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Steven M. Platek is an active researcher affiliated with Georgia Gwinnett College in the United States. Their work spans multiple disciplines within medicine and psychology, with particular focus on clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their research outputs include contributions to topics such as sexual function and dysfunction studies, COVID-19 and mental health, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, sexuality, behavior and technology, rabies epidemiology and control, virology and viral diseases, and attachment and relationship dynamics.

Frequent collaboration has been an aspect of their career, with several coauthors appearing repeatedly in their work. Notable frequent coauthors include Gordon G. Gallup, Michael C. Barton, Kaylee V. Bennett, J.R. Cook, and Benjamin C. Ampel.

Steven M. Platek's research has been published in various academic venues. Major publication outlets include:

  • Medical Hypotheses
  • Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
  • Brain Sciences
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Steven M. Platek are:

  • Hypothesized behavioral host manipulation by SARS-CoV2/COVID-19 infection, 2020, Medical Hypotheses
  • Sex differences in the sedative properties of heterosexual intercourse, 2020, Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
  • Self-Processing and Self-Face Reaction Time Latencies: A Review, 2021, Brain Sciences
  • Sedative Properties of Orgasm Survey, 2021, PsycTESTS Dataset
  • SARS/CoV-2: Behavioral Host Manipulation, 2021, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Best Publications

  • Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS): An Emerging Neuroimaging Technology with Important Applications for the Study of Brain Disorders

    Farzin Irani;Steven M. Platek;Scott Bunce;Anthony C. Ruocco

  • Where am I? The neurological correlates of self and other.

    Steven M. Platek;Julian Paul Keenan;Gordon G. Gallup;Feroze B. Mohamed

  • Contagious yawning: the role of self-awareness and mental state attribution.

    Steven M Platek;Samuel R Critton;Thomas E Myers;Gordon G Gallup

  • Neural substrates for functionally discriminating self-face from personally familiar faces

    Steven M. Platek;James W. Loughead;Ruben C. Gur;Samantha Busch

  • Self-face recognition and theory of mind in patients with schizophrenia and first-degree relatives

    Farzin Irani;Steven M. Platek;Ivan S. Panyavin;Monica E. Calkins

  • Reactions to children's faces: Resemblance affects males more than females

    Steven M Platek;Rebecca L Burch;Ivan S Panyavin;Brett H Wasserman

  • Contagious yawning and the brain.

    Steven M. Platek;Feroze B. Mohamed;Gordon G. Gallup

  • Self-face recognition is affected by schizotypal personality traits.

    Steven M Platek;Gordon G Gallup

  • Brain Mapping of Deception and Truth Telling about an Ecologically Valid Situation: Functional MR Imaging and Polygraph Investigation—Initial Experience

    Feroze B. Mohamed;Scott H. Faro;Nathan J. Gordon;Steven M. Platek

  • Neural correlates of self-face recognition: an effect-location meta-analysis.

    Steven M. Platek;Kyrre Wathne;Kyrre Wathne;Niall G. Tierney;Niall G. Tierney;Jaime W. Thomson;Jaime W. Thomson

  • Reactions to children's faces: Males are more affected by resemblance than females are, and so are their brains

    Steven M. Platek;Danielle M. Raines;Gordon G. Gallup;Feroze B. Mohamed

  • Is family special to the brain? An event-related fMRI study of familiar, familial, and self-face recognition.

    Steven M. Platek;Shelly M. Kemp

  • Evolutionary cognitive neuroscience

    Steven M. Platek;Julian Paul Keenan;Todd K. Shackelford

  • Optimal waist-to-hip ratios in women activate neural reward centers in men.

    Steven M. Platek;Devendra Singh

  • How much paternal resemblance is enough? Sex differences in hypothetical investment decisions but not in the detection of resemblance

    Steven M. Platek;Samuel R. Critton;Rebecca L. Burch;David A. Frederick

  • Brain activation in restrained and unrestrained eaters: an fMRI study.

    Maria Coletta;Steven Platek;Feroze B. Mohamed;J. Jason van Steenburgh

  • In-group and out-group membership mediates anterior cingulate activation to social exclusion.

    Austen Krill;Steven M Platek

  • Registering fNIR data to brain surface image using MRI templates.

    Hasan Ayaz;Meltem Izzetoglu;Steven M. Platek;Scott C. Bunce

  • Sex differences in the neural correlates of child facial resemblance: an event-related fMRI study.

    Steven M. Platek;Julian Paul Keenan;Feroze B. Mohamed

  • Self-awareness, social intelligence and schizophrenia

    Gordon G. Gallup;James R. Anderson;Steven M. Platek

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon G. Gallup
Gordon G. Gallup University at Albany, State University of New York
Todd K. Shackelford
Todd K. Shackelford Oakland University
Julian Paul Keenan
Julian Paul Keenan Montclair State University
Anthony C. Ruocco
Anthony C. Ruocco University of Toronto
Maryanne L. Fisher
Maryanne L. Fisher Saint Mary's University
Ruben C. Gur
Ruben C. Gur University of Pennsylvania
David A. Frederick
David A. Frederick Chapman University
N. Kenneth Sandnabba
N. Kenneth Sandnabba Åbo Akademi University
Phillip R. Shaver
Phillip R. Shaver University of California, Davis
Raquel E. Gur
Raquel E. Gur University of Pennsylvania

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