OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Evolution and Human Behavior is 2. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Option to cooperate increases women's competitiveness and closes the gender gap	58
Response to: "Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no"	43
Status in Himba pastoralists: are causal claims warranted?	28
Perceptions of “just compensation”	28
Pathogen threat and intergroup prejudice using the minimal group paradigm: Evidence from a registered report	26
Are men (believed to be) less prestige-oriented than women?	22
Editorial Board	21
Sex (similarities and) differences in friendship jealousy	20
A phylogenetic analysis of dispersal norms, descent and subsistence in Sino-Tibetans	19
Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict	18
Institutional quality shapes cooperation with out-group strangers	18
Disgust sensitivity relates to affective responses to – but not ability to detect – olfactory cues to pathogens	17
Objectively measured facial traits predict in-person evaluations of facial attractiveness and prosociality in speed-dating partners	17
Editorial Board	16
Is facial width-to-height ratio reliably associated with social inferences?	16
Trivial giving as a signal of trustworthiness	16
Epigenetic age acceleration and reproductive outcomes in women	15
Venting makes people prefer—and preferentially support—us over those we vent about	15
Sexual violence laws: Policy implications of psychological sex differences	15
Epistemic gratitude and the provision of information	15
Re-considering the evidence that taller people are less supportive of government wealth redistribution: A response to	15
Generosity as a status signal: Higher-testosterone men exhibit greater altruism in the dictator game	14
Consensus decision-making: performance of heuristics and mental models	14
Multimodal mate choice: Exploring the effects of sight, sound, and scent on partner choice in a speed-date paradigm	14
Parochial reciprocity	14

Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no.	14
Men (but not women) prefer to live in economically equal societies when it comes to mating: A five-study investigation	14
Infrastructure of mother-infant interactions across development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild	13
Book Review	13
Using an evolutionary approach to improve predictive ability in the social sciences: Property, the endowment effect, and law	13
The influence of friendship on children's fairness concerns in three societies	13
The quest for scientific objectivity: comment on Luke Glowacki's (2024) “The controversial origins of war and peace: Apes, foragers, and human evolution”	13
Kinship versus closeness: A commentary on and	12
Masculine voice is associated with better mucosal immune defense in adolescent and adult males	12
Perceptions of facial trustworthiness and dominance modulate early neural responses to male facial sexual dimorphism	12
Oral storytelling: humanity's first data management system?	12
Why punish cheaters? Those who withdraw cooperation enjoy better reputations than punishers, but both are viewed as difficult to exploit	12
The evolution of between-sex bonds in primates	11
Human infant cries communicate distress and elicit sex stereotypes: Cross cultural evidence	11
Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context	11
Why honor heroes? The emergence of extreme altruistic behavior as a by-product of praisers' self-promotion	11
Disgust sensitivity is negatively associated with immune system activity in early pregnancy: Direct support for the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis	10
Cross-modal associations of human body odour attractiveness with facial and vocal attractiveness provide little support for the backup signals hypothesis: A systematic review and meta-analysis	10
The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers	9
In memoriam: Helen E. Fisher	9
Size, scale, and design matter: Commentary on Lewis, Al-Shawaf, Semchenko, and Evans, (2022)	9
Value computation in humans	9
18-month-olds use different cues to categorize plants and artifacts	9
The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs	9
Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism: A registered report	9
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us	8
Why women cheat: testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample	8
Editorial Board	8
Sibling competition and dispersal drive sex differences in religious celibacy	8
Implications of Dominance versus Agency in the Interpretation of Preferences for Female and Male Leaders	8
Core principles of melodic organisation emerge from transmission chains with random melodies	8
Mating fast and slow? Sociosexual orientations are not reflective of life history trajectories	8
Costly inductions as a commitment-selection strategy: Assessing hazing's relationship with attrition in a college fraternity	8
“Think leader, think alpha male” and the evolution of leader stereotypes	8
Editorial Board	8
The ecological approach to culture	7
Emotional tears: What they are and how they work	7
Intelligence can be detected but is not found attractive in videos and live interactions	7
Adult knowledge of wild plants associated with limited delayed health and nutritional benefits for children or adults in the face of external change: A yearly panel (2003−2010) study among Tsimane’, a	7
Contemporary selection pressures in modern societies? Which factors best explain variance in human reproduction and mating?	7
Depression and suicidality as evolved credible signals of need in social conflicts	7
Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures	7
Cash, crowds, and cooperation: The effects of population density and resource scarcity on cooperation in the dictator game	7
Editorial	7
Men's but not women's risk proneness in early adulthood is associated with lifetime reproductive success: evidence for sexual selection in modern environments	7
Contextual factors that heighten interest in coalitional alliances with men possessing formidable facial structures	7
Friends near and afar, through thick and thin: Comparing contingency of help between close-distance and long-distance friends in Tanzanian fishing villages	7
Early hominins and the reversal of dominance hierarchy	7
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model	7
