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Conservative Social Attitudes are Linked with Fertility: A Potential for Positive Directional Selection
Conservative Social Attitudes are Linked with Fertility: A Potential for Positive Directional Selection
Social attitudes are heritable behavioral dispositions and therefore, evolvable human traits; despite this, their associat...
Bridging a Reproductively Oriented Evolutionary Psychology and Interdisciplinary Perspectives to the Emerging Reproductive Crisis
Bridging a Reproductively Oriented Evolutionary Psychology and Interdisciplinary Perspectives to the Emerging Reproductive Crisis
Over the past decades, unexpected reductions in fertility have resulted in a growing number of nations facing serious popu...
Strategic Modesty in Women’s Same-Sex Interactions
Strategic Modesty in Women’s Same-Sex Interactions
When navigating their reputations and alliances, women in particular may be more sensitive to social evaluation along some...
Why do People Form Intimate Relationships? An Exploratory Investigation in a Greek-Speaking Sample
Why do People Form Intimate Relationships? An Exploratory Investigation in a Greek-Speaking Sample
One human universal is people forming lasting intimate relationships, which raises the question of what drives them to do ...
Enhancing and Holding Social Power in Adolescence: An Evolutionary Perspective
Enhancing and Holding Social Power in Adolescence: An Evolutionary Perspective
Holding power and having competitive advantages over peers is highly valued in adolescence and associated with adaptive ad...
The Mediating Role of Time Perception between Life History Strategy and Risk-Taking: Experimental Evidence from Laboratory Tasks
The Mediating Role of Time Perception between Life History Strategy and Risk-Taking: Experimental Evidence from Laboratory Tasks
While previous research has established associations between life history strategy (LHS) and risk-taking behaviors, the un...
Life History Strategy as a Predictor of Body Image in a Large Arab Sample
Life History Strategy as a Predictor of Body Image in a Large Arab Sample
Life-history theory provides an evolutionary framework for understanding how individuals allocate resources between mating...
Recollections of Childhood Socioecological Conditions and Borderline Personality Traits: The Roles of Perceived Harshness and Unpredictability
Recollections of Childhood Socioecological Conditions and Borderline Personality Traits: The Roles of Perceived Harshness and Unpredictability
Borderline personality pathology is closely linked to early life experiences, yet most research has emphasized discrete ad...
The Dog, the Horse, and the Serpent: Phylogenetic Comparative Examinations of Human-Animal Interactions as Represented in Indo-European Myths
The Dog, the Horse, and the Serpent: Phylogenetic Comparative Examinations of Human-Animal Interactions as Represented in Indo-European Myths
Though mythologies are sometimes recognized as evolutionarily significant for illuminating the human condition, difference...
Formidable Facial Structures Inform Perceptions of Men’s Ability to Protect Offspring
Formidable Facial Structures Inform Perceptions of Men’s Ability to Protect Offspring
The identification of men motivated and able to afford protection for group members would have favored perceptual awarenes...
Sex Differences in Overhand Throwing are Completely Due to Socialization: A Blank Slate “Hypothesis” Unconstrained by Evidence
Sex Differences in Overhand Throwing are Completely Due to Socialization: A Blank Slate “Hypothesis” Unconstrained by Evidence
Contemporary evolutionary biology—including evolutionary psychology—assumes an interactionist framework, recog...
Women’s Defenses Against Sexual Violence
Women’s Defenses Against Sexual Violence
Despite much research devoted to the causes of sexual violence, less has focused on identifying the defenses women deploy ...
Suicidology’s Faulty Paradigm: Suicide Overrides Superordinate Impetus for Survival (“SOSIS”)
Suicidology’s Faulty Paradigm: Suicide Overrides Superordinate Impetus for Survival (“SOSIS”)
Suicidology has achieved little explanatory or preventive progress despite decades of intensive research. This article arg...
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 ...
The Relative Importance of Attractiveness and Intelligence to the Mate Preferences and Choices of Women and Their Parents
The Relative Importance of Attractiveness and Intelligence to the Mate Preferences and Choices of Women and Their Parents
The present study explores the relative importance of men’s physical attractiveness and purported intelligence to th...
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