Evolution and Human Behavior

Papers
(The median citation count of Evolution and Human Behavior is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Parental substance misuse and reproductive timing in offspring: A genetically informed study26
What do evolutionary researchers believe about human psychology and behavior?25
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Perceptions of relationship value and exploitation risk mediate the effects of transgressors' post-harm communications upon forgiveness20
Footbinding and its cessation: An agent-based model adjudication of the labor market and evolutionary sciences hypotheses20
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Systematic error measurement: Treating item errors as data16
Uncertainty causes humans to use social heuristics and to cooperate more: An experiment among Belgian university students15
Human infant cries communicate distress and elicit sex stereotypes: Cross cultural evidence15
Why do chimpanzees have diverse behavioral repertoires yet lack more complex cultures? Invention and social information use in a cumulative task15
Tit for tattling: Cooperation, communication, and how each could stabilize the other15
Choosing to help others at a cost to oneself elevates preschoolers' body posture14
Option to cooperate increases women's competitiveness and closes the gender gap14
Sibling aggression is surprisingly common and sexually egalitarian14
Prestige-based leadership offers women leaders an advantage and reduces gender inequality in leadership13
Stereotypes versus preferences: revisiting the alpha male stereotype of leadership13
Cognitive foundations for helping and harming others: Making welfare tradeoffs in industrialized and small-scale societies12
Commentary on the life history special issue: The behavioral sciences need to engage more deeply in life history theory12
Physical strength predicts political violence12
Response to: "Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no"12
Will granny save me? Birth status, survival, and the role of grandmothers in historical Finland12
Height shows no clear association with self-serving beliefs about wealth redistribution: A commentary on12
Short term, long term: An unexpected confound in human-mating research11
A positive relationship between body height and the testosterone response to physical exercise11
Natural selection on anthropometric traits of Estonian girls11
Do descriptive social norms drive peer punishment? Conditional punishment strategies and their impact on cooperation11
Maternal investment in arranged and self-choice marriages: A test of the reproductive compensation and differential allocation hypothesis in humans11
Commentary on Sear, 2020: What does history have to say about life history?11
Scars for survival: high cost male initiation rites are strongly associated with desert habitat in Pama-Nyungan Australia11
Kin-directed altruism and the evolution of male androphilia among Istmo Zapotec Muxes11
Facial metrics generated from manually and automatically placed image landmarks are highly correlated11
Steppe Generosity: Kinship, social reputations, and perceived need drive generous giving in a non-anonymous allocation game among Mongolian pastoral nomads11
The influence of language on the evolution of cooperation10
Why are some people more jealous than others? Genetic and environmental factors10
Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context10
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-analysis10
Female gorillas compete for food and males10
What is a mate preference? Probing the computational format of mate preferences using couple simulation10
The evolution of between-sex bonds in primates9
Why honor heroes? The emergence of extreme altruistic behavior as a by-product of praisers' self-promotion9
I will hold a weapon if you hold one: Experiments of preemptive strike game with possession option9
Trustworthiness: an adaptationist account9
Disgust sensitivity is negatively associated with immune system activity in early pregnancy: Direct support for the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis9
Even small differences in attractiveness and formidability affect the probability and speed of selection: An online study and an offline replication9
Dynamic indirect reciprocity; When is indirect reciprocity bounded by group membership?9
The intersection of evolutionary science and law8
Commentary on : Who is going to run the global laboratory of the future?8
Discerning blue from purple: How prevalence affects what is perceived as normal8
Effects of gender inequality and wealth inequality on within-sex mating competition under hypergyny8
Gendered fitness interests: A method partitioning the effects of family composition on socio-political attitudes and behaviors8
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Societal institutions echo evolved human nature: An analysis of the Western criminal justice system and its relation to anger7
Creative ideas, but elementary mistakes: A reply to Brandner and colleagues to promote best practices in error management theory research7
