2026 Martin Daly: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	59	3641	3357	236	217	175	21196

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Overview

Martin Daly is a researcher affiliated with McMaster University in Canada. Their scholarly contributions primarily focus on social sciences and psychology, with significant engagement in several subfields including clinical psychology, sociology and political science, gender studies, demography, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their work explores diverse topics such as demographic trends and gender preferences, family dynamics and relationships, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, healthcare decision-making and restraints, homicide, infanticide and child abuse, child abuse and trauma, as well as intimate partner and family violence.

Recent publications by Martin Daly include:

Inequality, grievances, and the variability in homicide rates, 2023, Evolution and Human Behavior
In-Law Relationships in Evolutionary Perspective: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, 2021, Frontiers in Sociology
A Cinderella effect in the childcare assistance provided by European grandparents, 2021, Evolution and Human Behavior
"Cinderella effects" in lethal child abuse are genuine and large: A comment on Nobes et al. (2019), 2022, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
Evolutionary psychology and inequality, 2020, Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

Martin Daly frequently publishes in venues such as:

Evolution and Human Behavior
Journal of Experimental Psychology General
Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
Frontiers in Sociology
Human Nature

Their frequent collaborators include Gretchen Perry, Gavin Davidson, Moira Harper, Lorna Montgomery, and Mirkka Danielsbacka.

Best Publications

Sex, evolution, and behavior

Martin Daly;Margo. Wilson

2291
Citations
Competitiveness, risk taking, and violence: the young male syndrome

Margo Wilson;Martin Daly

1830
Citations
The Myth of Sexual Symmetry in Marital Violence

Russell P. Dobash;R. Emerson Dobash;Margo Wilson;Martin Daly

1625
Citations
Male sexual jealousy

Martin Daly;Margo I. Wilson;Suzanne J. Weghorst

1286
Citations
Life expectancy, economic inequality, homicide, and reproductive timing in Chicago neighbourhoods.

Margo Wilson;Martin Daly

989
Citations
Evolutionary social psychology and family homicide.

Martin Daly;Margo Wilson

809
Citations
Spousal homicide risk and estrangement.

Margo Wilson;Martin Daly

741
Citations
The man who mistook his wife for a chattel.

Margo Wilson;Martin Daly

669
Citations
Child abuse and other risks of not living with both parents

Martin Daly;Margot Wilson

547
Citations
Do pretty women inspire men to discount the future

Margo Wilson;Martin Daly

520
Citations
Risk-taking, intrasexual competition, and homicide.

Martin Daly;Margo Wilson

428
Citations
WHO KILLS WHOM IN SPOUSE KILLINGS? ON THE EXCEPTIONAL SEX RATIO OF SPOUSAL HOMICIDES IN THE UNITED STATES*

Margo I. Wilson;Martin Daly

404
Citations
Whom are newborn babies said to resemble

Martin Daly;Margo I. Wilson

374
Citations
Violence Against Stepchildren

Martin Daly;Margo I. Wilson

373
Citations
Lethal and Nonlethal Violence Against Wives

Margo Wilson;Holly Johnson;Martin Daly

342
Citations
Discriminative parental solicitude: A biological perspective.

Martin Daly;Margo Wilson

341
Citations
Killing the competition : Female/female and male/male homicide.

Martin Daly;Margo I Wilson

314
Citations
Behavioural modulation of predation risk: moonlight avoidance and crepuscular compensation in a nocturnal desert rodent, Dipodomys merriami

Martin Daly;Philip R. Behrends;Margo I. Wilson;Lucia F. Jacobs

301
Citations
An evolutionary psychological perspective on male sexual proprietariness and violence against wives

Margo Wilson;Martin Daly

276
Citations
EARLY STIMULATION OF RODENTS: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF PRESENT INTERPRETATIONS

Martin Daly

260
Citations
Reconsidering Violence in Simple Human Societies: Homicide among the Gebusi of New Guinea [and Comments and Reply]

Bruce M. Knauft;Martin Daly;Margo Wilson;Leland Donald

260
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshikazu Hasegawa University of Tokyo

Harriet L. MacMillan McMaster University

External Links

Wikipedia of Martin Daly Personal website of Martin Daly Google Scholar page

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