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Carlos David Navarrete

Researcher at Michigan State University

Publications -  40
Citations -  2966

Carlos David Navarrete is an academic researcher from Michigan State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: In-group favoritism & Evolutionary psychology. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 39 publications receiving 2615 citations. Previous affiliations of Carlos David Navarrete include University of California, Los Angeles & University of California.

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Trade-offs in a dangerous world: women's fear of crime predicts preferences for aggressive and formidable mates

TL;DR: This article found evidence consistent with this perspective, such that women's fear of crime predicted their preference for long-term mates who are aggressive dominant and physically formidable, such as men who are likely to be coercive toward their mates.
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Racial identity and depression among African American women.

TL;DR: Results indicated that higher racial private and public regard were associated with lower depression and self-esteem fully mediated the relationship between private regard and depression and partially mediated the relationships between public regard and Depression.
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Reports of My Death Anxiety Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: A Critique of Terror Management Theory from an Evolutionary Perspective

TL;DR: The authors argued that the results of mortality-salience experiments are better explained as by-products of a psychological system of coalitional computation that evolved for a variety of functions, including defense against other humans, that is activated by certain kinds of death-related thoughts.
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Negatively-biased credulity and the cultural evolution of beliefs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate the existence of negatively-biased credulity and show that it is most pronounced in those who believe the world to be dangerous, individuals who may constitute important nodes in cultural transmission networks.
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Support for Harsh Criminal Sanctions and Criminal Justice Beliefs: A Social Dominance Perspective

TL;DR: This article showed that social dominance orientation (SDO) is also related to support for harsh criminal sanctions, as well as to deterrence and retribution beliefs, and that the relationships between SDO and support for various forms of severe criminal sanctions are mediated by deterrence and retributive beliefs.