Leda Cosmides
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- Bachelors Biology Harvard University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Leda Cosmides is an American psychologist, who, together with anthropologist husband John Tooby, pioneered the field of evolutionary psychology. Biography Cosmides was born into a Greek family. Her parents, George Cosmides and Nasia Cosmides , founded the St George Greek Orthodox Church in Bethesda, Maryland.
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- The Adapted mind : evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (1992) (5247)
- The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selection task (1989) (2176)
- Cognitive adaptations for social exchange. (1992) (2054)
- The psychological foundations of culture. (1992) (1867)
- The past explains the present: Emotional adaptations and the structure of ancestral environments (1990) (1709)
- Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all? Rethinking some conclusions from the literature on judgment under uncertainty (1996) (1197)
- On the universality of human nature and the uniqueness of the individual: the role of genetics and adaptation. (1990) (965)
- The Adapted Mind (1992) (924)
- Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization (2001) (754)
- Formidability and the logic of human anger (2009) (633)
- Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, part II: Case study: A computational theory of social exchange (1989) (630)
- From evolution to behavior: Evolutionary psychology as the missing link. (1987) (607)
- Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, part I: Theoretical considerations (1989) (604)
- The architecture of human kin detection (2007) (564)
- From : The Cognitive Neurosciences (1995) (557)
- Friendship and the Banker's Paradox: Other Pathways to the Evolution of Adaptations for Altruism (1996) (534)
- Human adaptations for the visual assessment of strength and fighting ability from the body and face (2009) (527)
- Cytoplasmic inheritance and intragenomic conflict. (1981) (518)
- Mapping the mind: Origins of domain specificity: The evolution of functional organization (1994) (509)
- Beyond intuition and instinct blindness: toward an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science (1994) (472)
- Category-specific attention for animals reflects ancestral priorities, not expertise (2007) (466)
- Better than rational: Evolutionary psychology and the invisible hand (1994) (446)
- The evolutionary psychology of the emotions and their relationship to internal regulatory variables. (2008) (404)
- Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality (2011) (402)
- Decisions and the evolution of memory: multiple systems, multiple functions. (2002) (401)
- Evolutionary psychology: A Primer (1997) (385)
- Evolutionary Psychology and the Emotions (2020) (359)
- Does morality have a biological basis? An empirical test of the factors governing moral sentiments relating to incest (2003) (343)
- Evolutionary psychology: new perspectives on cognition and motivation. (2013) (341)
- Perceptions of race (2003) (325)
- Introduction: Evolutionary psychology and conceptual integration (1992) (316)
- Punitive sentiment as an anti-free rider psychological device. (2002) (305)
- Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology (2015) (297)
- No interpretation without representation: the role of domain-specific representations and inferences in the Wason selection task (2000) (290)
- Evolution of direct reciprocity under uncertainty can explain human generosity in one-shot encounters (2011) (289)
- Adaptations in humans for assessing physical strength from the voice (2010) (273)
- Does Beauty Build Adapted Minds? Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Aesthetics, Fiction, and the Arts (2001) (249)
- Consider the source: The evolution of adaptations for decoupling and metarepresentation (2000) (237)
- Selective impairment of reasoning about social exchange in a patient with bilateral limbic system damage (2002) (237)
- Cognitive Adaptations for n-person Exchange: The Evolutionary Roots of Organizational Behavior. (2006) (225)
- Groups in mind : the coalitional roots of war and morality (2010) (205)
- When and why do people avoid unknown probabilities in decisions under uncertainty? Testing some predictions from optimal foraging theory (1999) (203)
- Preserved Knowledge of Self in a Case of Alzheimer's Dementia (2003) (192)
- Internal Regulatory Variables and the Design of Human Motivation: A Computational and Evolutionary Approach (2008) (186)
- Adaptive specializations, social exchange, and the evolution of human intelligence (2010) (182)
- Cross-cultural evidence of cognitive adaptations for social exchange among the Shiwiar of Ecuadorian Amazonia (2002) (177)
- Neurocognitive Adaptations Designed for Social Exchange. (2015) (175)
