Letters of Recommendation 1 Running head: LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION Letters of Recommendation: An Evolutionary Perspective Stephen M. Colarelli Ma. Regina H. Alampay Kristophor G. Canali Department of Psychology Department of Psychology Central Michigan University University of Connecticut Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 Storrs, Connecticut, U. S. A. U. S. A In Press, Human Relations We would like to thank Michael Aamodt, Rob Briner, David Buss, Stephen Knouse, Paul Muchinsky, Nigel Nicholson and three anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on earlier drafts of this paper.