The Folly of Fools (59 page)

Authors: Robert Trivers

BOOK: The Folly of Fools

5.7Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub

Sosis, R., & Alcorta, C. (2003). Signaling, solidarity, and the sacred: the evolution of religious behavior.
Evolutionary Anthropology
12:264–274.

Sosis, R., & Bressler, E. R. (2003). Cooperation and commune longevity: a test of the costly signaling theory of religion.
Cross-Cultural Research
37:211–239.

Spellerberg, I. F. (1971). Breeding behaviour of the McCormick skua
Catharacta maccormicki
in Antarctica.
Ardea
59:189–230.

Spera, S. P., Buhrfeind, E. D., & Pennebaker, J. W. (1994). Expressive writing and coping with job loss.
Academy of Management Journal
37:722-733.

Stannard, D. (1992).
American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World.
New York: Oxford University Press.

Starek, J. E., & Keating, C. F. (1991). Self-deception and its relationship to success in competition.
Basic and Applied Social Psychology
12:145–155.

Steele, C. M., & Aronson, J. (1995). Stereotype threat and the intellectual performance of African Americans.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
69:797–811.

Steger, R., & Caldwell, R. L. (1983). Intraspecific deception by bluffing: a defense strategy of newly molted stomatopods (Arthropoda: Crustacea).
Science
221:558–560.

Stone, B. (December 6, 2006). Spam doubles, finding new ways to deliver itself.
New York Times.

Strachan, E. D., Bennett, W. R. M., Russo, J., & Roy-Byrne, P. P. (2007). Disclosure of HIV status and sexual orientation independently predicts increased absolute CD4 cell counts over time for psychiatric patients.
Psychosomatic Medicine
69:74–80.

Stroop, J. R. (1935). Studies of interference in serial reactions.
Journal of Experimental Psychology
14:25–39.

Sullivan, A. (February 8, 2010). In the bunker.
The Atlantic.

Talwar, V., Murphy, S. M., & Lee, K. (2007). White lie-telling in children for politeness purposes.
International Journal of Behavioral Development
31:1–11.

Tanaka, K. D., Morimoto, G., & Ueda, K. (2005). Yellow wing patch of a nestling Horsfield’s hawk-cuckoo
Cuculus fugax
induces misrecognition by hosts: mimicking a gape?
Journal of Avian Biology
36:461–464.

Tanaka, K. D., & Ueda, K. (2005). Horsfield’s hawk-cuckoo nestlings simulate multiple gapes for begging.
Science
308:653.

Tavris, C., & Aronson, E. (2007).
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me).
New York: Harcourt.

Taylor, S. E., Lerner, J. S., Sherman, D. K., Sage, R. M., & McDowell, N. K. (2003). Portrait of the self-enhancer: well adjusted and well liked or maladjusted and friendless?
Personality Processes and Individual Differences
84:165–176.

Tenney, E. R., & MacCoun, R.J. (2006). Calibration trumps confidence as a basis for witness credibility.
JSP/Center for the Study of Law and Society Faculty Working Papers
(University of California, Berkeley) 40:1–16. T

hibodeau, P. H., & Boroditsky, L. (2011). Metaphors we think with: the role of metaphors in reasoning.
PLoS ONE
6:1–11.

Thornhill, R., Fincher, C. L., & Aran, J. (2009). Parasites, democratization, and the liberalization of values across contemporary countries.
Biological Reviews
84:113–131.

Thornhill, R., & Gangestad, S. (2008).
The Evolutionary Biology of Human Female Sexuality.
New York: Oxford University Press.

Thornhill, R. et al. (2003). Major histocompatibility complex genes, symmetry, and body scent attractiveness in males and females.
Behavioral Ecology
15(5):668–678.

Tibbetts, E. A., & Dale, J. (2004). A socially enforced signal of quality in a paper wasp.
Nature
432:218–222.

Tibbetts, E. A. & Izzo, A. (2010). Social punishment of dishonest signalers caused by mismatch between signal and behavior.
Current Biology
20:1637–1640.

