Areas of Interest:

Daniel’s work explores the recalibrational aspects of different emotions, in particular Shame and Pride. In collaboration with Jade Price, John Tooby, and Leda Cosmides, he’s studied the way different emotions recalibrate thresholds for self-other welfare tradeoffs, and the way social support affects cooperative dispositions. With John Tooby and Leda Cosmides, he is investigating the parameters adopted by different inference engines (e.g. cheater detection, precautionary reasoning) when operating under emotion modes. Daniel is also conducting cross-cultural research on the psychology of Status with American and Argentine urban populations and with herder-agriculturalist populations of the Argentine Northwest.

Forthcoming Publications:

Sznycer, D., Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (in press). Evolutionary psychology. P.D. Hogan (Ed.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Recalibrational Emotions and Welfare Tradeoff Ratios: Cooperation in Anger, Guilt, Gratitude, Pride, and Shame (in preparation, with Jade Price, John Tooby, and Leda Cosmides).

Social support and cooperation (in preparation, with Jade Price, John Tooby, and Leda Cosmides).