OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Evolution and Human Behavior is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Rethinking the fast-slow continuum of individual differences	88
Beyond WEIRD: A review of the last decade and a look ahead to the global laboratory of the future	85
Do human ‘life history strategies’ exist?	75
On the use of “life history theory” in evolutionary psychology	70
A critique of life history approaches to human trait covariation	69
Theory and measurement of environmental unpredictability	55
WEIRD bodies: mismatch, medicine and missing diversity	50
Cross-cultural, developmental psychology: integrating approaches and key insights	40
Deciding what to observe: Thoughts for a post-WEIRD generation	38
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model	35
Universal and variable leadership dimensions across human societies	34
The relations between early-life stress and risk, time, and prosocial preferences in adulthood: A meta-analytic review	33
Rewarding the good and punishing the bad: The role of karma and afterlife beliefs in shaping moral norms	33
Foundations of morality in Iran	32
The challenge of measuring trade-offs in human life history research	31
Partner choice in human evolution: The role of cooperation, foraging ability, and culture in Hadza campmate preferences	30
Is impulsive behavior adaptive in harsh and unpredictable environments? A formal model	27
Current debates in human life history research	27
Small gods, rituals, and cooperation: The Mentawai water spirit Sikameinan	25
Immune function during early adolescence positively predicts adult facial sexual dimorphism in both men and women	22
Kinship intensity and the use of mental states in moral judgment across societies	22
Evolution and functions of human dance	21
Does extrinsic mortality accelerate the pace of life? A bare-bones approach	21
Male voice pitch mediates the relationship between objective and perceived formidability	21
Adaptation and plasticity in life-history theory: How to derive predictions.	20

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	16
Is facial width-to-height ratio reliably associated with social inferences?	16
It's my idea! Reputation management and idea appropriation	16
Sex differences in friendship preferences	15
Baboons (Papio anubis) living in larger social groups have bigger brains	15
How anger works	14
Can people detect the trustworthiness of strangers based on their facial appearance?	13
Pitch lowering enhances men's perceived aggressive intent, not fighting ability	13
Time is money. Waiting costs explain why selection favors steeper time discounting in deprived environments	13
First tests of Euclidean preference integration in friendship: Euclidean friend value and power of choice on the friend market	13
Punishment is strongly motivated by revenge and weakly motivated by inequity aversion	12
Value computation in humans	12
Evolving institutions for collective action by selective imitation and self-interested design	12
Predicting variation in endowment effect magnitudes	12
Phylogenetic reconstruction of the cultural evolution of electronic music via dynamic community detection (1975–1999)	12
Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries	12
Who supports redistribution? Replicating and refining effects of compassion, malicious envy, and self-interest	11
Fructose and uric acid as drivers of a hyperactive foraging response: A clue to behavioral disorders associated with impulsivity or mania?	11
Shared interests or sexual conflict? Spousal age gap, women's wellbeing and fertility in rural Tanzania	11
Option to cooperate increases women's competitiveness and closes the gender gap	11
Facial width-to-height ratio in chimpanzees: Links to age, sex and personality	11
Kin detection cues and sibling relationship quality in adulthood: The role of childhood co-residence duration and maternal perinatal association	11
On hits and being hit on: error management theory, signal detection theory, and the male sexual overperception bias	10
Pathogen disgust, but not moral disgust, changes across the menstrual cycle	10
A positive relationship between body height and the testosterone response to physical exercise	10
Truth-making institutions: From divination, ordeals and oaths to judicial torture and rules of evidence	10
Social inequality and signaling in a costly ritual	10
Do descriptive social norms drive peer punishment? Conditional punishment strategies and their impact on cooperation	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
Why hunt? Why gather? Why share? Hadza assessments of foraging and food-sharing motive	9
Can listeners assess men's self-reported health from their voice?	9
Investigating the relationship between olfactory acuity, disgust, and mating strategies	9
Contextual factors that heighten interest in coalitional alliances with men possessing formidable facial structures	9
Multimodal mate choice: Exploring the effects of sight, sound, and scent on partner choice in a speed-date paradigm	9
Environmental threat influences preferences for sexual dimorphism in male and female faces but not voices or dances	9
“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
Does hazing actually increase group solidarity? Re-examining a classic theory with a modern fraternity	8
“Weighting” to find the right person: compensatory trait integrating versus alternative models to assess mate value	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
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
Facial cues to physical strength increase attractiveness but decrease aggressiveness assessments in male Maasai of Northern Tanzania	8
The implications of changing hormonal contraceptive use after relationship formation	8
What is unique about the human eye? Comparative image analysis on the external eye morphology of human and nonhuman great apes	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

Pre-existing fairness concerns restrict the cultural evolution and generalization of inequitable norms in children	7
Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others	7
Sex (similarities and) differences in friendship jealousy	7
Disgust sensitivity is negatively associated with immune system activity in early pregnancy: Direct support for the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis	7
Will granny save me? Birth status, survival, and the role of grandmothers in historical Finland	7
