Evolution and Human Behavior

Papers
(The median citation count of Evolution and Human Behavior is 2. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Option to cooperate increases women's competitiveness and closes the gender gap65
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
Editorial Board21
Are men (believed to be) less prestige-oriented than women?21
Sex (similarities and) differences in friendship jealousy21
Pathogen threat and intergroup prejudice using the minimal group paradigm: Evidence from a registered report20
Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict18
Trivial giving as a signal of trustworthiness18
A phylogenetic analysis of dispersal norms, descent and subsistence in Sino-Tibetans18
Disgust sensitivity relates to affective responses to – but not ability to detect – olfactory cues to pathogens17
Institutional quality shapes cooperation with out-group strangers17
Epistemic gratitude and the provision of information16
Epigenetic age acceleration and reproductive outcomes in women16
Objectively measured facial traits predict in-person evaluations of facial attractiveness and prosociality in speed-dating partners16
Venting makes people prefer—and preferentially support—us over those we vent about16
Is facial width-to-height ratio reliably associated with social inferences?16
Editorial Board16
Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no.15
Generosity as a status signal: Higher-testosterone men exhibit greater altruism in the dictator game15
Re-considering the evidence that taller people are less supportive of government wealth redistribution: A response to15
Infrastructure of mother-infant interactions across development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild15
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 investigation15
Beyond inclusive fitness: Why dual inheritance still matters in the age of memes15
Using an evolutionary approach to improve predictive ability in the social sciences: Property, the endowment effect, and law15
The influence of friendship on children's fairness concerns in three societies15
Sexual violence laws: Policy implications of psychological sex differences15
Parochial reciprocity14
Interpersonal leverage: Individual differences in the endorsement of anger and gratitude14
Editorial Board14
Kinship versus closeness: A commentary on and13
Perceptions of facial trustworthiness and dominance modulate early neural responses to male facial sexual dimorphism13
Book Review13
Oral storytelling: humanity's first data management system?13
Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context12
Why punish cheaters? Those who withdraw cooperation enjoy better reputations than punishers, but both are viewed as difficult to exploit12
The evolution of between-sex bonds in primates12
Masculine voice is associated with better mucosal immune defense in adolescent and adult males12
Creatures of habit(us): A commentary on Baumard and André's ‘The ecological approach to culture’12
Disgust sensitivity is negatively associated with immune system activity in early pregnancy: Direct support for the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis11
In memoriam: Helen E. Fisher11
Why honor heroes? The emergence of extreme altruistic behavior as a by-product of praisers' self-promotion11
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 report11
Human infant cries communicate distress and elicit sex stereotypes: Cross cultural evidence11
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-analysis11
Value computation in humans11
Costly inductions as a commitment-selection strategy: Assessing hazing's relationship with attrition in a college fraternity10
Editorial Board10
The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs10
Experimental evidence that people consider transgressors' exploitation risk when deciding to forgive10
The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers10
Core principles of melodic organisation emerge from transmission chains with random melodies9
Mating fast and slow? Sociosexual orientations are not reflective of life history trajectories9
Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures9
Sibling competition and dispersal drive sex differences in religious celibacy9
Implications of Dominance versus Agency in the Interpretation of Preferences for Female and Male Leaders9
Editorial8
Intelligence can be detected but is not found attractive in videos and live interactions8
“Think leader, think alpha male” and the evolution of leader stereotypes8
Contextual factors that heighten interest in coalitional alliances with men possessing formidable facial structures8
Why women cheat: testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample8
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us8
Depression and suicidality as evolved credible signals of need in social conflicts8
The ecological approach to culture8
Emotional tears: What they are and how they work7
Friends near and afar, through thick and thin: Comparing contingency of help between close-distance and long-distance friends in Tanzanian fishing villages7
Cash, crowds, and cooperation: The effects of population density and resource scarcity on cooperation in the dictator game7
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model7
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’, a7
Contemporary selection pressures in modern societies? Which factors best explain variance in human reproduction and mating?7
Ecological theory and the conundrums of culture7
Men's but not women's risk proneness in early adulthood is associated with lifetime reproductive success: evidence for sexual selection in modern environments6
Stereotypes of criminality in the U.S. track ecology, not race6
Stereotypes versus preferences: revisiting the alpha male stereotype of leadership6
Early hominins and the reversal of dominance hierarchy6
A re-analysis that replicated a replication: Rejoinder to6
Editorial Board6
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study6
Is mate-choice copying a female phenomenon?6
How anger works6
