Steven Gangestad
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American evolutionary psychologist
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- PhD Psychology University of California, Santa Barbara
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Steven Warren Gangestad is an American evolutionary psychologist who is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the University of New Mexico. With his University of New Mexico colleague Randy Thornhill, he has conducted considerable research pointing to the existence of concealed ovulation in humans.
Steven Gangestad's Published Works
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Published Works
- The evolution of human mating: Trade-offs and strategic pluralism (2000) (1635)
- Individual differences in sociosexuality: evidence for convergent and discriminant validity. (1991) (1395)
- The evolution of human sexuality. (1996) (1167)
- On the nature of self-monitoring: matters of assessment, matters of validity. (1986) (1080)
- Self-monitoring: appraisal and reappraisal. (2000) (750)
- Facial attractiveness (1999) (740)
- Life History Theory and Evolutionary Psychology (2015) (700)
- Human facial beauty (1993) (581)
- Facial attractiveness, symmetry and cues of good genes (1999) (542)
- "To Carve Nature at Its Joints": On the Existence of Discrete Classes in Personality (1985) (508)
- Pathogen prevalence and human mate preferences (1993) (472)
- Facial sexual dimorphism, developmental stability, and susceptibility to disease in men and women (2006) (469)
- Menstrual cycle variation in women's preferences for the scent of symmetrical men (1998) (464)
- Toward an evolutionary history of female sociosexual variation. (1990) (456)
- The scent of symmetry: A human sex pheromone that signals fitness? (1999) (421)
- Conditional expression of women's desires and men's mate guarding across the ovulatory cycle (2006) (409)
- Facial attractiveness, developmental stability, and fluctuating asymmetry. (1994) (404)
- Human Fluctuating Asymmetry and Sexual Behavior (1994) (392)
- Sociosexuality and Romantic Partner Choice (1992) (381)
- Women's Preferences for Male Behavioral Displays Change Across the Menstrual Cycle (2004) (355)
- Changes in women's sexual interests and their partner's mate–retention tactics across the menstrual cycle: evidence for shifting conflicts of interest (2002) (350)
- Rethinking IL-6 and CRP: Why they are more than inflammatory biomarkers, and why it matters (2018) (346)
- Aggress to impress: hostility as an evolved context-dependent strategy. (2009) (338)
- The evolutionary psychology of extrapair sex: The role of fluctuating asymmetry (1997) (335)
- Major histocompatibility complex genes, symmetry, and body scent attractiveness in men and women (2003) (326)
- Changes in women's mate preferences across the ovulatory cycle. (2007) (320)
- THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS (2005) (313)
- Perception of physical attractiveness: Mechanisms involved in the maintenance of romantic relationships. (1990) (272)
- Human female orgasm and mate fluctuating asymmetry (1995) (257)
- Adaptationism – how to carry out an exaptationist program (2002) (246)
- TARGET ARTICLE: Evolutionary Foundations of Cultural Variation: Evoked Culture and Mate Preferences (2006) (203)
- Women's sexual interests across the ovulatory cycle depend on primary partner developmental instability (2005) (195)
- Fluctuating asymmetry and psychometric intelligence (1997) (187)
- Facial masculinity and fluctuating asymmetry (2003) (185)
- Human sexual selection and developmental stability. (1997) (180)
- Major Histocompatibility Complex Alleles, Sexual Responsivity, and Unfaithfulness in Romantic Couples (2006) (178)
- Personality and Sexual Relations (1986) (178)
- Choosing social situations: Two investigations of self-monitoring processes (1982) (176)
- Fluctuating asymmetry, sociosexuality, and intrasexual competitive tactics. (1999) (169)
- Romantic involvement often reduces men's testosterone levels--but not always: the moderating role of extrapair sexual interest. (2006) (167)
- How valid are assessments of conception probability in ovulatory cycle research? Evaluations, recommendations, and theoretical implications (2016) (164)
- Differential accuracy in person perception across traits: examination of a functional hypothesis. (1992) (163)
- Adaptations to Ovulation (2005) (160)
- Choosing Friends as Activity Partners: The Role of Self-Monitoring (1983) (152)
- Human fluctuating asymmetry in relation to health and quality: a meta-analysis (2011) (149)
- The evolution of mind: Fundamental questions and controversies. (2007) (147)
- Developmental stability and human violence (1998) (141)
- Hedonic capacity and schizotypy revisited: a taxometric analysis of social anhedonia. (2000) (127)
