Approximately two decades after the first pioneering analyses, the study of shape asymmetry
with the methods of geometric morphometrics has matured and is a burgeoning field. New …

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 …

Trust is among the most important factors in human life, as it pervades almost all domains of
society. Although behavioral research has revealed a number of insights into the nature of …

Impersonal cooperation among strangers enables societies to create valuable public goods,
such as infrastructure, public services, and democracy. Several factors have been proposed …

For almost 50 years, psychologists have understood that what is beautiful is perceived as
good. This simple and intuitively appealing hypothesis has been confirmed in many ways …

The idea that symmetry in facial traits is associated with attractiveness because it reliably
indicates good physiological health, particularly to potential sexual partners, has generated …

In studies of social inference and human mate preference, a wide but inconsistent array of
tools for computing facial masculinity has been devised. Several of these approaches …

Social bargaining models predict that men should calibrate their egalitarian attitudes to their
formidability and/or attractiveness. A simple social bargaining model predicts a direct …

Evolutionary explanations of anger as a commitment device hinge on two key assumptions.
The first is that it is predictable, ex ante, whether someone will get angry when feeling that …

In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed-bid auctions with symmetric
independent private values and 400 participants, we collected information on the female …