Publication List for Leda Cosmides and John Tooby

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Articles

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1981). Cytoplasmic inheritance and intragenomic conflict. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 89, 83-129.

Tooby J. (1982). Pathogens, polymorphism, and the evolution of sex. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 97, 557-576.

Cosmides, L. (1983). Invariances in the acoustic expression of emotion during speech. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 9, 864-881.

Tooby, J. (1984). Reply to M. Blute's "The sociobiology of sex and sexes today." Current Anthropology. 25(2), 193-212.

Cosmides, L. (1985). Deduction or Darwinian Algorithms? An explanation of the "elusive" content effect on the Wason selection task. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University. University Microfilms #86-02206.  Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7

Tooby, J. (1985). The emergence of evolutionary psychology. In: Emerging Syntheses in Science. Proceedings of the Founding Workshops of the Santa Fe Institute. Santa Fe, NM: The Santa Fe Institute.

Tooby J. and DeVore, I. (1987). The reconstruction of hominid behavioral evolution through strategic modeling. In Primate Models of Hominid Behavior, W. Kinzey (Ed.) New York: SUNY Press.

Tooby, J. (1987). Reply to R.J. Blumenschine's "Characteristics of an Early Hominid Scavenging Niche." Current Anthropology. 28(4), 399-400.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1987). From evolution to behavior: Evolutionary psychology as the missing link. In J. Dupre (Ed.), The latest on the best: Essays on evolution and optimality. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1988). The evolution of war and its cognitive foundations. Institute for Evolutionary Studies Technical Report #88-1.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1989). Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, Part I. Theoretical considerations. Ethology & Sociobiology, 10, 29-49.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1989). Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, Part II. Case study: A computational theory of social exchange. Ethology & Sociobiology, 10, 51-97.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1989). The innate versus the manifest: How universal does universal have to be? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12, 36-37.

Cosmides, L. (1989). The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selection task. Cognition, 31, 187-276.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1989). Kin selection, genic selection, and information-dependent strategies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12, 542-544.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1989). Adaptation versus phylogeny: The role of animal psychology in the study of human behavior. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 2, 105-118.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1989). Evolutionary psychologists need to distinguish between the evolutionary process, ancestral selection pressures, and psychological mechanisms. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12(4), 724-725.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1990). On the universality of human nature and the uniqueness of the individual: The role of genetics and adaptation. Journal of Personality, 58, 17-67.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1990). The past explains the present: Emotional adaptations and the structure of ancestral environments. Ethology and Sociobiology, 11, 375-424.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1990). Toward an adaptationist psycholinguistics. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13, 760-762.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1991). Reasoning and natural selection. Encyclopedia of Human Biology, vol. 6. San Diego: Academic Press.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1992). Cognitive adaptations for social exchange. In J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture. New York: Oxford University Press.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1992). The psychological foundations of culture. In J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture. New York: Oxford University Press.

Cosmides, L., Tooby, J. & Barkow, J. (1992). Evolutionary psychology and conceptual integration. In J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation` of culture. New York: Oxford University Press.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1993). The lords of many domains. The Times Higher Education Supplement, London. (June 25). HTML click here

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1994). Origins of domain-specificity: The evolution of functional organization. In L. Hirschfeld & S. Gelman (Eds.), Mapping the Mind: Domain-specificity in cognition and culture. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1994). Beyond intuition and instinct blindness: The case for an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science.Cognition, 50, 41-77.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1994). Better than rational: Evolutionary psychology and the invisible hand. American Economic Review, 84 (2), 327-332.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (Section editors). (1995). Section Introduction: Evolutionary approaches to cognitive neuroscience. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The cognitive neurosciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1995). Mapping the evolved functional organization of mind and brain. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The cognitive neurosciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1995). From function to structure: The role of evolutionary biology and computational theories in cognitive neuroscience. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The cognitive neurosciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1995). From evolution to adaptations to behavior: Toward an integrated evolutionary psychology. In R. Wong (Ed.), Biological perspectives on motivated activities. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Tooby, J, & Cosmides, L. (1995). The language of the eyes as an evolved language of mind. Forward to: Mindblindness: An essay on autism and theory of mind. By Simon Baron-Cohen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1996). Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all?: Rethinking some conclusions of the literature on judgment under uncertainty. Cognition, 58, 1-73.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1996). A logical design for the mind? (Review of The Psychology of Proof, by Lance J. Rips, 1994 MIT Press.) Contemporary Psychology, 41, 448-450.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1996). Friendship and the Banker's Paradox: Other pathways to the evolution of adaptations for altruism. In W. G. Runciman, J. Maynard Smith, & R. I. M. Dunbar (Eds.), Evolution of Social Behaviour Patterns in Primates and Man. Proceedings of the British Academy, 88, 119-143.