- Personality and Nonverbal Social Behavior: An Ethological Perspective of Relationship Initiation (1993) (123)
- Mate preferences and infectious disease: theoretical considerations and evidence in humans (2011) (116)
- Women’s Luteal-Phase Sexual Proceptivity and the Functions of Extended Sexuality (2013) (96)
- The social psychological implications of facial physical attractiveness. (1982) (96)
- Sexual selection and physical attractiveness (1993) (92)
- The psychometric detection of schizotypy: do putative schizotypy indicators identify the same latent class? (2004) (83)
- Original Articles Hormonal correlates of women's mid-cycle preference for the scent of symmetry (2008) (82)
- Hand preference and developmental instability (1993) (81)
- The evolutionary genetic underpinnings of schizophrenia: the developmental instability model (1999) (78)
- Taxometric analyses of sexual orientation and gender identity. (2000) (75)
- Men’s oxidative stress, fluctuating asymmetry and physical attractiveness (2010) (72)
- Psychological cycle shifts redux: Revisiting a preregistered study examining preferences for muscularity (2019) (71)
- Developmental instability and cerebral lateralization. (1997) (68)
- Developmental origins of variation in human hand preference (1993) (67)
- The Biological Significance of Fluctuating Asymmetry and Sexual Selection: A Reply to Palmer (1999) (65)
- A latent variable model of developmental instability in relation to men's sexual behaviour (2001) (64)
- Hypothesis-testing processes (1981) (64)
- Men's facial masculinity predicts changes in their female partners' sexual interests across the ovulatory cycle, whereas men's intelligence does not (2010) (63)
- Estrogenic and progestogenic effects of hormonal contraceptives in relation to sexual behavior: insights into extended sexuality (2017) (61)
- Women's preferences for men's scents associated with testosterone and cortisol levels: Patterns across the ovulatory cycle (2013) (61)
- Taxonomic Analysis Redux: Some Statistical Considerations for Testing a Latent Class Model (1991) (59)
- Female intrasexual competition and reputational effects on attractiveness among the Tsimane of Bolivia (2006) (58)
- On Attenuated Interactions, Measurement Error, and Statistical Power: Guidelines for Social and Personality Psychologists (2020) (56)
- Fertility in the cycle predicts women's interest in sexual opportunism (2010) (56)
- On the function of placental corticotropin‐releasing hormone: a role in maternal‐fetal conflicts over blood glucose concentrations (2012) (51)
- Rare Copy Number Deletions Predict Individual Variation in Intelligence (2011) (49)
- Hormonal predictors of women's extra-pair vs. in-pair sexual attraction in natural cycles: Implications for extended sexuality (2016) (48)
- The analysis of fluctuating asymmetry redux: the robustness of parametric statistics (1998) (48)
- Fluctuating asymmetry and the human brain (2002) (48)
- Parental handedness and relative hand skill: A test of the developmental instability hypothesis. (1994) (47)
- Human estrus: implications for relationship science (2015) (47)
- Brain abnormalities in schizophrenia-spectrum children: implications for a neurodevelopmental perspective (1997) (46)
- Behavioral genetic variation, adaptation and maladaptation: an evolutionary perspective (1997) (46)
- Testing the Controversy (2007) (45)
- Individual Differences in Sociosexuality (1991) (43)
- A Traveler’s Guide to the Multiverse: Promises, Pitfalls, and a Framework for the Evaluation of Analytic Decisions (2021) (43)
- Women's Perceptions of Men's Sexual Coerciveness Change Across the Menstrual Cycle (2007) (43)
- Testosterone, cortisol, and status-striving personality features: A review and empirical evaluation of the Dual Hormone hypothesis (2019) (43)
- Personality and Sexuality: Empirical Relations and an Integrative Theoretical Model (1991) (40)
- Evolution and relationships: A call for integration. (2001) (40)
- Direct and indirect tests for publication bias: asymmetry and sexual selection (2005) (39)
- Developmental Instability and Individual Variation in Brain Development (2007) (38)
- Hormonal systems, human social bonding, and affiliation (2017) (38)
- Testosterone and romance: The association of testosterone with relationship commitment and satisfaction in heterosexual men and women (2011) (38)
- Pathogen avoidance within an integrated immune system: Multiple components with distinct costs and benefits. (2014) (35)
- Sex Differences in Detecting Sexual Infidelity (2008) (32)
- Perceived Threats of Female Infidelity, Male Proprietariness, and Violence in College Dating Couples (2007) (32)
- Reduced auditory M100 asymmetry in schizophrenia and dyslexia: Applying a developmental instability approach to assess atypical brain asymmetry (2006) (31)
