Daniel M T Fessler
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 85878 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Daniel M T Fessler |
| PRENOMES | Daniel M T |
| SOBRENOME | Fessler |
| ASSINATURA | FESSLER D M T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7795-7500 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 68 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 396 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
An Evolutionary Approach to Privacy and Information-Management Psychology
Current debates concerning the use of digital technology often focus on privacy, yet privacy attitudes and behavior are remarkably under-theorized, and relatively little empirical research has investigated privacy beyond the realm of digital communications. Building on evolutionary scholarship on information exchange, we outline a theoretical model in which cultural concepts of privacy reflect the workings of evolved psychological mechanisms that…
Steps toward an Interdisciplinary Anthropology of Mind and Emotion
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology
Bringing together contributions from a global team of renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of psychological anthropology. It is divided into five parts and includes a critical updating of the theoretical foundations for psychological anthropology, covering cognitive, psychodynamic, linguistic, and phenomenological views. It provides the first-ever lifespan perspective on human development in culture…
Estudios sobre el sistema penitenciario montevideano. Un análisis de José Irureta Goyena (1909-1917)
En el presente artículo me propongo examinar la visión del doctor José Irureta Goyena sobre el sistema penitenciario montevideano formuladas en un período clave de su transformación a comienzos del siglo XX. Para ello, se consideró una serie de informes desarrollados en su carácter de miembro del Consejo Penitenciario, exhumados del archivo en proceso de clasif icación existente en el Centro de Formación Penitenciaria (Instituto Nacional de Rehab…
Daniel Palma Alvarado (2023). Pacos. Policías Estado y sociedad en Chile (desde el siglo XIX hasta 1927)
Accordance and conflict between religious and scientific precautions against Covid-19 in 27 societies
Meaning-making systems underlie perceptions of the efficacy of threat-mitigating behaviors. Religion and science both offer threat mitigation, yet these meaning-making systems are often considered incompatible. Do such epistemological conflicts swamp the desire to employ diverse precautions against threats? Or do individuals—particularly individuals who are highly reactive to threats—hedge their bets by using multiple threat-mitigating practices …
Una nueva cárcel penitenciaria para Montevideo
El presente artículo aspira a estudiar el proceso que llevó a la concreción de una nueva Cárcel Penitenciaria en la ciudad de Montevideo a impulsos de la crisis del edifi cio radial que había sido habilitado en 1888. Marcado tempranamente por la superpoblación y el hacinamiento, a inicios de la década de los noventa del siglo XIX se comenzó a promover la construcción de un establecimiento que diera respuesta a lo que se denunciaba como una crecie…
Al rescate de niños y mujeres. Proyectos para el sistema penitenciario montevideano durante el último cuarto del siglo XIX
Aspiramos en este trabajo a estudiar una serie de proyectos existentes en el último cuarto del siglo XIX que tuvieron como propósito instalar una Cárcel Correccional de Mujeres y Asilo de Menores en Montevideo. Las propuestas se caracterizaron por anunciar como objetivo central resolver la situación de mujeres y “menores” en las prisiones. Factores claves como las condiciones de alojamiento, la falta de clasificación de los internos o la imposibi…
Luis González Alvo, Modernizar el castigo. La construcción del régimen penitenciario en Tucumán
Beware the foe who feels no pain
Pain is a critical internal regulator of current and future behavior. However, pain also constitutes a tactical liability in agonistic interpersonal conflict. Therefore, information about the pain sensitivity of others should play a functional role in assessments of the formidability of prospective foes or allies. Compared to an individual known to be sensitive to pain, an individual known to be insensitive to pain should be assessed as more form…
The Dead May Kill You
There is considerable evidence that beliefs in supernatural punishment decrease self-interested behavior and increase cooperation amongst group members. To date, research has largely focused on beliefs concerning omniscient moralistic gods in large-scale societies. While there is an abundance of ethnographic accounts documenting fear of supernatural punishment, there is a dearth of systematic cross-cultural comparative quantitative evidence as to…
Early adversity, adult lifestyle, and posttraumatic stress disorder in a military sample
Early adversity is considered a major risk factor for adult posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Simultaneously, however, early adversity is also known to contribute to psychological resilience, and, indeed, some high-adversity groups do not display elevated PTSD risk. We explored correlates of PTSD in the Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers military dataset to evaluate contrasting accounts of the relationship between early adv…
Kinship intensity and the use of mental states in moral judgment across societies
Gruesomeness conveys formidability
While associated with extreme terrorist organizations in modern times, extensive accounts of grisly acts of violence exist in the archeological, historical, and ethnographic records. Though reasons for this dramatic form of violence are multifaceted and diverse, one possibility is that violence beyond what is required to win a conflict is a method by which violent actors communicate to others that they are formidable opponents. The formidability …
