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John Tooby, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States 
Area:
evolutionary psychology, evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology; social psychology, economics, hominid-behavioral evolution, behavioral ecology, evolutionary genetics
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2023 Quillien T, Tooby J, Cosmides L. Rational inferences about social valuation. Cognition. 239: 105566. PMID 37499313 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105566  0.673
2022 Arai S, Tooby J, Cosmides L. Motivations to reciprocate cooperation and punish defection are calibrated by estimates of how easily others can switch partners. Plos One. 17: e0267153. PMID 35439276 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0267153  0.645
2019 Sznycer D, Delton AW, Robertson TE, Cosmides L, Tooby J. The ecological rationality of helping others: Potential helpers integrate cues of recipients' need and willingness to sacrifice Evolution and Human Behavior. 40: 34-45. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2018.07.005  0.783
2018 Sznycer D, Ermer E, Tooby J. Why do people think that others should earn this or that? The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 41: e189. PMID 31064534 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X18000559  0.715
2018 Sznycer D, Xygalatas D, Agey E, Alami S, An XF, Ananyeva KI, Atkinson QD, Broitman BR, Conte TJ, Flores C, Fukushima S, Hitokoto H, Kharitonov AN, Onyishi CN, Onyishi IE, ... ... Tooby J, et al. Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 30201711 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1805016115  0.816
2018 Sznycer D, Xygalatas D, Alami S, An XF, Ananyeva KI, Fukushima S, Hitokoto H, Kharitonov AN, Koster JM, Onyishi CN, Onyishi IE, Romero PP, Takemura K, Zhuang JY, Cosmides L, ... Tooby J, et al. Invariances in the architecture of pride across small-scale societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 30068602 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1808418115  0.777
2018 Robertson TE, Sznycer D, Delton AW, Tooby J, Cosmides L. The true trigger of shame: social devaluation is sufficient, wrongdoing is unnecessary Evolution and Human Behavior. 39: 566-573. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2018.05.010  0.799
2017 Sznycer D, Lopez Seal MF, Sell A, Lim J, Porat R, Shalvi S, Halperin E, Cosmides L, Tooby J. Support for redistribution is shaped by compassion, envy, and self-interest, but not a taste for fairness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 28716928 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1703801114  0.81
2017 Sell A, Sznycer D, Al-Shawaf L, Lim J, Krauss A, Feldman A, Rascanu R, Sugiyama L, Cosmides L, Tooby J. The grammar of anger: Mapping the computational architecture of a recalibrational emotion. Cognition. 168: 110-128. PMID 28668649 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2017.06.002  0.815
2017 Sznycer D, Al-Shawaf L, Bereby-Meyer Y, Curry OS, De Smet D, Ermer E, Kim S, Kim S, Li NP, Lopez Seal MF, McClung J, O J, Ohtsubo Y, Quillien T, Schaub M, ... ... Tooby J, et al. Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 28167752 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1614389114  0.813
2017 Sznycer D, Cosmides L, Tooby J. Adaptationism Carves Emotions at Their Functional Joints Psychological Inquiry. 28: 56-62. DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2017.1256132  0.749
2017 Fiddick L, Brase GL, Cosmides L, Tooby J. Rethinking relevance: Repetition priming reveals the psychological reality of adaptive specializations for reasoning Evolution and Human Behavior. 38: 366-375. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2016.11.008  0.678
2017 Sell A, Sznycer D, Cosmides L, Tooby J, Krauss A, Nisu S, Ceapa C, Petersen MB. Physically strong men are more militant: A test across four countries Evolution and Human Behavior. 38: 334-340. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2016.11.002  0.796
2016 Tooby J, Cosmides L. Human cooperation shows the distinctive signatures of adaptations to small-scale social life. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 39: e54. PMID 27562926 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X15000266  0.662
2016 Sznycer D, Tooby J, Cosmides L, Porat R, Shalvi S, Halperin E. Shame closely tracks the threat of devaluation by others, even across cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 26903649 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1514699113  0.802
2016 Krasnow MM, Delton AW, Cosmides L, Tooby J. Looking Under the Hood of Third-Party Punishment Reveals Design for Personal Benefit. Psychological Science. PMID 26851057 DOI: 10.1177/0956797615624469  0.811
2015 Krasnow MM, Delton AW, Cosmides L, Tooby J. Group Cooperation without Group Selection: Modest Punishment Can Recruit Much Cooperation. Plos One. 10: e0124561. PMID 25893241 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0124561  0.794
2015 Pietraszewski D, Curry OS, Petersen MB, Cosmides L, Tooby J. Constituents of political cognition: Race, party politics, and the alliance detection system. Cognition. 140: 24-39. PMID 25867997 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2015.03.007  0.687
