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According to Wikipedia, Mark van Vugt is a Dutch evolutionary psychologist who holds a professorship in evolutionary psychology and work and organizational psychology at the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Van Vugt has affiliate positions at the University of Oxford, Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology .

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Nice Guys Finish First: The Competitive Altruism Hypothesis (2006) (722)
Leadership, followership, and evolution: some lessons from the past. (2008) (667)
COVID-19 and the workplace: Implications, issues, and insights for future research and action. (2020) (575)
Social identification effects in social dilemmas : a transformation of motives (1999) (454)
Gender Differences in Cooperation and Competition (2007) (423)
The Origins and Evolution of Leadership (2009) (358)
Social identity as social glue: the origins of group loyalty. (2004) (346)
Evolutionary Origins of Leadership and Followership (2006) (334)
Evolution and the psychology of intergroup conflict: the male warrior hypothesis (2012) (309)
Exit, voice and loyalty: Analytic and empirical developments (2000) (295)
Car Versus Public Transportation? The Role of Social Value Orientations in a Real‐Life Social Dilemma1 (1995) (280)
Constraining free riding in public goods games: designated solitary punishers can sustain human cooperation (2009) (276)
Sex differences in cooperation: a meta-analytic review of social dilemmas. (2011) (270)
Evolutionary Origins of Leadership and Followership (2006) (264)
Who Cares about the Environmental Impact of Cars? (2004) (260)
The Evolutionary Bases for Sustainable Behavior: Implications for Marketing, Policy, and Social Entrepreneurship (2012) (259)
Leadership in social dilemmas: The effects of group identification on collective actions to provide public goods (1999) (254)
From Games to Giving: Social Value Orientation Predicts Donations to Noble Causes (2007) (222)
Social laughter is correlated with an elevated pain threshold (2012) (204)
Autocratic leadership in social dilemmas: A threat to group stability (2004) (204)
Averting the Tragedy of the Commons: Using Social Psychological Science to Protect the Environment (2009) (192)
Showing Off in Humans: Male Generosity as a Mating Signal (2008) (190)
A social dilemma analysis of commuting preferences: The roles of social value orientation and trust (1998) (182)
Multilevel Selection Theory and Major Evolutionary Transitions (2008) (155)
The Evolutionary Mismatch Hypothesis: Implications for Psychological Science (2018) (151)
New evidence on testosterone and cooperation (2012) (137)
The evolution of leader–follower reciprocity: the theory of service-for-prestige (2014) (137)
Warriors and Peacekeepers: Testing a Biosocial Implicit Leadership Hypothesis of Intergroup Relations Using Masculine and Feminine Faces (2012) (135)
Cooperation in modern society: Promoting the welfare of communities, states, and organizations (2000) (129)
Community Identification Moderating the Impact of Financial Incentives in a Natural Social Dilemma: Water Conservation (2001) (129)
The Many Faces of Leadership (2015) (128)
The height leadership advantage in men and women: Testing evolutionary psychology predictions about the perceptions of tall leaders (2013) (127)
Intergroup and Intragroup Aspects of Leadership in Social Dilemmas: A Relational Model of Cooperation (2002) (124)
Self-interest and beyond: Basic principles of social interaction. (2007) (121)
Facing the situation: Testing a biosocial contingency model of leadership in intergroup relations using masculine and feminine faces (2012) (120)
Commuting by car or public transportation? A social dilemma analysis of travel mode judgements (1996) (120)
Cooperation for reputation: Wasteful contributions as costly signals in public goods (2010) (117)
The wandering mind of men: ERP evidence for gender differences in attention bias towards attractive opposite sex faces. (2011) (117)
Conspiracy Theories: Evolved Functions and Psychological Mechanisms (2018) (116)
