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    Recent Publications FROM THE OCEAN

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    Who is a mating rival? Women track other women's intent and capacity to compete for mates

    Accepted for publication in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

    by Dr. Laureon Merrie, Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems, & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

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    Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study

    Published in Evolution and Human Behavior

    by Dr. Lasse Laustsen, Dr. Xiaotian Sheng, Dr. M. Ghufran Ahmad, Dr. Laith Al-Shawaf, Dr. Benjamin Banai, ... Dr. Daniel Sznycer, ... & Dr. Mark van Vugt

    May 2025

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    Laws about bodily damage originate from shared intuitions about the value of body parts

    Published in Sciences Advances

    by Yunsuh "Nike" Wee, Dr. Daniel Sznycer, & Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems

    January 2025

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    Trustworthiness: An adaptationist account

    Published in Evolution and Human Behavior

    by Dr. Laureon Merrie, Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems, Dr. Daniel Sznycer, & Nina Rodriguez

    January 2025

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    Emotional tears: What they are and how they work

    Published in Evolution and Human Behavior

    by Dr. Daniel Sznycer, Dr. Asmir Gracanin, & Dr. Debra Lieberman

    January 2025

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    Link between racial discrimination and college student mental and physical health: Examination of parent-youth relationships as protective factors

    Published in Adversity and Resilience Science

    by Dr. Michael Criss, Dr. Jennifer Weston, Amy McGehee, Kristen Murray, & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    October 2024

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    Link between parent-emerging adult relationship quality and emerging adult physical health: An examination of mediators and moderators

    Published in Emerging Adulthood

    by Dr. Kayleigh Esparza, Dr. Michael Criss, Amy McGehee, Dr. Isaac Washburn, & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    August 2024

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    Additive and moderating effect of parents and friends on health and behavior outcomes during emerging adulthood

    Published in Emerging Adulthood

    by Dr. Erin Wood, Dr. Michael Criss, & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    May 2024

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    Emotions in co-rumination: An evolutionary developmental perspective

    Published in The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions

    by Dr. Jessica Calvi & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    May 2024

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    Ecological influences and visual attention to infant phenotypes

    Published in Culture and Evolution

    by Dr. Ray Garza, Dr Farid Pazoohi, & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    May 2024

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    Decreased salivary alpha-amylase reactivity for excluded young women after a speech task

    Published in Physiology & Behavior

    by Dr. Madison Stout, Dr. Bryant Keirns, Austin Medlin, Dr. Devanshi Patel, Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven, & Dr. Misty Hawkins

    April 2024

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    Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us

    Published in Evolution and Human Behavior

    by Dr. Laureon Merrie, Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems, & Dr. Daniel Sznycer

    March 2024

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    Are self-conscious emotions about the self? Testing competing theories of shame and guilt across two disparate cultures

    Published in Emotion

    by Dr. Mitchell Landers, Dr. Daniel Sznycer, & Dr. Patrick Durkee

    January 2024

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    The acute inflammatory effects of weight stigma: An experimental pilot study

    Published in Stigma and Health

    by Dr. Natalie Keirns, Dr. Bryant Keirns, Dr. Cindy Tsotsoros, Dr. Harley Layman, Dr. Madison Stout, Dr. Christina Sciarrillo, Dr. Sam Emerson, Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven, Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems, Dr. Rebecca Pearl, Dr. A. Janet Tomiyama, & Dr. Misty Hawkins

    2023

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    A broader theory of cooperation can better explain "purity"

    Published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences

    by Dr. Oliver Scott Curry & Dr. Daniel Sznycer

    October 2023

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    Cognitive foundations for helping and harming others: Making welfare tradeoffs in industrialized and small-scale societies

    Published in Evolution and Human Behavior

    by Dr. Andrew Delton,Dr. Adrian Jaeggi, Dr. Julian Lim, Dr. Daniel Sznycer , Dr. Theresa Robertson, Dr. Lawrence Sugiyama, Dr. Leda Cosmides, & Dr. John Tooby

