selected scholarly activity
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books
- Homicide 2017
- Killing the Competition 2017
- Parenting and Kinship 2015
- Crime and Conflict: Homicide in Evolutionary Psychological Perspective. Ed. 22. 1997
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chapters
- Evolutionary Psychology and Family Violence. 401-420. 2023
- The Fusion Approach to Mental Capacity Law in Northern Ireland: Possibilities and Challenges. 46-64. 2023
- Evolutionary Psychology of Male Violence. 253-288. 2022
- Substitute Parenting. 481-488. 2020
- Child Abuse and Neglect. 201-214. 2017
- Competition and Violence. 31-57. 2017
- Culture of Violence?. 119-141. 2017
- Homicide and Economic Inequality. 19-29. 2017
- Inequality, or Just Poverty?. 59-73. 2017
- Jockeying for Position. 75-97. 2017
- KILLING THE COMPETITION ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND HOMICIDE Preface. VII-+. 2017
- Lags and Lifetimes. 143-164. 2017
- Risk of maltreatment of children living with stepparents. 215-232. 2017
- The Arena of Competition. 99-118. 2017
- Too Much Inequality. 165-195. 2017
- What Keeps Competitive Violence in Check?. 197-213. 2017
- Why Homicide?. 1-17. 2017
- The evolutionary psychology of couple conflict in registered versus de facto marital unions. 3-26. 2016
- Sociobiology: Overview. 908-911. 2015
- Kinship: The conceptual hole in psychological studies of social cognition and close relationships. 265-296. 2014
- Is the “Cinderella Effect” Controversial?: A Case Study of Evolution-Minded Research and Critiques Thereof. 383-400. 2012
- Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind. 229-241. 2010
- 89 Sex Differences and Intrasexual Variation in Competitive Confrontation and Risk Taking: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective. 2825-2854. 2009
- Sex Differences and Intrasexual Variation in Competitive Confrontation and Risk Taking: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective. 2825-2854. 2009
- Leadership and self-mastery Values and the "no compromise" response. 96-117. 2008
- Evolutionary Psychology, Public Policy and Personal Decisions. 185-202. 2004
- An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective on the Modulation of Competitive Confrontation and Risk-Taking. 381-408. 2002
- Activity Patterns of Kangaroo Rats — Granivores in a Desert Habitat. Ecological Studies. 145-158. 2000
- Evolutionary Adaptationism: Another Biological Approach to Criminal and Antisocial Behaviour. Novartis Foundation Symposium. 183-201. 1996
- Introduction. Novartis Foundation Symposium. 1-3.
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conferences
- Integrating GWAS of ADHD and continuous ADHD-related traits. Behavior Genetics. 812-813. 2016
- Common genetic influences identify cognitive and behavioral networks in the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort. Behavior Genetics. 538-538. 2013
- ‘Another Agency in this Great Work’. Journal of Pacific History. 367-374. 2008
- Student evaluations of elearning technologies in undergraduate psychology: A blended model for the future. WHO'S LEARNING? WHOSE TECHNOLOGY?, PROCEEDINGS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 863-870. 2006
- Group report: Interspecific mutualism - Puzzles and predictions. GENETIC AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF COOPERATION. 241-256. 2003
- An assessment of some proposed exceptions to the phenomenon of nepotistic discrimination against stepchildren. Annales Zoologici Fennici. 287-296. 2001
- Sex differences in valuations of the environment?. Population and Environment. 143-159. 1996
- THE OUTCOME OF SELF POISONING 8 YEARS LATER. SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR IN EUROPE. 169-176. 1992
- TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANTS AND SUICIDE IN IRELAND. SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR IN EUROPE. 323-327. 1992
- PARENT-OFFSPRING CONFLICT AND HOMICIDE IN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE. Aggressive Behavior. 123-123. 1988
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journal articles
- Intimate partner homicide in New Zealand, 2004–2019. Risk markers, demographic patterns, and prevalence. Journal of Criminology. 57:187-202. 2024
- Investment by maternal grandmother buffers children against the impacts of adverse early life experiences. Scientific Reports. 14:6815. 2024
- Parental Investment by Birth Fathers and Stepfathers. Human Nature : An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective. 34:276-294. 2023