Does observing reciprocity or exploitation affect elevation, a mechanism driving prosociality
Response to “Hormonal Correlates of Pathogen Disgust
Disgust as a mechanism for decision making under risk
The emotion disgust motivates costly behavioral strategies that mitigate against potentially larger costs associated with pathogens, sexual behavior, and moral transgressions. Because disgust thereby regulates exposure to harm, it is by definition a mechanism for calibrating decision making under risk. Understanding this illuminates two features of the demographic distribution of this emotion. First, this approach predicts and explains sex differ…
May God Guide Our Guns
The perceived support of supernatural agents has been historically, ethnographically, and theoretically linked with confidence in engaging in violent intergroup conflict. However, scant experimental investigations of such links have been reported to date, and the extant evidence derives largely from indirect laboratory methods of limited ecological validity. Here, we experimentally tested the hypothesis that perceived supernatural aid would heigh…
The kiss of death
Gulliver’s Politics
Political conservatives have been widely documented to regard out-group members as hostile, perceive individuals of ambiguous intent as malevolent, and favor aggressive solutions to intergroup conflict. A growing literature indicates that potential violent adversaries are represented using the dimensions of envisioned physical size/strength to summarize opponents’ fighting capacities relative to the self or in-group. Integrating these programs, w…
Not Just Dead Meat
Comparing mortuary rituals across 57 representative cultures extracted from the Human Relations Area Files, this paper demonstrates that kin of the deceased engage in behaviours to prepare the deceased for disposal that entail close and often prolonged contact with the contaminating corpse. At first glance, such practices are costly and lack obvious payoffs. Building on prior functionalist approaches, we present an explanation of corpse treatment…
The effects of corpse viewing and corpse condition on vigilance for deceased loved ones
Synchronized behavior increases assessments of the formidability and cohesion of coalitions
Looming large in others' eyes
Small-scale societies exhibit fundamental variation in the role of intentions in moral judgment
Significance It is widely considered a universal feature of human moral psychology that reasons for actions are taken into account in most moral judgments. However, most evidence for this moral intent hypothesis comes from large-scale industrialized societies. We used a standardized methodology to test the moral intent hypothesis across eight traditional small-scale societies (ranging from hunter-gatherer to pastoralist to horticulturalist) and t…
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology
Bringing together contributions from a global team of renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of psychological anthropology. It is divided into five parts and includes a critical updating of the theoretical foundations for psychological anthropology, covering cognitive, psychodynamic, linguistic, and phenomenological views. It provides the first-ever lifespan perspective on human development in culture…
Meat Is Good to Taboo
Comparing food taboos across 78 cultures, this paper demonstrates that meat, though a prized food, is also the principal target of proscriptions. Reviewing existing explanations of taboos, we find that both functionalist and symbolic approaches fail to account for meat's cross-cultural centrality and do not reflect experience-near aspects of food taboos, principal among which is disgust. Adopting an evolutionary approach to the mind, this paper p…
Shame in Two Cultures
Cross-cultural comparisons can a) illuminate the manner in which cultures differentially highlight, ignore, and group various facets of emotional experience, and b) shed light on our evolved species-typical emotional architecture. In many societies, concern with shame is one of the principal factors regulating social behavior. Three studies conducted in Bengkulu (Indonesia) and California explored the nature and experience of shame in two dispara…
Disgust sensitivity and meat consumption
Reproductive Immunosuppression and Diet
Pregnancy sickness, a suite of "symptoms" that frequently co-occur during pregnancy, may be an adaptation providing behavioral prophylaxis against infection. Maternal immunosupression, necessary for tolerance of the fetus, results in gestational vulnerability to pathogens. Throughout the period of maximal vulnerability, dietary behavior is significantly altered via changes in nausea susceptibility and olfaction and the development of marked avers…
Anxiety and Intergroup Bias
Contemplation of death increases support of ingroup ideologies, a result explained by proponents of terror management theory (TMT) as an attempt to buffer existential anxiety. While TMT claims that only death-salient stimuli yield such effects, an evolutionary perspective suggests that increased intergroup bias may occur in response to a wide variety of situations that, in ancestral environments, posed adaptive problems for which marshaling socia…
Karo Batak Cousin Marriage, Cosocialization, and the Westermarck Hypothesis
Among the Karo Batak of North Sumatra, Indonesia, marriages between matrilateral cross cousins (impal) are the ideal, yet rarely occur. Further, ethnographic accounts reveal a stated aversion to impal marriage. These observations are consistent with Westermarck's "negative imprinting" hypothesis if impal are cosocialized. We present analyses of postmarital residence patterns from two studies of the Karo Batak. The analyses reveal that although in…
