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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Option to cooperate increases women's competitiveness and closes the gender gap	60
Response to: "Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no"	31
Status in Himba pastoralists: are causal claims warranted?	31
Perceptions of “just compensation”	28
Are men (believed to be) less prestige-oriented than women?	22
Editorial Board	21
Pathogen threat and intergroup prejudice using the minimal group paradigm: Evidence from a registered report	20
Sex (similarities and) differences in friendship jealousy	19
Disgust sensitivity relates to affective responses to – but not ability to detect – olfactory cues to pathogens	18
Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict	18
Trivial giving as a signal of trustworthiness	17
A phylogenetic analysis of dispersal norms, descent and subsistence in Sino-Tibetans	17
Epistemic gratitude and the provision of information	16
Is facial width-to-height ratio reliably associated with social inferences?	16
Editorial Board	16
Objectively measured facial traits predict in-person evaluations of facial attractiveness and prosociality in speed-dating partners	16
Institutional quality shapes cooperation with out-group strangers	16
Re-considering the evidence that taller people are less supportive of government wealth redistribution: A response to	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
Epigenetic age acceleration and reproductive outcomes in women	15
Men (but not women) prefer to live in economically equal societies when it comes to mating: A five-study investigation	15
Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no.	14
Using an evolutionary approach to improve predictive ability in the social sciences: Property, the endowment effect, and law	14
Generosity as a status signal: Higher-testosterone men exhibit greater altruism in the dictator game	14

The quest for scientific objectivity: comment on Luke Glowacki's (2024) “The controversial origins of war and peace: Apes, foragers, and human evolution”	14
Multimodal mate choice: Exploring the effects of sight, sound, and scent on partner choice in a speed-date paradigm	14
Infrastructure of mother-infant interactions across development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild	14
Parochial reciprocity	14
Why punish cheaters? Those who withdraw cooperation enjoy better reputations than punishers, but both are viewed as difficult to exploit	13
Book Review	13
Oral storytelling: humanity's first data management system?	13
The influence of friendship on children's fairness concerns in three societies	13
Masculine voice is associated with better mucosal immune defense in adolescent and adult males	13
Kinship versus closeness: A commentary on and	13
Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context	12
The evolution of between-sex bonds in primates	12
Perceptions of facial trustworthiness and dominance modulate early neural responses to male facial sexual dimorphism	12
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	11
Size, scale, and design matter: Commentary on Lewis, Al-Shawaf, Semchenko, and Evans, (2022)	11
Human infant cries communicate distress and elicit sex stereotypes: Cross cultural evidence	11
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	11
In memoriam: Helen E. Fisher	10
Value computation in humans	10
Sibling competition and dispersal drive sex differences in religious celibacy	9
The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers	9
Mating fast and slow? Sociosexual orientations are not reflective of life history trajectories	9
Depression and suicidality as evolved credible signals of need in social conflicts	9
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us	9
The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs	9
Costly inductions as a commitment-selection strategy: Assessing hazing's relationship with attrition in a college fraternity	9
“Think leader, think alpha male” and the evolution of leader stereotypes	9
Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures	9
Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism: A registered report	9
Editorial Board	9
Intelligence can be detected but is not found attractive in videos and live interactions	9
Implications of Dominance versus Agency in the Interpretation of Preferences for Female and Male Leaders	9
Early hominins and the reversal of dominance hierarchy	8
Friends near and afar, through thick and thin: Comparing contingency of help between close-distance and long-distance friends in Tanzanian fishing villages	8
The ecological approach to culture	8
Contextual factors that heighten interest in coalitional alliances with men possessing formidable facial structures	8
Ecological theory and the conundrums of culture	8
Why women cheat: testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample	8
Editorial	8
Cash, crowds, and cooperation: The effects of population density and resource scarcity on cooperation in the dictator game	8
Emotional tears: What they are and how they work	8
Core principles of melodic organisation emerge from transmission chains with random melodies	8
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	8
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model	7
How anger works	7
Is mate-choice copying a female phenomenon?	7
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study	7
Contemporary selection pressures in modern societies? Which factors best explain variance in human reproduction and mating?	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

A re-analysis that replicated a replication: Rejoinder to	7
Stereotypes versus preferences: revisiting the alpha male stereotype of leadership	6
Editorial Board	6
Editorial Board	6
Stereotypes of criminality in the U.S. track ecology, not race	6
Prestige-based leadership offers women leaders an advantage and reduces gender inequality in leadership	6
Editorial Board	6
Children's imitation of costly rituals: Insights into early cultural learning	5
Female gorillas compete for food and males	5
Bargaining between the sexes: outside options and leisure time in hunter-gatherer households	5
