Search Results - "Li, Norman P"
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The Evolutionary Mismatch Hypothesis: Implications for Psychological Science
Published in Current directions in psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society (01-02-2018)“…Human psychological mechanisms are adaptations that evolved to process environmental inputs, turning them into behavioral outputs that, on average, increase…”
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Sex Differences in Cooperation: A Meta-Analytic Review of Social Dilemmas
Published in Psychological bulletin (01-11-2011)“…Although it is commonly believed that women are kinder and more cooperative than men, there is conflicting evidence for this assertion. Current theories of sex…”
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Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (01-11-2016)“…People who are more avoidant of pathogens are more politically conservative, as are nations with greater parasite stress. In the current research, we test two…”
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The Antihero in Popular Culture: Life History Theory and the Dark Triad Personality Traits
Published in Review of general psychology (01-06-2012)“…The Dark Triad of personality is composed of narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism. Despite the common belief that these traits are undesirable, the…”
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What Do People Desire in Others? A Sociofunctional Perspective on the Importance of Different Valued Characteristics
Published in Journal of personality and social psychology (01-02-2007)“…Humans, as discriminately social creatures, make frequent judgments about others' suitability for interdependent social relations. Which characteristics of…”
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Changes in Women's Choice of Dress Across the Ovulatory Cycle: Naturalistic and Laboratory Task-Based Evidence
Published in Personality & social psychology bulletin (01-11-2008)“…The authors tested the prediction that women prefer clothing that is more revealing and sexy when fertility is highest within the ovulatory cycle. Eighty-eight…”
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Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (21-02-2017)“…Pride occurs in every known culture, appears early in development, is reliably triggered by achievements and formidability, and causes a characteristic display…”
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The Moderating Role of Social Network Size on Social Media Use and Self-Esteem: An Evolutionary Mismatch Perspective
Published in Frontiers in psychology (27-09-2021)“…Existing meta-analyses have shown that the relationship between social media use and self-esteem is negative, but at very small effect sizes, suggesting the…”
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Greater traditionalism predicts COVID-19 precautionary behaviors across 27 societies
Published in Scientific reports (11-04-2023)“…People vary both in their embrace of their society’s traditions, and in their perception of hazards as salient and necessitating a response. Over evolutionary…”
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Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations
Published in Group processes & intergroup relations (01-04-2023)“…Previous work has reported a relation between pathogen-avoidance motivations and prejudice toward various social groups, including gay men and lesbian women…”
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Quick and Dirty: Some Psychosocial Costs Associated with the Dark Triad in Three Countries
Published in Evolutionary psychology (01-01-2013)“…The current study provides the first examination of the relationship between life history indicators and the Dark Triad traits in an international sample drawn…”
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Too materialistic to get married and have children?
Published in PloS one (08-05-2015)“…We developed new materials to induce a luxury mindset and activate materialistic values, and examined materialism's relationship to attitudes toward marriage…”
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The costs and benefits of the Dark Triad: Implications for mate poaching and mate retention tactics
Published in Personality and individual differences (01-03-2010)“…The Dark Triad – narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy – have traditionally been considered to be undesirable traits. However, emerging work suggest…”
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Cross-cultural variation in men's preference for sexual dimorphism in women's faces
Published in Biology letters (2005) (01-04-2014)“…Both attractiveness judgements and mate preferences vary considerably cross-culturally. We investigated whether men's preference for femininity in women's…”
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Mind the gap: Development and validation of an evolutionary mismatched lifestyle scale and its impact on health and wellbeing
Published in Heliyon (15-08-2024)“…Identifying an integrative framework that could appropriately delineate underlying mechanisms and individual risk/protective factors for human health has…”
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Oestradiol level and opportunistic mating in women
Published in Biology letters (2005) (23-04-2009)“…The ovarian steroid hormone oestradiol plays a crucial role in female fertility, sexual motivation and behaviour. We investigated the relationship between…”
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The Validity of Sex-Differentiated Mate Preferences: Reconciling the Seemingly Conflicting Evidence
Published in Evolutionary behavioral sciences (01-04-2015)“…Across decades and cultures, researchers have found that men prefer physical attractiveness in their romantic partners more than women do, whereas women prefer…”
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Not So Much Rational but Rationalizing: Humans Evolved as Coherence-Seeking, Fiction-Making Animals
Published in The American psychologist (01-07-2021)“…The evidence for biased perceptions and judgments in humans coupled with evidence for ecological rationality in nonhuman animals suggest that the claim that…”
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Country roads, take me home... to my friends: How intelligence, population density, and friendship affect modern happiness
Published in The British journal of psychology (01-11-2016)“…We propose the savanna theory of happiness, which suggests that it is not only the current consequences of a given situation but also its ancestral…”
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Competition, autonomy, and prestige: Mechanisms through which the Dark Triad predict job satisfaction
Published in Personality and individual differences (01-01-2015)“…•Dark Triad and perceptions of workplace climate were assessed.•Narcissism linked to workplace prestige and limited workplace restrictions.•Psychopathy linked…”
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