1.
The Origin of Behavior
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 15 Nov 2009
Last Revised: 23 Nov 2010
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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1,552
2.
Rational After All: Toward an Improved Theory of Rationality in Economics
Revue de Philosophie Economique, Vol. 12, No. 1, June 2011
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 15 Oct 2010
Last Revised: 02 Jun 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Athens – Department of Philosophy & History of Science and University of Athens - Department of History & Philosophy of Science
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1,462
3.
Social Heuristics Shape Intuitive Cooperation
Nature Communications (2014) 5:3677
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 23 Feb 2013
Last Revised: 20 Jan 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Yale University - Human Cooperation Lab, Yale University, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Department of Psychology, Yale School of Management, Harvard College, Harvard University and Harvard University - Department of Psychology
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1,270
4.
A Biological Basis of Rights
Hofstra University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-17
Number of pages: 73
Posted: 30 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 31 Mar 2014
Working Paper Series
Independent
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1,103
5.
Inference of Trustworthiness from Intuitive Moral Judgments
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 03 Feb 2016
Last Revised: 24 Feb 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford, Cornell University and University of Oxford
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988
6.
Review of Patricia S. Churchland, 'Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality'
Ethics, Vol. 123, No. 2, 2013, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 13-007
Number of pages: 3
Posted: 29 Dec 2012
Last Revised: 20 Sep 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
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935
7.
Rationality and Belief in Human Evolution
Annenberg Public Policy Center Working Paper No. 5
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 15 Sep 2016
Last Revised: 25 Sep 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School and University of Toronto
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851
8.
Breakdown in the Language Zone: The Prevalence of Language Impairments among Juvenile and Adult Offenders and Why it Matters
US Davis Journal of Juvenile Law and Policy, Forthcoming, University of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1127
Number of pages: 89
Posted: 24 Aug 2010
Last Revised: 12 Apr 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Wisconsin Law School and Mendota Mental Health Institute
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711
9.
The Embodied Mind and the Origins of Human Culture
COGNITION AND CULTURE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE, pp. 13-27, Ana Margarida Abrantes, Peter Hanenberg, eds., Frankfurt & Berlin, 2011
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 25 Jun 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Cognitive Science
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689
10.
Born to Lead? A Twin Design and Genetic Association Study of Leadership Role Occupancy
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 24 Aug 2011
Last Revised: 08 Aug 2012
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford, University College London, Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science, Harvard University - Department of Health Care Policy and UC San Diego Division of Social Sciences
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537
11.
Reasoning as a Social Competence
COLLECTIVE WISDOM, H. Landemore and J. Elster, eds., Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 12 Jun 2011
Accepted Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Neuchatel
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467
12.
Intuitive and Reflective Inferences
IN TWO MINDS: DUAL PROCESSES AND BEYOND, Jonathan Evans and Keith Frankish, eds., Oxford University Press, April 2009
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 12 Jun 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Neuchatel and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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460
13.
Category Theory and Universal Models: Adjoints and Brain Functors
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 26 Mar 2009
Last Revised: 17 May 2009
Working Paper Series
Phil. Dept. UC at Riverside
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405
14.
An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Deception and Telling Lies
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 25 May 2010
Last Revised: 03 Jun 2010
Working Paper Series
North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU)
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394
15.
Humans Display a 'Cooperative Phenotype' that is Domain General and Temporally Stable
Nature Communications, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 18 Apr 2014
Last Revised: 09 Aug 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Human Cooperation Lab, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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355
16.
The Largest Last Supper: Depictions of Food Portions and Plate Size Increased Over the Millennium
International Journal of Obesity 34.5 (2010): 943-944
Number of pages: 2
Posted: 19 Aug 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Cornell University and Virginia Wesleyan College
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Largest Last Supper: Depictions of Food Portions and Plate Size Increased Over the Millennium
International Journal of Obesity 34.5 (2010): 943-944
Number of pages: 2
Posted: 19 Aug 2014
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350
The Largest Last Supper: Depictions of Food Portions and Plate Size Increased Over the Millennium
International Journal of Obesity 34.5 (2010): 943-944
Number of pages: 2
Posted: 02 Aug 2014
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28
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350
17.
