December, 2019
David M. Buss Department of Psychology The University of Texas at Austin
Office Contact information 1 University Station #A8000 email: [email protected] Austin, TX 78712 SEA 3.228 webpage: www.davidbuss.com
Education:
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley: 1981
B.A. University of Texas, Austin: 1976
Academic Employment History:
1996 - Present Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Texas, ATX
1991 - 1996 Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan.
1985 - 1991 Associate Professor: Department of Psychology, University of Michigan.
1981 - 1985 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University [promoted to Associate Professor at Harvard, 1985]
Citation Impact Indices [Google Scholar: DM Buss]
Citations: 71,182 h-index: 111 i10-index: 261
Core Research Areas
Human mating strategies; cross-cultural research integrating diverse branches of psychological science; personality and individual differences; prestige, status, and social reputation; social emotions—jealousy, envy, anger, lust, greed; human sexuality; sexual morality; conflict between the sexes; stalking; strategies for preventing sexual victimization.
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Professional Service: National and International
2017-2019 College Council, Institute for Social Neuroscience, Melbourne, Australia.
2008 – 2016 Board of Advisors, la Ciudad de las Ideas, Puebla, Mexico
2003 – 2007 President, President Elect, Past President, Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES)
2005 Organizer, Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Austin, Texas: June 1 – 5.
2002-2003 Consulting Editor, American Psychologist
1995 - 2001 Board of Directors, International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID)
1994 - 1998 Executive Council, Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES)
1992-1993 Director, Evolution and Human Behavior Group, University of Michigan.
1990 – pres. Director, International Consortium of Social and Personality Psychologists: Conducts parallel research across 50+ cultures.
1989 – 1990 Organizer and Leader, Foundations for Evolutionary Psychology. Special Project at the Center for Advanced Study, Stanford.
1985 – 2019 Editorial Boards Served: American Psychologist, Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology—Personality Processes and Individual Differences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology— Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes, Psychology, Evolution, and Gender, Journal of Personality, Evolution and Human Behavior, Journal of Sex Research, European Journal of Personality, Journal of Research in Personality, Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, Encyclopedia of Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology, Journal of Scientific Psychology, Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology. Also named as “One of Top Referees of Biology Letters in 2008.”
Awards and Honors
2018 Lifetime Career Award, Human Behavior and Evolution Society. Award given in July, 2018, at HBES Annual Meeting, Amsterdam.
2017 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement. Award given at May 2017 APS Annual Meeting, Boston. D. M. Buss 3
2017 Named by Association for Psychological Science (APS) for having one of the 30 most highly cited articles across all APS journals over the past 30 years. Recognition featured in special issue of Perspectives in Psychological Sciences.
2014 Named among the Most Eminent Psychologists of the Modern Era, Archives of General Psychology.
2013 Named one of 30 Most Influential Psychologists Working Today: http://www.bestmastersinpsychology.com/30-most-influential- psychologists-working-today/
2003 - 2015 Designated “Highly Cited Researcher” in the Social Sciences worldwide by Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) (www.ISIHighlyCited.com).
2010 Elected as Fellow, Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
2005 The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (D.M. Buss, Editor), nominated for the Scholarly Publisher’s Reference Award.
2003 Harrington Award: Distinguished Visiting Professor, Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, Ohio.
2003 27th Most Cited Psychologist in Introductory Psychology textbooks
2003 Most cited faculty member of the College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas, Austin
2002-2003 Distinguished Fellow of the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology
2001 President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award, University of Texas
2001 APA (American Psychological Association) Distinguished Scientist Lecturer
2001 Olin Fellowship, University of Virginia Law School
1997 Elected as Fellow, American Psychological Society (APS)
1996 Elected as Fellow, American Psychological Association (APA)
1996 Selected for Who's Who in American Education
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1990 G. Stanley Hall Lecturer, American Psychological Association (APA)
1989-90 Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California.
1989 Distinguished Faculty Recognition Award, University of Michigan.
1988 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology
1984 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Excellence in the Work of the Undergraduates and the Art of Teaching [Harvard University]
Selected Invited Keynotes and Lectureships
2019 Invited Keynote Speaker, Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
2018 Invited Keynote Speaker, ORIGINS, 10th Anniversary Conference, Arizona State University: https://www.origins10year.com
2017 Invited Ted-X Speaker, On the Edge, Vienna, Austria.
2017 Invited Keynote Speaker, Institute for Social Neuroscience, Grand Opening, Melbourne, Australia
2017 Invited Keynote Speaker, International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), Warsaw, Poland.
2017 Invited Keynote Speaker, La Ciudad de las Ideas, Puebla, Mexico.
2016 Invited Keynote Speaker, Human Social Relationships, The Origins of the Future Conference, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2016 Invited Keynote Speaker, Polish Evolution and Human Behavior Society, Torun, Poland.
2016 Invited Keynote Speaker, 2nd World Congress on Personality, Buzios, Brazil.
2015 Invited Keynote Speaker, International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH), Austin, Texas.
2014 Invited Speaker, La Ciudad de las Ideas, Puebla, Mexico
2013 Invited Speaker, La Ciudad de las Ideas, Puebla, Mexico D. M. Buss 5
2013 Invited Speaker, University of Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway.
2013 Invited Speaker, University of Oslo, Norway.
2013 Invited Speaker, Singapore Management University, Singapore.
2013 Invited Opening Address Speaker, Rocky Mountain Psychological Association.
2013 Invited Keynote Speaker, Midwestern Psychological Association.
2013 Invited Keynote Speaker, First World Conference on Personality, Cape Town, South Africa.
2012 Invited Keynote Speaker, Colombian Lecture Series in Psychology, Bogota, Colombia, South America.
2012 G. Stanley Hall Lecture, American Psychological Association, Orlando, Florida.
2011 Invited Keynote Speaker, World Knowledge Forum, Seoul, Korea.
2011 Invited Keynote Speaker, La Ciudad de las Ideas, Puebla, Mexico.
2010 Invited Keynote Speaker, Mind Matters Conference, Proctor & Gamble.
2010 Invited Keynote Speaker, La Ciudad de las Ideas, Puebla, Mexico.
2010 Invited Keynote Speaker, International Society of Human Ethology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2009 Invited Keynote Speaker, University-wide Darwin Celebration, Southern Methodist University
2008 Invited Keynote Speaker, Innovation Conference, Proctor & Gamble
2008 Invited Lecture to the Joint Congress of the European and International Societies for Sexual Medicine, Brussels, Belgium
2007 Hamilton Lecture, New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology
2006 Distinguished Psychology Lecture, UCLA
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2006 Ferne Forman Lecture, University of Kansas
2006 Invited University-wide lecture, SUNY, New Paltz
2005 Invited address to the XIX National Congress of the Mexican Psychiatric Association, Los Cabos, Mexico
2004 Invited address to the 11th World Congress of the International Society for Sexual Research, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2004 American Psychological Society: Presidential Symposium (Chicago)
2003 American Psychological Association: Invited Plenary Speaker (Toronto)
2001 APA Keynote Address to Division 24 (APA, San Francisco)
2001 International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) Invited Keynote Address (Edinburgh, Scotland)
2001 APA Distinguished Scientist Lecturer Address (MPA, Chicago, Illinois)
2001 APA Distinguished Scientist Lecturer Address (RMPA, Reno Nevada)
2000 Invited Keynote Speaker, Society for the Evolutionary Analysis of Law
1999 Invited Keynote Address, Hunter College, New York
1998 Invited Plenary Speaker: Society for the Scientific Study of Sex
1997 Invited Keynote, California State University at Long Beach
1996 Invited Keynote Address, NITOP Teachers Conference of Psychologists
1995 Invited Keynote Speaker for Special Conference: Mate Selection, Courtship Strategies, and Law: Munich, Germany
1993-1994 Invited Organizer to the Kurt Lewin Institute, Groningen, The Netherlands, for Workshop on Evolutionary Social and Personality Psychology.
1992 Invited Keynote Speaker for European Society of Personality Psychology: Groningen, The Netherlands.
1992 Invited Speaker for NATO Advanced Workshop on Biological and Social Approaches to Personality. Tilburg, Netherlands
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1992 Invited Keynote Address to the Dahlem Konferenzen: What Are the Mechanisms Mediating the Genetic and Environmental Determinants of Behavior. Berlin, Germany.
1991-1992 Invited Fellow at International Workshop on Human Nature and Biocultural Evolution. Bielefeld, Germany.
