Cosmides and Tooby (e.g., 2005) used the Wasson selection task to gather evidence of these psychological mechanisms.
A) social contracts
B) cheater detection mechanisms
C) reciprocal altruistic mechanisms
D) in-group biases

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The Wasson selection task is a paradigm used to test cheater detection mechanisms. Cosmides and Tooby used this task to gather evidence for the existence of specialized psychological mechanisms for detecting cheaters in social exchange.

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