D Sznycer
Biographic Data
| ID | 57989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Sznycer |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Sznycer |
| SIGNATURE | SZNYCER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oklahoma State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6510-3313 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Bismarckian welfare revisited: Fear of being violently dispossessed motivates support for redistribution
Emotional tears: What they are and how they work
Trustworthiness: An Adaptationist Account
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study
Across societies and across history, seemingly dominant, authoritarian leaders have emerged frequently, often rising to power based on widespread popular support. One prominent theory holds that evolved psychological mechanisms of followership regulate citizens' leadership preferences such that dominant individuals are intuitively attributed leadership qualities when followers face intergroup conflicts like war. A key hypothesis based on this the…
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us
Are self-conscious emotions about the self? Testing competing theories of shame and guilt across two disparate cultures
The emotions of guilt and shame play major roles in forgiveness, social exclusion, face-saving ploys, suicide, and honor killings. Understanding these emotions is thus of vital importance. The outputs of guilt and shame are already well understood: Guilt motivates amends; shame motivates evasion. However, the elicitors and functions of these emotions are disputed. According to attributional theory, guilt and shame are intrapersonal emotions elici…
Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others
Cognitive foundations for helping and harming others: Making welfare tradeoffs in industrialized and small-scale societies
Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict
Societal institutions echo evolved human nature: An analysis of the Western criminal justice system and its relation to anger
Family still matters: Human social motivation across 42 countries during a global pandemic
How anger works
Value computation in humans
The implicit rules of combat reflect the evolved function of combat: An evolutionary-psychological analysis of fairness and honor in human aggression
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 be…
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 Elliot Johnson and Daniel Nettle" published on Sep 2023 by Bristol University Press
The evolution of shame and its display
The shame system appears to be natural selection's solution to the adaptive problem of information-triggered reputational damage. Over evolutionary time, this problem would have led to a coordinated set of adaptations – the shame system – designed to minimise the spread of negative information about the self and the likelihood and costs of being socially devalued by others. This information threat theory of shame can account for much of what we k…
Reasons of Singles for Being Single: Evidence from Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, India, Japan and the UK
The current research aimed to examine the reasons people are single, that is, not in an intimate relationship, across eight different countries—Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, India, Japan, and the UK. We asked a large cross-cultural sample of single participants ( N = 6,822) to rate 92 different possible reasons for being single. These reasons were classified into 12 factors, including one’s perceived inability to find the right …
How pride works
Trust in humans and robots: Economically similar but emotionally different
The origins of criminal law
The ecological rationality of helping others: Potential helpers integrate cues of recipients' need and willingness to sacrifice
The emotion–valuation constellation: Multiple emotions are governed by a common grammar of social valuation
The true trigger of shame: Social devaluation is sufficient, wrongdoing is unnecessary
Understanding cooperation through fitness interdependence
Physically strong men are more militant: A test across four countries
Who Deserves Help? Evolutionary Psychology, Social Emotions, and Public Opinion about Welfare
Evidence suggests that our foraging ancestors engaged in the small‐scale equivalent of social insurance as an essential tool of survival and evolved a sophisticated psychology of social exchange (involving the social emotions of compassion and anger) to regulate mutual assistance. Here, we hypothesize that political support for modern welfare policies are shaped by these evolved mental programs. In particular, the compassionate motivation to shar…
Understanding cooperation through fitness interdependence
How pride works
Trust in humans and robots: Economically similar but emotionally different
The evolution of shame and its display
The shame system appears to be natural selection's solution to the adaptive problem of information-triggered reputational damage. Over evolutionary time, this problem would have led to a coordinated set of adaptations – the shame system – designed to minimise the spread of negative information about the self and the likelihood and costs of being socially devalued by others. This information threat theory of shame can account for much of what we k…
The origins of criminal law
Coresidence duration and cues of maternal investment regulate sibling altruism across cultures
Genetic relatedness is a fundamental determinant of social behavior across species. Over the last few decades, researchers have been investigating the proximate psychological mechanisms that enable humans to assess their genetic relatedness to others. Much of this work has focused on identifying cues that predicted relatedness in ancestral environments and examining how they regulate kin-directed behaviors. Despite progress, many basic questions …
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 be…
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 Elliot Johnson and Daniel Nettle" published on Sep 2023 by Bristol University Press
