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Men’s Perceptions of Beardedness in a Hispanic and Iranian Sample: The Role of Intrasexual Competition on Evaluations of Attractiveness, Masculinity, and Fighting Ability
Men’s Perceptions of Beardedness in a Hispanic and Iranian Sample: The Role of Intrasexual Competition on Evaluations of Attractiveness, Masculinity, and Fighting Ability
Facial hair is suggested to have evolved partly through female mate choice, enhancing men's attractiveness, and is als...
Higher Sexual Avoidance, not Higher Pathogen Disgust, Is Associated with Lower Arousal in Women with a History of Unwanted Sex
Higher Sexual Avoidance, not Higher Pathogen Disgust, Is Associated with Lower Arousal in Women with a History of Unwanted Sex
Prior research consistently shows disgust propensity and/or state disgust correlated with lower sexual arousal; however, t...
Requiem for Heterosis as a Cause of the Flynn Effect: Positive Combined Effects of Numbers and Lengths of Homozygosity Runs on Offspring-Parent Differences in Educational Attainment
Requiem for Heterosis as a Cause of the Flynn Effect: Positive Combined Effects of Numbers and Lengths of Homozygosity Runs on Offspring-Parent Differences in Educational Attainment
It has been argued that reduced inbreeding depression and associated increased heterosis (hybrid vigor), due to greater ge...
Why are we Afraid of Holes? A Brief Review of Trypophobia Through an Adaptationist Lens
Why are we Afraid of Holes? A Brief Review of Trypophobia Through an Adaptationist Lens
The aim of this paper is to provide a brief overview of trypophobia, or in other words the fear of "clusters of holes...
Distractibility and Impulsivity in ADHD as an Evolutionary Mismatch of High Trait Curiosity
Distractibility and Impulsivity in ADHD as an Evolutionary Mismatch of High Trait Curiosity
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by symptoms that include i...
Effects of Accelerated Reproductive Timing in Response to Childhood Adversity on Lifetime Reproductive Success in Modern Environments
Effects of Accelerated Reproductive Timing in Response to Childhood Adversity on Lifetime Reproductive Success in Modern Environments
Psychosocial acceleration theory postulates that human females have an evolved reaction norm that accelerates reproductive...
Advancing the Understanding of Phenotypic Mimicry in Men’s Conspicuous Consumption
Advancing the Understanding of Phenotypic Mimicry in Men’s Conspicuous Consumption
Two studies advance the understanding of phenotypic mimicry in consumer products. Product features mimicking more prominen...
The Signaling Function of Vaccine Status and Masking in Evaluations of Online Dating Profiles
The Signaling Function of Vaccine Status and Masking in Evaluations of Online Dating Profiles
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, various social norms emerged from which individuals began to glean relevant social infor...
Towards a Unified Account of Aberrant Salience in Psychosis: Proximate and Evolutionary Mechanisms
Towards a Unified Account of Aberrant Salience in Psychosis: Proximate and Evolutionary Mechanisms
The “Aberrant Salience Hypothesis” (ASH) is arguably the pre-eminent proximate, theoretical model of psychosis...
Elephant on the Dance Floor: Revealing the Significance of Dancers’ Sex in Coalition Quality Assessments
Elephant on the Dance Floor: Revealing the Significance of Dancers’ Sex in Coalition Quality Assessments
Collective dances are considered to serve as a strategic tool to convey information about the internal stability and colle...
Life History Strategy in Poland: Population Displacement as a Life History Accelerating Event
Life History Strategy in Poland: Population Displacement as a Life History Accelerating Event
Population-level life history research on humans has proven to be a fruitful research program, establishing numerous socio...
Attractive Caregiving: Women’s Preference for Men that Care for Children and the Role of Nurturance Motivation and Menstrual Cycle Phase
Attractive Caregiving: Women’s Preference for Men that Care for Children and the Role of Nurturance Motivation and Menstrual Cycle Phase
Another person’s caring abilities, in addition to physical features, may affect the observed attractiveness of that ...
Examining Ecological Harshness, Sociosexuality, and Mate Value in Women’s Preferences for Men’s Height and Shoulder-to-Hip Ratio
Examining Ecological Harshness, Sociosexuality, and Mate Value in Women’s Preferences for Men’s Height and Shoulder-to-Hip Ratio
Physical features in men, such as height and shoulder-to-hip ratio (SHR), have been shown to contribute to women’s m...
Fear of Relationship Commitment and Singlehood
Fear of Relationship Commitment and Singlehood
Not having an intimate partner is a common state in contemporary post-industrial societies. One reason that individuals re...
