Evolutionary Psychology: A New Paradigm for Psychological Science

Social Learning Theory.

1978 • 25,283 citations

A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

1957 • 21,402 citations

The Evolution of Cooperation

1981 • 20,191 citations

A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

2017 • 18,931 citations

The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I

1964 • 15,639 citations

The descent of man and selection in relation to sex

1907 • 11,265 citations

The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism

1971 • 10,660 citations

Parental Investment and Sexual Selection

2017 • 9,626 citations

On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life /

1859 • 7,255 citations

Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man

2017 • 6,982 citations

Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures

1989 • 4,323 citations

The Language of Thought

1975 • 4,269 citations

PLEIOTROPY, NATURAL SELECTION, AND THE EVOLUTION OF SENESCENCE

1957 • 4,140 citations

Sexual Strategies Theory: An evolutionary perspective on human mating.

1993 • 3,972 citations

The Evolution of Social Behavior

1974 • 3,803 citations

Heritable True Fitness and Bright Birds: A Role for Parasites?

1982 • 3,696 citations

The Psychological Foundations of Culture

1992 • 3,380 citations

On The Language Instinct

1994 • 3,328 citations

The Language Instinct

1994 • 3,054 citations

Bystander intervention in emergencies: Diffusion of responsibility.

1968 • 2,814 citations

How People Make Their Own Environments: A Theory of Genotype Environment Effects

1983 • 2,778 citations

Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought

2018 • 2,735 citations

Sexual Behavior in the Human Female

1954 • 2,694 citations

The psychology of social impact.

1981 • 2,692 citations

The Blind Watchmaker

1986 • 2,555 citations

The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selection task

1989 • 2,449 citations

Rules and representations

1980 • 2,398 citations

Natural language and natural selection

1990 • 2,370 citations

The Evolution of Human Sexuality

1979 • 2,337 citations

Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery

1987 • 2,140 citations

Childhood Experience, Interpersonal Development, and Reproductive Strategy: An Evolutionary Theory of Socialization

1991 • 1,902 citations

The Child's Theory of Mind

1990 • 1,817 citations

The biology of moral systems

1987 • 1,723 citations

The past explains the present

1990 • 1,709 citations

Childhood Experience, Interpersonal Development, and Reproductive Strategy: An Evolutionary Theory of Socialization

1991 • 1,674 citations

The evolution of desire: strategies of human mating

1994 • 1,650 citations

Structures of mood and personality and their relevance to assessing anxiety, with an emphasis on self-report.

1985 • 1,620 citations

Genotype-environment interaction and correlation in the analysis of human behavior.

1977 • 1,584 citations

A psychological taxonomy of trait-descriptive terms: The interpersonal domain.

1979 • 1,487 citations

Goal Concepts in Personality and Social Psychology

2015 • 1,425 citations

Sex versus Non-Sex versus Parasite

1980 • 1,400 citations

Sex Differences in Jealousy: Evolution, Physiology, and Psychology

1992 • 1,263 citations

Competitiveness, risk taking, and violence: the young male syndrome

1985 • 1,216 citations

The Child's Theory of Mind

1990 • 1,209 citations

Darwinism and Human Affairs.

1981 • 1,206 citations

Computation and cognition: issues in the foundations of cognitive science

1980 • 1,194 citations

Love and work: An attachment-theoretical perspective.

1990 • 1,128 citations

Adaptive significance of female physical attractiveness: Role of waist-to-hip ratio.

1993 • 993 citations

On the Universality of Human Nature and the Uniqueness of the Individual: The Role of Genetics and Adaptation

1990 • 976 citations

Fears, phobias, and rituals

1987 • 963 citations

Ecological constraints on internal representation: Resonant kinematics of perceiving, imagining, thinking, and dreaming.

1984 • 927 citations

Evolutionary Personality Psychology

1991 • 900 citations

Male sexual jealousy

1982 • 889 citations

The Power Motive.

1974 • 822 citations

The Relationship Closeness Inventory: Assessing the closeness of interpersonal relationships.

1989 • 811 citations

Father Absence and Reproductive Strategy: An Evolutionary Perspective

1982 • 780 citations

Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman.

1983 • 743 citations

International Preferences in Selecting Mates

1990 • 727 citations

Evolution, Traits, and the Stages of Human Courtship: Qualifying the Parental Investment Model

1990 • 721 citations

Point-Counterpoints: Anxiety and Social Exclusion

1990 • 700 citations

The evolution of human intrasexual competition: Tactics of mate attraction.

1988 • 695 citations

The structure of interpersonal traits: Wiggins's circumplex and the five-factor model.

1989 • 688 citations

A socioanalytic theory of personality.

1983 • 677 citations

Biological boundaries of learning

1972 • 664 citations

Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, part II

1989 • 663 citations

Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges

1994 • 662 citations

Extension of the Interpersonal Adjective Scales to include the Big Five dimensions of personality.

1990 • 652 citations

The evolution of human intrasexual competition: Tactics of mate attraction.

1988 • 640 citations

From vigilance to violence

1988 • 616 citations

Theories and things

1981 • 602 citations

Despotism and Differential Reproduction: A Darwinian View of History.

1988 • 580 citations

From tools to theories: A heuristic of discovery in cognitive psychology.

1991 • 560 citations

Agency and communion as conceptual coordinates for the understanding and measurement of interpersonal behavior.

1991 • 542 citations

Causes of Conjugal Dissolution: A Cross-cultural Study

1989 • 502 citations

Sex Differences in Spatial Abilities: Evolutionary Theory and Data

1992 • 493 citations

Nisa

1981 • 487 citations

Evolved Responses to Landscapes

1992 • 480 citations

Sex differences in attributions for friendly behavior: Do males misperceive females' friendliness?

