El Center for Evolutionary Psychology de la Universidad de California Santa Barbara contiene una lista de trabajos que tratan sobre el Intercambio Social visto desde la óptica de la Psicología Evolutiva.

Los directores del Centro son Leda Cosmides (Departamento de Ciencias Psicológicas y del Cerebro) y John Tooby (Departamento de Antropología)

La lista de trabajos que referencian es esta:

• Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2005). Neurocognitive adaptations designed for social exchange. In D. M. Buss (Ed.), Evolutionary Psychology Handbook. NY: Wiley.
• Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1992). Cognitive adaptations for social exchange. In J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Cosmides, L. (1989). The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selection task. Cognition, 31, 187-276.
• Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1989). Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, Part II. Case study: A computational theory of social exchange. Ethology & Sociobiology, 10, 51-97.

  • Cosmides, L. (1985). Deduction or Darwinian Algorithms? An explanation of the “elusive” content effect on the Wason selection task. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University. University Microfilms #86-02206. Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, http://www.cep.ucsb.edu/papers/cosmides_1985_chap6.pdfChapter 6, Chapter 7
  • Stone, V., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., Kroll, N. & Knight, R. (2002). Selective Impairment of Reasoning About Social Exchange in a Patient with Bilateral Limbic System Damage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99(17), 11531-11536.
  • Sugiyama, L., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2002). Cross-cultural evidence of cognitive adaptations for social exchange among the Shiwiar of Ecuadorian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99(17), 11537-11542.
  • Fiddick, L., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2000). No interpretation without representation: The role of domain-specific representations and inferences in the Wason selection task. Cognition, 77, 1-79.
  • Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1997). Dissecting the computational architecture of social inference mechanisms. In: Characterizing human psychological adaptations (Ciba Foundation Symposium #208). Chichester: Wiley. (pp. 132-156).
  • Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1996). Friendship and the Banker's Paradox: Other pathways to the evolution of adaptations for altruism. In W. G. Runciman, J. Maynard Smith, & R. I. M. Dunbar (Eds.), Evolution of Social Behaviour Patterns in Primates and Man. Proceedings of the British Academy, 88, 119-143.
  • Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1994). Better than rational: Evolutionary psychology and the invisible hand. American Economic Review (May), 327-332.
  • Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1994). Beyond intuition and instinct blindness: The case for an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science. Cognition, 50, 41-77.

• A Computational Theory of Social Exchange, UCSB, Leda Cosmides & John Tooby
• Simple Algorithmic Principles of Discovery, Subjective Beauty, Selective Attention, Curiosity & Creativity, Jürgen Schmidhuber, arxiv.org

  • Formal theory of fun & creativity explains science, art, music, humour, Jürgen Schmidhuber