Men's Physical Strength Moderates Conceptualizations of Prospective Foes in Two Disparate Societies
A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Role of Foot Size in Physical Attractiveness
Disparate cultural practices suggest that small foot size may contribute to female attractiveness. Two hypotheses potentially explain such a pattern. Sexual dimorphism in foot size may lead observers to view small feet as feminine and large feet as masculine. Alternately, because small female feet index both youth and nulliparity, evolution may have favored a male preference for this attribute in order to maximize returns on male reproductive inv…
Examining the terminal investment hypothesis in humans and chimpanzees
The terminal investment hypothesis (Williams [1966] Adaptation and Natural Selection; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press) holds that reproductive effort should increase over time in iteroparous species in which reproductive value declines with age. Attempts to model this hypothesis and test it in various species have produced mixed results. Clutton-Brock ([ 1984] Am. Nat. 123:212-229) argued that simply testing for changes in propagule siz…
Not Just Dead Meat
Comparing mortuary rituals across 57 representative cultures extracted from the Human Relations Area Files, this paper demonstrates that kin of the deceased engage in behaviours to prepare the deceased for disposal that entail close and often prolonged contact with the contaminating corpse. At first glance, such practices are costly and lack obvious payoffs. Building on prior functionalist approaches, we present an explanation of corpse treatment…
A Burning Desire
Although fire is inherently dangerous, leading many animals to avoid it, for most of human history, mastery of fire has been critical to survival. Humans can therefore be expected to possess evolved psychological mechanisms dedicated to controlling fire. Because techniques for starting, maintaining, and using fire differ across ecosystems, the postulated adaptations can be expected to take the form of domain-specific learning mechanisms rather th…
Windfall and Socially Distributed Willpower
Rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) occur in myriad forms around the world. ROSCAs promote saving and make capital available. However, psychocultural factors distinct from monetary concern make both the existence of ROSCAs possible and participation in them attractive. This article analyzes the arisan, a ROSCA in Bengkulu, Sumatra. Psychocultural factors that inhibit mobility and prevent cheating make the arisan feasible. The arisan…
Dressed to kill? Visible markers of coalitional affiliation enhance conceptualized formidability
Displaying markers of coalitional affiliation is a common feature of contemporary life. In situations in which interaction with members of rival coalitions is likely, signaling coalitional affiliation may simultaneously constitute an implicit challenge to opponents and an objective commitment device, binding signalers to their coalitions. Individuals who invite conflict, and who cannot readily back out of conflict, constitute a greater threat tha…
Sizing up Helen
Men are more prone than women to both commit physical violence and engage in nonviolent activities entailing the risk of injury or death. The Crazy Bastard Hypothesis (Fessler et al. 2014a) addresses this conjunction, arguing that nonviolent physical risk-taking communicates information about the actor’s agonistic formidability, as individuals who are indifferent to the possibility of harm are more likely to enter conflicts, and more difficult to…
Neglected Natural Experiments Germane to the Westermarck Hypothesis
Disgust, Gender, and Social Change
Testing the Affiliation Hypothesis of Homoerotic Motivation in Humans
Gruesomeness conveys formidability
While associated with extreme terrorist organizations in modern times, extensive accounts of grisly acts of violence exist in the archeological, historical, and ethnographic records. Though reasons for this dramatic form of violence are multifaceted and diverse, one possibility is that violence beyond what is required to win a conflict is a method by which violent actors communicate to others that they are formidable opponents. The formidability …
Does observing reciprocity or exploitation affect elevation, a mechanism driving prosociality
May God Guide Our Guns
The perceived support of supernatural agents has been historically, ethnographically, and theoretically linked with confidence in engaging in violent intergroup conflict. However, scant experimental investigations of such links have been reported to date, and the extant evidence derives largely from indirect laboratory methods of limited ecological validity. Here, we experimentally tested the hypothesis that perceived supernatural aid would heigh…
Narcotics Anonymous
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) supports long‐term recovery for those addicted to drugs. Paralleling social dynamics in many small‐scale societies, NA exhibits tension between egalitarianism and prestige‐based hierarchy, a problem exacerbated by the addict's personality as characterized by NA's ethnopsychology. We explore how NA's central principle of anonymity normatively translates into egalitarianism among group members. Turning to the lived reality …
Fear does not correspond to higher costs of rape among married women
Thornhill and Thornhill posited that sexual assault inflicts greater fitness costs on women in committed long-term heterosexual relationships than on women not in such relationships because the former face the added risk of decreased investment by their partners. In a series of papers (1990a, 1990b, 1990c, and 1991), Thornhill and Thornhill reported support for what we term the Relationship Status Hypothesis (RSH) using data on the psychological …
Reexamining Individual Differences in Women’s Rape Avoidance Behaviors
