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1675
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989

Dario Maestripieri publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dario Maestripieri sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 261 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Dario Maestripieri D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dario Maestripieri sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Dario Maestripieri is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and has published extensively in the field of psychology, with a focus on evolutionary psychology and human behavior. Their research spans several subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's work primarily addresses various aspects of psychology and behavior, notably evolutionary psychology and human behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, personality traits and psychology, stress responses and cortisol, primate behavior and ecology, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, and social and intergroup psychology.

Maestripieri has contributed to research published in multiple journals and venues. Some of the most frequent publication venues include:

  • Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Scientific Reports
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

Selected recent papers by Maestripieri and colleagues include:

  • "Gruesomeness conveys formidability: Perpetrators of gratuitously grisly acts are conceptualized as larger, stronger, and more likely to win" (2020) published in Aggressive Behavior
  • "Cortisol reactivity to psychosocial stress in vulnerable and grandiose narcissists: An exploratory study" (2023) published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Age negatively impacts reproduction in high-ranking male rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico" (2020) published in Scientific Reports
  • "Human nature and personality variation: Reconnecting evolutionary psychology with the science of individual differences" (2022) published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Day-to-day coordination of the stress and reproductive axes: A continuous-time analysis of within-person testosterone and cortisol relationships in athletic and healthy men" (2023) published in Physiology & Behavior

Frequent co-authors working alongside Maestripieri include:

  • Javier I. Borráz-León
  • Coltan Scrivner
  • Nora Nickels
  • JohnMichael Jurgensen
  • Royce Lee

Dario Maestripieri was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Gender differences in financial risk aversion and career choices are affected by testosterone.

    Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales;Dario Maestripieri

  • A modest proposal: displacement activities as an indicator of emotions in primates

    Dario Maestripieri;Dario Maestripieri;Gabriele Schino;Gabriele Schino;Filippo Aureli;Filippo Aureli;Alfonso Troisi

  • Allogrooming as a tension-reduction mechanism: A behavioral approach

    Gabriele Schino;Stefano Scucchi;Dario Maestripieri;Pier Giovanni Turillazzi

  • Reading men's faces: women's mate attractiveness judgments track men's testosterone and interest in infants

    James R. Roney;Katherine N. Hanson;Kristina M. Durante;Dario Maestripieri

  • ANIMAL PERSONALITIES: Behavior, Physiology, and Evolution

    Claudio Carere;Dario Maestripieri

  • Behavioral and hormonal responses of men to brief interactions with women

    James R. Roney;Stephen V. Mahler;Dario Maestripieri

  • Early experience affects the intergenerational transmission of infant abuse in rhesus monkeys

    Dario Maestripieri

  • Identifying key features of early stressful experiences that produce stress vulnerability and resilience in primates.

    Karen J. Parker;Dario Maestripieri

  • Variation at the mu-opioid receptor gene (OPRM1) influences attachment behavior in infant primates

    Christina S. Barr;Melanie L. Schwandt;Stephen G. Lindell;J. Dee Higley

  • The biology of human parenting: insights from nonhuman primates

    Dario Maestripieri

  • Social structure, infant handling, and mothering styles in group-living old world monkeys

    Dario Maestripieri

  • The neuroendocrinology of primate maternal behavior

    Wendy Saltzman;Dario Maestripieri

  • Explaining financial and prosocial biases in favor of attractive people: Interdisciplinary perspectives from economics, social psychology, and evolutionary psychology.

    Dario Maestripieri;Andrea Henry;Nora Nickels

  • Mother-infant interactions in free-ranging rhesus macaques: relationships between physiological and behavioral variables.

    Dario Maestripieri;Christy L. Hoffman;George M. Anderson;C. Sue Carter

  • Maternal effects in mammals

    Dario Maestripieri;Jill M. Mateo

  • Early maternal rejection affects the development of monoaminergic systems and adult abusive parenting in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

    Dario Maestripieri;J. Dee Higley;Stephen G. Lindell;Timothy K. Newman

  • Serotonin transporter gene variation, infant abuse, and responsiveness to stress in rhesus macaque mothers and infants.

    Kai McCormack;T. K. Newman;J. D. Higley;D. Maestripieri;D. Maestripieri

  • Parenting styles of abusive mothers in group-living rhesus macaques

    Dario Maestripieri

  • Father absence, menarche and interest in infants among adolescent girls

    Dario Maestripieri;James R. Roney;Nicole DeBias;Kristina M. Durante

  • VIGILANCE COSTS OF ALLOGROOMING IN MACAQUE MOTHERS

    Dario Maestripieri

  • Juvenile primates: Life history, development and behavior: edited by M.E. Pereira and L.A. Fairbanks Oxford University Press, 1993. $65.00/&50.00 hbk (xvi + 428 pages) ISBN 0 19 507206 5

    Dario Maestripieri

  • Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection.

    Dario Maestripieri

Frequent Co-Authors

James P. Higham
James P. Higham New York University
Karen J. Parker
Karen J. Parker Stanford University
James R. Roney
James R. Roney University of California, Santa Barbara
Kim Wallen
Kim Wallen Emory University
Michael Heistermann
Michael Heistermann German Primate Center
Gabriele Schino
Gabriele Schino Sapienza University of Rome
Enrico Alleva
Enrico Alleva Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Paola Sapienza
Paola Sapienza Northwestern University
Luigi Zingales
Luigi Zingales University of Chicago
Tanja Jovanovic
Tanja Jovanovic Wayne State University

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