Merrie, L. A., Krems, J. A., & Sznycer, D. (2024). Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners’ partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us. Evolution and Human Behavior, 45(2), 203–213. │ SI

Landers, M.*, Sznycer, D.*, & Durkee, P. K. (2024). Are self-conscious emotions about the self? Testing competing theories of shame and guilt across two disparate cultures. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001321.  │ SI and code     * indicates joint first authorship

Leroux, A., Hétu, S., & Sznycer, D. (2023). The shame system operates with high precision. Evolutionary Psychology. DOI: 10.1177/14747049231203394.

Cosmides, L., Barbato, M. T., Sznycer, D., Labarca, M. A., & Guzmán, R. A. (2023). Reply to Greene: No version of the dual process model can explain rational performance by people who made compromise moral judgments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(24), 2220909120.

Sznycer, D., Gračanin, A., & Lieberman, D. (Under review). Emotional tears: What they are and how they work. https://psyarxiv.com/fht2g.

Delton, A. W.*, Jaeggi, A. V.*, Lim, J.*, Sznycer, D.*, Gurven, M., Robertson, T. E., Sugiyama, L. S., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2023). Cognitive foundations for helping and harming: Making welfare tradeoffs in industrialized and small-scale societies. Evolution and Human Behavior, 44(5), 485–501. * indicates joint first authorship

Curry, O. S. & Sznycer, D. (2023). A broader theory of cooperation can better explain “purity”. Commentary on Fitouchi, André, & Baumard. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, E300. doi:10.1017/S0140525X23000389.

Grossmann, I., Rotella, A. , Hutcherson, C. A., Sharpinskyi, K., Varnum, M. E. W., Achter, S. ... Sznycer, D., Tsukayama, E., van Loon, A., Voelkel, J. G., Wienk, M. A. N., & Wilkening, T. (2023). Insights into the accuracy of social scientists' forecasts of societal change. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(4), 484-501. │ Commentary by Salganik

Sell, A. & Sznycer, D. (2023). Societal institutions echo evolved human nature: An analysis of the Western criminal justice system and its relation to anger. Evolution and Human Behavior, 44(3), 210–221.

Sznycer, D., Sell, A., & Williams, K. E. G. (2023). Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict. Evolution and Human Behavior, 44(3), 184–194.

Krems, J. A., Hahnel-Peeters, R. K., Merrie, L. A., Williams, K. E. G., & Sznycer, D. (2023). Sometimes we want vicious friends: An embedded dyad framework predicts target-specificity in friend preferences. Evolution and Human Behavior, 44(2), 88–98.

Sznycer, D. & Landers, M. (2023). When making policy, knowledge of human nature must be supplemented with sound economic analysis: A reply to ‘Fairness, generosity and conditionality in the welfare system: the case of UK disability benefits’ by Johnson and Nettle. Global Discourse, 13(2), 225–228.

Guzmán, R. A., Barbato, M. T., Sznycer, D., & Cosmides, L. (2022). A moral trade-off system produces intuitive judgments that are rational and coherent and strike a balance between conflicting moral values. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(42), e2214005119. │ SI │ Commentary by Lieberman & Shenouda │ Letter by Greene │ Our response to Greene

Landers, M. & Sznycer, D. (2022). The evolution of shame and its display. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 4, e45.

Pick, C. M., Ko, A., Wormley, A. S., Wiezel, A., Kenrick, D. T., Al-Shawaf, L. … Sznycer, D., Talhelm, T., Ugwu, F. O., Uskul, A. K., Uz, I., Valentova, J. V., Varella, M. A. C., Zambrano, D., & Varnum, M. E. W. (2022). Family still matters: Human social motivation across 42 countries during a global pandemic. Evolution and Human Behavior, 43(6), 527–535. │ SI

Pick, C. M., Ko A., Kenrick, D. T., Wiezel, A., Wormley, A. S., Awad, E. … Sznycer, D., Talhelm, T., Ugwu, F. O., Uskul, A. K., Uz, I., Valentova, J. V., Varella, M. A. C., Wei, L., Zambrano, D., & Varnum, M. E. W. (2022). Fundamental social motives measured across forty-two cultures in two waves. Scientific Data, 9, 499. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01579-w. │ SI

Sznycer, D. (2022). Value computation in humans. Evolution and Human Behavior, 43(5), 367–380. │ SI

Ayers, J. D.*, Sznycer, D.*, Sullivan, D., Guevara Beltran, D., van den Akker, O. R., Muñoz, A. E., Hruschka, D. J., Cronk, L., & Aktipis, A. (2022). Fitness interdependence as indexed by shared fate: Factor structure and validity of a new measure. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000300. │ SI * indicates joint first authorship

Sell, A., Sznycer, D., & Meyers, M. (2022). The implicit rules of combat reflect the evolved function of combat: An evolutionary-psychological analysis of fairness and honor in human aggression. Evolution and Human Behavior, 43(4), 304–313. │ SI

Krems, J. A., Merrie, L. A., Short, V., Duarte, K., Rodriguez, N. N., French, J. E., Sznycer, D., & Byrd-Craven, J. (2022). Third-party perceptions of male and female status: Male physical strength and female physical attractiveness cue high status. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10:860797. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.860797.