- Pair-Bonded Relationships and Romantic Alternatives: Toward an Integration of Evolutionary and Relationship Science Perspectives (2016) (29)
- Cortical volume and developmental instability are independent predictors of general intellectual ability (2005) (29)
- Neural Capital and Life span Evolution among Primates and Humans (2003) (29)
- MHC, symmetry, and body scent attractiveness in men andwomen (2001) (28)
- Heritability of fluctuating asymmetry in a human twin sample: The effect of trait aggregation (2008) (26)
- Romantic Popularity and Mate Preferences: A Peer-Nomination Study (1997) (25)
- Do Women Have Evolved Adaptation for Extra-Pair Copulation? (2003) (25)
- Intersexual conflict across women's ovulatory cycle (2014) (24)
- Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations (2020) (23)
- Trade-offs, the allocation of reproductive effort, and the evolutionary psychology of human mating (2000) (22)
- Chapter 1 Developmental instability and phenotypic variation in neural organization (1998) (22)
- Nonlinearity and the importance of fluctuating asymmetry as a predictor of fitness (1999) (21)
- Oxytocin and vulnerable romantic relationships (2017) (21)
- On the nature of self-monitoring: An examination of latent causal structure (1985) (20)
- Human Sexual Selection, Good Genes, and Special Design (2000) (19)
- Developmental instability and the neural dynamics of the speed–intelligence relationship (2006) (19)
- The Impact of Copy Number Deletions on General Cognitive Ability and Ventricle Size in Patients with Schizophrenia and Healthy Control Subjects (2013) (18)
- Reproductive strategies and tactics (2007) (18)
- Adaptive design, selective history, and women's sexual motivations. (2001) (18)
- Evolutionary biology looks at behavior genetics (2010) (17)
- Genetic influences on cognitive endophenotypes in schizophrenia (2014) (16)
- Adaptationism, exaptationism, and evolutionary behavioral science (2002) (16)
- Human leukocyte antigens and hand preference: Preliminary observations. (1996) (15)
- AUTHORS' RESPONSE: Toward an Integrative Understanding of Evoked and Transmitted Culture: The Importance of Specialized Psychological Design (2006) (15)
- Sociosexuality and relationship initiation: An ethological perspective of nonverbal behavior: A social psychological approach (1996) (15)
- Evolutionary psychology and genetic variation: non-adaptive, fitness-related and adaptive. (2007) (14)
- Sex Differences in Asymmetrically Perceiving the Intensity of Facial Expressions (1999) (14)
- Evolutionary Processes Explaining the Genetic Variance in Personality: An Exploration of Scenarios (2010) (14)
- The Functional Design and Phylogeny of Women’s Sexuality (2015) (12)
- Sociosexual Orientation Inventory (2011) (12)
- Psychological cycle shifts redux, once again: response to Stern et al., Roney, Jones et al., and Higham (2019) (12)
- Sexual Selection in Primates: Female multiple mating and genetic benefits in humans: investigations of design (2004) (12)
- How reproductive hormonal changes affect relationship dynamics for women and men: A 15-day diary study (2020) (12)
- An Empirical Examination of Adaptationists' Attitudes Toward Politics and Science (2007) (12)
- Fluctuating Experimental Pain Sensitivities across the Menstrual Cycle Are Contingent on Women’s Romantic Relationship Status (2014) (11)
- Cycling on the fast track: Ovulatory shifts in sexual motivation as a proximate mechanism for regulating life history strategies (2017) (11)
- Women's Sexual Interests Across the Ovulatory Cycle (2015) (11)
- Mutations, developmental instability, and the red queen (2006) (11)
- Development of a scale measuring genetic variation related to expressive control. (1993) (11)
- Sexually Antagonistic Coevolution: Theory, Evidence, and Implications for Patterns of Human Mating and Fertility (2003) (11)
- Garver shifting conflicts of interest retention tactics across the menstrual cycle : evidence for − Changes in women ' s sexual interests and their partner ' s mate (2002) (11)
- Toward an integrative perspective on sexual selection and men's masculinity (2013) (11)
- An introduction to „The Evolution of Mind‟: Why we developed this book: Fundamental questions and controversies (2007) (11)
- Rare Copy Number Deletions Predict Individual Variation in Human Brain Metabolite Concentrations in Individuals with Alcohol Use Disorders (2011) (11)
- The Impact of developmental instability on voxel-based morphometry analyses of neuroanatomical abnormalities in Schizophrenia (2009) (10)
- Are within-cycle variations in women’s sexual interests mere by-products? A comment on Havliček et al. (2015) (9)
- Women Exposed to the Scents of Fertile-Phase and Luteal-Phase Women: Evaluative, Competitive, and Endocrine Responses (2015) (9)
- Comment: Wood et al.’s (2014) Speculations of Inappropriate Research Practices in Ovulatory Cycle Studies (2016) (7)
