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.