    September 2023

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    Fitness interdependence as indexed by shared fate: Factor structure and validity of a new measure

    Published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

    by Dr. Jessica Ayers, Dr. Daniel Sznycer, Dr. Daniel Sullivan, Dr. Diego Guevara Beltran, Dr. Olmo van den Akker, Dr. Andres Muñoz, Dr. Daniel Hruschka, Dr. Lee Cronk, & Dr. Athena Aktipis

    July 2023

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    The shame system operates with high precision

    Published in Evolutionary Psychology

    by Alexie Leroux, Dr. Sebastien Hetu, & Dr. Daniel Sznycer

    July 2023

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    Reply to Greene: No version of the dual process model can explain rational performance by people who made compromise moral judgments

    Published in PNAS

    by Dr. Leda Cosmides, Dr. Maria Teresa Barbato, Dr. Daniel Sznycer, Miguel Angel Labarca, & Dr. Ricardo Andres Guzman

    June 2023

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    Justice-making institutions and the ancestral logic of conflict

    Published in Evolution and Human Behavior

    by Dr. Daniel Sznycer, Dr. Aaron Sell, & Dr. Keelah Williams

    May 2023

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    Societal institutions echo evolved human nature: An analysis of the Western criminal justic system and its relation to anger

    Published in Evolution and Human Behavior

    by Dr. Aaron Sell & Dr. Daniel Sznycer

    May 2023

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    Women's mating strategies and mate value are associated with viewing time to facial masculinity

    Published in Archives of Sexual Behavior

    by Dr. Ray Garza & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    May 2023

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    The family biorhythm: Contributions of the HPA and HPG axes to neuroendocrine attunement

    Published in Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

    by Dr. Erin Wood, Dr. Ray Garza, Dr. Nikki Clauss, Tori Short, Dr. Lucia Ciciolla, Dr. Devanshi Patel, & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    April 2023

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    An eye tracking study examining the role of mating strategies, perceived vulnerability to disease, and disgust in attention to pathogenic cues

    Published in Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

    by Dr. Ray Garza, Dr. Farid Pazhoohi, Dr. Laith Al-Shawaf, & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    March 2023

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    Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others

    Published in Evolution and Human Behavior

    by Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems, Dr. Rebecka Hahnel-Peeters, Dr. Laureon Merrie, Dr. Keelah Williams, & Dr. Daniel Sznycer

    March 2023

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    The role of hormones in attraction and visual attention to facial masculinity

    Published in Frontiers in Psychology

    by Dr. Ray Garza & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    February 2023

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    Parents of children with high weight are viewed as responsible for child weight and thus stigmatized

    Published in Psychological Science

    by Dr. Devanshi Patel, Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems, Dr. Madison Stout, Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven, & Dr. Misty Hawkins

    November 2022

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    Grandmothers and hormonal underpinnings: Unexplored aspects of women's same-sex relationships

    Published in Psychological Science

    by Dr. Devanshi Patel, Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems, Dr. Madison Stout, Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven, & Dr. Misty Hawkins

    November 2022

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    A moral trade-off system produces intuitive judgments that are rational and coherent and strike a balance between conflicting moral values

    Published in PNAS

    by Dr. Ricardo Andres Guzman, Dr. Maria Teresa Barbato, Dr. Daniel Sznycer, & Dr. Leda Cosmides

    October 2022

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    Women's perceptions of breast size, ptosis, and intermammary distance: Does breast morphology play a role in women's intrasexual competition?

