Laith Al-Shawaf, Ph.D.
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  • Research
  • Academic
  • Popular Science
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  • Miscellany
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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Ghossainy, M.E., Al-Shawaf, L., & Woolley, J.D. (in press). Epistemic vigilance in early ontogeny: Children’s use of nonverbal behavior to detect deception. Evolutionary Psychology.

Norton, J. O., Evans, K. C., Semchenko, A. Y., Al-Shawaf, L., & Lewis, D. M. G. (in press). Why do people (not) engage in social distancing? Proximate and ultimate analyses of norm-following during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology.

Al-Shawaf, L., Conroy-Beam, D., Asao, K., & Buss, D.M. (2015). Human emotions: An evolutionary psychological perspective. Emotion Review, 1-14.

Al-Shawaf, L., Lewis, D.M.G., Wehbe, Y, & Buss, D.M. (in press). Context, environment, and learning in evolutionary psychology. In T.K. Shackelford and V.A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. New York: Springer.

Al-Shawaf, L., Zreik, K. A., & Buss, D.M. (2018). 13 Misunderstandings about Natural Selection. In T.K. Shackelford and V.A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer.

Al-Shawaf, L. (2016). The evolutionary psychology of hunger. Appetite, 105, 591-595.

Al-Shawaf, L., Lewis, D.M.G., & Buss, D. M (2017). Sex differences in disgust: Why are women more easily disgusted than men? Emotion Review.

Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Curry, O. S., De Smet, D., Ermer, E., Kim, S., Kim, S., Li, N. P., Lopez Seal, M. F., McClung, J., O, J., Ohtsubo, Y., Quillien, T., Schaub, M., Sell, A., van Leeuwen, F., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J. (2017). Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Sell, A., Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Lim, J., Krauss, A., Feldman, A., Rascanu, R., Sugiyama, L., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2017). The grammar of anger: Mapping the computational architecture of a recalibrational emotion. Cognition, 168, 110-128.

Al-Shawaf, L., & Lewis, D.M.G. (2017). Evolutionary psychology and the emotions. In V. Zeigler-Hill and T.K. Shackelford (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer.

Lewis, D.M.G., Al-Shawaf, L., Conroy-Beam, D., Asao, K., & Buss, D. M. (2017). Evolutionary Psychology: A How-To Guide. American Psychologist.

Al-Shawaf, L., & Zreik, K. A. (2018). Constraints on natural selection. In T.K. Shackelford and V.A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. New York: Springer.

Lewis, D. M. G., Al-Shawaf, L., & Buss, D. M. (in press). Evolutionary personality psychology. In Corr, P., & Matthews, G. (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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- Jorge Luis Borges 

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