1982 • 465 citations

Integrating evolutionary and social exchange perspectives on relationships: Effects of gender, self-appraisal, and involvement level on mate selection criteria.

1993 • 462 citations

From evolution to behavior: Evolutionary psychology as the missing link.

1987 • 454 citations

Toward an Evolutionary History of Female Sociosexual Variation

1990 • 450 citations

Dominance and heterosexual attraction.

1987 • 435 citations

Sex differences in sexual fantasy: An evolutionary psychological approach

1990 • 427 citations

Effects of gender and sexual orientation on evolutionarily relevant aspects of human mating psychology.

1994 • 405 citations

On the Use and Misuse of Darwinism in the Study of Human Behavior

1992 • 391 citations

Interpersonal Processes in Close Relationships

1988 • 387 citations

Sexual Strategies Theory: An evolutionary perspective on human mating.

1993 • 372 citations

Personal Projects Analysis: Trivial Pursuits, Magnificent Obsessions, and the Search for Coherence

1989 • 370 citations

Jealousy: theory, research, and clinical strategies

1990 • 370 citations

Warmth as a Developmental Construct: An Evolutionary Analysis

1992 • 305 citations

Patterns of deception in intersexual and intrasexual mating strategies

1991 • 287 citations

Computer Simulation of Human Thinking

1961 • 271 citations

Pathogens, polymorphism, and the evolution of sex

1982 • 266 citations

The evolution of premature reproductive senescence and menopause in human females

1991 • 258 citations

Annual Review of Psychology

1950 • 248 citations

Pregnancy Sickness as Adaptation: A Deterrent to Maternal Ingestion of Teratogens

1992 • 234 citations

Environmental Preference in a Knowledge Seeking, Knowledge-Using Organism

1992 • 222 citations

Secular trends in human sex ratios

1991 • 219 citations

Mate guarding in a Caribbean village

1988 • 217 citations

Warmth as a Developmental Construct: An Evolutionary Analysis

1992 • 214 citations

Personality Development in Evolutionary Perspective

1990 • 208 citations

The Utility of Education and Attractiveness for Females' Status Attainment Through Marriage

1976 • 207 citations

Which humans behave adaptively, and why does it matter?

1990 • 199 citations

The psychology of social impact.

1981 • 186 citations

Personality and sexual relations.

1986 • 177 citations

Cross-cultural patterns in the training of children: An evolutionary perspective.

1989 • 169 citations

African Homicide and Suicide

1960 • 160 citations

The Evolution of Anxiety and Social Exclusion

1990 • 155 citations

Task-Specific Motivation: An Integrative Approach to Issues of Measurement, Mechanisms, Processes, and Determinants

1987 • 148 citations

The Perceptual Organization of Colors: An Adaptation to Regularities of the Terrestrial World?

1992 • 146 citations

Number of sperm in human ejaculates varies in accordance with sperm competition theory

1989 • 143 citations

Conceptual Universale in Interpersonal Language

1980 • 140 citations

Number of sperm in human ejaculates varies in accordance with sperm competition theory (1989)

2006 • 136 citations

Biography, Narrative, and Lives: An Introduction

1988 • 136 citations

Genotype-environment interaction and correlation in the analysis of human behavior.

1977 • 124 citations

The Evolution of Psychodynamic Mechanisms

1992 • 112 citations

From tools to theories: A heuristic of discovery in cognitive psychology.

1991 • 111 citations

Demographic Consequences of Infanticide in Man

1975 • 108 citations

Human Nature and Biocultural Evolution.

1986 • 100 citations

Traits as ideal-based and goal-derived social categories.

1990 • 98 citations

Adolescence: An Ethological Perspective

1987 • 93 citations

Extension of the Interpersonal Adjective Scales to include the Big Five dimensions of personality.

1990 • 91 citations

Selfish genes vs. selfish people: Sociobiology as origin myth

1990 • 88 citations

The Relationship Closeness Inventory: Assessing the closeness of interpersonal relationships.

1989 • 88 citations

Tilting at the paper mills of academe.

1981 • 88 citations

Responses to dissatisfaction in close relationships: The exit-voice-loyalty-neglect model.

1987 • 80 citations

The use of everyday personality language for scientific purposes

1990 • 71 citations

Hunter-Gatherers of the New World

1989 • 71 citations

Signs of the Flesh: An Essay on the Evolution of Hominid Sexuality

1986 • 70 citations

Personality‐descriptive nouns

1990 • 60 citations

Conditions that Promote Breakups as a Consequence of Extradyadic Involvements

1987 • 52 citations

Ecological constraints on internal representation: Resonant kinematics of perceiving, imagining, thinking, and dreaming.

1984 • 51 citations

Dimensions of Love: A Sociobiological Interpretation

1991 • 51 citations

Social psychology and sociobiology: What can we leave to evolution?

1990 • 39 citations

r-selected reproductive strategies among Hungarian Gipsies: A preliminary analysis

1993 • 35 citations

Evolutionary psychology, biology, and cultural evolution

1990 • 29 citations

Physiological regulation-deregulation and psychiatric disorders

1987 • 29 citations

Strategic Individual Differences: The Role of Personality in Creating and Solving Adaptive Problems

1993 • 24 citations

An Ethological View of Human Adolescence

1979 • 21 citations

Infanticide as a Terminal Abortion Procedure

1982 • 21 citations

Cross-cultural patterns in the training of children: An evolutionary perspective.

1989 • 12 citations

Tilting at the paper mills of academe.

1981 • 8 citations

Traits as ideal-based and goal-derived social categories.

1990 • 7 citations

Aims of a Scientists' Association

1961 • 3 citations