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  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Douglas T. Kenrick is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of psychology, with a significant emphasis on experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, and gender studies.

The central topics of their work concentrate on evolutionary psychology and human behavior, cultural differences and values, social and intergroup psychology, marriage and sexual relationships, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, and consumer behavior in brand consumption and identification.

Kenrick has published extensively in several venues, most notably Harvard Dataverse, with 14 publications. Other frequent publication venues include Evolution and Human Behavior, Scientific Data, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Current Directions in Psychological Science.

Notable recent papers from Kenrick's body of work include:

  • Friendship jealousy: One tool for maintaining friendships in the face of third-party threats?, 2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Family still matters: Human social motivation across 42 countries during a global pandemic, 2022, Evolution and Human Behavior
  • Fundamental Motives Illuminate a Broad Range of Individual and Cultural Variations in Thought and Behavior, 2021, Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • Sex (similarities and) differences in friendship jealousy, 2021, Evolution and Human Behavior
  • Fundamental social motives measured across forty-two cultures in two waves, 2022, Scientific Data

Kenrick has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Jaimie Arona Krems, Keelah E. G. Williams, Athena Aktipis, Daniel David, and Michael E. W. Varnum. These recurring collaborations have contributed to advancing various themes within their research areas.

In addition to journal articles, Kenrick has produced book publications, such as "Solving modern problems with a stone-age brain: Human evolution and the seven fundamental motives," published by the American Psychological Association in 2022.

The scientist's contributions have been recognized through professional distinctions, including being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Renovating the Pyramid of Needs: Contemporary Extensions Built Upon Ancient Foundations

    Douglas T. Kenrick;Vladas Griskevicius;Steven L. Neuberg;Mark Schaller

  • Profiting from controversy. Lessons from the person-situation debate.

    Douglas T. Kenrick;David C. Funder

  • The necessities and luxuries of mate preferences: testing the tradeoffs.

    Norman P. Li;J. Michael Bailey;Douglas T. Kenrick;Joan A. W. Linsenmeier

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

    Douglas T. Kenrick;Edward K. Sadalla;Gary Groth;Melanie R. Trost

  • Age preferences in mates reflect sex differences in human reproductive strategies.

    Douglas T. Kenrick;Richard C. Keefe

  • Blatant benevolence and conspicuous consumption: When romantic motives elicit strategic costly signals.

    Vladas Griskevicius;Joshua M. Tybur;Jill M. Sundie;Robert B. Cialdini

  • Sex similarities and differences in preferences for short-term mates: What, whether, and why.

    Norman P. Li;Douglas T. Kenrick

  • Evolutionary Social Psychology

    Douglas T. Kenrick;Jon K. Maner;Norman P. Li

  • Peacocks, Porsches, and Thorstein Veblen: Conspicuous Consumption as a Sexual Signaling System

    Jill M. Sundie;Douglas T. Kenrick;Vladas Griskevicius;Joshua M. Tybur

  • Functional projection: how fundamental social motives can bias interpersonal perception.

    Jon K. Maner;Douglas T. Kenrick;D. Vaughn Becker;Theresa E. Robertson

  • Dynamical evolutionary psychology: individual decision rules and emergent social norms.

    Douglas T. Kenrick;Norman P. Li;Jonathan Butner

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

    Douglas T. Kenrick;Gary E. Groth;Melanie R. Trost;Edward K. Sadalla

  • Altruism as hedonism: A social development perspective on the relationship of negative mood state and helping.

    Robert B. Cialdini;Douglas T. Kenrick

  • Dominance and heterosexual attraction

    Edward K. Sadalla;Douglas T. Kenrick;Beth Vershure

  • Contrast effects and judgments of physical attractiveness: When beauty becomes a social problem.

    Douglas T. Kenrick;Sara E. Gutierres

  • Human threat management systems: Self-protection and disease avoidance

    Steven L. Neuberg;Douglas T. Kenrick;Mark Schaller

  • Going Along Versus Going Alone: When Fundamental Motives Facilitate Strategic (Non)Conformity

    Vladas Griskevicius;Noah J. Goldstein;Chad R. Mortensen;Robert B. Cialdini

  • The confounded nature of angry men and happy women.

    D. Vaughn Becker;Douglas T. Kenrick;Steven L. Neuberg;K. C. Blackwell

  • Sexually Selective Cognition: Beauty Captures the Mind of the Beholder

    Jon K. Maner;Douglas T. Kenrick;D. Vaughn Becker;Andrew W. Delton

  • Fundamental motives: How evolutionary needs influence consumer behavior

    Vladas Griskevicius;Douglas T. Kenrick

  • Infection Breeds Reticence: The Effects of Disease Salience on Self-Perceptions of Personality and Behavioral Avoidance Tendencies

    Chad R. Mortensen;D. Vaughn Becker;Joshua M. Ackerman;Steven L. Neuberg

  • Evolution and Social Psychology

    Mark Schaller;Jeffry A. Simpson;Douglas T. Kenrick

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven L. Neuberg
Steven L. Neuberg Arizona State University
Mark Schaller
Mark Schaller University of British Columbia
Vladas Griskevicius
Vladas Griskevicius University of Minnesota
Jeffry A. Simpson
Jeffry A. Simpson University of Minnesota
Robert B. Cialdini
Robert B. Cialdini Arizona State University
Jon K. Maner
Jon K. Maner Florida State University
Joshua M. Ackerman
Joshua M. Ackerman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Norman P. Li
Norman P. Li Singapore Management University
A.B. Cohen
A.B. Cohen Arizona State University
Jonathan Butner
Jonathan Butner University of Utah

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