Sex Differences in the Emergence of Leadership During Competitions Within and Between Groups (2008) (114)
Leadership in small-scale societies: Some implications for theory, research, and practice (2015) (111)
Men behaving nicely: public goods as peacock tails. (2013) (104)
Abslracl Commuting by car or public transportation ? A social dilemma analysis of travel mode judgements (2004) (100)
Leadership in Mammalian Societies: Emergence, Distribution, Power, and Payoff. (2016) (98)
Naturally Green: Harnessing Stone Age Psychological Biases to Foster Environmental Behavior (2014) (98)
Evolution, situational affordances, and the HEXACO model of personality (2016) (93)
Cooperation and competition (2009) (91)
The Impact of Personal Metering in the Management of a Natural Resource Crisis: A Social Dilemma Analysis (1999) (88)
The evolutionary psychology of leadership (2014) (86)
How a structural solution to a real-world social dilemma failed: A field experiment on the first carpool lane in Europe (1996) (85)
Charisma as signal: An evolutionary perspective on charismatic leadership (2017) (85)
The nature of followership: Evolutionary analysis and review (2019) (84)
Dissonance on the Road: Self-Esteem as a Moderator of Internal and External Self-Justification Strategies (2002) (84)
Psychology of Human Kin Recognition: Heuristic Cues, Erroneous Inferences, and Their Implications (2008) (82)
Sex differences in intergroup competition, aggression and warfare: The male warrior hypothesis (2009) (77)
The age of exploration and exploitation: Younger-looking leaders endorsed for change and older-looking leaders endorsed for stability (2014) (77)
An Interdependence analysis of commuting decisions (1997) (76)
Do natural landscapes reduce future discounting in humans? (2013) (71)
Structural Solutions to Social Dilemmas: A Field Study on Commuters’ Willingness to Fund Improvements in Public Transit1 (2001) (68)
Predictors of willingness to register as an organ donor among dutch adolescents (2000) (68)
The Altruism Puzzle: Psychological Adaptations for Prosocial Behavior. (2006) (66)
Niche Construction and the Evolution of Leadership (2015) (66)
Convergence to consensus in heterogeneous groups and the emergence of informal leadership (2016) (64)
Think Leader, Think White? Capturing and Weakening an Implicit Pro-White Leadership Bias (2014) (64)
Conspiracy Theories: Evolved Functions and Psychological Mechanisms. (2018) (60)
Competitive altruism: a theory of reputation-based cooperation in groups (2007) (58)
Collective identity and cooperation in a public goods dilemma: A matter of trust or self-efficacy? (1998) (58)
Selected: Why some people lead, why others follow, and why it matters (2010) (58)
Genuine giving or selfish sacrifice? The role of commitment and cost level upon willingness to sacrifice (2003) (58)
From Fault Line to Group Fission: Understanding Membership Changes in Small Groups (2006) (56)
Applying Social Psychology to Understanding Social Problems (2012) (56)
Applying Social Psychology: From Problems to Solutions (2007) (56)
Central, Individual, or Collective Control? Social Dilemma Strategies for Natural Resource Management (2002) (55)
Leadership by Example in the Weak‐Link Game (2013) (52)
Selfish or servant leadership? Evolutionary predictions on leadership personalities in coordination games (2011) (51)
It’s Not Just What is Said, but When it’s Said: A Temporal Account of Verbal Behaviors and Emergent Leadership in Self-Managed Teams (2019) (50)
Social Dilemmas: The Psychology of Human Cooperation (2013) (49)
Gender and Facial Dominance in Gaze Cuing: Emotional Context Matters in the Eyes That We Follow (2013) (47)
Evolutionary approaches to group dynamics: An introduction. (2008) (47)
Generalized or Origin-Specific Out-Group Prejudice?: The Role of Temporary and Chronic Pathogen-Avoidance Motivation in Intergroup Relations (2019) (46)
Guns, Germs, and Sex: How Evolution Shaped Our Intergroup Psychology (2009) (46)
Sex Differences in Intergroup Competition, Aggression, and Warfare (2009) (44)
In the eye of the beholder? An eye-tracking experiment on emergent leadership in team interactions (2017) (43)
