OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evolution and Human Behavior is 6. 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	47
Parental substance misuse and reproductive timing in offspring: A genetically informed study	28
What do evolutionary researchers believe about human psychology and behavior?	26
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Perceptions of relationship value and exploitation risk mediate the effects of transgressors' post-harm communications upon forgiveness	21
Footbinding and its cessation: An agent-based model adjudication of the labor market and evolutionary sciences hypotheses	20
Systematic error measurement: Treating item errors as data	20
Editorial Board	20
Why do chimpanzees have diverse behavioral repertoires yet lack more complex cultures? Invention and social information use in a cumulative task	16
Uncertainty causes humans to use social heuristics and to cooperate more: An experiment among Belgian university students	16
Option to cooperate increases women's competitiveness and closes the gender gap	15
Human infant cries communicate distress and elicit sex stereotypes: Cross cultural evidence	15
Sibling aggression is surprisingly common and sexually egalitarian	15
Tit for tattling: Cooperation, communication, and how each could stabilize the other	15
Choosing to help others at a cost to oneself elevates preschoolers' body posture	15
Stereotypes versus preferences: revisiting the alpha male stereotype of leadership	14
Prestige-based leadership offers women leaders an advantage and reduces gender inequality in leadership	14
Response to: "Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no"	14
Will granny save me? Birth status, survival, and the role of grandmothers in historical Finland	14
Commentary on the life history special issue: The behavioral sciences need to engage more deeply in life history theory	13
Physical strength predicts political violence	13
Height shows no clear association with self-serving beliefs about wealth redistribution: A commentary on	13
Scars for survival: high cost male initiation rites are strongly associated with desert habitat in Pama-Nyungan Australia	12

Cognitive foundations for helping and harming others: Making welfare tradeoffs in industrialized and small-scale societies	12
Maternal investment in arranged and self-choice marriages: A test of the reproductive compensation and differential allocation hypothesis in humans	12
A positive relationship between body height and the testosterone response to physical exercise	12
Short term, long term: An unexpected confound in human-mating research	12
Kin-directed altruism and the evolution of male androphilia among Istmo Zapotec Muxes	12
Commentary on Sear, 2020: What does history have to say about life history?	11
Natural selection on anthropometric traits of Estonian girls	11
Female gorillas compete for food and males	11
Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context	11
Facial metrics generated from manually and automatically placed image landmarks are highly correlated	11
Do descriptive social norms drive peer punishment? Conditional punishment strategies and their impact on cooperation	11
The influence of language on the evolution of cooperation	11
Steppe Generosity: Kinship, social reputations, and perceived need drive generous giving in a non-anonymous allocation game among Mongolian pastoral nomads	11
Why are some people more jealous than others? Genetic and environmental factors	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
Disgust sensitivity is negatively associated with immune system activity in early pregnancy: Direct support for the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis	10
Dynamic indirect reciprocity; When is indirect reciprocity bounded by group membership?	10
The evolution of between-sex bonds in primates	10
Trustworthiness: an adaptationist account	10
What is a mate preference? Probing the computational format of mate preferences using couple simulation	10
I will hold a weapon if you hold one: Experiments of preemptive strike game with possession option	10
Even small differences in attractiveness and formidability affect the probability and speed of selection: An online study and an offline replication	10
Commentary on : Who is going to run the global laboratory of the future?	9
Effects of gender inequality and wealth inequality on within-sex mating competition under hypergyny	9
Discerning blue from purple: How prevalence affects what is perceived as normal	9
Evolving institutions for collective action by selective imitation and self-interested design	9
Societal institutions echo evolved human nature: An analysis of the Western criminal justice system and its relation to anger	9
Gendered fitness interests: A method partitioning the effects of family composition on socio-political attitudes and behaviors	9
The intersection of evolutionary science and law	9
Editorial Board	8
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18-month-olds use different cues to categorize plants and artifacts	8
Creative ideas, but elementary mistakes: A reply to Brandner and colleagues to promote best practices in error management theory research	8
Toward a cumulative science of non-WEIRD morality: a reply to Rezvani Nejad et al.	8
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.	8
Editorial Board	7
Risk-seeking or impatient? Disentangling variance and time in hazardous behaviors	7
Grandpaternal care and child survival in a pastoralist society in western China	7
Culture shapes sex differences in mate preferences	7
Perceptions of “just compensation”	7
The implicit rules of combat reflect the evolved function of combat: An evolutionary-psychological analysis of fairness and honor in human aggression	7
Fructose and uric acid as drivers of a hyperactive foraging response: A clue to behavioral disorders associated with impulsivity or mania?	7
Unmaking egalitarianism: Comparing sources of political change in an Amazonian society	7
Interpersonal conflicts and third-party mediation in a pastoralist society	7
Distinctiveness and femininity, rather than symmetry and masculinity, affect facial attractiveness across the world	7
Shared interests or sexual conflict? Spousal age gap, women's wellbeing and fertility in rural Tanzania	6
Religious women receive more allomaternal support from non-partner kin in two low-fertility countries	6
Editorial Board	6
Are skewed sex ratios associated with violent crime? A longitudinal analysis using Swedish register data	6
Height is associated with more self-serving beliefs about wealth redistribution	6

On causes and consequences; a reply to Durkee	6
US adults accurately assess Hadza and Tsimane men's hunting ability from a single face photograph	6
"Entertain All Hypotheses": A tribute to John Tooby Edited by Debra Lieberman	6
Size, scale, and design matter: Commentary on Lewis, Al-Shawaf, Semchenko, and Evans, (2022)	6
A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context?	6
Status in Himba pastoralists: are causal claims warranted?	6
Are people more averse to microbe-sharing contact with ethnic outgroup members? A registered report	6
Are men (believed to be) less prestige-oriented than women?	6