Evolution and Human Behavior

Article	Citations
Response to: "Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no"	93
Androcentric emphases continue to impact depictions of gendered contributions to human evolution	53
Epstein Barr virus, infectious mononucleosis and associated diseases as contributors to the costs of intimate kissing	33
Women's intrasexual competitiveness, but not fertility, predicts greater competitive behavior toward attractive women across the menstrual cycle	30
Are men (believed to be) less prestige-oriented than women?	29
When superstition outperforms truth: Belief transmission, sacrifice, and cooperation under environmental uncertainty	27
Editorial Board	27
Decreased sexual motivation during the human implantation window	25
Perceptions of “just compensation”	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	24
Pathogen threat and intergroup prejudice using the minimal group paradigm: Evidence from a registered report	23
Disgust sensitivity across the menstrual cycle: evidence from pathogen and food-related measures	22
Adolescent development of sexual misperception biases: females increasingly overperceived, males consistently underperceived	22
Fundamental evolved motives meet environmental threats and opportunities	21
Trivial giving as a signal of trustworthiness	20
Objectively measured facial traits predict in-person evaluations of facial attractiveness and prosociality in speed-dating partners	20
Toward a mechanistic account of personality: A case study of competitor derogation accuracy and the dark triad	20
Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict	19
Using SEM to test the associations among women's childhood ecology, adult psychosocial life history traits, and mating effort	19
Beyond inclusive fitness: Why dual inheritance still matters in the age of memes	17
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Venting makes people prefer—and preferentially support—us over those we vent about	17
Epistemic gratitude and the provision of information	16
Epigenetic age acceleration and reproductive outcomes in women	15

Men (but not women) prefer to live in economically equal societies when it comes to mating: A five-study investigation	15
SEX in bonobos: The intensity of sexual stimulation sharply drops after facial mimicry	14
Evolution of psychopathy in the public goods game with institutional redistribution of resources	14
Generosity as a status signal: Higher-testosterone men exhibit greater altruism in the dictator game	14
Interpersonal leverage: Individual differences in the endorsement of anger and gratitude	14
Preschoolers, but not yet toddlers, prefer to allocate epistemic trust to leaders than to bullies	14
Using an evolutionary approach to improve predictive ability in the social sciences: Property, the endowment effect, and law	14
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Sexual violence laws: Policy implications of psychological sex differences	14
Gender differences in social networks under subsistence changes	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
Principles of emotional expression: Reassessing Darwin's evolutionary account	12
Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no.	12
Parochial reciprocity	11
Infrastructure of mother-infant interactions across development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild	11
The influence of friendship on children's fairness concerns in three societies	11
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
Masculine voice is associated with better mucosal immune defense in adolescent and adult males	10
Ancient kiss-tory: new perspectives on the evolution of early historical kissing	10
Standing on principle: How moral principles can excuse disloyalty	10
Oral storytelling: humanity's first data management system?	9
Perceptions of facial trustworthiness and dominance modulate early neural responses to male facial sexual dimorphism	9
Why punish cheaters? Those who withdraw cooperation enjoy better reputations than punishers, but both are viewed as difficult to exploit	9
Bismarckian welfare revisited: Fear of being violently dispossessed motivates support for redistribution	9
Willingness to protect from violence, independent of strength, guides partner choice	9
Supernatural beliefs encode knowledge about malaria but inhibit uptake of biomedical interventions among Siberut Mentawai	9
Health, attractiveness, and marriageability among Aka hunter-gatherers and Ngandu farmer adolescents and young adults in the Central African Republic	8
The evolution of between-sex bonds in primates	8
Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context	8
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
Why honor heroes? The emergence of extreme altruistic behavior as a by-product of praisers' self-promotion	8
Human infant cries communicate distress and elicit sex stereotypes: Cross cultural evidence	8
Young children's friendship expectations align with evolutionary frameworks	7
