Paul William Andrews - McMaster Experts

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Faculty of Science, McMaster University
Associate Professor, Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, Faculty of Science
Member, Human Behavioural and Evolution Society,
Member, International Society for Evolution, Medicine & Public Health,
Member, Society for Research in Psychopathology,

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- Why Do People Have Painful Feelings? An Evolutionary Tale of Misery and Woe. 301-317. 2020
- The Evolution of Depressive Phenotypes. 23-36. 2017
- The Evolution of Depressive Phenotypes. 23-36. 2017
- The Evolution of Cognitive Bias. 724-746. 2015
conferences
- It's All About Me: Stressor-Task Relatedness Influences Task Utility and Performance in Depression. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 288-289. 2014
- What can modern measurement methods tell clinicians about adaptive responses of depression?. Quality of Life Research. 45-45. 2014
- Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Genetic, Environmental and Phenotypic Factor Scores. Behavior Genetics. 640-640. 2008
- Genetic and environmental influences on the frequency of orgasm in women. Behavior Genetics. 798-798. 2005
- "Kindling" reconsidered. American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part B, Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 104-104. 2005
journal articles
- An experimental paradigm for triggering a depressive syndrome.. Emotion. 2024
- All the brain's a stage for serotonin: the forgotten story of serotonin diffusion across cell membranes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 289:20221565. 2022
- An evolutionary approach to grief-related rumination: Construction and validation of the Bereavement Analytical Rumination Questionnaire. Evolution and human behavior. 42:441-452. 2021
- Evolutionary theory and the treatment of depression: It is all about the squids and the sea bass. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 143:103849-103849. 2021
- Cognitive Therapy in the Treatment and Prevention of Depression: A Fifty-Year Retrospective with an Evolutionary Coda. Cognitive Therapy and Research. 45:402-417. 2021
- Individual Differences in Response to Antidepressants. JAMA psychiatry. 78:490-490. 2021
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Depression From an Evolutionary Perspective. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 12:667592. 2021
- A hormetic approach to understanding antidepressant effectiveness and the development of antidepressant tolerance – A conceptual view. Psychiatria Polska. 54:1067-1090. 2020
- Disordered doctors or rational rats? Testing adaptationist and disorder hypotheses for melancholic depression and their relevance for clinical psychology. Clinical Psychology Review. 82:101927-101927. 2020
- THE NATURE OF DEPRESSIVE RUMINATION AND ITS CONNECTION WITH DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. 39:761-787. 2020
- Individual Differences in Response to Antidepressants. JAMA psychiatry. 77:607-607. 2020
- Using Expressive Writing to Test an Evolutionary Hypothesis About Depressive Rumination: Sadness Coincides with Causal Analysis of a Personal Problem, Not Problem-solving Analysis. Evolutionary Psychological Science. 6:119-135. 2020
- Why does expressive writing affect emotion? Considering the impact of valence and cognitive processing.. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science. 52:85-96. 2020
- Testing the Analytical Rumination Hypothesis: Exploring the Longitudinal Effects of Problem Solving Analysis on Depression. Frontiers in Psychology. 11:1344. 2020
- Recent Developments in the Treatment of Depression. Behavior Therapy. 50:257-269. 2019
- The form and function of depressive rumination. Evolution and human behavior. 39:277-289. 2018
- Reply. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 87:180-180. 2018
- Effect of artificial surveillance cues on reported moral judgment: Experimental failures to replicate and two meta-analyses. Evolution and human behavior. 38:561-571. 2017
- Artificial surveillance cues do not increase generosity: two meta-analyses. Evolution and human behavior. 38:144-153. 2017
- The Mortality and Myocardial Effects of Antidepressants Are Moderated by Preexisting Cardiovascular Disease: A Meta-Analysis. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 86:268-282. 2017
- Reverse Engineering the Febrile System. Quarterly Review of Biology. 91:419-457. 2016
- The source dilemma hypothesis: Perceptual uncertainty contributes to musical emotion. Cognition. 154:174-181. 2016
- Using Evolutionary Theory to Guide Mental Health Research. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 61:159-165. 2016
- Is serotonin an upper or a downer? The evolution of the serotonergic system and its role in depression and the antidepressant response. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 51:164-188. 2015
- An adaptationist perspective on the etiology of depression. Journal of Affective Disorders. 172:315-323. 2015
- Vocal indicators of body size in men and women: a meta-analysis. Animal Behaviour. 95:89-99. 2014
- Population-level effects of suppressing fever. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 281:20132570-20132570. 2014
- Measuring the Bright Side of Being Blue: A New Tool for Assessing Analytical Rumination in Depression. PLoS ONE. 9:e112077-e112077. 2014
- Hygiene and the world distribution of Alzheimer’s disease. Evolution, Medicine and Public Health. 2013:173-186. 2013
- Primum Non Nocere: An Evolutionary Analysis of Whether Antidepressants Do More Harm than Good. Frontiers in Psychology. 3:117. 2012
- Blue Again: Perturbational Effects of Antidepressants Suggest Monoaminergic Homeostasis in Major Depression. Frontiers in Psychology. 2:159. 2011
- Coyne battles darwin, many other evolutionary biologists-and himself. Psychiatric Times. 27:18. 2010
- The bright side of being blue: Depression as an adaptation for analyzing complex problems.. Psychological review. 116:620-654. 2009
- Sex Differences in Detecting Sexual Infidelity. Human Nature : An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective. 19:347-373. 2008
- The Sensitivity of Variance Component Estimates to Underreporting: Method and Application to Substance Abuse Data. Twin Research and Human Genetics. 10:721-728. 2007
- The Functional Design of Depression's Influence on Attention: A Preliminary Test of Alternative Control-Process Mechanisms. Evolutionary Psychology. 5:147470490700500-147470490700500. 2007
- Parent-offspring conflict and cost-benefit analysis in adolescent suicidal behavior. Human Nature : An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective. 17:190-211. 2006
- Genetic and Environmental Influences on the Frequency of Orgasm in Women. Twin Research and Human Genetics. 8:27-33. 2005
- Toward a revised evolutionary adaptationist analysis of depression: the social navigation hypothesis. Journal of Affective Disorders. 72:1-14. 2002
- Adaptationism – how to carry out an exaptationist program. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 25:489-504. 2002
- Adaptationism, exaptationism, and evolutionary behavioral science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 25:534-553. 2002
- The influence of postreliance detection on the deceptive efficacy of dishonest signals of intent Understanding facial clues to deceit as the outcome of signaling tradeoffs. Evolution and human behavior. 23:103-121. 2002
- The psychology of social chess and the evolution of attribution mechanisms: explaining the fundamental attribution error. Evolution and human behavior. 22:11-29. 2001
preprints
- Examining the feasibility, efficacy, and perceptions of an online writing intervention in patients with Major Depressive Disorder: A multi-methods study (Preprint) 2023