1991 Invited Keynote Address to the Interamerican Congress of Psychology, San José, Costa Rica: July 11-15, 1991.
1990 Invited speaker at International Conference on Human Nature and Biocultural Evolution, Bielefeld, Germany.
Ongoing Public Service
2000 – present: Co-created (w/ Dr. Joshua Duntley) and maintain web site (in Spanish and English) to help stalking victims: www.stalkinghelp.org
Professional Affiliations
American Psychological Association (APA)(elected Fellow, 1996) Association for Psychological Science (APS)(elected Fellow, 1997) Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES)(President: 2005-2007) European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA) Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Society for Experimental Social Psychology (SESP)(elected Fellow, 2009) The NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society (NEEPS) Society for the Scientific Study of Sex (SSSS) International Academy of Sex Research (IASP) International Society of Human Ethology (ISHE)
Authored and Co-Authored Books
Buss, D.M. (2019, 2015, 2012, 2008, 2004,1999). Evolutionary psychology: The new science of the mind (6th, 5th, 4th, 3nd, 2nd,1st Editions). Boston: Allyn & Bacon. [translated into Chinese, German, Korean, Italian, Arabic, and Polish]
Buss, D.M. (2016). The evolution of desire: Strategies of human mating (Revised and updated edition). New York: Basic Books.
Buss, D.M. (2005). The murderer next door: Why the mind is designed to kill. New York: The Penguin Press. [translated into German, Japanese, Korean, Polish]
Buss, D.M. (2003). The evolution of desire: Strategies of human mating (Revised Edition). New York: Basic Books. [translated into Chinese, Korean, Polish] D. M. Buss 8
Buss, D.M. (2000). The dangerous passion: Why jealousy is as necessary as love and sex. New York: The Free Press. [Translated and published in France, China, the Netherlands, Brazil, Germany, Israel, Japan, Korea, Poland, United Kingdom, Hungary, and Portugal]
Buss, D. M. (1994). The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating. New York: Basic Books. [Translated and published in France, Germany, China, Korea, Japan, Poland, Italy, Spain, Sweden]
Larsen, R., & Buss, D.M. (2017, 2014, 2011, 2008, 2005, 2002). Personality: Domains of knowledge about human nature (6th, 5th, 4th, 3nd, 2nd, 1st Editions). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill. [translated into Spanish, Croatian, and Chinese]
Meston, C., & Buss, D.M. (2009). Why women have sex. New York: Henry Holt. [translated and published in The Netherlands, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Korea, Poland, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Brazil, China, Vietnam, Bulgaria]
Edited Books and Volumes
Buss, D.M. (2016). The handbook of evolutionary psychology (2nd Ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Buss, D.M., & Hawley, P. (Eds.) (2011). The evolution of personality and individual differences. New York: Oxford University Press.
Buss, D.M. (Ed.)(2005). The handbook of evolutionary psychology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Buss, D. M., & Malamuth, N. (Eds.)(1996). Sex, power. conflict: Evolutionary and feminist perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press.
Buss, D.M. (Ed.)(1990). Biological foundations of personality: Evolution, behavioral genetics, and psychophysiology. Journal of Personality Special Issue. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Buss, D.M., & Cantor, N. (Eds.)(1989). Personality psychology: Recent trends, emerging directions. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Publications
2019, and in press
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Walter, K., Conroy-Beam, D., Buss,D.M, Asao,K., Sorokowska, Sorokowski, A.P. et al. (in press). Sex differences in mate preferences cross 45 countries: A large- scale replication. Psychological Science.
Goetz, C., Pillsworth, E., Buss, D.M., & Conroy-Beam, D. (2019, December). Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02709
Lopes, J.S., Shackelford, T.K., Buss, D.M., & Abed, M.G. (2020). Individual differences and disagreement in romantic relationships. Personality and Individual Differences, 155.
Von Hippel, W., Buss, D.M., & Richardson, G. (in press). Science progresses through open disagreement: Rejoinder to Fine. Archives of Scientific Psychology.
Conroy-Beam, D., Buss, D.M., Asao, K., et al. (in press). Contrasting computational models of mate preference integration across 45 countries. Scientific Reports, 9, 1-13.
Durkee, P., Lukaszewski, A., & Buss, D.M. (2019). Pride and shame: Key components of a culturally universal status management system. Evolution and Human Behavior, 470-478.
Conroy-Beam, D., Roney, J. R., Lukaszewski, A. W., Buss, D. M., Asao, K., Sorokowska, A., ... & Alm, C. (2019). Assortative mating and the evolution of desirability covariation. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40, 479-491.
Meston, C. M., Kilimnik, C. D., Freihart, B. K., & Buss, D. M. (2019). Why Humans Have Sex: Development and Psychometric Assessment of a Short-Form Version of the YSEX? Instrument. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 1-19.
Buss, D. M., & Foley, P. (2019). Mating and marketing. Journal of Business Research.
Buss, D.M., & Schmitt, D.P. (2019). Mate preferences and their behavioral manifestations. Annual Review of Psychology, 70, 77-110.
Buss, D.M. (2019). Virginity in mate selection. In R. Sternberg (Ed.), My biggest research mistake. New York: Sage.
Buss, D.M. (2019). The evolution of love in humans. In R. Sternberg (Ed.), The new psychology of love (42-63). New York: Sage.
Al-Shawaf, L., Lewis, D., Wehbe,Y.S., & Buss, D.M. (2019). Context, environment, and learning in evolutionary psychology. In T.K. Shackelford & V.A. Weekes- D. M. Buss 10
Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer Nature Switzerland.
Conroy-Beam, D., & Buss, D.M. (in press). Human mate selection: A multidimensional approach. In L. Workman et al. (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Conroy-Beam, D., & Buss, D.M. (2019). Why is age so important in human mating? Age preferences and their influences on multiple mating behaviors. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 13, 127-157. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000127
2018
Buss, D. M., & von Hippel, W. (2018). Psychological barriers to evolutionary psychology: Ideological bias and coalitional adaptations. Archives of Scientific Psychology, 6(1), 148-158.
Wyckoff, J., Buss, D.M., & Markman, A. (2018). Sex differences in victimization and consequences of cyber aggression: An evolutionary perspective. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences.
Buss, D.M. (2018). Sexual and emotional infidelity: Evolved gender differences in jealousy prove robust and replicable. Perspectives in Psychological Science, 13, 155-160.
Al-Shawaf, L., Zreik, K., & Buss, D. M. (2018). Thirteen misunderstandings about natural selection. T. K. Shackelford, V.A. Weekes-Shackelford (eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2158-1
Chaudhary, N., Al-Shawaf, L., & Buss, D.M. (2018). Mate competition in Pakistan: Mate value, mate retention, and competitor derogation. Personality and Individual Differences, 130, 141-146.
Kennair, L.E.O., Wyckoff, J., Asao, K., Buss, D.M., & Bendixen, M. (2018) Why do women regret casual sex more than men do? Personality and Individual Differences, 127, 61-67.
Buss, D.M. (2018). Mating opportunity costs. In J. Brockman (Ed.). This idea is brilliant (pp. 248-150). New York: Harper Perennial.
Al-Shawaf, L., Lewis, D.M.G., & Buss, D.M. (2018). Sex differences in disgust: Why are women more easily disgusted than men? Emotion Review, 10, 149-160.
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2017
Buss, D.M. (2017). Sexual conflict in human mating. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 307-313. [lead article]
Buss, D.M. (2017). Why women stray: The mate switching hypothesis. AEON. https://aeon.co/essays/does-the-mate-switching-hypothesis-explain-female- infidelity
Lewis, D.M.B., Russell, E., Al-Shawaf, L., Ta, V., Senveli, Z, Buss, D.M., Ickes, W. (2017). Why women wear high heels: Evolution, lumbar curvature, and attractiveness. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1875. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01875
Lewis, D.M.G., Al-Shawaf, L., Conroy-Beam, D., Asao, K., & Buss, D.M. (2017). Evolutionary psychology: A how-to guide. American Psychologist, 72, 353- 373.
Von Hippel, W., & Buss, D.M. (2017). Do ideologically driven scientific agendas impede the understanding and acceptance of evolutionary principles in social psychology? In J.T. Crawford & L. Jussim (Eds.), The politics of social psychology (pp. 7-26). New York: Routledge.
Conroy-Beam, D., & Buss, D.M. (2017). Euclidean distances discriminatively predict short-term and long-term attraction to potential mates. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38, 442-450.
Bendixen, M., Asao, K., Wyckoff, J., Buss, D.M., & Kennair, L.E.O. (2017). Sexual regret in U.S. and Norway: Effects of culture and individual differences in religiosity and mating strategy. Personality and Individual Differences, 116, 246-251.
Conroy-Beam, D., & Buss, D.M. (2017). Mate preferences. In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer.
Buss, D. M., Goetz, C., Duntley, J. D., Asao, K., & Conroy-Beam, D. (2017). The mate switching hypothesis. Personality and Individual Differences, 104, 143- 149.
2016
Buss, D.M., & Abrams, M. (2016). Jealousy, infidelity, and the difficulty of diagnosing pathology: A CBT approach to coping with sexual betrayal and the green-eyed monster. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy.
