Welsh Evolutionary Psychology Network (WEPN)

Peer-reviewed Publications

2021

Thomas, A. G., Stone, B., Bennett, P., Stewart-Williams, S. & Kennair, L. E. O. (2021). Sex differences in voyeuristic and exhibitionistic interests: Exploring the mediating roles of sociosexuality and sexual compulsivity from an Evolutionary Perspective. Archives of Sexual Behavior 50, 2151-2162.

Apostolou, M., Birkás, B., da Silva, C. S. A., Esposito, G., Hsu, R. M. C. S., Jonason, P. K., ... & Wang, Y. (2021). Reasons of Singles for Being Single: Evidence from Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, India, Japan and the UK. Cross-Cultural Research, 1-32. doi: 10.1177/10693971211021816

Thomas, A. G., Armstrong, S. L., Stewart-Williams, S., & Jones, B. C. (2021). Current fertility status does not predict sociosexual attitudes and desires in normally ovulating women. Evolutionary Psychology, 19(1). doi: 10.1177/1474704920976318

Thomas, A. G., Kowal, M., Sorokowski, P., Żelaźniewicz, A., Nowak, J., Orzechowski, S., & Crewther, B. T. (2021). Modest Exercise-Induced Increases in Testosterone Concentration Are Not Associated with Mating Strategy Change in Healthy Young Men. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 1-6. doi: 10.1007/s40806-021-00275-z

2020

Colquhoun, L., Workman, L., & Fowler, J. (2020). The Problem of Altruism and Future Directions. In L. Workman, W. Reader, & J. Barkow (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology, pp. 125-138). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108131797.011

Stewart-Williams, S., Chang, C. Y. M., Wong, X. L., Blackburn, J. D., & Thomas, A. G. (2020). Reactions to male-favouring versus female-favouring sex differences: A pre-registered experiment and Southeast Asian replication. British Journal of Psychology, 112(2), 389-411. doi: 10.1111/bjop.12463

Dunn, M. J., & Ward, K. (2020). Infidelity-Revealing Snapchat Messages Arouse Different Levels of Jealousy Depending on Sex, Type of Message and Identity of the Opposite Sex Rival. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 6(1), 38-46.

Greengross, G., Silvia, P. J., & Nusbaum, E. C. (2020). Sex differences in humor production ability: A meta-analysis. Journal of Research in Personality, 84, 103886.

Thomas, A. G., Jonason, P. K., Blackburn, J. D., Kennair, L. E. O., Lowe, R., Malouff, J., Stewart-Williams, S., Sulikowski, D., & Li, N. P. (2020). Mate preference priorities in the East and West: A cross-cultural test of the mate preference priority model. Journal of Personality, 88(3), 606-620. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12514

Workman, L., Reader, W., & Barkow, J. H. (Eds.). (2020). The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior. Cambridge University Press.

2019

Apostolou, M., O, J., & Esposito, G. (2020). Singles’ reasons for being single: Empirical evidence from an evolutionary perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00746

Blagrove, M., Hale, S., Lockheart, J., Carr, M., Jones, A. L., & Valli, K. (2019). Testing the empathy theory of dreaming: the relationships between dream sharing and trait and state empathy. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 1351.

Dunn, M. (2019) Prostitution and Women’s Short-Term Mating. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (eds.) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, Springer. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Harris, M., Dunn, M., & Alwyn, T. (2019). Intrasexual competition as a potential influence on anabolic-androgenic steroid use initiation. Journal of health psychology, 24(9), 1210-1220.

Jones, A. L., Tree, J. J., & Ward, R. (2019). Personality in faces: Implicit associations between appearance and personality. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49(3), 658-669.

Jones, A. L. & Jaeger, B. (2019). Biological Bases of Beauty Revisited: The Effect of Symmetry, Averageness, and Sexual Dimorphism on Female Facial Attractiveness. Symmetry 11(2), 279. doi: 10.3390/sym11020279

O, J. (2019). Benefits of profound kinship connectedness (and problems from a lack thereof) through an evolutionary mismatch lens. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science (pp. 1-3). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

O, J. (2019). Survival advantages of adhd symptoms based on evolutionary mismatch approaches. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science (pp. 1-4). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

O, J. (2019). The evolutionarily mismatched nature of modern group makeup and the proposed application of such knowledge on promoting unity among members during times of intergroup conflict. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, E134. doi:10.1017/S0140525X19000797

O, J., Kavanagh, P. S., Brüne, M., & Esposito, G. (2019). Testing the unsolved problems hypothesis: The evolutionary life issues-mitigating function of nature exposure and its relationship with human well-being. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 44, 126396. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2019.126396

2018

Apostolou, M., Wang, Y., & O, J. (2018). Do men prefer women who are attracted to women? A cross-cultural evolutionary investigation. Personality and Individual Differences, 135(1), 31-39. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2018.06.052

Dunn, M. J. (2018). Younger escorts advertise higher charges online than older escorts for sexual services cross-culturally. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 4(3), 331-339.

