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Leda Cosmides, (born May 7, 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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) is an American psychologist, who, together with anthropologist husband John Tooby
John Tooby

John Tooby is an United States anthropologist, who, together with psychologist wife Leda Cosmides, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology....
, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary psychology

Evolutionary psychology attempts to explain Mind and psychology Trait theorys?such as memory, perception, or language?as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection....
.

Cosmides originally studied biology at Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
, receiving her A.B. in 1979. While an undergraduate she was influenced by the renowned evolutionary biologist Robert L. Trivers who was her advisor. In 1985, Cosmides received a Ph.D in cognitive psychology
Cognitive psychology

Cognitive psychology is a branch of psychology that investigates internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language.The school of thought arising from this approach is known as cognitivism which is interested in how people mentally represent information processing....
 from Harvard and, after completing postdoctoral work under Roger Shepard
Roger Shepard

Roger Newland Shepard is a cognitive science and author of Toward a Universal Law of Generalization for Psychological Science. He is seen as a father of research on spatial relations....
 at Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
, joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public university research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system....
 in 1991, becoming a full professor in 2000.

In 1992, together with John Tooby
John Tooby

John Tooby is an United States anthropologist, who, together with psychologist wife Leda Cosmides, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology....
 and Jerome Barkow, Cosmides edited The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
The Adapted Mind

The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture is an edited volume, first published in 1992 by Oxford University Press, edited by Jerome Barkow, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby....
.






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Leda Cosmides, (born May 7, 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population city in the United States. It is the fifth-largest metropolitan area and fourth-largest urban area by population in the United States, the nation's fourth-largest consumer media market as ranked by the Nielsen Media Research, and the 49th-most...
) is an American psychologist, who, together with anthropologist husband John Tooby
John Tooby

John Tooby is an United States anthropologist, who, together with psychologist wife Leda Cosmides, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology....
, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary psychology

Evolutionary psychology attempts to explain Mind and psychology Trait theorys?such as memory, perception, or language?as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection....
.

Cosmides originally studied biology at Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
, receiving her A.B. in 1979. While an undergraduate she was influenced by the renowned evolutionary biologist Robert L. Trivers who was her advisor. In 1985, Cosmides received a Ph.D in cognitive psychology
Cognitive psychology

Cognitive psychology is a branch of psychology that investigates internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language.The school of thought arising from this approach is known as cognitivism which is interested in how people mentally represent information processing....
 from Harvard and, after completing postdoctoral work under Roger Shepard
Roger Shepard

Roger Newland Shepard is a cognitive science and author of Toward a Universal Law of Generalization for Psychological Science. He is seen as a father of research on spatial relations....
 at Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
, joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public university research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system....
 in 1991, becoming a full professor in 2000.

In 1992, together with John Tooby
John Tooby

John Tooby is an United States anthropologist, who, together with psychologist wife Leda Cosmides, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology....
 and Jerome Barkow, Cosmides edited The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
The Adapted Mind

The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture is an edited volume, first published in 1992 by Oxford University Press, edited by Jerome Barkow, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby....
. She and Tooby also co-founded and co-direct the Center for Evolutionary Psychology
Center for Evolutionary Psychology

Center for Evolutionary Psychology is a research center co-founded and co-directed by John Tooby and Leda Cosmides and is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara....
.

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 Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are United States Grant s that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes multiple awards in each of two separate compe...
 and the 2005 National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award
National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award

National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award is research initiative first announced in 2004 designed to support individual scientists' biomedical research....
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Selected publications

Books

  • Barkow, J., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J., (eds) (1992) The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (New York: Oxford University Press).
  • Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2000) Evolutionary psychology: Foundational papers (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
  • Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (in press) Universal Minds: Explaining the new science of evolutionary psychology (Darwinism Today Series) (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson).


Papers

  • Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1987) "From evolution to behavior: Evolutionary psychology as the missing link" in J. Dupre (ed.), The latest on the best: Essays on evolution and optimality (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press).
  • Cosmides, L. (1989) "The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selection task," Cognition, 31, 187-276.
  • Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1992) "Cognitive adaptations for social exchange," in Barkow, J., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J., (eds) (1992) The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (New York: Oxford University Press).
  • Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2003) "Evolutionary psychology: Theoretical Foundations," in Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (London: Macmillan).
  • Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2005) "Evolutionary psychology: Conceptual foundations," in D. M. Buss (ed.), Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (New York: Wiley).


See also

  • Behavioural genetics
    Behavioural genetics

    Behavioural genetics is the field of biology that studies the role of genetics in animal behaviour. The field is an overlap of genetics, ethology and psychology....
  • Evolutionary psychology
    Evolutionary psychology

    Evolutionary psychology attempts to explain Mind and psychology Trait theorys?such as memory, perception, or language?as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection....
  • Human behavioral ecology
    Human behavioral ecology

    Human behavioral ecology or human evolutionary ecology applies the principles of evolutionary theory and Optimization to the study of human behavioral and cultural diversity....
  • Standard social science model
    Standard social science model

    The term the Standard Social Science Model was first introduced to a wide audience in the 1992 edited volume The Adapted Mind, and is commonly used by proponents of evolutionary psychology to describe a "blank slate" or "cultural determinist" perspective they attribute to the social sciences that developed during the 20th century....


External links

Websites


Articles and interviews
  • - profile by Kam Patel, Darwin@LSE. (Originally published in The Times Higher Education Supplement
    The Times Higher Education Supplement

    The Times Higher Education , formerly The Times Higher Education Supplement , is a magazine based in London reporting specifically on news and other issues related to British higher education, largely the University, including former and current polytechnics....
    , 4 August, 1995).
  • , published in El Mercurio
    El Mercurio

    El Mercurio is a Conservatism Chilean newspaper with editions in Valpara?so and Santiago, Chile. Its Santiago edition is considered the country's newspaper of record and its Valpara?so edition is the oldest daily in the Spanish language currently in circulation....
    , October 28, 2001.
  • - article on Cosmides, Tooby and Kurzban's research into the origin of racism, The Economist
    The Economist

    The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international relations publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in London....
    , December 13, 2001.


Media
  • audio of a lecture at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
    Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

    The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics is an institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara.KITP is one of the most renowned institutes for theoretical physics in the world....
    , May 20, 1998 (with Tooby).
  • audio or video of a lecture at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
    Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

    The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics is an institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara.KITP is one of the most renowned institutes for theoretical physics in the world....
    , October 29, 2003 (with Tooby).
  • radio interview, Philosophy Talk
    Philosophy Talk

    Philosophy Talk is a talk radio program co-hosted by John Perry and Kenneth Allen Taylor, who are professors at Stanford University. The show is also available as a podcast....
    , May 24, 2005.
  • radio program, All in the Mind
    All in the Mind (Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio)

    All in the Mind is a weekly Radio National program, hosted by Australian science journalist Natasha Mitchell, exploring the mind, brain and behaviour....
    , March 10, 2007. Contains a recording of her presentation to the "Challenge of Transhumanism" conference at Arizona State University.