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Evolutionary psychology: A primer
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Pride
What are feelings for? Our foraging ancestors lived or died depending on how much other people in their social group valued them, because that affected other people’s willingness to render help. In deciding how to act, they needed to balance … Continue reading
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Emotions
Emotions as a solution to the problem of mechanism coordination There is a tendency to see emotion in opposition to cognition, as the molasses that gums up the gearwheels of thought. A related approach identifies emotion with a phenomenological feeling … Continue reading
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Reasoning about Social Exchange (a.k.a. reciprocation, reciprocal altruism, dyadic cooperation)
Social exchange is cooperation for mutual benefit. It is an “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine” principle: X provides a benefit to Y conditional on Y doing something that X wants. Do we have reasoning mechanisms specialized for these interactions? See papers below. And here for a … Continue reading
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Visual Attention
Animals not only capture attention, but they are monitored in an ongoing manner by a high-level, category-specialized system that was shaped by ancestral selection pressures, not general learning processes. How often were changes detected? Elephant 100% of the time; red … Continue reading
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Slate Magazine Dialogue On: How To Deal With Fringe Academics
Between Judith Shulevitz of Slate, Alex Star, editor of Lingua Franca, and John Tooby, Co-Director of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology The complete version can be found online here. Closing emails to Slate by John Tooby and Steven Pinker are below, … Continue reading
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Statement by Professor A. Magdalena Hurtado
Statement read by Professor A. Magdalena Hurtado at the “Research Among the Yanomami” panel, American Anthropological Association meeting, San Francisco, November 16, 2000 The epidemiology of infectious diseases among South American Indians As we speak, many Yanomamo and other South … Continue reading
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Witch-hunting among the Anthropologists: Patrick Tierney and the Yanomamö
John Tooby, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara While we may not be what we eat, we anthropologists are undeniably what we study: people living a turbulent village life, with enough superstitions, vices, witchcraft accusations, and vitriolic but … Continue reading
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