OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evolution and Human Behavior is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Response to: "Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no"	87
Epstein Barr virus, infectious mononucleosis and associated diseases as contributors to the costs of intimate kissing	47
Androcentric emphases continue to impact depictions of gendered contributions to human evolution	30
Women's intrasexual competitiveness, but not fertility, predicts greater competitive behavior toward attractive women across the menstrual cycle	28
Editorial Board	27
Are men (believed to be) less prestige-oriented than women?	27
Adolescent development of sexual misperception biases: females increasingly overperceived, males consistently underperceived	27
Decreased sexual motivation during the human implantation window	24
When superstition outperforms truth: Belief transmission, sacrifice, and cooperation under environmental uncertainty	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	22
Perceptions of “just compensation”	22
Objectively measured facial traits predict in-person evaluations of facial attractiveness and prosociality in speed-dating partners	21
Pathogen threat and intergroup prejudice using the minimal group paradigm: Evidence from a registered report	21
Using SEM to test the associations among women's childhood ecology, adult psychosocial life history traits, and mating effort	21
Trivial giving as a signal of trustworthiness	20
Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict	19
Toward a mechanistic account of personality: A case study of competitor derogation accuracy and the dark triad	19
Disgust sensitivity relates to affective responses to – but not ability to detect – olfactory cues to pathogens	19
Editorial Board	18
Venting makes people prefer—and preferentially support—us over those we vent about	17
Epigenetic age acceleration and reproductive outcomes in women	17
Epistemic gratitude and the provision of information	17
Beyond inclusive fitness: Why dual inheritance still matters in the age of memes	17
Generosity as a status signal: Higher-testosterone men exhibit greater altruism in the dictator game	16

Men (but not women) prefer to live in economically equal societies when it comes to mating: A five-study investigation	16
Interpersonal leverage: Individual differences in the endorsement of anger and gratitude	15
Parochial reciprocity	14
SEX in bonobos: The intensity of sexual stimulation sharply drops after facial mimicry	14
Preschoolers, but not yet toddlers, prefer to allocate epistemic trust to leaders than to bullies	14
Ancient kiss-tory: new perspectives on the evolution of early historical kissing	14
The influence of friendship on children's fairness concerns in three societies	14
Gender differences in social networks under subsistence changes	13
Editorial Board	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
Evolution of psychopathy in the public goods game with institutional redistribution of resources	13
Infrastructure of mother-infant interactions across development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild	12
Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no.	12
Sexual violence laws: Policy implications of psychological sex differences	11
Bismarckian welfare revisited: Fear of being violently dispossessed motivates support for redistribution	11
Using an evolutionary approach to improve predictive ability in the social sciences: Property, the endowment effect, and law	11
Willingness to protect from violence, independent of strength, guides partner choice	10
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
Why punish cheaters? Those who withdraw cooperation enjoy better reputations than punishers, but both are viewed as difficult to exploit	10
Perceptions of facial trustworthiness and dominance modulate early neural responses to male facial sexual dimorphism	10
Masculine voice is associated with better mucosal immune defense in adolescent and adult males	10
Paternal investment and economic inequality predict cross-cultural variation in male choice	9
The evolution of between-sex bonds in primates	9
Why honor heroes? The emergence of extreme altruistic behavior as a by-product of praisers' self-promotion	9
Human infant cries communicate distress and elicit sex stereotypes: Cross cultural evidence	9
Oral storytelling: humanity's first data management system?	9
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
Interpretive issues in discussion of evidence supporting adaptationist model of personality development: a commentary on	8
Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context	8
Health, attractiveness, and marriageability among Aka hunter-gatherers and Ngandu farmer adolescents and young adults in the Central African Republic	8
In memoriam: Helen E. Fisher	8
Size, scale, and design matter: Commentary on Lewis, Al-Shawaf, Semchenko, and Evans, (2022)	7
Value computation in humans	7
Man the Hunter or man the hunter? Terminological confusion, gendered hunting, and gender bias	7
A content-general adaptation for tribal value-acquisition	7
The attractive personality: Like me, but better	7
Experimental evidence that people consider transgressors' exploitation risk when deciding to forgive	7
Editorial Board	7
Adaptive memory in contamination contexts: Exploring the role of emotionality	7
The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs	7
The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers	7
Sibling competition and dispersal drive sex differences in religious celibacy	7
The shared genome constraint: why between-sex genetic correlation matters for evolutionary social science	7
Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures	6
Costly inductions as a commitment-selection strategy: Assessing hazing's relationship with attrition in a college fraternity	6
Ceci n'est pas une histoire: Is this academic publishing or subtweeting?	6
“Think leader, think alpha male” and the evolution of leader stereotypes	6
Commentary on Venkataraman et al. 2026: The meanings and dividends of “Man the Hunter”	6
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us	6

Mating fast and slow? Sociosexual orientations are not reflective of life history trajectories	6
The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter	6
Core principles of melodic organisation emerge from transmission chains with random melodies	6
Existential security and the cultural evolution of secularisation in Mauritius	6
Zombie Theories and the Quest for Consilience: A Critical Review of Hertler et al.’s The Evolution of Political Ideology	6
Bringing Latin American human behavioral and evolutionary sciences into focus	6
Contextual factors that heighten interest in coalitional alliances with men possessing formidable facial structures	6
The ecological approach to culture	6
Why women cheat: testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample	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
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
Friends near and afar, through thick and thin: Comparing contingency of help between close-distance and long-distance friends in Tanzanian fishing villages	5
Implications of Dominance versus Agency in the Interpretation of Preferences for Female and Male Leaders	5
The pitfalls of an impoverished approach to culture: Commentary on Baumard and André	5
Social context may influence more self-perception and romantic partner preferences than biological sex	5
Cash, crowds, and cooperation: The effects of population density and resource scarcity on cooperation in the dictator game	5
Emotional tears: What they are and how they work	5
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	5
Human behavioural ecology is cultural ecology	5
Editorial	5
Early hominins and the reversal of dominance hierarchy	5