The Origin of Mind: Evolution of Brain, Cognition, and General Intelligence

By David C. Geary. 2004

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Parasites, Behavioral Defenses, and the Social Psychological Mechanisms Through Which Cultures Are Evoked (2006, background): “The primary functions of the most extraordinary human mental abilities—language, imagination, self-awareness, Theory of Mind (ToM), foresight, and consciousness—involve the negotiation of social relationships (Adolphs, 2003; Geary, 2005; Siegal & Varley, 2003; Tulving, 2002).”
An Evolutionarily Informed Education Science (2008, background): “Following Alexander, my colleagues and I have proposed that hominid evolution involved an increasing ability to control the ecology and a ramping up of social competition to control the best ecologies (Flinn et al., 2005; Geary, 2005).”
Can we be intelligent about intelligence?: Why education needs the concept of plastic general ability (2007, background): “To some extent we would like to rehabilitate the use of the word with its proper psychological meaning, because in recent years there has been powerful research in cognitive neuroscience (Jung & Haier, in press) and evolutionary psychology (Geary, 2005) suggesting its importance both as an explanato”
Psychology of Human Kin Recognition: Heuristic Cues, Erroneous Inferences, and Their Implications (2008, background): “Geary, D. C. (2005). The origin of mind: Evolution of brain, cognition, and general intelligence. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Gelman, S. A. (2004). Psychological essentialism in children. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 404–409. Gergely, G., & Csibra, G. (2003). Teleological”
Consilience and Life History Theory: From Genes to Brain to Reproductive Strategy. (2006, background): “Many authors (e.g. Flinn, this issue; Geary, 2005; Bjorklund & Rosenberg, 2005) conclude that need for this extended childhood and adolescence resulted, at least in part, from the social complexity of human groups.”
Measuring love in romantic relationships: A meta-analysis (2011, background): “Research has shown g to be one of the most widely predictive variables of a variety of outcomes, including academic achievement, income, and job performance (Geary, 2005).”
Accomplishment in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and Its Relation to STEM Educational Dose: A 25-Year Longitudinal Study (2010, unknown): “However, there are other attributes that characterize exceptional achievers in STEM, such as motivation (Ceci, Williams, & Barnett, 2009; Geary, 2005; Lubinski & Benbow, 2000, 2006; Lubinski, Benbow, Shea, Eftekhari-Sanjani, & Halvorson, 2001).”
Ecological dominance, social competition, and coalitionary arms races: Why humans evolved extraordinary intelligence. (2005, methodology): “These more general competencies involve working memory, attentional control, and executive functions (e.g., Baddeley, 1986; Engle, 2002; for review, see Geary, 2005).”
A unitary executive function predicts intelligence in children (2012, background): “Conversely, gF is also associatedwith the prefrontal cortex (Duncan, Burgess, & Emslie, 1995), but gC has previously been associated with activation of parietal regions of the brain (Geary, 2005).”
Spatial ability for STEM domains: Aligning over 50 years of cumulative psychological knowledge solidifies its importance. (2009, background): “These proclivities can and do change over time, but relative levels of interests (and competing interests) are always important to take into account (Geary, 1998, 2005; Gottfredson, 2003, 2005).”
Tribalism Is Human Nature (2019, background): “The human mind was forged by the crucible of coalitional conflict (Geary, 2005).”