    Published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

    by Dr. Ray Garza, Dr. Farid Pazhoohi, & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    October 2022

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    Value computation in humans

    Published in Evolution and Human Behavior

    by Dr. Daniel Sznycer

    September 2022

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    The modification of offspring stress-related behavior and the expression of Drd1, Drd2, and Nr3c1 by a Western-pattern diet in Mus Musculus

    Published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

    by Dr. Nikki Clauss, Kelsey Brass Allen, Katie Billings, Mikayla Tolliver, Dr. Ray Garza, Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven, & Dr. Polly Campbell

    August 2022

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    The implicit rules of combat reflect the evolved function of combat: An evolutionary-psychological analysis of fairness and honor in human aggression

    Published in Evolution and Human Behavior

    by Dr. Aaron Sell, Dr. Daniel Sznycer, & Matt Meyers

    July 2022

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    Third-party perceptions of male and female status: Male physical strength and female physical attractiveness cue high status

    Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

    by Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems, Dr. Laureon Merrie, Tori Short, Dr. Krystal Duarte, Nina Rodriguez, Dr. Juliana French, Dr. Daniel Sznycer, & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    April 2022

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    How anger works

    Published in Evolution and Human Behavior

    by Dr. Daniel Sznycer, Dr. Aaron Sell, & Dr. Alexandre Dumont

    March 2022

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    When making policy, knowledge of human nautre must be supplemented with sound economic analysis: A reply to 'Fairness, generosity and conditionality in the welfare system: The cas of UK disability benefits' by Elliot Johnson and Daniel Nettle

    Published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

    by Dr. Daniel Sznycer & Dr. Mitchell Landers

    March 2022

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    The evolution of shame and its display

    Published in Evolutionary Human Sciences

    by Dr. Mitchell Landers & Dr. Daniel Sznycer

    January 2022

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    Stress response asymmetries in African American emerging adults exposed to chronic social adversity

    Published in Stress

    by Dr. Erin Wood, Dr. Michael Criss, & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    November 2021

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    Do BMI and sex hormones influence visual attention to food stimuli in women? Tracking eye movements across the menstrual cycle

    Published in Evolutionary Psychological Science

    by Dr. Ray Garza, Dr. Nikki Clauss, & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    September 2021

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    Women's preferences for strong men under perceived harsh versus safe ecological conditions

    Published in Evolutionary Psychology

    by Dr. Ray Garza, Dr. Farid Pazhoohi, & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    July 2021

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    The role of fathers on HPA-axis development and activity across the lifespan: A brief review

    Published in Journal of Neurobiology and Physiology

    by Dr. Erin Wood, Dr. Michael Criss, & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    July 2021

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    Parenting, cortisol, and risky behaviors in emerging adulthood: Divering patterns for males and females

    Published in Journal of Neurobiology and Physiology

    by Dr. Erin Wood, Dr. Ray Garza, Dr. Shelia Kennison, & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    June 2021

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    The endocrinology of female friendships: Cortisol and progesterone attunement after separation

    Published in Biological Psychology

    by Dr. Ashley Rankin, Dr. Ray Garza, & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    April 2021

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    Meta-analysis of sex differences in aggression

    Published in Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science

    by Dr. Nikki Clauss, Dr. Ashley Rankin, & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    2021

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    Adrenocortical attunement, reactivity, and potential genetic correlates among parent-daughter dyads from low-income families

    Published in Developmental Psychobiology

    by Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven, Dr. Michael Criss, Dr. Jessica Calvi, Dr. Lixian Cui, Dr. Amanda Baraldi, & Dr. Amanda Sheffield Morris

    December 2020

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    Does ecological harshness influence men's perceptions of women's breast size, ptosis, and intermammary ditance?

    Published in Evolutionary Psychological Science

    by Dr. Ray Garza, Dr. Farid Pazhoohi, & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    October 2020

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    Effects of women's short-term mating orientation and self-perceived attractiveness in rating and viewing men's wasit to chest ratios

    Published in Evolutionary Psychological Science

    by Dr. Ray Garza & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    October 2020

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    The nuanced psychology of The Handmaid's Tale: Commentary on power, feminism, and the patriarchy from four feminist evolutionary psychologists

    Published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

    by Dr. Jessica Calvi, Dr. Ashley Rankin, Dr. Nikki Clauss, & Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven

    January 2020

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