Evolution and Human Behavior

Article	Citations
Response to: "Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no"	87
Epstein Barr virus, infectious mononucleosis and associated diseases as contributors to the costs of intimate kissing	47
Androcentric emphases continue to impact depictions of gendered contributions to human evolution	30
Women's intrasexual competitiveness, but not fertility, predicts greater competitive behavior toward attractive women across the menstrual cycle	28
Editorial Board	27
Are men (believed to be) less prestige-oriented than women?	27
Adolescent development of sexual misperception biases: females increasingly overperceived, males consistently underperceived	27
Decreased sexual motivation during the human implantation window	24
When superstition outperforms truth: Belief transmission, sacrifice, and cooperation under environmental uncertainty	24
Status in Himba pastoralists: are causal claims warranted?	24
More than the sum of its sexes: functional constraints, embodied capital, and age-structured labor in human forager economies	22
Perceptions of “just compensation”	22
Objectively measured facial traits predict in-person evaluations of facial attractiveness and prosociality in speed-dating partners	21
Pathogen threat and intergroup prejudice using the minimal group paradigm: Evidence from a registered report	21
Using SEM to test the associations among women's childhood ecology, adult psychosocial life history traits, and mating effort	21
Trivial giving as a signal of trustworthiness	20
Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict	19
Toward a mechanistic account of personality: A case study of competitor derogation accuracy and the dark triad	19
Disgust sensitivity relates to affective responses to – but not ability to detect – olfactory cues to pathogens	19
Editorial Board	18
Venting makes people prefer—and preferentially support—us over those we vent about	17
Epigenetic age acceleration and reproductive outcomes in women	17
Epistemic gratitude and the provision of information	17
Beyond inclusive fitness: Why dual inheritance still matters in the age of memes	17
Generosity as a status signal: Higher-testosterone men exhibit greater altruism in the dictator game	16

Men (but not women) prefer to live in economically equal societies when it comes to mating: A five-study investigation	16
Interpersonal leverage: Individual differences in the endorsement of anger and gratitude	15
Parochial reciprocity	14
SEX in bonobos: The intensity of sexual stimulation sharply drops after facial mimicry	14
Preschoolers, but not yet toddlers, prefer to allocate epistemic trust to leaders than to bullies	14
Ancient kiss-tory: new perspectives on the evolution of early historical kissing	14
The influence of friendship on children's fairness concerns in three societies	14
Gender differences in social networks under subsistence changes	13
Editorial Board	13
The quest for scientific objectivity: comment on Luke Glowacki's (2024) “The controversial origins of war and peace: Apes, foragers, and human evolution”	13
Evolution of psychopathy in the public goods game with institutional redistribution of resources	13
Infrastructure of mother-infant interactions across development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild	12
Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no.	12
Sexual violence laws: Policy implications of psychological sex differences	11
Bismarckian welfare revisited: Fear of being violently dispossessed motivates support for redistribution	11
Using an evolutionary approach to improve predictive ability in the social sciences: Property, the endowment effect, and law	11
Willingness to protect from violence, independent of strength, guides partner choice	10
Culture as collective resource allocation across life history trade-offs: commentary on	10
Creatures of habit(us): A commentary on Baumard and André's ‘The ecological approach to culture’	10
Why punish cheaters? Those who withdraw cooperation enjoy better reputations than punishers, but both are viewed as difficult to exploit	10
Perceptions of facial trustworthiness and dominance modulate early neural responses to male facial sexual dimorphism	10
Masculine voice is associated with better mucosal immune defense in adolescent and adult males	10
Paternal investment and economic inequality predict cross-cultural variation in male choice	9
The evolution of between-sex bonds in primates	9
Why honor heroes? The emergence of extreme altruistic behavior as a by-product of praisers' self-promotion	9
Human infant cries communicate distress and elicit sex stereotypes: Cross cultural evidence	9
Oral storytelling: humanity's first data management system?	9
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	8
Interpretive issues in discussion of evidence supporting adaptationist model of personality development: a commentary on	8
Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context	8
Health, attractiveness, and marriageability among Aka hunter-gatherers and Ngandu farmer adolescents and young adults in the Central African Republic	8
In memoriam: Helen E. Fisher	8
Size, scale, and design matter: Commentary on Lewis, Al-Shawaf, Semchenko, and Evans, (2022)	7
Value computation in humans	7
Man the Hunter or man the hunter? Terminological confusion, gendered hunting, and gender bias	7
A content-general adaptation for tribal value-acquisition	7
The attractive personality: Like me, but better	7
Experimental evidence that people consider transgressors' exploitation risk when deciding to forgive	7
Editorial Board	7
Adaptive memory in contamination contexts: Exploring the role of emotionality	7
The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs	7
The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers	7
Sibling competition and dispersal drive sex differences in religious celibacy	7
The shared genome constraint: why between-sex genetic correlation matters for evolutionary social science	7
Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures	6
Costly inductions as a commitment-selection strategy: Assessing hazing's relationship with attrition in a college fraternity	6
Ceci n'est pas une histoire: Is this academic publishing or subtweeting?	6
“Think leader, think alpha male” and the evolution of leader stereotypes	6
Commentary on Venkataraman et al. 2026: The meanings and dividends of “Man the Hunter”	6
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us	6

Mating fast and slow? Sociosexual orientations are not reflective of life history trajectories	6
The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter	6
Core principles of melodic organisation emerge from transmission chains with random melodies	6
Existential security and the cultural evolution of secularisation in Mauritius	6
Zombie Theories and the Quest for Consilience: A Critical Review of Hertler et al.’s The Evolution of Political Ideology	6
Bringing Latin American human behavioral and evolutionary sciences into focus	6
Contextual factors that heighten interest in coalitional alliances with men possessing formidable facial structures	6
The ecological approach to culture	6
Implications of Dominance versus Agency in the Interpretation of Preferences for Female and Male Leaders	5
Ecological theory and the conundrums of culture	5
Social context may influence more self-perception and romantic partner preferences than biological sex	5
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	5
Emotional tears: What they are and how they work	5
Corrigendum to “From scorpion to spider: tracing the origin of fear of spiders and other chelicerates through perceptual fear generalization gradients across chelicerates” <[Evolution and Human Beh	5
The pitfalls of an impoverished approach to culture: Commentary on Baumard and André	5
Editorial	5
Cash, crowds, and cooperation: The effects of population density and resource scarcity on cooperation in the dictator game	5
Early hominins and the reversal of dominance hierarchy	5
Why women cheat: testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample	5
From scorpion to spider: tracing the origin of fear of spiders and other chelicerates through perceptual fear generalization gradients across chelicerates	5
Human behavioural ecology is cultural ecology	5
Friends near and afar, through thick and thin: Comparing contingency of help between close-distance and long-distance friends in Tanzanian fishing villages	5
Men's but not women's risk proneness in early adulthood is associated with lifetime reproductive success: evidence for sexual selection in modern environments	4
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model	4
I will hold a weapon if you hold one: Experiments of preemptive strike game with possession option	4
Oral contraceptives and women's preferences for facial masculinity and symmetry: Evidence from a double-blind randomized controlled trial	4
On the importance of conceptual clarity and constraints in an ecological approach to culture	4
The evolution of human lip-to-lip kissing	4
A homage to Glenn E. Weisfeld	4
Psychopathy and evolution: an integrative and comprehensive review	4
Stereotypes versus preferences: revisiting the alpha male stereotype of leadership	4
Editorial Board	4
Stereotypes of criminality in the U.S. track ecology, not race	4
A re-analysis that replicated a replication: Rejoinder to	4
Corrigendum to “The role of testosterone in odor-based perceptions of social status” [Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 46 (2025) 106752].	4
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study	4
Prestige-based leadership offers women leaders an advantage and reduces gender inequality in leadership	4
Culture is not ecology	4