Tiger Woods confession. (December 2, 2009).
National Enquirer
.

Tiger Woods sex romp with neighbor’s young daughter. (April 7, 2010).
National Enquirer.

Torrey, E. F. (1992).
Freudian Fraud: The Malignant Effect of Freud’s Theory on American Thought and Culture.
New York: HarperCollins.

Traufetter, G. (February 25, 2010). The last four minutes of Air France flight 447.
Spiegel Online
.

Trimble, D. E. (1997). The religious orientation scale: review and meta-analysis of social desirability effects.
Educational and Psychological Measurement
57:970–986.

Trivers, R. (1971). The evolution of reciprocal altruism.
Quarterly Review of Biology
46:35–57.

Trivers, R. (1972). Parental investment and sexual selection.
Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man, 1871–1971
, ed. Campbell, B. Chicago: Aldine-Atherton.

Trivers, R. (1974). Parent-offspring conflict.
American Zoologist
14:249–264.

Trivers, R. (1985).
Social Evolution.
Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin Cummings.

Trivers, R. (2005). Reciprocal altruism: 30 years later.
Cooperation in Primates and Humans: Mechanisms and Evolution
, eds. van Schaik, C. P., & Kappeler, P. M., 67–83. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Trivers, R., & Hare, H. (1976). Haplodiploidy and the evolution of the social insects.
Science
191:249–263.

Trivers, R., & Newton, H. P. (1982). The crash of Flight 90: doomed by self-deception.
Science Digest
November:66–67, 111.

Trivers, R., Palestis, B. G., & Zaatari, D. (2009).
The Anatomy a Fraud: Symmetry and Dance.
Antioch, CA: TPZ Publishers.

Trivers, R., & Willard, D. (1973). Natural selection of parental ability to vary the sex ratio of offspring.
Science
179:90–92.

Troisi, A. (2002). Displacement activities as a behavioral measure of stress in nonhuman primates and human subjects.
Stress
5:47–54.

Tuchman, B. (1984).
The March of Folly: From Troy to Viet Nam.
New York: Bal-lantine Books.

Tufte, E. R. (1997).
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative.
Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.

Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1973). A heuristic for judgment frequency and probability.
Cognitive Psychology
5:207–232.

Valdesolo, P., & DeSteno, D. (2008). The duality of virtue: deconstructing the moral hypocrite.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
44:1334–1338.

Van Evera, S. (2003). Why states believe foolish ideas: non-self-evaluation by states and societies.
Perspectives on Structural Realism,
ed. Hanami, A. K., 163–198. New York: Palgrave.

Vandegrift, D., & Yavas, A. (2009). Men, women, and competition: an experimental test of behavior.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
72:554–570.

Vaughan, D. (1996).
The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture and Deviance at NASA.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Vecsey, G. (August 11, 2010). Woods’s downfall is as gripping as his reign.
New York Times.

Veltkamp, M., Aarts, H., & Custers, R. (2008). Perception in the service of goal pursuit: motivation to attain goals enhances the perceived size of goal-instrumental objects.
Social Cognition
26.

Vohs, K. D., & Schooler, J. W. (2008). The value of believing in free will: encouraging a belief in determinism increases cheating.
Psychological Science
19:49–54.

von Hippel, W., Lakin, J. L., & Shakarchi, R. J. (2005). Individual differences in motivated social cognition: the case of self-serving information processing.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
31:1347–1357.

von Hippel, W., & Trivers, R. (2011). The evolution and psychology of self-deception.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
34:1–56.

Vrij, A. (2004). Why professionals fail to catch liars and how they can improve.
Legal Criminological Psychology
9:159–181.

Vrij, A. (2008).
Detecting Lies and Deceit: Pitfalls and Opportunities,
2nd ed
.
Chichester, UK: Wiley.

Vrij, A., & Heaven, S. (1999). Vocal and verbal indicators of deception as a function of lie complexity.
Psychology, Crime and Law
5:203–315.

Vrij, A., Mann, S., Robbins, E., & Robinson, M. (2006). Police officers’ ability to detect deception in high stakes situations and in repeated lie detection tests.
Applied Cognitive Psychology
20:741–755.