- Inequality, grievances, and the variability in homicide rates. Evolution and human behavior. 44:296-304. 2023
- Estimating the prevalence of children living with a stepparent in New Zealand using linked administrative, census, and survey data. Journal of Family Studies. 29:612-630. 2023
- “Cinderella effects” in lethal child abuse are genuine and large: A comment on Nobes et al. (2019).. Journal of experimental psychology. General. 151:2968-2976. 2022
- Sexual Selection and the Treatment of Predecessors’ Progeny by Replacement Mates. Frontiers in Psychology. 13:924238. 2022
- A Cinderella effect in the childcare assistance provided by European grandparents. Evolution and human behavior. 42:343-350. 2021
- Grandparental partnership status and its effects on caring for grandchildren in Europe. PLoS ONE. 16:e0248915-e0248915. 2021
- In-Law Relationships in Evolutionary Perspective: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Frontiers in Sociology. 6:683501. 2021
- Evolutionary psychology and inequality.. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. 14:324-328. 2020
- Grandmaternal childcare and kinship laterality. Is rural Greece exceptional?. Evolution and human behavior. 40:385-394. 2019
- Partitioning aggression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115:633-634. 2018
- Correction for Perry and Daly, A model explaining the matrilateral bias in alloparental investment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 114:E8799. 2017
- Matrilateral Bias in Human Grandmothering. Frontiers in Sociology. 2:11. 2017
- A model explaining the matrilateral bias in alloparental investment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 114:9290-9295. 2017
- The role of city income inequality, sex ratio and youth mortality rates in the effect of violent victimization on health-risk behaviors in Brazilian adolescents. Social Science and Medicine. 181:17-23. 2017
- Inconsistent reports of risk behavior among Brazilian middle school students: National School Based Survey of Adolescent Health (PeNSE 2009/2012). Cadernos de Saude Publica. 33:e00145815. 2017
- The behavioural constellation of deprivation: Compelling framework, messy reality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 40:e323. 2017
- The importance of being explicit. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 40:e83. 2017
- On function, cause, and being Jerry Hogan's student. European Journal of Pharmacology. 117:70-73. 2015
- Maternal foster families provide more stable placements than paternal families. Children and Youth Services Review. 46:155-159. 2014
- Future Discounting by Slum‐Dwelling Youth Versus University Students in Rio de Janeiro. Journal of Research on Adolescence. 23:95-102. 2013
- Review of Todd K. Shackelford and Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford (Editors), The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence, Homicide, and War (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). Human Nature : An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective. 24:111-113. 2013
- Cohabitation Is No Longer Associated With Elevated Spousal Homicide Rates in the United States. Homicide Studies. 16:393-403. 2012
- Margo Wilson, 1942-2009. Homicide Studies. 16:329-331. 2012
- Placement stability in kinship and non-kin foster care: A Canadian study. Children and Youth Services Review. 34:460-465. 2012
- Psychology: A farewell to arms. Nature. 478:453-454. 2011
- Has the Child Welfare Profession Discovered Nepotistic Biases?. Human Nature : An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective. 22:350-369. 2011
- Cues of paternal uncertainty and father to child physical abuse as reported by mothers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Child Abuse and Neglect. 35:567-573. 2011
- EvolutionThe Evolutionary Biology of Human Female Sexuality. By RandyThornhill and, StevenW.Gangestad. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $125.00 (hardcover); $49.95 (paper). x + 411 p.; ill.; index. 9780195340983 (hc); 9780195340990 (pb). 2008.. Quarterly Review of Biology. 85:361-362. 2010
- Homicide and impunity: an ecological analysis at state level in Brazil. Revista de Saude Publica. 43:733-742. 2009
- There's no contest: Human sex differences are sexually selected. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 32:286-287. 2009
- A close look at conflict. Nature. 451:769-770. 2008
- Risk indicators to identify intimate partner violence in the emergency department.. Open Medicine. 1:e113-e122. 2007
- One woman's behavior affects the attractiveness of others☆. Evolution and human behavior. 28:145-149. 2007
