OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Evolutionary Psychology is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Pet Parenting in the United States: Investigating an Evolutionary Puzzle	12
Disgust-Related Memory Bias in Children and Adults	11
Disease History and Life History Predict Behavioral Control of the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Why Do People Watch Porn? An Evolutionary Perspective on the Reasons for Pornography Consumption	11
Jealousy Mediates the Link Between Women’s Upward Physical Appearance Comparison and Mate Retention Behavior	10
Disease and Disapproval: COVID-19 Concern is Related to Greater Moral Condemnation	10
Do We See Masculine Faces as Competent and Feminine Faces as Warm? Effects of Sexual Dimorphism on Facial Perception	9
Mating Performance and Singlehood Across 14 Nations	8
Life-History Factors Influence Teenagers’ Suicidal Ideation: A Model Selection Analysis of the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth	8
The Challenges of Keeping an Intimate Relationship: An Evolutionary Examination	8
Current Fertility Status Does Not Predict Sociosexual Attitudes and Desires in Normally Ovulating Women	7
The psychology of breakup sex: Exploring the motivational factors and affective consequences of post-breakup sexual activity	7
Perceived Effectiveness of Flirtation Tactics: The Effects of sex, Mating Context and Individual Differences in US and Norwegian Samples	7
Are Emotions Natural Kinds After All? Rethinking the Issue of Response Coherence	7
“Touch Me If You Can!”: Individual Differences in Disease Avoidance and Social Touch	7
Disease Salience Effects on Desire for Affiliation With In-Group and Out-Group Members: Cognitive and Affective Mediators	6
Phenotypic Signals of Sexual Selection and Fast Life History Dynamics for the Long-Term but Not Short-Term Mating	6
The Mnemonic Tuning for Contamination: A Replication and Extension Study Using More Ecologically Valid Stimuli	6
I Can Wear a Beard, but you Should Shave…Preferences for Men’s Facial Hair From the Perspective of Both Sexes	6
Tempo and Mode in Cultural Macroevolution	6
Attentional Bias in Humans Toward Human and Bonobo Expressions of Emotion	6
What makes It Difficult to keep an Intimate Relationship: Evidence From Greece and China	5
Is Psychopathy a Mental Disorder or an Adaptation? Evidence From a Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Psychopathy and Handedness	5
Is Narcissism a Slow Life History Strategy Indicator?: The Answer Depends on the LHS Instrument	5
Perception of Emergent Leaders’ Faces and Evolution of Social Cheating: Cross-Cultural Experiments	5

Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence	4
Cues of Social Status: Associations Between Attractiveness, Dominance, and Status	4
Women’s Preferences for Strong Men Under Perceived Harsh Versus Safe Ecological Conditions	4
Does Nubility Indicate More Than High Reproductive Value? Nubile Primiparas’ Pregnancy Outcomes in Evolutionary Perspective	4
Epistemic Vigilance in Early Ontogeny: Children’s Use of Nonverbal Behavior to Detect Deception	4
Refined Carbohydrate Consumption and Facial Attractiveness	4
The Effect of Female Orgasm Frequency on Female Mate Selection: A Test of Two Hypotheses	4
Reasons to Pretend Orgasm, Mate Retention, and Relationship Satisfaction in Brazilian Women	4
How People Become Attractive to Prospective Mates: Strategies of Self-Promotion in the Greek Cultural Context	3
Le Petit Machiavellian Prince: Effects of Latent Toxoplasmosis on Political Beliefs and Values	3
Social Orientation in the Luteal Phase: Increased Social Feedback Sensitivity, Inhibitory Response, Interpersonal Anxiety and Cooperation Preference	3
Longitudinal Associations Between Primary and Secondary Psychopathic Traits, Delinquency, and Current Dating Status in Adolescence	3
Moderators of Sexual Interest in Opposite-sex Friends	3
Aggression Type Influences Perceptions of a Woman’s Body Size, Personality, and Behavior	3
Psychometric evaluation of the short form of the Arizona Life History Battery (K-SF-42): A revised Chinese version for emerging adults	3
Retrospective Self-Reported Childhood Experiences in Enriched Environments Uniquely Predict Prosocial Behavior and Personality Traits in Adulthood	2
Travel in the Physical and Mental Space: A Behavioral Assessment of the Phylogenetic Continuity Hypothesis Between Egocentric Navigation and Episodic Memory	2
Differentiation of Self and Mate Retention Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Communication Patterns	2
Intentions to Steal and the Commitment Problem. The Role of Moral Emotions and Self-Serving Justifications	2
Prestige Orientation and Reconciliation in the Workplace	2
Fitness Costs of Insecure Romantic Attachment: The Role of Reproductive Motivation and Long-Term Mating	2
COVID-19 and Memory: A Novel Contamination Effect in Memory	2
No Evidence for a Relationship between Intelligence and Ejaculate Quality	2
Divergent Thinking in Survival Processing: Did Our Ancestors Benefit From Creative Thinking?	2
Do Social Relationships With Those Who Witness Moral Transgression Affect the Sense of Guilt?	2
Vocal Characteristics Influence Women's Perceptions of Infidelity and Relationship Investment in China	2
History and Biology	1
Evolutionary history	1
Early Attention to Animacy: Change-Detection in 11-Month-Olds	1
No Signs of Inclusive Fitness or Reciprocal Altruism in Advantageous Inequity Aversion	1
No Evidence for a Trade-Off Between Competitive Traits and Ejaculate Quality in Humans	1
Norwegian Men and Women Value Similar Mate Traits in Short-Term Relationships	1
Is the Vertical-Horizontal Illusion a Byproduct of the Environmental Vertical Illusion?	1
Individual's Reproductive Strategies Moderates the Association Between Facial Width-to-Height and Risk-Taking Propensity	1
Do Environmental Cues to Discovery Influence the Likelihood to Rape?	1
Frequency of Recent Binge Drinking Is Associated With Sex-Specific Cognitive Deficits: Evidence for Condition-Dependent Trait Expression in Humans	1
Women's Romantic Jealousy Predicts Risky Appearance Enhancement Effort	1
Attachment Security Priming Affecting Mating Strategies Endorsement among College Students	1
Ideological Mate-guarding: Sexual Jealousy and Mating Strategy Predict Support for Female Honor	1
American and Korean Perceptions of Sex Differences in Deception	1
MHC Class II Heterozygosity Associated With Attractiveness of Men and Women	1
Parental Income and the Sexual Behavior of Their Adult Children: A Trivers–Willard Perspective	1
A Cascade Model of Sociodevelopmental Events Leading to Men's Perpetration of Violence Against Female Romantic Partners	1
Predicting Altruistic Behaviour by the Benefactor-Beneficiary Relationship	1