Misconstruals Miss the Mark
The Next Frontier
Anthropology in Wonderland, Or, The Virtues of Shifting Levels and Frames
Starvation, serotonin, and symbolism. A psychobiocultural perspective on stigmata
Windfall and Socially Distributed Willpower
Rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) occur in myriad forms around the world. ROSCAs promote saving and make capital available. However, psychocultural factors distinct from monetary concern make both the existence of ROSCAs possible and participation in them attractive. This article analyzes the arisan, a ROSCA in Bengkulu, Sumatra. Psychocultural factors that inhibit mobility and prevent cheating make the arisan feasible. The arisan…
Reproductive Immunosuppression and Diet
Pregnancy sickness, a suite of "symptoms" that frequently co-occur during pregnancy, may be an adaptation providing behavioral prophylaxis against infection. Maternal immunosupression, necessary for tolerance of the fetus, results in gestational vulnerability to pathogens. Throughout the period of maximal vulnerability, dietary behavior is significantly altered via changes in nausea susceptibility and olfaction and the development of marked avers…
Domain-specific variation in disgust sensitivity across the menstrual cycle
Disgust sensitivity and meat consumption
Meat Is Good to Taboo
Comparing food taboos across 78 cultures, this paper demonstrates that meat, though a prized food, is also the principal target of proscriptions. Reviewing existing explanations of taboos, we find that both functionalist and symbolic approaches fail to account for meat's cross-cultural centrality and do not reflect experience-near aspects of food taboos, principal among which is disgust. Adopting an evolutionary approach to the mind, this paper p…
On Morning Sickness and the Neolithic Revolution
Third-party attitudes toward sibling incestEvidence for Westermarck's hypotheses
Third-party attitudes toward sibling incest
Anxiety and Intergroup Bias
Contemplation of death increases support of ingroup ideologies, a result explained by proponents of terror management theory (TMT) as an attempt to buffer existential anxiety. While TMT claims that only death-salient stimuli yield such effects, an evolutionary perspective suggests that increased intergroup bias may occur in response to a wide variety of situations that, in ancestral environments, posed adaptive problems for which marshaling socia…
The relationship between susceptibility to nausea and vomiting and the possession of conditioned food aversions
Shame in Two Cultures
Cross-cultural comparisons can a) illuminate the manner in which cultures differentially highlight, ignore, and group various facets of emotional experience, and b) shed light on our evolved species-typical emotional architecture. In many societies, concern with shame is one of the principal factors regulating social behavior. Three studies conducted in Bengkulu (Indonesia) and California explored the nature and experience of shame in two dispara…
Elevated disgust sensitivity in the first trimester of pregnancy
Nobody's watching?
Sexual dimorphism in foot length proportionate to stature
BACKGROUND: The preponderance of existing results suggests that, relative to stature, women have smaller feet than men. However, several investigations indicate that the relationship between foot length and stature may be curvilinear, a pattern that, due to the dimorphic nature of stature, would mask the true direction of pedal sexual dimorphism in published results. AIM: The study aimed to determine whether proportionate foot length is sexually …
A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Role of Foot Size in Physical Attractiveness
Disparate cultural practices suggest that small foot size may contribute to female attractiveness. Two hypotheses potentially explain such a pattern. Sexual dimorphism in foot size may lead observers to view small feet as feminine and large feet as masculine. Alternately, because small female feet index both youth and nulliparity, evolution may have favored a male preference for this attribute in order to maximize returns on male reproductive inv…
Examining the terminal investment hypothesis in humans and chimpanzees
The terminal investment hypothesis (Williams [1966] Adaptation and Natural Selection; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press) holds that reproductive effort should increase over time in iteroparous species in which reproductive value declines with age. Attempts to model this hypothesis and test it in various species have produced mixed results. Clutton-Brock ([ 1984] Am. Nat. 123:212-229) argued that simply testing for changes in propagule siz…
Disease avoidance and ethnocentrism
A Burning Desire
Although fire is inherently dangerous, leading many animals to avoid it, for most of human history, mastery of fire has been critical to survival. Humans can therefore be expected to possess evolved psychological mechanisms dedicated to controlling fire. Because techniques for starting, maintaining, and using fire differ across ecosystems, the postulated adaptations can be expected to take the form of domain-specific learning mechanisms rather th…
Elevated ethnocentrism in the first trimester of pregnancy
Neglected Natural Experiments Germane to the Westermarck Hypothesis
In Memoriam
Elevation Leads to Altruistic Behavior
Feelings of elevation, elicited by witnessing another person perform a good deed, have been hypothesized to motivate a desire to help others. However, despite growing interest in the determinants of prosocial behavior, there is only limited evidence that elevation leads to increases in altruistic behavior. In two experiments, we tested the relationship between elevation and helping behavior. Prior to measuring helping behavior, we measured elevat…
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