2015 Sznycer D, Schniter E, Tooby J, Cosmides L. Regulatory adaptations for delivering information: The case of confession. Evolution and Human Behavior : Official Journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. 36: 44-51. PMID 25663798 DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2014.08.008  0.795
2014 Pietraszewski D, Cosmides L, Tooby J. The content of our cooperation, not the color of our skin: an alliance detection system regulates categorization by coalition and race, but not sex. Plos One. 9: e88534. PMID 24520394 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0088534  0.688
2014 Robertson TE, Delton AW, Klein SB, Cosmides L, Tooby J. Keeping the benefits of group cooperation: Domain-specific responses to distinct causes of social exclusion Evolution and Human Behavior. 35: 472-480. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2014.06.006  0.803
2014 Sell A, Cosmides L, Tooby J. The human anger face evolved to enhance cues of strength Evolution and Human Behavior. 35: 425-429. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2014.05.008  0.64
2013 Petersen MB, Sznycer D, Sell A, Cosmides L, Tooby J. The ancestral logic of politics: upper-body strength regulates men's assertion of self-interest over economic redistribution. Psychological Science. 24: 1098-103. PMID 23670886 DOI: 10.1177/0956797612466415  0.789
2013 Krasnow MM, Delton AW, Tooby J, Cosmides L. Meeting now suggests we will meet again: implications for debates on the evolution of cooperation. Scientific Reports. 3: 1747. PMID 23624437 DOI: 10.1038/Srep01747  0.81
2013 Cosmides L, Tooby J. Evolutionary psychology: new perspectives on cognition and motivation. Annual Review of Psychology. 64: 201-29. PMID 23282055 DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.Psych.121208.131628  0.659
2012 Petersen MB, Sell A, Tooby J, Cosmides L. To punish or repair? Evolutionary psychology and lay intuitions about modern criminal justice. Evolution and Human Behavior : Official Journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. 33: 682-695. PMID 23412662 DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2012.05.003  0.685
2012 Petersen MB, Sznycer D, Cosmides L, Tooby J. Who Deserves Help? Evolutionary Psychology, Social Emotions, and Public Opinion about Welfare. Political Psychology. 33: 395-418. PMID 23355755 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9221.2012.00883.X  0.807
2012 Krasnow MM, Cosmides L, Pedersen EJ, Tooby J. What are punishment and reputation for? Plos One. 7: e45662. PMID 23049833 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0045662  0.81
2012 Sznycer D, Takemura K, Delton AW, Sato K, Robertson T, Cosmides L, Tooby J. Cross-cultural differences and similarities in proneness to shame: an adaptationist and ecological approach. Evolutionary Psychology : An International Journal of Evolutionary Approaches to Psychology and Behavior. 10: 352-70. PMID 22947644 DOI: 10.1177/147470491201000213  0.798
2012 Delton AW, Cosmides L, Guemo M, Robertson TE, Tooby J. The psychosemantics of free riding: dissecting the architecture of a moral concept. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 102: 1252-70. PMID 22268815 DOI: 10.1037/A0027026  0.8
2012 Petersen MB, Sell A, Tooby J, Cosmides L. To punish or repair? Evolutionary psychology and lay intuitions about modern criminal justice Evolution and Human Behavior. 33: 682-695. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.05.003  0.604
2011 Delton AW, Krasnow MM, Cosmides L, Tooby J. Evolution of direct reciprocity under uncertainty can explain human generosity in one-shot encounters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108: 13335-40. PMID 21788489 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1102131108  0.782
2011 Abbot P, Abe J, Alcock J, Alizon S, Alpedrinha JA, Andersson M, Andre JB, van Baalen M, Balloux F, Balshine S, Barton N, Beukeboom LW, Biernaskie JM, Bilde T, Borgia G, ... ... Tooby J, et al. Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality. Nature. 471: E1-4; author reply E. PMID 21430721 DOI: 10.1038/Nature09831  0.619
2011 Delton AW, Krasnow MM, Cosmides L, Tooby J. Reply to McNally and Tanner: Generosity evolves when cooperative decisions must be made under uncertainty Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108: E972. DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1115666108  0.792
2010 Barrett HC, Cosmides L, Tooby J. Coevolution of cooperation, causal cognition and mindreading. Communicative & Integrative Biology. 3: 522-4. PMID 21331228 DOI: 10.4161/Cib.3.6.12604  0.761
2010 Delton AW, Krasnow MM, Cosmides L, Tooby J. Evolution of fairness: rereading the data. Science (New York, N.Y.). 329: 389; author reply 38. PMID 20651136 DOI: 10.1126/Science.329.5990.389-A  0.804
2010 Sell A, Bryant GA, Cosmides L, Tooby J, Sznycer D, von Rueden C, Krauss A, Gurven M. Adaptations in humans for assessing physical strength from the voice. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 277: 3509-18. PMID 20554544 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2010.0769  0.774
2010 Cosmides L, Barrett HC, Tooby J. Colloquium paper: adaptive specializations, social exchange, and the evolution of human intelligence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107: 9007-14. PMID 20445099 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0914623107  0.766