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Conroy-Beam, D., Goetz, C., & Buss, D.M. (2016). What predicts romantic relationship satisfaction and mate retention intensity? Mate preference fulfillment or mate value discrepancies? Evolution and Human Behavior, 37, 440-448.
Conroy-Beam, D., & Buss, D.M. (2016). How are mate preferences linked with actual mate selection? Tests of mate preference integration algorithms using computer simulations and actual mating couples. PLOS ONE. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0156078
Conroy-Beam, D., & Buss, D.M. (2016). Do mate preferences influence actual mating decisions? Evidence from computer simulations and three studies of mated couples . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111, 53-66.
Buss, D.M., & Schmitt, D.P. (2016). Sexual Strategies Theory. In T.K. Shackelford & V.A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science.
Buss, D.M. (2016). Act nomination method. In T.K. Shackelford & V.A. Weekes- Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1862-1
Souza, A.L., Conroy-Beam, D., & Buss, D.M. (2016). Mate preferences in Brazil: Evolved desires and cultural evolution over three decades. Personality and Individual Differences, 95, 45-49.
Buss, D.M. (2016). Human mating strategies. In R.J. Sternberg, S.T. Fiske, & D.J. Foss (Eds.), Scientists making a difference: One hundred eminent behavioral and brain scientists talk about their most important contributions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Buss, D.M. (2016). The mating crisis among educated women. Edge. http://edge.org/response-detail/26747
Kennair, L. E. O., Bendixen, M., & Buss, D. M. (2016). Sexual regret: Tests of competing explanations of sex differences. Evolutionary Psychology, 1-9. doi:10.1177/1474704916682903
Duntley, J.D., & Buss, D.M. (2016). The evolution of good and evil. In A. Miller (Ed.), The social psychology of good and evil. New York: Guilford.
Asao, K., & Buss, D.M. (2016). The moral mechanisms: Judgment, conscience, and punishment as superordinate mechanisms. In T.K. Shackelford & R. Hansen (Eds.), The evolution of morality. New York: Oxford University Press.
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2015
Conroy-Beam, D., Buss, D.M., Pham, M., & Shackelford, T.K. (2015). How sexually dimorphic are human mate preferences? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 1082-1093.
Bendixen, M., Kennair, L.E., & Buss, D.M. (2015). Jealousy: Evidence of strong sex differences using both forced choice and continuous measure paradigms. Personality and Individual Differences, 86, 212-216.
Kennair, L.E., Grontvedt, T.V., Memetoglu, M., Perilloux, C., & Buss, D.M. (2015). Sex and mating strategy impact the 13 basic reasons for having sex. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 1, 207-219.
Buss, D.M. (2015). Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. In J. Brockman (Ed)., This idea must die. New York: HarperColins.
Lewis, D.M.G., Al-Shawaf, L., Russell, E.M., & Buss, D.M. (2015). Friends and happiness: An evolutionary perspective on friendship. In M. Demir (Ed.), Friendship and Happiness (pp. 37-57). New York: Springer.
Lewis, D.G., Al-Shawaf, L., & Buss, D.M. (2015). Lumbar curvature: A novel evolved standard of attractiveness. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36, 345-350.
Conroy-Beam, D., Goetz, C., & Buss, D.M. (2015). Why do people form long-term mateships? A game-theoretic model. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 51, 1-39.
Al-Shawaf, L., Lewis, D.M.G., & Buss, D.M. (2015). Mating strategy and disgust. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36, 199-205.
Al-Shawaf, L., Conroy-Beam, D., Asao, K., & Buss, D.M. (2015). Human emotions: An evolutionary psychological perspective. Emotion Review. 1754073914565518.
Easton, J.A., Goetz, C.D., Buss, D.M., 2015. Evolution of human mate choice. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol. 11. Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 340–347.
Al-Shawaf, L., Lewis, D.M.G., Alley, T. R., & Buss, D.M. (2015). Mating strategy, disgust, and food neophobia. Appetite, 85, 30-35.
2014
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Buss, D.M. (2014). Evolutionary criteria for considering an emotion ‘basic’: Jealousy as an illustration. Emotion Review, 6, 1-3
Buss, D.M. (2014). The mating wars. In J. Brockman (Ed.), What should we be worried about? New York: Harper Perennial.
Kamble, S., Shackelford, T.K., Pham, M.N., & Buss, D.M. (2014). Indian mate preferences: Continuity, sex differences, and cultural changes across a quarter of a century. Personality and Individual Differences, 70, 150-155.
Holden, C.J., Shackelford, T.K., Zeigler-Hill, V., Starratt, V.G., Miner, E.J., Kaighobadi, F., Jeffrey, A.J., & Buss, D. M. (2014). Husband’s esteem predicts their mate retention tactics. Evolutionary Psychology, 12, 655-672.
Conroy-Beam, D., & Buss, D.M. (2014). A deeper integration of Selfish Goal Theory and modern evolutionary psychology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37, 140- 141.
Goetz, C. D., Easton, J. A., & Buss, D. M. (2014). Women’s perceptions of sexual exploitability cues and their link to sexual attraction. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43, 999–1008.
Perilloux, C., Duntley, J.D., & Buss, D.M. (2014). Blame attribution in sexual victimization. Personality and Individual Differences, 63, 81-86.
Buss, D.M., & Penke, L. (2014). Evolutionary personality psychology. In R.Larsen & Lynne Cooper (Eds.,), The APA Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology, Volume 4: Personality Processes and Individual Differences. APA Press: Washington, D.C.
Buss, D.M., & Duntley, J.D. (2014). The evolution of intimate partner violence. In T.K. Shackelford & R.D. Hansen (Eds.), Evolution of violence (pp. 1-22). New York: Springer.
2013
Buss, D.M. (2013). Sexual jealousy. Psychological Topics, 22, 155-182.
Buss, D.M. (2013). Feminist evolutionary psychology: Some reflections. Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology, 7, 295-295.
Buss, D.M. (2013). The science of human mating strategies: An historical perspective. Psychological Inquiry, 24, 171-177.
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Buss, D.M. (2013). Evolutionary theories in psychology. In R. Biswas-Diener & E. Diener (Eds), Noba textbook series: Psychology. Champaign, IL: DEF Publishers. DOI: www.nobaproject.com
Perilloux, C., Cloud, J.C., & Buss, D.M. (2013). Women's physical attractiveness and short-term mating strategies. Personality and Individual Differences, 54, 490- 495.
Galperin, A., Haselton, M. G., Frederick, D. A., von Hippel, W., Poore, J. C., Buss, D. M., & Gonzaga, G. (2013). Sexual regret: Evidence for evolved sex differences. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 42, 1145-1161.
Buss, D.M. (2013). Sexual conflict theory. In J. Brockman (Ed.), This explains everything. New York: Harper Perennial.
2012
Perilloux, C., Easton, J.A., & Buss, D.M. (2012). The misperception of sexual interest. Psychological Science, 23, 146-151.
Buss, D.M. (2012). The evolutionary psychology of crime. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology, 1, 90-98.
Goetz, C.D., Easton, J.A., Lewis, D.M., & Buss, D.M. (2012). Sexual exploitability: Observable cues and their link to sexual attraction. Evolution and Human Behavior, 33, 417-426.
Buss, D.M. (2012). Seven tools for teaching evolutionary psychology. In D. Dunn (Ed.), Hot Topics: Best Practices in Teaching Controversial Issues in Psychology. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Perilloux, C., Duntley, J.D., & Buss, D.M. (2012). The costs of rape. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 41, 1099-1106.
DelPriore, D., Hill, S.E., & Buss, D.M. (2012). Envy: Functional specificity and sex- differentiated design features. Personality and Individual Differences, 53, 317- 322.
Lewis, D.M.G., Al-Shawaf, L., Conroy-Beam, D., Asao, K., & Buss, D.M. (2012). Friends with benefits II: Mating activation in opposite-sex friendship as a function of sociosexual orientation and relationship status. Personality and Individual Differences, 53, 622-628.
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Stone, E., Shackelford, T.K., & Buss, D.M. (2012). Is variability in mate choice similar for intelligence and personality traits? Testing a hypothesis about the evolutionary genetics of personality. Intelligence, 40, 33-37.
Jonason, P.K., & Buss, D.M. (2012). Avoiding entangling commitments: Tactics for implementing a short-term mating strategy. Personality and Individual Differences, 52, 606–610.
Lewis, D.M., Easton, J.A., Goetz, C.D., & Buss, D.M. (2012). Exploitative male mating strategies: Personality, mating orientation, and relationship status. Personality and Individual Differences, 52, 139-143.
Duntley, J.D., & Buss, D.M. (2012). The evolution of stalking. Sex Roles, 66, 311- 327.
2011
Buss, D.M., & Duntley, J.D. (2011). The evolution of intimate partner violence. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 16, 411-419.
