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Leda Cosmides

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Publications

93

Citations

21.9K

H-Index

59

Active since

1981

Affiliations

University of California, Santa Barbara(Current)

Université de Montréal

Stanford University

Griffith University

Aarhus University

Leda Cosmides is an author at University of California, Santa Barbara specializing in social sciences, psychology, and cognitive science.

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Social SciencesPsychologyCognitive ScienceCognitionSocial BehaviorBehavioral ScienceBehavioral Decision MakingSocial CognitionSocial PsychologyExperimental Psychology

Publications per year

1981–2025

93

Publications

93

The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selection task

Leda Cosmides · Cognition · 1989 · 2.5K citations

Social Identity, Behavioral Sciences, Social Exchange +14

The past explains the present

John Tooby, Leda Cosmides · Ethology and Sociobiology · 1990 · 1.8K citations

Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all? Rethinking some conclusions from the literature on judgment under uncertainty

Leda Cosmides · Cognition · 1996 · 1.3K citations

Cognitive Science, Statistical Thinking, Behavioral Decision Making +14

Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization

Robert Kurzban, John Tooby, Leda Cosmides · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2001 · 869 citations · Full text

Social Psychology, Racial Prejudice, Social Categorization +16

Formidability and the logic of human anger

Aaron Sell, John Tooby, Leda Cosmides · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · 828 citations · Full text

Behavioral Decision Making, Affective Neuroscience, Intergroup Conflict +16

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