Leda Cosmides
Leda Cosmides (born May 7, 1957 in Philadelphia , USA ) is an American psychologist. Together with her husband, John Tooby , she is the founder and director of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara . Cosmides and Tooby are considered the founding figures of modern evolutionary psychology .
After studying biology at Harvard University , Cosmides earned her PhD in psychology from the same university in 1985 . From 1989 to 1990 she worked as a postdoc with Roger Shepard at Stanford University . Since 1990 she has been employed at the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Cosmide's main areas of work are evolutionary psychology and cognitive psychology . Together with Tooby she tries to establish evolutionary psychology as a new paradigm of psychological research. In doing so, she works equally on basic problems and specific studies, for example on cooperation behavior and incest avoidance .
Books
- J. Barkow , L. Cosmides and J. Tooby: The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1992
- L. Cosmides and J. Tooby: Universal Minds: Explaining the new science of evolutionary psychology. (Darwinism Today Series) . Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Yale, Yale University Press, London 2008
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| SURNAME | Cosmides, Leda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , USA |