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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Option to cooperate increases women's competitiveness and closes the gender gap	68
Response to: "Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no"	34
Are men (believed to be) less prestige-oriented than women?	34
Editorial Board	26
Sex (similarities and) differences in friendship jealousy	25
Perceptions of “just compensation”	21
Status in Himba pastoralists: are causal claims warranted?	21
Pathogen threat and intergroup prejudice using the minimal group paradigm: Evidence from a registered report	21
Decreased sexual motivation during the human implantation window	19
Adolescent development of sexual misperception biases: females increasingly overperceived, males consistently underperceived	19
Women's intrasexual competitiveness, but not fertility, predicts greater competitive behavior toward attractive women across the menstrual cycle	19
Is facial width-to-height ratio reliably associated with social inferences?	18
Trivial giving as a signal of trustworthiness	18
Institutional quality shapes cooperation with out-group strangers	18
A phylogenetic analysis of dispersal norms, descent and subsistence in Sino-Tibetans	18
Disgust sensitivity relates to affective responses to – but not ability to detect – olfactory cues to pathogens	17
Objectively measured facial traits predict in-person evaluations of facial attractiveness and prosociality in speed-dating partners	16
Editorial Board	16
Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict	16
Beyond inclusive fitness: Why dual inheritance still matters in the age of memes	16
Epistemic gratitude and the provision of information	16
Venting makes people prefer—and preferentially support—us over those we vent about	16
Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no.	15
Infrastructure of mother-infant interactions across development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild	15
The influence of friendship on children's fairness concerns in three societies	15

Re-considering the evidence that taller people are less supportive of government wealth redistribution: A response to	15
Epigenetic age acceleration and reproductive outcomes in women	15
The quest for scientific objectivity: comment on Luke Glowacki's (2024) “The controversial origins of war and peace: Apes, foragers, and human evolution”	15
Sexual violence laws: Policy implications of psychological sex differences	15
Parochial reciprocity	15
Men (but not women) prefer to live in economically equal societies when it comes to mating: A five-study investigation	15
Editorial Board	15
Using an evolutionary approach to improve predictive ability in the social sciences: Property, the endowment effect, and law	14
Interpersonal leverage: Individual differences in the endorsement of anger and gratitude	14
Ancient kiss-tory: new perspectives on the evolution of early historical kissing	13
Oral storytelling: humanity's first data management system?	13
Generosity as a status signal: Higher-testosterone men exhibit greater altruism in the dictator game	13
Perceptions of facial trustworthiness and dominance modulate early neural responses to male facial sexual dimorphism	13
Evolution of psychopathy in the public goods game with institutional redistribution of resources	13
Creatures of habit(us): A commentary on Baumard and André's ‘The ecological approach to culture’	12
Willingness to protect from violence, independent of strength, guides partner choice	12
Culture as collective resource allocation across life history trade-offs: commentary on	12
Bismarckian welfare revisited: Fear of being violently dispossessed motivates support for redistribution	12
Masculine voice is associated with better mucosal immune defense in adolescent and adult males	12
Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context	11
Book Review	11
Paternal investment and economic inequality predict cross-cultural variation in male choice	11
Why punish cheaters? Those who withdraw cooperation enjoy better reputations than punishers, but both are viewed as difficult to exploit	11
Why honor heroes? The emergence of extreme altruistic behavior as a by-product of praisers' self-promotion	11
Kinship versus closeness: A commentary on and	11
Disgust sensitivity is negatively associated with immune system activity in early pregnancy: Direct support for the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis	10
Human infant cries communicate distress and elicit sex stereotypes: Cross cultural evidence	10
Experimental evidence that people consider transgressors' exploitation risk when deciding to forgive	10
The evolution of between-sex bonds in primates	10
Size, scale, and design matter: Commentary on Lewis, Al-Shawaf, Semchenko, and Evans, (2022)	10
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	10
In memoriam: Helen E. Fisher	10
Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism: A registered report	10
Interpretive issues in discussion of evidence supporting adaptationist model of personality development: a commentary on	9
The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers	9
The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs	9
Value computation in humans	9
The shared genome constraint: why between-sex genetic correlation matters for evolutionary social science	8
Editorial Board	8
Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures	8
A content-general adaptation for tribal value-acquisition	8
Mating fast and slow? Sociosexual orientations are not reflective of life history trajectories	8
Implications of Dominance versus Agency in the Interpretation of Preferences for Female and Male Leaders	8
Costly inductions as a commitment-selection strategy: Assessing hazing's relationship with attrition in a college fraternity	8
Sibling competition and dispersal drive sex differences in religious celibacy	8
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us	7
Intelligence can be detected but is not found attractive in videos and live interactions	7
Depression and suicidality as evolved credible signals of need in social conflicts	7
“Think leader, think alpha male” and the evolution of leader stereotypes	7
The ecological approach to culture	7

Core principles of melodic organisation emerge from transmission chains with random melodies	7
Contextual factors that heighten interest in coalitional alliances with men possessing formidable facial structures	7
Why women cheat: testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample	7
Cash, crowds, and cooperation: The effects of population density and resource scarcity on cooperation in the dictator game	6
Ecological theory and the conundrums of culture	6
Contemporary selection pressures in modern societies? Which factors best explain variance in human reproduction and mating?	6
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	6
Friends near and afar, through thick and thin: Comparing contingency of help between close-distance and long-distance friends in Tanzanian fishing villages	6
The pitfalls of an impoverished approach to culture: Commentary on Baumard and André	6
Human behavioural ecology is cultural ecology	6
Editorial	6
Emotional tears: What they are and how they work	6
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model	6
Early hominins and the reversal of dominance hierarchy	6