Sibling competition and dispersal drive sex differences in religious celibacy	7
The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers	7
Size, scale, and design matter: Commentary on Lewis, Al-Shawaf, Semchenko, and Evans, (2022)	7
Adaptive memory in contamination contexts: Exploring the role of emotionality	7
The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs	7
Ceci n'est pas une histoire: Is this academic publishing or subtweeting?	7
Experimental evidence that people consider transgressors' exploitation risk when deciding to forgive	7
Interpretive issues in discussion of evidence supporting adaptationist model of personality development: a commentary on	7
The attractive personality: Like me, but better	7
Man the Hunter or man the hunter? Terminological confusion, gendered hunting, and gender bias	7
Paternal investment and economic inequality predict cross-cultural variation in male choice	7
The shared genome constraint: why between-sex genetic correlation matters for evolutionary social science	7
In memoriam: Helen E. Fisher	7
Value computation in humans	7
Adaptive management of kin recognition errors: Agent-based models of kinship estimation biases and their fitness implications in different ecological contexts	7
Mating fast and slow? Sociosexual orientations are not reflective of life history trajectories	6

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Core principles of melodic organisation emerge from transmission chains with random melodies	6
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	6
Implications of Dominance versus Agency in the Interpretation of Preferences for Female and Male Leaders	6
Costly inductions as a commitment-selection strategy: Assessing hazing's relationship with attrition in a college fraternity	6
The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter	6
Zombie Theories and the Quest for Consilience: A Critical Review of Hertler et al.’s The Evolution of Political Ideology	6
Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures	6
Commentary on Venkataraman et al. 2026: The meanings and dividends of “Man the Hunter”	6
Coalitions matter for both men and women: Insights from three subsistence communities in southwest Ethiopia	6
Bringing Latin American human behavioral and evolutionary sciences into focus	6
A content-general adaptation for tribal value-acquisition	6
“Think leader, think alpha male” and the evolution of leader stereotypes	6
Social context may influence more self-perception and romantic partner preferences than biological sex	6
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us	6
Existential security and the cultural evolution of secularisation in Mauritius	6
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Cash, crowds, and cooperation: The effects of population density and resource scarcity on cooperation in the dictator game	5
The pitfalls of an impoverished approach to culture: Commentary on Baumard and André	5
The ecological approach to culture	5
Emotional tears: What they are and how they work	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
Early hominins and the reversal of dominance hierarchy	5
Why women cheat: testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample	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
Ecological theory and the conundrums of culture	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	4
Corrigendum to “The role of testosterone in odor-based perceptions of social status” [Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 46 (2025) 106752].	4
Stoic displays have reputational benefits but fail to undermine adversaries	4
The evolution of human lip-to-lip kissing	4
A re-analysis that replicated a replication: Rejoinder to	4
Psychopathy and evolution: an integrative and comprehensive review	4
Friendship making orientation as indexed by preferences for wide networks and intimacy with many friends: structure and validity of a new construct	4
Stereotypes of criminality in the U.S. track ecology, not race	4
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model	4
A homage to Glenn E. Weisfeld	4
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
Is mate-choice copying a female phenomenon?	4
I will hold a weapon if you hold one: Experiments of preemptive strike game with possession option	3
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Prestige-based leadership offers women leaders an advantage and reduces gender inequality in leadership	3
Mapping friendship: The foundations and origins of social network cognition	3
Deep neural networks generate facial metrics that overcome limitations of previous methods and predict in-person attraction	3
The evolutionary-cognitive foundation and cultural persistence of menstrual taboos in human societies	3
Early sex differences in sociosexual behavior of wild robust capuchin monkeys: Ontogenetic and evolutionary insights	3
Culture is not ecology	3
Stereotypes versus preferences: revisiting the alpha male stereotype of leadership	3
