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EPISODE · Apr 7, 2026 · 2H 3M

Founding Evolutionary Psychology with Leda Cosmides

from Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) · host Dave Pietraszewski & David Pinsof

A guest who needs no introduction. Leda Cosmides (UCSB) talks about how she and John Tooby co-founded the enterprise "evolutionary psychology"---including the how's, when's and why's---and what she thinks about current work. Other topics include why it's good for science to not be a jerk, and how she's come to understand what the heck behavioral and experimental economists are up to.  More about Leda Cosmides: https://psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/leda-cosmides https://www.cep.ucsb.edu/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=V1vCfTYAAAAJ&hl=en    

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