Evolution, psychology, and a conflict theory of culture

Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 208-233

  MacDonald, Kevin ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Evolution; Explicit processing; Ideology; Social controls

Indexed keywords

EID: 67249129780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14747049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/147470490900700206     Document Type: Article

References (108)

1. Alexander, R. D. (1979). Darwinism and human affairs. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
2. Baochang, G., Feng, W., Zhigang, G., and Erli, Z. (2007). China's local and national fertility policies at the end of the twentieth century. Population and Development Review, 33, 129-147.
3. Baron-Cohen, S. (1995). Mindblindness: An essay on autism and theory of mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books.
4. Bentley, R. A., Hahn, M. W., and Shennan, S. J. (2004). Random drift and culture change. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 271, 1443-1450.
5. Bentley, R. A., Lipo, C. P., Hahn, H. A., and Hahn, M. W. (2007). Regular rates of popular culture change reflect random copying. Evolution and Human Behavior, 28, 151-158.
6. Bischof, N. (1980). On the phylogeny of human morality. In G. S. Stent (Ed.), Morality as biological phenomenon (pp. 53-74). Berkeley: University of California Press.
7. Blair, I. V. (2001). Implicit stereotypes and prejudice. In G.B. Moskowitz (Ed.). Cognitive social psychology: The Princeton symposium on the legacy and future of social cognition, (pp. 359 374). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
8. Boehm, C. (1997). Impact of the human egalitarian syndrome on Darwinian selection mechanics. American Naturalist, 150, Supplement, S106-S121.
9. Boehm, C. (1999). Hierarchy in the forest: The evolution of egalitarian behavior. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
10. Bookman, M. Z. (1997). The demographic struggle for power: The political economy of demographic engineering in the modern world. London, and Portland OR: Frank Cass.
11. Bowlby, J. (1969). Attachment and loss: Vol. I. Attachment. New York: Basic Books.
12. Boyd, R., Gintis, H., Bowles, S., and Richerson, P. J. (2003). The evolution of altruistic punishment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 100, 3531-3535.
13. Boyd, R., and Richerson, P. J. (1988). The evolution of reciprocity in sizeable groups. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 132, 337-356.
14. Boyd, R., and Richerson, P. J. (1992). Punishment allows the evolution of cooperation (or anything else) in sizable groups. Ethology and Sociobiology, 13, 171-195.
15. Boyd, R., and Richerson, P. J. (2002). Group-beneficial norms spread rapidly in a structured population. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 215, 287-296.
16. Buss, D. M. (2005). The murderer next door: Why the mind is designed to kill. New York: Penguin.
17. Carpenter, P., Just, M., and Shell, P. (1990). What one intelligence test measures: A theoretical account of the processing in the Raven Progressive Matrices Test. Psychological Review, 97, 404-431.
18. Chiappe, D., and MacDonald, K. B. (2005). The evolution of domain-general mechanisms in intelligence and learning. Journal of General Psychology, 132, 5-40.
19. Cochran, G., and Harpending, H. (2009). The 10,000 year explosion: How civilization accelerated human evolution. New York: Basic Books.
20. Cosmides, L. (1989). The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Cognition, 31, 187-276.
21. Council of Europe (2006). Resolution 1481: Need for international condemnation of crimes of totalitarian communist regimes. http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=/Documents/AdoptedText/ta06/Eres1481.htm
22. Cunningham, W. A., Johnson, M. K., Raye, C. L., Gatenby, J. C., Gore, J. C., and Banaji, M. (2004). Separable neural components in the processing of Black and White faces. Psychological Science, 15, 806-813.
23. Courtois, S. (1999). Introduction: The crimes of Communism. In S. Courtois, N., Werth, J. Panné, A. Paczkowski, K. Bartosek, and J. Margolin (Eds.). The black book of communism: Crimes, terror, repression (J. Murphy and M. Kramer, Trans.) (pp. 1-31). Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
24. nd ed. London: John Murray, Albemarle St.
