Frederick L Coolidge
Biographic Data
| ID | 92914 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederick L Coolidge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederick L |
| FAMILY NAME | Coolidge |
| SIGNATURE | COOLIDGE F L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Colorado Springs |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0157-8387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 350 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The impact of social interest training on adolescents’ social skills and bullying behaviors
Four signposts on the road to technition
Suicidal Ideation in Older Adults
Elevated rates of suicide among older adults continue to be a major public health problem globally. Improving our understanding of the precursors and the underlying mechanisms that lead to an increased risk of suicide in older adults is key to preventing suicide in this high-risk group. This study examined relationships between known risk factors of suicidal ideation (i.e., depression, hopelessness, thwarted belongingness, and perceived burdensom…
Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology
An Introduction to Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology
An Introduction to Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology is the first concise introduction that lays out the epistemological foundations of evolutionary cognitive archaeology in a way that is accessible to students. The volume is divided into three sections. The first section situates cognitive archaeology in the pantheon of archaeological approaches and distinguishes between ideational cognitive archaeology and evolutionary cognitive archaeology. T…
Science of Dream Interpretation
Relationships Among Executive Dysfunction, Constructive Worrying, and Worry Responses in Older Adults
Worry is a ubiquitous human experience and core symptom of anxiety. The present study examined the extent to which specific aspects of worry are related to perceived executive dysfunction in older adults. A total of 100 older adult participants ( M age = 68.82 years; range = 65–79 years) completed the Worry Behaviors Inventory, the Coolidge Axis II Inventory Executive Dysfunctions Scale, and the Constructive and Unconstructive Worry Questionnaire…
Human species and mating systems
The present paper examined the assumption of strong reproductive isolation (RI) between Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens, as well as the question of what form it might have taken, using insights from the parallel case of chimpanzee–bonobo hybridization. RI from hybrid sterility or inviability was thought unlikely based on the short separation-to-introgression timeline. The forms of RI that typically develop in primates have relatively short…
The false dichotomy
In the debate about the demise of the Neandertal, several scholars have claimed that humanity’s nearest relatives were indistinguishable archaeologically, and thus behaviorally and cognitively, from contemporaneous Homo sapiens. They suggest that to hold otherwise is to characterize Neandertals as inferior to H. sapiens, a false dichotomy that excludes the possibility that the two human types simply differed in ways visible to natural selection, …
Squeezing Minds from Stones
Dopaminergic systems expansion and the advent of Homo erectus
Cognitive Models in Palaeolithic Archaeology
"Cognitive Models in Palaeolithic Archaeology grew out of a specialized thematic session that we organized for the 2013 meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution"--Preface
Deliberate self-harm among younger and older adults
This study examined self-harming behaviors among younger and older adults who completed the Self-Harm Inventory (SHI). A 2 (age group) × 2 (gender) analysis of variance showed a significant main effect for age such that younger adult students (M = 3.42, SD = 3.86) had higher SHI total scores than community-dwelling older adults (M = 1.58, SD = 2.35). Younger adults endorsed "Yes" responses significantly more frequently than older adults on 13 of …
An Introduction to Cognitive Archaeology
Cognitive archaeology studies human cognitive evolution by applying cognitive-science theories and concepts to archaeological remains of the prehistoric past. After reviewing the basic epistemological stance of cognitive archaeology, this article illustrates this interdisciplinary endeavor through an examination of two of the most important transitions in hominin cognitive evolution—the appearance of Homo erectus about 2 million years ago, and th…
Bridging theory and bow hunting
Archeological insights into hominin cognitive evolution
How did the human mind evolve? How and when did we come to think in the ways we do? The last thirty years have seen an explosion in research related to the brain and cognition. This research has encompassed a range of biological and social sciences, from epigenetics and cognitive neuroscience to social and developmental psychology. Following naturally on this efflorescence has been a heightened interest in the evolution of the brain and cognition…