Our Pigheaded Core: How We Became Smarter to Be Influenced by Other People
SIGNALING, COMMITMENT, AND EMOTION Brett Calcott, Richard Joyce, & Kim Sterelny, eds., MIT Press, 2011
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 11 Jun 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Neuchatel
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349
18.
From Adam Smith to Darwin
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 30 Jul 2009
Working Paper Series
Ghent University
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293
19.
The Two Faces of Morality: How Evolutionary Theory Can Both Vindicate and Debunk Morality (with a Special Nod to the Growing Importance of Law)
Evolution and Morality, NOMOS vol. LII, p. 31 (eds., James E. Fleming & Sanford Levinson, NYU Press 2012)
Number of pages: 68
Posted: 09 May 2011
Last Revised: 24 Nov 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of Illinois College of Law
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288
20.
People as Penguins: Thermoregulation as Part of the Human Essence
Forthcoming in M. van Zomeren & J. Dovidio (Eds.). The Handbook of Human Essence. Oxford University Press
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 04 Oct 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Université Grenoble Alpes and VU University Amsterdam - Department of Clinical Psychology
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274
21.
The Origin of Selkies
Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 11, No. 5-6, pp. 90-115, 2004
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 05 Jun 2009
Last Revised: 21 Dec 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Cognitive Science
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273
22.
Free Will Ideology: Experiments, Evolution and Virtue Ethics
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 02 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 25 Jan 2010
Working Paper Series
Pace University School of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
Free Will Ideology: Experiments, Evolution and Virtue Ethics
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 02 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 25 Jan 2010
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258
Free Will Ideology: Experiments, Evolution and Virtue Ethics
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 07 Apr 2010
Last Revised: 08 Jun 2010
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217
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258
23.
The Extended Online Version of: Culture Does Account for Variation in Game Behaviour
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 16 Dec 2011
Working Paper Series
University of British Columbia
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251
24.
Population Structure Promotes the Evolution of Intuitive Cooperation and Inhibits Deliberation
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 31 Jan 2018
Last Revised: 17 Apr 2018
Working Paper Series
MIT Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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242
25.
Free Will Ideology: Experiments, Evolution and Virtue Ethics
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 07 Apr 2010
Last Revised: 08 Jun 2010
Working Paper Series
Pace University School of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
Free Will Ideology: Experiments, Evolution and Virtue Ethics
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 02 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 25 Jan 2010
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258
Free Will Ideology: Experiments, Evolution and Virtue Ethics
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 07 Apr 2010
Last Revised: 08 Jun 2010
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217
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217
26.
Amusing Ourselves to Death? Superstimuli and the Evolutionary Social Sciences
Philosophical Psychology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 08 Nov 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) - Institute of Philosophy and Ghent University - Department of Legal Theory and Legal History
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215
27.
Reconciling Alchian and Penrose: Competitive Strategy, Organizational Capabilities and Firm Performance as Evolutionary Learning
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 22 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 29 Apr 2010
Working Paper Series
Institute for Management Research Cologne
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211
28.
Review of Derek Bickerton's Adam's Tongue
Number of pages: 94
Posted: 15 Feb 2010
Working Paper Series
Universidad de Zaragoza
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192
29.
From Grand Idea to Viable Execution: How Do Ventures and Entrepreneurs Co-Evolve?
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 03 Jul 2012
Working Paper Series
University of Twente and Entrepreneurship Northwest
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190
30.
Cyclical Population Dynamics of Automatic Versus Controlled Processing: An Evolutionary Pendulum
Forthcoming in Psychological Review
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 24 May 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Colorado, Colorado Springs - Psychology, Yale University, University of Warwick and Princeton University - Department of Psychology
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189
31.
Updating Beliefs Under Perceived Threat
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 21 Apr 2018
Working Paper Series
University College London - Affective Brain Lab, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London - Department of Experimental Psychology, Affective Brain Lab, University College London - Department of Experimental Psychology, Affective Brain Lab, University of Sheffield - Department of Psychology and University College London - Affective Brain Lab, Department of Experimental Psychology
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32.
Hierarchically Minded: Levels of Intentionality and Mind Reading
Homenaje A Francisco Gutiérrez Díez, Rafael Monroy, ed., Murcia, 2013,
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 15 Apr 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Universidad de Zaragoza
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173
33.