25. De Backer, C. J. S., and Gurven, M. (2006). Whispering down the lane: The economics of vicarious information transfer. Adaptive Behavior, 14, 249-264.
26. Devine, P. G., Plant, E. A., Amodio, D. M., Harmon-Jones, E., Vance, S. L. (2002). The regulation of explicit and implicit race bias: The role of motivations to respond without prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 835-848.
27. Dickemann, M. (1979). Female infanticide, reproductive strategies, and social stratification: A preliminary model. In N. A. Chagnon and W. Irons (Eds.), Evolutionary biology and human social behavior (pp. 321-368). North Scituate: Duxbury Press.
28. Donahue, C. (1979). What causes fundamental legal ideas? Marital property in England and France in the thirteenth century. Michigan Law Review, 78, 59-88.
29. Durham, W. (1991). Coevolution: Genes, culture, and human diversity. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
30. Frank, S. A. (2003). Perspective: Repression of competition and the evolution of cooperation. Evolution, 57, 693-705.
31. Geary, D. C. (1995). Reflections of evolution and culture in children's cognition: Implications for mathematical development and instruction. American Psychologist, 50, 24-37.
32. Geary, D. (2005). The origin of mind: Evolution of brain, cognition, and general intelligence. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
33. Geary, D. C., and Huffman, K. J. (2002). Brain and cognitive evolution: Forms of modularity and functions of mind. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 667-698.
34. Gentner, D. and Holyoak, K. (1997). Reasoning and learning by analogy. American Psychologist, 52, 32-34.
35. Gerring, J., 1997. Ideology: A definitional analysis. Political Research Quarterly, 50, 957-994.
36. Glucksberg, S. (2001). Understanding figurative language: From metaphors to idioms. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
37. Goetz, P., and D. Walters (1997) The dynamics of recurrent behaviour networks. Adaptive Behaviour, 6, 245-282.
38. Gray, J. A. (1987). The psychology of fear and stress. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
39. Gray, J. A., and McNaughton, N. (1996). The neuropsychology of anxiety: A reprise. In D. Hope (Ed.), Nebraska symposium on motivation: Perspectives in anxiety, (pp. 61-134). Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press.
40. Harpending, H., and Cochran, G. (2002). In our genes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 99, 10-12.
41. Henrich, J., and Boyd, R. (2001). Why people punish defectors: Weak conformist transmisison can stabilize costly enforcement of norms in cooperative dilemmas. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 208, 79-89.
42. Henrich, N., and Henrich, J. (2007). Why humans cooperate: A cultural and evolutionary explanation. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
43. Holyoak, K., and Thagard, P. (1995). Mental leaps: Analogy in creative thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
44. Horn, J. L., and Hofer, S. M. (1992). Major abilities and development in the adult period. In R. J. Sternberg and C. A. Berg (Eds.), Intellectual development (pp. 44-99). New York: Cambridge University Press.
45. Huntington, S. P. (1957). Conservatism as an ideology. American Political Science Review, 51, 454-473.
46. Johnson-Laird, P. N. (1983). Mental models. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
47. Karmiloff-Smith, A. (1992). Beyond modularity: A developmental perspective on cognitive science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
48. Knight, K. (2006). Transformations of the concept of ideology in the twentieth century. American Political Science Review, 100, 619-625.
49. Köhler, W. B. (1927). The mentality of apes. New York: Vintage books (reprinted, 1973).
50. nd ed.) (pp. 243-274). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
51. Krebs, D., Denton, K., and Higgins, N. C. (1988). On the evolution of self-knowledge and self-deception. In K. MacDonald (Ed.), Sociobiological perspectives on human development (pp. 103-139). New York: Springer-Verlag.
52. LeDoux, J. (2000). Emotion circuits in the brain. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 23, 155-184.
53. Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Social cognitive neuroscience: A review of core processes. Annual Review of Psychology, 58, 259-289.
