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William M. Brown | Oliver Curry | Lisa DeBruine | Tom Dickins | Laurence Fiddick | Shawn Hurst | Debra Lieberman | Jade Price | Michael Price | James K. Rilling

By topic:Attitudes to Abortion | Brain Imaging
| Collective Action | Guilt | Identifying Kin | Incest | Moral Reasoning | Partner Choice | Patience | Punishment | Virtue


William M. Brown

Centre for Cognition and Neuroimaging
School of Social Sciences and Law
Brunel University
Uxbridge, Middlesex
UB8 3PU
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1895 274000 ext. 67328
William (dot) Brown (at) Brunel.ac.uk
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~hsstwmb/

Research Interests
The evolution of cooperation. Especially: emotions as commitment devices; partner preference models; genomic imprinting; fluctuating asymmetry.

Relevant Publications
Brown, W. M., N. S. Consedine, and C. Magai (2005). "Altruism Relates to Health in an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Older Adults." Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences 60B(3): 143-52.
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wmbrown/Brown.Consedine.Magai.2005.pdf

Brown, W. M., and C. Moore (2003). "Fluctuating Asymmetry and Romantic Jealousy." Evolution and Human Behavior 24(113-117).
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wmbrown/FA.Emotion.pdf

Brown, W. M., and C. Moore (2000). "Is Prospective Altruist-Detection an Evolved Solution to the Adaptive Problem of Subtle Cheating in Cooperative Ventures? Supportive Evidence Using the Wason Selection Task." Evolution and Human Behavior 21(25-37).
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wmbrown/Altruist.Detection1.pdf

Brown, W. M., and C. Moore (2002). Smile Asymmetries and Reputation as Reliable Indicators of Likelihood to Cooperate: An Evolutionary Analysis. Advances in Psychology Research. S P Shohov. New York, Nova Science Publishers. 11: 59-78.
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wmbrown/Altruist.Detection2.pdf

Brown, W. M., B. Palameta, and C. Moore (2003). "Are There Nonverbal Cues to Commitment? An Exploratory Study Using the Zero-Acquaintance Video Presentation Paradigm." Evolutionary Psychology: An International Journal of Evolutionary Approaches to Psychology and Behavior 1(42-69).
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wmbrown/Altruist.Detection3.pdf

Palameta, B., and W. M. Brown (1999). "Human Cooperation Is More Than by-Product Mutualism." Animal Behaviour 57: F1-F3.
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wmbrown/Cooperation.pdf

 


 

Oliver Curry

Centre Research Associate
Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science
London School of Economics
London, WC2A 2AE, UK
o.s.curry@lse.ac.uk
http://www.lse.ac.uk/darwin

Research interests
Evolutionary explanations of behaviour; the evolved psychology of moral and political thought and behaviour.

Relevant publications
Curry, O. “The Conflict-Resolution Theory of Virtue.” In Moral Psychology, edited by W. P. Sinnott-Armstrong, forthcoming.
http://homepage.mac.com/scottukgb/Sites/curryvirtue.pdf

Curry, O. (2005). “Morality as Natural History” PhD, Government Department, London School of Economics.

Curry, O. (2005). "A Change of Mind?" Nature 435(7041): 425-26.

Curry, O. (2003). "Get Real: Evolution as Metaphor and Mechanism." British Journal of Politics and International Relations 5(1): 112-17.

Curry, O. S. (2003). "Review of A. J. Field, Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity." Quarterly Review of Biology 78(1): 126-27.

Curry, O., H. Cronin, and J. Ashworth, Eds. (1996). Matters of Life and Death: The Worldview from Evolutionary Psychology. Demos Quarterly. London, Demos.
http://www.demos.co.uk/catalogue/mattersoflifeanddeath/

 


 

Lisa M. DeBruine

The Perception Lab
School of Psychology
University of St Andrews
St Mary's Quad
St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK
KY16 9JU
lisa@debruine.info
http://www.debruine.info

Research interests
My research interests include how humans use facial resemblance to tell who their kin are and how people respond to cues of kinship in different circumstances, especially in the domains of prosocial cooperation and mate choice.

