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Journal
Articles
Fessler, D.M.T. in press Neglected natural
experiments germane to the Westermarck Hypothesis: The Karo Batak and
the Oneida Community. Human
Nature.
Fleischman,
D.S. and Fessler, D.M.T. (2007) Differences in dietary intake as a
function of sexual activity and hormonal contraception. Evolutionary
Psychology 5(3): 642-652. Download PDF
Voracek, M., Fisher, M.L, Rupp, B., Lucas, D., and
Fessler, D.M.T. (2007) Sex differences in relative foot length
and the perceived attractiveness of female feet: The relationships
between anthropometry, physique, and preference ratings. Perceptual and Motor Skills
104:1123-1138. Download PDF
Kelly, D., Stich, S.P.,
Haley, K.J., Eng, S.J., and Fessler, D.M.T. (2007) Harm, affect and the
moral / conventional distinction. Mind & Language
22(2):117–131. Download PDF
Navarrete, C.D., Fessler,
D.M.T., & Eng, S.J. (2007) Elevated ethnocentrism in the first
trimester of pregnancy. Evolution
and Human Behavior 28(1):60-65. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T. (2006) A
burning desire: Steps toward an evolutionary psychology of fire
learning. Journal of Cognition
and Culture 6(3-4):429-451. Download PDF
Navarrete, C.D. and Fessler,
D.M.T. (2006) Disease avoidance and ethnocentrism: The effects of
disease vulnerability and disgust sensitivity on intergroup attitudes. Evolution and Human Behavior
27(4):270-282.
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Fessler, D.M.T. and Haley,
K.J. (2006) Guarding the perimeter: The
outside-inside dichotomy in disgust and bodily experience. Cognition and Emotion
20(1):3-19. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T. (2005)
Never eat alone: The meaning of food sharing
in a Sumatran fishing village. People
and Culture in Oceania 20:51-67. Download
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Navarrete,
C.D. and Fessler, D.M.T. (2005) Normative bias and
adaptive challenges: A relational approach to coalitional psychology
and a critique of Terror Management Theory. Evolutionary Psychology 3:297-325. Download
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Fessler, D.M.T. and Navarrete, C.D. (2005) The effect of age on
death disgust: Challenges to Terror Management perspectives. Evolutionary Psychology 3:279-296. Download
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Fessler,
D.M.T., Eng, S.J., and Navarrete, C.D. (2005), Elevated
disgust sensitivity in the first trimester of pregnancy: Evidence
supporting the compensatory prophylaxis hypothesis. Evolution and Human Behavior 26(4):344-351.
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Fessler,
D.M.T., Nettle, D., Afshar, Y, de Andrade Pinheiro, I.,
Bolyanatz, A., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Cravalho, M., Delgado, T., Gruzd,
B., Oliveira Correia, M., Khaltourina, D., Korotayev, A. Marrow,
J., Santiago de Souza, L., and Zbarauskaite, A. (2005) A cross-cultural
investigation of the role of foot size in physical
attractiveness. Archives of
Sexual Behavior 34(3):267-276. Download PDF
Correction to the preceding paper Download
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Haley,
K.J. and Fessler, D.M.T. (2005) Nobody’s watching? Subtle cues
affect generosity in an anonymous economic game. Evolution and Human Behavior
26(3):245-256. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T., Navarrete, C.D., Hopkins, W., and Izard, M.K. (2005)
Examining the terminal investment hypothesis in humans and chimpanzees:
Associations between maternal age, parity, and birth weight. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
127(1):95-104. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T., Haley, K.J., and Lal, R.D. (2005) Sexual dimorphism in
foot length proportionate to stature. Annals
of Human Biology 32(1):44-59. Download PDF
Frederick, D.A., Fessler, D.M.T., and Haselton, M.G. (2005) Do
representations of male muscularity differ in men’s and women’s
magazines? Body Image
2(1)81-86. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T. and A.P. Arguello (2004) The relationship between
susceptibility to nausea and vomiting and the possession of conditioned
food aversions. Appetite
43(3):331-334. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T. and E.T. Abrams (2004) Infant mouthing behavior: The
immunocalibration hypothesis. Medical
Hypotheses 63(6):925-932. Download
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Navarrete, C.D., Kurzban, R., Fessler, D.M.T., and Kirkpatrick, L.A.
