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Martie G. Haselton is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields within the social sciences and psychology, with a significant emphasis on evolutionary psychology and human behavior.

The scientist has contributed to various subfields including sociology and political science, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, gender studies, and education. This interdisciplinary approach highlights the breadth of their work across multiple domains of human behavior and social interaction.

Haselton's main research topics encompass:

  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Social Representations and Identity

Frequent collaborators of Martie G. Haselton include Steven W. Gangestad, Melissa R. Fales, A. Janet Tomiyama, Tran Van Dinh, and Danny Rahal. These collaborations reflect ongoing partnerships in their research endeavors.

Haselton's work has been published in a number of academic journals. The most frequent publication venues are Psychological Inquiry and Preprints.org, with other contributions appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and Current Opinion in Psychology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Haselton involve various areas related to human nature, psychology, and social behavior. Selected notable works include:

  • The pandemic exposes human nature: 10 evolutionary insights, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations, 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Why women choose divorce: An evolutionary perspective, 2021, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • "Fast" women? The effects of childhood environments on women's developmental timing, mating strategies, and reproductive outcomes, 2021, Evolution and Human Behavior
  • Strange Bedfellows: The Alliance Theory of Political Belief Systems, 2023, Psychological Inquiry

Best Publications

  • The Evolution of Cognitive Bias

    Martie G. Haselton;Daniel Nettle;Paul W. Andrews

  • Error management theory: a new perspective on biases in cross-sex mind reading.

    Martie G. Haselton;David M. Buss

  • Adaptations, exaptations, and spandrels.

    David M. Buss;Martie G. Haselton;Todd K. Shackelford;April L. Bleske

  • The Paranoid Optimist: An Integrative Evolutionary Model of Cognitive Biases:

    Martie G. Haselton;Daniel Nettle

  • Conditional expression of women's desires and men's mate guarding across the ovulatory cycle.

    Martie G. Haselton;Steven W. Gangestad

  • Desiring the Muscular Ideal: Men's Body Satisfaction in the United States, Ukraine, and Ghana

    David A. Frederick;Gregory M. Buchanan;Leila Sadehgi-Azar;Letitia Anne Peplau

  • Evolutionary Foundations of Cultural Variation: Evoked Culture and Mate Preferences

    Steven W. Gangestad;Martie G. Haselton;David M. Buss

  • Why Is Muscularity Sexy? Tests of the Fitness Indicator Hypothesis

    David A. Frederick;Martie G. Haselton

  • Ovulatory shifts in human female ornamentation: near ovulation, women dress to impress.

    Martie G. Haselton;Mina Mortezaie;Elizabeth G. Pillsworth;April Bleske-Rechek

  • Do women’s mate preferences change across the ovulatory cycle? A meta-analytic review.

    Kelly Gildersleeve;Martie G. Haselton;Melissa R. Fales

  • The evolution of error: error management, cognitive constraints, and adaptive decision-making biases

    Dominic D.P. Johnson;Daniel T. Blumstein;James H. Fowler;Martie G. Haselton

  • Changes in Women's Choice of Dress Across the Ovulatory Cycle: Naturalistic and Laboratory Task-Based Evidence

    Kristina M. Durante;Norman P. Li;Martie G. Haselton

  • Women's fertility across the cycle increases the short-term attractiveness of creative intelligence.

    Martie G. Haselton;Geoffrey F. Miller

  • Male sexual attractiveness predicts differential ovulatory shifts in female extra-pair attraction and male mate retention

    Elizabeth G. Pillsworth;Martie G. Haselton

  • The evolution of jealousy.

    David M. Buss;Martie Haselton

  • Adaptive rationality: An evolutionary perspective on cognitive bias

    Martie G. Haselton;Gregory A. Bryant;Andreas Wilke;David A. Frederick

  • Ovulatory shifts in female sexual desire.

    Elizabeth G. Pillsworth;Martie G. Haselton;David M. Buss

  • Do representations of male muscularity differ in men's and women's magazines?

    David A. Frederick;Daniel M.T. Fessler;Martie G. Haselton

  • Sex, Lies, and Strategic Interference: The Psychology of Deception Between the Sexes

    Martie G. Haselton;David M. Buss;Viktor Oubaid;Alois Angleitner

  • The sexual overperception bias: Evidence of a systematic bias in men from a survey of naturally occurring events.

    Martie G. Haselton

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Buss
David M. Buss The University of Texas at Austin
David A. Frederick
David A. Frederick Chapman University
Steven W. Gangestad
Steven W. Gangestad University of New Mexico
William von Hippel
William von Hippel University of Queensland
Daniel M. T. Fessler
Daniel M. T. Fessler University of California, Los Angeles
Joseph P. Forgas
Joseph P. Forgas University of New South Wales
Kerri L. Johnson
Kerri L. Johnson University of California, Los Angeles
Todd K. Shackelford
Todd K. Shackelford Oakland University
Geoffrey F. Miller
Geoffrey F. Miller University of New Mexico
Norman P. Li
Norman P. Li Singapore Management University

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