Evolutionary strategies, cognitive mechanisms
Informations
- Funding country
Hungary- Acronym
- -
- URL
- -
- Start date
- 4/1/2004
- End date
- 12/31/2006
- Budget
- 10,875 EUR
Fundings
| Name | Role | Start | End | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thematic Programme | Grant | 4/1/2004 | 12/31/2006 | 10,875 EUR |
Abstract
1. A relatively few studies have been done in adult theory of mind. In the recent study an analysis of context-dependent characteristics of mental state attribution will be examined. We make an attempt to study mindreading activities necessary for successfully achievements in competitive and cooperative situations. We also study the possible relationship between Machiavellian intelligence and mental state attribution. As a theoretical foundation, evolutionary theory predicts that human competence in understanding and interpreting the others’ thoughts, goals and wishes depends, among others, that what adaptive challenges have to be answered in the actual social environment. 2. Our judgments and evaluations regarding various markers of physical attractiveness are controlled by specific psychological mechanisms that have been shaped as a response to particular adaptive problems in the evolutionary environment. Those features are considered highly attractive that reliably sign that individual can efficiently use resources available for organism. The various features of face and body are not likely to separate from each other through perception but organize themselves into a comprehensive phenotype. We are going to study that how attractive judgments regarding the particular markers of individual faces, and cognitive mechanisms processing these markers integrate into a global estimate of attractiveness.