Buss, D.M., & Schmitt, D.P. (2011). Evolutionary psychology and feminism. Sex Roles, 64, 768-787.
Buss, D.M. (2011, October 13). How can understanding human evolutionary psychology help prevent domestic violence? Science and Religion Today. http://www.scienceandreligiontoday.com/2011/10/13/how-can-understanding- human-evolutionary-psychology-help-prevent-domestic-violence/
Al Shawaf, L., & Buss, D.M. (2011). Evolutionary psychology and Bayesian modeling. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34, 188-189.
Buss, D.M. (2011). The emergence of evolutionary psychology: Contributing to a scientific revolution. In. Edited by X.T. Wang and Y.J. Su (Eds.), Thus Spake Evolutionary Psychologists. Beijing: Peking University Press.
Buss, D.M. (2011). Derogation of competitors. Research Digest. http://bps-research- digest.blogspot.com/2011/11/david-buss-derogation-of-competitors.html
Buss, D.M. (2011). Internet mating strategies. In J.Brockman (Ed.), How is the internet changing the way you think? New York: HarperCollins.
De Miguel, A., & Buss, D.M. (2011). Mate retention tactics in Spain: Personality, sex differences, and relationship status. Journal of Personality, 79, 563-586.
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Duntley, J.D., & Buss, D.M. (2011). Homicide adaptations. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 16, 399-410.
Buss, D.M. (2011). Domains of deception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34, 18.
Lei, C., Wang, Y., Shackelford, T.K., & Buss, D.M. (2011). Chinese mate preferences: Cultural evolution and continuity across a quarter century. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 678-683.
Lewis, D.M., Conroy-Beam, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Raja, A., DeKay, T., & Buss, D.M. (2011). Friends with benefits: The evolved psychology of same and opposite sex friendship. Evolutionary Psychology, 9, 543-569.
Buss, D.M. (2011). Personality and the adaptive landscape: The role of individual differences in creating and solving social adaptive problems. In D.M. Buss & P.H. Hawley (Eds.). The evolution of personality and individual differences. New York: Oxford University Press.
Hawley, P.H., & Buss, D.M. (2011). Introduction. In D.M. Buss & P.H. Hawley (Eds.). The evolution of personality and individual differences. New York: Oxford University Press.
Perilloux, C., Fleischman, D.S., & Buss, D.M. (2011). Meet the parents: Parent- offspring convergence and divergence in mate preferences. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 253-258.
2010
Buss, D.M. (2010). Why students love evolutionary psychology . . . and how to teach it. Psychology Teacher Network, 20, 1-6.
Perilloux, C., Lewis, D.M., Goetz, C., Fleishman, D.S., Easton, J.E., Confer, J.C., & Buss, D.M. (2010). Trade-offs, individual differences, and misunderstandings about evolutionary psychology. American Psychologist, 65, 930-932.
Confer, J.C., Perilloux, C., & Buss, D.M. (2010). More than just a pretty face: Men’s priority shifts in short-term mating contexts. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31, 348-353.
Easton, J., Goetz, C., Confer, J., & Buss, D.M. (2010). Reproduction expediting: Sexual motivations, fantasies, and the ticking biological clock. Personality and Individual Differences, 49, 516-520.
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Hill, S.E., & Buss, D.M. (2010). Risk and relative social rank: relative position and risky shifts in probabilistic decision-making. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31, 219-226.
Buss, D.M. (2010). Evolutionary psychology: The new science of the mind. In J. Gottschall (Ed.), Evolution, literature, and film (pp. 21-37). New York: Columbia University Press.
Buss, D.M. (2010). Exploitability. In J. Brockman (Ed.), This will change everything. New York: Harper Perennial.
Confer, J.C., Easton, J.E., Fleischman, D.S., Goetz, C., Lewis, D.M., Perilloux, C., & Buss, D.M. (2010). Evolutionary psychology: Controversies, questions, prospects, and limitations. American Psychologist, 65, 110-126.
Kaighobadi, F., Shackelford, T.K., & Buss, D.M. (2010). Spousal mate retention in the newlywed year and three years later. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 414-418.
Jonason, P. K., Li, N. P., & Buss, D. M. (2010). The costs and benefits of the Dark Triad: Implications for mate poaching and mate retention tactics. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 373-378.
Buss, D.M. (2010). Origins of mating behavior. In N.B. Moore, J.K. Davidson, & T.D. Fisher (Eds.), Speaking of sexuality (pp. 45-57). New York: Oxford University Press.
2009
Buss, D.M. (2009). The great struggles of life: Darwin and the emergence of evolutionary psychology. American Psychologist, 64, 140-148.
Buss, D.M. (2009). The multiple adaptive problems solved by human aggression. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 271-272.
Buss, D.M. (2009). An evolutionary formulation of person-situation interactions. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 241-242.
Buss, D.M. (2009). How can evolutionary psychology explain personality and individual differences? Perspectives in Psychological Science, 4, 359-366.
Buss, D.M. (2009). The role of emotions in adaptations for exploitation. Behavioral and Brain Science, 32, 391-392.
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Buss, D.M. (2009, May). Darwin’s influence on modern psychological science. Psychological Science Agenda, 2-3.
Buss, D.M. (2009). Why women have sex. The Journal.
Buss, D.M., & Pinker, S. (2009). Pop psychology probe. Scientific American, 300, 10- 11. [letter to the editor]
Buss, D.M. (2009). Why do people have sex? Characters.
Goetz, C.D., Perilloux, C., & Buss, D.M. (2009). Attachment strategies across sex, development, and relationship type. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 28-29.
Haselton, M.G., & Buss, D.M. (2009). Error management theory and the evolution of misbeliefs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 522-523.
2008
Hill, S.E., & Buss, D.M. (2008). The mere presence of opposite-sex others on judgments of sexual and romantic desirability: Opposite effects for men and women. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 635-647.
Stone, E., Shackelford, T.K., & Buss, D.M. (2008). Socioeconomic development and shifts in mate preferences. Evolutionary Psychology, 6, 447-455.
Hill, S.E., & Buss, D.M. (2008). The evolutionary psychology of envy. In R. Smith (Ed.), The psychology of envy (pp. 60-70) New York: Guilford.
Duntley, J.D., & Buss, D.M. (2008). The origins of homicide. In J.D. Duntley & T.K. Shackelford (Eds.), Evolutionary forensic psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Buss, D.M. (2008). Qui a peur de la psychologie evolutionnaire? Krisis, 30, 176-181.
Duntley, J.D., & Buss, D.M. (2008). Evolutionary psychology is a metatheory for psychology. Psychological Inquiry, 19, 30-34.
Perilloux, C., Fleischman, D.S., & Buss, D.M. (2008). The Daughter-Guarding Hypothesis: Parental influence on children’s mating behavior. Evolutionary Psychology, 6, 217-233.
Perilloux, C., & Buss, D.M. (2008). Breaking up romantic relationships: Costs experienced and coping strategies deployed. Evolutionary Psychology, 6, 164- 181. D. M. Buss 20
Buss, D.M., & Duntley, J.D. (2008). Adaptations for exploitation. Group Dynamics, 12, 53-62.
Buss, D.M. (2008). The evolution of human personality. In L.A. Pervin & O.P. John (Eds.), The handbook of personality. New York: Guilford.
Hill, S. E. & Buss, D. M. (2008). The evolution of self-esteem. In M. Kernis (Ed.) Self- esteem Issues and Answers: A Source Book of Current Perspectives. New York: Guilford.
Buss, D.M., & Shackelford, T.K. (2008). Attractive women want it all: Good genes, economic investment, parenting proclivities, and emotional commitment. Evolutionary Psychology, 6, 134-146.
Buss, D.M. (2008). Sexual strategies theory. In Baumeister, R., & Vohs, K. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social psychology. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Buss, D.M., Shackelford, T.K., & McKibbin, W.F. (2008). The Mate Retention Inventory-Short Form (MRI-SF). Personality and Individual Differences, 44, 322-334.
Hill, S.E.., & Buss, D.M. (2008). Evolution and subjective well-being. In Eid, M. & Larsen, R. (Eds). The science of subjective well-being. New York: Guilford Press.
2007
Jeon, J., & Buss, D.M. (2007). Altruism toward cousins. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 274, 1881-1887.
Meston, C., & Buss, D.M. (2007). Why humans have sex. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 36, 477-507.
Buss, D.M. (2007). The evolution of human mating. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 39, 502-512.
Buss, D.M. (2007). The future of mating intelligence. In G. Geher & G. Miller (Eds.), Mating intelligence. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Stone, E.A., Shackelford, T.K., & Buss, D.M. (2007). Sex ratio and mate preferences. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 288-296.
Buss, D.M. (2007). The evolution of HBES. Human Behavior and Evolution Society Newsletter. [View from the President’s Window] D. M. Buss 21
Buss, D.M. (2007). The evolution of evil. In J. Brockman (Ed.), What is your dangerous idea? New York: Harper-Collins.
