Evolution and Human Behavior

Article	Citations
Response to: "Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no"	71
Are men (believed to be) less prestige-oriented than women?	36
Editorial Board	35
Status in Himba pastoralists: are causal claims warranted?	27
Perceptions of “just compensation”	26
Decreased sexual motivation during the human implantation window	24
Women's intrasexual competitiveness, but not fertility, predicts greater competitive behavior toward attractive women across the menstrual cycle	23
Sex (similarities and) differences in friendship jealousy	22
Pathogen threat and intergroup prejudice using the minimal group paradigm: Evidence from a registered report	21
Adolescent development of sexual misperception biases: females increasingly overperceived, males consistently underperceived	20
Disgust sensitivity relates to affective responses to – but not ability to detect – olfactory cues to pathogens	19
Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict	19
A phylogenetic analysis of dispersal norms, descent and subsistence in Sino-Tibetans	19
Trivial giving as a signal of trustworthiness	19
Using SEM to test the associations among women's childhood ecology, adult psychosocial life history traits, and mating effort	18
Institutional quality shapes cooperation with out-group strangers	18
Toward a mechanistic account of personality: A case study of competitor derogation accuracy and the dark triad	18
Objectively measured facial traits predict in-person evaluations of facial attractiveness and prosociality in speed-dating partners	18
Epigenetic age acceleration and reproductive outcomes in women	17
Editorial Board	17
Beyond inclusive fitness: Why dual inheritance still matters in the age of memes	17
Venting makes people prefer—and preferentially support—us over those we vent about	16
Generosity as a status signal: Higher-testosterone men exhibit greater altruism in the dictator game	16
Epistemic gratitude and the provision of information	16
Evolution of psychopathy in the public goods game with institutional redistribution of resources	16

Men (but not women) prefer to live in economically equal societies when it comes to mating: A five-study investigation	16
Editorial Board	15
Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no.	15
The quest for scientific objectivity: comment on Luke Glowacki's (2024) “The controversial origins of war and peace: Apes, foragers, and human evolution”	15
Using an evolutionary approach to improve predictive ability in the social sciences: Property, the endowment effect, and law	15
Sexual violence laws: Policy implications of psychological sex differences	15
Interpersonal leverage: Individual differences in the endorsement of anger and gratitude	15
Re-considering the evidence that taller people are less supportive of government wealth redistribution: A response to	15
SEX in bonobos: The intensity of sexual stimulation sharply drops after facial mimicry	14
The influence of friendship on children's fairness concerns in three societies	14
Gender differences in social networks under subsistence changes	14
Ancient kiss-tory: new perspectives on the evolution of early historical kissing	13
Infrastructure of mother-infant interactions across development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild	13
Why punish cheaters? Those who withdraw cooperation enjoy better reputations than punishers, but both are viewed as difficult to exploit	12
Masculine voice is associated with better mucosal immune defense in adolescent and adult males	12
Book Review	12
Parochial reciprocity	12
Bismarckian welfare revisited: Fear of being violently dispossessed motivates support for redistribution	12
Oral storytelling: humanity's first data management system?	11
Creatures of habit(us): A commentary on Baumard and André's ‘The ecological approach to culture’	11
Perceptions of facial trustworthiness and dominance modulate early neural responses to male facial sexual dimorphism	11
Willingness to protect from violence, independent of strength, guides partner choice	11
The evolution of between-sex bonds in primates	10
Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context	10
Human infant cries communicate distress and elicit sex stereotypes: Cross cultural evidence	10
Culture as collective resource allocation across life history trade-offs: commentary on	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
Why honor heroes? The emergence of extreme altruistic behavior as a by-product of praisers' self-promotion	10
Size, scale, and design matter: Commentary on Lewis, Al-Shawaf, Semchenko, and Evans, (2022)	9
Disgust sensitivity is negatively associated with immune system activity in early pregnancy: Direct support for the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis	9
In memoriam: Helen E. Fisher	9
Paternal investment and economic inequality predict cross-cultural variation in male choice	9
Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism: A registered report	8
The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs	8
The attractive personality: Like me, but better	8
Experimental evidence that people consider transgressors' exploitation risk when deciding to forgive	8
Mating fast and slow? Sociosexual orientations are not reflective of life history trajectories	8
Interpretive issues in discussion of evidence supporting adaptationist model of personality development: a commentary on	8
Value computation in humans	8
The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers	8
Sibling competition and dispersal drive sex differences in religious celibacy	7
Costly inductions as a commitment-selection strategy: Assessing hazing's relationship with attrition in a college fraternity	7
The shared genome constraint: why between-sex genetic correlation matters for evolutionary social science	7
Zombie Theories and the Quest for Consilience: A Critical Review of Hertler et al.’s The Evolution of Political Ideology	7