- Are Juvenile Offenders Extreme Future Discounters?. Psychological Science. 17:989-994. 2006
- SECOND MESSENGER PATHWAYS FOLLOWING DETRUSOR M3 RECEPTOR STIMULATION. European Urology Open Science. 5:41-41. 2006
- Let's add some psychology (and maybe even some evolution) to the mix. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 28:828-829. 2005
- The 'Cinderella effect' is no fairy tale. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 9:507-508. 2005
- The ‘Cinderella effect’ is no fairy tale. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 9:507-508. 2005
- What is the significance of cross-national variability in sociosexuality?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 28:280-280. 2005
- Carpe Diem: Adaptation and Devaluing the Future. Quarterly Review of Biology. 80:55-60. 2005
- Do pretty women inspire men to discount the future?. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 271. 2004
- Do pretty women inspire men to discount the future?. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 271:S177-S179. 2004
- Effect of predation risk on selectivity in heteromyid rodents. European Journal of Pharmacology. 64:71-75. 2003
- Humans should be individualistic and utility-maximizing, but not necessarily “rational”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 26:154-+. 2003
- Two special issues on Risk. Evolution and human behavior. 23:1-2. 2002
- Extracting implicit theories about the risk of coercive control in romantic relationships. Personal Relationships. 8:457-477. 2001
- Food caching and differential cache pilferage: a field study of coexistence of sympatric kangaroo rats and pocket mice. Oecologia. 128:577-584. 2001
- Spatial Ecology of Desert Rodents. Ethology. 107:666-666. 2001
- Income inequality and homicide rates in Canada and the United States. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. 43:219-236. 2001
- Siblicide and Seniority. Homicide Studies. 5:30-45. 2001
- Risk-taking, intrasexual competition, and homicide.. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation. 47:1-36. 2001
- Functional significance of human female orgasm still hypothetical. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 23:620-621. 2000
- Not quite right.. American Psychologist. 55:679-680. 2000
- W.D. Hamilton (1936–2000). Evolution and human behavior. 21:75-77. 2000
- Special issue: Stepparental investment. Evolution and human behavior. 20:365-366. 1999
- Stepparental Behavior as Mating Effort in Birds and Other Animals. Evolution and human behavior. 20:367-390. 1999
- Human evolutionary psychology and animal behaviour. Animal Behaviour. 57:509-519. 1999
- Offspring sex ratio and parental age difference - Editor's reply. Evolution and human behavior. 19:427-428. 1998
- Birth Order and Familial Sentiment. Evolution and human behavior. 19:299-312. 1998
- Sexual Rivalry and Sexual Conflict:. Theoretical Criminology. 2:291-310. 1998
- Effects of Food Preference on Scatter-Hoarding by Kangaroo Rats (Dipodomys Merriami). Behaviour. 135:823-832. 1998
- Evolutionary Theory and the Human Family. Quarterly Review of Biology. 72:407-435. 1997
- Life expectancy, economic inequality, homicide, and reproductive timing in Chicago neighbourhoods. The BMJ. 314:1271-1271. 1997
- Women with Children Sired by Previous Partners Incur Excess Risk of Uxoricide. Homicide Studies. 1:61-71. 1997
- Relationship‐Specific Social Psychological Adaptations. Novartis Foundation Symposium. 208:253-268. 1997
- Deliberate Self‐Poisoning, Unemployment, and Public Health. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 26:365-373. 1996
- Human Nature and the New Europe. Political Psychology. 17:789-789. 1996
- On the importance of kin relations to canadian women and men. Evolution and human behavior. 17:289-297. 1996
- Violence Against Stepchildren. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 5:77-80. 1996
- Parents' knowledge of students' beliefs and attitudes: An indirect assay of parental solicitude?. Evolution and human behavior. 17:201-210. 1996
- Male Sexual Proprietariness and Violence Against Wives. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 5:2-7. 1996
- Evolutionary Adaptationism: Another Biological Approach to Criminal and Antisocial Behaviour. Ciba Foundation symposium. 194:183-201. 1996
- LETHAL AND NONLETHAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WIVES. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. 37:331-361. 1995
- Effects of visual cues on assessment of water quality. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 15:53-63. 1995
- Evolutionary Psychology: Adaptationist, Selectionist, and Comparative. Psychological Inquiry. 6:34-38. 1995