Stereotypes versus preferences: revisiting the alpha male stereotype of leadership	6

Editorial Board	6
A re-analysis that replicated a replication: Rejoinder to	6
Editorial Board	6
How anger works	6
Stereotypes of criminality in the U.S. track ecology, not race	6
Editorial Board	6
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study	6
Is mate-choice copying a female phenomenon?	6
The intersection of evolutionary science and law	5
Female gorillas compete for food and males	5
Creative ideas, but elementary mistakes: A reply to Brandner and colleagues to promote best practices in error management theory research	5
I will hold a weapon if you hold one: Experiments of preemptive strike game with possession option	5
Prestige-based leadership offers women leaders an advantage and reduces gender inequality in leadership	5
Editorial Board	5
Do descriptive social norms drive peer punishment? Conditional punishment strategies and their impact on cooperation	5
Deep neural networks generate facial metrics that overcome limitations of previous methods and predict in-person attraction	4
Interpersonal conflicts and third-party mediation in a pastoralist society	4
Editorial Board	4
Victims of misfortune may not “deserve” help: A possible factor in victim-devaluation	4
Parochial altruism: What it is and why it varies	4
Can people detect the trustworthiness of strangers based on their facial appearance?	4
Sex differences in close friendships and social style	4
Laughter and ratings of funniness in speed-dating do not support the fitness indicator hypothesis of humour	4
Culture shapes sex differences in mate preferences	4
Strength, mating success, and immune and nutritional costs in a population sample of US women and men: A registered report	4
The (bidirectional) associations between romantic attachment orientations and mate retention behavior in male-female romantic couples	4
Bargaining between the sexes: outside options and leisure time in hunter-gatherer households	4
Distinctiveness and femininity, rather than symmetry and masculinity, affect facial attractiveness across the world	4
A replication that requires replication: Commentary on Caton et al. (2022)	4
Comparing disgust sensitivity in women in early pregnancy and non-pregnant women in the follicular and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle	4
Editorial Board	4
Disqualifiers or preferences? How humans incorporate dealbreakers into mate choice	3
Fathers' care in context: ‘facultative,’ flexible fathers respond to work demands and child age, but not to alloparental help, in Cebu, Philippines	3
Social inequality and signaling in a costly ritual	3
Editorial overview and dedication to John Patton: “Dispatches from the field: Insights from studies in ecologically diverse communities: Part 2”	3
Evolution and functions of human dance	3
Pubertal maturation is independent of family structure but daughters of divorced (but not dead) fathers start reproduction earlier	3
The evolution of theory of mind on welfare tradeoff ratios	3
Editorial Board	3
Cost structures and socioecological conditions impact the fitness outcomes of human alloparental care in agent-based model simulations	3
The evolution of war and its cognitive foundations	3
Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others	3
Beyond stereotypes versus preferences: sex, dominance, and the functions of leadership	3
Network analysis of psychometric life history indicators	3
Parental teaching behavior in diverse cultural contexts	3
Editorial overview: “Dispatches from the field: insights from studies in ecologically diverse communities: Part 1”	3
The evolution of symbolic artefacts: How function shapes form	3
Anger and fearful expressions influence perceptions of physical strength: Testing the signalling functions of emotional facial expressions with a visual aftereffects paradigm	3
Mating-related stimuli induce rapid shifts in fathers' assessments of infants	3
Corrigendum to “Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures” [Evolution & Human Behaviour (2024) Volume 45, Issue 6, 106,636].	3
Book review	3
Editorial Board	3
Error Management Theory and biased first impressions: How do people perceive potential mates under conditions of uncertainty?	3
Stereotypes versus preferences: Revisiting the role of alpha males in leadership	3
The disjunction between evolutionary psychology and sex-discrimination law and policy	3
Editorial Board	2
Height is associated with more self-serving beliefs about wealth redistribution	2
Kin detection cues and sibling relationship quality in adulthood: The role of childhood co-residence duration and maternal perinatal association	2
A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context?	2
Even small differences in attractiveness and formidability affect the probability and speed of selection: An online study and an offline replication	2
Hormonal influences on women's extra-pair sexual interests: The moderating impact of partner attractiveness	2
The implicit rules of combat reflect the evolved function of combat: An evolutionary-psychological analysis of fairness and honor in human aggression	2
"Entertain All Hypotheses": A tribute to John Tooby Edited by Debra Lieberman	2
Modeling mate choice in a small-scale community: Applying couple simulation in the U.S. and Conambo, Ecuador	2
US adults accurately assess Hadza and Tsimane men's hunting ability from a single face photograph	2
Editorial Board	2
Height shows no clear association with self-serving beliefs about wealth redistribution: A commentary on	2
On hits and being hit on: error management theory, signal detection theory, and the male sexual overperception bias	2
Social network accuracy among children and adolescents in a rural Dominican community	2
Gendered fitness interests: A method partitioning the effects of family composition on socio-political attitudes and behaviors	2
Religious women receive more allomaternal support from non-partner kin in two low-fertility countries	2
Common knowledge promotes cooperation in the threshold public goods game by reducing uncertainty	2
Short term, long term: An unexpected confound in human-mating research	2
What is unique about the human eye? Comparative image analysis on the external eye morphology of human and nonhuman great apes	2
Pre-existing fairness concerns restrict the cultural evolution and generalization of inequitable norms in children	2