Laboratory-based cognitive experimentationField studies of tribal and foraging peoples
Psychophysiology
Cross-cultural experimentation and observation
Cognitive neuroscience
Social psychological and survey methods
Developmental studies
Theoretical biology
Hunter-gatherer archaeology
Reasoning instincts: modules functionally specialized for reasoning about cooperation, exchange, threat, hazard avoidance, groups, and sharingThe functional design of emotions such as love, jealousy and disgust
The adaptive organization of the evolved modules of social cognition
Individual and group status and its cognitive basis
The investigation of human psychological universals
Mate choice, attractiveness, and human sexuality
Mechanisms for incest avoidance
Coalitional psychology and ethnocentrism
Violence, intergroup conflict and war
Judgment under uncertainty and decision-making specializations designed to reflect the ecological structure of the world
Foraging adaptations
Communicative functions of facial expression
Evolved inference engines for modeling the physical, biological, animate, and social worlds
Memory, inference, and the dynamics of cultural transmission