Darwin's invisible hand: Market competition, evolution and the firm (2013) (42)
The Status-Size Hypothesis: How Cues of Physical Size and Social Status Influence Each Other (2014) (40)
Leadership in Organizations: An Evolutionary Perspective (2011) (39)
Evolution and the Social Psychology of Leadership: The Mismatch Hypothesis (2008) (37)
Historical and experimental evidence of sexual selection for war heroism (2015) (37)
Naturally Selected: The Evolutionary Science of Leadership (2011) (35)
Hormonal underpinnings of status conflict: Testosterone and cortisol are related to decisions and satisfaction in the hawk-dove game (2017) (35)
The Leadership Quarterly: State of the journal (2019) (33)
The Evolutionary Psychology of Human Prosociality (2015) (33)
Kerbside recycling in the London Borough of Havering: progress and priorities (2005) (32)
Cognitive and social adaptations for leadership and followership: Evolutionary game theory and group dynamics. (2007) (32)
Charismatic leadership and the evolution of cooperation (2016) (31)
A Dual Model of Leadership and Hierarchy: Evolutionary Synthesis (2019) (31)
The Power of Reputations: The Role of Third Party Information in the Admission of New Group Members (2008) (31)
Identity and Sustainability: Localized Sense of Community Increases Environmental Engagement (2015) (31)
The Evolutionary Foundations of Status Hierarchy (2015) (30)
Chronic gynaecological pain: an exploration of medical attitudes (1998) (30)
Concerns about the privatization of public goods : A social dilemma analysis (1997) (29)
Hair cortisol and work stress: Importance of workload and stress model (JDCS or ERI) (2018) (29)
A Melding of the Minds: When Primatology Meets Personality and Social Psychology (2009) (27)
Basal testosterone, leadership and dominance: A field study and meta-analysis (2016) (27)
Obstacles and opportunities for female leadership in mammalian societies: A comparative perspective (2020) (26)
The Evolutionary Foundations of Hierarchy : Status , Dominance , Prestige , and Leadership (2014) (26)
Male-Warrior Hypothesis (2010) (25)
Understanding urbanicity: how interdisciplinary methods help to unravel the effects of the city on mental health (2020) (25)
Leader endorsement in social dilemmas: Comparing the instrumental and relational perspectives. (2003) (24)
But taxpayers do cooperate (2012) (24)
From genes to minds to cultures: Evolutionary approaches to leadership (2020) (22)
Evolution and Groups (2013) (22)
The origins of leadership (2008) (21)
The exit of residential mobility or the voice of political action? Strategies for problem solving in residential communities (2003) (21)
Despotism, Democracy, and the Evolutionary Dynamics of Leadership and Followership (2009) (21)
Triumph of the commons (2009) (21)
Evolutionary Psychology in the Modern World: Applications, Perspectives, and Strategies (2012) (21)
On Faces, Gazes, Votes, and Followers: Evolutionary Psychological and Social Neuroscience Approaches to Leadership (2014) (19)
Choosing between personal comfort and the environment: solutions to the transportation dilemma. (2000) (19)
Self-interest as self-fulfilling prophecy (2001) (18)
Power influences the expression of Honesty-Humility: The power-exploitation affordances hypothesis (2019) (18)
Pride before the fall: (Over)confidence predicts escalation of public commitment (2017) (18)
Leadership in social dilemmas: social identification effects on collective actions in public goods (1999) (18)
Sex differences in cooperation and prosocial behavior (2009) (18)
Social Dilemmas: Understanding the Psychology of Human Cooperation. (2013) (18)
Community Identification Moderating the Impact of Financial Incentives in a Natural Social Dilemma: Water Conservation (2001) (18)
The Tribal Instinct Hypothesis (2009) (18)
The impact of metering in a natural resource crisis: a social dilemma analysis (1999) (17)
Running Head: The Altruism Puzzle Psychological Adaptations for Prosocial Behavior: The Altruism Puzzle (2010) (16)
Effect of collective self-esteem on ingroup evaluations. (1999) (16)
Altruism as showing off: a signalling perspective on promoting green behaviour and acts of kindness (2011) (15)
