Areas of Interest:

Andy's work explores the evolutionary psychology of human cooperation. In collaborative work with Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, & Tess Robertson, he's used experimental studies to examine the conceptual and motivational elements necessary for coalitional cooperation. This work has principally examined the rules the mind uses to define others as free riders on a collective action. In addition, Max Krasnow, Tooby, Cosmides, & Andy have used simulation studies to understand how psychological mechanisms for cooperation evolve given ancestral cue-structure. Other interests include evolutionary game theory, the psychology of mating, how evolved psychology gives rise to cultural variation, and functional neuroimaging.

Selected Publications:

Delton, A. W., Robertson, T. E., & Kenrick, D. T. (2006). The mating game isn’t over: A reply to Buller’s critique of the evolutionary psychology of mating. Evolutionary Psychology, 4, 262-273. (Evolutionary Psychology is open access; please surf through to their archive for the paper.)

Kenrick, D. T., Delton, A. W., Robertson, T. E., Becker, D. V., & Neuberg, S. L. (2007). How the mind warps. In J. P. Forgas, M. G. Haselton, & W. Von Hippel (Eds.), The Evolution of the social mind: Evolutionary psychology and social cognition (pp. 49-68). New York: Psychology Press. (Please click here for a draft.)

Maner, J. K., Kenrick, D. T., Becker, D. V., Delton, A. W., Hofer, B., Wilbur, C. J., & Neuberg, S. L. (2003). Sexually selective cognition: Beauty captures the mind of the beholder. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 1107-1120. (Jon Maner’s homepage has a link to this article.)

Maner, J. K., Kenrick, D. T., Becker, D. V., Robertson, T. E., Hofer, B., Neuberg, S. L., Delton, A.W., Butner, J., & Schaller, M. (2005). Functional projection: How fundamental social motives can bias interpersonal perception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 63-78. (Jon Maner’s homepage has a link to this article.)