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The Bimodal Age Distribution of Mass Murder: a Systematic Review Using Evolutionary and Life History Perspectives
The Bimodal Age Distribution of Mass Murder: a Systematic Review Using Evolutionary and Life History Perspectives
Research has identified a bimodal age distribution among mass murderers, with younger offenders typically in late adolesce...
Sounding Strong or Sounding Sorry: Evidence that Voice Pitch Preferences Vary Across Social Domains
Sounding Strong or Sounding Sorry: Evidence that Voice Pitch Preferences Vary Across Social Domains
Voice pitch is an easily observed trait that conveys socially relevant information, suggesting that it should influence so...
From Bugs to Sickness: Disgust Evaluation of Ancestral, Modern, and Pandemic Threats
From Bugs to Sickness: Disgust Evaluation of Ancestral, Modern, and Pandemic Threats
Disgust is a fundamental emotion that evolved to protect organisms from pathogens and toxins, shaping behaviours critical ...
Flex Appeal: The Relationship between Exercise Frequency and Mate Value
Flex Appeal: The Relationship between Exercise Frequency and Mate Value
Exercise frequency may serve as a proximal cue of one’s potential mate value; however, surprisingly few studies have...
Obsolete Science and Egalitarian Meta-political Activism in Contemporary Gene-Culture Coevolution: A Response to Lala and Feldman (2024)
Obsolete Science and Egalitarian Meta-political Activism in Contemporary Gene-Culture Coevolution: A Response to Lala and Feldman (2024)
We counter two broad claims offered by Lala and Feldman (L&F) in support of what they call Contemporary Gene-Cultu...
Suicide Avoidance as an Integrative Paradigm for the Study of Human Nature
Suicide Avoidance as an Integrative Paradigm for the Study of Human Nature
To advance an integrative understanding of human nature, we advocate for a bold shift in focus across behavioral science t...
Sexual Selection Creates Status-Seeking Males and Unsustainable Economic Growth
Sexual Selection Creates Status-Seeking Males and Unsustainable Economic Growth
The Neolithic Transition altered the social ecology of humans. Prior to the Neolithic Transition, individual males could n...
In the Eye of the Beholder: Mate Value and Romantic Relationship Functioning
In the Eye of the Beholder: Mate Value and Romantic Relationship Functioning
These studies examined the links that mate value and mate value discrepancies had with indicators of romantic relationship...
Contextual Preferences for Growth Motivation in Mates
Contextual Preferences for Growth Motivation in Mates
Given the importance of personal growth in many aspects of satisfying relationships, growth motivation may be especially d...
Do Human Life History Traits Predict Mate Choice Copying in Women?
Do Human Life History Traits Predict Mate Choice Copying in Women?
Mate choice copying is a form of social learning in which an individual’s mate selection is influenced by the choice...
Biogeographic Ancestry and Socioeconomic Status: A Meta-Analysis of Epidemiological Findings
Biogeographic Ancestry and Socioeconomic Status: A Meta-Analysis of Epidemiological Findings
New genomic technologies allow the apportionment of individuals’ genotyped DNA into admixture proportions traceable ...
Illness Symptoms during Pregnancy Impact Offspring Development and Parental Behavior during the Postpartum Period
Illness Symptoms during Pregnancy Impact Offspring Development and Parental Behavior during the Postpartum Period
A pregnant person’s brain undergoes structural and functional reorganization that is thought to help them orient tow...
The Role of Human Life History in Structuring Embodied Medicinal Plant Knowledge on Children’s Diseases
The Role of Human Life History in Structuring Embodied Medicinal Plant Knowledge on Children’s Diseases
Embodied medicinal plant knowledge (EMPK) for treating children’s diseases is a crucial component in understanding t...
The Coevolution of Sociopolitical Complexity, Extended Hypersociality, and Extended Ultrasociality: A Multilevel Selection Theory
The Coevolution of Sociopolitical Complexity, Extended Hypersociality, and Extended Ultrasociality: A Multilevel Selection Theory
We review theoretical principles and empirical evidence concerning selection dynamics operating at different levels of bio...
Your Life Is my Life: Does Survival Processing Effect Extend To Siblings?
Your Life Is my Life: Does Survival Processing Effect Extend To Siblings?
Human memory appears to be tuned to prioritize information relevant to survival, a phenomenon known as the Survival Proces...
The Structure of Child Adoption Based on the Relationship Between Adoptive Parents and Adoptive Children in Finland
The Structure of Child Adoption Based on the Relationship Between Adoptive Parents and Adoptive Children in Finland
Humans, like many other primates, possess the ability to adopt, and the practice of child adoption exists across human soc...
The Adaptive Function of Veiling: How Women Use Religious Veiling to Secure Male Protection
The Adaptive Function of Veiling: How Women Use Religious Veiling to Secure Male Protection
This study explores veiling from an adaptive perspective, examining how the practice may serve women’s interests. Th...
Explaining the Links Between Narcissism and Fertility: Are There Differences Between the Grandiose and Vulnerable Component?
Explaining the Links Between Narcissism and Fertility: Are There Differences Between the Grandiose and Vulnerable Component?
The main goal of the present research was to explore the links between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism and fertility (...
Perception of Tactile Disgust: The Role of Object Characteristics, Sensitivity to Different Disgust Subscales and Fear
Perception of Tactile Disgust: The Role of Object Characteristics, Sensitivity to Different Disgust Subscales and Fear
Disgust plays a significant role in pathogen protection, with research highlighting the distinct contributions of various ...
Does the Conservativeness of Religious Veiling Signal Trust and In-Group Commitment?
Does the Conservativeness of Religious Veiling Signal Trust and In-Group Commitment?
This research explored whether the conservativeness of religious veiling among Muslim women acts as a costly signal of tru...
Behavioral Ecology in Psychology: Making Sense of Many Conceptualizations and Operationalizations of Harshness and Unpredictability
Behavioral Ecology in Psychology: Making Sense of Many Conceptualizations and Operationalizations of Harshness and Unpredictability
Scholars in psychology increasingly apply a behavioral ecology/adaptive calibration framework to understand how childhood ...
Ancestral and Contemporary Influences of Sociopolitical Complexity, Macroeconomic Development, and State Functioning on the Quality of Infrastructure
Ancestral and Contemporary Influences of Sociopolitical Complexity, Macroeconomic Development, and State Functioning on the Quality of Infrastructure
The present study examined the influence of ancestral variation in sociopolitical complexity (stratification and centraliz...
Passively Viewing Social Bonding Cues Decreases Vagally Mediated Heart Rate Variability
Passively Viewing Social Bonding Cues Decreases Vagally Mediated Heart Rate Variability
Throughout human evolutionary history, the ability to live in groups represented an adaptive advantage. Thus, humans have ...
Pathogen-Prevalent Auditory Distractions may Differentially Impact Retention of Newly Learned Information
Pathogen-Prevalent Auditory Distractions may Differentially Impact Retention of Newly Learned Information
The behavioral immune system can produce strong perceptual responses to pathogen-prevalent stimuli. This experiment was de...
Associations Between Early Life Stress, Health Behaviors, and Risk-Taking in Adulthood: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
Associations Between Early Life Stress, Health Behaviors, and Risk-Taking in Adulthood: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
Across various scientific fields, early life stress (ELS) has been associated with more detrimental health behavior, highe...
Who Favor Sweet Actions over Sweet Words More – Females or Males?
Who Favor Sweet Actions over Sweet Words More – Females or Males?
According to the ideal standards model, individuals experience greater satisfaction in relationships when their ideals are...
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...
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