Does Beauty Build Adapted Minds? Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Aesthetics, Fiction, and the Arts

By J. Tooby, L. Cosmides. 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Design aesthetics: principles of pleasure in design (2006, background): “Since our emotional experience of products can also very well be explained by such an appraisal process (see Desmet & Hekkert, 2002), understanding this process holds a key to ‘designing for emotion’.”
The handbook of evolutionary psychology. (2015, unknown): “1999a, 199%, 1999c, 2003a; Tooby & Cosmides, 2001; E. O. Wilson, 1998).”
Resolving the debate on innate ideas: Learnability constraints and the evolved interpenetration of motivational and conceptual functions (2005, background): “…representations (e.g., from generalization along psychophysical dimensions; from the backward derivation of valuation of instrumentally useful intermediate steps to a primarily valued goal; for an analysis of various aesthetic activities as valuation processing, see Tooby & Cosmides, 2001).”
The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents (2005, background): “…representations (e.g., from generalization along psychophysical dimensions; from the backward derivation of valuation of instrumentally useful intermediate steps to a primarily valued goal; for an analysis of various aesthetic activities as valuation processing, see Tooby & Cosmides, 2001).”
Entertainment is Emotion: The Functional Architecture of the Entertainment Experience (2008, background): “The account diminishes the explanatory power of the proposal from Steen and Owens (2001) and Tooby and Cosmides (2001), implying there is no limitation to paradigm scenarios other than relevance for survival in a very broad sense.”
The Theoretical Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology (2015, background): “Accordingly, adaptations can be conceptualized as operating in two different modes (Cosmides & Tooby, 2000a; Tooby & Cosmides, 2001).”
The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review (2012, background): ““Emotions of the beautiful” are discussed in Biederman and Vessel (2006), Dorfman et al. (2006), Perlovsky (2002; 2006c; 2010b; 2010a), Tooby and Cosmides (2001), and in Silvia (2005).”
Openness to Experience, Non-Conformity, and the Preference for Abstract Art (2004, background): “What people find “beautiful” is not arbitrary, but rather has evolved over millions of years of hominid sensory, perceptual, and cognitive evolution (Aiken, 1998; Barrow, 1995; Coss, 1968; Dissanayake, 1988, 1992; Feist, 2001; Miller, 2000; Orians & Heerwagen, 1992; Tooby & Cosmides, 2001).”
Maternal Singing Modulates Infant Arousal (2003, background): “According to Tooby and Cosmides (2001), many seemingly non-utilitarian activities promote fitness-enhancing changes in the brain.”