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117Cognitive systems for revenge and forgivenessBehavioral and Brain Sciences 36 (1): 1-15. 2013.Minimizing the costs that others impose upon oneself and upon those in whom one has a fitness stake, such as kin and allies, is a key adaptive problem for many organisms. Our ancestors regularly faced such adaptive problems (including homicide, bodily harm, theft, mate poaching, cuckoldry, reputational damage, sexual aggression, and the infliction of these costs on one's offspring, mates, coalition partners, or friends). One solution to this problem is to impose retaliatory costs on an aggressor…Read more
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37Putting revenge and forgiveness in an evolutionary contextBehavioral and Brain Sciences 36 (1): 41-58. 2013.In this response, we address eight issues concerning our proposal that human minds contain adaptations for revenge and forgiveness. Specifically, we discuss (a) the inferences that are and are not licensed by patterns of contemporary behavioral data in the context of the adaptationist approach; (b) the theoretical pitfalls of conflating proximate and ultimate causation; (c) the role of development in the production of adaptations; (d) the implications of proposing that the brain's cognitive syst…Read more
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57Is ego depletion too incredible? Evidence for the overestimation of the depletion effectBehavioral and Brain Sciences 36 (6): 683-684. 2013.
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31The Evolution of Generosity: How Natural Selection Builds Devices for Benefit DeliverySocial Research: An International Quarterly 80 (2): 387-410. 2013.
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James Madison UniversityUndergraduate
Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States of America
Areas of Interest
17th/18th Century Philosophy |