Vulliamy, E. (July 25, 1999). Why Kennedy crashed.
The Observer.

Wager, T. D. et al. (2004). Placebo-induced changes in fMRI in the anticipation and experience of pain.
Science
303(1162–1167).

Wald, M. L. (January 25, 2006). Voice recorder shows pilots in ‘04 crash shirked duties.
New York Times.

Watson, A. (2006). Self-deception and survival: mental coping strategies on the western front, 1914–18.
Journal of Contemporary History
41:247–268.

Wedmann, S., Bradler, S., & Rust, J. (2007). The first fossil leaf insect: 47 million years of specialized cryptic morphology and behavior.
PNAS
104:565–569.

Wegner, D. M. (1989).
White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts.
New York: Viking.

Wegner, D. M. (2002).
The Illusion of Conscious Will.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Wegner, D. M. (2009). How to think, say, or do precisely the worst thing for any occasion.
Science
325:48–50.

Wegner, D. M., Wenzlaff, R. M., & Kozak, M. (2004). Dream rebound: the return of suppressed thoughts in dreams.
Psychological Science
15:232–236.

Weiss, J. M. (1970). Somatic effects of predictable and unpredictable shock.
Psychosomatic Medicine
32:397–408.

Wessel, E., Drevland, G. C. B., Eilertsen, D. E., & Magnussen, S. (2006). Credibility of the emotional witness: a study of ratings by court judges.
Law and Human Behavior
30:221–230.

West, S. (2009).
Sex Allocation.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Whitson, J. A., & Galinsky, A. D. (2008). Lacking control increases illusory pattern perception.
Science
322:115–117.

Wickler, W. (1968).
Mimicry in Plants and Animals.
New York: McGraw-Hill.

Wildavsky, A. (1972) The self-evaluating organization.
Public Administration Review
32:509–520.

Wiebe, K. L., & Bartolotti, G. R. (2000). Parental interference in sibling aggression in birds: what should we look for?
Ecoscience
7:1–9.

Williams, M. A., & Mattingley, J. B. (2006). Do angry men get noticed?
Current Biology
16(11):R402–R404.

Wilson, A. E., & Ross, M. (2001). From chump to champ: people’s appraisals of their earlier and present selves.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
80:572–584.

Wilson, A. E., Smith, M. D., & Ross, H. S. (2003). The nature and effects of young children’s lies.
Social Development
12:21–45.

Wilson, M. (February 9, 2009). Flight 1549 pilot tells of terror and intense focus.
New York Times.

Wilson, T. D., Wheatley, T. P., Kurtz, J. L., Dunn, E. W., & Gilbert, D. T. (2004). When to fire: anticipatory versus post-event reconstrual of uncontrollable events.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
30:340–351.

Wrangham, R. (1999). Is military incompetence adaptive?
Evolution and Human Behavior
20:3–12.

Wrangham, R. (2006). Why apes and humans kill.
Conflict
, eds. Jones, M., & Fabian, A. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wrangham, R., & Peterson, D. (1996).
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Wright, R. (2009).
The Evolution of God.
New York: Little, Brown.

Yang, Y. L. et al. (2007). Localisation of increased prefrontal white matter in pathological liars.
British Journal of Psychiatry
190:174–175.

Yousem, D. M. et al. (1999). Gender effects on odor-stimulating functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Brain Research
818(2):480–487.

Zertal, I., & Eldar, A. (2007).
Lords of the Land: The War Over Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967–2007.
New York: Nation Books.

Ziv, Y., & Schwartz, M. B. (2008). Immune-based regulation of adult neurogenesis: implications for learning and memory.
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
22:167–176.

Zuckerman, M., & Kieffer, S. C. (1994). Race differences in face-ism: does facial prominence imply dominance?
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
66:86–92.

INDEX

Abdullah, King

Abuse

Academia, academics

ACC.
See
Anterior cingulate cortex

Aeroflot Flight 593

Afghanistan

African Americans

Aggression

AIDS

Air Florida Flight 90,

Air France