I will hold a weapon if you hold one: Experiments of preemptive strike game with possession option6
Creative ideas, but elementary mistakes: A reply to Brandner and colleagues to promote best practices in error management theory research5
Female gorillas compete for food and males5
Editorial Board5
Culture is not ecology5
The intersection of evolutionary science and law5
Distinctiveness and femininity, rather than symmetry and masculinity, affect facial attractiveness across the world5
On the importance of conceptual clarity and constraints in an ecological approach to culture5
Wealth or generosity? People choose partners based on whichever is more variable5
Editorial Board5
Interpersonal conflicts and third-party mediation in a pastoralist society5
Prestige-based leadership offers women leaders an advantage and reduces gender inequality in leadership5
Oral contraceptives and women's preferences for facial masculinity and symmetry: Evidence from a double-blind randomized controlled trial5
Editorial Board5
Children's imitation of costly rituals: Insights into early cultural learning4
Sex differences in close friendships and social style4
Bargaining between the sexes: outside options and leisure time in hunter-gatherer households4
Editorial Board4
Deep neural networks generate facial metrics that overcome limitations of previous methods and predict in-person attraction4
A replication that requires replication: Commentary on Caton et al. (2022)4
Victims of misfortune may not “deserve” help: A possible factor in victim-devaluation4
Editorial Board4
Strength, mating success, and immune and nutritional costs in a population sample of US women and men: A registered report4
Culture shapes sex differences in mate preferences4
Parochial altruism: What it is and why it varies4
Comparing disgust sensitivity in women in early pregnancy and non-pregnant women in the follicular and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle4
Love, lust, and physical intimacy: oxytocin and the contraction of involuntary muscles3
Editorial overview and dedication to John Patton: “Dispatches from the field: Insights from studies in ecologically diverse communities: Part 2”3
Can people detect the trustworthiness of strangers based on their facial appearance?3
The smoke-detector principle of pathogen avoidance: A test of how the behavioral immune system gives rise to prejudice3
Beyond stereotypes versus preferences: sex, dominance, and the functions of leadership3
Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others3
Fathers' care in context: ‘facultative,’ flexible fathers respond to work demands and child age, but not to alloparental help, in Cebu, Philippines3
Mating-related stimuli induce rapid shifts in fathers' assessments of infants3
Social inequality and signaling in a costly ritual3
Laughter and ratings of funniness in speed-dating do not support the fitness indicator hypothesis of humour3
The (bidirectional) associations between romantic attachment orientations and mate retention behavior in male-female romantic couples3
Book review3
What do we want from culture?3
Using inclusive fitness and eco-evolutionary theory to model cultural evolution3
The evolution of war and its cognitive foundations3
Commentary on: the ecological approach to culture by Nicolas Baumard and Jean-Baptiste André3
Resource availability and experiences of partner violence shape facial masculinity preferences in Colombian women3
Hot hand thinking in children3
Editorial Board3
Corrigendum to “Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures” [Evolution & Human Behaviour (2024) Volume 45, Issue 6, 106,636].3
Network analysis of psychometric life history indicators3
Error Management Theory and biased first impressions: How do people perceive potential mates under conditions of uncertainty?3
Height shows no clear association with self-serving beliefs about wealth redistribution: A commentary on2
Modeling mate choice in a small-scale community: Applying couple simulation in the U.S. and Conambo, Ecuador2
Editorial Board2
Even small differences in attractiveness and formidability affect the probability and speed of selection: An online study and an offline replication2
Cost structures and socioecological conditions impact the fitness outcomes of human alloparental care in agent-based model simulations2
Editorial overview: “Dispatches from the field: insights from studies in ecologically diverse communities: Part 1”2
Children consider unique similarities as more meaningful cues to compatibility in social partnerships2
Stereotypes versus preferences: Revisiting the role of alpha males in leadership2
Social network accuracy among children and adolescents in a rural Dominican community2
"Entertain All Hypotheses": A tribute to John Tooby Edited by Debra Lieberman2
A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context?2
Disqualifiers or preferences? How humans incorporate dealbreakers into mate choice2
What is unique about the human eye? Comparative image analysis on the external eye morphology of human and nonhuman great apes2
The evolution of symbolic artefacts: How function shapes form2
The evolution of theory of mind on welfare tradeoff ratios2
Parental teaching behavior in diverse cultural contexts2
The disjunction between evolutionary psychology and sex-discrimination law and policy2
Common knowledge promotes cooperation in the threshold public goods game by reducing uncertainty2
Religious women receive more allomaternal support from non-partner kin in two low-fertility countries2
Pre-existing fairness concerns restrict the cultural evolution and generalization of inequitable norms in children2
Editorial Board2
Anger and fearful expressions influence perceptions of physical strength: Testing the signalling functions of emotional facial expressions with a visual aftereffects paradigm2
Hormonal influences on women's extra-pair sexual interests: The moderating impact of partner attractiveness2
Pubertal maturation is independent of family structure but daughters of divorced (but not dead) fathers start reproduction earlier2
Editorial Board2
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