OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evolution and Human Behavior is 6. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

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
Trivial giving as a signal of trustworthiness	19
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
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
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
Beyond inclusive fitness: Why dual inheritance still matters in the age of memes	17
Epigenetic age acceleration and reproductive outcomes in women	17
Editorial Board	17
Men (but not women) prefer to live in economically equal societies when it comes to mating: A five-study investigation	16
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
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
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
The influence of friendship on children's fairness concerns in three societies	14
Gender differences in social networks under subsistence changes	14
SEX in bonobos: The intensity of sexual stimulation sharply drops after facial mimicry	14
Infrastructure of mother-infant interactions across development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild	13
Ancient kiss-tory: new perspectives on the evolution of early historical kissing	13
Parochial reciprocity	12
Bismarckian welfare revisited: Fear of being violently dispossessed motivates support for redistribution	12
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
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
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
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
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
Paternal investment and economic inequality predict cross-cultural variation in male choice	9
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
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
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
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
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
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
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