Domino Theory Through the Lens of Human Evolutionary Ecology
Domino Theory Through the Lens of Human Evolutionary Ecology
Domino Theory posits that Communism spreads via emulation or force between nations as a function of geographic ad...
Let Me Take the Risk so You Won’t Have To: An Evolutionary Psychological Analysis of Spontaneous Occurrence of Division of Labor Across 14 Countries
Let Me Take the Risk so You Won’t Have To: An Evolutionary Psychological Analysis of Spontaneous Occurrence of Division of Labor Across 14 Countries
The elimination of various forms of discrimination is often considered to be the way to achieve gender equality in terms o...
From Envy to Radicalization
From Envy to Radicalization
Models of radicalization have typically placed grievances at the heart of radicalization. In contrast, we argue that viewi...
An Integrated General Theory of Psychopathology and Suicide
An Integrated General Theory of Psychopathology and Suicide
This article presents biological meta-theory that is intended to serve as a shared key to progress in psychiatry and suici...
“Good Night, Sleep Tight”: Do we have an “Evolutionary Preference” for Placing Beds in Sleeping Rooms? A Replication and Extension of Spörrle and Stich (2010)
“Good Night, Sleep Tight”: Do we have an “Evolutionary Preference” for Placing Beds in Sleeping Rooms? A Replication and Extension of Spörrle and Stich (2010)
In the distant past, hunter-gatherers had to manage the risk of attacks from other human beings and dangerous animals not ...
Factors that Influence People’s Beliefs About Men’s and Women’s Jealousy Responses
Factors that Influence People’s Beliefs About Men’s and Women’s Jealousy Responses
This study examines what beliefs people hold about other men’s and women’s reaction to infidelity and how rela...
Environmental Harshness and Unpredictability, Parenting, and Offspring Life History
Environmental Harshness and Unpredictability, Parenting, and Offspring Life History
The species-general life history (LH) principle posits that extrinsic morbidity-mortality risks accelerate organisms’...
Congruence Effects on Medicinal Plant Recall: An Evolutionary Perspective
Congruence Effects on Medicinal Plant Recall: An Evolutionary Perspective
Psychological mechanisms evolved in the ancestral past as they helped the first hominids to survive and reproduce. A produ...
The Infidelity Protection Nature of Romantic Jealousy: Testing Five Predictions in the Greek Cultural Context
The Infidelity Protection Nature of Romantic Jealousy: Testing Five Predictions in the Greek Cultural Context
Romantic jealousy can lead to several negative outcomes, such as tensions between intimate partners, domestic violence, an...
The Trivers-Willard Effect for Educational Investment: Evidence from an African Sample
The Trivers-Willard Effect for Educational Investment: Evidence from an African Sample
The Trivers-Willard hypothesis (TWH) states that individuals in good condition favor offspring of the sex that has a highe...
Physical Attractiveness of Potential Competitors Influences Women’s Gossip: Effects of Romantic Jealousy and Self-Esteem
Physical Attractiveness of Potential Competitors Influences Women’s Gossip: Effects of Romantic Jealousy and Self-Esteem
This research investigated whether and how young women used gossip strategies to win opportunities for themselves when fac...
Soft Core Evolutionary Psychology? Potential Evidence Against a Unified Research Program from a Survey of 581 Evolutionarily Informed Scholars
Soft Core Evolutionary Psychology? Potential Evidence Against a Unified Research Program from a Survey of 581 Evolutionarily Informed Scholars
A recent philosophical examination of evolutionary psychology argues that it currently lacks a metatheoretical “hard...
Can Knowing How We Evolved Tell Us How We Should Live? Evolutionary Self-Help as a Genre
Can Knowing How We Evolved Tell Us How We Should Live? Evolutionary Self-Help as a Genre
Boyer, P. (2001). Religion explained: The evolutionary origins of religious thought. Basic Books. Goog...
What Activates the Behavioral Immune System During a Global Pandemic? Testing the Disgust Calibration Hypothesis
What Activates the Behavioral Immune System During a Global Pandemic? Testing the Disgust Calibration Hypothesis
As a key part of the behavioral immune system, disgust is thought to have evolved to motivate the avoidance of pathogens. ...
Functional Heuristics of Disease Transmission from Physical Deformities in Food Preferences
Functional Heuristics of Disease Transmission from Physical Deformities in Food Preferences
Ostensibly serving to restrict contact with disease vectors, humans exhibit aversion toward cues heuristically inferred as...
Cross-Cultural Evidence for the Role of Parenting Costs Limiting Women’s Sexual Unrestrictedness
Cross-Cultural Evidence for the Role of Parenting Costs Limiting Women’s Sexual Unrestrictedness
Humans are not unique among primates (and mammals more broadly) in that males tend to favor sexual unrestrictedness more t...
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