Browsing by Author "Krasnow, Max"
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Are Humans Too Generous and Too Punitive? Using Psychological Principles to Further Debates about Human Social Evolution
Krasnow, Max M.; Delton, Andrew W. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2016)Are humans too generous and too punitive? Many researchers have concluded that classic theories of social evolution (e.g., direct reciprocity, reputation) are not sufficient to explain human cooperation; instead, group ... -
The Development of Character Judgments From Faces
Cogsdill, Emily (2015-03-30)First impressions play a central role in human social interaction. In particular, the face is a rich source of information that perceivers use in making both initial and lasting character judgments. Despite the large and ... -
Genomic Imprinting Is Implicated in the Psychology of Music
Mehr, Samuel; Kotler, Jennifer; Howard, Rhea; Haig, David; Krasnow, Max (Center for Open Science, 2017-01-27)Why do people sing to babies? Human infants are relatively altricial and need their parents’ attention to survive. Infant-directed song may constitute a signal of that attention. In Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), a rare ... -
Group Cooperation without Group Selection: Modest Punishment Can Recruit Much Cooperation
Krasnow, Max M.; Delton, Andrew W.; Cosmides, Leda; Tooby, John (Public Library of Science, 2015)Humans everywhere cooperate in groups to achieve benefits not attainable by individuals. Individual effort is often not automatically tied to a proportionate share of group benefits. This decoupling allows for free-riding, ... -
Meeting now suggests we will meet again: Implications for debates on the evolution of cooperation
Krasnow, Max; Delton, Andrew W.; Tooby, John; Cosmides, Leda (Springer Nature, 2013)Humans are often generous, even towards strangers encountered by chance and even in the absence of any explicit information suggesting they will meet again. Because game theoretic analyses typically conclude that a psychology ... -
Response to vocal music in Angelman syndrome contrasts with Prader-Willi syndrome
Kotler, Jennifer; Mehr, Samuel; Egner, Alena; Haig, David; Krasnow, Max (Center for Open Science, 2018-08-13)Parent-offspring conflict, or the conflict over resources between parents and their children due to differences in genetic relatedness, is the biological foundation for a variety of psychological phenomena, including sibling ...