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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Option to cooperate increases women's competitiveness and closes the gender gap	65
Perceptions of “just compensation”	33
Response to: "Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no"	33
Status in Himba pastoralists: are causal claims warranted?	25
Are men (believed to be) less prestige-oriented than women?	21
Sex (similarities and) differences in friendship jealousy	21
Editorial Board	21
Pathogen threat and intergroup prejudice using the minimal group paradigm: Evidence from a registered report	20
Trivial giving as a signal of trustworthiness	18
A phylogenetic analysis of dispersal norms, descent and subsistence in Sino-Tibetans	18
Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict	18
Institutional quality shapes cooperation with out-group strangers	17
Disgust sensitivity relates to affective responses to – but not ability to detect – olfactory cues to pathogens	17
Objectively measured facial traits predict in-person evaluations of facial attractiveness and prosociality in speed-dating partners	16
Venting makes people prefer—and preferentially support—us over those we vent about	16
Is facial width-to-height ratio reliably associated with social inferences?	16
Editorial Board	16
Epistemic gratitude and the provision of information	16
Epigenetic age acceleration and reproductive outcomes in women	16
Infrastructure of mother-infant interactions across development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild	15
The quest for scientific objectivity: comment on Luke Glowacki's (2024) “The controversial origins of war and peace: Apes, foragers, and human evolution”	15
Men (but not women) prefer to live in economically equal societies when it comes to mating: A five-study investigation	15
Beyond inclusive fitness: Why dual inheritance still matters in the age of memes	15
Using an evolutionary approach to improve predictive ability in the social sciences: Property, the endowment effect, and law	15
The influence of friendship on children's fairness concerns in three societies	15

Sexual violence laws: Policy implications of psychological sex differences	15
Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no.	15
Generosity as a status signal: Higher-testosterone men exhibit greater altruism in the dictator game	15
Re-considering the evidence that taller people are less supportive of government wealth redistribution: A response to	15
Parochial reciprocity	14
Interpersonal leverage: Individual differences in the endorsement of anger and gratitude	14
Editorial Board	14
Kinship versus closeness: A commentary on and	13
Perceptions of facial trustworthiness and dominance modulate early neural responses to male facial sexual dimorphism	13
Book Review	13
Oral storytelling: humanity's first data management system?	13
The evolution of between-sex bonds in primates	12
Masculine voice is associated with better mucosal immune defense in adolescent and adult males	12
Creatures of habit(us): A commentary on Baumard and André's ‘The ecological approach to culture’	12
Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context	12
Why punish cheaters? Those who withdraw cooperation enjoy better reputations than punishers, but both are viewed as difficult to exploit	12
Why honor heroes? The emergence of extreme altruistic behavior as a by-product of praisers' self-promotion	11
Size, scale, and design matter: Commentary on Lewis, Al-Shawaf, Semchenko, and Evans, (2022)	11
Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism: A registered report	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
Value computation in humans	11
Disgust sensitivity is negatively associated with immune system activity in early pregnancy: Direct support for the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis	11
In memoriam: Helen E. Fisher	11
The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs	10
Experimental evidence that people consider transgressors' exploitation risk when deciding to forgive	10
The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers	10
Costly inductions as a commitment-selection strategy: Assessing hazing's relationship with attrition in a college fraternity	10
Editorial Board	10
Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures	9
Sibling competition and dispersal drive sex differences in religious celibacy	9
Implications of Dominance versus Agency in the Interpretation of Preferences for Female and Male Leaders	9
Core principles of melodic organisation emerge from transmission chains with random melodies	9
Mating fast and slow? Sociosexual orientations are not reflective of life history trajectories	9
Editorial	8
Intelligence can be detected but is not found attractive in videos and live interactions	8
“Think leader, think alpha male” and the evolution of leader stereotypes	8
Contextual factors that heighten interest in coalitional alliances with men possessing formidable facial structures	8
Why women cheat: testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample	8
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us	8
Depression and suicidality as evolved credible signals of need in social conflicts	8
The ecological approach to culture	8
Cash, crowds, and cooperation: The effects of population density and resource scarcity on cooperation in the dictator game	7
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model	7
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	7
Contemporary selection pressures in modern societies? Which factors best explain variance in human reproduction and mating?	7
Ecological theory and the conundrums of culture	7
Emotional tears: What they are and how they work	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
Early hominins and the reversal of dominance hierarchy	6

A re-analysis that replicated a replication: Rejoinder to	6
Editorial Board	6
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study	6
Is mate-choice copying a female phenomenon?	6
How anger works	6
I will hold a weapon if you hold one: Experiments of preemptive strike game with possession option	6
Men's but not women's risk proneness in early adulthood is associated with lifetime reproductive success: evidence for sexual selection in modern environments	6
Stereotypes of criminality in the U.S. track ecology, not race	6
Stereotypes versus preferences: revisiting the alpha male stereotype of leadership	6