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Mark Schaller's Degrees
- PhD Psychology University of British Columbia
- Bachelors Psychology University of California, Santa Barbara
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mark Schaller is a psychological scientist who has made many contributions to the study of human psychology, particularly in areas of social cognition, stereotyping, evolutionary psychology, and cultural psychology. He is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia.
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- Does social exclusion motivate interpersonal reconnection? Resolving the "porcupine problem". (2007) (1025)
- Pathogen prevalence predicts human cross-cultural variability in individualism/collectivism (2008) (753)
- The Behavioral Immune System (and Why It Matters) (2011) (738)
- Empathy-based helping: is it selflessly or selfishly motivated? (1987) (710)
- Renovating the Pyramid of Needs (2010) (684)
- Evolved Disease-Avoidance Mechanisms and Contemporary Xenophobic Attitudes (2004) (669)
- Perceived vulnerability to disease: Development and validation of a 15-item self-report instrument (2009) (563)
- Pathogens, personality, and culture: disease prevalence predicts worldwide variability in sociosexuality, extraversion, and openness to experience. (2008) (540)
- Psychology and culture. (2004) (524)
- Evolved Disease-Avoidance Processes and Contemporary Anti-Social Behavior: Prejudicial Attitudes and Avoidance of People with Physical Disabilities (2003) (472)
- Functional projection: how fundamental social motives can bias interpersonal perception. (2005) (456)
- Human threat management systems: Self-protection and disease avoidance (2011) (414)
- Pathogen-avoidance mechanisms and the stigmatization of obese people (2007) (352)
- They All Look the Same to Me (Unless They're Angry) (2006) (325)
- Historical Prevalence of Infectious Diseases Within 230 Geopolitical Regions: A Tool for Investigating Origins of Culture (2010) (317)
- The behavioral immune system: Its evolution and social psychological implications. (2007) (300)
- The behavioural immune system and the psychology of human sociality (2011) (282)
- Memory and Mystery: The Cultural Selection of Minimally Counterintuitive Narratives (2006) (281)
- Stereotypes as individual and collective representations. (2000) (262)
- Fear of the Dark: Interactive Effects of Beliefs about Danger and Ambient Darkness on Ethnic Stereotypes (2003) (258)
- Evolution and social psychology. (2006) (257)
- The relations of parental characteristics and practices to children's vicarious emotional responding. (1991) (255)
- Goal-Driven Cognition and Functional Behavior (2010) (244)
- Parasites, Behavioral Defenses, and the Social Psychological Mechanisms Through Which Cultures Are Evoked (2006) (232)
- On the Origins of Cultural Differences in Conformity: Four Tests of the Pathogen Prevalence Hypothesis (2011) (213)
- The role of sympathy and altruistic personality traits in helping: a reexamination. (1989) (209)
- Personality and socialization correlates of vicarious emotional responding. (1991) (205)
- The prejudiced personality revisited: Personal need for structure and formation of erroneous group stereotypes. (1995) (202)
- Danger, Disease, and the Nature of Prejudice(s) (2012) (200)
- The Behavioral Immune System: Implications for Social Cognition, Social Interaction, and Social Influence (2016) (197)
- Mere Visual Perception of Other People’s Disease Symptoms Facilitates a More Aggressive Immune Response (2010) (197)
- The economics of empathic helping: Support for a mood management motive (1988) (187)
- Threat(s) and conformity deconstructed: Perceived threat of infectious disease and its implications for conformist attitudes and behavior (2012) (181)
- Prehistoric dangers and contemporary prejudices (2003) (170)
- No One Wants to Look Cheap: Trade-Offs Between Social Disincentives and the Economic and Psychological Incentives to Redeem Coupons (2005) (164)
- Prejudicial Attitudes Toward Older Adults May Be Exaggerated When People Feel Vulnerable to Infectious Disease: Evidence and Implications (2009) (162)
- Does attitude similarity serve as a heuristic cue for kinship? Evidence of an implicit cognitive association (2005) (156)
- Pathogens and Politics: Further Evidence That Parasite Prevalence Predicts Authoritarianism (2013) (136)
- Selective pressures on the once and future contents of ethnic stereotypes: effects of the communicability of traits. (2002) (133)
- Is friendship akin to kinship? (2007) (132)
- Dynamical Evolutionary Psychology: Mapping the Domains of the New Interactionist Paradigm (2002) (129)
- Implications of the behavioural immune system for social behaviour and human health in the modern world (2015) (128)
