Evolution and Human Behavior

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Option to cooperate increases women's competitiveness and closes the gender gap68
Response to: "Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no"34
Are men (believed to be) less prestige-oriented than women?34
Editorial Board26
Sex (similarities and) differences in friendship jealousy25
Perceptions of “just compensation”21
Status in Himba pastoralists: are causal claims warranted?21
Pathogen threat and intergroup prejudice using the minimal group paradigm: Evidence from a registered report21
Decreased sexual motivation during the human implantation window19
Adolescent development of sexual misperception biases: females increasingly overperceived, males consistently underperceived19
Women's intrasexual competitiveness, but not fertility, predicts greater competitive behavior toward attractive women across the menstrual cycle19
Is facial width-to-height ratio reliably associated with social inferences?18
Trivial giving as a signal of trustworthiness18
Institutional quality shapes cooperation with out-group strangers18
A phylogenetic analysis of dispersal norms, descent and subsistence in Sino-Tibetans18
Disgust sensitivity relates to affective responses to – but not ability to detect – olfactory cues to pathogens17
Editorial Board16
Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict16
Beyond inclusive fitness: Why dual inheritance still matters in the age of memes16
Epistemic gratitude and the provision of information16
Venting makes people prefer—and preferentially support—us over those we vent about16
Objectively measured facial traits predict in-person evaluations of facial attractiveness and prosociality in speed-dating partners16
Infrastructure of mother-infant interactions across development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild15
The influence of friendship on children's fairness concerns in three societies15
Re-considering the evidence that taller people are less supportive of government wealth redistribution: A response to15
Epigenetic age acceleration and reproductive outcomes in women15
The quest for scientific objectivity: comment on Luke Glowacki's (2024) “The controversial origins of war and peace: Apes, foragers, and human evolution”15
Sexual violence laws: Policy implications of psychological sex differences15
Parochial reciprocity15
Men (but not women) prefer to live in economically equal societies when it comes to mating: A five-study investigation15
Editorial Board15
Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no.15
Using an evolutionary approach to improve predictive ability in the social sciences: Property, the endowment effect, and law14
Interpersonal leverage: Individual differences in the endorsement of anger and gratitude14
Ancient kiss-tory: new perspectives on the evolution of early historical kissing13
Oral storytelling: humanity's first data management system?13
Generosity as a status signal: Higher-testosterone men exhibit greater altruism in the dictator game13
Perceptions of facial trustworthiness and dominance modulate early neural responses to male facial sexual dimorphism13
Evolution of psychopathy in the public goods game with institutional redistribution of resources13
Creatures of habit(us): A commentary on Baumard and André's ‘The ecological approach to culture’12
Willingness to protect from violence, independent of strength, guides partner choice12
Culture as collective resource allocation across life history trade-offs: commentary on12
Bismarckian welfare revisited: Fear of being violently dispossessed motivates support for redistribution12
Masculine voice is associated with better mucosal immune defense in adolescent and adult males12
Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context11
Book Review11
Paternal investment and economic inequality predict cross-cultural variation in male choice11
Why punish cheaters? Those who withdraw cooperation enjoy better reputations than punishers, but both are viewed as difficult to exploit11
Why honor heroes? The emergence of extreme altruistic behavior as a by-product of praisers' self-promotion11
Kinship versus closeness: A commentary on and11
Experimental evidence that people consider transgressors' exploitation risk when deciding to forgive10
The evolution of between-sex bonds in primates10
Size, scale, and design matter: Commentary on Lewis, Al-Shawaf, Semchenko, and Evans, (2022)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-analysis10
In memoriam: Helen E. Fisher10
Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism: A registered report10
Disgust sensitivity is negatively associated with immune system activity in early pregnancy: Direct support for the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis10
Human infant cries communicate distress and elicit sex stereotypes: Cross cultural evidence10
Interpretive issues in discussion of evidence supporting adaptationist model of personality development: a commentary on9
The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers9
The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs9
Value computation in humans9
The shared genome constraint: why between-sex genetic correlation matters for evolutionary social science8
Editorial Board8
Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures8
A content-general adaptation for tribal value-acquisition8
Mating fast and slow? Sociosexual orientations are not reflective of life history trajectories8
Implications of Dominance versus Agency in the Interpretation of Preferences for Female and Male Leaders8
Costly inductions as a commitment-selection strategy: Assessing hazing's relationship with attrition in a college fraternity8
Sibling competition and dispersal drive sex differences in religious celibacy8
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us7
Intelligence can be detected but is not found attractive in videos and live interactions7
Depression and suicidality as evolved credible signals of need in social conflicts7
“Think leader, think alpha male” and the evolution of leader stereotypes7
The ecological approach to culture7
Core principles of melodic organisation emerge from transmission chains with random melodies7
Contextual factors that heighten interest in coalitional alliances with men possessing formidable facial structures7
Why women cheat: testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample7
Ecological theory and the conundrums of culture6
Contemporary selection pressures in modern societies? Which factors best explain variance in human reproduction and mating?6
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’, a6
Friends near and afar, through thick and thin: Comparing contingency of help between close-distance and long-distance friends in Tanzanian fishing villages6
