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Todd K. Shackelford

Todd K. Shackelford

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Psychology

D-Index
83
Citations
28938
World Ranking
1262
National Ranking
765

Overview

Todd K. Shackelford is a researcher affiliated with Oakland University in the United States, whose fields of study primarily cover Psychology and Social Sciences. Their work extends across several subfields, including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, and Education.

The research topics pursued by Shackelford are diverse, with a major focus on Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior. Additional areas of study include Sexual function and dysfunction studies, Marriage and Sexual Relationships, Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology, Meat and Animal Product Quality, Animal Nutrition and Physiology, and Disability Education and Employment.

Shackelford has contributed to academic literature in various publication venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Meat and Muscle Biology
  • Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • Evolutionary Psychology
  • Evolution and Human Behavior

Some recent publications by Shackelford include:

  • "Human status criteria: Sex differences and similarities across 14 nations.", 2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "Evolution and functions of human dance", 2021, Evolution and Human Behavior
  • "Proposed solutions to anthropogenic climate change: A systematic literature review and a new way forward", 2023, Heliyon
  • "Cross-cultural perception of female facial appearance: A multi-ethnic and multi-centre study", 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "Educational Support for Saudi Students with Learning Disabilities in Higher Education", 2020, Learning Disabilities Research and Practice

In collaboration, Shackelford frequently coauthors work with:

  • Mohaned G. Abed
  • Bernhard Fink
  • T. L. Wheeler
  • Virgil Zeigler-Hill
  • Gavin Vance

Shackelford has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by SAGE Publishing: Integration of evolutionary psychology with other disciplines (2020).

Best Publications

  • The Geographic Distribution of Big Five Personality Traits Patterns and Profiles of Human Self-Description Across 56 Nations

    David P. Schmitt;Jüri Allik;Robert R. McCrae;Verónica Benet-Martínez

  • Adaptations, exaptations, and spandrels.

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

  • Personality and mate preferences : Five factors in mate selection and marital satisfaction

    Michael D. Botwin;David M. Buss;Todd K. Shackelford

  • From Vigilance to Violence: Mate Retention Tactics in Married Couples

    David M. Buss;Todd K. Shackelford

  • The Attractive Female Body Weight and Female Body Dissatisfaction in 26 Countries Across 10 World Regions: Results of the International Body Project I

    Viren Swami;David A Frederick;Toivo Aavik;Lidia Alcalay

  • A Half Century of Mate Preferences: The Cultural Evolution of Values

    David M. Buss;Todd K. Shackelford;Lee A. Kirkpatrick;Randy J. Larsen

  • Universal sex differences in the desire for sexual variety: Tests from 52 nations, 6 continents, and 13 islands

    David P. Schmitt

  • Susceptibility to Infidelity in the First Year of Marriage

    David M. Buss;Todd K. Shackelford

  • Human aggression in evolutionary psychological perspective

    David M. Buss;Todd K. Shackelford

  • Universal dimensions of human mate preferences

    Todd K. Shackelford;David P. Schmitt;David M. Buss

  • Jealousy and the nature of beliefs about infidelity: Tests of competing hypotheses about sex differences in the United States, Korea, and Japan

    David M. Buss;Todd K. Shackelford;Lee A. Kirkpatrick;Jae C. Choe

  • Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions Are Models of Self and of Other Pancultural Constructs

    David P. Schmitt;Lidia Alcalay;Melissa Allensworth;Jüri Allik

  • Attractive Women Want it All: Good Genes, Economic Investment, Parenting Proclivities, and Emotional Commitment

    David M. Buss;Todd K. Shackelford

  • Forgiveness or breakup: Sex differences in responses to a partner's infidelity

    Todd K. Shackelford;David M. Buss;Kevin Bennett

  • Facial asymmetry as an indicator of psychological, emotional, and physiological distress.

    Todd K. Shackelford;Randy J. Larsen

  • Emotional reactions to infidelity

    Todd K. Shackelford;Gregory J. LeBlanc;Elizabeth Drass

  • Patterns and Universals of Mate Poaching Across 53 Nations: The Effects of Sex, Culture, and Personality on Romantically Attracting Another Person's Partner

    David P. Schmitt

  • Reasoning about dead agents reveals possible adaptive trends

    Jesse M. Bering;Katrina McLeod;Todd K. Shackelford

  • Facial Attractiveness and Physical Health

    Todd K Shackelford;Randy J Larsen

  • Cues to Infidelity

    Todd K. Shackelford;David M. Buss

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Buss
David M. Buss The University of Texas at Austin
Virgil Zeigler-Hill
Virgil Zeigler-Hill Oakland University
Bernhard Fink
Bernhard Fink University of Vienna
David P. Schmitt
David P. Schmitt Kansas State University
Lisa L. M. Welling
Lisa L. M. Welling Oakland University
Marina Butovskaya
Marina Butovskaya Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology
Martin Voracek
Martin Voracek University of Vienna
Randy J. Larsen
Randy J. Larsen Washington University in St. Louis
Kevin M. Beaver
Kevin M. Beaver Florida State University
Maryanne L. Fisher
Maryanne L. Fisher Saint Mary's University

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