Evolution and Human Behavior

Article	Citations
Rethinking the fast-slow continuum of individual differences	98
Do human ‘life history strategies’ exist?	86
On the use of “life history theory” in evolutionary psychology	82
A critique of life history approaches to human trait covariation	75
Theory and measurement of environmental unpredictability	73
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model	47
The challenge of measuring trade-offs in human life history research	35
The relations between early-life stress and risk, time, and prosocial preferences in adulthood: A meta-analytic review	34
Current debates in human life history research	31
Small gods, rituals, and cooperation: The Mentawai water spirit Sikameinan	28
Evolution and functions of human dance	26
Male voice pitch mediates the relationship between objective and perceived formidability	25
Does extrinsic mortality accelerate the pace of life? A bare-bones approach	24
Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries	23
Adaptation and plasticity in life-history theory: How to derive predictions.	22
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.	22
Sex differences in friendship preferences	21
Time is money. Waiting costs explain why selection favors steeper time discounting in deprived environments	20
Baboons (Papio anubis) living in larger social groups have bigger brains	20
Why do chimpanzees have diverse behavioral repertoires yet lack more complex cultures? Invention and social information use in a cumulative task	20
Is facial width-to-height ratio reliably associated with social inferences?	16
Can people detect the trustworthiness of strangers based on their facial appearance?	16
Value computation in humans	15
Punishment is strongly motivated by revenge and weakly motivated by inequity aversion	15
How anger works	15

Phylogenetic reconstruction of the cultural evolution of electronic music via dynamic community detection (1975–1999)	15
Pathogen disgust, but not moral disgust, changes across the menstrual cycle	15
Pitch lowering enhances men's perceived aggressive intent, not fighting ability	14
Do descriptive social norms drive peer punishment? Conditional punishment strategies and their impact on cooperation	14
Does hazing actually increase group solidarity? Re-examining a classic theory with a modern fraternity	14
Social inequality and signaling in a costly ritual	14
“Fast” women? The effects of childhood environments on women's developmental timing, mating strategies, and reproductive outcomes	13
Evolving institutions for collective action by selective imitation and self-interested design	13
Option to cooperate increases women's competitiveness and closes the gender gap	13
Why hunt? Why gather? Why share? Hadza assessments of foraging and food-sharing motive	12
Is facial structure an honest cue to real-world dominance and fighting ability in men? A pre-registered direct replication of	12
Who supports redistribution? Replicating and refining effects of compassion, malicious envy, and self-interest	12
Kin detection cues and sibling relationship quality in adulthood: The role of childhood co-residence duration and maternal perinatal association	12
Pathogen threat and intergroup prejudice using the minimal group paradigm: Evidence from a registered report	12
Fructose and uric acid as drivers of a hyperactive foraging response: A clue to behavioral disorders associated with impulsivity or mania?	12
On hits and being hit on: error management theory, signal detection theory, and the male sexual overperception bias	11
Can listeners assess men's self-reported health from their voice?	11
Shared interests or sexual conflict? Spousal age gap, women's wellbeing and fertility in rural Tanzania	11
What is unique about the human eye? Comparative image analysis on the external eye morphology of human and nonhuman great apes	11
Contextual factors that heighten interest in coalitional alliances with men possessing formidable facial structures	11
Disgust sensitivity is negatively associated with immune system activity in early pregnancy: Direct support for the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis	11
Punitive justice serves to restore reciprocal cooperation in three small-scale societies	11
Multimodal mate choice: Exploring the effects of sight, sound, and scent on partner choice in a speed-date paradigm	11
Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism: A registered report	11
A positive relationship between body height and the testosterone response to physical exercise	11
Contemporary selection pressures in modern societies? Which factors best explain variance in human reproduction and mating?	10
Are skewed sex ratios associated with violent crime? A longitudinal analysis using Swedish register data	10
Young, formidable men show greater sensitivity to facial cues of dominance	10
Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others	10
Sex (similarities and) differences in friendship jealousy	10
Truth-making institutions: From divination, ordeals and oaths to judicial torture and rules of evidence	10