54. Lorenz, K. (1981). Foundations of ethology. New York: Springer-Verlag.
55. Lynch, J. H. (1992). The medieval church. London: Longman.
56. MacDonald, K. B. (1983). Production, social controls and ideology: Toward a sociobiology of the phenotype. Journal of Social and Biological Structures, 6, 297-317.
57. MacDonald, K. B. (1988). Sociobiology and the cognitive-developmental tradition in moral development. In K. MacDonald (Ed.), Sociobiological perspectives on human development (pp. 140-167). New York: Springer-Verlag.
58. MacDonald, K. B. (1990). Mechanisms of sexual egalitarianism in Western Europe. Ethology and Sociobiology, 11, 195-238.
59. MacDonald, K. B. (1991). A perspective on Darwinian psychology: The importance of domain-general mechanisms, plasticity, and individual differences. Ethology and Sociobiology, 12, 449-480.
60. MacDonald, K. B. (1994). A people that shall dwell alone. Westport, CT: Praeger.
61. MacDonald, K. B. (1995). The establishment and maintenance of socially imposed monogamy in Western Europe. Politics and the Life Sciences, 14, 3-23.
62. MacDonald, K. B. (1998). The culture of critique. Westport, CT: Praeger; reprint: Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse, 2002.
63. MacDonald, K. (2008). Effortful control, explicit processing and the regulation of human evolved predispositions. Psychological Review, 115, 1012-1031.
64. Milinski, M., Semmann, D., and Krambeck, H. (2002). Reputation helps solve the 'tragedy of the commons.' Nature, 415, 424-426.
65. Mohtashemi, M., and Mui, L. (2003). Evolution of indirect reciprocity by social information: The role of trust and reputation in evolution of altruism. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 223, 523-531.
66. Monteith, M. J., Ashburn-Nardo, L., Voils, C. I., and Czopp, A. M. (2002). Putting the brakes on prejudice: On the development and operation of cues for control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 1029-1050.
67. Monteith, M. J., and Voils, C. I. (2001). Exerting control over prejudiced responses. In G.B. Moskowitz (Ed.). Cognitive social psychology: The Princeton symposium on the legacy and future of social cognition (pp. 375-388). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
68. Morsella, E. (2005). The function of phenomenal states: Supramodular interaction theory. Psychological Review, 112, 1000-1021.
69. Mosher, W. D., Williams, L. B., and Johnson, D. P. (1992). Religion and fertility in the United States: New Patterns. Demography, 29, 199-214.
70. Orbell, J. M., van de Kragt, A., and Dawes, R. M. (1988). Explaining discussion-induced cooperation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 811-819.
71. Osvath, M. (2009). Spontaneous planning for future stone throwing by a male chimpanzee. Current Biology, 19, R190-R191.
72. Panchanathan K., and Boyd, R. (2003) A tale of two defectors: The importance of standing for evolution of indirect reciprocity. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 224, 115-126.
73. Penn, D. C., Holyoak, K. J., and Povinelli, D. J. (2008). Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and non-human minds. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 109-178.
74. Pinker, S. J. (1994). The language instinct. New York: William Morrow and Co.
75. Povinelli, D. J. (2000). Folk physics for apes: The chimpanzee's theory of how the world works. New York: Oxford University Press.
76. Raine, A., Meloy, J. R., Buhrle, S., Stoddard, J., LaCasse, L., and Muchsbaum, M. S. (1998). Reduced prefrontal and increased subcortical brain functioning assessed using Positron Emission Tomography in predatory and affective murderers. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 16, 319-332.
77. Richerson, P. J., and Boyd, R. (2000). Climate, culture, and the evolution of cognition. In C. Hayes and L. Huber (Eds.), The evolution of cognition (pp. 329-346). Cambridge, MA: MIT press.
78. Richerson, P. J., and Boyd, R. (2005). Not by genes alone: How culture transformed human evolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
79. Richeson, J. A., and Shelton, J. N. (2003). When prejudice does not pay: Effects of interracial contact on executive function. Psychological Science, 14, 287-290.