Dynamics of Learning in Neanderthals and Modern Humans. Cultural Perspectives
Technical cognition, working memory and creativity
This essay explores the nature and neurological basis of creativity in technical production. After presenting a model of expert technical cognition based in cognitive anthropology and cognitive psychology, the authors propose that craft production has three inherent sources of novelty — procedural drift, serendipitous error and fiddling. However, these are quite limited in their creative potential, which may help explain the virtual absence of in…
Psychometric properties of a new measure to assess autism spectrum disorder in DSM-5
This article presents preliminary psychometric properties of a new 45-item scale, the Coolidge Autistic Symptoms Survey (CASS), designed to differentiate between children within the autism spectrum (including Asperger's Disorder) and purportedly normal children, in anticipation of DSM-5 changes, in which a single diagnostic category is proposed: autism spectrum disorder. The final sample (N = 72) consisted of 19 children diagnosed with Asperger's…
On the Nature of Numerosity and the Role of Language in Developing Number Concepts
Numerosity, Abstraction, and the Emergence of Symbolic Thinking
In this paper we tentatively propose that one of the feral cognitive bases for modern symbolic thinking may be numerosity, that is, the ability to appreciate and understand numbers. We proffer that numerosity appears to be an inherently abstractive process, which is supported by numerous human infant and monkey studies. We also review studies that demonstrate that the neurological substrate for numerosity is primarily the intraparietal sulcus of …
Personality, Suicidal Ideation, and Reasons for Living among Older Adults
The findings highlight the complexity of risk and protective factors for suicide and suggest that a thorough assessment of suicidal potential among older adults should include attention to their underlying personality traits
Beyond Symbolism and Language
Despite 20 years of concerted attention, paleoanthropology has established little of substance concerning the evolution of the modern mind, if by substance we mean conclusions that would be of interest and use to scholars of human cognition. Part of this failure can be linked to a poverty of appropriate interpretive concepts. There is more to the modern mind than symbolism and language, the two "abilities" most often cited in the paleoanthropolog…
Cognitive Archaeology and Human Evolution
International audience
Does Greater Phonological Storage Capacity Correlate with Levels of Intentionality and Theory of Mind
Greater phonological storage capacity may be associated with levels of intentionality, and therefore by assumption, Theory of Mind. The participants were 34 high school students in the Midwest (15 girls, 19 boys; age range= 15 to 17 years). The measures were digits forward and digits backward from the Digit Span subtest of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III and a measure purporting to assess Theory of Mind and Levels of Intentionality (Kin…
Working Memory, its Executive Functions, and the Emergence of Modern Thinking
This article examines the possible origins of modern thinking by evaluating the cognitive models of working memory, executive functions and their interrelationship. We propose that a genetic mutation affected neural networks in the prefrontal cortex approximately 60,000 to 130,000 years ago. Our review of cognitive and archaeological evidence yields two possibilities: either it was non-domain specific, affecting general working memory capacity an…
The expert Neandertal mind
Beyond Symbolism and Language
Despite 20 years of concerted attention, paleoanthropology has established little of substance concerning the evolution of the modern mind, if by substance we mean conclusions that would be of interest and use to scholars of human cognition. Part of this failure can be linked to a poverty of appropriate interpretive concepts. There is more to the modern mind than symbolism and language, the two "abilities" most often cited in the paleoanthropolog…
Archeological insights into hominin cognitive evolution
How did the human mind evolve? How and when did we come to think in the ways we do? The last thirty years have seen an explosion in research related to the brain and cognition. This research has encompassed a range of biological and social sciences, from epigenetics and cognitive neuroscience to social and developmental psychology. Following naturally on this efflorescence has been a heightened interest in the evolution of the brain and cognition…
Numerosity, Abstraction, and the Emergence of Symbolic Thinking