Relevant publications
LM DeBruine, BC Jones and DI Perrett (in press) Women's attractiveness judgments of self-resembling faces change across the menstrual cycle. Hormones and Behavior.

LM DeBruine (in press) Trustworthy but not lust-worthy: Context-specific effects of facial resemblance. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.

LM DeBruine (2004) Facial resemblance increases the attractiveness of same-sex faces more than other-sex faces. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 271: 2085-2090.

LM DeBruine (2004) Resemblance to self increases the appeal of child faces to both men and women. Evolution and Human Behavior, 25: 142-154.

LM DeBruine (2002) Facial resemblance enhances trust. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 269: 1307-1312.

All available at http://pubs.debruine.info

 


 

Tom Dickins

School of Psychology
University of East London
Romford Road
London
E15 4LZ
t.dickins@uel.ac.uk

Research interests
The application of evolutionary theory to the behavioural and cognitive sciences.

Relevant publications
Dickins, T.E. (In press) On sociosexual cognitive architecture.
(Commentary.) Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Dickins, T.E. (2004, forthcoming.) Social Constructionism as
Cognitive Science. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 34 (4),
333-352

Dickins, T.E. (2003) What can evolutionary psychology tell us about
cognitive architecture? History and Philosophy of Psychology, 5 (1), 1-16

 


 

Laurence Fiddick

School of Psychology
James Cook University
4811
Australia
Larry.Fiddick@jcu.edu.au
http://www.faess.jcu.edu.au/sop/staff/laurence_larry.fiddick.html

Research Interests
I'm interested in evolved subdomains of deontic reasoning -- reasoning about what is permitted, obligated and prohibited. In particularly interested in reasoning about nonmoral norms relating to social cooperation and the avoidance of hazards. I study people's thought about these domains using a variety of methods drawn from cognitive psychology, developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. I am also interested in how mechanisms dedicated to reasoning in these domains have been culturally elaborated into legal and religious systems.

Relevant publications
Fiddick, L. (2004). Domains of deontic reasoning: Resolving the discrepancy between the cognitive and moral reasoning literatures. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57A, 447-474.

Fiddick, L. (2004). Natural law and natural selection. In C. Crawford and C. Salmon (Eds.). Evolutionary psychology, public policy, and private decisions. (pp. 169-194). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Fiddick, L. (2003). Is there a faculty of deontic reasoning? A critical reevaluation of abstract deontic versions of the Wason selection task. In D. Over (Ed.), Evolution and the psychology of thinking: The debate. (pp. 33-60). Psychology Press.

 


 

Shawn Hurst

Department of Anthropology & Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior
Indiana University
701 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
shhurst@indiana.edu


Research interests
I am interested in comparative primate neuroanatomy, the evolution of the brain, and multi-agent models
of primate social behavior.

 


 

Debra Lieberman

Department of Psychology
2430 Campus Road
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI 96822
lieberma@hawaiiedu
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~lieberma

Research interests
I am interested in the cognitive adaptations guiding kin detection, inbreeding avoidance, and kin-directed altruism. I am also interested in the origin and structure of our moral sentiments.

Relevant publications

Lieberman, D., Tooby, J.& Cosmides, L. (2003). Does morality have a biological basis? An empirical test of the factors governing moral sentiments regarding incest. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B, 270, 819-826.
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/Biologyandmorality.pdf

 


 

Jade Price

Department of Anthropology
University of California
Santa Barbara
jsg@umail.ucsb.edu
http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~jsg/index.html

Research interests
I am interested in the "self-conscious emotions": shame, guilt, embarassment, pride, etc. My research involves investigation of the roles that these emotions play in cooperative relationships. I am currently examining how individual differences in the tendency to experience guilt and/or shame after an injury or defection are related to the social relationships the individual has with others: do variations in social status, level of social support, and formidability account for variations in guilt/shame-proneness? I am also conducting research with Michael Price in which I am studying social support and cooperative behavior. We will conduct public good games in which I hope to determine whether there is a correlation between level of social support and tendency to cooperate or punish in collective action-type contexts.