(2004) Anxiety and intergroup bias: Terror management or coalitional
psychology? Group Processes and
Intergroup Relations 7(4):370-397. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T. and Navarrete, C.D. (2004) Third-party attitudes toward
sibling incest: Evidence for Westermarck’s Hypotheses. Evolution and Human Behavior 25(5):277-294.
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Fessler, D.M.T. (2004) Shame in two cultures: Implications for
evolutionary approaches. Journal of
Cognition and Culture 4(2):207-262. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T., Pillsworth, E.G., and Flamson, T.J. (2004) Angry men
and disgusted women: An evolutionary approach to the influence of
emotions on risk taking. Organizational
Behavior and Human Decision Processes 95(1):107-123. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T. (2003) Rape is not less frequent during the ovulatory
phase of the menstrual cycle. Sexualities,
Evolution & Gender 5(3):127-147. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T. and Navarrete, C.D. (2003) Domain-specific variation in
disgust sensitivity across the menstrual cycle. Evolution and Human Behavior 24(6):406–417.
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Fessler, D.M.T. (2003) The implications of starvation-induced
psychological changes for the ethical treatment of hunger strikers. Journal of Medical Ethics
29:243-247. Download
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Fessler, D.M.T. (2003) An evolutionary explanation of the plasticity of
salt preferences: Prophylaxis against sudden dehydration. Medical Hypotheses 61(3):412-415. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T., Arguello, A.P., Mekdara, J.M., and Macias, R. (2003)
Disgust sensitivity and meat consumption: A test of an emotivist
account of moral vegetarianism. Appetite
41(1):31-41. Download
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Fessler, D.M.T. and Navarrete, C.D. (2003) Meat is good to taboo:
Dietary proscriptions as a product of the interaction of psychological
mechanisms and social processes. Journal
of Cognition and Culture 3(1):1-40. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T. (2003) No time to eat: An adaptationist account of
periovulatory behavioral changes. Quarterly
Review of Biology 78(1):3-21. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T. (2002) Starvation, serotonin, and symbolism: A
psychobiocultural perspective on stigmata. Mind & Society 6(3):81-96. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T. (2002) Dimorphic foraging behaviors and the evolution
of hominid hunting. Rivista di
Biologia/Biology Forum 95(3):429-454. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T. (2002) Windfall and socially distributed willpower: The
psychocultural dynamics of rotating savings and credit associations in
a Bengkulu village. Ethos
30(1/2):25-48. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T. (2002)
Pseudoparadoxical impulsivity in restrictive anorexia nervosa: A
consequence of the logic of scarcity. International Journal of Eating Disorders
31(4):376-388. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T. (2002) Reproductive immunosuppression and diet: An
evolutionary perspective on pregnancy sickness and meat consumption. Current Anthropology
43(1):19-39;48-61. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T. (2001) Luteal
phase immunosuppression and meat eating. Rivista di Biologia / Biology Forum
94(3):403-426. Download PDF
Book Chapters
Fessler, D.M.T. (2007) From
appeasement to conformity: Evolutionary and cultural perspectives on
shame, competition, and cooperation. In The Self-Conscious Emotions: Theory and
Research, J.L. Tracy, R.W. Robins, & J.P. Tangney, eds.
Guilford Press. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T. (2006) Steps toward the evolutionary psychology
of a culture-dependent species. In Innateness
and the
Structure of the Mind, Vol.
II, P. Carruthers, S. Laurence & S. Stich, eds., pp. 91-117.
Oxford University
Press. Download
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Fessler, D.M.T. (2006) Violent response to transgression as an
example of the intersection of evolved psychology and culture. In
Missing the Revolution:
Darwinism for Social Scientists, J.