Electrodes as social glue: measuring heart rate promotes giving in the trust game. (2011) (14)
Assessing the effects of location, media and task type on team performance (2002) (14)
Empowering the poor: A field study of the social psychological consequences of receiving autonomy or dependency aid in Panama (2018) (14)
Is green the new sexy? Romantic of conspicuous conservation (2021) (14)
Sex Differences in Cooperation (2011) (14)
Despotism, democracy, and the evolutionary dynamics of leadership and followership. (2009) (14)
Sex bias in intergroup conflict and collective movements among social mammals: male warriors and female guides (2022) (12)
The Service-for-Prestige Theory of Leader-Follower Relations : A Review of the Evolutionary (2015) (12)
Introduction: Cooperation in Society: Fostering Community Action and Civic Participation (2002) (12)
The peacock's tail of altruism (2009) (11)
The Napoleon Complex: When Shorter Men Take More (2018) (11)
Social Dilemmas and Transportation Decisions (1996) (11)
Voting for a Male Warrior or Female Peacekeeper? Testing the Evolutionary Contingency Hypothesis in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections (2018) (10)
An Evolutionary Explanation for the Female Leadership Paradox (2021) (9)
The triad model of follower needs: theory and review. (2020) (9)
A history of war: The role of inter-group conflict in sex differences in aggression (2009) (9)
Intergroup Contact and Rice Allocation via a Modified Dictator Game in Rural Cameroon (2013) (9)
Evolutionary psychology’s next challenge: Solving modern problems using a mismatch perspective. (2020) (8)
Being better than some but not better than average: Self‐enhancing comparisons in aerobics (1998) (8)
COVID-19 is a moderating variable with its own moderating factors (2021) (8)
When Better Seems Bigger: Perceived Performance of Adult Professional Football Players Is Positively Associated With Perceptions of Their Body Size (2019) (8)
The evolutionary psychology of climate change behaviors: Insights and applications. (2021) (8)
Emerging leadership and the general factor of personality (GFP): A quasi-experimental test of an evolutionary prediction. (2020) (8)
The Male Warrior Hypothesis: The Evolutionary Psychology of Intergroup Conflict, Tribal Aggression, and Warfare (2012) (8)
Encouraging Pro-Environmental Behaviors Through Children-Based Appeals: A Kin Selection Perspective (2020) (7)
The evolutionary foundations of status and hierarchy: Dominance, prestige, power, and leadership (2015) (6)
Evolution of the social brain: Psychological adaptations for group living. (2014) (6)
Leadership and Status in Mammalian Societies: Context Matters (2020) (6)
Endogenous leadership in a coordination game with conflict of interest and asymmetric information (2009) (6)
The Nature in Leadership Evolutionary , Biological , and Social Neuroscience Perspectives (2011) (5)
Charisma: New frontiers: A special issue dedicated to the memory of Boas Shamir (2017) (5)
From aggression to altruism: Basic principles of social interaction (2007) (5)
Remember your crimes: How an appeal to ingroup wrongdoings fosters reconciliation in separatist conflict (2018) (5)
Commuting by car or by public transportation? An interdependence theoretical approach (1984) (5)
Applying Social Psychology (2008) (5)
Construct and Predictive Validity of an Assessment Game to Measure Honesty–Humility (2021) (5)
Evolutionary approaches to Group Dynamics (2010) (4)
27. Self-justification among car drivers: processes that undermine policy measures (2002) (4)
Evolutionary Group Dynamics (2015) (4)
The missing link: leadership, identity, and the social brain. (2012) (4)
Follow the leader…but at what cost? (2004) (4)
The impact of leadership style on group stability (2005) (4)
Psychological barriers to effective altruism: An evolutionary perspective. (2021) (4)
Female leadership: A transdisciplinary perspective (2019) (4)
Psychological individual differences as predictors of refugees’ local language proficiency (2019) (3)
The Evolutionary Mismatch Hypothesis (2020) (3)
The Impact of Social Value Orientation on Decision Making in Social Dilemmas: A Survey Exercise (2008) (3)