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study	3
Self-assessment biases and motivations: An error management approach	3
Interpersonal conflicts and third-party mediation in a pastoralist society	3
From diversity to flexibility: Seasonality as the forgotten dividend of Man the Hunter	3
Creative ideas, but elementary mistakes: A reply to Brandner and colleagues to promote best practices in error management theory research	3
Indirect peer victimization, friendship quality, and anxiety in young adulthood: A longitudinal test of evolutionary pathways	3
Wealth or generosity? People choose partners based on whichever is more variable	3
Understanding olfactory fertility cues in humans: chemical analysis of women's vulvar odour and perceptual detection of these cues by men	3
Oral contraceptives and women's preferences for facial masculinity and symmetry: Evidence from a double-blind randomized controlled trial	3
Female gorillas compete for food and males	3
The intersection of evolutionary science and law	3
Mortality salience shifts moral judgment: reproductive motivations override normative defenses in males	3
Culture shapes sex differences in mate preferences	3
Children's imitation of costly rituals: Insights into early cultural learning	3
On the importance of conceptual clarity and constraints in an ecological approach to culture	3
From hunters to grandmothers: how gender colors our interpretations	3
Distinctiveness and femininity, rather than symmetry and masculinity, affect facial attractiveness across the world	2
Laughter and ratings of funniness in speed-dating do not support the fitness indicator hypothesis of humour	2
Editorial Board	2
Editorial overview: “Dispatches from the field: insights from studies in ecologically diverse communities: Part 1”	2
Self-serving intergroup aggression escalates and prevails over parochial cooperation	2
The evolution of theory of mind on welfare tradeoff ratios	2
Stereotypes versus preferences: Revisiting the role of alpha males in leadership	2
What do we want from culture?	2
Parochial altruism: What it is and why it varies	2
Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others	2
Hot hand thinking in children	2
Victims of misfortune may not “deserve” help: A possible factor in victim-devaluation	2
The smoke-detector principle of pathogen avoidance: A test of how the behavioral immune system gives rise to prejudice	2
Book review	2
Abstract core knowledge may shape the basins of cultural attraction: romantic kissing as a case study	2
Editorial overview and dedication to John Patton: “Dispatches from the field: Insights from studies in ecologically diverse communities: Part 2”	2

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Parental teaching behavior in diverse cultural contexts	2
Mating-related stimuli induce rapid shifts in fathers' assessments of infants	2
Commentary on: the ecological approach to culture by Nicolas Baumard and Jean-Baptiste André	2
Cognitive mediation of social complexity–brain volume associations in a population-based sample	2
Social structure, cultural selection and the limits of adaptive plasticity: a response to Baumard and André	2
Bargaining between the sexes: outside options and leisure time in hunter-gatherer households	2
Corrigendum to “Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures” [Evolution & Human Behaviour (2024) Volume 45, Issue 6, 106,636].	2
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Resource availability and experiences of partner violence shape facial masculinity preferences in Colombian women	2
Sex differences in close friendships and social style	2
Strength, mating success, and immune and nutritional costs in a population sample of US women and men: A registered report	2
A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing	2
The evolution of war and its cognitive foundations	2
Disqualifiers or preferences? How humans incorporate dealbreakers into mate choice	2
Children consider unique similarities as more meaningful cues to compatibility in social partnerships	2
Coalitional Psychology and the Evolution of Intelligence	2
Paleo-medicine at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov	2
Beyond stereotypes versus preferences: sex, dominance, and the functions of leadership	2
Using inclusive fitness and eco-evolutionary theory to model cultural evolution	2
Comparing disgust sensitivity in women in early pregnancy and non-pregnant women in the follicular and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle	2
Love, lust, and physical intimacy: oxytocin and the contraction of involuntary muscles	2
A replication that requires replication: Commentary on Caton et al. (2022)	2
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Evolutionary moral psychology: Lessons from Westermarck	1
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"Entertain All Hypotheses": A tribute to John Tooby Edited by Debra Lieberman	1
Commentary on Baumard and André's the ecological approach to culture	1