- Sexual Selection, Good Genes, and Human Mating (2001) (7)
- Human female copulatory orgasm: a human adaptation or phylogenetic holdover (1996) (7)
- Perception of Physical Attractiveness (1990) (6)
- Biological Adaptations and Human Behavior (2008) (6)
- The Nature of Female Sexuality: Insights into the Dynamics of Romantic Relationships (2013) (6)
- Physicalattractiveness: signals of phenotypic quality and beyond (2008) (6)
- Human Adaptations for Mating: Frameworks for Understanding Patterns of Family Formation and Fertility (2011) (5)
- Robust evidence for moderation of ovulatory shifts by partner attractiveness in Arslan et al.'s (2020) data. (2021) (5)
- Female Infidelity and Paternal Uncertainty: Evidence for adaptations for female extra-pair mating in humans: thoughts on current status and future directions (2006) (5)
- Editorial overview: Evolutionary psychology (2016) (5)
- Developmental Instability, Mutation Load, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (2015) (4)
- p-Curve and Selection Methods as Meta-Analytic Supplements for Biologists: A Demonstration of Effect Size Estimation in Studies of Human Fluctuating Asymmetry (2017) (4)
- Developmental Instability and Markers of Schizotypy in University Students (2008) (4)
- Evolutionary Theory Led to Evidence for a Male Sex Pheromone That Signals Symmetry (2003) (4)
- An evolutionary perspective on oxytocin and its behavioral effects (2016) (4)
- Human Mating Systems (2015) (3)
- Fluctuating Asymmetry and Individual Variation in Regional Gray and White Matter Volumes: A Voxel-Based Morphometry Study (2008) (3)
- The Evolutionary History of Genetic Variation: An Emerging Issue in the Behavioral Genetic Study of Personality (1989) (3)
- Women's Estrus and Extended Sexuality: Reflections on Empirical Patterns and Fundamental Theoretical Issues (2022) (3)
- Endocrinological effects of social exclusion and inclusion: Experimental evidence for adaptive regulation of female fecundity (2021) (3)
- Developmental instability, fluctuating asymmetry, and human psychological science. (2022) (3)
- No Evidence Against the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis: A Commentary on Harrison et al.’s (2022) Meta-Analysis of Animal Personality (2022) (2)
- The New Evolutionary Psychology: Prospects and Challenges (1995) (2)
- Ovarian hormones in relation to naturally cycling women's conception risk: Empirical evidence and implications for behavioral endocrinology (2022) (2)
- considerations and evidence in humans Mate preferences and infectious disease : theoretical (2011) (2)
- Hormonal influences on women's extra-pair sexual interests: The moderating impact of partner attractiveness (2022) (2)
- Understanding self-deception demands a co-evolutionary framework (2011) (2)
- On Challenges Facing an Ambitious Life History Framework for Understanding Psychopathology (2014) (1)
- Developmental instability predicts individual variation in verbal memory skill after caffeine ingestion. (2000) (1)
- On the Underlying Cognitive Adaptations for Extended Phenotype Expression and Evaluation (2019) (1)
- Understanding Evolutionary Approaches to Human Behavior (2007) (1)
- Evaluation of Evidence for Adaptation and Special Design (2021) (1)
- “Fast” women? The effects of childhood environments on women's developmental timing, mating strategies, and reproductive outcomes (2021) (1)
- Sociosexuality and romantic partner choice: Readings in evolutionary psychology (2004) (1)
- Oxytocin (2019) (1)
- Hormone ratios suffer from striking lack of robustness to measurement error (2022) (1)
- Uncompelling theory, uncompelling data (1989) (1)
- The utility of evolutionary perspectives on romantic relationships: Women’s estrus as illustration. (2012) (0)
- Women Exposed to the Scents of Fertile-Phase and Luteal-Phase Women: Evaluative, Competitive, and Endocrine Responses (2015) (0)
- Attitudes toward Casual Sex and Sex without Commitment Indices (2014) (0)
- A review and p-curve analysis of research on the menstrual cycle correlates of consumer preferences and economic decisions (2023) (0)
- Evaluation of Evidence for Adaptation and Special Design (2021) (0)
- Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature. David J. Buller (2006) (0)
- Self-Monitoring Scale—18-item Version (2014) (0)
- Is Social Anhedonia a Core Feature of Schizotypy?: (329982004-010) (2000) (0)
- Social endocrinology in evolutionary perspective (2018) (0)
- The Contents and Discontents of the Nature–Nurture Debate (2020) (0)
- Evolutionary Perspectives (2018) (0)
- On the Underlying Cognitive Adaptations for Extended Phenotype Expression and Evaluation (2019) (0)
- Oxidative stress and the differential expression of traits associated with mating effort in humans (2021) (0)
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