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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Option to cooperate increases women's competitiveness and closes the gender gap56
Response to: "Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no"42
Status in Himba pastoralists: are causal claims warranted?27
Perceptions of “just compensation”26
Pathogen threat and intergroup prejudice using the minimal group paradigm: Evidence from a registered report26
Fructose and uric acid as drivers of a hyperactive foraging response: A clue to behavioral disorders associated with impulsivity or mania?25
Are men (believed to be) less prestige-oriented than women?22
Editorial Board21
Sex (similarities and) differences in friendship jealousy19
Commentary on : Who is going to run the global laboratory of the future?18
A phylogenetic analysis of dispersal norms, descent and subsistence in Sino-Tibetans18
Is facial width-to-height ratio reliably associated with social inferences?18
Institutional quality shapes cooperation with out-group strangers16
Trivial giving as a signal of trustworthiness16
Objectively measured facial traits predict in-person evaluations of facial attractiveness and prosociality in speed-dating partners16
Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict16
Disgust sensitivity relates to affective responses to – but not ability to detect – olfactory cues to pathogens16
Epistemic gratitude and the provision of information15
Indirect reciprocity and tradeoff paradigms in the wake of violent intergroup conflict15
Editorial Board15
Venting makes people prefer—and preferentially support—us over those we vent about15
Consensus decision-making: performance of heuristics and mental models14
Epigenetic age acceleration and reproductive outcomes in women14
Men (but not women) prefer to live in economically equal societies when it comes to mating: A five-study investigation14
Sexual violence laws: Policy implications of psychological sex differences14
The influence of friendship on children's fairness concerns in three societies14
Re-considering the evidence that taller people are less supportive of government wealth redistribution: A response to14
Using an evolutionary approach to improve predictive ability in the social sciences: Property, the endowment effect, and law14
The quest for scientific objectivity: comment on Luke Glowacki's (2024) “The controversial origins of war and peace: Apes, foragers, and human evolution”13
Multimodal mate choice: Exploring the effects of sight, sound, and scent on partner choice in a speed-date paradigm13
Parochial reciprocity13
Infrastructure of mother-infant interactions across development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild13
Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no.13
Generosity as a status signal: Higher-testosterone men exhibit greater altruism in the dictator game13
Book Review13
Kinship versus closeness: A commentary on and12
Perceptions of facial trustworthiness and dominance modulate early neural responses to male facial sexual dimorphism12
Oral storytelling: humanity's first data management system?11
Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context11
Why punish cheaters? Those who withdraw cooperation enjoy better reputations than punishers, but both are viewed as difficult to exploit11
The evolution of between-sex bonds in primates11
Masculine voice is associated with better mucosal immune defense in adolescent and adult males11
Disgust sensitivity is negatively associated with immune system activity in early pregnancy: Direct support for the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis10
Human infant cries communicate distress and elicit sex stereotypes: Cross cultural evidence10
Why honor heroes? The emergence of extreme altruistic behavior as a by-product of praisers' self-promotion10
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-analysis9
18-month-olds use different cues to categorize plants and artifacts9
In memoriam: Helen E. Fisher9
Size, scale, and design matter: Commentary on Lewis, Al-Shawaf, Semchenko, and Evans, (2022)9
The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers9
Costly inductions as a commitment-selection strategy: Assessing hazing's relationship with attrition in a college fraternity9
The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs9
Value computation in humans9
Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism: A registered report9
Sibling competition and dispersal drive sex differences in religious celibacy9
Editorial Board8
Commentary on Atari, Graham, & Dehghani, 2020: Altruistic helping intentions among Iranians reflect target Kin's reproductive value8
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us8
Editorial Board8
Implications of Dominance versus Agency in the Interpretation of Preferences for Female and Male Leaders8
Mating fast and slow? Sociosexual orientations are not reflective of life history trajectories8
“Think leader, think alpha male” and the evolution of leader stereotypes7
Contextual factors that heighten interest in coalitional alliances with men possessing formidable facial structures7
Intelligence can be detected but is not found attractive in videos and live interactions7
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
Contemporary selection pressures in modern societies? Which factors best explain variance in human reproduction and mating?7
The ecological approach to culture7
Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures7
Friends near and afar, through thick and thin: Comparing contingency of help between close-distance and long-distance friends in Tanzanian fishing villages7
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
Early hominins and the reversal of dominance hierarchy7
Why women cheat: testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample7
Depression and suicidality as evolved credible signals of need in social conflicts7
Core principles of melodic organisation emerge from transmission chains with random melodies7
Editorial7
Emotional tears: What they are and how they work7
Men's but not women's risk proneness in early adulthood is associated with lifetime reproductive success: evidence for sexual selection in modern environments7
Truth-making institutions: From divination, ordeals and oaths to judicial torture and rules of evidence6
