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  Leda Cosmides
Leda Cosmides is best known for her work in pioneering the new field of evolutionary psychology.
Cosmides did postdoctoral work with Roger Shepard at Stanford and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, before moving to the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she has been on the faculty since 1991.
Cosmides won the 1988 American Association for the Advancement of Science Prize for Behavioral Science Research, the 1993 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, and a J. Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
www.psych.ucsb.edu /people/faculty/cosmides   (190 words)

  
  Leda Cosmides - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leda Cosmides, (born May 7, 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American psychologist, who, together with anthropologist husband John Tooby, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology.
Cosmides was awarded the 1988 American Association for the Advancement of Science Prize for Behavioral Science Research, the 1993 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, a J.
Cosmides, L. and Tooby, J. (1992) "Cognitive adaptations for social exchange," in J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, and J. Tooby (eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (New York: Oxford University Press).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leda_Cosmides   (464 words)

  
 The Institute for Humane Studies - Leda Cosmides   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Leda Cosmides is best known for her work in pioneering the new field of evolutionary psychology.
Cosmides did postdoctoral work with Roger Shepard at Stanford and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, before moving to the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she has been on the faculty since 1991.
Cosmides won the 1988 American Association for the Advancement of Science Prize for Behavioral Science Research, the 1993 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, and a J. Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
www.theihs.org /people.php/75998.html?menuid=6   (286 words)

  
 ZoomInfo Web Summary: Leda Cosmides   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Leda Cosmides, a professor of psychology and co-director of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), a finalist in last year's competition, is the first behavioral scientist to receive a Pioneer Award.
Cosmides added that is imperative that "every good scientist learn to communicate" with the public, especially with science writers who convey researchers' work to the public.
Leda Cosmides, PhD, a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who applies evolutionary psychology to discover the design of the human mind and brain.
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Cosmides_Leda_26469957.htm   (474 words)

  
 Mixing Memory: Has Evolutionary Psychology Been Demolished? A Review of Buller, Chapter 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The second, which is generally associated with Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, David Buss, and Steven Pinker, includes only those evolutionary psychologists who adhere to a certain set of tenets, including massive modularity, assumptions about the "environment of evolutionary adaptedness" (or the EEA), and a belief that the modern mind evolved in the EEA.
Cosmides argues that the increased performance in the deontic version is due to the fact that it activates the cheater-detection module, and thus allows people to use domain-specific reasoning mechanisms to solve the task, whereas the descriptive version requires the use of domain-general reasoning mechanisms.
Cosmides derives the hypothesis of a cheater-detection module from Trivers's argument that reciprocal altruism is evolutionarily unstable unless parties to reciprocal exchanges of benefits have the ability to detect when someone is taking a benefit from them without providing them with a benefit in return.
mixingmemory.blogspot.com /2005/05/has-evolutionary-psychology-been_30.html   (4189 words)

  
 KLI Theory Lab - Authors - Leda Cosmides
Cosmides, L. Tooby, J. Consider the source: The evolution of adaptations for decoupling and metarepresentations.
Tooby, J. Cosmides, L. On the universality of human nature and the uniqueness of the individual: The role of genetics and adaptation.
Cosmides, L. Tooby, J. Cytoplasmic inheritance and intragenomic conflict.
www.kli.ac.at /theorylab/AuthPage/C/CosmidesL.html   (320 words)

  
 Humanities 100 -- Lecture notes on Evolutionary Psychology
In her 1985 PhD dissertation, the psychologist Leda Cosmides suggested that neither of these is the crucial difference; rather, she argued, the second case involves the detection of cheating with respect to a social contract.
Cosmides argues that this kind of cheater-detection is something that people -- like other primates -- are very good at, and that we are good at it because it is important to us, not only individually but also collectively and historically.
As Cosmides and Tooby have pointed out in more measured and carefully reasoned work, their viewpoint is strongly at variance with the viewpoint of most respectable 20th-century social scientists, and also most contemporary humanists.
www.ling.upenn.edu /courses/hum100/evolutionary_psychology.html   (3642 words)

  
 Leda Cosmides was recently interviewed by Alvaro Fischer and Roberto Araya for the Chilean newspaper
Leda Cosmides was recently interviewed by Alvaro Fischer and Roberto Araya for the Chilean newspaper
Leda Cosmides was recently interviewed by Alvaro Fischer and Roberto Araya for the Chilean newspaper, El Mercurio (portions of the interview, translated into Spanish, were published therein on October 28, 2001).
This was part of a project entitled "New Paradigms at the Beginning of the Third Millenium", jointly sponsored by the Chilean Engineering Institute and the Chilean Academy of Sciences.
www.psych.ucsb.edu /research/cep/ledainterview.htm   (4049 words)

