Daniel M.T. Fessler

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Ph.D., UC San Diego, 1995

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Curriculum Vitae

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Office: 390 Haines Hall
Phone: 310-794-9252
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail: dfessler@anthro.ucla.edu

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Subfield

Biological Anthropology

Research Interests

Evolutionary psychology, biological anthropology; emotions, social control, risk taking, ingestive and reproductive behaviors, morality, cultural evolution; Indonesia.

Selected Publications

(Recent publications listed below; for a more complete list of publications, as well as access to full-text documents, click on "Homepage" above)

(2007) Fleischman, D.S. and Fessler, D.M.T. Differences in meat consumption as a function of sexual activity and hormonal contraception. Evolutionary Psychology 5(3):642-652.

(2007) Voracek, M., Fisher, M.L, Rupp, B., Lucas, D., and Fessler, D.M.T. Sex differences in relative foot length and the perceived attractiveness of female feet: The relationships between anthropometry, physique, and preference ratings. Perceptual and Motor Skills 104:1123-1138.

(2007) Kelly, D., Stich, S.P., Haley, K.J., Eng, S.J., and Fessler, D.M.T. Harm, affect and the moral / conventional distinction. Mind & Language 22(2):117–131.

(2007) Navarrete, C.D., Fessler, D.M.T., & Eng, S.J. Elevated ethnocentrism in the first trimester of pregnancy. Evolution and Human Behavior 28(1):60-65.

(2006) Fessler, D.M.T. A burning desire: Steps toward an evolutionary psychology of fire learning. Journal of Cognition and Culture 6(3-4):429-451.

(2006) Navarrete, C.D. and Fessler, D.M.T. Disease avoidance and ethnocentrism: The effects of disease vulnerability and disgust sensitivity on intergroup attitudes. Evolution and Human Behavior 27(4):270-282.

(2006) Fessler, D.M.T. and Haley, K.J. Guarding the perimeter: The outside-inside dichotomy in disgust and bodily experience. Cognition and Emotion 20(1):3-19.

(2006) Fessler, D.M.T. Steps toward the evolutionary psychology of a culture-dependent species. In The Innate Mind: Culture and Cognition Vol. II, P. Carruthers, S. Laurence & S. Stich, eds., pp. 91-117. Oxford University Press.

(2006) Fessler, D.M.T. Violent response to transgression as an example of the intersection of evolved psychology and culture. In Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists, J. Barkow, ed., pp. 101-117. Oxford University Press.

(2005) Fessler, D.M.T. Never eat alone: The meaning of food sharing in a Sumatran fishing village. People and Culture in Oceania 20:51-67.

(2005) Navarrete, C.D. and Fessler, D.M.T. Normative bias and adaptive challenges: A relational approach to coalitional psychology and a critique of Terror Management Theory. Evolutionary Psychology 3:297-325.

(2005) Fessler, D.M.T. and Navarrete, C.D. The effect of age on death disgust: Challenges to Terror Management perspectives. Evolutionary Psychology 3:279-296.

(2005) Fessler, D.M.T., Eng, S.J., and Navarrete, C.D. Elevated disgust sensitivity in the first trimester of pregnancy: Evidence supporting the compensatory prophylaxis hypothesis. Evolution and Human Behavior 26(4):344-351.

(2005) Fessler, D.M.T., Nettle, D., Afshar, Y., de Andrade Pinheiro, I., Bolyanatz, A., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Cravalho, M., Delgado, T., Gruzd, B., Oliveira Correia, M., Khaltourina, D., Korotayev, A., Marrow, J., Santiago de Souza, L., and Zbarauskaite, A. A cross-cultural investigation of the role of foot size in physical attractiveness. Archives of Sexual Behavior 34(3):267-276.

(2005) Haley, K.J. and Fessler, D.M.T. Nobody’s watching? Subtle cues affect generosity in an anonymous economic game. Evolution and Human Behavior 26(3):245-256.

(2005) Fessler, D.M.T., Navarrete, C.D., Hopkins, W., and Izard, M.K. Examining the terminal investment hypothesis in humans and chimpanzees: Associations between maternal age, parity, and birth weight. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 127(1):95-104.

(2005) Fessler, D.M.T., Haley, K.J., and Lal, R.D. Sexual dimorphism in foot length proportionate to stature. Annals of Human Biology 32(1):44-59.

(2005) Frederick, D.A., Fessler, D.M.T., and Haselton, M.G. Do representations of male muscularity differ in men’s and women’s magazines? Body Image 2(1)81-86.

Grad Students

Elizabeth Pillsworth

Kevin J. Haley

Matt Gervais

Jeff Snyder

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