- Individuation, counting, and statistical inference: The role of frequency and whole-object representations in judgment under uncertainty (1998) (170)
- Evolutionary psychology and the brain (2001) (167)
- Shame closely tracks the threat of devaluation by others, even across cultures (2016) (159)
- Who Deserves Help? Evolutionary Psychology, Social Emotions, and Public Opinion about Welfare. (2012) (156)
- Toward an evolutionary taxonomy of treatable conditions. (1999) (144)
- A SOCIAL-COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE ANALYSIS OF THE SELF (2002) (129)
- Relative status regulates risky decision-making about resources in men: Evidence for the co-evolution of motivation and cognition. (2008) (126)
- Unraveling the enigma of human intelligence: Evolutionary psychology and the multimodular mind. (2002) (124)
- A THEORY OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY: NECESSARY COMPONENTS AND DISORDERS RESULTING FROM THEIR LOSS (2004) (121)
- Cross-Cultural Differences and Similarities in Proneness to Shame: An Adaptationist and Ecological Approach (2012) (116)
- Invariances in the acoustic expression of emotion during speech. (1983) (115)
- What Are Punishment and Reputation for? (2012) (112)
- Mapping the evolved functional organization of mind and brain. (1995) (110)
- The Ancestral Logic of Politics (2013) (110)
- The psychosemantics of free riding: dissecting the architecture of a moral concept. (2012) (110)
- 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). (2003) (105)
- The Content of Our Cooperation, Not the Color of Our Skin: An Alliance Detection System Regulates Categorization by Coalition and Race, but Not Sex (2014) (105)
- The human anger face evolved to enhance cues of strength (2014) (98)
- Theory of mind broad and narrow: Reasoning about social exchange engages ToM areas, precautionary reasoning does not (2006) (97)
- Looking Under the Hood of Third-Party Punishment Reveals Design for Personal Benefit (2016) (86)
- Resolving the debate on innate ideas: Learnability constraints and the evolved interpenetration of motivational and conceptual functions (2005) (86)
- To punish or repair? Evolutionary psychology and lay intuitions about modern criminal justice. (2012) (81)
- Dissecting the computational architecture of social inference mechanisms. (2007) (79)
- Detecting cheaters (2005) (75)
- The Theoretical Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology (2015) (73)
- Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame (2018) (70)
- Individuation , Counting , and Statistical Inference : The Role of Frequency and Whole-Object Representations in Judgment Under Uncertainty (1998) (69)
- Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride (2017) (69)
- Is there something special about the self? A neuropsychological case study (2002) (67)
- Constituents of political cognition: Race, party politics, and the alliance detection system (2015) (63)
- The grammar of anger: Mapping the computational architecture of a recalibrational emotion (2017) (59)
- Evolutionary psychology and criminal justice: A recalibrational theory of punishment and reconciliation (2010) (59)
- 9 Toward Mapping the Evolved Functional Organization of Mind and Brain (2000) (58)
- Meeting now suggests we will meet again: Implications for debates on the evolution of cooperation (2013) (58)
- Evolutionary Psychology , Moral Heuristics , and the Law (2006) (55)
- EVOLUTION AND EPISODIC MEMORY: AN ANALYSIS AND DEMONSTRATION OF A SOCIAL FUNCTION OF EPISODIC RECOLLECTION. (2009) (50)
- Knowing Thyself: The Evolutionary Psychology of Moral Reasoning and Moral Sentiments (2004) (49)
- Support for redistribution is shaped by compassion, envy, and self-interest, but not a taste for fairness (2017) (49)
- W 2 Can a General Deontic Logic Capture the Facts of Human Moral Reasoning ? How the Mind Interprets Social Exchange Rules and Detects Cheaters (2007) (48)
- The Latest on the Best Essays on Evolution and Optimality---- (2005) (45)
- The true trigger of shame: social devaluation is sufficient, wrongdoing is unnecessary (2018) (39)
- Adaptationism Carves Emotions at Their Functional Joints (2017) (39)
- Adaption Versus Phylogeny: The Role of Animal Psychology in The Study of Human Behavior (1989) (37)
- The Evolution of Psychodynamic Mechanisms (1992) (37)
- Priming Exceptions: A Test of the Scope Hypothesis in Naturalistic Trait Judgments (2001) (36)
- Invariances in the architecture of pride across small-scale societies (2018) (35)
- THEPODULAR NATURE OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE (1997) (34)
- The innate versus the manifest: How universal does universal have to be? (1989) (31)
- Physically strong men are more militant: A test across four countries (2017) (30)
- Group Cooperation without Group Selection: Modest Punishment Can Recruit Much Cooperation (2015) (29)
- Adaptations for Reasoning About Social Exchange (2015) (28)
