OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evolution and Human Behavior is 7. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Option to cooperate increases women's competitiveness and closes the gender gap	58
Response to: "Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no"	43
Status in Himba pastoralists: are causal claims warranted?	28
Perceptions of “just compensation”	28
Pathogen threat and intergroup prejudice using the minimal group paradigm: Evidence from a registered report	26
Are men (believed to be) less prestige-oriented than women?	22
Editorial Board	21
Sex (similarities and) differences in friendship jealousy	20
A phylogenetic analysis of dispersal norms, descent and subsistence in Sino-Tibetans	19
Institutional quality shapes cooperation with out-group strangers	18
Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict	18
Disgust sensitivity relates to affective responses to – but not ability to detect – olfactory cues to pathogens	17
Objectively measured facial traits predict in-person evaluations of facial attractiveness and prosociality in speed-dating partners	17
Trivial giving as a signal of trustworthiness	16
Editorial Board	16
Is facial width-to-height ratio reliably associated with social inferences?	16
Re-considering the evidence that taller people are less supportive of government wealth redistribution: A response to	15
Epigenetic age acceleration and reproductive outcomes in women	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
Epistemic gratitude and the provision of information	15
Generosity as a status signal: Higher-testosterone men exhibit greater altruism in the dictator game	14
Consensus decision-making: performance of heuristics and mental models	14
Multimodal mate choice: Exploring the effects of sight, sound, and scent on partner choice in a speed-date paradigm	14
Parochial reciprocity	14

Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no.	14
Men (but not women) prefer to live in economically equal societies when it comes to mating: A five-study investigation	14
The influence of friendship on children's fairness concerns in three societies	13
The quest for scientific objectivity: comment on Luke Glowacki's (2024) “The controversial origins of war and peace: Apes, foragers, and human evolution”	13
Infrastructure of mother-infant interactions across development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild	13
Book Review	13
Using an evolutionary approach to improve predictive ability in the social sciences: Property, the endowment effect, and law	13
Oral storytelling: humanity's first data management system?	12
Why punish cheaters? Those who withdraw cooperation enjoy better reputations than punishers, but both are viewed as difficult to exploit	12
Kinship versus closeness: A commentary on and	12
Masculine voice is associated with better mucosal immune defense in adolescent and adult males	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
The evolution of between-sex bonds in primates	11
Human infant cries communicate distress and elicit sex stereotypes: Cross cultural evidence	11
Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context	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
Disgust sensitivity is negatively associated with immune system activity in early pregnancy: Direct support for the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis	10
The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs	9
Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism: A registered report	9
The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers	9
In memoriam: Helen E. Fisher	9
Size, scale, and design matter: Commentary on Lewis, Al-Shawaf, Semchenko, and Evans, (2022)	9
Value computation in humans	9
18-month-olds use different cues to categorize plants and artifacts	9
Editorial Board	8
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us	8
Why women cheat: testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample	8
Editorial Board	8
Sibling competition and dispersal drive sex differences in religious celibacy	8
Implications of Dominance versus Agency in the Interpretation of Preferences for Female and Male Leaders	8
Core principles of melodic organisation emerge from transmission chains with random melodies	8
Mating fast and slow? Sociosexual orientations are not reflective of life history trajectories	8
Costly inductions as a commitment-selection strategy: Assessing hazing's relationship with attrition in a college fraternity	8
“Think leader, think alpha male” and the evolution of leader stereotypes	8
Contextual factors that heighten interest in coalitional alliances with men possessing formidable facial structures	7
Friends near and afar, through thick and thin: Comparing contingency of help between close-distance and long-distance friends in Tanzanian fishing villages	7
Early hominins and the reversal of dominance hierarchy	7
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model	7
The ecological approach to culture	7
Emotional tears: What they are and how they work	7
Intelligence can be detected but is not found attractive in videos and live interactions	7
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	7
Contemporary selection pressures in modern societies? Which factors best explain variance in human reproduction and mating?	7
Depression and suicidality as evolved credible signals of need in social conflicts	7
Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures	7
Cash, crowds, and cooperation: The effects of population density and resource scarcity on cooperation in the dictator game	7
Editorial	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