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Joyce F. Benenson

Joyce F. Benenson

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Psychology

D-Index
30
Citations
5119
World Ranking
11320
National Ranking
5914

Overview

Joyce F. Benenson is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their research primarily focuses on evolutionary psychology and human behavior, behavioral health and interventions, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, social and intergroup psychology, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and motivation and self-concept in sports.

The scientist has published in a variety of journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
  • Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology
  • Developmental Science
  • Archives of Sexual Behavior

Joyce F. Benenson's recent notable papers include:

  • Girls exhibit greater empathy than boys following a minor accident (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Sex differences in exclusion and aggression on single-sex sports teams (2020, Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences)
  • Human Females as a Dispersal-Egalitarian Species: A Hypothesis about Women and Status (2022, Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology)
  • Married women with children experience greater intrasexual competition than their male counterparts (2023, Scientific Reports)
  • Young adults' desired life tradeoffs: love first, sex last (2024, Scientific Reports)

Their work spans several subfields of study, particularly:

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Applied Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Social Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Henry Markovits
  • Béatrice Le Tellier
  • Évelyne Gauthier
  • Robert O. Deaner
  • Amanda McClellan

Best Publications

  • Children's altruistic behavior in the dictator game

    Joyce F. Benenson;Joanna Pascoe;Nicola Radmore

  • Age and Sex Differences in Dyadic and Group Interaction.

    Joyce F. Benenson;Nicholas H. Apostoleris;Jodi Parnass

  • The Greater Fragility of Females' Versus Males' Closest Same-Sex Friendships

    Joyce F. Benenson;and Athena Christakos

  • Gender differences in social networks.

    Joyce F. Benenson

  • The development of trait explanations and self-evaluations in the academic and social domains.

    Joyce F. Benenson;Carol S. Dweck

  • Greater Preference among Females Than Males for Dyadic Interaction in Early Childhood

    Joyce F. Benenson

  • The influence of group size on children's competitive behavior.

    Joyce F. Benenson;Catherine Nicholson;Angela Waite;Rosanne Roy

  • Effect of Auditory Numerical Information on Infants' Looking Behavior: Contradictory Evidence.

    David S. Moore;Joyce Benenson;Steven J. Reznick;Michele Peterson

  • The development of human female competition: allies and adversaries.

    Joyce F. Benenson

  • Social Exclusion: More Important to Human Females Than Males

    Joyce Frances Benenson;Henry Markovits;Brittney Hultgren;Tuyet Nguyen

  • Males' Greater Tolerance of Same-Sex Peers

    Joyce Frances Benenson;Joyce Frances Benenson;Henry Markovits;Caitlin Fitzgerald;Diana Geoffroy

  • Warriors and Worriers: The Survival of the Sexes

    Joyce F. Benenson;Henry Markovits

  • Evidence That Children and Adolescents Have Internal Models of Peer Interactions That Are Gender Differentiated

    Henry Markovits;Joyce Benenson;Eva Dolenszky

  • The development of boys' preferential pleasure in physical aggression.

    Joyce F. Benenson;Hassina P. Carder;Sarah J. Geib-Cole

  • Gender Differences in Responses to Friends' Hypothetical Greater Success:

    Joyce F. Benenson;Deborah Benarroch

  • The organization of children's same-sex peer relationships.

    Joyce Benenson;Nicholas Apostoleris;Jodi Parnass

  • Sex differences in children’s investment in peers

    Joyce F. Benenson;Tamara Morganstein;Rosanne Roy

  • Under Threat of Social Exclusion, Females Exclude More Than Males

    Joyce F. Benenson;Joyce F. Benenson;Henry Markovits;Melissa Emery Thompson;Richard W. Wrangham

  • Beyond Intimacy: Conceptualizing Sex Differences in Same-Sex Friendships

    Rosanne Roy;Joyce F. Benenson;Frank Lilly

  • Group Size Regulates Self–Assertive versus Self–Deprecating Responses to Interpersonal Competition

    Joyce F. Benenson;Rebecca Maiese;Eva Dolenszky;Nicole Dolensky

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry Markovits
Henry Markovits University of Quebec at Montreal
Jerome Kagan
Jerome Kagan Harvard University
Carol S. Dweck
Carol S. Dweck Stanford University
Barry H. Schneider
Barry H. Schneider Boston College
Virgil Zeigler-Hill
Virgil Zeigler-Hill Oakland University

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