A central debate in cognitive science concerning whether the mind consists of specialised mechanisms or domain-general processors.

The concept that our modern skulls house brains shaped by selection pressures from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

A logic puzzle used to demonstrate that people are better at solving problems framed as social rule violations than abstract ones.

A cognitive anthropologist who documented the value of conformity through examples like the Tukanoans' cassava processing technique.

Proposed the five principles of evolutionary cognitive science and the existence of a Cheater Detection module.

A proposed hard-wired mechanism for identifying violations of social rules, deemed crucial for cooperation in our evolutionary past.

Proposed evolved cognitive architecture that can lead to gullibility in modern informational environments due to a mismatch with ancestral conditions.