Biases in Perceiving One’s Own Social Position and Social Ties as Evolved Psychological Mechanisms
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 07 Jul 2011
Last Revised: 15 Jun 2012
Working Paper Series
Interdisciplinary Scientific Research
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160
34.
Two Views of Passionate Love: Why Infatuation is Better Explained by the Transference Model than the Evolutionary Model
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 20 May 2014
Working Paper Series
Independent
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160
35.
Strategy and Innovation as Evolutionary Learning between Capabilities and Routines
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 22 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 20 Dec 2013
Working Paper Series
Institute for Management Research Cologne
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156
36.
Social Incentives and Human Evolution
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 08 Dec 2009
Last Revised: 28 Jun 2011
Working Paper Series
Barradale Asset Management
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155
37.
A Critical View on Conceptual Blending Theory
Glebkin, V. (2013). A Critical View on Conceptual Blending Theory. In M. Knauff, M.
Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the
Cognitive Science Society (p. 2404-2409). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Number of pages: 6
Posted: 24 Jul 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
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149
38.
The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence
PIER Working Paper No. 17-021
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 04 Dec 2017
Working Paper Series
Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Wayfair, Inc.
There are 3 versions of this paper
The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence
PIER Working Paper No. 18-016
Number of pages: 76
Posted: 20 Aug 2018
Last Revised: 23 Aug 2018
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160
The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence
PIER Working Paper No. 17-021
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 04 Dec 2017
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148
The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13113
Number of pages: 78
Posted: 21 Aug 2018
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2
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148
39.
From Earth to the Universe: Life, Intelligence, and Evolution
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 21 Oct 2016
Working Paper Series
National Institute of Aerospace
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119
40.
Beyond 'Genetic Discrimination': Toward the Broader Harm of Geneticism
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 345-353, Winter 1995
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 22 Dec 2010
Last Revised: 20 Feb 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Minnesota Law School
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112
41.
Coordinated Punishment Does Not Proliferate When Defectors Can Also Punish Cooperators
in “Antisocial Behavior: Etiology, Genetic and Environmental Influences and Clinical Management,” Ed. Gallo JH. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Publishers. ISBN: 978-1-63321-521-4.,
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 12 Jun 2014
Last Revised: 01 Feb 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard University - Department of Human Evolutionary Biology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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106
42.
Culture as an Evolutionary Arena
Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 321-362, 1996
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 09 Jan 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Independent
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106
43.
Strategy, Action, Perception and Performance: An Evolutionary Learning Perspective on Organizations
Revised version of paper for British Academy of Management Annual Conference 2005, Said Business School, Oxford.
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 19 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 29 Apr 2010
Working Paper Series
Institute for Management Research Cologne
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95
44.
Why Violence? Because the Irrationalities Induced by Choice Frames Make Perfect Evolutionary Sense
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 15 Dec 2009
Working Paper Series
University of Connecticut
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94
45.
Principles and Development of Natural Intelligence
Journal of Social and Biological Structures Vol. 11, pp. 293-322, 1988
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 12 Nov 2009
Accepted Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Independent
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91
46.
The Endowment Effect in Orangutans
International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 2012, 25, 285-298, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 13-29
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 11 Oct 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Georgia State University - Language Research Center, Vanderbilt University - Law School & Dept. of Biological Sciences, Zoo Atlanta, Zoo Atlanta and Georgia State University
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90
47.
The Evolution of Communication Systems
Loet Leydesdorff, The Evolution of Communication Systems, Int. J. Systems Research and Information Science 6 (1994) 219-230
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 21 Mar 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)
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88
48.
Coevolution of Deception and Preferences: Darwin and Nash Meet Machiavelli
Games and Economic Behavior, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 02 Sep 2014
Last Revised: 27 Sep 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Bar Ilan University and University of Oxford - Nuffield College of Medicine
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81
49.
Trees of History in Systematics, Historical Linguistics, and Stemmatics: A Working Interdisciplinary Bibliography
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 21 Dec 2014
Last Revised: 08 Nov 2015
Working Paper Series
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
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81
50.
Natural Selection as a Mechanism
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 12 Dec 2008
Last Revised: 17 Dec 2008
Working Paper Series
University of Toledo - College of Law
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80
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