Academic Publications

SELECTED ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Explanatory & Predictive Progress in Psychology

Beyond the evolution vs. learning fallacy. American Psychologist.
Levels of analysis and explanatory progress in psychology: Integrating frameworks from biology and cognitive science for a more comprehensive science of the mind. Psychological Review.

Cross-Cultural Research on Human Behavior

A preliminary study on the role of personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases on self-reported health across countries. Public Health.
I see sick people: Beliefs about sensory detection of infectious disease are largely consistent across cultures. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
Grandiose narcissism, unfounded beliefs, and behavioral reactions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports.
Agentic collective narcissism and communal collective narcissism: Do they predict Covid-19 pandemic-related beliefs and behaviors? Journal of Research in Personality.
A worldwide test of the predictive validity of ideal partner preference-matching. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Experimental and cross-cultural evidence that parenthood and parental care motives increase social conservatism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Fundamental social motives measured across forty-two cultures in two waves. Scientific Data.
Family still matters: Human social motivation during a global pandemic. Evolution and Human Behavior.
Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries. Evolution and Human Behavior.
The fear of COVID-19 scale: its structure and measurement invariance across 48 countries. Psychological Assessment.
No support for two hypotheses about the communicative functions of displaying disgust: Evidence from Turkey, Norway, Germany, and Croatia. Evolutionary Psychology.
Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The grammar of anger: Mapping the computational architecture of a recalibrational emotion. Cognition.

Emotions

Human emotions: An evolutionary psychological perspective. Emotion Review.
Disgust systematically tracks relative levels of pathogen threat, not just presence or absence of pathogens. Motivation and Emotion.
Thermal psychology: a coordinating mechanisms approach. The Journal of Physiology and Behavior.
The evolutionary psychology of hunger. Appetite.
Sex differences in disgust: Why are women more easily disgusted than men? Emotion Review.
Evolutionary psychology and the emotions. Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer.
Social emotions are governed by a common grammar of social valuation: Theoretical foundations and applications to human personality and the criminal justice system. The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions. Oxford University Press.
How jealousy works. The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions. Oxford University Press.
Shame. The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions. Oxford University Press.
Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The grammar of anger: Mapping the computational architecture of a recalibrational emotion. Cognition.

Mental & Physical Health

In obsessive-compulsive disorder, autogenous and reactive obsessions are differentiated by disgust and mating strategies. Personality and Individual Differences.
Nanoassemblies from the aqueous extract of roasted coffee beans modulate the behavioral and molecular effects of smoking withdrawal–induced anxiety in female rats. Drug Delivery and Translational Research.
Positive schizotypy predicts migration intentions and desires. Personality and Individual Differences.
Why do people (not) engage in social distancing? Proximate and ultimate analyses of norm-following during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology.
A preliminary study on the role of personal history of infectious and parasitic diseases on self-reported health across countries. Public Health.
I see sick people: Beliefs about sensory detection of infectious disease are largely consistent across cultures. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
Grandiose narcissism, unfounded beliefs, and behavioral reactions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports.
Agentic collective narcissism and communal collective narcissism: Do they predict Covid-19 pandemic-related beliefs and behaviors? Journal of Research in Personality.
The fear of COVID-19 scale: its structure and measurement invariance across 48 countries. Psychological Assessment.

Hunger & Food Psychology

Food neophobia and disgust, but not hunger, predict willingness to eat insects. Personality and Individual Differences.
Mating strategy, disgust, and food neophobia. Appetite.
The evolutionary psychology of hunger. Appetite.

Evolution

Beyond the evolution vs. learning fallacy. American Psychologist.
Levels of analysis and explanatory progress in psychology: Integrating frameworks from biology and cognitive science. Psychological Review.
Error Management Theory and biased first impressions: How do people perceive potential mates under conditions of uncertainty? Evolution and Human Behavior.
The Products of Evolution: Conceptual Distinctions, Evidentiary Criteria, and Empirical Examples. The SAGE Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology.
Epistemic vigilance in early ontogeny: Children’s use of nonverbal behavior to detect deception. Evolutionary Psychology.
Context, environment, and learning in evolutionary psychology. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer.
13 Misunderstandings about Natural Selection. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer.
Evolutionary Psychology: A How-To Guide. American Psychologist.
Constraints on natural selection. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer.
Evolutionary personality psychology. The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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