Over the last quarter century, the dominant tendency in comparative cognitive psychology
has been to emphasize the similarities between human and nonhuman minds and to …

Evidence for developmental aspects of fear-targets and anxiety suggests a complex but
stable pattern whereby specific kinds of fears emerge at different periods of development …

Drawing on the philosophy of psychological explanation, we suggest that psychological
science, by focusing on effects, may lose sight of its primary explananda: psychological …

In this article we argue that self-deception evolved to facilitate interpersonal deception by
allowing people to avoid the cues to conscious deception that might reveal deceptive intent …

It is widely believed that people have privileged and authoritative access to their own
thoughts, and many theories have been proposed to explain this supposed fact. The Opacity …

Models indicate that opportunities for reputation formation can play an important role in
sustaining cooperation and prosocial behavior. Results from experimental economic games …

The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an
evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and …

This book is a comprehensive development and defense of one of the guiding assumptions
of evolutionary psychology: that the human mind is composed of a large number of semi …

The long‐term scientific goal toward which evolutionary psychologists are working is the
mapping of the universal human nature. Evolutionary psychology provokes so much …

Modularity has been the subject of intense debate in the cognitive sciences for more than 2
decades. In some cases, misunderstandings have impeded conceptual progress. Here the …