Sznycer, D., Sell, A., & Dumont, A. (2022). How anger works. Evolution and Human Behavior, 43(2), 122-132. │ SI

Sznycer, D. & Cohen, A. S. (2021). Are emotions natural kinds after all? Rethinking the issue of response coherence. Evolutionary Psychology, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1177/14747049211016009. │ SI

Sznycer, D., Sell, A., & Lieberman, D. (2021). Forms and functions of the social emotions. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30(4), 292–299.

Landers, M., Sznycer, D., & Al-Shawaf, L. (In press). Shame. In L. Al-Shawaf & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions. New York: Oxford University Press. https://psyarxiv.com/nh2yj/

Scrivner, C., Sznycer, D., Lukaszewski, A. W., & Al-Shawaf, L. (In press). Social emotions are governed by a common grammar of social valuation: Theoretical foundations and applications to human personality and the criminal justice system. In L. Al-Shawaf & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions. New York: Oxford University Press.

Sell, A. & Sznycer, D. (In press). The recalibrational theory: Anger as a bargaining emotion. In L. Al-Shawaf & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions. New York: Oxford University Press.

Sznycer, D. (2021). Foreword. In: Mayer, C.-H., Vanderheiden, E., & Wong, P. Shame 4.0: Investigating an emotion in digital worlds and the fourth industrial revolution. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-59527-2.

Apostolou, M., Birkás, B., da Silva, C. S. A., Esposito, G., Hsu, R. M. C. S., Jonason, P. K., Karamanidis, K., O, J., Ohtsubo, Y., Putz, Á., Sznycer, D., Thomas, A. G., Valentova, J. V., Varella, M. A. C., Kleisner, K., Flegr, J., & Wang, Y. (2021). Reasons of singles for being single: Evidence from Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, India, Japan and the UK. Cross-Cultural Research, 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1177/10693971211021816.

Sznycer, D. & Cohen, A. S. (2021). How pride works. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 3, e10. │ SI

Lukaszewski, A. W., Lewis, D. M. G., Durkee, P. K., Sell, A. N., Sznycer, D., & Buss, D. M. (2020). An adaptationist framework for personality science. European Journal of Personality, 34, 1151–1174. │ SI 

Cohen, A. S., Chun, R., & Sznycer, D. (2020). Do pride and shame track the evaluative psychology of audiences? Preregistered replications of Sznycer et al. (2016, 2017). Royal Society Open Science 7: 191922.

Sznycer, D. & Patrick, C. (2020). The origins of criminal law. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(5), 506-516. │ SI │ blog post

Schniter, E., Shields, T. W., & Sznycer, D. (2020). Trust in humans and robots: Economically similar but emotionally different. Journal of Economic Psychology, 78, 102253. │ SI

Sznycer, D. & Lukaszewski, A. W. (2019). The emotion–valuation constellation: Multiple emotions are governed by a common grammar of social valuation. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40(4), 395-404. │ SI

Sznycer, D. (2019). Forms and functions of the self-conscious emotions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23(2), 143-157.

Sznycer, D., Delton, A. W., Robertson, T. E., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2019). The ecological rationality of helping others: Potential helpers integrate cues of recipients' need and willingness to sacrifice. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40(1), 34-45. │ SI

Sznycer, D., Xygalatas, D., Agey, E., Alami, S., An, X.-F., Ananyeva, K. I., Atkinson, Q. D., Broitman, B. R., Conte, T. J., Flores, C., Fukushima, S., Hitokoto, H., Kharitonov, A. N., Onyishi, C. N., Onyishi, I. E., Romero, P. P., Schrock, J. M., Snodgrass J. J., Sugiyama, L. S., Takemura, K., Townsend, C., Zhuang, J.-Y., Aktipis, C. A., Cronk, L., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2018). Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(39), 9702–9707. │ SI

Sznycer, D., Xygalatas, D., Alami, S., An, X.-F., Ananyeva, K. I., Fukushima, S., Hitokoto, H., Kharitonov, A. N., Koster, J. M., Onyishi, C. N., Onyishi, I. E., Romero, P. P., Takemura, K., Zhuang, J.-Y., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2018). Invariances in the architecture of pride across small-scale societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(33), 8322–8327. │ SI

Aktipis, C. A., Cronk, L., Alcock, J., Ayers, J. D., Baciu, C., Balliet, D., Boddy, A. M., Curry, O. S., Krems, J. A., Munoz, A., Sullivan, D., Sznycer, D., Wilkinson, G. S., & Winfrey, P. (2018). Understanding cooperation through fitness interdependence. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, 429–431. 

