Robert Trivers
Books
Trivers, R. (Forthcoming, October 2011) The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-deception in Human Life. New York: Basic Books. [to be published in the UK as Deceit and Self-deception: Fooling Ourselves the
Better to Fool Others. London: Penguin]
Burt, A. & Trivers, R. (2006) Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
Trivers, R. (2002) Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers. Evolution and cognition. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.
Trivers, R. (1985) Social Evolution. Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin/Cummings.
Journal Articles
Von Hippell, B. and Trivers, R. (2011) The evolution and psychology of self-deception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (target article) 34: 1-56.
Zaatari, D., Palestis, B. G. & Trivers, R. (2009) Fluctuating asymmetry of responders affects offers in the Ultimatum Game oppositely according to attractiveness or need as perceived by proposers. Ethology 115, 627-632.
Trivers, R. (2009). Genetic conflict within the individual. Berlin: Sonderdruck der Berliner-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschschaften 14, 149-199.
Zaatari, D. & Trivers, R. (2007) Fluctuating asymmetry and behavior in the ultimatum game in Jamaica. Evolution and Human Behavior 28, 223-227.
Palestis, B. G., Burt, A., Jones, R. N. & Trivers, R. (2004) B chromosomes are more frequent in mammals with acrocentric karyotypes: support for the theory of centromeric drive. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) Supplement 271, S22-S24.
Penton-Voak, I. S., Jacobson, A. & Trivers, R. (2004) Population differences in attractiveness judgments of faces: comparing a British and Jamaican sample. Evolution and Human Behavior 25, 355-370.
Manning, J. T., Trivers, R., Thornhill, R. & Singh, D. (2000) The 2nd:4th digit ratio and hand preference in Jamaican children. Laterality 5, 121-132.
Trivers, R. L. (2000) The elements of a scientific theory of self-deception. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 907, 114-131.
Trivers, R., Manning, J., Thornhill, R., Singh, D. & McGuire, M. (1999) The Jamaican symmetry project: a long-term study of fluctuating asymmetry in rural Jamaican children. Human Biology 71, 419-432.
Seger, J. & Trivers, R. (1986) Asymmetry in the evolution of female mating preferences. Nature 319, 771-773.
Book Chapters
Trivers, R. (2010). Deceit and self-deception. In Mind the Gap: Tracing the Origin of Human Universals (eds. P. M. Kappeler and J. B. Silk), pp. 373-394. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Trivers, R. (2005) Reciprocal altruism: 30 years later. In Cooperation in Primates and Humans: Mechanisms and Evolution (ed. C. P. v. Schaik & P. M. Kappeler), pp. 67-83. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Commentaries
Trivers, R. (2004) Mutual Benefits at All Levels of Life. Science 304, 964-965.