OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evolution and Human Behavior is 7. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

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
Pathogen disgust, but not moral disgust, changes across the menstrual cycle	15
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
Social inequality and signaling in a costly ritual	14
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
Option to cooperate increases women's competitiveness and closes the gender gap	13
“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
Fructose and uric acid as drivers of a hyperactive foraging response: A clue to behavioral disorders associated with impulsivity or mania?	12
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
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
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
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
For the good of evolutionary psychology, let's reunite proximate and ultimate explanations	8
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
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