Cosmides, L.& Tooby, J. (1996). Think again. In: Betzig, L. (Ed.) Human Nature: A Critical Reader (pp. 292-294). NY: Oxford University Press

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1997). The multimodular nature of human intelligence. In A. Schiebel & J. W. Schopf (Eds.), Origin and evolution of intelligence. Center for the Study of the Evolution and Origin of Life, UCLA. (pp. 71-101).

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1997). Dissecting the computational architecture of social inference mechanisms.In: Characterizing human psychological adaptations (Ciba Foundation Symposium #208). Chichester: Wiley. (pp. 132-156).

Thornhill, N., Cosmides, L., Maryanski, A., Meyer, P., Tooby, J., & Turner, J. (1997). Evolutionary theory and human social institutions: Psychological foundations. In P. Weingart, P. Richerson, S. Mitchell, & S Maasen (Eds.), Human by nature: Between biology and the social sciences. (pp. 201-252). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Turner, J., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Cosmides, L., Giesen, B., Hodgson, G., Maryanski, A., Shennan, S., Tooby, J., & Velichkovsky, B. (1997). Looking back: Historical and theoretical context of present practice. In P. Weingart, P. Richerson, S. Mitchell, & S Maasen (Eds.), Human by nature: Between biology and the social sciences. (pp. 17-64). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Stone, V. E., Baron-Cohen, S., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J. and Knight, R. T., 1997. Selective impairment of social inference abilities following orbitofrontal cortex damage. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, M. G. Shafto and P. Langley (Eds.), London: Larwrence Erlbaum, p. 1062.

Brase, G., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (1998). Individuation, Counting, and Statistical Inference: The role of frequency and whole object representations in judgment under uncertainty. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 127, 3-21.

Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (1998). Start with Darwin… In M. S. Gazzaniga & J. Altman (Eds.), Brain and Mind: Evolutionary Perspectives. Vol. 5, pp.10-15. Strasbourg, France: Human Frontier Science Program.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1998). Evolutionizing the cognitive sciences: A reply to Shapiro and Epstein. Mind & Language, 13(2), 195-204.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1999). Evolutionary psychology. MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. (pp. 294-297). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1999). Towards an evolutionary taxonomy of treatable conditions. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 108, 453-464.

Rode, C., Cosmides, L., Hell, W., & Tooby, J. (1999). When and why do people avoid unknown probabilities in decisions under uncertainty? Testing some predictions from optimal foraging theory. Cognition, 72, 269-304.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2000). The cognitive neuroscience of social reasoning. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The New Cognitive Neurosciences, Second Edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Chapter 87, pp. 1259-1270.)

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2000). Toward mapping the evolved functional organization of mind and brain. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The New Cognitive Neurosciences, Second Edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Chapter 80, pp. 1167-1178.)

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2000). Evolutionary psychology and the emotions In M. Lewis & J. M. Haviland-Jones (Eds.), Handbook of Emotions, 2nd Edition. (pp. 91-115.) NY: Guilford. HTML click here

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2000). Consider the source: The evolution of adaptations for decoupling and metarepresentation. In D. Sperber (Ed.), Metarepresentations: A multidisciplinary perspective. (pp. 53-115.) Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science. NY: Oxford University Press.

Fiddick, L., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2000). No interpretation without representation: The role of domain-specific representations and inferences in the Wason selection task. Cognition, 77, 1-79.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2000). Cognitive adaptations for kin-based coalitions: human kinship systems at the intersection between collective action and kin selection. Comment on Group Nepotism and Human Kinship by Doug Jones. Current Anthropology, 41(5), 803-804.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2001). Unraveling the enigma of human intelligence: Evolutionary psychology and the multimodular mind. In R. J. Sternberg & J. C. Kaufman (Eds.), The evolution of intelligence. (pp. 145-198). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Tooby, J. (2001) Is human nature hidden in the genome? Nature Genetics, 29, 363.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2001). Does beauty build adapted minds? Toward an evolutionary theory of aesthetics, fiction and the arts. SubStance, Issue 94/95, 30(1), 6-27.