Leadership in a Weak-Link Game (2009) (3)
Giving Guys Get the Girls: Men Appear More Desirable to the Opposite Sex When Displaying Costly Donations to the Homeless (2020) (3)
Gendered outgroup prejudice: An evolutionary threat management perspective on anti-immigrant bias (2019) (3)
Evolutionary psychology: theoretical foundations for the study of organizations (2017) (3)
Short-term effects of feedback on householder recycling behaviour (2003) (2)
The nature in leadership: Biological, evolutionary and social neuroscience approaches (2011) (2)
Leader endorsement in social dilemmas: Comparing the instrumental and relational perspectives (2003) (2)
23. Self-interest and beyond: basic processes of social interaction (2007) (2)
15 Imaging Visualisation of Drug Target and Drug Effect (2012) (2)
Evolutionary psychology: theoretical foundations for the study of organizations (2017) (2)
Evolutionary, Biological, and Neuroscience Perspectives : The Nature of Leadership (2017) (1)
Emergent Leadership in Self-Directed Teams: Communication Shifts over Time (2016) (1)
Effects of Economic Uncertainty and Socioeconomic Status on Reproductive Timing: A Life History Approach (2022) (1)
The biased use of argument evaluation criteria in motivated reasoning; Does argument quality depend on the evaluators' standpoint? (2016) (1)
The Glass Pyramid Hypothesis: Sex Differences in Preferences for Organizational Hierarchies (2019) (1)
The Origins and Evolutionary Significance of Team Meetings in Organizations (2020) (1)
Naturally selected: Understanding the human animal in the workplace [blog] (2012) (1)
The missing link: leadership, identity, and the social brain. (2012) (1)
Women's implicit bias against threatening male faces: The role of emotion, hormones, and group membership (2019) (1)
Introduction (2002) (1)
Cooperation through competition: Conspicuous contributions as costly signals in public goods (2009) (1)
The Psychology of Social Dilemmas appeared in: The Psychologist, 1998, Vol. 6, pp. 289-292 (1998) (1)
Leadership Practices of Council Secretaries in Turbulent Times; A Case Study (2018) (1)
Going green? Using evolutionary psychology to foster sustainable lifestyles (2013) (1)
Human Centric Organization Design: A Perspective from Evolutionary Psychology (2021) (1)
Choosing between personal comfort and our environment : The transportation dilemma (2000) (1)
Corrigendum: The Evolutionary Mismatch Hypothesis: Implications for Psychological Science (2019) (1)
The service-for-prestige theory of leadership (2015) (1)
Leadership in Small-Scale Societies: Some Implications for Theory, Research, and Practice (2015) (1)
Male Adaptations that Facilitate Success in War (2021) (0)
An intergroup perspective on helping: Overcoming social and psychological obstacles to receiving aid (2011) (0)
Evolutionary psychology: theoretical foundations for the study of organizations (2017) (0)
Competitief altruïsme op de werkvloer: een evolutionair psychologische benadering (2013) (0)
When better seems bigger: perceived football player performance is positively associated with perceptions of their height and weight. (2013) (0)
Hormones in hair & stress models (2017) (0)
Evolutionary perspectives on leadership (2010) (0)
Nudging evolutionary mismatched behaviors: Implications for social psychology and public policy (2019) (0)
SEX DIFFERENCES IN INTERGROUP AGGRESSION 1 The Male Warrior Hypothesis: Sex Differences in Intergroup Aggression PLEASE DO NOT CITE OR CIRCULATE WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE AUTHORS (2008) (0)
The Problem Phase: From a Problem to a Problem Definition (2008) (0)
male sex drive to blame for wars (2012) (0)
Darwin, the economist (2013) (0)
Follow me: The Origins of Leadership (2008) (0)
Kinship cues 1 Running Head: Kinship Cues and Prosocial Behaviour Kinship Cues as a Basis for Prosocial Behaviour in Groups: Heuristic Causes and Consequences of Familiarity (2010) (0)
various interviews and contributions in national and international media (2016) (0)
The Test Phase: Developing and Testing the Process Model (2008) (0)
The CRT-I: Development of an implicit instrument to assess impulsivity (2018) (0)