- Familicide: The killing of spouse and children. Aggressive Behavior. 21:275-291. 1995
- SOME DIFFERENTIAL ATTRIBUTES OF LETHAL ASSAULTS ON SMALL CHILDREN BY STEPFATHERS VERSUS GENETIC FATHERS (VOL 15, PG 210, 1994). Ethology and Sociobiology. 16:2-2. 1995
- Some differential attributes of lethal assaults on small children by stepfathers versus genetic fathers. Evolution and human behavior. 15:207-217. 1994
- Spousal homicide.. Juristat. 14:1-14. 1994
- ORIGINS OF THE MODERN MIND - 3 STAGES IN THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURE AND COGNITION - DONALD,M. Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books. 38:965-966. 1993
- UXORICIDE IN CANADA - DEMOGRAPHIC RISK PATTERNS. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. 35:263-291. 1993
- Beyond reproductive success differentials. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 16:289-290. 1993
- Spousal Homicide Risk and Estrangement. Violence and Victims. 8:3-16. 1993
- An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective on Male Sexual Proprietariness and Violence Against Wives. Violence and Victims. 8:271-294. 1993
- Children fathered by previous partners: a risk factor for violence against women.. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 84:209-210. 1993
- Sexually differentiated effects of radio transmitters on predation risk and behaviour in kangaroo rats Dipodomys merriami. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 70:1851-1855. 1992
- THEORIES OF RAPE - INQUIRIES INTO THE CAUSES OF SEXUAL AGGRESSION - ELLIS,L. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 21:418-421. 1992
- Behavioural modulation of predation risk: moonlight avoidance and crepuscular compensation in a nocturnal desert rodent, Dipodomys merriami. Animal Behaviour. 44:1-9. 1992
- What about the evolutionary psychology of coerciveness?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 15:403-404. 1992
- WHO KILLS WHOM IN SPOUSE KILLINGS? ON THE EXCEPTIONAL SEX RATIO OF SPOUSAL HOMICIDES IN THE UNITED STATES*. Criminology (Beverly Hills). 30:189-216. 1992
- The Myth of Sexual Symmetry in Marital Violence. Social problems. 39:71-91. 1992
- Scatter hoarding by kangaroo rats (Dipodomys merriami) and pilferage from their caches. Behavioral Ecology. 3:102-111. 1992
- A reply to Gelles: Stepchildrenare disproportionately abused, and diverse forms of violencecan share causal factors. Human Nature : An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective. 2:419-426. 1991
- Natural selection doesn't have goals, but it's the reason organisms do. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 14:219-220. 1991
- The metaphorical extension of “incest”: A human universal?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 14:280-281. 1991
- Too many errors. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 14:306-307. 1991
- Anti‐Science and the Pre‐Darwinian Image of Mankind. American Anthropologist. 93:162-165. 1991
- Characteristics of kangaroo rats, Dipodomys merriami, associated with differential predation risk. Animal Behaviour. 40:380-389. 1990
- Is Parent‐Offspring Conflict Sex‐Linked? Freudian and Darwinian Models. Journal of Personality. 58:163-189. 1990
- Killing the competition. Human Nature : An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective. 1:81-107. 1990
- On distinguishing evolved adaptation from epiphenomena. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 12:520-520. 1989
- Ferdon Edwin N.: Early Tonga as the explorers saw it, 1616–1810. xv, 339 pp. 14 plates, 1 map. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1987. $29.95.. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. University of London. 52:197-198. 1989
- Response : Evolution and Family Homicide. Science. 243:463-464. 1989
- Homicide and cultural evolution. Evolution and human behavior. 10:99-110. 1989
- Evolutionary Social Psychology and Family Homicide. Science. 242:519-524. 1988
- Transient Criminality: A Model of Stress-Induced Crime.. Contemporary Sociology. 17:655-655. 1988
- The sociobiology of ethnocentrism: Evolutionary dimensions of xenophobia, discrimination, racism and nationalism. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 2:318-319. 1987
- The Darwinian psychology of discriminative parental solicitude.. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation. 35:91-144. 1987
- A theoretical challenge to a caricature of Darwinism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 9:189-190. 1986
- Aboveground Activity of Merriam's Kangaroo Rats (Dipodomys Merriami) in Relation To Sex and Reproduction. Behaviour. 96:210-226. 1986
