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Cosmides and Tooby, intellectual kindred spirits, have been leaders in both the theoretical and empirical development of modern evolutionary psychology.
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They have been leading intellectual influences in the field of evolutionary psychology for over 35 years, but it was possible that John Tooby and Leda Cosmides might have never met. Yes, they both attended Harvard University, but Tooby’s undergraduate degree in psychology (1975) was before Cosmides’ graduate work in psychology during the early 1980s. Similarly, Cosmides’ undergraduate degree in biology (1979) only briefly intersected with Tooby’s work in behavioral biology before he moved on to biological anthropology. But then Irven DeVore got involved.
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Starting in 1971 and running for several decades, Irv DeVore (John Tooby’s advisor) held a “Simian Seminar” in the living room of his home. These seminars were incredibly influential due to both the content...
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Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (1989). Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, Part II. Case study: A computational theory of social exchange. Ethology and Sociobiology, 10, 51–97.
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Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2005). Neurocognitive adaptations designed for social exchange. In D. M. Buss (Ed.), The handbook of evolutionary psychology (pp. 584–627). Hoboken: Wiley.
Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2008). Can a general deontic logic capture the facts of human moral reasoning? How the mind interprets social exchange rules and detects cheaters. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral psychology (pp. 53–119). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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Fiddick, L., Brase, G., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2017). Rethinking relevance: Repetition priming reveals the psychological reality of adaptive specializations for reasoning. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38, 366–375.
Fiddick, L., Brase, G. L., Ho, A. T., Hiraishi, K., Honma, A., & Smith, A. (2016). Major personality traits and regulations of social behavior: Cheaters are not the same as the reckless, and you need to know who you’re dealing with. Journal of Research in Personality, 62, 6–18.
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Sugiyama, L., Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (2002). Cross-cultural evidence of cognitive adaptations for social exchange among the Shiwiar of Ecuadorian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99, 11537–11542.
Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (1992). The psychological foundations of culture. In J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (pp. 19–136). New York: Oxford University Press.
Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (2005). Conceptual foundations of evolutionary psychology. In D. M. Buss (Ed.), The handbook of evolutionary psychology (pp. 5–67). Hoboken: Wiley.
Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (2015). The theoretical foundations of evolutionary psychology. In D. M. Buss (Ed.), The handbook of evolutionary psychology, Foundations (Vol. 1, 2nd ed., pp. 3–87). Hoboken: Wiley.
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Brase, G.L. (2018). Leda Cosmides and John Tooby (Founders of Evolutionary Psychology). In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3582-1
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