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study
Across societies and across history, seemingly dominant, authoritarian leaders have emerged frequently, often rising to power based on widespread popular support. One prominent theory holds that evolved psychological mechanisms of followership regulate citizens' leadership preferences such that dominant individuals are intuitively attributed leadership qualities when followers face intergroup conflicts like war. A key hypothesis based on this the…
Reasons of Singles for Being Single: Evidence from Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, India, Japan and the UK
The current research aimed to examine the reasons people are single, that is, not in an intimate relationship, across eight different countries—Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, India, Japan, and the UK. We asked a large cross-cultural sample of single participants ( N = 6,822) to rate 92 different possible reasons for being single. These reasons were classified into 12 factors, including one’s perceived inability to find the right …
Who Deserves Help? Evolutionary Psychology, Social Emotions, and Public Opinion about Welfare
Evidence suggests that our foraging ancestors engaged in the small‐scale equivalent of social insurance as an essential tool of survival and evolved a sophisticated psychology of social exchange (involving the social emotions of compassion and anger) to regulate mutual assistance. Here, we hypothesize that political support for modern welfare policies are shaped by these evolved mental programs. In particular, the compassionate motivation to shar…
Regulatory adaptations for delivering information: The case of confession
Shame closely tracks the threat of devaluation by others, even across cultures
Significance Prominent theories of shame hold that shame is inherently maladaptive. However, direct tests of the fit between shame and its probable target domain have not previously been conducted. Here we test the alternative hypothesis that shame, although unpleasant (like pain), serves the adaptive function of defending against the social devaluation that results when negative information reaches others—by deterring actions that would lead to …
Coresidence duration and cues of maternal investment regulate sibling altruism across cultures
Genetic relatedness is a fundamental determinant of social behavior across species. Over the last few decades, researchers have been investigating the proximate psychological mechanisms that enable humans to assess their genetic relatedness to others. Much of this work has focused on identifying cues that predicted relatedness in ancestral environments and examining how they regulate kin-directed behaviors. Despite progress, many basic questions …
Physically strong men are more militant: A test across four countries
The true trigger of shame: Social devaluation is sufficient, wrongdoing is unnecessary
Understanding cooperation through fitness interdependence
The ecological rationality of helping others: Potential helpers integrate cues of recipients' need and willingness to sacrifice
The emotion–valuation constellation: Multiple emotions are governed by a common grammar of social valuation
Trust in humans and robots: Economically similar but emotionally different
The origins of criminal law
Reasons of Singles for Being Single: Evidence from Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, India, Japan and the UK
The current research aimed to examine the reasons people are single, that is, not in an intimate relationship, across eight different countries—Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, India, Japan, and the UK. We asked a large cross-cultural sample of single participants ( N = 6,822) to rate 92 different possible reasons for being single. These reasons were classified into 12 factors, including one’s perceived inability to find the right …
How pride works
Family still matters: Human social motivation across 42 countries during a global pandemic
How anger works
Value computation in humans
The implicit rules of combat reflect the evolved function of combat: An evolutionary-psychological analysis of fairness and honor in human aggression
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 be…
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 Elliot Johnson and Daniel Nettle" published on Sep 2023 by Bristol University Press
The evolution of shame and its display
The shame system appears to be natural selection's solution to the adaptive problem of information-triggered reputational damage. Over evolutionary time, this problem would have led to a coordinated set of adaptations – the shame system – designed to minimise the spread of negative information about the self and the likelihood and costs of being socially devalued by others. This information threat theory of shame can account for much of what we k…
Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others
Cognitive foundations for helping and harming others: Making welfare tradeoffs in industrialized and small-scale societies
Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict
Societal institutions echo evolved human nature: An analysis of the Western criminal justice system and its relation to anger
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us
Are self-conscious emotions about the self? Testing competing theories of shame and guilt across two disparate cultures
The emotions of guilt and shame play major roles in forgiveness, social exclusion, face-saving ploys, suicide, and honor killings. Understanding these emotions is thus of vital importance. The outputs of guilt and shame are already well understood: Guilt motivates amends; shame motivates evasion. However, the elicitors and functions of these emotions are disputed. According to attributional theory, guilt and shame are intrapersonal emotions elici…
Psychology (26 works) · Social Psychology (24 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (14 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (13 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (11 works) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (8 works)