Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind

By Robert Kurzban. 2011

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Evolutionary Political Psychology: On the Origin and Structure of Heuristics and Biases in Politics (2015, background): “Accurate representations are vital (Kurzban, 2012); firstly, because inaccurate representations often can imply death.”
Human Emotions: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective (2016, background): “Adaptive problems can be structurally complex, often consisting of several subtasks requiring different computational solutions (Kurzban, 2012; Marr, 1982; Tooby & Cosmides, 2005).”
What predicts religiosity? A multinational analysis of reproductive and cooperative morals (2013, background): “Kurzban / Evolution and Human Behavior 34 (2013) 440–445”
Does a competent leader make a good friend? Conflict, ideology and the psychologies of friendship and followership (2015, background): “At a general conceptual level, it is possible to differentiate between two overarching types of problems—or “games”—that humans confront: “games against nature” and “games against people” (Kurzban, 2012).”
An opportunity cost model of subjective effort and task performance (2013, unknown): “Effortful tasks do not reliably reduce glucose, things that do reliably reduce glucose such as exercise improve performance on cognitive tasks, and the beneficial effects of glucose on cognitive performance are due to its rewarding properties rather than its caloric content (Kurzban 2010b).”
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life (2011, background): “At least, I hope that readers will think so; it is possible that, given my own interests, I might be deceiving myself (Kurzban 2010).”