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

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.

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

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