  
 Evolutionary Psychologist to Speak at John Dewey Lecture Series : UVM The View
Cosmides, best known for her work in pioneering the new field of evolutionary psychology, will speak at 4 p.m.
Cosmides first developed her interest in rebuilding psychology along evolutionary lines while an undergraduate at Harvard, where she earned a bachelor's degree in biology and doctorate in cognitive psychology.
Cosmides, who completed her postdoctoral work at Stanford, won the 1988 American Association for the Advancement of Science Prize for Behavioral Science Research; the 1993 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology; and a J. Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
www.uvm.edu /~uvmpr/theview/article.php?id=1602   (176 words)

  
 OhioLINK ETD: RENFRO, MARL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This thesis is devoted to examining Leda Cosmides and John Tooby’s use of evolutionary psychology as a heuristic framework for explaining human social behavior.
Cosmides and Tooby are among the most vocal advocates of a now popular version of evolutionary psychology.
They argue that the functional complexity of human reasoning can be best explained within the framework of adaptationism and that knowledge of the evolutionary environment of adaptiveness is essential to a scientifically satisfying explanation for why humans behave as they do.
www.ohiolink.edu /etd/view.cgi?ucin1022853045   (145 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Understanding Greed - December 25, 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
LEDA COSMIDES: Some people have suggested that one of the...that since hunter gatherers don't have wealth in the same sense, that one of the cues that our minds use to feel wealthy and secure and protected and sated and like everything is okay are things like, well, how many kin do I have around me?
LEDA COSMIDES: We may be over consuming certain commercial goods and consumer goods thinking that that's going to give us what's missing when what's missing is the presence of an extended kin group, the presence of social support, of friends that you know that you can rely on.
LEDA COSMIDES: The more we have a sense of alienation from other people because it's exactly a sign of our social distance.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/science/july-dec00/greed_12-25.html.old   (1550 words)

  
 93106: Psychologist Secures $2.5 M NIH Award
Leda Cosmides, professor of psychology, is one of 13 innovative researchers from across the country who were named last week by the National Institutes of Health as recipients of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for 2005.
Cosmides, co-director of the UCSB Center for Evolutionary Psychology, will receive up to $500,000 a year in direct research costs for the next five years as a recipient of the prestigious award.
Cosmides says the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award is one that will have a major impact on her research.
www.ia.ucsb.edu /93106/2005/October3/secure.html   (608 words)

  
 UCSB Press Release: "UC Santa Barbara Scholar is Among 13 Winners Nationwide of $2.5-M. 'Pioneer' Awards from ...
As a recipient of the prestigious award, Leda Cosmides, a professor of psychology and co-director of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at UC Santa Barbara, will receive up to $500,000 per year in direct research costs for the next five years.
Cosmides and her husband and collaborator, John Tooby, a professor of anthropology at UCSB, have developed evolutionary and computational approaches to human motivation and neural development, which they will test with the research funds provided by the Pioneer Award.
Cosmides has been recognized with many awards and distinctions for her work.
www.ia.ucsb.edu /pa/display.aspx?pkey=1346   (991 words)

  
 Bibliography for Cultural Evolution and Anthropology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Cosmides, Leda and Tooby, John (1987) 'From Evolution to Behavior: Evolutionary Psychology as the Missing Link', in Dupre/, J. (ed.), pp.
Tooby, John and Cosmides, Leda (1989) 'Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture, Part I, Theoretical Considerations', Ethology and Sociobiology, 10(1), January, pp.
Tooby, John and Cosmides, Leda (1990) 'The Past Explains the Present: Emotional Adaptations and the Structure of the Ancestral Environment', Ethology and Sociobiology, 11(4-5), July-September, pp.
users.ox.ac.uk /~econec/culture.html   (1205 words)

  
 Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby: The Adapted Mind : Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He or she didn't like the Tooby & Cosmides chapters whereas I feel they were by far the most interesting chapters in the book.
A prime example of this last vice are 2 of the editors themselves, namely Tooby and Cosmides in their introduction article, which sadly clutters the book for already 130 of its about 600 pages.
To me, they seem to be a prime example of investigators that badly need to step back for a while from their work, to free their minds and maybe become a little bit more open for contrasting views.
www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/book_details.php/0195101073|books|   (1306 words)

  
 Leda Cosmides & John Tooby. Evolutionary Psychology - A Primer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Leda Cosmides & John Tooby Evolutionary Psychology : A Primer
Barkow, J., Cosmides, L., and Tooby, J. The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. 1990b On the universality of human nature and the uniqueness of the individual: The role of genetics and adaptation.
cyberpunk.barzha.com /z/ts5.html   (12948 words)

