Daniel M T Fessler
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Hickey D, Fessler D, Lerman K, Burghardt K
PLoS One
. 2025 Feb;
20(2):e0313293.
PMID: 39937728
Numerous studies have reported an increase in hate speech on X (formerly Twitter) in the months immediately following Elon Musk's acquisition of the platform on October 27th, 2022; relatedly, despite...
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Clint E, Fessler D
Evol Hum Sci
. 2023 Aug;
4:e24.
PMID: 37588894
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...
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Fessler D, Sparks A, Samore T, Holbrook C
Evol Hum Sci
. 2023 Aug;
1:e3.
PMID: 37588407
Fitness is enhanced by determining when to behave prosocially. , an uplifting emotion elicited by witnessing exemplary prosociality, upregulates prosociality in the presence of prosocial others, as such contexts render...
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Samore T, Fessler D, Sparks A, Holbrook C, Aaroe L, Baeza C, et al.
Sci Rep
. 2023 Apr;
13(1):4969.
PMID: 37041216
People vary both in their embrace of their society's traditions, and in their perception of hazards as salient and necessitating a response. Over evolutionary time, traditions have offered avenues for...
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Holbrook C, Fessler D, Sparks A, Johnson D, Samore T, Reed L
R Soc Open Sci
. 2023 Mar;
10(3):220990.
PMID: 36998761
Witnessing altruistic behaviour can elicit , an emotion that motivates prosocial cooperation. This emotion is evoked more strongly when the observer anticipates that other people will be reciprocally cooperative. Coalitionality...
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Implications of instrumental and ritual stances for traditionalism-threat responsivity relationships
Samore T, Fessler D
Behav Brain Sci
. 2022 Nov;
45:e267.
PMID: 36353878
Jagiello et al.'s bifocal stance theory provides a useful theoretical framework for attempting to understand the connection between greater adherence to traditional norms and greater sensitivity to threats in the...
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Holbrook C, Yoon L, Fessler D, Moser C, Delgado S, Kim H
Sci Rep
. 2022 Aug;
12(1):14227.
PMID: 35987768
The evolutionary fitness payoffs of moral condemnation are greatest within an individual's immediate social milieu. Accordingly, insofar as human moral intuitions have been shaped by adaptive design, we can expect...
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Kupfer T, Fessler D, Wu B, Hwang T, Sparks A, Alas S, et al.
Proc Biol Sci
. 2021 Jul;
288(1955):20210376.
PMID: 34315263
Disgust has long been viewed as a primary motivator of defensive responses to threats posed by both microscopic pathogens and macroscopic ectoparasites. Although disgust can defend effectively against pathogens encountered...
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Samore T, Fessler D, Sparks A, Holbrook C
PLoS One
. 2021 Jun;
16(6):e0253326.
PMID: 34185786
Social liberals tend to be less pathogen-avoidant than social conservatives, a pattern consistent with a model wherein ideological differences stem from differences in threat reactivity. Here we investigate if and...
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Dishakjian V, Fessler D, Sparks A
Evol Med Public Health
. 2021 Mar;
9(1):36-52.
PMID: 33738102
Background And Objectives: Life History Theory (LHT) describes trade-offs that organisms make with regard to three investment pathways: growth, maintenance and reproduction. In light of the reparative functions of sleep,...