Evolutionary Psychology Resources
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We need a list of online papers containing evolutionary explanations for the various facets of human psychology. Let's get started! Since there are a bunch of evpsych papers out there, this list can be made quite long (and that also makes it easy for anyone to contribute!).
Good places to go digging for papers:
Psycholoquy CogPrints CiteSeer Google Directory Open Directory BBS Online
Overviews:
- Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
- Evolutionary Psychology FAQ by Edward Hagen
- Study and Learning Materials Online for Evolutionary Psychology by Paul Kenyon
- Evolutionary Psychology (book chapter, technical) by Russil Durrant and Bruce J. Ellis
- Aestheticism and Culture
- Aestheticism in the Theory of Custom by Ekkehart Schlicht
- Altruism
- Varieties of altruism - and the common ground between them by Nicholas Humphrey
- Pro-community altruism and social status in a Shuar village by M.E. Price
- Brains
- Developmental structure in brain evolution by Finlay, Darlington & Nicastro
- Children, behavior of
- Descent versus design in children's reasoning about animals by H.C. Barrett
- Committment Signalling
- Are there nonverbal cues to commitment? by Brown & Moore
- Consciousness
- The Uses of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey
- On a Confusion About a Function of Consciousness by Ned Block
- Cults
- Sex, Drugs, and Cults by Keith Henson
- Emotions
- Evolutionary Psychology and the Emotions by Cosmides & Tooby
- Essentialism
- On the Functional Origins of Essentialism by H. Clark Barrett
- Depression and Grief
- Depression as bargaining: The case postpartum by Edward H. Hagen
- The Bargaining Model of Depression by Edward H. Hagen
- The Functions of Postpartum Depression by Edward H. Hagen
- Dreaming and Sleep
- The Reinterpretation of Dreams: An evolutionary hypothesis of the function of dreaming by Antti Revonsuo
- Dreaming and the Brain: Toward a Cognitive Neuroscience of Conscious States by Hobson, Pace-Schott & Stickgold
- A Review of Mentation in REM and NREM Sleep by Tore A. Nielsen, Ph.D
- Dreaming and REM Sleep are Controlled by Different Brain Mechanisms by Mark Solms
- The Case Against Memory Consolidation in REM Sleep by Robert P. Vertes, Ph.D.
- Drug Use
- Psychotropic substance-seeking: evolutionary pathology or adaptation? by Sullivan & Hagen
- Evolutionarily Internalized Regularities
- Regularities of the Physical World and the Absence of their Internalization by Heiko Hecht
- Evolutionary Internalized Regularities by Robert Schwartz
- Folk Biology
- Food Sharing
- To Give and to Give Not: The behavioral ecology of human food transfers by Michael Gurven
- Game Playing
- Game theory and reciprocity in some extensive form experimental games by Cabe, Rassenti, & Smith
- General Intelligence
- Levels of Organization in General Intelligence by Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
- Gossip
- Informational Warfare by Hess & Hagen
- Infants, behavior of
- The Signal Functions of Early Infant Crying by Joseph Soltis
- Linguistics
- Natural Language and Natural Selection by Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom
- Brain Evolution and Neurolinguistic Preconditions by Wendy K. Wilkins
- The Frame/Content Theory of Evolution and Speech Production by Peter F. Neilage
- Anticipatory Semantics Processes by Frédéric and Pascal Lavigne
- From Hand to Mouth: Some Critical Stages in the Evolution of Language by Steklis & Harnad
- Evolution, Communication, and the Proper Function of Language by Gloria Origgi and Dan Sperber
- Literary Representation
- The Deep Structure of Literary Representations by Joseph Carroll
- Mathematical Ability
- Sexual Selection and Sex Differences in Mathematical Abilities by David C. Geary
- Mating
- The Evolution of Human Mating: Trade-Offs and Strategic Pluralism by Steven W. Gangestad
- Metarepresentation
- Consider the Source: The evolution of adaptations for decoupling and metarepresentation by Cosmides & Tooby
- Metarepresentations in an Evolutionary Perspective by Dan Sperber
- Memory
- Decisions and the Evolution of Memory by Klein, Cosmides, Tooby & Chance
- Music
- Music and Dance as a Coalitional Signaling System by Hagen & Bryant
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Pain
- Sex Differences in Pain by Karen J. Berkley
- Phobias
- Punishment
- Punitive Sentiment as an Anti-Free Rider Psychological Device by Price, Cosmides & Tooby
- Rationality
- Nonconsequentialist decisions by Jonathan Baron
- [http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/04/77/index.html Individual Differences in Reasoning:
Implications for the Rationality Debate?] by Keith E. Stanovich
- Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart by Gigerenzer & Todd
- Generalization, Similarity, and Bayesian Inference by Tenenbaum & Griffiths
- The Base Rate Fallacy Reconsidered: Descriptive, Normative and Methodological Challenges by Jonathan J. Koehler
- Sexual Selection
- Mating Mind Precis by Geoffrey Miller
- Social Relations and Behavior, Machiavellian Intelligence
- Meeting One's Twin: Perceived Social Closeness and Familiarity by Segal, Hershberger & Arad
- Intentional Relations and Social Understanding by Barresi & Moore
- Pavlovian Feed-Forward Mechanisms in the Control of Social Behavior by Domjan, Cusato, & Villarreal
- Co-Evolution of Cortex Size, Group Size, and Language in Humans by R.I.M. Dunbar
- Sociopathy
- The Sociobiology of Sociopath: an Integrated Evolutionary Model by Linda Mealey
- Symbol Systems
- Perceptual Symbol Systems by Lawrence W. Barsalou
- Women, behavior of
- Chapters from "The Adapted Mind", by John Tooby and Leda Cosmides
- Chapter 2, The Psychological Foundations of Culture
- Other
- Was Cypher Right?: Why We Stay In Our Matrix by Robin Hanson
- The Talk.Origins Archive