Is mate-choice copying a female phenomenon?	4
Creative ideas, but elementary mistakes: A reply to Brandner and colleagues to promote best practices in error management theory research	3
Distinctiveness and femininity, rather than symmetry and masculinity, affect facial attractiveness across the world	3
From hunters to grandmothers: how gender colors our interpretations	3
Mortality salience shifts moral judgment: reproductive motivations override normative defenses in males	3
Interpersonal conflicts and third-party mediation in a pastoralist society	3
Editorial Board	3
Bargaining between the sexes: outside options and leisure time in hunter-gatherer households	3
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Understanding olfactory fertility cues in humans: chemical analysis of women's vulvar odour and perceptual detection of these cues by men	3
Early sex differences in sociosexual behavior of wild robust capuchin monkeys: Ontogenetic and evolutionary insights	3
Culture shapes sex differences in mate preferences	3
The smoke-detector principle of pathogen avoidance: A test of how the behavioral immune system gives rise to prejudice	3
Sex differences in close friendships and social style	3
Editorial Board	3
From diversity to flexibility: Seasonality as the forgotten dividend of Man the Hunter	3
The intersection of evolutionary science and law	3
Self-assessment biases and motivations: An error management approach	3
Wealth or generosity? People choose partners based on whichever is more variable	3
Female gorillas compete for food and males	3
Children's imitation of costly rituals: Insights into early cultural learning	3
Deep neural networks generate facial metrics that overcome limitations of previous methods and predict in-person attraction	3
A replication that requires replication: Commentary on Caton et al. (2022)	3
Self-serving intergroup aggression escalates and prevails over parochial cooperation	2
Abstract core knowledge may shape the basins of cultural attraction: romantic kissing as a case study	2
Love, lust, and physical intimacy: oxytocin and the contraction of involuntary muscles	2
Editorial Board	2
Parental teaching behavior in diverse cultural contexts	2
Beyond stereotypes versus preferences: sex, dominance, and the functions of leadership	2
Victims of misfortune may not “deserve” help: A possible factor in victim-devaluation	2
Hot hand thinking in children	2
Resource availability and experiences of partner violence shape facial masculinity preferences in Colombian women	2
Editorial overview: “Dispatches from the field: insights from studies in ecologically diverse communities: Part 1”	2
Cost structures and socioecological conditions impact the fitness outcomes of human alloparental care in agent-based model simulations	2
What do we want from culture?	2
Disqualifiers or preferences? How humans incorporate dealbreakers into mate choice	2
Mating-related stimuli induce rapid shifts in fathers' assessments of infants	2
Corrigendum to “Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures” [Evolution & Human Behaviour (2024) Volume 45, Issue 6, 106,636].	2
Children consider unique similarities as more meaningful cues to compatibility in social partnerships	2
Editorial overview and dedication to John Patton: “Dispatches from the field: Insights from studies in ecologically diverse communities: Part 2”	2
Laughter and ratings of funniness in speed-dating do not support the fitness indicator hypothesis of humour	2
Comparing disgust sensitivity in women in early pregnancy and non-pregnant women in the follicular and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle	2

Strength, mating success, and immune and nutritional costs in a population sample of US women and men: A registered report	2
Social structure, cultural selection and the limits of adaptive plasticity: a response to Baumard and André	2
Hormonal influences on women's extra-pair sexual interests: The moderating impact of partner attractiveness	2
Editorial Board	2
The evolution of theory of mind on welfare tradeoff ratios	2
Coalitional Psychology and the Evolution of Intelligence	2
Book review	2
Commentary on: the ecological approach to culture by Nicolas Baumard and Jean-Baptiste André	2
A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing	2
Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others	2
The evolution of war and its cognitive foundations	2
Parochial altruism: What it is and why it varies	2
Can people detect the trustworthiness of strangers based on their facial appearance?	2
Paleo-medicine at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov	2
Using inclusive fitness and eco-evolutionary theory to model cultural evolution	2
The evolution of symbolic artefacts: How function shapes form	2
Hunter-gatherer adaptive diversity: Comment on Venkataraman et al.	2
Stereotypes versus preferences: Revisiting the role of alpha males in leadership	2