Buss, D.M. (2007, Spring). What would falsify the core tenets of evolutionary science? Human Behavior and Evolution Society Newsletter.
Buss, D.M. (February 14, 2007). Jealousy, the necessary evil. Los Angeles Times, p. A23.
Buss, D.M. (2007). The evolution of human mating strategies: Consequences for conflict and cooperation. In S.W. Gangestad & J.A. Simpson (Eds.), The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies (pp. 375-382). New York: Guilford.
Lund, O.C.H., Tamnes, C.K., Moestue, C., Buss, D.M., & Vollrath, M. (2007). Tactics of hierarchy negotiation. Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 25-44.
2006
Buss, D.M. (2006). Sexual selection and human mating strategies (letter to the editor). Science, 312, 690-691.
Buss, D.M. (2006). Strategies of human mating. Psychological Topics, 15, 239-260.
Buss, D.M. (2006, Fall). Taking stock of a scientific revolution in progress: The realization of Darwin’s prophesy. Human Behavior and Evolution Society Newsletter.
Buss, D.M. (2006). The evolutionary genetics of personality: Does mutation load signal relationship load? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 409.
Buss, D.M. (2006). The evolution of love. In R.J. Sternberg & Karin Weis (Eds.), The new psychology of love (pp.65 – 86). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Bleske-Rechek, A., & Buss, D.M. (2006). Sexual strategies pursued and mate attraction tactics deployed. Personality and Individual Differences, 40, 1299- 1311.
Hill, S.E., & Buss, D.M. (2006). Envy and positional bias in the evolutionary psychology of management. Managerial and Decision Economics, 27, 131- 143. D. M. Buss 22
Gangestad, S.W., Haselton, M.G., & Buss, D.M. (2006). Evolutionary foundations of cultural variation: Evoked culture and mate preferences. Psychological Inquiry, 17, 75-95.
Gangestad, S.W., Haselton, M.G., & Buss, D.M. (2006). Toward an integrative understanding of evoked and transmitted culture: The importance of specialized psychological design. Psychological Inquiry, 17, 138-151.
Jeon, J., & Buss, D.M. (2006). Close relationships and costly investment: Some problems with selective investment theory. Psychological Inquiry, 17, 45-48.
Buss, D.M., & Duntley, J.D. (2006). The evolution of aggression. In M. Schaller, D.T. Kenrick, & J.A. Simpson (Eds.), Evolution and social psychology (pp. 263-286). New York: Psychology Press.
Barker, L. (2006). Teaching evolutionary psychology: An interview with David M. Buss. Teaching of Psychology, 33, 69-76.
Buss, D.M. (2006, Jan. 8). The evolution of evil. New York Times. [brief essay in Week in Review section, p. 4].
2005
Buss, D.M., & Haselton, M.G. (2005). The evolution of jealousy. Trends in Cognitive Science, 9, 506-507.
Buss, D.M. (2005). Sex differences in the design features of socially-contingent mating adaptations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 278-279.
Shackelford, T. K., Schmitt, D. P., & Buss, D. M. (2005). Mate preferences of married persons in the newlywed year and four years later. Cognition and Emotion, 19, 1262-1270.
Buss, D.M. (2005). True love. In J. Brockman (Ed.), What we believe but cannot prove: Today’s leading thinkers on science in the age of uncertainty (pp. 55- 56). New York: Free Press.
Buss, D.M. (2005). The emergence of evolutionary psychology. In D.M. Buss (Ed.), The handbook of evolutionary psychology. New York: Wiley.
Buss, D.M. (2005). Murder is in our blood. Los Angeles Times, May 20.
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Duntley, J.D., & Buss, D.M. (2005). The plausibility of adaptations for homicide. In P. Caruthers, S. Laurence, & S. Stich (Eds.), The innate mind: Structure and contents (pp. 291-304). New York: Oxford University Press.
Shackelford, T.K., Goetz, A., & Buss, D.M., Euler, H.A., & Hoier, S. (2005). When we hurt the ones we love: Predicting violence against women from men’s mate retention. Personal Relationships, 12, 447-463.
Haselton, M., Buss, D.M., Oubaid, V., & Angleitner, A. (2005). Sex, lies, and strategic interference: The psychology of deception between the sexes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 3-23.
Shackelford, T.K., Goetz, A.T., & Buss, D.M. (2005). Mate retention and marriage: Further evidence of the reliability of the Mate Retention Inventory. Personality and Individual Differences, 39, 415-426.
Shackelford, T. K., Schmitt, D.P. & Buss, D. M. (2005). Mate preferences of married persons in the newlywed year and three years later. Cognition and Emotion, 19(8), 1262-1270.
Shackelford, T.K., Schmitt, D.P., & Buss, D.M. (2005). Universal dimensions of mate preferences. Personality and Individual Differences, 39, 447-458.
Buss, D.M. (2005, Jan.4). True love. New York Times [brief essay].
Buss, D.M. (2005, June 3). Why people kill. Wall Street Journal. [letter to the Editor]
2004
Buss, D.M. (2004). The bungling apprentice. In J. Brockman (Ed.), When we were kids: How a child becomes a scientist. New York: Vintage.
Buss, D.M. (2004). Evolutionary psychology. In R. Gregory (Ed.), Oxford Companion to the Mind. New York: Oxford University Press.
Shackelford, T.K., Voracek, M., Schmitt, D.P., Buss, D.M., Weekes-Shackelford, V.A., Michalski, R.L. (2004). Romantic jealousy in early adulthood and in later life. Human Nature, 15, 59-76.
Duntley, J.D., & Buss, D.M. (2004). The evolution of evil. In A. Miller (Ed.), The social psychology of good and evil. New York: Guilford.
Pillsworth, E.G., Haselton, M.G., & Buss, D.M. (2004). Ovulatory shifts in female sexual desire. Journal of Sex Research, 41, 55-65.
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2003
Buss, D.M., & Reeve, H.K. (2003). Evolutionary psychology and developmental dynamics. Psychological Bulletin, 129, 848-853.
Buss, D.M. (2003). Sexual strategies: A journey into controversy. Psychological Inquiry, 14, 217-224.
Buss, D.M. (2003).Evolutionspsychologie—ein neues Paradigma fur die psychologische Wissenschaft. In H v. A. Becker, C.Mehr, H.H. Nau, G. Reuter, & D. Stegmuller (Eds.), Gene, meme und gehirne: Seist und Gesselschaft als Natur (pp. 137-226). Frankfurt, Germany: Suhrkap Verlag.
Buss, D.M. (2003). The nature of human nature. Review of S. Pinker’s The Blank Slate. Pathways: The Novartis Journal, Jan.-March, 49.
Buss, D.M. (2003). Sexual treachery. Australian Journal of Psychology, 55, 36.
Buss, D.M., & Duntley, J.D. (2003). Homicide: An evolutionary psychological perspective and implications for public policy. In N. Dess (Ed.), Evolutionary psychology and violence: A primer for policymakers and public policy advocates. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
Haselton, M. G. & Buss, D. M. (2003). Biases in social judgment: Design flaws or design features? In J. Forgas, K. Williams, & B. von Hippel (Eds.) Responding to the Social World: Implicit and Explicit Processes in Social Judgments and Decisions (pp. 23-43). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Weekes-Shackelford, V.A., Shackelford, T.K., & Buss D.M. (2003). Murder in a lover’s triangle. In M.D. Smith (Ed.), New directions in homicide research. Washington, D.C.: Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Shackelford, T.K., Buss, D.M., & Weeks-Shackelford, V. (2003). Wife-killings committed in the context of a “lovers triangle.” Journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 25, 137-143.
2002
Buss, D.M. (2002). Human mating strategies. The Socioeconomist, 4, 47-58.
Buss, D.M. (2002). Human mate guarding. Neuroendocrinology Letters, 23, 23-29.
Buss, D.M. (2002). Is love just a ‘trick’ that dissuades us from leaving when logic tells us we really should walk away? The Times Higher Education Supplement, February 8, No. 1,524, pp. 18-19. D. M. Buss 25
Buss, D.M. (2002). How we fall in and out of love. In H. Swain (Ed.), The Big Questions in Science (pp. 117-128). London: Jonathan Cape.
Buss, D.M. (2002). Sex, marriage, and religion: What adaptive problems do religious phenomena solve? Psychological Inquiry, 13, 201-238.
Buss, D.M., Haselton, M.G., Shackelford, T.K., Bleske, A.L., & Wakefield, J.C. (in press). Adaptations, exaptations, and spandrels. Reprinted in Levitin, D. J. (2002). Foundations of cognitive psychology: Core readings (pp. 619-634). Cambridge: MIT Press. [reprinted from American Psychologist, 53, 533-548.]
