, and Convenience in Risk Mitigation Decisions: An Observational Study of Helmet Use Among Bicyclists and E-Scooter Riders in Los Angeles During Two Natural Experiments (2019) (1)
- Stranger Danger : Parenthood and Child Presence Increase the Envisioned Bodily Formidability of Menacing Men (2016) (1)
- Anthropology in Wonderland, Or, The Virtues of Shifting Levels and Frames (1996) (1)
- Moral parochialism and causal appraisal of transgressive harm in Seoul and Los Angeles (2022) (1)
- Gruesomeness conveys formidability: Perpetrators of gratuitously grisly acts are conceptualized as larger, stronger, and more likely to win (2019) (1)
- Disgust, Gender, and Social Change (2016) (1)
- Study 1 materials and data (2016) (1)
- Greater traditionalism predicts COVID-19 precautionary behaviors across 27 societies (2023) (1)
- Erratum: 'Anxiety and intergroup bias: Terror management or coalitional psychology' (Group Processes and Intergroup Relations vol. 7 (4) (370-397)) (2005) (1)
- Disgust and Harm Avoidance (2016) (1)
- Hypothesis The Karo Batak and the Oneida Community (2007) (1)
- Never Eat Alone: The Meaning of Food Sharing in a Sumatran Fishing Village (2005) (1)
- Status Merit Scale (2014) (0)
- Twenty Culture and Cognition (0)
- Harm, authority and generalizability: further experiments on the moral/conventional distinction (2010) (0)
- Seeing the elephant: Parsimony, functionalism, and the emergent design of contempt and other sentiments (2017) (0)
- Concerns About Appearing Immodest Measure (2014) (0)
- Effects of Hormonal Contraceptives on Estrogen and Progesterone (2010) (0)
- Harriet Whitehead ’ s Food Rules : Hunting , Sharing , and Tabooing Game in Papua New Guinea 2000 (2003) (0)
- Dataset to accompany Fessler & Holbrook 'Synchronous Walking Diminishes the Conceptualized Formidability of an Antagonist' (2014) (0)
- Dataset to accompany Manson et al. Subclinical Primary Psychopathy & Conversational Dominance (2014) (0)
- Datasets to accompany Fessler, Holbrook, & Dashoff's Dressed to Kill (2015) (0)
- Pride Display Scale (2014) (0)
- Dataset to accompany Holbrook et al.'s "Gulliver’s politics" (2016) (0)
- Meta Analysis Files (2016) (0)
- May God Guide Our Guns (2018) (0)
- Narcotics Anonymous 4 Anonymity, Admiration, and Prestige in an Egalitarian Community 5 (2014) (0)
- The Same, Only Different (2015) (0)
- The Next Frontier: Anthropology and Evolutionary Psychology (1996) (0)
- 21. Culture and Cognition (2012) (0)
- Evolutionary psychology and evolutionary anthropology - eScholarship (2015) (0)
- Elevation & Prevalence of Prosociality (2017) (0)
- Dataset to accompany Pillsworth et al. Convergence Between Folk Beliefs and Evolutionary Hypotheses Concerning Menstrual Cycle Effects (2014) (0)
- Captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) demonstrate contagion in spontaneous scratching behavior (2019) (0)
- Varying versions of moral relativism: the philosophy and psychology of normative relativism (2011) (0)
- Revenge without redundancy: functional outcomes do not require discrete adaptations for vengeance or forgiveness. (2013) (0)
- Cosocialization , and the Westermarck Hypothesis (2011) (0)
- Volume 18 – List of contents, Author index, and List of reviewers, 2012 (2012) (0)
- Reexamining Individual Differences in Women’s Rape Avoidance Behaviors (2012) (0)
- Implications of instrumental and ritual stances for traditionalism–threat responsivity relationships (2022) (0)
- Group 1 : The Role of Cognition and Emotion in Cooperation 2 (2003) (0)
- Datasets to accompany Murray et al.'s "Kiss of Death" (2016) (0)
- The Role of Disgust in Norms, and of Norms in Disgust Research: Why Liberals Shouldn’t be Morally Disgusted by Moral Disgust (2014) (0)
- Testing the Affiliation Hypothesis of Homoerotic Motivation in Humans: The Effects of Progesterone and Priming (2014) (0)
- Beware the foe who feels no pain: Associations between relative formidability and pain sensitivity in three U.S. online studies (2022) (0)
- Assets at Risk: Menstrual Cycle Variation in the Envisioned Formidability of a Potential Sexual Assailant Reveals a Component of Threat Assessment (2014) (0)
- The Dead May Kill You (2022) (0)
- Disgust, Gender, and Social Change (2016) (0)
- Naturalizing the normative and the bridges between “is” and “ought” (2011) (0)
- The Neolithic Revolution Did Not Increase the Adaptive Value of Pregnancy Sickness 1 Published in Current Anthropology 44 ( 5 ) : 709-711 (0)
- Interactive Effects of Cognitive Representations of Formidability and Technology on Aggression (2014) (0)
- Early adversity, adult lifestyle, and posttraumatic stress disorder in a military sample (2022) (0)
- Correction (2020) (0)
- Coalitionality shapes moral elevation: evidence from the U.S. Black Lives Matter protest and counter-protest movements (2023) (0)
- Harm : A response to Sousa , Holbrook and Piazza q (2009) (0)
- Political Orientation Predicts Credulity Regarding Putative Hazards - eScholarship (2017) (0)
- Datasets, variables, and code to accompany Fessler et al.'s "Political Orientation Predicts Credulity Regarding Putative Hazards" (2016) (0)
- Dataset to accompany Fessler, Pisor, & Navarrete's (2014) (0)
- Men’s Physical Strength Moderates Conceptualizations of Prospective Foes in Two Disparate Societies (2014) (0)
- No Love Among Haters: Negative Interactions Reduce Hate Community Engagement (2023) (0)
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