- Zoonotic and Non-Zoonotic Diseases in Relation to Human Personality and Societal Values: Support for the Parasite-Stress Model (2010) (127)
- The Behavioral Immune System (2015) (121)
- Differentiation of Personal Distress and Sympathy in Children and Adults (1988) (116)
- In-group favoritism and statistical reasoning in social inference : implications for formation and maintenance of group stereotypes (1992) (111)
- Illusory correlation and social categorization: Toward an integration of motivational and cognitive factors in stereotype formation. (1989) (104)
- Sympathy and personal distress: development, gender differences, and interrelations of indexes. (1989) (101)
- The psychological foundations of culture (2003) (91)
- Influence of Impression-Management Goals on the Emerging Contents of Group Stereotypes: Support for a Social-Evolutionary Process (1999) (90)
- Evolution, culture, and the human mind (2010) (89)
- Perceived threat of infectious disease and its implications for sexual attitudes (2013) (82)
- Psychology of Human Kin Recognition: Heuristic Cues, Erroneous Inferences, and Their Implications (2008) (82)
- Individual differences in activation of the parental care motivational system: assessment, prediction, and implications. (2015) (80)
- Human evolution and social cognition (2007) (76)
- Empathy, Sadness, and Distress Three Related but Distinct Vicarious Affective Responses to Another's Suffering (1988) (76)
- The Psychological Consequences of Fame: Three Tests of the Self-Consciousness Hypothesis (1997) (72)
- Infectious Disease and the Creation of Culture (2010) (72)
- Intergroup prejudices and intergroup conflicts. (2008) (67)
- On the Verifiability of Evolutionary Psychological Theories: An Analysis of the Psychology of Scientific Persuasion (2002) (62)
- Infections and Elections (2016) (61)
- From evolved motives to everyday mentation: Evolution, goals, and cognition (2004) (60)
- Adaptive Allocation of Attention: Effects of Sex and Sociosexuality on Visual Attention to Attractive Opposite-Sex Faces. (2007) (53)
- Evolution and human motivation: A fundamental motives framework (2017) (53)
- The Birth of High Gods: How the Cultural Evolution of Supernatural Policing Inuenced the Emergence of Complex, Cooperative Human Societies, Paving the Way for Civilization (2011) (53)
- More Memory Bang for the Attentional Buck (2010) (53)
- Gender-Related traits and helping in a nonemergency situation (1988) (52)
- Infectious Diseases and the Evolution of Cross-Cultural Differences (2011) (51)
- An evolutionary threat-management approach to prejudices (2016) (51)
- Stereotypes as Justifications of Prejudice (2011) (50)
- Social categorization and the formation of group stereotypes : further evidence for biased information processing in the perception of group-behavior correlations (1991) (50)
- Dynamic Social Impact and the Evolution of Social Representations: A Natural History of Stereotypes. (1996) (49)
- Evolutionary approaches to group dynamics: An introduction. (2008) (47)
- Training in Statistical Reasoning Inhibits the Formation of Erroneous Group Stereotypes (1996) (47)
- When authorities' commands backfire: attributions about consensus and effects on deviant decision making. (2005) (47)
- "Intuitive Analysis of Covariance" and Group Stereotype Formation (1992) (46)
- Geographical Frame of Reference and Dangerous Intergroup Attitudes: A Double‐Minority Study in Sri Lanka (2006) (45)
- Empathy, Sadness, and Distress: Three Related but Distinct Vicarious Affective Responses to Another's Suffering. (1988) (45)
- The sociality–health–fitness nexus: synthesis, conclusions and future directions (2015) (43)
- THE COMPLEXITY OF THINKING ACROSS CULTURES: INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CULTURE AND SITUATIONAL CONTEXT (2001) (41)
- The Content and Correlates of Belief in Karma Across Cultures (2018) (38)
- On the Adaptive Origins and Maladaptive Consequences of Human Inbreeding: Parasite Prevalence, Immune Functioning, and Consanguineous Marriage (2010) (37)
- Do scientific theories affect men's evaluations of sex crimes? (2011) (37)
- Groups as Adaptive Devices: Human Docility and Group Aggregation Mechanisms in Evolutionary Context (2013) (37)
- Are Collectivistic Cultures More Prone to Rapid Transformation? Computational Models of Cross-Cultural Differences, Social Network Structure, Dynamic Social Influence, and Cultural Change (2020) (36)
- Ancestral environments and motivated social perception: Goal-like blasts from the evolutionary past. (2003) (34)
- The Parental Care Motivational System and Why It Matters (for Everyone) (2018) (34)
- How Communication Shapes Culture. (2007) (34)
- Nepotistic nosiness: inclusive fitness and vigilance of kin members' romantic relationships ☆ (2007) (34)
- When and How Disgust Is and Is Not Implicated in the Behavioral Immune System (2014) (34)
