Publications of David Pietraszewski

Pietraszewski, D. (2023). Seven grand challenges for evolutionary political psychology or: Political ideologies as ad-hoc alliances … so what? Psychological Inquiry, 34(3), 198–204. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2023.2274399

Smaldino, P. E., Pietraszewski, D., & Wertz, A. E. (2023). On the problems solved by cognitive processes. Cognitive Science, 47(6), Article e13297. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13297

Pietraszewski, D. (2022). Toward a computational theory of social groups: A finite set of cognitive primitives for representing any and all social groups in the context of conflict. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, Article e97. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21000583

Pietraszewski, D. (2022). A (failed) attempt to falsify the alliance hypothesis of racial categorization: Racial categorization is not reduced when crossed with a nonalliance category. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(9), 2195–2203. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001183

Pietraszewski, D. (2022). Author's response: More "us," less "them": An appeal for pluralism – and stand-alone computational theorizing – in our science of social groups. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, Article e127. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22000024

Pietraszewski, D., & Wertz, A. E. (2022). Why evolutionary psychology should abandon modularity. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17(2), 465–490. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691621997113

Pietraszewski, D. (2021). The correct way to test the hypothesis that racial categorization is a byproduct of an evolved alliance-tracking capacity. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 3404. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82975-x

Pietraszewski, D., Wertz, A. E., Bryant, G. A., & Wynn, K. (2017). Three-month-old-human infants use vocal cues of body size. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: B, Biological Sciences, 284, Article 20170656. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0656

Pietraszewski, D. (2016). Priming race: Does the mind inhibit categorization by race at encoding or recall? Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7(1), 85–91. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550615602934

Pietraszewski, D. (2016). How the mind sees coalitional and group conflict: The evolutionary invariances of N-person conflict dynamics. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37(6), 470–480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.04.006