2026 Dario Maestripieri: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	77	1677	1506	989	868	261	16090

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

1050
Citations
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

687
Citations
Allogrooming as a tension-reduction mechanism: A behavioral approach

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

380
Citations
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

302
Citations
ANIMAL PERSONALITIES: Behavior, Physiology, and Evolution

Claudio Carere;Dario Maestripieri

298
Citations
Behavioral and hormonal responses of men to brief interactions with women

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

280
Citations
Early experience affects the intergenerational transmission of infant abuse in rhesus monkeys

Dario Maestripieri

267
Citations
Identifying key features of early stressful experiences that produce stress vulnerability and resilience in primates.

Karen J. Parker;Dario Maestripieri

229
Citations
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

228
Citations
The biology of human parenting: insights from nonhuman primates

Dario Maestripieri

189
Citations
Social structure, infant handling, and mothering styles in group-living old world monkeys

Dario Maestripieri

181
Citations
The neuroendocrinology of primate maternal behavior

Wendy Saltzman;Dario Maestripieri

180
Citations
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

178
Citations
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

178
Citations
Maternal effects in mammals

Dario Maestripieri;Jill M. Mateo

172
Citations
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

159
Citations
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

159
Citations
Parenting styles of abusive mothers in group-living rhesus macaques

Dario Maestripieri

151
Citations
Father absence, menarche and interest in infants among adolescent girls

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

150
Citations
VIGILANCE COSTS OF ALLOGROOMING IN MACAQUE MOTHERS

Dario Maestripieri

149
Citations
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

51
Citations
Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection.

Dario Maestripieri

41
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen J. Parker Stanford University

James R. Roney University of California, Santa Barbara

Tanja Jovanovic Wayne State University

Francesca R. D'Amato National Research Council (CNR)

Marco Del Giudice University of New Mexico

William D. Hopkins University of Wisconsin–Madison

Mary Dozier University of Delaware

Josep Call University of St Andrews

Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences

Stephen R. Ross Lincoln Park Zoo

External Links

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