Peters, J., Shackelford, T.K, & Buss, D.M. (2002). Understanding domestic violence against women: Using evolutionary psychology to extend the feminist functional analysis. Violence and Victims, 17, 255-264.
Schmitt, D.P, Shackelford, T.K., Duntley, J. D., Tooke, W., Buss, D.M., Fisher, M.L., Lavallee, M., & Vasey, P. (2002). Is there an early-30's peak in female sexual desire? Cross-sectional evidence from the United States and Canada. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 11, 1-18.
Shackelford, T.K., Buss, D.M., & Bennett, K. (2002). Forgiveness or breakup: Sex differences in responses to a partner’s infidelity. Cognition and Emotion, 16, 299-307.
2001
Buss, D.M. (2001). Cognitive biases and emotional wisdom in the evolution of conflict between the sexes. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 10, 219-223.
Buss, D.M. (2001). Human nature and culture: An evolutionary psychological perspective. Journal of Personality, 69, 955-978.
Schmitt, D. P., Shackelford, T. K., Duntley, J., Tooke, W., & Buss, D. M. (2001). The desire for sexual variety as a tool for understanding basic human mating strategies. Personal Relationships, 8, 425-455.
Haselton, M., & Buss, D.M. (2001). The affective shift hypothesis: The functions of emotional changes following sexual intercourse. Personal Relationships, 8, 357-369.
Bleske-Rechek, A.L., & Buss, D.M. (2001). Opposite sex friendship: Sex differences and similarities in initiation, selection, and dissolution. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 1310-1323.
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Buss, D.M. (2001). Evolutionary psychology: A paradigm for psychological science. Norwegian Journal of Psychology, 38, 1-16.
Schmitt, D.P., Shackelford, T.K., & Buss, D.M. (2001). Are men really more oriented toward short-term mating than women? A critical review of theory and research. Psychology, Evolution, and Gender, 3, 211-239.
Buss, D. M., Shackelford, T. K., Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Larsen, R. J. (2001). A half century of American mate preferences: The cultural evolution of values. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 63, 491-503.
Buss, D.M. (2001). Evolutionary psychology and the design of the human mind. The Psychologist, 14, 424-425.
Schmitt, D.P., & Buss, D.M. (2001). Human mate poaching: Tactics and temptations for infiltrating existing relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 894-917.
2000
Buss, D.M. (2000). The evolution of happiness. American Psychologist, 55, 15-23.
Haselton, M.G., & Buss, D.M. (2000). Error management theory: A new perspective on biases in cross-sex mind reading. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 81-91.
Bleske, A.L., & Buss, D.M. (2000). A comprehensive theory of human mating must explain between-sex and within-sex differences in mating strategies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 593-594.
Buss, D.M. (2000). I love you to death. The Times Higher Education Supplement, February 21.
Buss, D.M. (2000). Prescription for passion. Psychology Today, May/June, pp. 54- 61.
Buss, D.M. (2000). Desires in human mating. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 907, 39-49.
Shackelford, T.K., Buss, D.M., & Peters, J. (2000). Wife killing: Risk to women as a function of age. Violence and Victims, 15, 273-282.
Buss, D.M., Shackelford, T.K, & LeBlanc, G. (2000). Number of children desired and preferred spousal age difference: Context-specific mate preference patterns across 37 Cultures. Evolution and Human Behavior, 21, 223-231. D. M. Buss 27
Shackelford, T. K., Buss, D. M., & Peters, J. (2000). Reproductive age women are over-represented among victims of wife-killing. In Blackman, P. H., Leggett, V. L., Olson, B. L., Jarvis, J. P. (Eds.), The varieties of homicide and its research (pp. 73-84). Washington, DC: Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Bleske, A., & Buss, D.M. (2000). Can men and women just be friends? Personal Relationships, 7, 131-151.
Greiling, H., & Buss, D.M. (2000). Women’s sexual strategies: The hidden dimension of extra-pair mating. Personality and Individual Differences, 28, 929-963.
Schmitt, D.P., & Buss, D.M. (2000). Sexual dimensions of person description: Beyond or subsumed by the Big Five? Journal of Research in Personality, 34, 141-177.
Buss, D.M., Shackelford, T.K., Choe, J., Buunk, B.P., & Dijkstra, P. (2000). Distress about mating rivals. Personal Relationships, 7, 235-243.
Buss, D.M. (2000). Natural selection. In A.H. Forman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Buss, D.M. (2000). Evolutionary psychology. In A.H. Forman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Buss, D.M. (2000). Television and its effects on mating patterns. IN J. Brockman (Ed.), The greatest inventions of the past 2,000 years. New York: Simon & Schuster.
1999
Buss, D.M. (1999). Human nature and individual differences: The evolution of human personality. In L. Pervin & O.P. John (Eds.), Handbook of Personality, 2/e. New York: Guilford.
Buss, D.M. (1999). Evolutionary psychology: A new paradigm for psychological science. In D. H. Rosen & M. C. Luebbert (Eds.), Evolution of the psyche (pp. 1-33). Westport, CT: Praeger. [reprinted in modified form from Psychological Inquiry, 6, 1-30.]
Buss, D.M., & Duntley, J. (1999). Unselfish individuals or selfish groups. Contemporary Psychology, 44, 327-329.
Buss, D.M., Haselton, M., Shackelford, T.K., Bleske, A., & Wakefield, J. (1999). Interactionism, flexibility, and inferences about the past. American Psychologist, 54, 443-445. D. M. Buss 28
Buss, D.M., & Duntley, J. (1999). The evolutionary psychology of patriarchy: Women are not passive pawns in men’s game. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 219- 220.
Buss, D.M., & Greiling, H. (1999). Adaptive individual differences. Journal of Personality, 67, 209-243.
Buss, D.M. (1999). Adaptive individual differences revisited. Journal of Personality, 67, 259-264.
Buss, D.M. (1999). Where is fancy bred, in the genes or in the head? New York Times, June 1.
Buss, D.M., Shackelford, T.K., Kirkpatrick, L.A., Choe, J., Hasegawa, M., Hasegawa, T., & Bennett, K. (1999). Jealousy and beliefs about infidelity: Tests of competing hypotheses in the United States, Korea, and Japan. Personal Relationships, 6, 125-150. 1998
Buss, D.M. (1998). Sexual Strategies Theory: Historical origins and current status. Journal of Sex Research, 34, 19-31.
Buss, D. M., & Kenrick, D. T. (1998). Evolutionary social psychology. In D. Gilbert, S. Fiske, & G. Lindzey (Eds.), Handbook of Social Psychology. New York: Random House.
Buss, D.M., Haselton, M.G., Shackelford, T.K., Bleske, A., & Wakefield, J.C. (1998). Adaptations, exaptations, and spandrels. American Psychologist, 53, 533-548.
Buss, D.M. (1998). Psychological sex differences: Origins through sexual selection. In B.M. Clinchy & J.K. Norem (Eds.), The Gender and Psychology Reader (pp. 228-235). New York: New York University Press.
1997
Buss, D.M., & Shackelford, T.K. (1997). From vigilance to violence: Mate retention tactics in married couples. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 346-361.
Buss, D.M., & Shackelford, T.K. (1997). Susceptibility to infidelity in the first year of marriage. Journal of Research in Personality, 31, 193-221.
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Botwin, M., Buss, D. M., & Shackelford, T. K. (1997). Personality and mate preferences: Five factors in mate selection and marital satisfaction. Journal of Personality, 65, 107-136.
Shackelford, T.K., & Buss, D.M. (1997). Spousal esteem. Journal of Family Psychology, 11, 478-488.
Buss, D. M. (1997). Evolutionary foundations of personality. In R. Hogan, J. A. Johnson, & S. R. Briggs (Eds.), Handbook of Personality Psychology (pp. 317- 344). New York: Academic Press.
Buss, D. M. (1997). Human motivation in evolutionary perspective: Grounding terror management theory. Psychological Inquiry, 8, 22-26.
Buss, D. M. (1997). The emergence of evolutionary social psychology. In J. Simpson & D. T. Kenrick (Eds.), Evolutionary Social Psychology. Mahway, NJ: Erlbaum.
Buss, D. M., & Shackelford, T. K. (1997). Human aggression in evolutionary psychological perspective. Clinical Psychology Review, 17, 605-619.
Shackelford, T. K., & Buss, D. M. (1997). Anticipation of marital dissolution as a consequence of spousal infidelity. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 14, 793-808
Shackelford, T. K., & Buss, D. M. (1997). Cues to infidelity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 1034-1045.
Buss, D.M., & Shackelford, T.K. (1997). Review of Sexual Nature, Sexual Culture (by P.R. Abramson & S.D. Pinkerton). Quarterly Review of Biology, Dec., 501-502.
