Publications

Sell, A., Bryant, G., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., Sznycer, D., von Rueden, C., Krauss, A. & M. Gurven (2010).  Adaptations in humans for assessing physical strength and fighting ability from the voice.  Proceedings of the Royal Society, in press. .pdf

Helfrecht, C., Hess, N., Hagen, E., Sell, A. & Hewlett, B. (2010).  Interpersonal aggression among Aka hunter-gatherers of the Central African Republic: Assessing the effects of sex, strength, and anger.   Human Nature, in press. .pdf

Petersen, M.B., Sell, A., Tooby, J., and Cosmides, L. (2010).  Evolutionary Psychology and Criminal Justice: A Recalibrational Theory of Punishment and Reconciliation.  In Høgh-Olesen, H. (Ed.) Human Morality and Sociality, Palgrave Macmillan. .pdf

Sell, A. (2009). Applying adaptationism to human anger: the recalibrational theory.  In P. R. Shaver & M. Mikulincer (eds.), Understanding and reducing aggression, violence, and their consequences.  Washington DC: American Psychological Association. .pdf

Sell, A., Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (2009).  Formidability and the logic of human anger.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 106(35), 15073-78. .pdf

Sell, A. (2009).  Standards of evidence for designed sex differences.  Commentary on John Archer’s “Does sexual selection explain human sex differences in aggression?”  Behavioral and brain sciences, 32, 289. .pdf

Sell, A., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., Sznycer, D., von Rueden, C. & Gurven, M. (2009).  Human adaptations for the visual assessment of strength and fighting ability from the body and face.  Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 276, 575-584. .pdf

Tooby, J., Cosmides, L., Sell, A., Lieberman, D. & Sznycer, D. (2008).  Internal regulatory variables and the design of human motivation: A computational and evolutionary approach.  In Elliot, Andrew J. (2008). Handbook of approach and avoidance motivation. (pp. 251-271). New York, NY, US: Psychology Press. .pdf

Sell, A. (2006).  Regulating welfare tradeoff ratios: Three tests of an evolutionary-computational model of human anger.  Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering, 66(8-B), pp. 4516. pdf.

Sell, A., Hagen, E., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2002).  Evolutionary Psychology: Applications and Criticisms.  Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science.  Nature Publishing Group, 47-53. pdf.