Peter J. DeScioli

Title

Lecturer in Psychology

Psychology

Degrees

University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania, M.A.

University of Delaware, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	descioli@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-3269
Office:	Brown Social Science Center, 105

Awards and Honors

HBES 2010 Postdoctoral Award (2010)

Courses Taught

ECON	155a	Experimental Economics
PSYC	34b	Social Psychology
PSYC	146a	Evolutionary Psychology

Scholarship

DeScioli, P., Gilbert, S., & Kurzban, R.. "Indelible victims and persistent punishers in moral cognition.." Psychological Inquiry (2012). (forthcoming)

DeScioli, P.. "Does market competition explain fairness? Comment on “A mutualistic approach to morality.”." Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2012). (forthcoming)

Kurzban, R., DeScioli, P., & Fein, D.. "Hamilton vs. Kant: Pitting adaptations for altruism against adaptations for moral judgment.." Evolution and Human Behavior (2012). (forthcoming)

DeScioli, P., Kurzban, R. "The company you keep: Friendship decisions from a functional perspective." Social Judgment and Decision Making. Ed. Krueger, J. I.. New York: Psychology Press, 2011 (forthcoming)

DeScioli, P., & Wilson, B. "The territorial foundations of human property." Evolution and Human Behavior 32. (2011): 442-446.

DeScioli, P., Bruening, R., & Kurzban. R. "The omission effect in moral cognition: Toward a functional explanation.." Evolution and Human Behavior 32. (2011): 204-215.

DeScioli, P., Christner, J., & Kurzban, R. "The omission strategy." Psychological Science 22. (2011): 442-446.

DeScioli, P., Kurzban, R., Koch, E. N., & Liben-Nowell, D. "Best friends: Alliances, friend ranking, and the MySpace social network.." Perspectives on Psychological Science 6. 1 (2011): 6-8.

DeScioli, P. "Heavy hearts and heads held high - A review of Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds." Evolution and Human Behavior 31. 4 (2010): 304-306.