2009 Klein SB, Cosmides L, Gangi CE, Jackson B, Tooby J, Costabile KA. EVOLUTION AND EPISODIC MEMORY: AN ANALYSIS AND DEMONSTRATION OF A SOCIAL FUNCTION OF EPISODIC RECOLLECTION. Social Cognition. 27: 283-319. PMID 23378680 DOI: 10.1521/Soco.2009.27.2.283  0.74
2009 Sell A, Tooby J, Cosmides L. Formidability and the logic of human anger. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106: 15073-8. PMID 19666613 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0904312106  0.69
2009 Sell A, Cosmides L, Tooby J, Sznycer D, von Rueden C, Gurven M. Human adaptations for the visual assessment of strength and fighting ability from the body and face. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 276: 575-84. PMID 18945661 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2008.1177  0.787
2008 Ermer E, Cosmides L, Tooby J. Relative status regulates risky decision-making about resources in men: Evidence for the co-evolution of motivation and cognition. Evolution and Human Behavior : Official Journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. 29: 106-118. PMID 19255605 DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2007.11.002  0.676
2007 New J, Cosmides L, Tooby J. Category-specific attention for animals reflects ancestral priorities, not expertise. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104: 16598-603. PMID 17909181 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0703913104  0.626
2007 Lieberman D, Tooby J, Cosmides L. The architecture of human kin detection. Nature. 445: 727-31. PMID 17301784 DOI: 10.1038/Nature05510  0.752
2007 Tooby J, Cosmides L. Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Trust and the Human. Science and Cultural Theory. By Barbara Herrnstein Smith. Durham (North Carolina): Duke University Press. $74.95 (hardcover); $21.95 (paper). ix + 198 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0‐8223‐3810‐6 (hc); 0‐8223‐3848‐3 (pb). [First published by Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005.] 2006. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 82: 35-35. DOI: 10.1086/513324  0.616
2007 Tooby J, Cosmides L. Evolutionary psychology, ecological rationality, and the unification of the behavioral sciences Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 30: 42-43. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X07000854  0.62
2006 Tooby J, Cosmides L, Price ME. Cognitive Adaptations for n-person Exchange: The Evolutionary Roots of Organizational Behavior. Managerial and Decision Economics : Mde. 27: 103-129. PMID 23814325 DOI: 10.1002/Mde.1287  0.677
2006 Ermer E, Guerin SA, Cosmides L, Tooby J, Miller MB. Theory of mind broad and narrow: reasoning about social exchange engages ToM areas, precautionary reasoning does not. Social Neuroscience. 1: 196-219. PMID 18633788 DOI: 10.1080/17470910600989771  0.677
2006 Tooby J, Cosmides L. The evolved architecture of hazard management: Risk detection reasoning and the motivational computation of threat magnitudes Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 29: 631-633. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X06009538  0.591
2005 Cosmides L, Tooby J, Fiddick L, Bryant GA. Detecting cheaters. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 9: 505-6; author reply . PMID 16198616 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tics.2005.09.005  0.558
2004 Klein SB, Cosmides L, Murray ER, Tooby J. On the acquisition of knowledge about personality traits: Does learning about the self engage different mechanisms than learning about others? Social Cognition. 22: 367-390. DOI: 10.1521/Soco.22.4.367.38295  0.723
2003 Tooby J, Cosmides L, Barrett HC. The second law of thermodynamics is the first law of psychology: evolutionary developmental psychology and the theory of tandem, coordinated inheritances: comment on Lickliter and Honeycutt (2003). Psychological Bulletin. 129: 858-65. PMID 14599284 DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.129.6.858  0.727
2003 Lieberman D, Tooby J, Cosmides L. Does morality have a biological basis? An empirical test of the factors governing moral sentiments relating to incest. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 270: 819-26. PMID 12737660 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2002.2290  0.761
2003 Cosmides L, Tooby J, Kurzban R. Perceptions of race. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 7: 173-179. PMID 12691766 DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(03)00057-3  0.655
2002 Sugiyama LS, Tooby J, Cosmides L. Cross-cultural evidence of cognitive adaptations for social exchange among the Shiwiar of Ecuadorian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99: 11537-42. PMID 12177409 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.122352999  0.701
2002 Stone VE, Cosmides L, Tooby J, Kroll N, Knight RT. Selective impairment of reasoning about social exchange in a patient with bilateral limbic system damage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99: 11531-6. PMID 12177408 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.122352699  0.675
2002 Klein SB, Cosmides L, Tooby J, Chance S. Decisions and the evolution of memory: multiple systems, multiple functions. Psychological Review. 109: 306-29. PMID 11990320 DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.109.2.306  0.709