Interpersonal conflicts and third-party mediation in a pastoralist society	5
I will hold a weapon if you hold one: Experiments of preemptive strike game with possession option	5
Culture shapes sex differences in mate preferences	5
Editorial Board	5
Sex differences in close friendships and social style	5
Creative ideas, but elementary mistakes: A reply to Brandner and colleagues to promote best practices in error management theory research	5
Deep neural networks generate facial metrics that overcome limitations of previous methods and predict in-person attraction	5
Do descriptive social norms drive peer punishment? Conditional punishment strategies and their impact on cooperation	5
Distinctiveness and femininity, rather than symmetry and masculinity, affect facial attractiveness across the world	5
The intersection of evolutionary science and law	5
Book review	4
Laughter and ratings of funniness in speed-dating do not support the fitness indicator hypothesis of humour	4
Editorial Board	4
The (bidirectional) associations between romantic attachment orientations and mate retention behavior in male-female romantic couples	4
Comparing disgust sensitivity in women in early pregnancy and non-pregnant women in the follicular and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle	4
Resource availability and experiences of partner violence shape facial masculinity preferences in Colombian women	4
Editorial Board	4
A replication that requires replication: Commentary on Caton et al. (2022)	4
Strength, mating success, and immune and nutritional costs in a population sample of US women and men: A registered report	4
Parochial altruism: What it is and why it varies	4
Can people detect the trustworthiness of strangers based on their facial appearance?	4
Editorial overview and dedication to John Patton: “Dispatches from the field: Insights from studies in ecologically diverse communities: Part 2”	4
Editorial Board	4
Victims of misfortune may not “deserve” help: A possible factor in victim-devaluation	4
Beyond stereotypes versus preferences: sex, dominance, and the functions of leadership	4
Error Management Theory and biased first impressions: How do people perceive potential mates under conditions of uncertainty?	3
Social inequality and signaling in a costly ritual	3
Corrigendum to “Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures” [Evolution & Human Behaviour (2024) Volume 45, Issue 6, 106,636].	3
Parental teaching behavior in diverse cultural contexts	3
Hormonal influences on women's extra-pair sexual interests: The moderating impact of partner attractiveness	3
Cost structures and socioecological conditions impact the fitness outcomes of human alloparental care in agent-based model simulations	3
Editorial Board	3
Pubertal maturation is independent of family structure but daughters of divorced (but not dead) fathers start reproduction earlier	3
The evolution of war and its cognitive foundations	3
Network analysis of psychometric life history indicators	3
Children consider unique similarities as more meaningful cues to compatibility in social partnerships	3
The evolution of theory of mind on welfare tradeoff ratios	3
The disjunction between evolutionary psychology and sex-discrimination law and policy	3
Social network accuracy among children and adolescents in a rural Dominican community	3
Editorial overview: “Dispatches from the field: insights from studies in ecologically diverse communities: Part 1”	3
Mating-related stimuli induce rapid shifts in fathers' assessments of infants	3
Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others	3
Using inclusive fitness and eco-evolutionary theory to model cultural evolution	3
Fathers' care in context: ‘facultative,’ flexible fathers respond to work demands and child age, but not to alloparental help, in Cebu, Philippines	3
Stereotypes versus preferences: Revisiting the role of alpha males in leadership	3
Anger and fearful expressions influence perceptions of physical strength: Testing the signalling functions of emotional facial expressions with a visual aftereffects paradigm	3
The evolution of symbolic artefacts: How function shapes form	3
Disqualifiers or preferences? How humans incorporate dealbreakers into mate choice	3
Editorial Board	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
Common knowledge promotes cooperation in the threshold public goods game by reducing uncertainty	2
A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context?	2
Unmaking egalitarianism: Comparing sources of political change in an Amazonian society	2
A comparative perspective on the human sense of justice	2
Editorial Board	2
Pre-existing fairness concerns restrict the cultural evolution and generalization of inequitable norms in children	2
Religious women receive more allomaternal support from non-partner kin in two low-fertility countries	2
"Entertain All Hypotheses": A tribute to John Tooby Edited by Debra Lieberman	2
High income men have high value as long-term mates in the U.S.: personal income and the probability of marriage, divorce, and childbearing in the U.S.	2
Can race be replaced? Ecology and race categorization	2
An evolutionary perspective on homosexuality: Testing the sexually antagonistic genes hypothesis through familial fertility analysis	2
Modeling mate choice in a small-scale community: Applying couple simulation in the U.S. and Conambo, Ecuador	2
The implicit rules of combat reflect the evolved function of combat: An evolutionary-psychological analysis of fairness and honor in human aggression	2
Height shows no clear association with self-serving beliefs about wealth redistribution: A commentary on	2
Even small differences in attractiveness and formidability affect the probability and speed of selection: An online study and an offline replication	2
US adults accurately assess Hadza and Tsimane men's hunting ability from a single face photograph	2
Kin detection cues and sibling relationship quality in adulthood: The role of childhood co-residence duration and maternal perinatal association	2
The role of costly commitment signals in assorting cooperators during intergroup conflict	2
Disgust sensitivity predicts sociosexuality across cultures	2