 


 

Michael Price

Olin School of Business
Campus Box 1133
Washington University in St. Louis
1 Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA
mieprice@indiana.edu

http://www.olin.wustl.edu/faculty/FacultyBio.cfm?UserName=price
http://mypage.iu.edu/~mieprice/


Research interests
Cross-cultural studies of how people cooperate in work teams, collective actions, and experimental economic games. The evolution of cooperation. The role of mutual monitoring, reputation, trust, reciprocity and punishment in solving collective action problems.

Relevant publications
Price, M. E. (in press). "Monitoring, Reputation and Greenbeard Reciprocity in a Shuar Work Team." Journal of Organizational Behavior.
http://mypage.iu.edu/~mieprice/JOB.pdf

Price, M. E. (2003). "Pro-Community Altruism and Social Status in a Shuar Village." Human Nature 14: 191-208.
http://mypage.iu.edu/~mieprice/PCA_HN.pdf

Price, M. E. (in press). "Punitive Sentiment among the Shuar and in Industrialized Societies: Cross-Cultural Similarities." Evolution and Human Behavior.
http://mypage.iu.edu/~mieprice/CA_draft.pdf

Price, M. E., L. Cosmides, and J. Tooby (2002). "Punitive Sentiment as an Anti-Free Rider Psychological Device." Evolution and Human Behavior 23(203-231).
http://mypage.iu.edu/~mieprice/punsent_ehb.pdf

 


 

James K. Rilling

Department of Anthropology
114 Geoscience Bldg.
Emory University
1557 Dickey Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30322
jrillin@emory.edu
http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/ANTHROPOLOGY/FACULTY/ANTJR/index.html

Research interests
I have two main research goals. One goal is to begin mapping the evolved social psychology of the human brain. We are interested in exploring the neural basis of human social cognition and behavior, particularly those aspects that have been under strong evolutionary selection pressure. A second goal is to advance our understanding of hominid brain evolution through comparing the brains of modern humans with non-human primate brains using a variety of non-invasive brain imaging technologies, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). These methods enable comparisons of brain structure and function between humans and non-human primates.

Relevant publications
Rilling, J. K., D. A. Gutman, T. R. Zeh, G. Pagnoni, G. S. Berns, and C. D. Kilts (2002). "A Neural Basis for Social Cooperation." Neuron 35: 395-405.

Rilling, J. K., and C. D. Kilts (2003). "Imaging the Neural Correlates of Mate Competition in Dominant Male Rhesus Monkeys." American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 36(179).

Rilling, J. K., A. G. Sanfey, J. A. Aronson, L. E. Nystrom, and J. D. Cohen (2004). "The Neural Correlates of Theory of Mind within Interpersonal Interactions." NeuroImage 22(4): 1693-702.

Rilling, J. K., A. G. Sanfey, J. A. Aronson, L. E. Nystrom, and J. D. Cohen (in press). "Opposing Bold Responses to Reciprocated and Unreciprocated Altruism in Putative Reward Pathways." NeuroReport.

Rilling, J. K., J. T. Winslow, and C. D. Kilts (2004). "The Neural Correlates of Mate Competition in Dominant Male Rhesus Macaques." Biological Psychiatry 56: 364-75.

Sanfey, A. G., J. K. Rilling, J. A. Aronson, L. E. Nystrom, and J. D. Cohen (2003). "The Neural Basis of Economic Decision-Making in the Ultimatum Game." Science 300(5626): 1755-58.

All available at:
http://www.anthropology.emory.edu/FACULTY/ANTJR/publications.html

 


 

 
 
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