Evolution and Human Behavior

Article	Citations
Response to: "Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no"	69
Editorial Board	34
Are men (believed to be) less prestige-oriented than women?	34
Status in Himba pastoralists: are causal claims warranted?	27
Perceptions of “just compensation”	26
Sex (similarities and) differences in friendship jealousy	24
Women's intrasexual competitiveness, but not fertility, predicts greater competitive behavior toward attractive women across the menstrual cycle	22
Decreased sexual motivation during the human implantation window	21
Adolescent development of sexual misperception biases: females increasingly overperceived, males consistently underperceived	21
Pathogen threat and intergroup prejudice using the minimal group paradigm: Evidence from a registered report	19
Institutional quality shapes cooperation with out-group strangers	19
A phylogenetic analysis of dispersal norms, descent and subsistence in Sino-Tibetans	19
Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict	18
Disgust sensitivity relates to affective responses to – but not ability to detect – olfactory cues to pathogens	18
Objectively measured facial traits predict in-person evaluations of facial attractiveness and prosociality in speed-dating partners	18
Trivial giving as a signal of trustworthiness	18
Epistemic gratitude and the provision of information	17
Editorial Board	17
Venting makes people prefer—and preferentially support—us over those we vent about	16
Epigenetic age acceleration and reproductive outcomes in women	16
Men (but not women) prefer to live in economically equal societies when it comes to mating: A five-study investigation	16
Beyond inclusive fitness: Why dual inheritance still matters in the age of memes	16
The quest for scientific objectivity: comment on Luke Glowacki's (2024) “The controversial origins of war and peace: Apes, foragers, and human evolution”	16
The influence of friendship on children's fairness concerns in three societies	15
Re-considering the evidence that taller people are less supportive of government wealth redistribution: A response to	15

Editorial Board	15
Generosity as a status signal: Higher-testosterone men exhibit greater altruism in the dictator game	15
Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no.	15
Using an evolutionary approach to improve predictive ability in the social sciences: Property, the endowment effect, and law	15
Sexual violence laws: Policy implications of psychological sex differences	15
Evolution of psychopathy in the public goods game with institutional redistribution of resources	14
Ancient kiss-tory: new perspectives on the evolution of early historical kissing	14
Interpersonal leverage: Individual differences in the endorsement of anger and gratitude	13
Parochial reciprocity	13
Why punish cheaters? Those who withdraw cooperation enjoy better reputations than punishers, but both are viewed as difficult to exploit	13
Infrastructure of mother-infant interactions across development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild	13
Book Review	13
Willingness to protect from violence, independent of strength, guides partner choice	12
Masculine voice is associated with better mucosal immune defense in adolescent and adult males	12
Perceptions of facial trustworthiness and dominance modulate early neural responses to male facial sexual dimorphism	12
Oral storytelling: humanity's first data management system?	12
Culture as collective resource allocation across life history trade-offs: commentary on	11
Why honor heroes? The emergence of extreme altruistic behavior as a by-product of praisers' self-promotion	11
Creatures of habit(us): A commentary on Baumard and André's ‘The ecological approach to culture’	11
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	11
Bismarckian welfare revisited: Fear of being violently dispossessed motivates support for redistribution	11
Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context	11
Paternal investment and economic inequality predict cross-cultural variation in male choice	10
The evolution of between-sex bonds in primates	10
Human infant cries communicate distress and elicit sex stereotypes: Cross cultural evidence	10
Disgust sensitivity is negatively associated with immune system activity in early pregnancy: Direct support for the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis	10
The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers	9
Experimental evidence that people consider transgressors' exploitation risk when deciding to forgive	9
The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs	9
In memoriam: Helen E. Fisher	9
Size, scale, and design matter: Commentary on Lewis, Al-Shawaf, Semchenko, and Evans, (2022)	9
Value computation in humans	9
Editorial Board	8
Interpretive issues in discussion of evidence supporting adaptationist model of personality development: a commentary on	8
The shared genome constraint: why between-sex genetic correlation matters for evolutionary social science	8
Mating fast and slow? Sociosexual orientations are not reflective of life history trajectories	8
Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism: A registered report	8
Costly inductions as a commitment-selection strategy: Assessing hazing's relationship with attrition in a college fraternity	8
Sibling competition and dispersal drive sex differences in religious celibacy	8
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us	7
A content-general adaptation for tribal value-acquisition	7
Core principles of melodic organisation emerge from transmission chains with random melodies	7