Reputation management as an alternative explanation for the “contagiousness” of immorality	7
Family still matters: Human social motivation across 42 countries during a global pandemic	7
Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism: A registered report	7
Helping behavior is non-zero-sum: Helper and recipient autobiographical accounts of help	7
An evolutionary theory of moral injury with insight from Turkana warriors	7
Intelligence can be detected but is not found attractive in videos and live interactions	7
Are skewed sex ratios associated with violent crime? A longitudinal analysis using Swedish register data	7
Facial metrics generated from manually and automatically placed image landmarks are highly correlated	7
Natural selection on anthropometric traits of Estonian girls	6
Breast symmetry, but not size or volume, predicts salivary immunoglobulin-A (sIgA) in women	6
Moralistic supernatural punishment is probably not associated with social complexity	6
Why are some people more jealous than others? Genetic and environmental factors	6
Variation in sociosexuality across natural menstrual cycles: Associations with ovarian hormones and cycle phase	6
Need-based transfer systems are more vulnerable to cheating when resources are hidden	6
Kin-directed altruism and the evolution of male androphilia among Istmo Zapotec Muxes	6
Do more attractive women show stronger preferences for male facial masculinity?	6
The evolution of theory of mind on welfare tradeoff ratios	6
An evolutionary approach to grief-related rumination: Construction and validation of the Bereavement Analytical Rumination Questionnaire	6
Friendship and partner choice in rural Colombia	5
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, I Deserve More Than All: Perceived Attractiveness and Self-Interested Behavior	5
Depression and suicidality as evolved credible signals of need in social conflicts	5
Risk-seeking or impatient? Disentangling variance and time in hazardous behaviors	5
Uncertainty causes humans to use social heuristics and to cooperate more: An experiment among Belgian university students	5
We don't make WEIRD faces: A brief history of emotion expression research in small-scale societies	5
Consensus decision-making: performance of heuristics and mental models	5
Examining the effect of hunger on responses to pathogen cues and novel foods	5
Commentary on : Who is going to run the global laboratory of the future?	5
Punitive justice serves to restore reciprocal cooperation in three small-scale societies	5
Spousal age-gaps, partner preferences, and consequences for well-being in four Colombian communities	5
Signal value of stress behaviour	5
Cultural and reproductive success and the causes of war: A Yanomamö perspective	5
Parental teaching behavior in diverse cultural contexts	4
What is reciprocity? A review and expert-based classification of cooperative transfers	4
The implicit rules of combat reflect the evolved function of combat: An evolutionary-psychological analysis of fairness and honor in human aggression	4
A Cinderella effect in the childcare assistance provided by European grandparents	4
Inequality, grievances, and the variability in homicide rates	4
Gendered fitness interests: A method partitioning the effects of family composition on socio-political attitudes and behaviors	4
Historical and hunter-gatherer perspectives on fast-slow life history strategies	4
Greater humility can help expand evolutionary social science	4
Disgust sensitivity relates to affective responses to – but not ability to detect – olfactory cues to pathogens	4
Steppe Generosity: Kinship, social reputations, and perceived need drive generous giving in a non-anonymous allocation game among Mongolian pastoral nomads	4
Strengthening the evolutionary social sciences with more data, less ‘theory-worship’	3
Hormonal influences on women's extra-pair sexual interests: The moderating impact of partner attractiveness	3
Parochial reciprocity	3
Error Management Theory and biased first impressions: How do people perceive potential mates under conditions of uncertainty?	3
Network analysis of psychometric life history indicators	3
Cultural transmission vectors of essential knowledge and skills among Tsimane forager-farmers	3
Kin detection cues and sibling relationships: revelations from twin and adoption studies. Commentary on	3
The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers	3
18-month-olds use different cues to categorize plants and artifacts	3
What is a mate preference? Probing the computational format of mate preferences using couple simulation	3
Cognitive foundations for helping and harming others: Making welfare tradeoffs in industrialized and small-scale societies	3
Elevated recognition accuracy for low-pitched male voices in men with higher threat potential: Further evidence for the retaliation-cost model in humans	3
Commentary on the life history special issue: The fast-slow continuum is not the end-game of life history evolution, human or otherwise	3
What does prey harvest composition signal to a social audience?: Experimental studies with Aché hunter-gatherers of Paraguay	3
Indirect reciprocity and tradeoff paradigms in the wake of violent intergroup conflict	3
Disgust sensitivity predicts sociosexuality across cultures	3
Are natural threats superior threats?	3
Are people more averse to microbe-sharing contact with ethnic outgroup members? A registered report	3
Effects of gender inequality and wealth inequality on within-sex mating competition under hypergyny	3
Commentary on Sear, 2020: What does history have to say about life history?	3
Prevalence and predictors of “nesting”: Solutions to adaptive challenges faced during pregnancy	3
An evolutionary perspective on the association between grandmother-mother relationships and maternal mental health among a cohort of pregnant Latina women	3
Beware the foe who feels no pain: Associations between relative formidability and pain sensitivity in three U.S. online studies	3
A phylogenetic analysis of dispersal norms, descent and subsistence in Sino-Tibetans	3
Institutional quality shapes cooperation with out-group strangers	3
Unmaking egalitarianism: Comparing sources of political change in an Amazonian society	3
Height is associated with more self-serving beliefs about wealth redistribution	3
Grandpaternal care and child survival in a pastoralist society in western China	3