Clark Barrett

Associate Professor

UCLA Department of Anthropology

376 Haines Hall, Box 951553

Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1553

310-267-4260

barrett [at] anthro.ucla.edu

My research takes an evolutionary psychological approach to understanding cognitive development by using parallel cross-cultural studies, primarily in the U.S. and among the Shuar of Ecuador, to test hypotheses about the design features of evolved psychological mechanisms. My recent research focuses on mechanisms that leverage features of social and natural environments to shape developmental outcomes. I am currently director of the FPR-UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development, and coordinator of anthropological research for the AHRC Culture and the Mind Project.

Links CV Classes FPR-UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development AHRC Culture and the Mind Project	Selected papers
	Wilke, A., and Barrett, H. C. (2009). The hot hand phenomenon as a cognitive adaptation to clumped resources. Evolution and Human Behavior, 30, 161-169.	PDF supplementary materials
	Barrett, H. C., Frankenhuis, W., & Wilke, A. (2008). Adaptation to moving targets: Culture / gene coevolution, not either / or. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 511-512.	PDF
	Flamson, T., and Barrett, H. C. (2008). The encryption theory of humor: a knowledge-based mechanism of honest signaling. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 6, 261-281.	PDF
	Snyder, J., Kirkpatrick, L., and Barrett, H.C. (2008). The dominance dilemma: do women really prefer dominant mates? Personal Relationships, 15, 425-444.	PDF
	Barrett, H. C. (2008). Evolved cognitive mechanisms and human behavior. In Crawford, C. & Krebs, D. (eds.) Foundations of evolutionary psychology: Ideas, issues, applications and findings. (2nd  Ed.) Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.	PDF
	Bryant, G. A., & Barrett, H. C. (2007). Recognizing intentions in infant-directed speech: Evidence for universals.  Psychological Science, 18, 746-751.	PDF
	Machery, E., and Barrett, H. C. (2006). Debunking Adapting Minds. Philosophy of Science, 73, 232-246.	PDF
	Hagen, E., and Barrett, H. C. (2007). Perinatal sadness among Shuar women: Support for an evolutionary theory of psychic pain. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 21, 22-40.	PDF
	Barrett, H. C., and Kurzban, R. (2006). Modularity in cognition: Framing the debate. Psychological Review, 113, 628-647.	PDF
	Barrett, H. C., Frederick, D., Haselton, M., & Kurzban, R. (2006). Can manipulations of cognitive load be used to test evolutionary hypotheses? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 513-518.	PDF
	Henrich, J., McElreath, R., Barr, A., Ensminger, J., Barrett, C., Bolyanatz, A., Cardenas, J. C., Gurven, M., Gwako E., Henrich, N., Lesorogol, C., Marlowe, F., Tracer, D., and Ziker, J. (2006). Costly punishment across human societies. Science, 312, 1767-1770.	PDF
	Barrett, H. C. (2005). Enzymatic computation and cognitive modularity. Mind and Language, 20, 259-287.	PDF
	Barrett, H. C. & Behne, T. (2005). Children’s understanding of death as the cessation of agency: A test using sleep versus death. Cognition, 96, 93-108.	PDF
	Barrett, H.C., Todd, P.M., Miller, G.F., and Blythe, P. (2005). Accurate judgments of intention from motion alone: A cross-cultural study. Evolution and Human Behavior, 26, 313-331.	PDF Supplementary materials
	German, T., & Barrett, H.C. (2005). Functional fixedness in a technologically sparse culture. Psychological Science, 16, 1-5.	PDF
	Barrett, H. C. (2006). Modularity and design reincarnation. In Carruthers, P., Laurence, S., & Stich, S. (Eds.), The innate mind: Culture and cognition. (pp. 199-217). New York: Oxford University Press.	PDF