OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evolution and Human Behavior is 8. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Rethinking the fast-slow continuum of individual differences	90
Beyond WEIRD: A review of the last decade and a look ahead to the global laboratory of the future	87
Do human ‘life history strategies’ exist?	78
On the use of “life history theory” in evolutionary psychology	71
A critique of life history approaches to human trait covariation	70
Theory and measurement of environmental unpredictability	59
WEIRD bodies: mismatch, medicine and missing diversity	51
Cross-cultural, developmental psychology: integrating approaches and key insights	42
Deciding what to observe: Thoughts for a post-WEIRD generation	38
Universal and variable leadership dimensions across human societies	37
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model	37
Rewarding the good and punishing the bad: The role of karma and afterlife beliefs in shaping moral norms	34
The relations between early-life stress and risk, time, and prosocial preferences in adulthood: A meta-analytic review	33
Foundations of morality in Iran	32
The challenge of measuring trade-offs in human life history research	32
Partner choice in human evolution: The role of cooperation, foraging ability, and culture in Hadza campmate preferences	31
Is impulsive behavior adaptive in harsh and unpredictable environments? A formal model	28
Current debates in human life history research	27
Small gods, rituals, and cooperation: The Mentawai water spirit Sikameinan	25
Evolution and functions of human dance	22
Kinship intensity and the use of mental states in moral judgment across societies	22
Does extrinsic mortality accelerate the pace of life? A bare-bones approach	22
Immune function during early adolescence positively predicts adult facial sexual dimorphism in both men and women	22
Adaptation and plasticity in life-history theory: How to derive predictions.	21
Male voice pitch mediates the relationship between objective and perceived formidability	21

High income men have high value as long-term mates in the U.S.: personal income and the probability of marriage, divorce, and childbearing in the U.S.	19
Why do chimpanzees have diverse behavioral repertoires yet lack more complex cultures? Invention and social information use in a cumulative task	18
It's my idea! Reputation management and idea appropriation	17
Is facial width-to-height ratio reliably associated with social inferences?	16
Baboons (Papio anubis) living in larger social groups have bigger brains	16
How anger works	15
Sex differences in friendship preferences	15
Time is money. Waiting costs explain why selection favors steeper time discounting in deprived environments	14
Evolving institutions for collective action by selective imitation and self-interested design	13
First tests of Euclidean preference integration in friendship: Euclidean friend value and power of choice on the friend market	13
Can people detect the trustworthiness of strangers based on their facial appearance?	13
Predicting variation in endowment effect magnitudes	13
Pitch lowering enhances men's perceived aggressive intent, not fighting ability	13
Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries	13
Punishment is strongly motivated by revenge and weakly motivated by inequity aversion	13
Phylogenetic reconstruction of the cultural evolution of electronic music via dynamic community detection (1975–1999)	12
Who supports redistribution? Replicating and refining effects of compassion, malicious envy, and self-interest	12
Value computation in humans	12
Social inequality and signaling in a costly ritual	11
Shared interests or sexual conflict? Spousal age gap, women's wellbeing and fertility in rural Tanzania	11
Facial width-to-height ratio in chimpanzees: Links to age, sex and personality	11
Fructose and uric acid as drivers of a hyperactive foraging response: A clue to behavioral disorders associated with impulsivity or mania?	11
Option to cooperate increases women's competitiveness and closes the gender gap	11
Pathogen disgust, but not moral disgust, changes across the menstrual cycle	11
Kin detection cues and sibling relationship quality in adulthood: The role of childhood co-residence duration and maternal perinatal association	11
Do descriptive social norms drive peer punishment? Conditional punishment strategies and their impact on cooperation	11
What is unique about the human eye? Comparative image analysis on the external eye morphology of human and nonhuman great apes	10
On hits and being hit on: error management theory, signal detection theory, and the male sexual overperception bias	10
Contextual factors that heighten interest in coalitional alliances with men possessing formidable facial structures	10
The implications of changing hormonal contraceptive use after relationship formation	10
Why hunt? Why gather? Why share? Hadza assessments of foraging and food-sharing motive	10
Environmental stress and human life history strategy development in rural and peri-urban South India	10
Is facial structure an honest cue to real-world dominance and fighting ability in men? A pre-registered direct replication of	10
Truth-making institutions: From divination, ordeals and oaths to judicial torture and rules of evidence	10
Does hazing actually increase group solidarity? Re-examining a classic theory with a modern fraternity	10
A positive relationship between body height and the testosterone response to physical exercise	10
Multimodal mate choice: Exploring the effects of sight, sound, and scent on partner choice in a speed-date paradigm	9
Investigating the relationship between olfactory acuity, disgust, and mating strategies	9
Environmental threat influences preferences for sexual dimorphism in male and female faces but not voices or dances	9
Can listeners assess men's self-reported health from their voice?	9
Facial cues to physical strength increase attractiveness but decrease aggressiveness assessments in male Maasai of Northern Tanzania	9
Facial metrics generated from manually and automatically placed image landmarks are highly correlated	8
Pre-existing fairness concerns restrict the cultural evolution and generalization of inequitable norms in children	8
Contemporary selection pressures in modern societies? Which factors best explain variance in human reproduction and mating?	8
For the good of evolutionary psychology, let's reunite proximate and ultimate explanations	8
Pathogen threat and intergroup prejudice using the minimal group paradigm: Evidence from a registered report	8
Facial shape provides a valid cue to sociosexuality in men but not women	8
Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others	8
“Weighting” to find the right person: compensatory trait integrating versus alternative models to assess mate value	8
“Fast” women? The effects of childhood environments on women's developmental timing, mating strategies, and reproductive outcomes	8

Young, formidable men show greater sensitivity to facial cues of dominance	8
Fathers' care in context: ‘facultative,’ flexible fathers respond to work demands and child age, but not to alloparental help, in Cebu, Philippines	8
Moral elevation: Indications of functional integration with welfare trade-off calibration and estimation mechanisms	8