Editorial Board6
Stereotypes of criminality in the U.S. track ecology, not race6
Editorial Board6
A re-analysis that replicated a replication: Rejoinder to6
How anger works6
Editorial Board6
Facial metrics generated from manually and automatically placed image landmarks are highly correlated6
Is mate-choice copying a female phenomenon?6
Commentary on the life history special issue: The behavioral sciences need to engage more deeply in life history theory6
Editorial Board6
Female gorillas compete for food and males5
Editorial Board5
Uncertainty causes humans to use social heuristics and to cooperate more: An experiment among Belgian university students5
Do descriptive social norms drive peer punishment? Conditional punishment strategies and their impact on cooperation5
The intersection of evolutionary science and law5
Stereotypes versus preferences: revisiting the alpha male stereotype of leadership5
I will hold a weapon if you hold one: Experiments of preemptive strike game with possession option5
Toward a cumulative science of non-WEIRD morality: a reply to Rezvani Nejad et al.5
Creative ideas, but elementary mistakes: A reply to Brandner and colleagues to promote best practices in error management theory research5
Prestige-based leadership offers women leaders an advantage and reduces gender inequality in leadership5
Interpersonal conflicts and third-party mediation in a pastoralist society4
Bargaining between the sexes: outside options and leisure time in hunter-gatherer households4
Editorial Board4
Comparing disgust sensitivity in women in early pregnancy and non-pregnant women in the follicular and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle4
Deep neural networks generate facial metrics that overcome limitations of previous methods and predict in-person attraction4
Distinctiveness and femininity, rather than symmetry and masculinity, affect facial attractiveness across the world4
The (bidirectional) associations between romantic attachment orientations and mate retention behavior in male-female romantic couples4
Victims of misfortune may not “deserve” help: A possible factor in victim-devaluation4
Culture shapes sex differences in mate preferences4
Sex differences in close friendships and social style4
A replication that requires replication: Commentary on Caton et al. (2022)4
Strength, mating success, and immune and nutritional costs in a population sample of US women and men: A registered report4
Parochial altruism: What it is and why it varies3
Evolution and functions of human dance3
Stereotypes versus preferences: Revisiting the role of alpha males in leadership3
Pubertal maturation is independent of family structure but daughters of divorced (but not dead) fathers start reproduction earlier3
Social inequality and signaling in a costly ritual3
The evolution of symbolic artefacts: How function shapes form3
Network analysis of psychometric life history indicators3
Editorial Board3
Corrigendum to “Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures” [Evolution & Human Behaviour (2024) Volume 45, Issue 6, 106,636].3
Book review3
The disjunction between evolutionary psychology and sex-discrimination law and policy3
Mating-related stimuli induce rapid shifts in fathers' assessments of infants3
The evolution of theory of mind on welfare tradeoff ratios3
What is unique about the human eye? Comparative image analysis on the external eye morphology of human and nonhuman great apes3
The evolution of war and its cognitive foundations3
Editorial overview and dedication to John Patton: “Dispatches from the field: Insights from studies in ecologically diverse communities: Part 2”3
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
Fathers' care in context: ‘facultative,’ flexible fathers respond to work demands and child age, but not to alloparental help, in Cebu, Philippines3
Error Management Theory and biased first impressions: How do people perceive potential mates under conditions of uncertainty?3
Parental teaching behavior in diverse cultural contexts3
Editorial overview: “Dispatches from the field: insights from studies in ecologically diverse communities: Part 1”3
Editorial Board3
Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others3
Beyond stereotypes versus preferences: sex, dominance, and the functions of leadership3
Editorial Board3
Height shows no clear association with self-serving beliefs about wealth redistribution: A commentary on2
Hormonal influences on women's extra-pair sexual interests: The moderating impact of partner attractiveness2
Cost structures and socioecological conditions impact the fitness outcomes of human alloparental care in agent-based model simulations2
Short term, long term: An unexpected confound in human-mating research2
A positive relationship between body height and the testosterone response to physical exercise2
"Entertain All Hypotheses": A tribute to John Tooby Edited by Debra Lieberman2
Gendered fitness interests: A method partitioning the effects of family composition on socio-political attitudes and behaviors2
Pre-existing fairness concerns restrict the cultural evolution and generalization of inequitable norms in children2
Disqualifiers or preferences? How humans incorporate dealbreakers into mate choice2
Even small differences in attractiveness and formidability affect the probability and speed of selection: An online study and an offline replication2
The implicit rules of combat reflect the evolved function of combat: An evolutionary-psychological analysis of fairness and honor in human aggression2
Editorial Board2
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.2
Social network accuracy among children and adolescents in a rural Dominican community2
Anger and fearful expressions influence perceptions of physical strength: Testing the signalling functions of emotional facial expressions with a visual aftereffects paradigm2
On hits and being hit on: error management theory, signal detection theory, and the male sexual overperception bias2
Why do chimpanzees have diverse behavioral repertoires yet lack more complex cultures? Invention and social information use in a cumulative task2
Editorial Board2
Unmaking egalitarianism: Comparing sources of political change in an Amazonian society2
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