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Human adaptations for the visual assessment of strength and fighting ability from the body and face
- Aaron Sell, L. Cosmides, J. Tooby, Daniel Sznycer, Christopher R. von Rueden, M. Gurven
- Psychology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological…
- 7 February 2009
Selection in species with aggressive social interactions favours the evolution of cognitive mechanisms for assessing physical formidability (fighting ability or resource-holding potential). The… Expand
Formidability and the logic of human anger
- Aaron Sell, J. Tooby, L. Cosmides
- Psychology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1 September 2009
Eleven predictions derived from the recalibrational theory of anger were tested. This theory proposes that anger is produced by a neurocognitive program engineered by natural selection to use… Expand
Adaptations in humans for assessing physical strength from the voice
- Aaron Sell, G. Bryant, +5 authors M. Gurven
- Psychology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological…
- 22 November 2010
Recent research has shown that humans, like many other animals, have a specialization for assessing fighting ability from visual cues. Because it is probable that the voice contains cues of strength… Expand
Face of a fighter: Bizygomatic width as a cue of formidability.
- S. Zilioli, Aaron Sell, M. Stirrat, Justin Jagore, William Vickerman, N. Watson
- Psychology, Medicine
- Aggressive behavior
- 1 July 2015
Humans can accurately extract information about men's formidability from their faces; however, the actual facial cues that inform these judgments have not been established. Here, through three… Expand
Internal Regulatory Variables and the Design of Human Motivation: A Computational and Evolutionary Approach
- J. Tooby, L. Cosmides, Aaron Sell, D. Lieberman, Daniel Sznycer
- Psychology
- 20 May 2008
Internal regulatory variables and the design of human motivation: A computational and evolutionary approach. Cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology both offer compelling visions of what the… Expand
Evolutionary psychology and criminal justice: A recalibrational theory of punishment and reconciliation
- M. Petersen, Aaron Sell, J. Tooby, L. Cosmides
- Political Science
- 2010
Exploitation the imposition of costs on another for one's own benefit was a major and ongoing adaptive problem during human evolution. What elements of the human mind evolved in response to the… Expand
The Importance of Physical Strength to Human Males
- Aaron Sell, Liana S E Hone, N. Pound
- Psychology, Medicine
- Human nature
- 5 April 2012
Fighting ability, although recognized as fundamental to intrasexual competition in many nonhuman species, has received little attention as an explanatory variable in the social sciences. Multiple… Expand
To punish or repair? Evolutionary psychology and lay intuitions about modern criminal justice.
- M. Petersen, Aaron Sell, J. Tooby, L. Cosmides
- Psychology, Medicine
- Evolution and human behavior : official journal…
- 1 November 2012
We propose that intuitions about modern mass-level criminal justice emerge from evolved mechanisms designed to operate in ancestral small-scale societies. By hypothesis, individuals confronted with a… Expand
The Ancestral Logic of Politics
- M. Petersen, Daniel Sznycer, Aaron Sell, L. Cosmides, J. Tooby
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological science
- 13 May 2013
Over human evolutionary history, upper-body strength has been a major component of fighting ability. Evolutionary models of animal conflict predict that actors with greater fighting ability will more… Expand
The recalibrational theory and violent anger
- Aaron Sell
- Psychology
- 1 September 2011
Abstract Anger is responsible for a large share of human aggressive acts, and yet most incidents of anger do not result in any aggressive behavior at all. To understand when and why an angry… Expand