Rodrigo A. Cárdenas
Graduate Student
M.A. in Anthropology, 2004, Michigan State University.
B.A. in Anthropology, 1998, Universidad Austral de Chile.
Affiliations:
- Cognitive Psychology Interest Group
- Centro de Estudios del Hombre Austral, Universidad de Magallanes
Research Interests:
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Face perception
- Sex differences
- Lateralization of function
- South American Ethnography
Publications
Papers
Puts, D.A., Hodges, C.R., Cárdenas, R.A. & Gaulin, S.J.C. (2007). Men's voices as dominance signals: vocal fundamental and formant frequencies influence dominance attributions among men. Evolution and Human Behavior.[PDF]
Cárdenas, R. & Harris, L.J. (2007). Do women's preferences for symmetry change across the menstrual cycle? Evolution and Human Behavior, 28, 96-105. [PDF]
Cárdenas, R. & Harris, L.J. (2006). Symmetrical decorations enhance the attractiveness of faces and abstract designs. Evolution and Human Behavior, 27, 1-18. [PDF]
Prieto, A. & Cárdenas, R. (2002). Las Colecciones Etnográficas Fuego/Patagónicas en los Museos Europeos (Ethnographic collections from Fuego-Patagonia in European museums). Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia, 30, 65-77.
Cárdenas, R. & Prieto, A. (1999). Entre los Fueguinos: una reacción antievolutionista de la escuela Histórico-Cultural? (Among the Fueguians: An antievolutionist reaction of the Historic-Cultural School?). Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia, 27, 89-98.
Prieto, A., Morello, F., Cárdenas, R. & Christensen, M. (1998). Cañadón Leona: A sesenta años de su descubrimiento (The Leona cave 60 years after its discovery). Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia, 26, 83-105.
Books
Martinic, M., Prieto, A., Arroyo, M. & Cárdenas, R. (2002). Río Verde: Su historia y su gente (Río Verde: Its History and its People). Punta Arenas, Chile: La Prensa Austral Impresos.
Prieto, A. & Cárdenas, R. (1997). Introducción a la fotografía étnica de la Patagonia. (Introduction to the Ethnographic Photography from Patagonia). Santiago de Chile: Patagonia Comunicaciones, Andros Impresores.
Book Chapters
Prieto, A. & Cárdenas, R. (in press). The struggle for social life in Fuego-Patagonia. In R. Chacon & R. Mendoza (Eds.) Latin American indigenous warfare and ritual violence (Vol. 1). Tucson: University of Arizona Press. [Table of Contents]
Prieto, A. & Cárdenas, R. (2006). ll collezionismo museale della Terra del fuoco tra la fine del XIX secolo e gli inizi del XX. In A. Salermo & A. Tagliacozzo (Eds.) Finis Terrae. Viaggiatori, esploratori e missionari italiani nella Terra del Fuoco (pp. 245-258). Rome: Soprintendenza al Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico "L. Pigorini."
Prieto, A. & Cárdenas, R. (2001). La Fotografía Etnográfica en Fuego-Patagonia (Ethnographic Photography in Fuego-Patagonia). In Intercambio de Bienes Culturales e Imaginarios Sociales (pp. 60-65). Santiago de Chile: Unidad de Estudios, división de Cultura, Ministerio de Educación.
Cárdenas, R. (1997). Prologue to the book Entre los fueguinos by Wilhelm Koopers. (First Spanish edition of Unter Feuerland-Indianern, 1924). Punta Arenas, Chile: Ediciones de la Universidad de Magallanes & Programa "Chile Austral" de la Unión Europea.
Presentations
Harris, L.J., Cárdenas, R., Spradlin, Jr., M.P., & Almerigi, J.B. Aesthetic preferences for direction of bias in artistic depictions of mother holding infants. Poster to be presented at the 15th annual conference on Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET), Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Cárdenas, R.A., Almerigi, J., Puts, D., & Harris, L.J. Is the preference for holding infants on the left a female adaptation? Submitted for presentation at the 19th annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. May 30-June 3, 2007.
Cárdenas, R.A., & Harris, J.L. (2006, June). Do women's preferences for symmetry change across the menstrual cycle? XVIII annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Philadelphia, PA, USA. June 7-11, 2006.
Harris, L.J., Cárdenas, R.A., Spradlin, Jr., M.P., & Almerigi, J. (2006, June). Lateral preferences for holding a doll, a book, and a package: relation to attentional bias on a chimeric faces test. XVIII annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Philadelphia, PA, USA. June 7-11, 2006.
Cárdenas, R. & Harris, L.J. (2003, June). Symmetrical decorations enhance the perceived attractiveness of faces and abstract designs: possible clues to biological fitness. Poster presented at the 15th Annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), Lincoln, Nebraska.
Cárdenas, R. & Harris, L.J. (2003, June). The role of symmetry in the perception of attractiveness in faces and non-representational art. Poster presented at the 14th Annual conference on Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology (TENNET), Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Abstract published in Brain and Cognition, 2004, 56, 118).
Cárdenas, R (1997, December). Etnografía de una fiesta religiosa chilota en Punta Arenas (Ethnography of a chilote religious festivity in Punta Arenas). Presented at the conference on Migration to Patagonia, "Patagonia: A Model of Integration". Universidad de Magallanes, Puerto Natales, Chile.
Prieto, A. & Cárdenas, R. (1997) Among the Fueguians: an antievolutionist reaction by the Cultural-historical school. Presented at the Symposium Darwin's Contributions to the Ethnography, and Natural Sciences of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, Linnean Society of London, London, England.