80. Richeson, J. A., Trawalter, S., and Shelton, J. N. (2005). African Americans' implicit racial attitudes and the depletion of executive function after interracial interactions. Social Cognition, 23, 336-352.
81. Roberts, W. A. (2002). Are animals stuck in time? Psychological Bulletin, 128, 473-489.
82. Ross, R. J. (2000). The failure of Bismarck's Kulturkampf: Catholicism and state power in Imperial Germany, 1871-1887. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press.
83. Satpute, A. B., and Lieberman, M. D. (2006). Integrating automatic and controlled processes into neurocognitive models of social cognition. Brain Research, 1079, 86-97.
84. Semmann, D., Krambeck, H., and Milinski, M. (2005). Reputation is valuable within and outside one's own social group. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 57, 611-616.
85. Shennan, S. (2006). From cultural history to cultural evolution: An archeological perspective on information transmission. In G.C.K. Well, S. Strickland, and K. Laland (Eds.), Social information transmission and human biology (pp. 173-190). London: Taylor and Francis.
86. Singh, D. (1993). Adaptive significance of waist-to-hip ratio and female physical attractiveness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 293-307.
87. Slezkine, Y. (2004). The Jewish century. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
88. Smith, E. A. (2003). Human cooperation: Perspectives from behavioral ecology. In P. Hammerstein (Ed.), Genetic and cultural evolution of cooperation (pp. 401-427). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
89. Smith, E. A. (2005). Making it real: Interpreting economic experiments. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 832-833.
90. Sober, E., and Wilson, D. (1998). Unto others. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
91. Soltis., J., Boyd, R., and Richerson, P. J. (1995). Can group funcitonal behaviors evolve by cultural group selection? An empirical test. Current Anthropology, 36, 473-494.
92. Sperber, D., and Hirschfeld, L. A. (2004). The cognitive foundations of cultural stability and diversity. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 40-46.
93. Stanovich, K. E. (1999). Who is rational? Studies of individual differences in reasoning. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
94. Stanovich, K. E., and West, R. F. (2000). Individual differences in reasoning: Implications for the rationality debate. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 645-665.
95. Stanovich, K. E. (2004). The robot's rebellion: Finding meaning in the age of Darwin. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
96. Striedter, G. F. (2005). Principles of brain evolution. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates.
97. Suddendorf, T., and Corballis, M. C. (1997). Mental time travel and the evolution of the human mind. Genetic, Social and General Psychology Monographs, 123, 133-197.
98. Tellenbach, G. (1993). The church in Western Europe from the tenth to the early twelfth century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
99. Tinbergen, N. (1951). The study of instinct. Oxford, UK: The Clarendon Press.
100. Tooby, J., and Cosmides, L. (1992). The psychological foundations of culture. In J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, and J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (pp. 19-136). New York: Cambridge University Press.
101. Werth, N. (1999). A state against its people: Violence, repression, and terror in the Soviet Union. In S. Courtois, N. Werth, J. Panné, A. Paczkowski, K. Bartosek, and J. Margolin (Eds.). The black book of communism: Crimes, terror, repression (pp. XX) (J. Murphy and M. Kramer, Trans.) (pp. 33-268). Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
102. Wheeler, M. E., and Fiske, S. T. (2005). Controlling racial prejudice: Social-cognitive goals affect amygdala and stereotype activation. Psychological Science, 16, 56-63.
103. Wilson, D. S. (2002). Darwin's cathedral: Evolution, religion, and the nature of society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
104. Wilson, E. O. (1975). Sociobiology: The new synthesis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
105. Wilson, E. O. (1978). On human nature. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
106. Wilson, T. D. (2002). Strangers to ourselves: Discovering the adaptive unconscious. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
107. Wynn, T., and Coolidge, F. (2003). The role of working memory in the evolution of managed foraging. Before Farming, 2, 1-16.
108. Zeki, S. (1993). A vision of the brain. London: Blackwell.