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Changes in women's mate preferences across the ovulatory cycleSteven W Gangestad
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87111, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 92:151-63. 2007..The results supported the good genes hypothesis. Implications of these findings for models of human mating are discussed...
On the function of placental corticotropin-releasing hormone: a role in maternal-fetal conflicts over blood glucose concentrationsSteven W Gangestad
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 87111, USA
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 87:856-73. 2012..In this view, maternal HPA insensitivity to placental CRH likely reflects counter-adaptation, as the optimal rate of cortisol production for the fetus exceeds that for the mother. Evidence pertaining to this proposal is reviewed...- Understanding self-deception demands a co-evolutionary frameworkSteven W Gangestad
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 http www unm edu psych faculty sm_gangestad html
Behav Brain Sci 34:23-4. 2011..One essential component of this context not addressed explicitly is that audiences should have been selected to resist, where possible, enhancements falsely bolstered by self-deception. Theoretical implications follow... 
Human oestrusSteven W Gangestad
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Proc Biol Sci 275:991-1000. 2008..Men are particularly attracted to some features of fertile-phase women, but probably based on by-products of physiological changes males have been selected to detect, not because women signal their cycle-based fertility status...- Women's preferences for male behavioral displays change across the menstrual cycleSteven W Gangestad
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA
Psychol Sci 15:203-7. 2004..These findings add to the growing literature indicating that women's mate preferences systematically vary across the reproductive cycle... - Adaptive design, female mate preferences, and shifts across the menstrual cycleS W Gangestad
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA
Annu Rev Sex Res 12:145-85. 2001..Evidence provisionally supports the idea that these changes constitute special design for the function of obtaining genetic benefits through mating with men other than primary partners... - Changes in women's sexual interests and their partners' mate-retention tactics across the menstrual cycle: evidence for shifting conflicts of interestSteven W Gangestad
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Proc Biol Sci 269:975-82. 2002.... - A latent variable model of developmental instability in relation to men's sexual behaviourS W Gangestad
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Proc Biol Sci 268:1677-84. 2001..The results indicate a sizeable correlation between developmental instability and men's sexual history, despite small correlations between individual traits' FA and sexual history... - The evolution of human mating: trade-offs and strategic pluralismS W Gangestad
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Behav Brain Sci 23:573-87; discussion 587-644. 2000..It is these circumstances and the cues that signal them that underlie the variation in short- and long-term mating strategies between and within the sexes... - Self-monitoring: appraisal and reappraisalS W Gangestad
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA
Psychol Bull 126:530-55. 2000..We discuss what this appraisal reveals about with self-monitoring is and is not... - Taxometric analyses of sexual orientation and gender identityS W Gangestad
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131 1161, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 78:1109-21. 2000..An understanding of the origins of these latent taxa may be important to understanding the development of sexual orientation and gender identity... - Menstrual cycle variation in women's preferences for the scent of symmetrical menS W Gangestad
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA
Proc Biol Sci 265:927-33. 1998..Potential sexual selection processes and proximate mechanisms accounting for these findings are discussed... - Facial attractiveness, symmetry and cues of good genesJ E Scheib
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis 95616, USA
Proc Biol Sci 266:1913-7. 1999..We identified one such cue, facial masculinity (cheek-bone prominence and a relatively longer lower face), which was related to both symmetry and full- and half-face attractiveness... - Brain abnormalities in schizophrenia-spectrum children: implications for a neurodevelopmental perspectiveR A Yeo
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131 1161, USA
Psychiatry Res 76:1-13. 1997..In conjunction with recent primate studies, the current results draw attention to the role of the amygdala as one relevant factor in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia... - Developmental instability predicts individual variation in verbal memory skill after caffeine ingestionR E Jung
Department of Psychology, and Clinical and Magnetic Resonance Research Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA
Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychol Behav Neurol 13:195-8. 2000..To determine the mediating effects of developmental instability on individual differences in response to caffeine... - Rare copy number deletions predict individual variation in intelligenceRonald A Yeo
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e16339. 2011..Significant limitations of this research, including issues of generalizability and CNV measurement, are discussed... - Women's sexual interests across the ovulatory cycle depend on primary partner developmental instabilitySteven W Gangestad
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87111, USA
Proc Biol Sci 272:2023-7. 2005.... - Major histocompatibility complex alleles, sexual responsivity, and unfaithfulness in romantic couplesChristine E Garver-Apgar
Department of Psychology, Univerrsity of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA
Psychol Sci 17:830-5. 2006.... - Fluctuating asymmetry, sociosexuality, and intrasexual competitive tacticsJ A Simpson
Department of Psychology, Texas A and M University, College Station 77843 4235, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 76:159-72. 1999..However, the link between FA and presenting oneself as a nice guy was mediated through sociosexuality. No effects were found for women... - Fluctuating asymmetry and psychometric intelligenceF B Furlow
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131 1091, USA
Proc Biol Sci 264:823-9. 1997..We review the data on IQ in light of our findings and conclude that improving developmental quality may increase average IQ in future generations... - The evolutionary genetic underpinnings of schizophrenia: the developmental instability modelR A Yeo
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA
Schizophr Res 39:197-206. 1999..We suggest that the developmental instability model has stronger empirical support and is better grounded in contemporary evolutionary genetics... - Hedonic capacity and schizotypy revisited: a taxometric analysis of social anhedoniaJ J Blanchard
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 109:87-95. 2000..10. These data are interpreted in the context of other findings suggesting that social anhedonia is an indicator of schizotypy... - Adaptive design, selective history, and women's sexual motivationsS W Gangestad
University of New Mexico, USA
Nebr Symp Motiv 47:37-74. 2001..Whether or not the special-design argument ultimately holds up to further scrutiny, however, I would like to think that our efforts to establish it have importantly contributed to an understanding of human mating... - Perceived threats of female infidelity, male proprietariness, and violence in college dating couplesAlita J Cousins
Department of Psychology, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic 06226, USA
Violence Vict 22:651-68. 2007..Men's perception of women's interest in others was a more important predictor of male violence than women's actual interest in other men. The link between women's control tactics and their use of physical violence differed from men... - Adaptationism--how to carry out an exaptationist programPaul W Andrews
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA. (pandrews; sgangest
Behav Brain Sci 25:489-504; discussion 504-53. 2002..Thus, we argue that the testing of alternatives requires the consideration, testing, and systematic rejection of adaptationist hypotheses. Where possible, we illustrate our points with examples taken from human behavior and cognition... - Romantic involvement often reduces men's testosterone levels--but not always: the moderating role of extrapair sexual interestMatthew McIntyre
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 91:642-51. 2006..Both studies found support for it. These results have implications for an understanding of the biosocial regulation of men's behavior in romantic relationships... - Conditional expression of women's desires and men's mate guarding across the ovulatory cycleMartie G Haselton
Communication Studies and Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Behavior, Evolution and Culture, 3130 Hershey Hall, 415 Portola, 90095, USA
Horm Behav 49:509-18. 2006..The daily assessment method provides an important supplement to existing studies using scheduled laboratory visits as the purpose of the study (examining cycle-related variation) is not known by participants...