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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Response to: "Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no"	87
Androcentric emphases continue to impact depictions of gendered contributions to human evolution	50
Epstein Barr virus, infectious mononucleosis and associated diseases as contributors to the costs of intimate kissing	31
Women's intrasexual competitiveness, but not fertility, predicts greater competitive behavior toward attractive women across the menstrual cycle	29
Adolescent development of sexual misperception biases: females increasingly overperceived, males consistently underperceived	28
Editorial Board	27
Are men (believed to be) less prestige-oriented than women?	27
When superstition outperforms truth: Belief transmission, sacrifice, and cooperation under environmental uncertainty	26
Status in Himba pastoralists: are causal claims warranted?	24
Decreased sexual motivation during the human implantation window	24
Perceptions of “just compensation”	23
More than the sum of its sexes: functional constraints, embodied capital, and age-structured labor in human forager economies	23
Pathogen threat and intergroup prejudice using the minimal group paradigm: Evidence from a registered report	22
Disgust sensitivity across the menstrual cycle: evidence from pathogen and food-related measures	22
Disgust sensitivity relates to affective responses to – but not ability to detect – olfactory cues to pathogens	21
Toward a mechanistic account of personality: A case study of competitor derogation accuracy and the dark triad	21
Trivial giving as a signal of trustworthiness	21
Objectively measured facial traits predict in-person evaluations of facial attractiveness and prosociality in speed-dating partners	20
Fundamental evolved motives meet environmental threats and opportunities	19
Using SEM to test the associations among women's childhood ecology, adult psychosocial life history traits, and mating effort	18
Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict	18
Editorial Board	18
Venting makes people prefer—and preferentially support—us over those we vent about	17
Beyond inclusive fitness: Why dual inheritance still matters in the age of memes	17
Epistemic gratitude and the provision of information	17

Epigenetic age acceleration and reproductive outcomes in women	17
Men (but not women) prefer to live in economically equal societies when it comes to mating: A five-study investigation	16
Generosity as a status signal: Higher-testosterone men exhibit greater altruism in the dictator game	16
The quest for scientific objectivity: comment on Luke Glowacki's (2024) “The controversial origins of war and peace: Apes, foragers, and human evolution”	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
Evolution of psychopathy in the public goods game with institutional redistribution of resources	14
SEX in bonobos: The intensity of sexual stimulation sharply drops after facial mimicry	14
Interpersonal leverage: Individual differences in the endorsement of anger and gratitude	14
Editorial Board	14
Sexual violence laws: Policy implications of psychological sex differences	14
Principles of emotional expression: Reassessing Darwin's evolutionary account	13
Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no.	13
Gender differences in social networks under subsistence changes	13
Parochial reciprocity	13
Ancient kiss-tory: new perspectives on the evolution of early historical kissing	12
The influence of friendship on children's fairness concerns in three societies	12
Culture as collective resource allocation across life history trade-offs: commentary on	11
Infrastructure of mother-infant interactions across development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild	11
Creatures of habit(us): A commentary on Baumard and André's ‘The ecological approach to culture’	10
Standing on principle: How moral principles can excuse disloyalty	10
Oral storytelling: humanity's first data management system?	10
Masculine voice is associated with better mucosal immune defense in adolescent and adult males	10
Supernatural beliefs encode knowledge about malaria but inhibit uptake of biomedical interventions among Siberut Mentawai	10
Bismarckian welfare revisited: Fear of being violently dispossessed motivates support for redistribution	9
Perceptions of facial trustworthiness and dominance modulate early neural responses to male facial sexual dimorphism	9
Why honor heroes? The emergence of extreme altruistic behavior as a by-product of praisers' self-promotion	9
Why punish cheaters? Those who withdraw cooperation enjoy better reputations than punishers, but both are viewed as difficult to exploit	9
Paternal investment and economic inequality predict cross-cultural variation in male choice	9
Willingness to protect from violence, independent of strength, guides partner choice	9
Human infant cries communicate distress and elicit sex stereotypes: Cross cultural evidence	9
In memoriam: Helen E. Fisher	8
The evolution of between-sex bonds in primates	8
Size, scale, and design matter: Commentary on Lewis, Al-Shawaf, Semchenko, and Evans, (2022)	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
Health, attractiveness, and marriageability among Aka hunter-gatherers and Ngandu farmer adolescents and young adults in the Central African Republic	8
The attractive personality: Like me, but better	7
The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs	7
Man the Hunter or man the hunter? Terminological confusion, gendered hunting, and gender bias	7
Mating fast and slow? Sociosexual orientations are not reflective of life history trajectories	7
Interpretive issues in discussion of evidence supporting adaptationist model of personality development: a commentary on	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
Ceci n'est pas une histoire: Is this academic publishing or subtweeting?	7
Adaptive memory in contamination contexts: Exploring the role of emotionality	7
Experimental evidence that people consider transgressors' exploitation risk when deciding to forgive	7
Young children's friendship expectations align with evolutionary frameworks	7
The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers	7
Social context may influence more self-perception and romantic partner preferences than biological sex	6

Editorial Board	6
Zombie Theories and the Quest for Consilience: A Critical Review of Hertler et al.’s The Evolution of Political Ideology	6
The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter	6
“Think leader, think alpha male” and the evolution of leader stereotypes	6
Why women cheat: testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample	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
The shared genome constraint: why between-sex genetic correlation matters for evolutionary social science	6
Costly inductions as a commitment-selection strategy: Assessing hazing's relationship with attrition in a college fraternity	6
Contextual factors that heighten interest in coalitional alliances with men possessing formidable facial structures	6
Existential security and the cultural evolution of secularisation in Mauritius	6
Implications of Dominance versus Agency in the Interpretation of Preferences for Female and Male Leaders	6
Core principles of melodic organisation emerge from transmission chains with random melodies	6
Sibling competition and dispersal drive sex differences in religious celibacy	6
Bringing Latin American human behavioral and evolutionary sciences into focus	6
A content-general adaptation for tribal value-acquisition	6
Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures	6
Coalitions matter for both men and women: Insights from three subsistence communities in southwest Ethiopia	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
Early hominins and the reversal of dominance hierarchy	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
Commentary on Venkataraman et al. 2026: The meanings and dividends of “Man the Hunter”	5
The ecological approach to culture	5
Editorial	5
Cash, crowds, and cooperation: The effects of population density and resource scarcity on cooperation in the dictator game	5
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us	5
From scorpion to spider: tracing the origin of fear of spiders and other chelicerates through perceptual fear generalization gradients across chelicerates	5
Emotional tears: What they are and how they work	5
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model	5