2002 Price ME, Cosmides L, Tooby J. Punitive sentiment as an anti-free rider psychological device Evolution and Human Behavior. 23: 203-231. DOI: 10.1016/S1090-5138(01)00093-9  0.661
2001 Kurzban R, Tooby J, Cosmides L. Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 98: 15387-92. PMID 11742078 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.251541498  0.681
2001 Duchaine B, Cosmides L, Tooby J. Evolutionary psychology and the brain. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 11: 225-30. PMID 11301244 DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(00)00201-4  0.645
2001 Klein SB, Cosmides L, Tooby J, Chance S. Priming exceptions: A test of the scope hypothesis in naturalistic trait judgments Social Cognition. 19: 443-468. DOI: 10.1521/Soco.19.4.443.20757  0.729
2001 Tooby J, Cosmides L. Does Beauty Build Adapted Minds? Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Aesthetics, Fiction, and the Arts Substance. 30: 6-27. DOI: 10.1353/Sub.2001.0017  0.675
2000 Fiddick L, Cosmides L, Tooby J. No interpretation without representation: the role of domain-specific representations and inferences in the Wason selection task. Cognition. 77: 1-79. PMID 10980253 DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(00)00085-8  0.687
1999 Rode C, Cosmides L, Hell W, Tooby J. When and why do people avoid unknown probabilities in decisions under uncertainty? Testing some predictions from optimal foraging theory. Cognition. 72: 269-304. PMID 10519925 DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(99)00041-4  0.648
1999 Cosmides L, Tooby J. Toward an evolutionary taxonomy of treatable conditions. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 108: 453-64. PMID 10466269 DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.108.3.453  0.634
1998 Tooby J, Cosmides L. Evolutionizing the Cognitive Sciences: A Reply to Shapiro and Epstein Mind & Language. 13: 195-204. DOI: 10.1111/1468-0017.00073  0.679
1998 Brase GL, Cosmides L, Tooby J. Individuation, Counting, and Statistical Inference: The Role of Frequency and Whole-Object Representations in Judgment under Uncertainty Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 127: 3-21. DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.127.1.3  0.675
1997 Cosmides L, Tooby J. Dissecting the computational architecture of social inference mechanisms. Ciba Foundation Symposium. 208: 132-56; discussion 1. PMID 9386910  0.646
1996 Cosmides L, Tooby J. A Logical Design for the Mind? Contemporary Psychology: a Journal of Reviews. 41: 448-450. DOI: 10.1037/004428  0.591
1996 Cosmides L, Tooby J. Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all? Rethinking some conclusions from the literature on judgment under uncertainty Cognition. 58: 1-73. DOI: 10.1016/0010-0277(95)00664-8  0.662
1994 Cosmides L, Tooby J. Beyond intuition and instinct blindness: toward an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science. Cognition. 50: 41-77. PMID 8039372 DOI: 10.1016/0010-0277(94)90020-5  0.668
1994 Tooby J, Cosmides L. Cognitive adaptations for threat, cooperation, and war Ethology and Sociobiology. 15: 56. DOI: 10.1016/0162-3095(94)90030-2  0.619
1990 Tooby J, Cosmides L. On the universality of human nature and the uniqueness of the individual: the role of genetics and adaptation. Journal of Personality. 58: 17-67. PMID 2198338 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-6494.1990.Tb00907.X  0.66
1990 Tooby J, Cosmides L. Toward an adaptationist psycholinguistics Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 13: 760-762. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X00081346  0.575
1990 Tooby J, Cosmides L. The past explains the present. Emotional adaptations and the structure of ancestral environments Ethology and Sociobiology. 11: 375-424. DOI: 10.1016/0162-3095(90)90017-Z  0.654
1989 Tooby J, Cosmides L. Kin selection, genic selection, and information-dependent strategies Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 12: 542-544. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X00057605  0.609
1989 Tooby J, Cosmides L. Evolutionary psychologists need to distinguish between the evolutionary process, ancestral selection pressures, and psychological mechanisms Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 12: 724-725. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X00025577  0.62
1989 Tooby J, Cosmides L. The innate versus the manifest: How universal does universal have to be? Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 12: 36-37. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X00024249  0.58
1989 Cosmides L, Tooby J. Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, part II. Case study: A computational theory of social exchange Ethology and Sociobiology. 10: 51-97. DOI: 10.1016/0162-3095(89)90013-7  0.701
1989 Tooby J, Cosmides L. Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, part I. Theoretical considerations Ethology and Sociobiology. 10: 29-49. DOI: 10.1016/0162-3095(89)90012-5  0.632
1981 Cosmides LM, Tooby J. Cytoplasmic inheritance and intragenomic conflict. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 89: 83-129. PMID 7278311 DOI: 10.1016/0022-5193(81)90181-8  0.605
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