In this paper we tentatively propose that one of the feral cognitive bases for modern symbolic thinking may be numerosity, that is, the ability to appreciate and understand numbers. We proffer that numerosity appears to be an inherently abstractive process, which is supported by numerous human infant and monkey studies. We also review studies that demonstrate that the neurological substrate for numerosity is primarily the intraparietal sulcus of …
Executive Functions of the Frontal Lobes and the Evolutionary Ascendancy of Homo Sapiens
A core question of cognitive archaeology is the evolution of modern thinking. In this article, it is argued that a cluster of specific cognitive abilities, ‘executive functions’, was one of the key evolutionary acquisitions that led to the development of modern thinking. A review of the history of executive functions is presented as well as current opinions as to their nature and genetic basis. Examples are also presented from the cognitive archa…
Hohlenstein-Stadel and the Evolution of Human Conceptual Thought
Cognitive neuroscience provides a powerful perspective on the brain and cognition from which archaeologists can begin to document the evolution of the human mind. The following essay uses the Hohlenstein-Stadel figurine as a starting point to demonstrate the two kinds of conclusion open to an evolutionary cognitive archaeology: first, describing features of the cognitive life-world at specific points in human evolution, in this case central Europ…
The role of working memory in the evolution of managed foraging
This article proposes that a relatively simple evolutionary development in human cognition enabled the development of managed foraging systems and, ultimately, agriculture. This development, an increase in the capacity of working memory, resulted in an enhancement of such specific cognitive abilities as response inhibition, response preparation, resistance to interference, and the ability to integrate action across space and time. All are require…
An Introduction to Cognitive Archaeology
Cognitive archaeology studies human cognitive evolution by applying cognitive-science theories and concepts to archaeological remains of the prehistoric past. After reviewing the basic epistemological stance of cognitive archaeology, this article illustrates this interdisciplinary endeavor through an examination of two of the most important transitions in hominin cognitive evolution—the appearance of Homo erectus about 2 million years ago, and th…
Bridging theory and bow hunting
A Cognitive and Neuropsychological Perspective on the Châtelperronian
Châtelperronian is the term used for a distinctive archaeological assemblage found in areas of southwestern France and northern Spain. Neandertals appear to have been responsible for the artifacts, but some of the artifact types represent a significant change from those used in the previous 200,000 years of Neandertal culture. Two alternative interpretations have been proposed for this change--one emphasizing independent development and the other…
The effects of the tree-to-ground sleep transition in the evolution of cognition in early Homo
Just as the study of great apes aids in the understanding of early hominid evolution, so too can contemporary dream research help in the understanding of ancient hominid dream life and cognitive evolution. It has been proffered that a major leap forward in the cognitive evolution of hominoids may first have occurred in the building of nests, and a second major step may have been the full transition to ground sleep. These two changes may have begu…
The effect of enhanced working memory on language
Dynamics of Learning in Neanderthals and Modern Humans. Cultural Perspectives
The working memory account of Neandertal cognition-How phonological storage capacity may be related to recursion and the pragmatics of modern speech
Personality Profiles of Women in Multiple Abusive Relationships
A Comparison of Suicidal Thinking and Reasons for Living Among Younger and Older Adults
Why Not Cognition
The false dichotomy
In the debate about the demise of the Neandertal, several scholars have claimed that humanity’s nearest relatives were indistinguishable archaeologically, and thus behaviorally and cognitively, from contemporaneous Homo sapiens. They suggest that to hold otherwise is to characterize Neandertals as inferior to H. sapiens, a false dichotomy that excludes the possibility that the two human types simply differed in ways visible to natural selection, …
On the Nature of Numerosity and the Role of Language in Developing Number Concepts
Neuropsychological Dysfunction in Children with Borderline Personality Disorder Features
Deliberate self-harm among younger and older adults