A content-general adaptation for tribal value-acquisition	7
Editorial Board	7
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us	6
Why women cheat: testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample	6
Editorial	6
Cash, crowds, and cooperation: The effects of population density and resource scarcity on cooperation in the dictator game	6

Contextual factors that heighten interest in coalitional alliances with men possessing formidable facial structures	6
Core principles of melodic organisation emerge from transmission chains with random melodies	6
“Think leader, think alpha male” and the evolution of leader stereotypes	6
Implications of Dominance versus Agency in the Interpretation of Preferences for Female and Male Leaders	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’, a	6
The pitfalls of an impoverished approach to culture: Commentary on Baumard and André	6
Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures	6
Depression and suicidality as evolved credible signals of need in social conflicts	6
The ecological approach to culture	6
Emotional tears: What they are and how they work	6
Early hominins and the reversal of dominance hierarchy	6
The evolution of human lip-to-lip kissing	5
Human behavioural ecology is cultural ecology	5
Friends near and afar, through thick and thin: Comparing contingency of help between close-distance and long-distance friends in Tanzanian fishing villages	5
Corrigendum to “The role of testosterone in odor-based perceptions of social status” [Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 46 (2025) 106752].	5
Men's but not women's risk proneness in early adulthood is associated with lifetime reproductive success: evidence for sexual selection in modern environments	5
Ecological theory and the conundrums of culture	5
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model	5
Stereotypes of criminality in the U.S. track ecology, not race	5
A homage to Glenn E. Weisfeld	5
Contemporary selection pressures in modern societies? Which factors best explain variance in human reproduction and mating?	5
A re-analysis that replicated a replication: Rejoinder to	5
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study	5
Female gorillas compete for food and males	4
I will hold a weapon if you hold one: Experiments of preemptive strike game with possession option	4
Oral contraceptives and women's preferences for facial masculinity and symmetry: Evidence from a double-blind randomized controlled trial	4
Editorial Board	4
Wealth or generosity? People choose partners based on whichever is more variable	4
Is mate-choice copying a female phenomenon?	4
Stereotypes versus preferences: revisiting the alpha male stereotype of leadership	4
Self-assessment biases and motivations: An error management approach	4
Culture is not ecology	4
Culture shapes sex differences in mate preferences	4
How anger works	4
Prestige-based leadership offers women leaders an advantage and reduces gender inequality in leadership	4
On the importance of conceptual clarity and constraints in an ecological approach to culture	4
Understanding olfactory fertility cues in humans: chemical analysis of women's vulvar odour and perceptual detection of these cues by men	4
Editorial Board	4
Bargaining between the sexes: outside options and leisure time in hunter-gatherer households	3
Can people detect the trustworthiness of strangers based on their facial appearance?	3
Victims of misfortune may not “deserve” help: A possible factor in victim-devaluation	3
Editorial Board	3
Creative ideas, but elementary mistakes: A reply to Brandner and colleagues to promote best practices in error management theory research	3
The intersection of evolutionary science and law	3
A replication that requires replication: Commentary on Caton et al. (2022)	3
Beyond stereotypes versus preferences: sex, dominance, and the functions of leadership	3
Social structure, cultural selection and the limits of adaptive plasticity: a response to Baumard and André	3
Hot hand thinking in children	3
Strength, mating success, and immune and nutritional costs in a population sample of US women and men: A registered report	3
Children's imitation of costly rituals: Insights into early cultural learning	3
The smoke-detector principle of pathogen avoidance: A test of how the behavioral immune system gives rise to prejudice	3
Editorial Board	3
Laughter and ratings of funniness in speed-dating do not support the fitness indicator hypothesis of humour	3
Parochial altruism: What it is and why it varies	3
Resource availability and experiences of partner violence shape facial masculinity preferences in Colombian women	3
Comparing disgust sensitivity in women in early pregnancy and non-pregnant women in the follicular and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle	3
Editorial Board	3
Sex differences in close friendships and social style	3
Interpersonal conflicts and third-party mediation in a pastoralist society	3
Deep neural networks generate facial metrics that overcome limitations of previous methods and predict in-person attraction	3
Distinctiveness and femininity, rather than symmetry and masculinity, affect facial attractiveness across the world	3
Corrigendum to “Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures” [Evolution & Human Behaviour (2024) Volume 45, Issue 6, 106,636].	3
Pubertal maturation is independent of family structure but daughters of divorced (but not dead) fathers start reproduction earlier	2
Parental teaching behavior in diverse cultural contexts	2
Stereotypes versus preferences: Revisiting the role of alpha males in leadership	2
Pre-existing fairness concerns restrict the cultural evolution and generalization of inequitable norms in children	2
Editorial overview: “Dispatches from the field: insights from studies in ecologically diverse communities: Part 1”	2
The evolution of theory of mind on welfare tradeoff ratios	2
Using inclusive fitness and eco-evolutionary theory to model cultural evolution	2
Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others	2
Error Management Theory and biased first impressions: How do people perceive potential mates under conditions of uncertainty?	2
Commentary on: the ecological approach to culture by Nicolas Baumard and Jean-Baptiste André	2
Self-serving intergroup aggression escalates and prevails over parochial cooperation	2
Cost structures and socioecological conditions impact the fitness outcomes of human alloparental care in agent-based model simulations	2
Children consider unique similarities as more meaningful cues to compatibility in social partnerships	2
Editorial overview and dedication to John Patton: “Dispatches from the field: Insights from studies in ecologically diverse communities: Part 2”	2
Network analysis of psychometric life history indicators	2
A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing	2
Editorial Board	2
Love, lust, and physical intimacy: oxytocin and the contraction of involuntary muscles	2

Mating-related stimuli induce rapid shifts in fathers' assessments of infants	2
Editorial Board	2
Book review	2
The evolution of war and its cognitive foundations	2
What do we want from culture?	2
Modeling mate choice in a small-scale community: Applying couple simulation in the U.S. and Conambo, Ecuador	1
Common knowledge promotes cooperation in the threshold public goods game by reducing uncertainty	1
Editorial Board	1
Sex differences in birth weight depending on the mother's condition: testing the Trivers-Willard hypothesis in Indian twins	1
The evolution of symbolic artefacts: How function shapes form	1
Tradeoffs between self and mates reveal larger sex differences in trait preferences	1
Social network accuracy among children and adolescents in a rural Dominican community	1
Prestige, conformity and gender consistency support a broad-context mechanism underpinning mate-choice copying	1
Even small differences in attractiveness and formidability affect the probability and speed of selection: An online study and an offline replication	1
Specifically human culture: response to Baumard & André	1
Evolutionary moral psychology: Lessons from Westermarck	1
Unmaking egalitarianism: Comparing sources of political change in an Amazonian society	1
What is a mate preference? Probing the computational format of mate preferences using couple simulation	1
Religious signaling and prosociality: A review of the literature	1
The implicit rules of combat reflect the evolved function of combat: An evolutionary-psychological analysis of fairness and honor in human aggression	1
Trustworthiness: an adaptationist account	1
An evolutionary perspective on homosexuality: Testing the sexually antagonistic genes hypothesis through familial fertility analysis	1
A smart challenge but ultimately mistimed and misleading: Commentary on Baumard and André	1
Religious women receive more allomaternal support from non-partner kin in two low-fertility countries	1
"Entertain All Hypotheses": A tribute to John Tooby Edited by Debra Lieberman	1
Hormonal influences on women's extra-pair sexual interests: The moderating impact of partner attractiveness	1
Rethinking causal understanding and reverse engineering through the lens of cultural ecology	1
Editorial Board	1
Disqualifiers or preferences? How humans incorporate dealbreakers into mate choice	1
Reference frames for spatial navigation and declarative memory: Individual differences in performance support the phylogenetic continuity hypothesis	1
A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context?	1
Editorial Board	1
Deconstructing “dominance” to refine leadership research	1
Effects of synchronous chanting and identity fusion on perceived ingroup formidability, outgroup threat, and parochial altruism among soccer fans	1
Sources of fitness interdependence associated with shared fate and cooperation in a small-scale horticultural society	1
Does hazing actually increase group solidarity? Re-examining a classic theory with a modern fraternity	1
Tit for tattling: Cooperation, communication, and how each could stabilize the other	1
Hormonal contraceptive use, not menstrual cycle phase, is associated with reduced interest in competition	1
Coalitional support regulates resource divisions in men	1
Scars for survival: high cost male initiation rites are strongly associated with desert habitat in Pama-Nyungan Australia	1
The evolutionary logic of anger and hatred: an empirical test	1
The role of costly commitment signals in assorting cooperators during intergroup conflict	1
Editorial Board	1
US adults accurately assess Hadza and Tsimane men's hunting ability from a single face photograph	1
What is unique about the human eye? Comparative image analysis on the external eye morphology of human and nonhuman great apes	1
Why hunt? Why gather? Why share? Hadza assessments of foraging and food-sharing motive	1
Evidence from millions of births refutes the Trivers-Willard hypothesis in humans	1
The disjunction between evolutionary psychology and sex-discrimination law and policy	1
Through the lens of adaptationism: Commentary on Baumard & André	1
Pumping the Brakes on Psychosocial Acceleration Theory: Revisiting its Underlying Assumptions	1
Early prosociality is conditional on opportunity cost and familiarity with the target	1
Associations between men's reputations for fathering and their reproductive success among BaYaka foragers in the Congo Basin	1
Disgust sensitivity predicts sociosexuality across cultures	1
Why are some people more jealous than others? Genetic and environmental factors	1
Is the Lamborghini like a peacock's tail? No evidence for relationships between conspicuous consumption and male attractiveness	1
A comparative perspective on the human sense of justice	1
Kin-directed altruism and the evolution of male androphilia among Istmo Zapotec Muxes	1
Editorial Board	1
Towards an ecological model of the dark triad traits	1
Can race be replaced? Ecology and race categorization	1