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Leda Cosmides

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Leda Cosmides is a Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
She is the co-director of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology.
Focus of research: Evolutionary psychology and cognitive science. Using evolutionary theory to develop computational theories of adaptive information-processing problems. Testing for presence of evolutionarily predicted information-processing mechanisms, their neural basis, and cultural sequelae. Empirical work focuses on cooperation, threat, coalitional psychology, kin detection, incest avoidance, intuitive statistics, computational approach to motivation.

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Average rating: 4.0 · 552 ratings · 36 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind by Simon Baron-Cohen, Leda Cosmides (Foreword), John Tooby (Foreword) 3.82 avg rating — 287 ratings — published 1995 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture by Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby 4.21 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 1992 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Human Morality and Sociality: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives by Henrik Hogh-Olesen, Christophe Boesch, Leda Cosmides 3.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Is Evolutionary Psychology: Explaining the New Science of the Mind by Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, Helena Cronin (Editor) 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The dapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture by Jerome H. Barkow (Editor), Leda Cosmides (Editor), John Tooby (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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