This study examined self-harming behaviors among younger and older adults who completed the Self-Harm Inventory (SHI). A 2 (age group) × 2 (gender) analysis of variance showed a significant main effect for age such that younger adult students (M = 3.42, SD = 3.86) had higher SHI total scores than community-dwelling older adults (M = 1.58, SD = 2.35). Younger adults endorsed "Yes" responses significantly more frequently than older adults on 13 of …
Personality, Suicidal Ideation, and Reasons for Living among Older Adults
The findings highlight the complexity of risk and protective factors for suicide and suggest that a thorough assessment of suicidal potential among older adults should include attention to their underlying personality traits
Is Kim Jong‐il like Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler? A personality disorder evaluation
A psychological profile was developed on North Korean leader Kim Jong‐il based on a South Korean psychiatrist’s evaluation of 14 personality disorders in DSM‐IV‐TR and of schizophrenic and psychotic symptoms. The psychiatrist, considered an expert on Kim Jong‐il’s behavior, completed the informant version of the standardized, DSM‐IV‐TR aligned, 225‐item Coolidge Axis II Inventory (CATI). The resulting profile was compared with a consensus profile…
Attitudes Toward Suicide and Suicidal Risk Among Younger and Older Persons
Despite a burgeoning literature on some aspects of elder suicide, little is known about the specific attitudes that older people hold about suicide. The present study examined attitudes toward suicide and suicidal risk among 96 younger and 79 older adults. Participants completed the Suicide Opinion Questionnaire and the Suicide Risk Scale. Regarding suicidal risk, younger adults scored significantly higher than older adults. Regarding attitudes, …
The Loss of Teeth in Dreams
Written interpretations of the loss of teeth in dreams have existed since the second century. The present study analyzed the personality characteristics of people with the reoccurring teeth-loss dream. Twenty-eight volunteers were recruited on a college campus, 14 people who reported the reoccurring dream of teeth-loss and a control group of 14 who reported the reoccurring dream of flight. Personality questionnaires indicated that the dreamers ab…
Dreams of the Dying
This study investigated the dream themes of fourteen terminally ill cancer patients. The dreams were scored according to a standardized questionnaire, and the frequencies of the dream themes were compared to a group of forty-two aged persons. The results indicated that death and aggression occurred significantly more often in the dreams of the dying. Death themes also frequently appeared as a projection upon other dream characters. It is hypothes…
Validation of a Wais Algorithm for the Early Onset of Dementia
A WAIS algorithm was developed to distinguish between the onset of dementia and depression. Seven WAIS subtests were given to 148 patients whose diagnosis was doubtful. They were classified after a minimum of 1 yr. later as dementia ( n = 50) or as depression ( n = 98). The algorithm, developed from a discriminant function analysis, indicates dementia if the Vocabulary scaled score is greater than or equal to double the Block Design scaled score.…
On the Proper Interpretation of Residualized Interaction Means in Analysis of Variance
According to Rosnow and Rosenthal the correct interpretation of an interaction in an analysis of variance necessarily involves examining the residual means after removing the lower order effects from the original cell means. They make two errors in their analysis of the residual means. First, they incorrectly interpret the negative residual means as literal negative values. The signs of the residual means actually indicate relative differences be…
On the Relationship of the Five-Factor Personality Model to Personality Disorders
McCrae and Costa since 1986 have proferred a five-factor personality model as a lingua franca among different psychometric test users, and they suggest that their operationalization of the five-factor model, the NEO Personality Inventory, may also be useful in the clinical assessment of the abnormal personality. The present study examined the inventory and its relationship to the 11 personality disorders of Axis II of DSM-III-R in a sample of 180…
Executive Functions of the Frontal Lobes
This study investigated the psychometric properties of a self-rating scale designed to test the executive functions of the frontal lobes. A set of 16 items was selected, based on face validity, from the 200-item Coolidge Axis II Inventory. Cronbach scale reliability for the new scale was .72 on 1,223 purportedly normal participants. A factor analysis yielded a three-factor structure, Decision-making difficulties (8 items, 23% of the variance, sca…
The concepts of individual, self, and group in Japanese National, Japanese-American, and European-American samples
Neuropsychological Dysfunction in Children with Borderline Personality Disorder Features