Buss, D. M. (1997). Just another brick in the wall: Building the foundation of evolutionary psychology. In L. Betzig (Ed.), Human Nature: A critical reader (pp.191 - 193). New York: Oxford University Press.
Shackelford, T. K., & Buss, D. M. (1997). Marital satisfaction in evolutionary psychological perspective. In R. J. Sternberg & M. Jojjat (Eds.), Satisfaction in close relationships (pp. 7-25). New York: Guilford.
Buss, D.M. (1997). Thinking clearly about the evolutionary psychology of sex differences. ISSPR Bulletin, 13, 18.
1996
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Buss, D. M., Larsen, R. J., & Westen, D. (1996). Sex differences in jealousy: Not gone, not forgotten, and not explained by alternative hypotheses. Psychological Science, 7, 373-375.
Buunk, B., Angleitner, A., Oubaid, V., & Buss, D.M. (1996). Sex differences in jealousy in evolutionary and cultural perspective: Tests from the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States. Psychological Science, 7, 359-363.
Buss, D. M. (1996). Paternity uncertainty and the complex repertoire of human mating strategies. American Psychologist, 51, 950-952.
Buss, D.M. (1996). Vital attraction. Demos, 10, 12-17.
Buss, D. M. (1996). Sexual conflict: Can evolutionary and feminist perspectives converge? In D. M. Buss & N. Malamuth (Eds.), Sex, power. conflict: Evolutionary and feminist perspectives (pp. 296-318). New York: Oxford University Press.
Buss, D. M. (1996). Social adaptation and five major factors of personality. In J. S. Wiggins (Ed.), The Five-factor Model of Personality: Theoretical Perspectives (pp. 180-207). New York: Guilford.
Buss, D. M. (1996). The evolution of human social strategies. In E. T. Higgins & A. Kruglanski (Eds.), Social Psychology: Handbook of Basic Principles. New York: Guilford Press.
Kyl-Heku, L., & Buss, D.M. (1996). Tactics as units of analysis in and personality psychology: An illustration using tactics of hierarchy negotiation. Personality Individual Differences, 21, 497-517.
Schmitt, D. P., & Buss, D. M. (1996). Mate attraction and competitor derogation: Context effects on perceived effectiveness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 1185-1204.
Shackelford, T. K., & Buss, D. M. (1996). Betrayal in mateships, friendships, and coalitions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22, 1151-1164.
1995
Buss, D. M. (1995). Evolutionary psychology: A new paradigm for psychological science. Psychological Inquiry, 6, 1-30.
Buss, D. M. (1995). The future of evolutionary psychology. Psychological Inquiry, 6, 81-87.
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Buss, D. M. (1995). Psychological sex differences: Origins through sexual selection. American Psychologist, 50, 164-168. [reprinted in M. Kimmel (Ed.), The Gendered Society. New York: Oxford University Press.
Buss, D. M. (1995). Evolution and human mating. Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. 18, 537-546.
1994
Buss, D. M. (1994). An evolutionary perspective on personality traits. In W. Hofstee & B. DeRaad (Eds.), Advances in Personality Psychology. New York: Wiley.
Buss, D. M. (1994). Individual differences in mating strategies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17, 581-582.
Buss, D. M. (1994). Mysteries of human mating. LSA Magazine, 17, 11-19.
Buss, D. M. (1994). Personality evoked: The evolutionary psychology of stability and change. In T. Heatherton & J. Weinberger (Eds.), Can Personality Change? (pp. 41-58). American Psychological Association Press.
Buss, D. M. (1994). Strategic individual differences: The evolutionary psychology of selection, evocation, and manipulation. In T. Bouchard & P. Proping (Eds.), Twins as a Tool of Behavioral Genetics (pp. 121-138). New York: Wiley.
Buss, D. M. (1994). The strategies of human mating. American Scientist, 82, 238- 249.
Buss, D. M. (1994). What do people desire in a mate? The evolution of human sexual strategies. The Journal of NIH Research, 6, 37-40.
Buss, D.M. (1994). Mate preferences in 37 cultures. In W.J. Lonner & R. Malpass (Eds.), Psychology and Culture (pp.197-202). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Greer, A., & Buss, D. M. (1994). Tactics for promoting sexual encounters. The Journal of Sex Research, 5, 185-201.
1993
Buss, D. M., & Schmitt, D. P. (1993). Sexual Strategies Theory: An evolutionary perspective on human mating. Psychological Review, 100, 204-232.
Buss, D. M. (1993). Strategic individual differences: The role of personality in creating and solving adaptive problems. In J. Hettema & I. Deary (Eds.), Social and Biological Approaches to Personality. New York: Wiley (pp. 175-189). D. M. Buss 32
Buss, D. M. (1993). Is there a human nature? Review of Donald Brown's Human Universals. Contemporary Psychology.
Gangestad, S. W., & Buss, D. M. (1993). Pathogen prevalence and human mate preferences. Ethology and Sociobiology, 14, 89-96.
1992
Buss, D. M., Larsen, R., Semmelroth, J., & Westen, D. (1992). Sex differences in jealousy: Evolution, physiology, and psychology. Psychological Science, 3, 251-255.
Buss, D. M. (1992). Do women have evolved preferences for men with resources? Ethology and Sociobiology, 12, 401408.
Buss, D. M. (1992). Manipulation in close relationships: The five factor model of personality in interactional context. Journal of Personality, 60, 477-499.
Buss, D. M. (1992). Mate preferences in Spain, Europe, and the World. El Pais, 200- 203.
Buss, D. M. (1992). Preference mechanisms in human mating: Implications for mate choice and intrasexual competition. In J. Barkow, K. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The Adapted Mind. New York: Oxford University Press.
DeKay, W. T., & Buss, D. M. (1992). Human nature, individual differences, and the importance of context: Perspectives from evolutionary psychology. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 1, 184-189.
1991
Buss, D. M. (1991). Conflict in married couples: Personality predictors of anger and upset. Journal of Personality, 59, 663-688.
Buss, D. M. (1991). Evolutionary personality psychology. Annual Review of Psychology. Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, Inc.
Buss, D. M. (1991). Mate selection for good parenting skills. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14, 520-521.
Buss, D. M. (1991). The psychodiagnosis of everyday conduct: Narcissistic personality disorder and its components. In D. Cicchetti & W. Grove (Eds.), Festschrift for Paul E. Meehl. Cambridge University Press.
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Buss, D. M. (1991). Toward an empirical foundation for evolutionary psychology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14, 301-302.
Buss, D. M., & Chiodo, L. A. (1991). Narcissistic acts in everyday life. Journal of Personality, 59, 179-216.
Larsen, R., & Buss, D. M. (1991). Sex differences in jealousy. Psychophysiology, 27, S47.
Ozer, D., & Buss, D. M. (1991). Two views of behavior: Agreement and disagreement in married couples. In A. Stewart, J. Healy, & D. Ozer (Eds.), Perspectives in Personality Psychology (pp. 93-108).
1990
Angleitner, A., Buss, D. M., & Demtroder, A. (1990). A cross-cultural comparison using the act frequency approach (AFA) in West Germany and the United States. European Journal of Personality, 4, 187-207.
Buss, D. M. (1990). The evolution of anxiety and social exclusion. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 9, 196-201.
Buss, D. M. (1990). Evolutionary social psychology: Prospects and pitfalls. Motivation and Emotion, 4, 265-286.
Buss, D. M. (1990). Toward a biologically informed psychology of personality. Journal of Personality, 58, 1-16.
Buss, D. M. (1990). Unmitigated agency and unmitigated communion: An analysis of the negative components of masculinity and femininity. Sex Roles, 22, 555- 568.
Buss, D. M., Abbott, M., Angleitner, A., Biaggio, A., Blanco-Villasenor, A., Bruchon- Schweitzer, M [& 45 additional authors]. (1990). International preferences in selecting mates: A study of 37 societies. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 21, 5-47.
Buss, D. M., & Dedden, L. (1990). Derogation of competitors. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 7, 395-422.
1989
Buss, D. M. (1989). Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12, 1-49.
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Botwin, M., & Buss, D. M. (1989). The structure of act report data: Is the five factor model of personality recaptured? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 988-1001.
Buss, D. M. (1989). Conflict between the sexes: Strategic interference and the evocation of anger and upset. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 735-747.
Buss, D. M. (1989). Toward an evolutionary psychology of human mating. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12, 39-49. [Author's response to 27 commentators].
Buss, D. M., & Angleitner, A. (1989). Mate selection preferences in Germany and the United States. Personality and Individual Differences, 10, 1269-1280.
Buss, D. M., & Cantor, N. (Eds.) (1989). Personality Psychology: Recent Trends and Emerging Directions. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Buss, D. M., & Craik, K. H. (1989). On the cross cultural examination of acts and dispositions. European Journal of Personality, 3, 19-30.