Evidence from millions of births refutes the Trivers-Willard hypothesis in humans	1
Pumping the Brakes on Psychosocial Acceleration Theory: Revisiting its Underlying Assumptions	1
The evolutionary logic of anger and hatred: an empirical test	1
What is a mate preference? Probing the computational format of mate preferences using couple simulation	1
Questioning claims of parasite-induced sexual aggression in humans	1
Tit for tattling: Cooperation, communication, and how each could stabilize the other	1
Through the lens of adaptationism: Commentary on Baumard & André	1
Perceptions of relationship value and exploitation risk mediate the effects of transgressors' post-harm communications upon forgiveness	1
Tradeoffs between self and mates reveal larger sex differences in trait preferences	1
Religious signaling and prosociality: A review of the literature	1
Coalitional support regulates resource divisions in men	1
Sex differences in birth weight depending on the mother's condition: testing the Trivers-Willard hypothesis in Indian twins	1
US adults accurately assess Hadza and Tsimane men's hunting ability from a single face photograph	1
Early prosociality is conditional on opportunity cost and familiarity with the target	1
Religious women receive more allomaternal support from non-partner kin in two low-fertility countries	1
Editorial Board	1
A smart challenge but ultimately mistimed and misleading: Commentary on Baumard and André	1
Sources of fitness interdependence associated with shared fate and cooperation in a small-scale horticultural society	1
Social network accuracy among children and adolescents in a rural Dominican community	1
Editorial Board	1
Reference frames for spatial navigation and declarative memory: Individual differences in performance support the phylogenetic continuity hypothesis	1
Specifically human culture: response to Baumard & André	1
Prestige, conformity and gender consistency support a broad-context mechanism underpinning mate-choice copying	1
What do evolutionary researchers believe about human psychology and behavior?	1
A comparative perspective on the human sense of justice	1
Editorial Board	1
Evolutionary moral psychology: Lessons from Westermarck	1
Trustworthiness: an adaptationist account	1
Disgust sensitivity predicts sociosexuality across cultures	1
Rethinking causal understanding and reverse engineering through the lens of cultural ecology	1
Modeling mate choice in a small-scale community: Applying couple simulation in the U.S. and Conambo, Ecuador	1
Towards an ecological model of the dark triad traits	1
The implicit rules of combat reflect the evolved function of combat: An evolutionary-psychological analysis of fairness and honor in human aggression	1
Hormonal contraceptive use, not menstrual cycle phase, is associated with reduced interest in competition	1
Editorial Board	1
Cross-sex and intrasexual theory of mind: Perceptions of sex-typical sexual desires	1
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The disjunction between evolutionary psychology and sex-discrimination law and policy	1
Is the Lamborghini like a peacock's tail? No evidence for relationships between conspicuous consumption and male attractiveness	1
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Commentary on “The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter”	1
Comfort with microbe-sharing contact across the COVID-19 pandemic: testing behavioral immune system predictions	1
An evolutionary perspective on homosexuality: Testing the sexually antagonistic genes hypothesis through familial fertility analysis	1
Does hazing actually increase group solidarity? Re-examining a classic theory with a modern fraternity	1
Deconstructing “dominance” to refine leadership research	1
Scars for survival: high cost male initiation rites are strongly associated with desert habitat in Pama-Nyungan Australia	1
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The role of costly commitment signals in assorting cooperators during intergroup conflict	1
Owing others: debt, welfare tradeoffs, and the social emotions	1
Unmaking egalitarianism: Comparing sources of political change in an Amazonian society	1
Evolutionary and social functions of gaming: Integrating experimental evidence and mathematical modeling	1
A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context?	1
Associations between men's reputations for fathering and their reproductive success among BaYaka foragers in the Congo Basin	1
"Entertain All Hypotheses": A tribute to John Tooby Edited by Debra Lieberman	1
Evolved psychology, eco-phenotypic feedbacks and the social construction of culture	1
Even small differences in attractiveness and formidability affect the probability and speed of selection: An online study and an offline replication	1
Can race be replaced? Ecology and race categorization	1