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Leda Cosmides

51 works· latest 2018· 2 institutionscluster: provisionalORCID 0000-0002-1197-7824

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Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2018·25 authors·Open access

192citations

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

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2017·9 authors·Open access

132citations

Better than rational: Evolutionary psychology and the invisible hand

American Economic Review·2016·2 authors

498citations

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

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2016·6 authors·Open access

250citations

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

Psychological Science·2016·4 authors·Open access

143citations

Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology

·2015·2 authors·other

658citations

Neurocognitive Adaptations Designed for Social Exchange

·2015·2 authors·other

352citations

The Theoretical Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology

·2015·2 authors·other

185citations

Internal Regulatory Variables and the Design of Human Motivation: A Computational and Evolutionary Approach

Routledge eBooks·2015·5 authors·chapter

171citations

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

Political Psychology·2012·4 authors·Open access

223citations

Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

Nature·2011·98 authors·Open access

494citations

Evolutionary Psychology: New Perspectives on Cognition and Motivation

Annual Review of Psychology·2011·2 authors·review

454citations

Groups in Mind: The Coalitional Roots of War and Morality

·2010·2 authors·chapter

366citations

Adaptations in humans for assessing physical strength from the voice

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2010·8 authors·Open access

357citations

Adaptive specializations, social exchange, and the evolution of human intelligence

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2010·3 authors·Open access

291citations

Formidability and the logic of human anger

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2009·3 authors·Open access

826citations

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

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2008·6 authors·Open access

631citations

The evolutionary psychology of the emotions and their relationship to internal regulatory variables.

·2008·2 authors

474citations

The architecture of human kin detection

Nature·2007·3 authors·Open access

749citations

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

Social Neuroscience·2006·5 authors·Open access

116citations

A Theory of Autobiographical Memory: Necessary Components and Disorders Resulting from their Loss

Social Cognition·2004·4 authors

121citations

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

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2003·3 authors·Open access

398citations

Perceptions of race

Trends in Cognitive Sciences·2003·3 authors·review

367citations

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).

Psychological Bulletin·2003·3 authors

175citations

Punitive sentiment as an anti-free rider psychological device

Evolution and Human Behavior·2002·3 authors

360citations

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

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2002·3 authors·Open access

195citations

A Social-Cognitive Neuroscience Analysis Of The Self

Social Cognition·2002·3 authors

131citations

Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2001·3 authors·Open access

870citations

Does Beauty Build Adapted Minds? Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Aesthetics, Fiction and the Arts

SubStance·2001·2 authors

377citations

Evolutionary psychology and the brain

Current Opinion in Neurobiology·2001·3 authors·review

182citations

Consider the Source: The Evolution of Adaptations for Decoupling and Metarepresentation

·2000·2 authors·chapter

272citations

When and why do people avoid unknown probabilities in decisions under uncertainty? Testing some predictions from optimal foraging theory

Cognition·1999·4 authors

219citations

Toward an evolutionary taxonomy of treatable conditions.

Journal of Abnormal Psychology·1999·2 authors

151citations

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

Journal of Experimental Psychology General·1998·3 authors

247citations

Evolutionary psychology: A Primer

·1997·2 authors

468citations

Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all? Rethinking some conclusions from the literature on judgment under uncertainty

Cognition·1996·1 author

1,295citations

Friendship and the Banker's Paradox: Other Pathways to the Evolution of Adaptations for Altruism

·1996·2 authors

575citations

Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all

·1996·2 authors

63citations

Origins of domain specificity: The evolution of functional organization

Cambridge University Press eBooks·1994·2 authors·chapter

849citations

Beyond intuition and instinct blindness: toward an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science

Cognition·1994·2 authors·review

511citations

The Adapted mind : evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture

·1992·3 authors

5,218citations

The Psychological Foundations of Culture

·1992·2 authors·chapter

3,627citations

Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange

·1992·2 authors·chapter

2,509citations

The Adapted Mind

·1992·2 authors·book

896citations

Introduction: Evolutionary Psychology and Conceptual Integration

·1992·3 authors·chapter

375citations

The past explains the present

Ethology and Sociobiology·1990·2 authors·Open access

1,780citations

On the Universality of Human Nature and the Uniqueness of the Individual: The Role of Genetics and Adaptation

Journal of Personality·1990·2 authors·review

1,004citations

The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selection task

Cognition·1989·1 author

2,471citations

Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, part II

Ethology and Sociobiology·1989·2 authors·Open access

664citations

Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, part I

Ethology and Sociobiology·1989·2 authors·Open access

650citations

From evolution to behavior: Evolutionary psychology as the missing link.

·1987·2 authors

551citations