Barkow, ed., pp. 101-117. Oxford University Press. Download
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Fessler, D.M.T. and Haley, K.J. (2003) The strategy of affect: Emotions
in human cooperation. In The Genetic and Cultural Evolution of
Cooperation, P. Hammerstein, ed., pp. 7-36. Dahlem Workshop
Report. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Download
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McElreath, R., Clutton-Brock, T.H., Fehr, E., Fessler, D.M.T., Hagen,
E.H., Hammerstein, P., Kosfeld, M., Milinski, M., Silk, J.B., Tooby,
J., and Wilson, M.I. (2003) The role of cognition and emotion in
cooperation. In The Genetic and Cultural Evolution of
Cooperation, P. Hammerstein, ed., pp. 125-152. Dahlem Workshop
Report. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Algaze, G.and Fessler, D.M.T. (2001) A reconsideration of the origins
of human settlement and social differentiation. In Studies in the
Archeology of Israel and Neighboring Lands in Memory of Douglas L.
Esse, Sam Wolff, ed., pp. 9-28. Studies in Ancient Oriental
Civilization Series No. 59. Chicago: Oriental
Institute/University of Chicago Press.
Fessler, D.M.T. (2001) Emotions and cost/benefit assessment: The role
of shame and self-esteem in risk taking. In Bounded Rationality:
The Adaptive Toolbox, R. Selten & G. Gigerenzer, eds. pp.191-214.
Cambridge, MA: MIT University Press. Download PDF
Mellers, B., Erev, I., Fessler, D.M.T., Hemelrijk, C.K., Hertwig, R.,
Laland, K.N., Scherer, K.R., Seeley, T.D., Selten, R., and Tetlock,
P.E. (2001) Effects of emotions and social processes on bounded
rationality. In Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox, R. Selten
& G. Gigerenzer, eds. 263-79. Cambridge, MA: MIT University
Press.
Fessler, D.M.T. (1999) Toward an understanding of the universality of
second order emotions. In Beyond Nature or Nurture: Biocultural
Approaches to the Emotions, A. Hinton, ed. pp.75-116. New York:
Cambridge University Press. Download PDF
Other
Publications
Fessler, D.M.T. and Moya, C.M. (in press) Crying. To appear
in The Oxford Companion to the Affective Sciences, Klaus Scherer and
David Sander, Eds. Download
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Fessler, D.M.T. (2006)
Contextual features of problem-solving and
social learning give rise to spurious associations, the raw materials
for the evolution of rituals. Behavioral
and Brain Sciences 29(6):617-618. [Commentary on Boyer &
Lienard's 'Why ritualized behavior? Precaution systems in
developmental, pathological, and cultural rituals']. Download PDF (this file contains
the target article and all of the commentaries)
Fessler, D.M.T. (2003) The
Neolithic Revolution did not increase the
adaptive value of pregnancy sickness [discussion/reply]. Current Anthropology 44(5):709-711.
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Fessler, D.M.T. (2003) Book review of Harriet Whitehead’s Food Rules:
Hunting, Sharing, and Tabooing Game in Papua New Guinea. Journal of Ritual Studies
17(2):105-111. Download PDF
(this file contains the entire review forum; scroll to page 105 for my
contribution)
Fessler, D.M.T. (2002) Are mothers battling embryos or pathogens?
[corresp.] Trends in Ecology and
Evolution 17(8):360.
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Fessler, D.M.T. (2002) Emotions and self-knowledge. Oxford Encyclopedia
of Evolution, M. Pagel, ed. Vol. 1, pp. 296-299. New York: Oxford
University Press. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T. (1997) Commentary on why polyandry fails. Current Anthropology 38(3): 391-392.
Fessler, D.M.T. (1997) Arbitrary values [corresp.]. Anthropology Newsletter 38(2):2.
Fessler, D.M.T. (1996) Anthropology in Wonderland, or, the virtues of
shifting levels and frames [essay]. Anthropology
Newsletter 37(8):44-42.
Fessler, D.M.T. (1996) The next frontier: Anthropology and evolutionary
psychology [essay]. Anthropology
Newsletter 37(9):7.