Facial cues to physical strength increase attractiveness but decrease aggressiveness assessments in male Maasai of Northern Tanzania	10
Facial shape provides a valid cue to sociosexuality in men but not women	9
Signal value of stress behaviour	9
Family still matters: Human social motivation across 42 countries during a global pandemic	9
Moralistic supernatural punishment is probably not associated with social complexity	9
Investigating the relationship between olfactory acuity, disgust, and mating strategies	9
Fathers' care in context: ‘facultative,’ flexible fathers respond to work demands and child age, but not to alloparental help, in Cebu, Philippines	9
Why are some people more jealous than others? Genetic and environmental factors	9
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, I Deserve More Than All: Perceived Attractiveness and Self-Interested Behavior	8
Facial metrics generated from manually and automatically placed image landmarks are highly correlated	8
Intelligence can be detected but is not found attractive in videos and live interactions	8
Will granny save me? Birth status, survival, and the role of grandmothers in historical Finland	8
Pre-existing fairness concerns restrict the cultural evolution and generalization of inequitable norms in children	8
For the good of evolutionary psychology, let's reunite proximate and ultimate explanations	8
Parochial reciprocity	7
Need-based transfer systems are more vulnerable to cheating when resources are hidden	7
Natural selection on anthropometric traits of Estonian girls	7
Reputation management as an alternative explanation for the “contagiousness” of immorality	7
Breast symmetry, but not size or volume, predicts salivary immunoglobulin-A (sIgA) in women	7

The (bidirectional) associations between romantic attachment orientations and mate retention behavior in male-female romantic couples	7
Cognitive foundations for helping and harming others: Making welfare tradeoffs in industrialized and small-scale societies	7
Friendship and partner choice in rural Colombia	7
Spousal age-gaps, partner preferences, and consequences for well-being in four Colombian communities	7
Inequality, grievances, and the variability in homicide rates	7
Parochial altruism: What it is and why it varies	6
An evolutionary approach to grief-related rumination: Construction and validation of the Bereavement Analytical Rumination Questionnaire	6
Kin-directed altruism and the evolution of male androphilia among Istmo Zapotec Muxes	6
Dynamic indirect reciprocity: When is indirect reciprocity bounded by group membership?	6
Parental teaching behavior in diverse cultural contexts	6
Disgust sensitivity relates to affective responses to – but not ability to detect – olfactory cues to pathogens	6
What is a mate preference? Probing the computational format of mate preferences using couple simulation	6
The evolution of theory of mind on welfare tradeoff ratios	6
Consensus decision-making: performance of heuristics and mental models	6
Disgust sensitivity predicts sociosexuality across cultures	6
Steppe Generosity: Kinship, social reputations, and perceived need drive generous giving in a non-anonymous allocation game among Mongolian pastoral nomads	6
Variation in sociosexuality across natural menstrual cycles: Associations with ovarian hormones and cycle phase	6
A Cinderella effect in the childcare assistance provided by European grandparents	6
Depression and suicidality as evolved credible signals of need in social conflicts	5
Cultural transmission vectors of essential knowledge and skills among Tsimane forager-farmers	5
Commentary on : Who is going to run the global laboratory of the future?	5
Historical and hunter-gatherer perspectives on fast-slow life history strategies	5
Examining the effect of hunger on responses to pathogen cues and novel foods	5
What is reciprocity? A review and expert-based classification of cooperative transfers	5
Uncertainty causes humans to use social heuristics and to cooperate more: An experiment among Belgian university students	5
Sex differences in costly signaling in rural Western China	5
Are natural threats superior threats?	5
Risk-seeking or impatient? Disentangling variance and time in hazardous behaviors	5
Stereotypes versus preferences: Revisiting the role of alpha males in leadership	4
Network analysis of psychometric life history indicators	4
A phylogenetic analysis of dispersal norms, descent and subsistence in Sino-Tibetans	4
The implicit rules of combat reflect the evolved function of combat: An evolutionary-psychological analysis of fairness and honor in human aggression	4
Dynamic indirect reciprocity; When is indirect reciprocity bounded by group membership?	4
Elevated recognition accuracy for low-pitched male voices in men with higher threat potential: Further evidence for the retaliation-cost model in humans	4
Commentary on the life history special issue: The fast-slow continuum is not the end-game of life history evolution, human or otherwise	4
Indirect reciprocity and tradeoff paradigms in the wake of violent intergroup conflict	4
The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers	4