Implications of Dominance versus Agency in the Interpretation of Preferences for Female and Male Leaders	7
“Think leader, think alpha male” and the evolution of leader stereotypes	7
Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures	7
Why women cheat: testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample	6
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	6
Contemporary selection pressures in modern societies? Which factors best explain variance in human reproduction and mating?	6
The pitfalls of an impoverished approach to culture: Commentary on Baumard and André	6
Depression and suicidality as evolved credible signals of need in social conflicts	6

The ecological approach to culture	6
Cash, crowds, and cooperation: The effects of population density and resource scarcity on cooperation in the dictator game	6
Friends near and afar, through thick and thin: Comparing contingency of help between close-distance and long-distance friends in Tanzanian fishing villages	6
Ecological theory and the conundrums of culture	6
Contextual factors that heighten interest in coalitional alliances with men possessing formidable facial structures	6
Editorial	6
Emotional tears: What they are and how they work	6
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model	6
Early hominins and the reversal of dominance hierarchy	6
Stereotypes of criminality in the U.S. track ecology, not race	5
Human behavioural ecology is cultural ecology	5
Stereotypes versus preferences: revisiting the alpha male stereotype of leadership	5
Prestige-based leadership offers women leaders an advantage and reduces gender inequality in leadership	5
I will hold a weapon if you hold one: Experiments of preemptive strike game with possession option	5
Corrigendum to “The role of testosterone in odor-based perceptions of social status” [Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 46 (2025) 106752].	5
How anger works	5
A homage to Glenn E. Weisfeld	5
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study	5
Is mate-choice copying a female phenomenon?	5
A re-analysis that replicated a replication: Rejoinder to	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	5
The evolution of human lip-to-lip kissing	5
Creative ideas, but elementary mistakes: A reply to Brandner and colleagues to promote best practices in error management theory research	4
Children's imitation of costly rituals: Insights into early cultural learning	4
Oral contraceptives and women's preferences for facial masculinity and symmetry: Evidence from a double-blind randomized controlled trial	4
Editorial Board	4
On the importance of conceptual clarity and constraints in an ecological approach to culture	4
Interpersonal conflicts and third-party mediation in a pastoralist society	4
Female gorillas compete for food and males	4
Wealth or generosity? People choose partners based on whichever is more variable	4
Understanding olfactory fertility cues in humans: chemical analysis of women's vulvar odour and perceptual detection of these cues by men	4
The intersection of evolutionary science and law	4
Editorial Board	4
Culture is not ecology	4
Editorial Board	3
Bargaining between the sexes: outside options and leisure time in hunter-gatherer households	3
Deep neural networks generate facial metrics that overcome limitations of previous methods and predict in-person attraction	3
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
The evolution of war and its cognitive foundations	3
Corrigendum to “Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures” [Evolution & Human Behaviour (2024) Volume 45, Issue 6, 106,636].	3
Parochial altruism: What it is and why it varies	3
The smoke-detector principle of pathogen avoidance: A test of how the behavioral immune system gives rise to prejudice	3
Strength, mating success, and immune and nutritional costs in a population sample of US women and men: A registered report	3
Sex differences in close friendships and social style	3
Distinctiveness and femininity, rather than symmetry and masculinity, affect facial attractiveness across the world	3
Laughter and ratings of funniness in speed-dating do not support the fitness indicator hypothesis of humour	3
Editorial Board	3
Book review	3
Can people detect the trustworthiness of strangers based on their facial appearance?	3
Victims of misfortune may not “deserve” help: A possible factor in victim-devaluation	3
Culture shapes sex differences in mate preferences	3
Resource availability and experiences of partner violence shape facial masculinity preferences in Colombian women	3
A replication that requires replication: Commentary on Caton et al. (2022)	3
Hot hand thinking in children	3
Editorial overview and dedication to John Patton: “Dispatches from the field: Insights from studies in ecologically diverse communities: Part 2”	3
Beyond stereotypes versus preferences: sex, dominance, and the functions of leadership	3
Comparing disgust sensitivity in women in early pregnancy and non-pregnant women in the follicular and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle	3
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
Network analysis of psychometric life history indicators	2
Social structure, cultural selection and the limits of adaptive plasticity: a response to Baumard and André	2
Children consider unique similarities as more meaningful cues to compatibility in social partnerships	2
Cost structures and socioecological conditions impact the fitness outcomes of human alloparental care in agent-based model simulations	2
