OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evolution and Human Behavior is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Response to: "Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no"	62
Option to cooperate increases women's competitiveness and closes the gender gap	33
Status in Himba pastoralists: are causal claims warranted?	31
Perceptions of “just compensation”	31
Are men (believed to be) less prestige-oriented than women?	22
Editorial Board	21
Pathogen threat and intergroup prejudice using the minimal group paradigm: Evidence from a registered report	20
Sex (similarities and) differences in friendship jealousy	20
Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict	20
Disgust sensitivity relates to affective responses to – but not ability to detect – olfactory cues to pathogens	19
Trivial giving as a signal of trustworthiness	18
Institutional quality shapes cooperation with out-group strangers	17
Is facial width-to-height ratio reliably associated with social inferences?	17
Objectively measured facial traits predict in-person evaluations of facial attractiveness and prosociality in speed-dating partners	17
Venting makes people prefer—and preferentially support—us over those we vent about	16
Re-considering the evidence that taller people are less supportive of government wealth redistribution: A response to	16
A phylogenetic analysis of dispersal norms, descent and subsistence in Sino-Tibetans	16
Sexual violence laws: Policy implications of psychological sex differences	16
Editorial Board	16
Epistemic gratitude and the provision of information	16
Epigenetic age acceleration and reproductive outcomes in women	16
Using an evolutionary approach to improve predictive ability in the social sciences: Property, the endowment effect, and law	15
Parochial reciprocity	15
The influence of friendship on children's fairness concerns in three societies	15
Generosity as a status signal: Higher-testosterone men exhibit greater altruism in the dictator game	15

Men (but not women) prefer to live in economically equal societies when it comes to mating: A five-study investigation	15
Multimodal mate choice: Exploring the effects of sight, sound, and scent on partner choice in a speed-date paradigm	15
Interpersonal leverage: Individual differences in the endorsement of anger and gratitude	14
Book Review	14
The quest for scientific objectivity: comment on Luke Glowacki's (2024) “The controversial origins of war and peace: Apes, foragers, and human evolution”	14
Infrastructure of mother-infant interactions across development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild	14
Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no.	14
Perceptions of facial trustworthiness and dominance modulate early neural responses to male facial sexual dimorphism	13
Oral storytelling: humanity's first data management system?	13
Creatures of habit(us): A commentary on Baumard and André's ‘The ecological approach to culture’	13
Kinship versus closeness: A commentary on and	13
Masculine voice is associated with better mucosal immune defense in adolescent and adult males	12
Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context	12
The evolution of between-sex bonds in primates	12
Why punish cheaters? Those who withdraw cooperation enjoy better reputations than punishers, but both are viewed as difficult to exploit	12
Disgust sensitivity is negatively associated with immune system activity in early pregnancy: Direct support for the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis	11
Human infant cries communicate distress and elicit sex stereotypes: Cross cultural evidence	11
Cross-modal associations of human body odour attractiveness with facial and vocal attractiveness provide little support for the backup signals hypothesis: A systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Why honor heroes? The emergence of extreme altruistic behavior as a by-product of praisers' self-promotion	11
Experimental evidence that people consider transgressors' exploitation risk when deciding to forgive	10
In memoriam: Helen E. Fisher	10
The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers	10
Size, scale, and design matter: Commentary on Lewis, Al-Shawaf, Semchenko, and Evans, (2022)	10
Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism: A registered report	10
The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs	10
Costly inductions as a commitment-selection strategy: Assessing hazing's relationship with attrition in a college fraternity	9
Implications of Dominance versus Agency in the Interpretation of Preferences for Female and Male Leaders	9
Depression and suicidality as evolved credible signals of need in social conflicts	9
Sibling competition and dispersal drive sex differences in religious celibacy	9
Editorial Board	9
“Think leader, think alpha male” and the evolution of leader stereotypes	9
Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures	9
Value computation in humans	9
Mating fast and slow? Sociosexual orientations are not reflective of life history trajectories	9
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us	9
Intelligence can be detected but is not found attractive in videos and live interactions	8
Adult knowledge of wild plants associated with limited delayed health and nutritional benefits for children or adults in the face of external change: A yearly panel (2003−2010) study among Tsimane’, a	8
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model	8
Core principles of melodic organisation emerge from transmission chains with random melodies	8
Editorial	8
Emotional tears: What they are and how they work	8
Contextual factors that heighten interest in coalitional alliances with men possessing formidable facial structures	8
The ecological approach to culture	8
Early hominins and the reversal of dominance hierarchy	8
Why women cheat: testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample	8
Contemporary selection pressures in modern societies? Which factors best explain variance in human reproduction and mating?	7
Is mate-choice copying a female phenomenon?	7
Cash, crowds, and cooperation: The effects of population density and resource scarcity on cooperation in the dictator game	7
Men's but not women's risk proneness in early adulthood is associated with lifetime reproductive success: evidence for sexual selection in modern environments	7
Friends near and afar, through thick and thin: Comparing contingency of help between close-distance and long-distance friends in Tanzanian fishing villages	7

Ecological theory and the conundrums of culture	7
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study	6
Editorial Board	6
A re-analysis that replicated a replication: Rejoinder to	6
Stereotypes of criminality in the U.S. track ecology, not race	6
Editorial Board	6
How anger works	6
Editorial Board	6