Research and Publications:
- Exploring a social working memory, it's existence and features
- Foraging adaptations in the domain of spatial cognition
  • Truxaw, D., Krasnow, M. M., New, J., & Gaulin, S. J. (2005). An ecologically valid task yields a female spatial advantage and content effects. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society in Los Angeles, CA.

  • Krasnow, M. M., Truxaw, D., New, J., & Gaulin, S. (2005). Parsing the Silverman & Eals task: Correlations with spatial orientation, navigation and foraging-scale object location memory. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Austin, TX.

  • Gaulin, S. J., Krasnow, M., Truxaw, D., & New, J. (2005). An ecologically valid foraging task yields a female spatial advantage and significant content effects. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Austin, TX. 

  • Krasnow, M. M., Truxaw, D., New, J., & Gaulin, S. (2006). Cognitive adaptations for foraging: female spatial advantage. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Philadelphia, PA

  • New, J., Krasnow, M.M., Truxaw D. & Gaulin, S.J.C. (2007). Spatial adaptations for plant foraging: women excel and calories count. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. PDF
- Adaptations for social exchange: sensitivity to a partner's character
  • Krasnow, M. M., Cosmides, L. C., & Tooby, J. (2005). Character counts: Character information regulates trust in economic games. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Austin, TX.

  • Krasnow, M. M., Cosmides, L. C., & Tooby, J.  (2005). Character effects on the extension of trust in games for money. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society in Los Angeles, CA.

- Children's reasoning about the functions of human made artifacts
  • Truxaw, D., Krasnow, M. M., Wertz A. E., Niehaus, J. L., Hehman, J. L., Roarty, M. P.,  & German, T. P. (2005). A Critical Analysis of the Effect of Creator’s Intent on Name Extension. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in Atlanta, GA.

  • Truxaw, D., Krasnow, M., Woods, C., & German, T.P. (2006). Conditions under which function information attenuates name extension via shape. Psychological Science, 17 (5), 367-371. PDF

 
Labs I work in:
The Center for Evolutionary Psychology
The Cognition and Development Laboratory

 

Department of Psychology • University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660
Phone: 805.893.2791 • Fax: 805.893.4303