From Mating to Mentality: Evaluating Evolutionary Psychology (Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
THE ADAPTED MIND PROGRAM......Page 13
EVIDENTIAL ISSUES......Page 15
THE SHADOW OF THE PLEISTOCENE......Page 17
THE COMPARATIVE CONTEXT......Page 19
ADAPTATION AND DEVELOPMENT......Page 21
REFERENCES......Page 23
2 Evolutionary Cognitive Science......Page 25
The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand Did Not Really Start World War I......Page 27
The War Is Over, We All Won......Page 32
The Mind Is Not a Tabula Rasa, It’s a Coloring Book......Page 33
The Human Brain Is Not Designed to Recognize Words Presented at 250 msec.......Page 35
Human Reproduction Is More Than Just Copulation......Page 36
Six Minds Are Better Than One......Page 37
Reductionism Ain’t What It Used to Be......Page 40
The Dynamical Adaptationist Map: Don’t Leave Home Without It......Page 44
REFERENCES......Page 47
3 Strategic Pluralism and Context-Specific Mate Preferences in Humans......Page 51
Sexual Selection and Adaptations......Page 52
Evolutionary Functional Analysis and Trade-Offs......Page 53
Sexual Strategies......Page 55
Sex Differences in Mating Strategies......Page 56
Cost-Benefit Considerations......Page 57
Genetic Variation in Fitness......Page 58
Markers of Heritable Fitness......Page 59
Testing Good-Genes Sexual Selection......Page 60
Fluctuating Asymmetry and Health......Page 62
Fluctuating Asymmetry and Women’s Extra-Pair Sex......Page 63
Fluctuating Asymmetry and Associated Cues......Page 64
Women Preferring Symmetrical Men for Their Genes......Page 65
Fluctuating Asymmetry and Investment in Exclusive Relationships......Page 68
Male Attributes Predicting Women’s Mating......Page 69
Environmental Factors: Between-Population Differences......Page 70
CONCLUSIONS......Page 73
NOTES......Page 75
REFERENCES......Page 77
4 The Intimate Relationship Mind......Page 84
LOVE......Page 85
Problems......Page 89
MATE SELECTION......Page 91
The Multiple Functions of Mate Ideal Standards......Page 99
IMPLICATIONS......Page 100
REFERENCES......Page 103
5 Evolving to Be Mentalists......Page 107
Theoretical Orientation and Terminology (a Quick Romp)......Page 108
Empathy and Its Relation to Mind-Reading......Page 109
THE NEED FOR A NEW HYPOTHESIS......Page 110
The Intervening Variable Hypothesis......Page 111
The Manipulation Hypothesis......Page 112
THE EVOLUTIONARY CONTEXT OF COMPLEX MIND-READING: WHEN DID IT ARISE?......Page 116
1. The Mother Realizes (or Fondly Imagines) that Her Infant Loves Her......Page 118
3. Accarate Attributions of Knowledge and Ignorance Allow More Efficient Maternal Vigilance for Hazards......Page 121
4. Mother Learns to Accelerate Operant Conditioning by Making Rewards and Punishments More Effective......Page 122
5. Tough Nuts to Crack: Mother Understands that Something Is Unfamiliar and Difficult for Her Offspring......Page 123
6. Re-enter the Intervening Variable Hypothesis......Page 126
Nongenetic or Nurtured......Page 127
CONCLUSIONS......Page 128
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 132
REFERENCES......Page 133
IS THEORY OF MIND AN ADAPTATION?One hallmark of evolutionary psychology is the proposition that the mind is largely the product of natural selection and so is essentially a set of adaptations for solving the most enduring adaptive problems encountered by our ancestors. Such adaptations are widely referred to as modules, which are conceived as innate, informationally encapsulated, domain-specific brain mechanisms for processing the information logically required to solve particular adaptive proble......Page 137
The Adaptive Problem: Predicting the Future......Page 140
The Adaptive Solution: Detecting Contingency......Page 142
A PHYLOGENY OF THEORY OF MIND......Page 146
THE ONTOGENY OF THEORY OF MIND......Page 154
NOTES......Page 158
REFERENCES......Page 160
RECURSION......Page 167
Recursion and Syntax......Page 168
Recursion and Theory of Mind......Page 170
DEVELOPMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS......Page 171
Language and Syntax......Page 174
Theory of Mind......Page 175
Episodic Memory and Mental Time Travel......Page 177
A NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE......Page 178
TOWARD A THEORY......Page 180
REFERENCES......Page 181
8 Reinterpreting the Mentality of Apes......Page 184
THE REINTERPRETATION HYPOTHESIS......Page 185
WHEN IS BEHAVIOR CAUSED BY THEORY OF MIND?......Page 186
REINTERPRETATION ONLY WHEN FALSE-BELIEFS ARE UNDERSTOOD?......Page 188
YOUNG CHILDREN’S THEORY OF MIND......Page 189
EVIDENCE FROM GREAT APES......Page 190
THE MENTALITY OF APES......Page 192
Pretense......Page 193
Means-Ends Reasoning......Page 194
Mirror Self-Recognition......Page 195
Understanding Imitation......Page 196
IMPLICIT UNDERSTANDING OF THE MIND?......Page 198
ADAPTIVE ADVANTAGE......Page 199
REFERENCES......Page 201
9  Does the Selection Task Detect Cheater-Detection?......Page 209
The Theory......Page 210
The Task......Page 211
Using the Task to Test the Theory......Page 212
IS THE SELECTION TASK AN APPROPRIATE TOOL FOR STUDYING HUMAN REASONING?......Page 213
The Principle of Preemptive Specificity......Page 216
Instructional Blindness or Pragmatic Interpretation?......Page 218
Selection Task Versus Categorization Task......Page 221
Looking for Cheaters Versus Looking for Exchanges......Page 223
Experiment 1......Page 224
Method......Page 226
Results and Discussion......Page 227
Experiment 2A......Page 228
Experiment 2B......Page 229
Discussion of the Experiments......Page 231
CONCLUSION......Page 232
NOTES......Page 235
REFERENCES......Page 236
10 Clinical Psychology and Evolutionary Psychology......Page 239
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY......Page 240
EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOPATHOLOGY......Page 241
What Is Evolutionary Psychopathology?......Page 242
Evolutionary Psychopathology: Modular Madness or Mad Modules?......Page 243
The Social Competition Hypothesis of Depression......Page 245
Implications for Theory and Etiology of Mental Disorder......Page 248
Some Implications for Treatment......Page 250
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 253
NOTES......Page 254
REFERENCES......Page 255
INTRODUCTION......Page 259
THE CHALLENGE OF ADAPTIVE EXPLANATION......Page 260
Are Adaptive Explanations Hard to Come By?......Page 261
HOW DOES EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY MEET THE CHALLENGE OF ADAPTIVE EXPLANATION?......Page 264
ADAPTIVE PREFERENCES FOR FEMALE BODY SHAPE?......Page 266
ADAPTIVE REASONING?......Page 271
A Mechanism Not Dependent on Requirement, Benefit, and Cheater......Page 273
Evidence for a Modular Evolutionary Adaptation?......Page 276
REFERENCES......Page 277
Author Index......Page 282
Subject Index......Page 292