Robertson, T. E.*, Sznycer, D.*, Delton, A. W., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2018). The true trigger of shame: Social devaluation is sufficient, wrongdoing is unnecessary. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(5), 566-573. │ SI * indicates joint first authorship

Sznycer, D., Ermer, E., & Tooby, J. (2018). Why do people think that others should earn this or that? Commentary on Boyer and Petersen. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, e189. 

Sznycer, D., Lopez Seal, M. F., Sell, A., Lim, J., Porat, R., Shalvi, S., Halperin, E., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2017). Support for redistribution is shaped by compassion, envy, and self-interest, but not a taste for fairness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(31), 8420–8425. │ SI │ Replications and refinement in the UK by Lin & Bates (2021), Lin & Bates (2022), and Lin & Bates (2024) │ Replication and extension in nationally representative samples from the US and Denmark by Hansen (2022)

Sell, A., Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Lim, J., Krauss, A., Feldman, A., Rascanu, R., Sugiyama, L., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2017). The grammar of anger: Mapping the computational architecture of a recalibrational emotion. Cognition, 168, 110–128. │ SI

Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Curry, O. S., De Smet, D., Ermer, E., Kim, S., Kim, S., Li, N. P., Lopez Seal, M. F., McClung, J., O, J., Ohtsubo, Y., Quillien, T., Schaub, M., Sell, A., van Leeuwen, F., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2017). Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(8), 1874–1879. │ SI │ Replication in 10 small-scale societies by Sznycer et al. (2018) │ Replication in Hawai'i by Cohen et al. (2020) │ Similar findings in 14 nations by Durkee et al. (2019)

Sznycer, D., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2017). Adaptationism carves emotions at their functional joints. Invited commentary in Psychological Inquiry, 28(1), 56–62. 

Sell, A., Sznycer, D., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., Krauss, A., Nisu, S., Ceapa, C., & Petersen, M. B. (2017). Physically strong men are more militant: A test across four countries. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38(3), 334–340. │ SI

Sznycer, D., De Smet, D., Billingsley, J., & Lieberman, D. (2016). Coresidence duration and cues of maternal investment regulate sibling altruism across cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111(2), 159–177. │ SI

Sznycer, D., Tooby, J., Cosmides, L., Porat, R., Shalvi, S., & Halperin, E. (2016). Shame closely tracks the threat of devaluation by others, even across cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(10), 2625–2630. │ SI │ More information about the paper │ Replication in 15 small-scale societies by Sznycer et al. (2018) │ Replication in Hawai'i by Cohen et al. (2020) │ Similar findings in 14 nations by Durkee et al. (2019)

Sznycer, D., Schniter, E., Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (2015). Regulatory adaptations for delivering information: the case of confession. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36(1), 44–51. │ SI

Petersen, M. B.*, Sznycer, D.*, Sell, A., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2013). The ancestral logic of politics: Upper body strength regulates men's assertion of self-interest over economic redistribution. Psychological Science, 24(7), 1098–1103. │ SI * indicates joint first authorship

Schniter, E., Sheremeta, R. M., & Sznycer, D. (2013). Building and rebuilding trust with promises and apologies. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 94, 242–256. │ SI

Sznycer, D., Takemura, K., Delton, A. W., Sato, K., Robertson, T., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2012). Cross-cultural differences and similarities in proneness to shame: An adaptationist and ecological approach. Evolutionary Psychology, 10(2), 352–370. │ SI

Petersen, M. B., Sznycer, D., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2012). Who Deserves Help? Evolutionary Psychology, Social Emotions, and Public Opinion about Welfare. Political Psychology, 33(3), 395–418.

Sznycer, D., Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (2011). Evolutionary psychology. In P. C. Hogan (Ed.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences (pp. 295–299). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Sell, A., Bryant, G., Cosmides, L. Tooby, J., Sznycer, D., von Rueden, C., Krauss, A., & Gurven, M. (2010). Adaptations in humans for assessing physical strength from the voice. Proceedings of the Royal Society London (Biological Sciences), 277, 3509–3518.

Sell, A., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., Sznycer, D., von Rueden, C., & Gurven, M. (2009). Human adaptations for the visual assessment of strength and fighting ability from the body and face. Proceedings of the Royal Society London (Biological Sciences), 276, 575–584.

Tooby, J., Cosmides, L., Sell, A., Lieberman, D. & Sznycer, D.  (2008). Internal regulatory variables and the design of human motivation: A computational and evolutionary approach. In Andrew J. Elliot (Ed.) Handbook of approach and avoidance motivation (pp. 251–271). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.