Sex differences in friendship preferences7
Toward a cumulative science of non-WEIRD morality: a reply to Rezvani Nejad et al.7
Interpersonal conflicts and third-party mediation in a pastoralist society7
18-month-olds use different cues to categorize plants and artifacts7
Perceptions of “just compensation”7
Fructose and uric acid as drivers of a hyperactive foraging response: A clue to behavioral disorders associated with impulsivity or mania?7
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.7
Physical formidability and acceptance of police violence6
Status in Himba pastoralists: are causal claims warranted?6
The implicit rules of combat reflect the evolved function of combat: An evolutionary-psychological analysis of fairness and honor in human aggression6
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On causes and consequences; a reply to Durkee6
Distinctiveness and femininity, rather than symmetry and masculinity, affect facial attractiveness across the world6
A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context?6
Risk-seeking or impatient? Disentangling variance and time in hazardous behaviors6
Unmaking egalitarianism: Comparing sources of political change in an Amazonian society6
Shared interests or sexual conflict? Spousal age gap, women's wellbeing and fertility in rural Tanzania6
Kin detection cues and sibling relationship quality in adulthood: The role of childhood co-residence duration and maternal perinatal association6
Grandpaternal care and child survival in a pastoralist society in western China6
US adults accurately assess Hadza and Tsimane men's hunting ability from a single face photograph5
Do humans agree on which body odors are attractive, similar to the agreement observed when rating faces and voices?5
Are people more averse to microbe-sharing contact with ethnic outgroup members? A registered report5
Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries5
Deep neural networks generate facial metrics that overcome limitations of previous methods and predict in-person attraction5
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Common knowledge promotes cooperation in the threshold public goods game by reducing uncertainty5
Height is associated with more self-serving beliefs about wealth redistribution5
"Entertain All Hypotheses": A tribute to John Tooby Edited by Debra Lieberman5
Are men (believed to be) less prestige-oriented than women?5
The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs4
Facial cues to physical strength increase attractiveness but decrease aggressiveness assessments in male Maasai of Northern Tanzania4
Culture shapes sex differences in mate preferences4
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Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism: A registered report4
Are skewed sex ratios associated with violent crime? A longitudinal analysis using Swedish register data4
Value computation in humans4
“Fast” women? The effects of childhood environments on women's developmental timing, mating strategies, and reproductive outcomes4
Sex differences in close friendships and social style4
Size, scale, and design matter: Commentary on Lewis, Al-Shawaf, Semchenko, and Evans, (2022)4
Religious women receive more allomaternal support from non-partner kin in two low-fertility countries4
The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers4
Modeling mate choice in a small-scale community: Applying couple simulation in the U.S. and Conambo, Ecuador4
Pathogen threat and intergroup prejudice using the minimal group paradigm: Evidence from a registered report4
Moralistic supernatural punishment is probably not associated with social complexity4
Is facial structure an honest cue to real-world dominance and fighting ability in men? A pre-registered direct replication of4
Sex (similarities and) differences in friendship jealousy4
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Trivial giving as a signal of trustworthiness3
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Institutional quality shapes cooperation with out-group strangers3
Assessing different historical pathways in the cultural evolution of economic development3
Objectively measured facial traits predict in-person evaluations of facial attractiveness and prosociality in speed-dating partners3
An evolutionary approach to grief-related rumination: Construction and validation of the Bereavement Analytical Rumination Questionnaire3
A comparative perspective on the human sense of justice3
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Inequality, grievances, and the variability in homicide rates3
In need-based sharing, sharing is more important than need3
Costly inductions as a commitment-selection strategy: Assessing hazing's relationship with attrition in a college fraternity3
Kin detection cues and sibling relationships: revelations from twin and adoption studies. Commentary on3
Victims of misfortune may not “deserve” help: A possible factor in victim-devaluation3
