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Overview

W. Jake Jacobs is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research focuses broadly within the fields of psychology and social sciences, with particular attention to subfields including sociology and political science, clinical psychology, behavioral neuroscience, applied psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their scholarly work addresses a range of topics, notably stress responses and cortisol, behavioral health and interventions, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, geographies of human-animal interactions, memory, trauma, and commemoration, wildlife conservation and criminology analyses, and gun ownership and violence research.

Recent publications by W. Jake Jacobs include the following papers:

  • Risky Decision Making Under Stressful Conditions: Men and Women With Smaller Cortisol Elevations Make Riskier Social and Economic Decisions (2022), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • Constructing a desert labyrinth: The psychological and emotional geographies of deterrence strategy on the U.S. / Mexico border (2021), published in Emotion, Space and Society
  • Comparing and Contrasting Rates of Firearm Homicides and Suicides (2022), published in Evolutionary Psychological Science
  • Completing the Deficit Model of Psychopathy: The Critical Role of Rule Governance (2024), published in Criminal Justice and Behavior

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jacobs include Anna J. Dreyer, Dale C Stephen, Robyn Human, Tarah L. Swanepoel, and Leanne Adams. Their work has been published in a variety of venues such as Frontiers in Psychology, Emotion, Space and Society, Evolutionary Psychological Science, and Criminal Justice and Behavior.

Best Publications

  • Consilience and Life History Theory: From Genes to Brain to Reproductive Strategy.

    Aurelio José Figueredo;Geneva Vásquez;Barbara H. Brumbach;Stephanie M.R. Schneider

  • The evolutionary basis of risky adolescent behavior: Implications for science, policy, and practice

    Bruce J. Ellis;Marco Del Giudice;Thomas J. Dishion;Aurelio José Figueredo

  • The K-factor: Individual differences in life history strategy

    Aurelio José Figueredo;Geneva Vásquez;Barbara Hagenah Brumbach;Jon Adam Sefcek

  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Improves Emotional Reactivity to Social Stress: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial ☆

    Willoughby B. Britton;Ben Shahar;Ohad Szepsenwol;W. Jake Jacobs

  • Stress administered prior to encoding impairs neutral but enhances emotional long-term episodic memories

    Jessica D. Payne;Eric D. Jackson;Siobhan Hoscheidt;Lee Ryan

  • The impact of stress on neutral and emotional aspects of episodic memory

    Jessica D. Payne;Eric D. Jackson;Lee Ryan;Siobhan Hoscheidt

  • The effects of experimentally induced stress on false recognition

    Jessica D. Payne;Lynn Nadel;John J.B. Allen;Kevin G.F. Thomas

  • Instructional control of reinforcement learning: A behavioral and neurocomputational investigation

    Bradley B. Doll;W. Jake Jacobs;Alan G. Sanfey;Michael J. Frank

  • Self, friends, and lovers: structural relations among Beck Depression Inventory scores and perceived mate values.

    Beth R Kirsner;Aurelio José Figueredo;W.Jake Jacobs

  • Traumatic Memory Is Special

    Lynn Nadel;W. Jake Jacobs

  • Topographical disorientation in community-residing patients with Alzheimer's disease.

    Ming Chyi Pai;W. Jake Jacobs

  • Emotional memory: The effects of stress on "cool" and "hot" memory systems.

    Janet Metcalfe;W. Jake Jacobs

  • Stress differentially modulates fear conditioning in healthy men and women.

    Eric D. Jackson;Jessica D. Payne;Lynn Nadel;W. Jake Jacobs

  • Place Learning in Virtual Space I: Acquisition, Overshadowing, and Transfer

    W.Jake Jacobs;Holly E. Laurance;Kevin G.F. Thomas

  • Life History strategy, Psychopathic Attitudes, personality, and general intelligence

    Paul Robert Gladden;Aurelio José Figueredo;W. Jake Jacobs

  • The psychometric assessment of human life history strategy: A meta-analytic construct validation.

    Aurelio José Figueredo;Pedro Sofio Abril Wolf;Sally Gayle Olderbak;Paul Robert Gladden

  • Place Learning in Virtual Space: II. Topographical Relations as One Dimension of Stimulus Control☆☆☆

    W.Jake Jacobs;Kevin G.F. Thomas;Kevin G.F. Thomas;Holly E. Laurance;Lynn Nadel

  • The Biopsychology of Trauma and Memory

    Jessica D. Payne;Lynn Nadel;Willoughby B. Britton;W. Jake Jacobs

  • Aggression, risk-taking, and alternative life history strategies: The behavioral ecology of social deviance

    Aurelio José Figueredo;W. Jake Jacobs

  • Evolutionary Personality Psychology

    Aurelio José Figueredo;Jon A. Sefcek;Geneva Vasquez;Barbara H. Brumbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Aurelio José Figueredo
Aurelio José Figueredo University of Arizona
Lynn Nadel
Lynn Nadel University of Arizona
Kevin G. F. Thomas
Kevin G. F. Thomas University of Pretoria
Norman P. Li
Norman P. Li Singapore Management University
Janet Metcalfe
Janet Metcalfe Columbia University
Alan G. Sanfey
Alan G. Sanfey Radboud University
Michael J. Frank
Michael J. Frank Brown University
Jeffrey M. Lohr
Jeffrey M. Lohr University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
John J.B. Allen
John J.B. Allen University of Arizona
Gary E. Schwartz
Gary E. Schwartz University of Arizona

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