OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evolution and Human Behavior is 5. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Response to: "Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no"	84
Epstein Barr virus, infectious mononucleosis and associated diseases as contributors to the costs of intimate kissing	43
Adolescent development of sexual misperception biases: females increasingly overperceived, males consistently underperceived	30
Women's intrasexual competitiveness, but not fertility, predicts greater competitive behavior toward attractive women across the menstrual cycle	28
Are men (believed to be) less prestige-oriented than women?	27
Status in Himba pastoralists: are causal claims warranted?	24
Editorial Board	24
Perceptions of “just compensation”	23
When superstition outperforms truth: Belief transmission, sacrifice, and cooperation under environmental uncertainty	23
Decreased sexual motivation during the human implantation window	23
Pathogen threat and intergroup prejudice using the minimal group paradigm: Evidence from a registered report	22
Using SEM to test the associations among women's childhood ecology, adult psychosocial life history traits, and mating effort	21
Objectively measured facial traits predict in-person evaluations of facial attractiveness and prosociality in speed-dating partners	21
Toward a mechanistic account of personality: A case study of competitor derogation accuracy and the dark triad	20
Editorial Board	20
Trivial giving as a signal of trustworthiness	20
Disgust sensitivity relates to affective responses to – but not ability to detect – olfactory cues to pathogens	20
Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict	20
Epigenetic age acceleration and reproductive outcomes in women	19
Beyond inclusive fitness: Why dual inheritance still matters in the age of memes	19
Epistemic gratitude and the provision of information	19
Venting makes people prefer—and preferentially support—us over those we vent about	18
Men (but not women) prefer to live in economically equal societies when it comes to mating: A five-study investigation	18
Evolution of psychopathy in the public goods game with institutional redistribution of resources	17
Re-considering the evidence that taller people are less supportive of government wealth redistribution: A response to	17

The influence of friendship on children's fairness concerns in three societies	17
Editorial Board	17
Using an evolutionary approach to improve predictive ability in the social sciences: Property, the endowment effect, and law	16
Ancient kiss-tory: new perspectives on the evolution of early historical kissing	15
SEX in bonobos: The intensity of sexual stimulation sharply drops after facial mimicry	15
Interpersonal leverage: Individual differences in the endorsement of anger and gratitude	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
Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no.	14
Bismarckian welfare revisited: Fear of being violently dispossessed motivates support for redistribution	13
Infrastructure of mother-infant interactions across development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild	13
Preschoolers, but not yet toddlers, prefer to allocate epistemic trust to leaders than to bullies	13
Gender differences in social networks under subsistence changes	13
Sexual violence laws: Policy implications of psychological sex differences	13
Parochial reciprocity	13
Perceptions of facial trustworthiness and dominance modulate early neural responses to male facial sexual dimorphism	12
Why punish cheaters? Those who withdraw cooperation enjoy better reputations than punishers, but both are viewed as difficult to exploit	12
Willingness to protect from violence, independent of strength, guides partner choice	12
Creatures of habit(us): A commentary on Baumard and André's ‘The ecological approach to culture’	11
Masculine voice is associated with better mucosal immune defense in adolescent and adult males	11
Why honor heroes? The emergence of extreme altruistic behavior as a by-product of praisers' self-promotion	11
Culture as collective resource allocation across life history trade-offs: commentary on	11
Oral storytelling: humanity's first data management system?	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	10
Paternal investment and economic inequality predict cross-cultural variation in male choice	10
Health, attractiveness, and marriageability among Aka hunter-gatherers and Ngandu farmer adolescents and young adults in the Central African Republic	9
Human infant cries communicate distress and elicit sex stereotypes: Cross cultural evidence	9
Interpretive issues in discussion of evidence supporting adaptationist model of personality development: a commentary on	9
Size, scale, and design matter: Commentary on Lewis, Al-Shawaf, Semchenko, and Evans, (2022)	9
Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context	9
In memoriam: Helen E. Fisher	9
Disgust sensitivity is negatively associated with immune system activity in early pregnancy: Direct support for the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis	9
The evolution of between-sex bonds in primates	9
The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs	9
The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers	8
Experimental evidence that people consider transgressors' exploitation risk when deciding to forgive	8
The attractive personality: Like me, but better	8
Adaptive memory in contamination contexts: Exploring the role of emotionality	7
Editorial Board	7
Costly inductions as a commitment-selection strategy: Assessing hazing's relationship with attrition in a college fraternity	7
Bringing Latin American human behavioral and evolutionary sciences into focus	7
Zombie Theories and the Quest for Consilience: A Critical Review of Hertler et al.’s The Evolution of Political Ideology	7
Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism: A registered report	7
The shared genome constraint: why between-sex genetic correlation matters for evolutionary social science	7
Mating fast and slow? Sociosexual orientations are not reflective of life history trajectories	7
“Think leader, think alpha male” and the evolution of leader stereotypes	7
Value computation in humans	7
Sibling competition and dispersal drive sex differences in religious celibacy	7
A content-general adaptation for tribal value-acquisition	7
The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter	7

Why women cheat: testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample	7
Existential security and the cultural evolution of secularisation in Mauritius	6
Social context may influence more self-perception and romantic partner preferences than biological sex	6
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us	6
Corrigendum to “From scorpion to spider: tracing the origin of fear of spiders and other chelicerates through perceptual fear generalization gradients across chelicerates” <[Evolution and Human Beh	6
Implications of Dominance versus Agency in the Interpretation of Preferences for Female and Male Leaders	6
Depression and suicidality as evolved credible signals of need in social conflicts	6
Contextual factors that heighten interest in coalitional alliances with men possessing formidable facial structures	6
Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures	6
The ecological approach to culture	6
From scorpion to spider: tracing the origin of fear of spiders and other chelicerates through perceptual fear generalization gradients across chelicerates	6
Core principles of melodic organisation emerge from transmission chains with random melodies	6
Early hominins and the reversal of dominance hierarchy	5
Human behavioural ecology is cultural ecology	5
Emotional tears: What they are and how they work	5
A re-analysis that replicated a replication: Rejoinder to	5
Corrigendum to “The role of testosterone in odor-based perceptions of social status” [Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 46 (2025) 106752].	5
Editorial	5
Ecological theory and the conundrums of culture	5
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model	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
Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study	5
Psychopathy and evolution: an integrative and comprehensive review	5
The evolution of human lip-to-lip kissing	5
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	5
The pitfalls of an impoverished approach to culture: Commentary on Baumard and André	5
Cash, crowds, and cooperation: The effects of population density and resource scarcity on cooperation in the dictator game	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
A homage to Glenn E. Weisfeld	5