Social Dilemma Strategies for Natural Resource Management (2001) (0)
The CRT-SC: Development of an implicit instrument to assess self-control (2018) (0)
Globalization: Public Good or Bad? (2001) (0)
Running Head: PRIVATIZATION IN SOCIAL DILEMMAS Concerns about the Privatization of Public Goods: A Social Dilemma Analysis* Social Psychology Quarterly, 1997, 60, 355-367 (2010) (0)
RUNNING HEAD : Primate Social Psychology A Melding of the Minds : When Primatology Meets Personality and Social Psychology Personality and Social Psychology Review ( in press ) (2010) (0)
Evolution of status, hierarchy, dominance, and leadership (2015) (0)
Leaders Improving Lives: Harnessing the Power of Leaders for Good (2018) (0)
Female leadership : A transdisciplinary perspective 1 (2019) (0)
From faultlines to fissions: Understanding transformations within social dilemma groups: (633942013-209) (2015) (0)
The effect of charismatic leaders on followers’ memory, error detection, persuasion and prosocial behavior: A cognitive science approach (2022) (0)
Darwin the economist: using the rules of evolution to rebuild economics (2013) (0)
Assessing Integrity in Supervisory Board Members: A Biosocial Approach (2018) (0)
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) The Napoleon Complex : When Shorter Men Take More Knapen (2018) (0)
Facial aesthetic minimally invasive procedure: More than just vanity, a social-psychological approach. (2023) (0)
Running Head: COMMUNITY IDENTIFICATION IN A NATURAL SOCIAL DILEMMA Community Identification Moderating the Impact of Financial Incentives in a Natural Social Dilemma: Water Conservation Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 1440-1449 (2010) (0)
Think Leader, Think White? Re-categorization Erases the Implicit Bias against Ethnic Minority Leadership: (532162013-011) (2012) (0)
Workplace justice and the dilemma of organizational citizenship RUSSELLCROPANZANO AND ZINTA S. BYRNE (2012) (0)
GROUP REACTIONS TO DISLOYALTY 3 United We Stand , Divided We Fall : Group Reactions to Loyal and Disloyal Members " In thy face I see the map of honor , truth , and loyalty (2005) (0)
MinireviewThe Origins and Evolution of Leadership (0)
The peacock’s tail of human altruism (2010) (0)
Verslag Expert meeting 'Story and History in the Books of Samuel' (2006) (0)
Various popular science articles and interviews (2014) (0)
Social Psychology and Economics in Environmental Research (SPEER) Project Awarded under TERM II, Round 1998 (Reprinted from Term Times, vol 4, May, 1999) (1999) (0)
Why the privatisation of public goods might fail: a social dilemma approach (1997) (0)
The effect of location on teamwork (1999) (0)
From Dominance to Leadership: Emerging Lessons from the Ancestral Past (2017) (0)
Let's use evolution to turn us green (2012) (0)
Acute Stress Reduces Perceived Trustworthiness of Male Racial Outgroup Faces (2017) (0)
Eye-Tracking Experiment Data on Emergent Leadership in Team Interactions (2017) (0)
Boekbespreking C. Ehrlich 'Saul in Story and Tradition'. [Review of the book Saul in Story and Tradition, C.S. Ehrlich & M.C. White, 2006] (2006) (0)
Relational Models, Leadership, and Organization Design: An Evolutionary View of Organizational Development (2018) (0)
Data for: Hair cortisol and work related stress: importance of the measured stress model (JDC or ERI) and sample characteristics (2018) (0)
Biosocial leadership categorization: example from group-level variation to context-specific cognitive leadership prototype. (2013) (0)
The Napoleon Complex - Knapen, Blaker, & Van Vugt 2018 (2018) (0)
Niche Construction and the evolution of leadership: Toward a unified theory (2014) (0)
Internal Self-Justification Strategies Questionnaire (2013) (0)
Measuring honesty-humility using a partially structured attitude measure (2019) (0)
Community Identification Scale (2013) (0)
On gazes, faces, votes and followers: Evolutionary and neuroscience approaches to leadership. (2014) (0)
Leaders Improving Lives: Harnessing the Power of Leaders for Good (2018) (0)
The Analysis Phase: Finding Theory-Based Explanations for Problems (2008) (0)

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