The behavioral immune system is a motivational system that helps minimize infection risk by
changing cognition, affect, and behavior in ways that promote pathogen avoidance. In the …

Researchers have highlighted numerous sociocultural factors that have been shown to
underpin human appearance enhancement practices, including the influence of peers …

Throughout the world people differ in the magnitude with which they value strong family ties
or heightened religiosity. We propose that this cross-cultural variation is a result of a …

Mental disorders arise from neural and psychological mechanisms that have been built and
shaped by natural selection across our evolutionary history. Looking at psychopathology …

Financial and prosocial biases in favor of attractive adults have been documented in the
labor market, in social transactions in everyday life, and in studies involving experimental …

Individuals around the globe experience different forms of material resource scarcity in terms
of aspects such as hunger, thirst, or financial strains. As experiences of material scarcity …

The rift between evolutionary psychology and the biosocial model of gender relations
impedes a fuller understanding of gender roles and gender inequality. In a novel …

With the continuous growth of the global population and the increasing demand for natural
resources, ecological resource scarcity has become a global issue that cannot be ignored …

Men's mate values are defined based on three broad categories—good genes, good
providers, both of which are selected early across the animal kingdom, and good fathers that …

In the short history of behavioral immune system (BIS) research, scholars have developed a
number of empirical strategies for testing BIS hypotheses. These strategies have led to a …