- Range Use Patterns and Spatial Relationships of Merriam's Kangaroo Rats (Dipodomys Merriami). Behaviour. 96:187-209. 1986
- The Estrous Cycle of Two Species of Kangaroo Rats (Dipodomys microps and D. merriami). Journal of Mammalogy. 66:726-732. 1985
- Child abuse and other risks of not living with both parents. Evolution and human behavior. 6:197-210. 1985
- Competitiveness, risk taking, and violence: the young male syndrome. Evolution and human behavior. 6:59-73. 1985
- Experimental behavioral ecology and sociobiology in: Memoriam Karl von Frisch 1886–1982. Evolution and human behavior. 6:271-272. 1985
- Natural History of the Self Archetypes: A Natural History of Self Anthony Stevens. BioScience. 34:587-587. 1984
- Effect of Moving Traps between Trapping Stations upon Rodent Retrapping Data. American Midland Naturalist. 112:205-205. 1984
- Breeding of Captive Kangaroo Rats, Dipodomys merriami and D. microps. Journal of Mammalogy. 65:338-341. 1984
- Book review. Animal Behaviour. 32:309-309. 1984
- SOCIOBIOLOGY. New Scientist. 104:53-53. 1984
- Explaining inbreeding avoidance requires more complex models. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 6:105-105. 1983
- The Fittest Genes. Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books. 28:199-200. 1983
- Food aversion learning in kangaroo rats: A specialist-generalist comparison. Learning and Behavior. 10:314-320. 1982
- Some caveats about cultural transmission models. Human Ecology. 10:401-408. 1982
- Homicide and Kinship. American Anthropologist. 84:372-378. 1982
- Male sexual jealousy. Evolution and human behavior. 3:11-27. 1982
- THE POLITICS OF REPRODUCTIVE RITUAL - PAIGE,KE, PAIGE,JM. Human Ecology. 10:153-156. 1982
- Whom are newborn babies said to resemble?. Evolution and human behavior. 3:69-78. 1982
- G.W. Barlow and J. Silverberg, Editors, Sociobiology: Beyond Nature/Nurture?, Westview Press, New Brunswick (1980).. Journal of Social and Biological Systems. 4:197-198. 1981
- Child maltreatment from a sociobiological perspective. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. 1981:93-112. 1981
- THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN SOCIAL-BEHAVIOR - LOCKARD,JS. Human Ecology. 9:390-391. 1981
- Household composition and the risk of child abuse and neglect. Journal of Biosocial Science. 12:333-340. 1980
- Discriminative Parental Solicitude: A Biological Perspective. Journal of Marriage and Family. 42:277-277. 1980
- Readings in sociobiology Edited by Clutton-Brock & Harvey. Journal of Social and Biological Systems. 3:233-233. 1980
- Thriving young discipline. Nature. 284:681-682. 1980
- Factors affecting Rodents' responses to odours of strangers encountered in the field: Experiments with odour-baited traps. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 6:323-329. 1980
- Contentious genes: a commentary on The selfish gene by Richard Dawkins. Journal of Social and Biological Systems. 3:77-81. 1980
- Why don't male mammals lactate?. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 78:325-345. 1979
- LIBYAN JIRDS AND FAT SAND RATS. NATURAL HISTORY. 88:64-71. 1979
- SEX AND STRATEGY. New Scientist. 81:15-17. 1979
- The Cost of Mating. The American Naturalist. 112:771-774. 1978
- Seasonally variable effects of conspecific odors upon capture of deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus gambelii). Behavioral Biology. 23:254-259. 1978
- Some experimental tests of the functional significance of scent-marking by gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus).. Journal of Comparative Psychology. 91:1082-1094. 1977
- Behavioral development in three hamster species. Developmental Psychobiology. 9:315-323. 1976
- Behavior of Psammomys obesus (Rodenth: Gerbillinae) in the Algerian Sahara. Zeitschrift f�r Tierpsychologie. 37:298-321. 1975
- SOCIO-ECOLOGY OF SAHARAN GERBILS, ESPECIALLY MERIONES LIBYCUS. Mammalia. 39:289-312. 1975
- SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF A LEAF-EATING SAHARAN GERBIL (PSAMMOMYS OBESUS) IN RELATION TO ITS FOOD. Mammalia. 38:591-604. 1974
- EARLY STIMULATION OF RODENTS: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF PRESENT INTERPRETATIONS. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. 64:435-460. 1973
- ON THE FEEDING ECOLOGY OF PSAMMOMYS OBESUS (RODENTIA, GERBILLIDAE) IN THE WADI SAOURA, ALGERIA. Mammalia. 37:545-561. 1973
- The Maternal Behaviour Cycle in Golden Hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus). Zeitschrift f�r Tierpsychologie. 31:289-299. 1972
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preprints