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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Green and Generous: Virtue Signaling Environmentalism and Community-Mindedness from an Evolutionary Perspective	29
Parental Income and the Sexual Behavior of Their Adult Children: A Trivers–Willard Perspective	16
The Relation Between War, Starvation, and Fertility Ideals in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Life History Perspective	12
Sex Differences in Children's Motivation and Action Patterns for Climbing as Behavioral Relicts of Ancestral Sexual-Size Dimorphism	10
Le Petit Machiavellian Prince: Effects of Latent Toxoplasmosis on Political Beliefs and Values	7
Evolution, the Cognitive Sciences, and the Science of Victimization	6
I Want Our Relationship to Last: Strategies That People Employ in Order to Improve Their Intimate Relationships	6
Fitness Costs of Insecure Romantic Attachment: The Role of Reproductive Motivation and Long-Term Mating	6
Short-Term Mating Orientation Predicts Openness to “Sugar Relationships” More Than Life History Strategy	5
Predicting Moffitt's Developmental Taxonomy of Antisocial Behavior Using Life History Theory: A Partial Test of the Evolutionary Taxonomy	5
Childhood Demographics and Socioeconomic Conditions Predict Reproduction 15 Years Later	5
Consistency and Variation in Natural Selection on Personality Across 17 Countries	5
Sex Differences in Perception of Economic and Dating Access	5
No Evidence That Women's Sociosexuality or Self-Perceived Mate Value Predict Their Preferences for Men's Face-Shape Masculinity	4
Association Between Individual Differences in Dichotomous Thinking and Current and Childhood High-Crime Environments	4
Reduced Readiness for Social Interaction as a Strategy for Pathogen Avoidance by Women in Various Stages of Pregnancy and Postpartum	4
The Effect of Asymmetric Intersexual Selection Power Perception on the Choice Deferral Behavior of Men and Women	4
The Role of Intrasexual Competition and the Big 5 in the Perpetration of Digital Dating Abuse	4
What are Romantic Relationships Good for? An Explorative Analysis of the Perceived Benefits of Being in a Relationship	3
Harshness Predicts Reproduction in Brazilian Municipalities and US Counties: A Life History Theory Approach	3
Attachment Security Priming Affecting Mating Strategies Endorsement among College Students	3
Immunoactivation Affects Perceived Body Odor and Facial but Not Vocal Attractiveness	3
Prestige Orientation and Reconciliation in the Workplace	3
In-Law Preferences for Similarity: Comparing Parent and Child Preferences for In-Law/Intimate Partner Similarity	3
Do Environmental Cues to Discovery Influence the Likelihood to Rape?	3

Mating Performance and Singlehood Across 14 Nations	3
Propensity to Punish in High Psychopathy may Promote Cooperation: Human and Computer Prisoner Dilemma Experiments	3
Individual's Reproductive Strategies Moderates the Association Between Facial Width-to-Height and Risk-Taking Propensity	3
Predicting Altruistic Behaviour by the Benefactor-Beneficiary Relationship	2
Intentions to Steal and the Commitment Problem. The Role of Moral Emotions and Self-Serving Justifications	2
No Signs of Inclusive Fitness or Reciprocal Altruism in Advantageous Inequity Aversion	2
Is Ornamentation a Universal Human Preference? Cross-Cultural and Developmental Evidence From Scotland, Pakistan, and Papua	2
International Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of Assortative Mating for Educational Attainment	2
Terrorism as Coalitional Predation: Explaining Definitional Ambiguities and Precautionary Responses	2
Paternal Filicide in Sweden: Background, Risk Factors and the Cinderella Effect	2
Kindness or Intelligence? Angry Men are Perceived as Less Intelligent by Their Female Romantic Partners	2
Strategies for Coping With the End of a Desirable Intimate Relationship: An Exploratory Study	2
The Evolutionary Roots of Familial Altruism: Paternity Uncertainty Shapes Patterns of Kindness	2
Ideological Mate-guarding: Sexual Jealousy and Mating Strategy Predict Support for Female Honor	2
Being Negatively Cued, are People Less Cooperative? The Influence of Watching Eyes on Cooperative Behavior	2
Pace of Life Is Faster for a Bored Person: Exploring the Relationship Between Trait Boredom and Fast Life History Strategy	2
The Role of Indigenous Epidemic Folk Stories in Shaping Adaptive Disease-Related Behaviors in West Papua	1
Sperm Competition Risk: The Connections That Partner Attractiveness and Infidelity Risk Have with Mate Retention Behaviors and Semen-Displacing Behaviors	1
Biracial Faces Offer Visual Cues of Successful Intergroup Contact: Genetic Admixture and Coalition Detection	1
No Support for Two Hypotheses About the Communicative Functions of Displaying Disgust: Evidence From Turkey, Norway, Germany, and Croatia	1
Mental Representations of Sickness Positively Relate to Adaptive Health Behaviors	1
Retrospective Self-Reported Childhood Experiences in Enriched Environments Uniquely Predict Prosocial Behavior and Personality Traits in Adulthood	1
A Psychological Model and Measurement of the Fast-Slow Life History Strategy	1
Women's Preferences for Masculinity in Male Faces Are Predicted by Material Scarcity, But Not Time or Psychological Scarcity	1
Evolutionary Perspective on Self-Concept: The Effects of Interpersonal Motivations and Inclusionary Status on Spontaneous Self-Descriptions of Communion and Agency	1