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Steven W. Gangestad is affiliated with the University of New Mexico in the United States. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields within psychology and social sciences, with a distinct focus on evolutionary perspectives and behavioral studies.

The main fields of study for Steven W. Gangestad include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Within these fields, the subfields of study they have contributed to are:

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Social Psychology
  • Reproductive Medicine
  • Management Science and Operations Research

The topics that dominate their body of work are:

  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Marriage and Sexual Relationships

Steven W. Gangestad has published extensively in several academic journals, with frequent publications in these venues:

  • Evolution and Human Behavior
  • Hormones and Behavior
  • Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Gangestad include:

  • "A Traveler's Guide to the Multiverse: Promises, Pitfalls, and a Framework for the Evaluation of Analytic Decisions" (2021) published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • "On Attenuated Interactions, Measurement Error, and Statistical Power: Guidelines for Social and Personality Psychologists" (2020) published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • "Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations" (2021) published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • ""Fast" women? The effects of childhood environments on women's developmental timing, mating strategies, and reproductive outcomes" (2021) published in Evolution and Human Behavior
  • "Evaluation of Evidence for Adaptation and Special Design" (2021) published in Archives of Sexual Behavior

Frequent collaborators in Gangestad's research include:

  • Tran Van Dinh
  • Martie G. Haselton
  • Melissa Emery Thompson
  • Marco Del Giudice
  • A. Janet Tomiyama

Best Publications

  • The evolution of human mating: Trade-offs and strategic pluralism

    Steven W. Gangestad;Jeffry A. Simpson

  • Individual differences in sociosexuality: evidence for convergent and discriminant validity.

    Jeffry A. Simpson;Steven W. Gangestad

  • On the nature of self-monitoring: matters of assessment, matters of validity.

    Mark Snyder;Steve Gangestad

  • Life history theory and evolutionary psychology.

    Marco Del Giudice;Steven W. Gangestad;Hillard S. Kaplan

  • Self-monitoring: Appraisal and reappraisal.

    Steven W. Gangestad;Mark Snyder

  • Human facial beauty

    Randy Thornhill;Steven W. Gangestad

  • Facial attractiveness, symmetry and cues of good genes

    Joanna E. Scheib;Steven W. Gangestad;Randy Thornhill

  • "To Carve Nature at Its Joints": On the Existence of Discrete Classes in Personality

    Steve Gangestad;Mark Snyder

  • Rethinking IL-6 and CRP: Why they are more than inflammatory biomarkers, and why it matters.

    Marco Del Giudice;Steven W. Gangestad

  • Pathogen prevalence and human mate preferences

    Steven W. Gangestad;David M. Buss

  • Menstrual cycle variation in women's preferences for the scent of symmetrical men.

    Steven W. Gangestad;Randy Thornhill

  • Toward an evolutionary history of female sociosexual variation.

    Steven W. Gangestad;Jeffry A. Simpson

  • The scent of symmetry: A human sex pheromone that signals fitness?

    Randy Thornhill;Steven W Gangestad

  • Facial attractiveness, developmental stability, and fluctuating asymmetry.

    Steven W. Gangestad;Randy Thornhill;Ronald A. Yeo

  • Facial sexual dimorphism, developmental stability, and susceptibility to disease in men and women

    Randy Thornhill;Steven W. Gangestad

  • Sociosexuality and Romantic Partner Choice

    Jeffry A. Simpson;Steven W. Gangestad

  • Changes in women's sexual interests and their partners' mate-retention tactics across the menstrual cycle: evidence for shifting conflicts of interest.

    Steven W. Gangestad;Randy Thornhill;Christine E. Garver

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

    Martie G. Haselton;Steven W. Gangestad

  • Major histocompatibility complex genes, symmetry, and body scent attractiveness in men and women

    Randy Thornhill;Steven W. Gangestad;Robert Miller;Glenn Scheyd

  • The evolutionary psychology of extrapair sex: The role of fluctuating asymmetry

    Steven W Gangestad;Randy Thornhill

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald A. Yeo
Ronald A. Yeo University of New Mexico
Jeffry A. Simpson
Jeffry A. Simpson University of Minnesota
Martie G. Haselton
Martie G. Haselton University of California, Los Angeles
Kent E. Hutchison
Kent E. Hutchison University of Colorado Boulder
Joshua M. Tybur
Joshua M. Tybur Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Marco Del Giudice
Marco Del Giudice University of New Mexico
Geoffrey F. Miller
Geoffrey F. Miller University of New Mexico
David M. Buss
David M. Buss The University of Texas at Austin
Mark Snyder
Mark Snyder University of Minnesota
Wendy Johnson
Wendy Johnson University of Edinburgh

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