- Mothers’ Implicit and Explicit Attitudes and Attributions in Relation to Self-Reported Parenting Behavior (2017) (34)
- Sample size, aggregation, and statistical reasoning in social inference ☆ (1992) (34)
- Evolutionary Bases of First Impressions (2008) (33)
- Methods for the Measurement of Consensual Beliefs Within Groups (1998) (33)
- Individual Differences in Activation of the Parental Care Motivational System: An Empirical Distinction Between Protection and Nurturance (2018) (33)
- Intergroup Biases and the Cognitive Dynamics of Stereotype Formation (1991) (30)
- The role of statistical reasoning in the formation, preservation and prevention of group stereotypes (1994) (28)
- The Psychological Foundations of Culture: An Introduction (2003) (27)
- Cultural Inertia, Economic Incentives, and the Persistence of “Southern Violence” (2011) (26)
- The empirical benefits of conceptual rigor: Systematic articulation of conceptual hypotheses can reduce the risk of non-replicable results (and facilitate novel discoveries too) (2016) (26)
- Impressions of Danger Influence Impressions of People: An Evolutionary Perspective on Individual and Collective Cognition. (2004) (26)
- Evolution, motivation, and the mating/parenting trade–off (2019) (25)
- Evolution and social psychology: Frontiers of social psychology (2006) (25)
- Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations (2020) (23)
- Authoritarianism and the HolocaustSome Cognitive and Affective Implications (2002) (22)
- Social Psychology of Prejudice: Historical and Contemporary Issues (2008) (21)
- Anatomy of a Psychological Theory: Integrating Construct-Validation and Computational-Modeling Methods to Advance Theorizing (2021) (19)
- Pathogen prevalence and geographical variation in traits and behavior. (2014) (19)
- Affective implications of the mating/parenting trade-off: Short-term mating motives and desirability as a short-term mate predict less intense tenderness responses to infants (2014) (18)
- Evolutionary psychology meets socio-ecological psychology: the motivational psychologies of disease-avoidance and parental care. (2020) (18)
- Evidence That an Ebola Outbreak Influenced Voting Preferences, Even After Controlling (Mindfully) for Autocorrelation: Reply to Tiokhin and Hruschka (2017) (2017) (15)
- Feeling Bad to Feel Good: Comments and Observations (1993) (15)
- Parasites, minds and cultures (2009) (15)
- Pyramid Power (2010) (14)
- The behavioural immune system and pandemic psychology: the evolved psychology of disease-avoidance and its implications for attitudes, behaviour, and public health during epidemic outbreaks (2021) (13)
- Evolutionary Social Influence (2013) (13)
- Oxford handbook of evolutionary psychology (2007) (13)
- Social categorization and stereotyping: 'You mean I'm one of "them"?'. (2000) (11)
- On the Purposes Served by Psychological Research and its Critics (1998) (10)
- What Your Nose Knows: Affective, Cognitive, and Behavioral Responses to the Scent of Another Person (2020) (9)
- Mechanisms by which parasites influence cultures, and why they matter (2012) (8)
- Are Children Perceived to Be Morally Exceptional? Different Sets of Psychological Variables Predict Adults’ Moral Judgments About Adults and Young Children (2018) (8)
- Do post-menopausal women provide more care to their kin?: evidence of grandparental caregiving from two large-scale national surveys (2019) (8)
- "What Kinds of Social Psychology Experiments Are of Value to Perform?" Comment on Wallach and Wallach (1994) (1995) (8)
- Is Secure Attachment the Antidote to Everything that Ails Us? (2007) (8)
- Any Theory Can Be Useful Theory, Even If It Gets On Our Nerves (2002) (7)
- Modular Minds, Multiple Motives (2013) (7)
- Modeling cultural change: Computational models of interpersonal influence dynamics can yield new insights about how cultures change, which cultures change more rapidly than others, and why. (2021) (6)
- Beyond "Competing," Beyond "Compatible" (2004) (6)
- Breadwinner Seeks Bottle Warmer: How Women’s Future Aspirations and Expectations Predict Their Current Mate Preferences (2020) (6)
- Social Selection and the Origins of Culture (2011) (6)
- “Parental” responses to human infants (and puppy dogs): Evidence that the perception of eyes is especially influential, but eye contact is not (2020) (6)
- Social Psychology and the Pragmatic Conduct of Science (2001) (5)
- Beyond "competing," beyond "compatible." Commentary on J. Archer. (1997) (5)
- Moral Expansiveness Around the World: The Role of Societal Factors Across 36 Countries (2022) (5)
- Multinational data show that conspiracy beliefs are associated with the perception (and reality) of poor national economic performance (2022) (4)
- CLAIRLIB Documentation v1.03 (2007) (4)
