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113Cognitive 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. One solution to this problem is to impose retaliatory costs on an aggressor so that the aggressor and other observers will lower their estimates of the net benefits to be gained from exploiting the retaliator in the future. We posit that humans have an evolved 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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36Putting revenge and forgiveness in an evolutionary contextBehavioral and Brain Sciences 36 (1): 41-58. 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. One solution to this problem is to impose retaliatory costs on an aggressor so that the aggressor and other observers will lower their estimates of the net benefits to be gained from exploiting the retaliator in the future. We posit that humans have an evolved cognitive syst…Read more
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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 |