Duchaine, B., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2001). Evolutionary psychology and the brain. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 11(2), 225-230.

Klein, S. B., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J. & Chance, S. (2001). Priming exceptions: A test of the scope hypothesis in naturalistic trait judgments. Social Cognition, 19, 443-468.

Kurzban, R., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2001). Can race be erased?: Coalitional computation and social categorization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98(26), 15387-15392.

Klein, S., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., & Chance, S. (2002). Decisions and the evolution of memory: Multiple systems, multiple functions. Psychological Review, 109, 306-329.

Price, M. E., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2002). Punitive sentiment as an anti-free rider psychological device. Evolution and Human Behavior, 23, 203-231.

Klein, S., Rozendahl, K., & Cosmides, L. (2002). A social-cognitive neuroscience analysis of the Self. Social Cognition, 20, 105-135.

Klein, S., Cosmides, L., Costabile, K., & Mei, L. (2002). Is there something special about the self? A neuropsychological case study. Journal of Research in Personality, 36, 490-506.

Sugiyama, L., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2002). Cross-cultural evidence of cognitive adaptations for social exchange among the Shiwiar of Ecuadorian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99(17), 11537-11542.

Stone, V., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., Kroll, N. & Knight, R. (2002). Selective Impairment of Reasoning About Social Exchange in a Patient with Bilateral Limbic System Damage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99(17), 11531-11536.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2003). Evolutionary psychology: Theoretical Foundations. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. (pp. 54-64). London: Macmillan.

Sell, A., Hagen, E., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2003). Evolutionary Psychology: Applications and Criticisms. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. (pp. 47-53). London: Macmillan.

Lieberman, D., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (in press). The evolution of human incest avoidance mechanisms: An evolutionary psychological approach. In A. Wolf & J. P. Takala (eds.), Evolution and the Moral Emotions: Appreciating Edward Westermarck. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Lieberman, D., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2003). Does morality have a biological basis? An empirical test of the factors governing moral sentiments relating to incest. Proceedings of the Royal Society London (Biological Sciences), 270(1517), 819-826.

Klein, S., Cosmides, L. & Costabile, K. (2003). Preserved knowledge of self in a case of Alzheimer's dementia. Social Cognition, 21(2), 157-165

Cosmides, L., Tooby, J. & Kurzban, R. (2003). Perceptions of race. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7(4), 173-179 (April).

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2003). Review of Religion Explained: The evolutionary origins of religious thought (by Pascal Boyer). Journal of Cognition and Culture, 3(1), pp. 109-113.

Tooby, J., Cosmides, L. & Barrett, H. C. (2003). The second law of thermodynamics is the first law of psychology: Evolutionary developmental psychology and the theory of tandem, coordinated inheritances. Psychological Bulletin, 129(6), 858-865.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2004). The design of the maternal motivation system.. Current Anthropology, 44, S45-46. (Comment on A. Wolf).

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2004). Knowing thyself: The evolutionary psychology of moral reasoning and moral sentiments. In R. E. Freeman and P. Werhane (Eds.), Business, Science, and Ethics. The Ruffin Series No. 4. (pp. 91-127). Charlottesville, VA: Society for Business Ethics.

Klein, S., Cosmides, L., Murray, E. & Tooby, J. (2004) On the acquisition of knowledge about personality traits: Does learning about the self engage different mechanisms than learning about others? Social Cognition, 22(4), 367-390.

Klein, S., German, T., Cosmides, L. & Gabriel, R. (2004). A theory of autobiolographical memory: Necessary components and disorders resulting from their loss. Social Cognition, 22(5), 460-490.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (May 2004). Can a clash of cultures undermine this cross-border merger? Harvard Business Review, 82(5), 40.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2005). Social exchange: The evolutionary design of a neurocognitive system. In Michael S. Gazzaniga, (Ed.), The New Cognitive Neurosciences, III (pp. 1295-1308). Cambridge, MA: MIT press.

Tooby, J., Cosmides, L. & Barrett, H. C. (2005). Resolving the debate on innate ideas: Learnability constraints and the evolved interpenetration of motivational and conceptual functions. In Carruthers, P., Laurence, S. & Stich, S. (Eds.), The Innate Mind: Structure and Content. NY: Oxford University Press.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2005). Reply to Berlinski’s “On the Origin of the Modern Mind”. Commentary, 119(2 Feb), 14-15. MS here.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2005). Neurocognitive adaptations designed for social exchange. In D. M. Buss (Ed.), The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (pp. 584-627). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2005). Conceptual foundations of evolutionary psychology. In D. M. Buss (Ed.), The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (pp. 5-67). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Cosmides, L, Tooby, J., Fiddick, L. & Bryant, G. (2005). Detecting cheaters. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(11), 505-506.

Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2006). Evolutionary psychology, moral heuristics, and the law. In G. Gigerenzer & Christoph Engel (Eds.), Heuristics and the Law (Dahlem Workshop Report 94). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Tooby, J., Cosmides, L., & Price, M. (2006). Cognitive adaptations for n-person exchange: The evolutionary roots of organizational behavior. Managerial and Decision Economics, 27, 103-129.

Ermer, E., Guerin, S., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., & Miller, M. (2006) Theory of mind broad and narrow: Reasoning about social exchange engages ToM areas, precautionary reasoning does not. Social Neuroscience, 1 (3-4), 196-219.

Barrett, H.C., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2007) The hominid entry into the cognitive niche. In S. Gangstead & J. Simpson (Eds.), The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.

Ermer, E., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2007). Cheater detection mechanism. In R. F. Baumiester & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (pp. 138-140). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Ermer, E., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2007) Functional specialization and the adaptationist program. In S. Gangstead & J. Simpson (Eds.), The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.

Lieberman, D., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2007), The architecture of human kin detection. Nature, 44, 727-731. Supplementary information here.

New, J., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2007) Category-specific attention for animals reflects ancestral priorities, not expertise. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104 (42), 16593-16603. (supporting appendices: #1; #2; #3; #4; #5; #6; #7; #8; #9; #10; #11)

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2007) Review of Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Trust and the Human, Science and Cultural Theory by Barbara Herrnstein Smith.   The Quarterly Review of Biology, 82(1), 35.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2007) The evolved architecture of hazard management: Risk detection reasoning and the motivational computation of threat magnitudes. Comment on Why ritualized behavior? Precaution systems and action parsing in developmental, pathological and cultural rituals by P. Boyer & P. Lienard in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 631-633.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L.  (2007).  Evolutionary psychology, ecological rationality, and the unification of the behavioral sciences. Comment on A framework for the unification of the behavioral sciences by Gintis.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30(1), 42-43.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2008) Can a general deontic logic capture the facts of human moral reasoning? How the mind interprets social exchange rules and detects cheaters. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral psychology. (pp. 53-119) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2008) Can evolutionary psychology assist logicians? A reply to Mallon. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral psychology. (pp. 131-136) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2008) When falsification strikes: A reply to Fodor. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral psychology. (pp. 143-164) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Ermer, E., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2008) Relative status regulates risky decision making about resources in men: evidence for the co-evolution of motivation and cognition. Evolution and Human Behavior 29, 106–118.

Sell, A., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., Sznycer, D., Von Rueden, C., and Gurven, M. (2008) Human adaptations for the visual assessment of strength and fighting ability from the body and face. Proceedings of the Royal Society London (Biological Sciences), 276 (pp. 575-584). Supplementary information here.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2008). The evolutionary psychology of the emotions and their relationship to internal regulatory variables. In M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones & L. F. Barrett (Eds.), Handbook of Emotions, 3rd Ed. (pp. 114-137.) NY: Guilford.

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 Andrew J. Elliot (Ed.) Handbook of approach and avoidance motivation.  pp. 251-271. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Klein, S., Cosmides, L., Gangi, C., Jackson, B., Tooby, J. & Costabile, K. (2009) Evolution and episodic memory: An analysis and demonstration of a social function of episodic recollections. Social Cognition, Vol. 27, No. 2,2009, pp. 283-319.

Sell, A., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2009) Formidability and the logic of human anger. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(35) pp. 15073-15078. Supplementary information here.

Books

Barkow, J., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J., editors. (1992). The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture. New York: Oxford University Press.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1995). Section editors, “Evolutionary Approaches”. The cognitive neurosciences, (M. S. Gazzaniga, Ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2000). Section editors, “Evolution (Section X)”. The new cognitive neurosciences, Second edition, (M. S. Gazzaniga, Ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chapters 80-87.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (in press). Universal Minds: Explaining the new science of evolutionary psychology. (Darwinism Today Series). London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (in press). Evolutionary psychology: Foundational papers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.