Social network accuracy among children and adolescents in a rural Dominican community	2
Hormonal influences on women's extra-pair sexual interests: The moderating impact of partner attractiveness	2
Stereotypes versus preferences: Revisiting the role of alpha males in leadership	2
Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others	2
Using inclusive fitness and eco-evolutionary theory to model cultural evolution	2
Pubertal maturation is independent of family structure but daughters of divorced (but not dead) fathers start reproduction earlier	2
The evolution of symbolic artefacts: How function shapes form	2
Editorial Board	2
The disjunction between evolutionary psychology and sex-discrimination law and policy	2
Love, lust, and physical intimacy: oxytocin and the contraction of involuntary muscles	2
The evolution of theory of mind on welfare tradeoff ratios	2
Parental teaching behavior in diverse cultural contexts	2
What do we want from culture?	2
Error Management Theory and biased first impressions: How do people perceive potential mates under conditions of uncertainty?	2
A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing	2
Pre-existing fairness concerns restrict the cultural evolution and generalization of inequitable norms in children	2

Editorial overview: “Dispatches from the field: insights from studies in ecologically diverse communities: Part 1”	2
What is unique about the human eye? Comparative image analysis on the external eye morphology of human and nonhuman great apes	2
Why hunt? Why gather? Why share? Hadza assessments of foraging and food-sharing motive	1
What do evolutionary researchers believe about human psychology and behavior?	1
Associations between men's reputations for fathering and their reproductive success among BaYaka foragers in the Congo Basin	1
Does hazing actually increase group solidarity? Re-examining a classic theory with a modern fraternity	1
Sex differences in birth weight depending on the mother's condition: testing the Trivers-Willard hypothesis in Indian twins	1
The evolutionary logic of anger and hatred: an empirical test	1
Disgust sensitivity predicts sociosexuality across cultures	1
Common knowledge promotes cooperation in the threshold public goods game by reducing uncertainty	1
A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context?	1
"Entertain All Hypotheses": A tribute to John Tooby Edited by Debra Lieberman	1
Tit for tattling: Cooperation, communication, and how each could stabilize the other	1
Disqualifiers or preferences? How humans incorporate dealbreakers into mate choice	1
Editorial Board	1
Deconstructing “dominance” to refine leadership research	1
Towards an ecological model of the dark triad traits	1
Reference frames for spatial navigation and declarative memory: Individual differences in performance support the phylogenetic continuity hypothesis	1
Perceptions of relationship value and exploitation risk mediate the effects of transgressors' post-harm communications upon forgiveness	1
Is the Lamborghini like a peacock's tail? No evidence for relationships between conspicuous consumption and male attractiveness	1
Early prosociality is conditional on opportunity cost and familiarity with the target	1
Evolutionary moral psychology: Lessons from Westermarck	1
Editorial Board	1
Tradeoffs between self and mates reveal larger sex differences in trait preferences	1
The role of costly commitment signals in assorting cooperators during intergroup conflict	1
Coalitional support regulates resource divisions in men	1
A smart challenge but ultimately mistimed and misleading: Commentary on Baumard and André	1
Editorial Board	1
Religious women receive more allomaternal support from non-partner kin in two low-fertility countries	1
Kin-directed altruism and the evolution of male androphilia among Istmo Zapotec Muxes	1
Editorial Board	1
Scars for survival: high cost male initiation rites are strongly associated with desert habitat in Pama-Nyungan Australia	1
Even small differences in attractiveness and formidability affect the probability and speed of selection: An online study and an offline replication	1
Religious signaling and prosociality: A review of the literature	1
Evidence from millions of births refutes the Trivers-Willard hypothesis in humans	1
Why are some people more jealous than others? Genetic and environmental factors	1
Hormonal contraceptive use, not menstrual cycle phase, is associated with reduced interest in competition	1
Can race be replaced? Ecology and race categorization	1
Through the lens of adaptationism: Commentary on Baumard & André	1
An evolutionary perspective on homosexuality: Testing the sexually antagonistic genes hypothesis through familial fertility analysis	1
A comparative perspective on the human sense of justice	1
The implicit rules of combat reflect the evolved function of combat: An evolutionary-psychological analysis of fairness and honor in human aggression	1
Modeling mate choice in a small-scale community: Applying couple simulation in the U.S. and Conambo, Ecuador	1
US adults accurately assess Hadza and Tsimane men's hunting ability from a single face photograph	1
Editorial Board	1
Trustworthiness: an adaptationist account	1
Unmaking egalitarianism: Comparing sources of political change in an Amazonian society	1
Rethinking causal understanding and reverse engineering through the lens of cultural ecology	1
Prestige, conformity and gender consistency support a broad-context mechanism underpinning mate-choice copying	1
Pumping the Brakes on Psychosocial Acceleration Theory: Revisiting its Underlying Assumptions	1