  
 NIH Director's Pioneer Award - 2005 Recipients
Santa Barbara, CA Leda Cosmides, Ph.D., is professor of psychology and co-director of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Cosmides and Tooby co-developed the ideas that formed the basis of the Pioneer Award proposal and will use the award to develop evolutionary and computational approaches to the study of motivation and developmental neuroscience.
Cosmides’ awards include the American Association for the Advancement of Science Prize for Behavioral Science Research for her research on evolution and reasoning as well as the American Psychological Association’s Early Career Contribution Award.
nihroadmap.nih.gov /pioneer/Recipients05.aspx   (1903 words)

  
 Consider the source: The evolution of adaptations for decoupling and metarepresentation
Combinatorial explosion is the term for the fact that alternatives multiply with devastating rapidity in computational systems, and the less constrained the representational and procedural possibilities are, the faster this process mushrooms, choking computation with too many possibilities to search among or too many processing steps to perform.
That is, the iterated conditions that the adaptation evolved to deal with must have extended over enough of the species range, and for an evolutionary period that was long enough to spread the underlying genes from their initial appearance as mutations to near universality.
Some of the procedures are ecologically rational (Tooby and Cosmides, in press; Cosmides and Tooby 1996), that is, they correspond to licensed transformations in various adaptive logics (which may diverge substantially from licensed inferences in the content-independent formal logics developed so far by logicians).
www.newpaltz.edu /~geherg/readings/metarep.html   (18945 words)

  
 Evolution of the Human Mind
John and Ken welcome Leda Cosmides to shed some light on the human mind.
Cosmides denies that claiming humans have a capacity for culture really solves anything.
Cosmides gives some examples of ways in which evolutionary psychologists differentiate between these two kinds of tasks.
www.philosophytalk.org /pastShows/EvolutionoftheHumanMind.htm   (833 words)

  
 Pretense and creativity
Barkow, J. Cosmides, L. and Tooby, J. eds.
Leda Cosmides, John Tooby and Jerome Barkow (1992).
Fiddick, L., Cosmides, L. and Tooby, J. No interpretation without representation: the role of domain-specific representations and inferences in the Wason selection task.
www.philosophy.umd.edu /Faculty/pcarruthers/879.htm   (1223 words)

  
 Psychological Science Agenda October 2005
Leda Cosmides, PhD, Professor of Psychology, and co-chair of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California Santa Barbara, was one of thirteen scientists honored with Pioneer Awards at a symposium at the National Institutes of Health in late September.
The award gives recipients the intellectual freedom to pursue groundbreaking new research directions that could have significant impact if successful but that, due to their novelty or other factors, also have inherently high risks of failure.” The generous awards consist of $500,000 per year for five years.
Cosmides applies evolutionary psychology to discover the design of the human mind and brain.
www.apa.org /science/psa/pioneer_prnt.html   (299 words)

  
 How the Mind Works - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The book attempts to explain some of the human mind's poorly understood functions and quirks in evolutionary terms.
Drawing heavily on the paradigm of evolutionary psychology first articulated by John Tooby and Leda Cosmides, Pinker covers subjects as diverse as vision, emotion, feminism, and, in the final chapter, "the meaning of life."
See also: Evolutionary psychology - Cognitive science - Leda Cosmides - John Tooby
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/How_the_Mind_Works   (142 words)

  
 Center for Evolutionary Psychology
Ermer, E., Guerin, S., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., and Miller, M. Theory of mind broad and narrow: Reasoning about social exchange engages ToM areas, precautionary reasoning does not.
Cosmides, L. and Tooby, J. Neurocognitive adaptations designed for social exchange.
Tooby, J., Cosmides, L. and Barrett, H. Resolving the debate on innate ideas: Learnability constraints and the evolved interpenetration of motivational and conceptual functions.
www.psych.ucsb.edu /research/cep   (843 words)

  
 Leda - OneLook Dictionary Search
Leda : Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 10th Edition [home, info]
Leda : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Phrases that include Leda: in astronomy leda, leda cosmides, leda in astronomy
www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=Leda   (215 words)

  
 Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
Barkow, J., Cosmides, L. and Tooby, J. The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture.
Cosmides, L. and Tooby, J. Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, Part II.
Tooby, J. and Cosmides, L. 1990b On the universality of human nature and the uniqueness of the individual: The role of genetics and adaptation.
www.psych.ucsb.edu /research/cep/primer.html   (13222 words)

  
 Intro to the Field
For a more advanced discussion see: Tooby and Cosmides (2005) Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology.
Also, read an interview with Leda Cosmides about what evolutionary psychology is (and is not).
The Cognitive Revolution: The Next Wave, by Leda Cosmides.
www.hbes.com /intro_to_field.htm   (1183 words)

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