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When the economy falters, do people spend or save? Responses to resource scarcity depend on childhood environmentsVladas Griskevicius
Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
Psychol Sci 24:197-205. 2013..Overall, whereas tendencies associated with early-life environments were dormant in benign conditions, they emerged under conditions of economic uncertainty...
The financial consequences of too many men: sex ratio effects on saving, borrowing, and spendingVladas Griskevicius
Department of Marketing, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 102:69-80. 2012..These findings demonstrate experimentally that sex ratio influences human decision making in ways consistent with evolutionary biological theory. Implications for sex ratio effects across cultures are discussed...
Aggress to impress: hostility as an evolved context-dependent strategyVladas Griskevicius
Department of Marketing, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 96:980-94. 2009..These context- and sex-specific effects on human aggression contribute to a broader understanding of the functional nature of aggressive behavior...
Going green to be seen: status, reputation, and conspicuous conservationVladas Griskevicius
Department of Marketing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 98:392-404. 2010..Findings suggest that status competition can be used to promote proenvironmental behavior...
Influence of different positive emotions on persuasion processing: a functional evolutionary approachVladas Griskevicius
Department of Marketing, University of Minnesota, 321 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Emotion 10:190-206. 2010..These findings build upon approaches that link affective valence to certain types of processing, documenting emotion-specific effects on cognition that are consistent with functional evolutionary accounts of discrete positive emotions...
Environmental contingency in life history strategies: the influence of mortality and socioeconomic status on reproductive timingVladas Griskevicius
Marketing Department, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, 321 19th Avenue S, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 100:241-54. 2011....
The influence of mortality and socioeconomic status on risk and delayed rewards: a life history theory approachVladas Griskevicius
Department of Marketing, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 100:1015-26. 2011....
Peacocks, Porsches, and Thorstein Veblen: conspicuous consumption as a sexual signaling systemJill M Sundie
Department of Marketing, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249 0631, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 100:664-80. 2011..Instead, conspicuous consumption appears to be part of a more precise signaling system focused on short-term mating. These findings contribute to an emerging literature on human life-history strategies...
Evolution, stress, and sensitive periods: the influence of unpredictability in early versus late childhood on sex and risky behaviorJeffry A Simpson
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN 55455 0344, USA
Dev Psychol 48:674-86. 2012..The findings also suggest that there is a developmentally sensitive period for assessing environmental unpredictability during the first 5 years of life...