- Coevolution of cooperation, causal cognition and mindreading (2010) (28)
- Evolutionary psychology, ecological rationality, and the unification of the behavioral sciences (2007) (28)
- Regulatory adaptations for delivering information: The case of confession. (2015) (27)
- From evolution to adaptations to behavior: Toward an integrated evolutionary psychology. (1995) (27)
- On the acquisition of knowledge about personality traits: Does learning about the self engage different mechanisms than learning about others? (2004) (26)
- Merely opting out of a public good is moralized: an error management approach to cooperation. (2013) (25)
- Evolutionary Psychology: Theoretical Foundations (2006) (23)
- Evolution of fairness: rereading the data. (2010) (19)
- Evolutionizing the Cognitive Sciences: A Reply to Shapiro and Epstein (1998) (17)
- The ecological rationality of helping others: Potential helpers integrate cues of recipients' need and willingness to sacrifice (2019) (16)
- Toward an adaptationist psycholinguistics (1990) (15)
- The evolved architecture of hazard management: Risk detection reasoning and the motivational computation of threat magnitudes (2006) (14)
- Kin selection, genic selection, and information-dependent strategies (1989) (14)
- Evolutionary psychologists need to distinguish between the evolutionary process, ancestral selection pressures, and psychological mechanisms (1989) (14)
- Reasoning and Natural Selection (1991) (12)
- Evolutionary Psychology: Applications and Criticisms (2006) (11)
- The evolution of human incest avoidance mechanisms : an evolutionary psychological approach (2003) (11)
- Keeping the benefits of group cooperation: domain-specific responses to distinct causes of social exclusion (2014) (11)
- A Logical Design for the Mind (1996) (10)
- Human cooperation shows the distinctive signatures of adaptations to small-scale social life (2016) (7)
- Consider the source: The evolution of decoupling and metarepresentations (2000) (6)
- Editorial Board (1994) (5)
- Reply to McNally and Tanner: Generosity evolves when cooperative decisions must be made under uncertainty (2011) (5)
- A moral trade-off system produces intuitive judgments that are rational and coherent and strike a balance between conflicting moral values (2022) (5)
- When Falsifi cation Strikes : A Reply to Fodor (2007) (5)
- Social Exchange: The Evolutionary Design of a Neurocognitive System. (2004) (5)
- Universal Minds Explaining the New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (5)
- Cognitive adaptations for threat, cooperation, and war (1994) (4)
- The Cognitive Revolution: The Next Wave (2006) (4)
- Rethinking relevance: Repetition priming reveals the psychological reality of adaptive specializations for reasoning (2017) (4)
- The Evolution of Moral Cognition (2018) (4)
- Dementia PRESERVED KNOWLEDGE OF SELF IN A CASE OF ALZHEIMER ’ S DEMENTIA (2003) (3)
- Biology and psychology (1997) (3)
- Partisans use emotions as social pressure: Feeling anger and gratitude at exiters and recruits in political groups (2021) (3)
- Bonding Through Gossip? The Effect of Gossip on Levels of Cooperation in Social Dilemma Games (2007) (3)
- Politics in the Evolved Mind: Political Parties and Coalitional Reasoning (2008) (3)
- W 2 . 2 Can Evolutionary Psychology Assist Logicians ? A Reply to Mallon (2007) (2)
- Natural Selection and the Nature of Communication (2020) (2)
- Motivations to reciprocate cooperation and punish defection are calibrated by estimates of how easily others can switch partners (2022) (1)
- Anderson, SW, 7 (1994) (0)
- From : The Cognttlue Neurosclences (2006) (0)
- Motivational Systems in Political Collective Action: Managing Free Riders, Exiters, and Recruits (2015) (0)
- Why deservingness? Evolved emotions and deservingness judgments in welfare opinions (2009) (0)
- Handbook of Approach and Avoidance Motivation THE NEXT COGNITIVE REVOLUTION : THE ADAPTATIONIST INTEGRATION OF MOTIVATION AND COGNITION (2008) (0)
- Loman, MM, B15 (2000) (0)
- Plaut, DC, 67 (1999) (0)
- 9 THE EVOLUTION OF MORAL COGNITION (2018) (0)
- Thanks to our guest reviewers (1992) (0)
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Chattel MARGO WILSON AND MARTIN DALY (0)
- Unraveling the Enigma of H u m a n Intelligence : Evolutionary Psychology and the Multhodwlar Mind (0)
- Dialogue (2001) (0)
- Why punish cheaters? Those who withdraw cooperation enjoy better reputations than punishers, but both are viewed as difficult to exploit (2022) (0)
- Conference on Evolution and the Human Sciences (1992) (0)
- Thanks to our guest reviewers (1991) (0)
- Experimental Induction of Friendship Jealousy: Comparing the Effects of Time versus Mental Coordination with an Interloper (2022) (0)
- Cognitive foundations for helping and harming others: Making welfare tradeoffs in industrialized and small-scale societies (2023) (0)
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