Prestige and dominance in egalitarian and hierarchical societies: Children in Finland favor prestige more than children in Colombia or the USA3
Evolution is the source, and the undoing, of natural law3
A replication that requires replication: Commentary on Caton et al. (2022)3
Explaining the evolution of parochial punishment in humans3
Letter from the Editor3
Mating fast and slow? Sociosexual orientations are not reflective of life history trajectories3
Laughter and ratings of funniness in speed-dating do not support the fitness indicator hypothesis of humour3
Can people detect the trustworthiness of strangers based on their facial appearance?3
Decades of Trivers-Willard research on humans: What conclusions can be drawn?2
Disgust sensitivity relates to affective responses to – but not ability to detect – olfactory cues to pathogens2
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Two notes on Wiezel et al.: Explaining why people disfavor dominant leaders and exploring overlooked sources of women's dominance and leadership2
The role of costly commitment signals in assorting cooperators during intergroup conflict2
Male voice pitch mediates the relationship between objective and perceived formidability2
Can race be replaced? Ecology and race categorization2
Why do people make noises in bed?2
Bargaining between the sexes: outside options and leisure time in hunter-gatherer households2
A phylogenetic analysis of dispersal norms, descent and subsistence in Sino-Tibetans2
What is reciprocity? A review and expert-based classification of cooperative transfers2
Comparing disgust sensitivity in women in early pregnancy and non-pregnant women in the follicular and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle2
Parochial altruism: What it is and why it varies2
Disgust sensitivity predicts sociosexuality across cultures2
Sibling competition and dispersal drive sex differences in religious celibacy2
Maternal depression as catalyst for cooperation: evidence from Uganda2
Is facial width-to-height ratio reliably associated with social inferences?2
Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict2
The controversial origins of war and peace: apes, foragers, and human evolution2
Examining the effect of hunger on responses to pathogen cues and novel foods1
Early prosociality is conditional on opportunity cost and familiarity with the target1
Non-kin alloparents and child outcomes: Older siblings, but not godparents, predict educational attainment in a rural context1
Letter from the Editor1
Fathers' care in context: ‘facultative,’ flexible fathers respond to work demands and child age, but not to alloparental help, in Cebu, Philippines1
Beware the foe who feels no pain: Associations between relative formidability and pain sensitivity in three U.S. online studies1
Social inequality and signaling in a costly ritual1
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Strength, mating success, and immune and nutritional costs in a population sample of US women and men: A registered report1
Cultural transmission vectors of essential knowledge and skills among Tsimane forager-farmers1
Headmen, shamans, and mothers: Natural and sexual selection for computational services1
Prestige, conformity and gender consistency support a broad-context mechanism underpinning mate-choice copying1
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us1
Intelligence can be detected but is not found attractive in videos and live interactions1
Network analysis of psychometric life history indicators1
Depression and suicidality as evolved credible signals of need in social conflicts1
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Are papers in Evolution & Human Behavior easy? A review of Scientific Papers Made Easy: How to Write with Clarity and Impact in the Life Sciences1
Commentary on Atari, Graham, & Dehghani, 2020: Altruistic helping intentions among Iranians reflect target Kin's reproductive value1
Genomic findings and their implications for the evolutionary social sciences1
An evolutionary perspective on homosexuality: Testing the sexually antagonistic genes hypothesis through familial fertility analysis1
Calibration and fitness-linked correlates of personality in Conambo, Ecuador1
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Evolution and functions of human dance1
Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others1
Commentary on the beyond WEIRD special issue: The importance of open research practices to empirical research in the evolutionary social sciences1
Editorial overview and dedication to John Patton: “Dispatches from the field: Insights from studies in ecologically diverse communities: Part 2”1
Epigenetic age acceleration and reproductive outcomes in women1
Evolutionary psychology and resource-sharing laws1
False dichotomies and human sexual size dimorphism: A comment of Dunsworth (2020)1
The (bidirectional) associations between romantic attachment orientations and mate retention behavior in male-female romantic couples1
Are natural threats superior threats?1
Book review1
Signal value of stress behaviour1
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