My work concerns the integrated study of hazing, newcomers, and enduring coalitions. I am interested in how aspects of human psychology may be designed to solve the adaptive problems associated with long-term cooperative alliances. I also study common newcomer-directed behaviors such as formal and informal initiations.

Hazing and Initiations

Cimino, A. (2011). The evolution of hazing: Motivational mechanisms and the abuse of newcomers. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 11, 241-267.

Cimino, A. (2012). Predictors of hazing motivation in a representative sample of the United States. Manuscript in preparation.

Cimino, A. (2012). Fraternity hazing and the process of planned failure. Manuscript in preparation.

Enduring Coalitions

Cimino, A. & Delton, A. W. (2010). On the perception of newcomers: Toward an evolved psychology of intergenerational coalitions. Human Nature, 21, 186-202.

Delton, A. W. & Cimino, A. (2010). Exploring the evolved concept of NEWCOMER: Experimental tests of a cognitive model. Evolutionary Psychology, 8, 317-335.

Delton, A. W., Nemirow, J., Robertson, T. E., Cimino, A., & Cosmides, L. (2012). Preventative moralization and the error management of cooperation. Manuscript submitted for publication.

News and Media

NPR Radio Boston, "Is Hazing A Normal Part of College Life?"