Can manipulations of cognitive load be used to test evolutionary hypotheses?

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 513-518

  Barrett, H Clark ^a   Frederick, David A ^a   Haselton, Martie G ^a   Kurzban, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Cognitive load; Evolutionary psychology; Jealousy; Modularity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JEALOUSY; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY;

AUTOMATISM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JEALOUSY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 33748549947     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.91.3.513     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Barrett, H. C. (2005). Enzymatic computation and cognitive modularity. Mind and language, 20, 259-287.
2. Barrett, H. C., & Kurzban, R. (in press). Modularity in cognition: Framing the debate. Psychological Review.
3. Bédard, J. & Chi, M. T. H. (1992). Expertise. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 1, 135-139.
4. Buss, D. M. (2000). The dangerous passion: Why jealousy is as necessary as love and sex. New York: Free Press.
5. Buss, D. M., & Haselton, M. G. (2005). The evolution of jealousy: A response to Buller. Trends in Cognitive Science, 9, 506-507.
6. Buss, D. M., & Kenrick, D. T. (1998). Evolutionary social psychology. In D. T. Gilbert, S. T. Fiske, & G. Lindzey (Eds.), The handbook of social psychology (4th ed., pp. 982-1026). Boston: McGraw-Hill.
7. Buss, D. M., Larsen, R. J., Westen, D., & Semmelroth, J. (1992). Sex differences in jealousy: Evolution, physiology, and psychology. Psychological Science, 3, 251-255.
8. Buss, D. M., & Shackelford, T. K. (1997). From vigilance to violence: Mate retention tactics in married couples. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 346-361.
9. Buunk, B. P., Angleitner, A., Oubaid, V., & Buss, D. M. (1996). Sex differences in jealousy in evolutionary and cultural perspective: Tests from the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States. Psychological Science, 7, 359-363.
10. Chase, W., & Simon, H. A. (1973). Perception in chess. Cognitive Psychology, 5, 55-81.
11. Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (1994). Beyond intuition and instinct blindness: The case for an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science. Cognition, 50, 41-77.
12. DeSteno, D., Bartlett, M. Y., Braverman, J., & Salovey, P. (2002). Sex differences in jealousy: Evolutionary mechanism or artifact of measurement? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 1103-1116.
13. Eberhardt, J. L., Goff, P. A., Purdie, V. J., & Davies, P. G. (2004). Seeing black: Race, crime, and visual processing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 876-893.
14. Fodor, J. A. (1983). Modularity of mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
15. Fodor, J. A. (2000). The mind doesn't work that way. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
16. Harris, C. R. (2000). Psychophysiological responses to imagined infidelity: The specific innate modular view of jealousy reconsidered. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 1082-1091.
17. Harris, C. R. (2003). A review of sex differences in sexual jealousy, including self-report data, psychophysiological responses, interpersonal violence, and morbid jealousy. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 7, 102-128.
18. Harris, C. R. (2005). Male and female jealousy, still more similar than different: Reply to Sagarin (2005). Personality and Social Psychology Review, 9, 76-86.
19. Harris, P. L. (2000). The work of the imagination. New York: Blackwell.
20. Haselton, M. G., & Gangestad, S. W. (2006). Conditional expression of women's desires and men's mate guarding across the ovulatory cycle. Hormones and Behavior, 49, 509-518.
21. Hill, K. R., & Hurtado, A. M. (1996). Aché life history: The ecology and demography of a foraging people. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
22. Hurtado, A. M., & Hill, K. R. (1992). Paternal effect on offspring survivorship among Ache and Hiwi hunter-gatherers: Implications for mod eling pair-bond stability. In B. S. Hewlett (Ed.), Father-child relations: Cultural and biosocial contexts (pp. 31-55). Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
23. Kurzban, R., Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (2001). Can race be erased? Coalitional oomputation and social categorization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98, 15387-15392.
24. Marlowe, F. (2003). A critical period for provisioning by Hadza men: Implications for pair bonding. Evolution and Human Behavior, 24, 217-229.
25. Payne, B. K., Lambert, A. J., & Jacoby, L. L. (2002). Best laid plans: Effects of goals on accessibility bias and cognitive control in race-based misperceptions of weapons. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 384-396.
26. Pinker, S. (1997). How the mind works. New York: Norton.
27. Pinker, S. (2005). So how does the mind work? Mind and Language, 20, 1-24.
28. Sagarin, B. J. (2005). Reconsidering sex differences in jealousy: Comment on Harris (2003). Personality and Social Psychology Review, 9, 62-75.
29. Simpson, J. A., & Campbell, L. (2005). Methods of evolutionary sciences. In D. M. Buss (Ed.), The handbook of evolutionary psychology (pp. 119-144). New York: Wiley.
30. Sperber, D. (1994). The modularity of thought and the epidemiology of representations. In L. A. Hirschfeld & S. A. Gelman (Eds.). Mapping the mind: Domain specificity in cognition and culture (pp. 39-67). New York: Cambridge University Press.
31. Sperber, D. (Ed.). (2000). Metarepresentations: A multidisciplinary perspective. New York: Oxford University Press.
32. Sperber, D. (2005). Modularity and relevance: How can a massively modular mind be flexible and context-sensitive? In P. Carruthers, S. Laurence, & S. Stich (Eds.), The innate mind: Structure and contents (pp. 53-68). New York: Oxford University Press.
33. Symons, D. (1979). The evolution of human sexuality. New York: Oxford University Press.
34. Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (1992). The psychological foundations of culture. In J. H. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (pp. 19-136). New York: Oxford University Press.
35. Trivers, R. (1972). Parental investment and sexual selection. In B. Campbell (Ed.), Sexual selection and the descent of man, 1871-1971 (pp. 136-179). Chicago: Aldine Publishing.