A Comparison of Suicidal Thinking and Reasons for Living Among Younger and Older Adults
Executive Functions of the Frontal Lobes and the Evolutionary Ascendancy of Homo Sapiens
A core question of cognitive archaeology is the evolution of modern thinking. In this article, it is argued that a cluster of specific cognitive abilities, ‘executive functions’, was one of the key evolutionary acquisitions that led to the development of modern thinking. A review of the history of executive functions is presented as well as current opinions as to their nature and genetic basis. Examples are also presented from the cognitive archa…
Personality Profiles of Women in Multiple Abusive Relationships
The role of working memory in the evolution of managed foraging
This article proposes that a relatively simple evolutionary development in human cognition enabled the development of managed foraging systems and, ultimately, agriculture. This development, an increase in the capacity of working memory, resulted in an enhancement of such specific cognitive abilities as response inhibition, response preparation, resistance to interference, and the ability to integrate action across space and time. All are require…
The Predictive Power of Horney?s Psychoanalytic Approach
Attitudes Toward Suicide and Suicidal Risk Among Younger and Older Persons
Despite a burgeoning literature on some aspects of elder suicide, little is known about the specific attitudes that older people hold about suicide. The present study examined attitudes toward suicide and suicidal risk among 96 younger and 79 older adults. Participants completed the Suicide Opinion Questionnaire and the Suicide Risk Scale. Regarding suicidal risk, younger adults scored significantly higher than older adults. Regarding attitudes, …
The expert Neandertal mind
A Cognitive and Neuropsychological Perspective on the Châtelperronian
Châtelperronian is the term used for a distinctive archaeological assemblage found in areas of southwestern France and northern Spain. Neandertals appear to have been responsible for the artifacts, but some of the artifact types represent a significant change from those used in the previous 200,000 years of Neandertal culture. Two alternative interpretations have been proposed for this change--one emphasizing independent development and the other…
Working Memory, its Executive Functions, and the Emergence of Modern Thinking
This article examines the possible origins of modern thinking by evaluating the cognitive models of working memory, executive functions and their interrelationship. We propose that a genetic mutation affected neural networks in the prefrontal cortex approximately 60,000 to 130,000 years ago. Our review of cognitive and archaeological evidence yields two possibilities: either it was non-domain specific, affecting general working memory capacity an…
The effects of the tree-to-ground sleep transition in the evolution of cognition in early Homo
Just as the study of great apes aids in the understanding of early hominid evolution, so too can contemporary dream research help in the understanding of ancient hominid dream life and cognitive evolution. It has been proffered that a major leap forward in the cognitive evolution of hominoids may first have occurred in the building of nests, and a second major step may have been the full transition to ground sleep. These two changes may have begu…
The effect of enhanced working memory on language
The working memory account of Neandertal cognition-How phonological storage capacity may be related to recursion and the pragmatics of modern speech
Why Not Cognition
Cognitive Archaeology and Human Evolution
International audience
Does Greater Phonological Storage Capacity Correlate with Levels of Intentionality and Theory of Mind
Greater phonological storage capacity may be associated with levels of intentionality, and therefore by assumption, Theory of Mind. The participants were 34 high school students in the Midwest (15 girls, 19 boys; age range= 15 to 17 years). The measures were digits forward and digits backward from the Digit Span subtest of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III and a measure purporting to assess Theory of Mind and Levels of Intentionality (Kin…
Is Kim Jong‐il like Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler? A personality disorder evaluation
A psychological profile was developed on North Korean leader Kim Jong‐il based on a South Korean psychiatrist’s evaluation of 14 personality disorders in DSM‐IV‐TR and of schizophrenic and psychotic symptoms. The psychiatrist, considered an expert on Kim Jong‐il’s behavior, completed the informant version of the standardized, DSM‐IV‐TR aligned, 225‐item Coolidge Axis II Inventory (CATI). The resulting profile was compared with a consensus profile…
Working memory deficits in personality disorder traits
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