Can race be replaced? Ecology and race categorization	1
Questioning claims of parasite-induced sexual aggression in humans	1
Rethinking causal understanding and reverse engineering through the lens of cultural ecology	1
The role of costly commitment signals in assorting cooperators during intergroup conflict	1
What a difference a mind makes: How evolved difference detecting mechanisms harm psychological science, and how an evolutionary psychology of psychology can help	1
US adults accurately assess Hadza and Tsimane men's hunting ability from a single face photograph	1
Does hazing actually increase group solidarity? Re-examining a classic theory with a modern fraternity	1
Unmaking egalitarianism: Comparing sources of political change in an Amazonian society	1
Is the Lamborghini like a peacock's tail? No evidence for relationships between conspicuous consumption and male attractiveness	1
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Cross-societal evidence of sex differences in preference for emotional support from friends	1
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Cross-sex and intrasexual theory of mind: Perceptions of sex-typical sexual desires	1
Hunter-gatherer adaptive diversity: Comment on Venkataraman et al.	1
Evolutionary and social functions of gaming: Integrating experimental evidence and mathematical modeling	1
The evolution of symbolic artefacts: How function shapes form	1
Associations between men's reputations for fathering and their reproductive success among BaYaka foragers in the Congo Basin	1
A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context?	1
Pumping the Brakes on Psychosocial Acceleration Theory: Revisiting its Underlying Assumptions	1
Tradeoffs between self and mates reveal larger sex differences in trait preferences	1
Religious women receive more allomaternal support from non-partner kin in two low-fertility countries	1
Specifically human culture: response to Baumard & André	1
Coalitional support regulates resource divisions in men	1
Cooperation, subsistence, and the legacy of “Man the Hunter”	1
Sex differences in birth weight depending on the mother's condition: testing the Trivers-Willard hypothesis in Indian twins	1
I lost my number, can I have yours? Body image satisfaction with sexually dimorphic traits is associated with men's dating anxiety and confidence	1
Children seek out observations that can reveal a partner’s generosity	1
Through the lens of adaptationism: Commentary on Baumard & André	1
Religious signaling and prosociality: A review of the literature	1
Even small differences in attractiveness and formidability affect the probability and speed of selection: An online study and an offline replication	1
Towards an ecological model of the dark triad traits	1
A smart challenge but ultimately mistimed and misleading: Commentary on Baumard and André	1
Editorial Board	1
Social network accuracy among children and adolescents in a rural Dominican community	1
Magical thinking: atavism of evolution or a fundamental component of the mind?	1
The disjunction between evolutionary psychology and sex-discrimination law and policy	1
Deconstructing “dominance” to refine leadership research	1
Cost structures and socioecological conditions impact the fitness outcomes of human alloparental care in agent-based model simulations	1
Sources of fitness interdependence associated with shared fate and cooperation in a small-scale horticultural society	1
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The evolutionary logic of anger and hatred: an empirical test	1
An evolutionary perspective on homosexuality: Testing the sexually antagonistic genes hypothesis through familial fertility analysis	1
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Commentary on “The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter”	1
Reference frames for spatial navigation and declarative memory: Individual differences in performance support the phylogenetic continuity hypothesis	1
Disgust sensitivity predicts sociosexuality across cultures	1
Cynicism among friends: Accuracy and bias in cynicism judgments	1
A comparative perspective on the human sense of justice	1
Evidence from millions of births refutes the Trivers-Willard hypothesis in humans	1
Modeling mate choice in a small-scale community: Applying couple simulation in the U.S. and Conambo, Ecuador	1
Evolved psychology, eco-phenotypic feedbacks and the social construction of culture	1
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Early prosociality is conditional on opportunity cost and familiarity with the target	1
Robert Trivers (1943–2026). A life at full throttle	1
Prestige, conformity and gender consistency support a broad-context mechanism underpinning mate-choice copying	1
Hormonal influences on women's extra-pair sexual interests: The moderating impact of partner attractiveness	1
Hormonal contraceptive use, not menstrual cycle phase, is associated with reduced interest in competition	1