Grandpaternal care and child survival in a pastoralist society in western China	4
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	4
Hormonal influences on women's extra-pair sexual interests: The moderating impact of partner attractiveness	4
An evolutionary perspective on the association between grandmother-mother relationships and maternal mental health among a cohort of pregnant Latina women	4
Comparing disgust sensitivity in women in early pregnancy and non-pregnant women in the follicular and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle	4
Height is associated with more self-serving beliefs about wealth redistribution	4
Gendered fitness interests: A method partitioning the effects of family composition on socio-political attitudes and behaviors	4
Commentary on Sear, 2020: What does history have to say about life history?	4
In need-based sharing, sharing is more important than need	3
A comparative perspective on the human sense of justice	3
Are people more averse to microbe-sharing contact with ethnic outgroup members? A registered report	3
Unmaking egalitarianism: Comparing sources of political change in an Amazonian society	3
Short term, long term: An unexpected confound in human-mating research	3
Cultural and contextual variation in first mover norms of ownership: evidence from an Achuar community	3
In it together: evidence of a preference for the fair distribution of effort in joint action	3
Ultimate and proximate factors underlying sexual overperception bias: A reply to Lee et al. (2020)	3
Decades of Trivers-Willard research on humans: What conclusions can be drawn?	3
Institutional quality shapes cooperation with out-group strangers	3
Modeling mate choice in a small-scale community: Applying couple simulation in the U.S. and Conambo, Ecuador	3
A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context?	3
18-month-olds use different cues to categorize plants and artifacts	3
Decision-making under climate shocks and economic insecurity: Ranching in rural Baja California Sur, Mexico	3
Error Management Theory and biased first impressions: How do people perceive potential mates under conditions of uncertainty?	3
Beware the foe who feels no pain: Associations between relative formidability and pain sensitivity in three U.S. online studies	3
Kin detection cues and sibling relationships: revelations from twin and adoption studies. Commentary on	3
Trivial giving as a signal of trustworthiness	3
Common knowledge promotes cooperation in the threshold public goods game by reducing uncertainty	3
Physical formidability and acceptance of police violence	3
Effects of gender inequality and wealth inequality on within-sex mating competition under hypergyny	3
Prevalence and predictors of “nesting”: Solutions to adaptive challenges faced during pregnancy	3
The influence of friendship on children's fairness concerns in three societies	3
What does prey harvest composition signal to a social audience?: Experimental studies with Aché hunter-gatherers of Paraguay	3
The role of costly commitment signals in assorting cooperators during intergroup conflict	3
Anger and fearful expressions influence perceptions of physical strength: Testing the signalling functions of emotional facial expressions with a visual aftereffects paradigm	2
Associations between men's reputations for fathering and their reproductive success among BaYaka foragers in the Congo Basin	2
Friends near and afar, through thick and thin: Comparing contingency of help between close-distance and long-distance friends in Tanzanian fishing villages	2
Non-kin alloparents and child outcomes: Older siblings, but not godparents, predict educational attainment in a rural context	2
Do humans agree on which body odors are attractive, similar to the agreement observed when rating faces and voices?	2
Maternal investment in arranged and self-choice marriages: A test of the reproductive compensation and differential allocation hypothesis in humans	2
The role of parent-offspring conflict in Shuar partner choice and marital practices	2
Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: a comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter	2
Pubertal maturation is independent of family structure but daughters of divorced (but not dead) fathers start reproduction earlier	2
Early prosociality is conditional on opportunity cost and familiarity with the target	2

Calibration and fitness-linked correlates of personality in Conambo, Ecuador	2
Toward a cumulative science of non-WEIRD morality: a reply to Rezvani Nejad et al.	2
Parental substance misuse and reproductive timing in offspring: A genetically informed study	2
Social network accuracy among children and adolescents in a rural Dominican community	2
The causes and consequences of women's status in Himba pastoralists	2
Cross-cultural forager myth transmission rules: Implications for the emergence of cumulative culture	2
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us	2
Explaining the evolution of parochial punishment in humans	2
The influence of language on the evolution of cooperation	2