Forms and functions of the self-conscious emotions

D Sznycer - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2019 - cell.com
Pride, shame, and guilt color our highest and lowest personal moments. Recent evidence
suggests that these self-conscious emotions are neurocognitive adaptations crafted by …

Evolutionary psychology: New perspectives on cognition and motivation

L Cosmides, J Tooby - Annual review of psychology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Evolutionary psychology is the second wave of the cognitive revolution. The first wave
focused on computational processes that generate knowledge about the world: perception …

An opportunity cost model of subjective effort and task performance

R Kurzban, A Duckworth, JW Kable… - Behavioral and brain …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Why does performing certain tasks cause the aversive experience of mental effort and
concomitant deterioration in task performance? One explanation posits a physical resource …

Shame closely tracks the threat of devaluation by others, even across cultures

D Sznycer, J Tooby, L Cosmides… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
We test the theory that shame evolved as a defense against being devalued by others. By
hypothesis, shame is a neurocomputational program tailored by selection to orchestrate …

A mutualistic approach to morality: The evolution of fairness by partner choice

N Baumard, JB André, D Sperber - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2013 - cambridge.org
What makes humans moral beings? This question can be understood either as a proximate
“how” question or as an ultimate “why” question. The “how” question is about the mental and …

Life history theory and evolutionary psychology

HS Kaplan, SW Gangestad - The handbook of evolutionary …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter provides an overview of life history theory (LHT). LHT conceptualizes specific
allocation tradeoffs in terms of three broad, fundamental trade‐offs: the present‐future …

Cognitive systems for revenge and forgiveness

ME McCullough, R Kurzban, BA Tabak - Behavioral and Brain …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Minimizing the costs that others impose upon oneself and upon those in whom one has a
fitness stake, such as kin and allies, is a key adaptive problem for many organisms. Our …

Functional interdependence theory: An evolutionary account of social situations

D Balliet, JM Tybur… - Personality and Social …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Social interactions are characterized by distinct forms of interdependence, each of which
has unique effects on how behavior unfolds within the interaction. Despite this, little is known …

Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame

D Sznycer, D Xygalatas, E Agey… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Human foragers are obligately group-living, and their high dependence on mutual aid is
believed to have characterized our species' social evolution. It was therefore a central …

[PDF][PDF] Groups in mind: The coalitional roots of war and morality

J Tooby, L Cosmides - Human morality and sociality: Evolutionary …, 2010 - 123library.org
192 Groups in Mind conflict in chimpanzees suggests that our ancestors have been
practicing war for at least 6 million years, and that it was a selective presence acting on the …