Nicole H. Hess

LIFE Fellow from 2002 to 2005, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

PhD

Dissertation completed in January 2006

Informational Warfare: Female Friendship and the Coalitional Manipulation of Reputation

(Advisors: Peter Hammerstein, Donald Symons, John Tooby, & Leda Cosmides)

Selected Publications

Hess, N. H., & Hagen, E. H. (2021). Competitive gossip: The impact of domain, resource value, resource scarcity and coalitions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376, Article 20200305. http://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0305

Hess, N. H., & Hagen, E. H. (2019). Gossip, reputation, and friendship in in-group competition: An evolutionary perspective. In F. Giardini & R. Wittek (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of gossip and reputation (pp. 275–302). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190494087.013.15

Hess, N. H. (2017). Informational warfare: Coalitional gossiping as a strategy for within-group aggression. In M. Fisher (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of women and competition (pp. 223–246). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199376377.013.15