The pitfalls of an impoverished approach to culture: Commentary on Baumard and André6
Human behavioural ecology is cultural ecology6
Emotional tears: What they are and how they work6
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model6
Early hominins and the reversal of dominance hierarchy6
Editorial6
Cash, crowds, and cooperation: The effects of population density and resource scarcity on cooperation in the dictator game6
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study5
Men's but not women's risk proneness in early adulthood is associated with lifetime reproductive success: evidence for sexual selection in modern environments5
Prestige-based leadership offers women leaders an advantage and reduces gender inequality in leadership5
How anger works5
A homage to Glenn E. Weisfeld5
I will hold a weapon if you hold one: Experiments of preemptive strike game with possession option5
The evolution of human lip-to-lip kissing5
A re-analysis that replicated a replication: Rejoinder to5
Stereotypes of criminality in the U.S. track ecology, not race5
Stereotypes versus preferences: revisiting the alpha male stereotype of leadership5
Is mate-choice copying a female phenomenon?5
Wealth or generosity? People choose partners based on whichever is more variable4
Editorial Board4
Culture is not ecology4
Sex differences in close friendships and social style4
Interpersonal conflicts and third-party mediation in a pastoralist society4
Editorial Board4
Editorial Board4
Deep neural networks generate facial metrics that overcome limitations of previous methods and predict in-person attraction4
Culture shapes sex differences in mate preferences4
On the importance of conceptual clarity and constraints in an ecological approach to culture4
Female gorillas compete for food and males4
Oral contraceptives and women's preferences for facial masculinity and symmetry: Evidence from a double-blind randomized controlled trial4
Understanding olfactory fertility cues in humans: chemical analysis of women's vulvar odour and perceptual detection of these cues by men4
Distinctiveness and femininity, rather than symmetry and masculinity, affect facial attractiveness across the world4
Creative ideas, but elementary mistakes: A reply to Brandner and colleagues to promote best practices in error management theory research4
Bargaining between the sexes: outside options and leisure time in hunter-gatherer households3
Can people detect the trustworthiness of strangers based on their facial appearance?3
Network analysis of psychometric life history indicators3
Editorial overview and dedication to John Patton: “Dispatches from the field: Insights from studies in ecologically diverse communities: Part 2”3
The (bidirectional) associations between romantic attachment orientations and mate retention behavior in male-female romantic couples3
Editorial Board3
Strength, mating success, and immune and nutritional costs in a population sample of US women and men: A registered report3
The intersection of evolutionary science and law3
Laughter and ratings of funniness in speed-dating do not support the fitness indicator hypothesis of humour3
Editorial Board3
Book review3
Beyond stereotypes versus preferences: sex, dominance, and the functions of leadership3
Corrigendum to “Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures” [Evolution & Human Behaviour (2024) Volume 45, Issue 6, 106,636].3
The smoke-detector principle of pathogen avoidance: A test of how the behavioral immune system gives rise to prejudice3
Comparing disgust sensitivity in women in early pregnancy and non-pregnant women in the follicular and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle3
Children's imitation of costly rituals: Insights into early cultural learning3
Editorial Board3
A replication that requires replication: Commentary on Caton et al. (2022)3
Parochial altruism: What it is and why it varies3
Fathers' care in context: ‘facultative,’ flexible fathers respond to work demands and child age, but not to alloparental help, in Cebu, Philippines3
Resource availability and experiences of partner violence shape facial masculinity preferences in Colombian women3
Hot hand thinking in children3
Victims of misfortune may not “deserve” help: A possible factor in victim-devaluation3
Editorial Board3
Love, lust, and physical intimacy: oxytocin and the contraction of involuntary muscles2
Social structure, cultural selection and the limits of adaptive plasticity: a response to Baumard and André2
The evolution of war and its cognitive foundations2
Hormonal influences on women's extra-pair sexual interests: The moderating impact of partner attractiveness2
Children consider unique similarities as more meaningful cues to compatibility in social partnerships2
Social network accuracy among children and adolescents in a rural Dominican community2
What is unique about the human eye? Comparative image analysis on the external eye morphology of human and nonhuman great apes2
Editorial overview: “Dispatches from the field: insights from studies in ecologically diverse communities: Part 1”2
Pubertal maturation is independent of family structure but daughters of divorced (but not dead) fathers start reproduction earlier2
Parental teaching behavior in diverse cultural contexts2
Commentary on: the ecological approach to culture by Nicolas Baumard and Jean-Baptiste André2
Using inclusive fitness and eco-evolutionary theory to model cultural evolution2
Social inequality and signaling in a costly ritual2
The evolution of symbolic artefacts: How function shapes form2
The disjunction between evolutionary psychology and sex-discrimination law and policy2
Even small differences in attractiveness and formidability affect the probability and speed of selection: An online study and an offline replication2
Disqualifiers or preferences? How humans incorporate dealbreakers into mate choice2
Error Management Theory and biased first impressions: How do people perceive potential mates under conditions of uncertainty?2
Mating-related stimuli induce rapid shifts in fathers' assessments of infants2
What do we want from culture?2
Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others2
Stereotypes versus preferences: Revisiting the role of alpha males in leadership2
Pre-existing fairness concerns restrict the cultural evolution and generalization of inequitable norms in children2
Anger and fearful expressions influence perceptions of physical strength: Testing the signalling functions of emotional facial expressions with a visual aftereffects paradigm2
Editorial Board2
Cost structures and socioecological conditions impact the fitness outcomes of human alloparental care in agent-based model simulations2
The evolution of theory of mind on welfare tradeoff ratios2
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