Jones, A. L. (2018). The influence of shape and colour cue classes on facial health perception. Evolution and Human Behavior 39(1), 19-29. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.09.005

Jones, A. L., Tree, J.J. & Ward, R. (2018). Personality in faces: Implicit associations between appearance and personality. European Journal of Social Psychology. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2534

O, J. (2018). Learned helplessness from an evolutionary mismatch perspective. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Cham: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1056-1

Thomas, A. G., & Stewart-Williams, S. (2018). Mating strategy flexibility in the laboratory: Preferences for long- and short-term mating change in response to evolutionarily relevant variables. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(1), 82-93. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.10.004

Workman, L. (2018). Blue Eyes Keep Away the Winter Blues: Is Blue Eye Pigmentation an Evolved Feature to Provide Resilience to Seasonal Affective Disorder. OA J Behavioural Sci Psych, 1(1), 180002.

2017

Brüne, M., O, J., Schojai, M., Decker, C., & Edel, M. A. (2017). Mating strategies and experience of early adversity in female patients with borderline personality disorder: Insights from life history theory. Personality and Individual Differences, 113(1), 147-154. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.03.024

Jones, A. L., Batres, C., Porcheron, A., Sweda, J., Morizot, F. & Russell, R. (2017). Positive facial affect looks healthy. Visual Cognition, 1-12. doi: 10.1080/13506285.2017.1369202

Jones, A. L., Porcheron, A. & Russell, R. (2017). Makeup Changes the Apparent Size of Facial Features. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. doi: 10.1037/aca0000152

Stewart-Williams, S., Butler, C. A., & Thomas, A. G. (2017). Sexual History and Present Attractiveness: People Want a Mate With a Bit of a Past, But Not Too Much. J Sex Res, 54(9), 1097-1105. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2016.1232690

Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Curry, O. S., De Smet, D., Ermer, E., Kim, S., Kim, S., Li, N. P., Lopez Seal, M. F., McClung, J., O, J., Ohtsubo, Y., Quillien, T., Schaub, M., Sell, A., van Leeuwen, F., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J. (2017). Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(1), 1874-1879. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1614389114

2008-2016

Greengross, G. (2014). Male production of humor produced by sexually selected psychological adaptations.. In V. A. Weekes-Shackelford & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Evolutionary perspectives on human sexual psychology and behavior. (pp. 173-196). New York, NY: Springer.

Stewart-Williams, S., & Thomas, A. G. (2013). The Ape that Thought It Was a Peacock: Does Evolutionary Psychology Exaggerate Human Sex Differences? Psychological Inquiry, 24(3), 137-168. doi: 10.1080/1047840X.2013.804899

Stewart-Williams, S., & Thomas, A. G. (2013). The Ape that Kicked the Hornet's Nest: Response to Commentaries on "The Ape that Thought It Was a Peacock". Psychological Inquiry, 24(3), 248-271. doi: 10.1080/1047840X.2013.823831

Greengross, G., Martin, R. A., & Miller, G. F. (2012). Personality traits, intelligence, humor styles, and humor production ability of professional stand-up comedians compared to college students. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 6, 74-82. doi: 10.1037/a0025774

Greengross, G. & Miller, G. F. (2011). Humor ability reveals intelligence, predicts mating success, and is higher in males. Intelligence, 39, 188-192. doi: 10.1016/j.intell.2011.03.006

Greengross, G. & Miller, G. F. (2009). The Big Five personality traits of professional comedians compared to amateur comedians, comedy writers, and college students. Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 79–83. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.01.045

Greengross, G. & Miller, G. F. (2008). Dissing oneself versus dissing rivals: Effects of status, personality, and sex on the short-term and long-term attractiveness of self-deprecating and other-deprecating humor. Evolutionary Psychology, 6, 393-408. doi: 10.1177/147470490800600303