- Are Our Minds Fundamentally Egalitarian? Adaptive Bases of Different Sociocultural Models About Distributive Justice (2011) (4)
- Evolution is the new cognition (2013) (4)
- The selfish goal meets the selfish gene. (2014) (3)
- Towards a Cultural/Evolutionary Psychology: Cooperation and Complementarity (2011) (3)
- Evolution is the new cognition: Frontiers of social psychology (2006) (3)
- Cognition and communication in culture's evolutionary landscape (2004) (2)
- Geographical Frame of Reference and Dangerous (2006) (2)
- How strongly do moral character inferences predict forecasts of the future? Testing the moderating roles of transgressor age, implicit personality theories, and belief in karma (2019) (2)
- Individual goals in evolving organizations. (1999) (2)
- Beyond prejudice to prejudices. (2012) (2)
- Evolved Disease-Avoidance Mechanisms and Contemporary Attitudes (2004) (2)
- Collaboration in classical political economy and noncooperative game theory (2014) (1)
- The substance of prejudice : biological- and social-evolutionary perspectives on cognition, culture, and the contents of sterotypical beliefs (2005) (1)
- Perceiving societal pressure to be happy is linked to poor well-being, especially in happy nations (2022) (1)
- Cultural Dispositions , Social Networks , and the Dynamics of Social Influence : Implications for Public Opinion and Cultural Change (2015) (1)
- Mixed-effects models for moderating effects of parental care and tenderness on need to protect in Experiment 5. (2020) (0)
- Plenary Abstracts (2005) (0)
- mixed-effects models for effects of eye visibility and target type on ratings in Experiment 3. (2020) (0)
- Mixed-effects models for moderating effects of parental care and tenderness on cuteness in Experiment 3. (2020) (0)
- Analyses testing for moderating effects of gender, parental status, and dog ownership. (2020) (0)
- Mixed-effects models for moderating effects of parental care and tenderness on vulnerability in Experiment 3. (2020) (0)
- Anatomy of a Psychological Theory: Integrating Construct Validation and Computational Modeling Methods to Advance Theorizing (0)
- Six degrees of Bob Cialdini and five principles of scientific influence (2012) (0)
- Mixed-effects models for moderating effects of parental care and tenderness on cuteness in Experiment 5. (2020) (0)
- COMMENTARIES (2000) (0)
- Belief in Karma Questionnaire (2019) (0)
- Evolution, Relationships, and Health: The Social Shaping Hypothesis (2013) (0)
- Social mindfulness predicts concern for nature and immigrants across 36 nations (2022) (0)
- Navigating between punishment, avoidance, and instruction: The form and function of responses to moral violations varies across adult and child transgressors (2022) (0)
- A person-centered approach to punishment: Reprimand and avoidance are differentially directed towards adult and child transgressors (2021) (0)
- Ecospirituality: The psychology of moral concern for nature (2023) (0)
- Sentiments and the motivational psychology of parental care (2017) (0)
- Individual-level psychology and group-level traits (2014) (0)
- Mixed-effects models for moderating effects of parental care and tenderness on vulnerability in Experiment 5. (2020) (0)
- Exploring the Evolutionary Foundations of Culture: An Adaptationist Framework (2011) (0)
- INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND SEXUAL ATTITUDES 2 in perceived vulnerability to disease ? (2018) (0)
- Paul's argumentation on sexual issues in Corinth, specifically pertaining to 1 Corinthians 5-7 (2009) (0)
- Response Mere Visual Perception of Other People ' s Disease Symptoms Facilitates a More Aggressive Immune (2010) (0)
- What Motives Do People Most Want to Know About When Meeting Another Person? An Investigation Into Prioritization of Information About Seven Fundamental Motives (2022) (0)
- Just as the threat of predation leads to the evolution of behavioral systems, so too does the threat of parasitic attack. In certain species of leafcutter (2018) (0)
- Parental Care and Tenderness Questionnaire (2015) (0)
- Breadwinner Seeks Bottle Warmer: How Women’s Future Aspirations and Expectations Predict Their Current Mate Preferences (2019) (0)
- How I Got Interested in Stereotypes and Prejudices (2005) (0)
- The evidentiary standard of special design is a little bit like heaven (2002) (0)
- A “Random Walk” through Prepositional Phrase Attachment (2005) (0)
- Color in Mind, Culture, and Language (2011) (0)
- Conformity Deconstructed : Perceived Threat of Infectious Disease and its Implications for Conformist Attitudes and Behavior (2018) (0)
- NOTE: This is a pre-publication manuscript version of a published book chapter. It is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the contents of the chapter as it appears in the book. Human Evolution and Social Cognition (2021) (0)
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