1988
Buss, D. M. (1988). The evolution of human intrasexual competition: Tactics of mate attraction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 616-628.
Buss, D. M. (1988). From vigilance to violence: Tactics of mate retention in American undergraduates. Ethology and Sociobiology, 9, 291-317.
1987
Buss, D. M. (1987). Evolutionary hypotheses and behavioral genetic methods: Hopes for a union of two disparate disciplines. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10, 20- 21.
Buss, D. M. (1987). Love acts: The evolutionary biology of love. In R. J. Sternberg & M. F. Barnes (Eds.), The Psychology of Love. New Haven: Yale University Press (pp. 100-118).
Buss, D. M. (1987). Selection, evocation, and manipulation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53, 1214-1221.
Buss, D. M. (1987). Sex differences in human mate selection criteria: An evolutionary perspective. In C. Crawford, et al. (Eds.), Sociobiology and Psychology: Issues, Ideas, and Findings. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
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Buss, D. M. (1987). Review of Signs of the Flesh, by Rancour-Laferierre. Quarterly Review of Biology, 62, 351-352.
Buss, D. M., & Craik, K. H. (1987). Act criteria for the diagnosis of personality disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders, 1, 73-81.
Buss, D. M., Gomes, M., Higgins, D. S., & Lauterbach, K. (1987). Tactics of manipulation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 1219-1229.
1986
Buss, D. M. (1986). Can social science be anchored in evolutionary biology? Revue Europeene des Sciences Sociales, 24, 41-50.
Buss, D. M. (1986). Formalism and advocacy in social psychology. Review of L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Volume 18). Contemporary Psychology, 31, 414-415.
Buss, D. M., & Barnes, M. L. (1986). Preferences in human mate selection. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 559-570.
Buss, D. M., & Craik, K. H. (1986). Acts, dispositions, and clinical assessment: The psychopathology of everyday conduct. Clinical Psychology Review, 6, 387-406.
Buss, D. M., & Craik, K. H. (1986). The act frequency approach and the construction of personality. In A. Angleitner, A. Furnham, & G. Van Heck (Eds.), Personality Psychology in Europe. Lisse, The Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger.
Buss, D. M., Craik, K. H., & Dake, K. L. (1986). Contemporary worldviews and perception of the technological system. In J. Menkes & V. Covello (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in Risk Analysis: The Social and Behavioral Sciences. New York: Plenum.
1985
Barnes, M. L., & Buss, D. M. (1985). Sex differences in the interpersonal behavior of married couples. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48, 122-129.
Buss, D. M. (1985). The act frequency approach to the interpersonal environment. Perspectives in Personality, 1, 173-200.
Buss, D. M. (1985). The temporal stability of acts, trends, and patterns. In C. D. Spielberger & J. N. Butcher, (Eds.), Advances in Personality Assessment, Volume 5. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
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Buss, D. M. (1985). Human mate selection. American Scientist, 73, 47-51.
Buss, D. M. (1985). Inheritance strategies, resource allocation, and causal alternatives for individual traits. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 8, 671-672.
Buss, D. M., & Craik, K. H. (1985). Why not measure that trait? Alternative criteria for identifying important dispositions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48, 934-946.
Buss, D. M., Craik, K. H., & Dake, K. L. (1985). Perceptions of decision procedures for managing and regulating hazards. In F. Homburger (Ed.), Safety Evaluation and Regulation. New York: S. Karger.
1984
Buss, D. M. (1984). Evolutionary biology and personality psychology: Toward a conception of human nature and individual differences. American Psychologist, 39, 1135-1147.
Buss, D. M. (1984). Marital assortment for personality dispositions: Assessment with three data sources. Behavior Genetics, 14, 111-123.
Buss, D. M. (1984). Toward a psychology of person-environment (PE) correlation: The role of spouse selection. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47, 361- 377.
Buss, D. M., & Craik, K. H. (1984). Acts, dispositions, and personality. In B. A. Maher & W. B. Maher (Eds.), Advances in Experimental Personality Research, Volume 13. New York: Academic Press.
1983
Buss, D. M., & Craik, K. H. (1983). The act frequency approach to personality. Psychological Review, 90 105-126.
Buss, D. M. (1983). Evolutionary biology and personality psychology: Implications of genetic variability. Personality and Individual Differences, 4, 53-61
Buss, D. M., & Craik, K. H. (1983). Act prediction and the conceptual analysis of personality scales: Indices of act density, bipolarity, and extensity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45, 1081-1095.
Buss, D. M., & Craik, K. H. (1983). Contemporary worldviews: Personal and policy implications. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 13, 259-280.
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Buss, D. M, & Craik, K. H. (1983). The dispositional analysis of everyday conduct. Journal of Personality, 51, 393-412.
1982
Buss, D. M. (1982). A new theory, a new era. Review of P. Hettema's Personality and Adaptation. Journal of Personality Assessment, 46, 98-100.
Buss, D. M. (1982). A paradigm for personality? Review of H. J. Eysenck's A Model for Personality and R. Lynn's Dimensions of Personality. Contemporary Psychology, 27, 341-343.
1981
Block, J., Buss, D. M., Block, J. H., & Gjerde, P. F. (1981). The cognitive style of breadth of categorization: Longitudinal consistency of personality correlates. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 40, 770-779.
Buss, D. M. (1981). Predicting parent-child interactions from children's activity level. Developmental Psychology, 17, 59-65.
Buss, D. M. (1981). Sex differences in the evaluation and performance of dominant acts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 40, 147-154.
Buss, D. M., & Craik, K. H. (1981). The act frequency analysis of interpersonal dispositions: Aloofness, gregariousness, dominance, and submissiveness. Journal of Personality, 49, 175-192.
1980
Buss, D. M., Block, J. H., & Block, J. (1980). Preschool activity level: Personality correlates and developmental implications. Child Development, 51, 401-408.
Buss, D. M., & Craik, K. H. (1980). The frequency concept of disposition: Dominance and prototypically dominant acts. Journal of Personality, 43, 379-392.
Buss, D. M., & Ozer, D. J. (1980). Inference and the interpretation of test scores. American Psychologist, 35, 475-476.
University Service
University of Texas at Austin [1996 – present]
1996 – present Head, Individual Differences and Evolutionary Psychology Area
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1996 – present Director, Evolutionary Psychology Research Lab
2006 -2019 Member, Steering Committee: advises Department Chair on major decisions involving hiring, promotion, retention of faculty and future of department
1996 – present Chair, IDEP Admissions Committee
1998 – present Faculty Search Committees
1998 – present Chair and Member, Promotion Committees
2009 – 2013 Member, SURE Committee (Summer Undergraduate Research Experience). Places minority and underrepresented undergraduates into research labs to gain experience, making them more competitive for graduate school.
2006 – 2015 Psychology Representative Speaker for University-Wide Freshman Honors Class
2014 and 2017 Commencement Speaker for Psychology Department
2013 Keynote Speaker, Hot Science, Cool Talks. Public lecture for science outreach on UT campus to capacity audience of 1,200.
2017 Keynote Speaker, Hot Science, Cool Talks. Public lecture for science outreach on UT campus to capacity audience of 400.
University of Michigan [1985 – 1996]
Head, Personality Psychology Area, University of Michigan
Director, Evolutionary Psychology Research Lab
Head, Evolution and Human Behavior Program
Executive Committee, Department of Psychology
Harvard University [1981 – 1985]
Director, Evolutionary Psychology Research Lab
Member, Faculty Search Committee
Member, Graduate Admissions Committee D. M. Buss 39
Member, Computer Committee Funded Research Grants
Bridge Grant, The psychology of sexual morality, Department of Psychology, University of Texas. 9/1/15 – 8/31/17.
Faculty research support from Rappoport-King Scholarship Fund for supervising award-winning Annia Raja, for research: Women’s evolved mating psychology and sexual response. 10/20/10 – 8/30/11.
Faculty research support from Rapoport-King Scholarship Fund for supervising award-winning Amanda Wills, who received a Rapoport-King Scholarship. 10/20/08 – 8/30/09.
Supervisor of two Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award winners, Lisa Boyars and Amanda Wills. 10/22/08 – 8/30/09.
Supervised Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF). Sexual victimization and the menstrual cycle. 9/1/06 – 8/31/07.
University of Texas, Austin, Office of the Vice-President for Research. Strategies for preventing sexual victimization. 9/1/05 – 8/31/06.
Criminal Justice Division, State of Texas. A program to end stalking and its negative consequences. 9/1/03 – 8/31/04.
Hogg Foundation, Stalking and Adolescent Mental Health, 9/1/02 – 8/30/04.
Hogg Foundation, Stalking and Adolescent Mental Health, 9/1/01 – 8/31/02.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice, 06/01/00 - -5/31/01. A program to prevent stalking and its negative consequences.
Bridge Grant, Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan, Prestige, status, and reputation. 09/01/94 – 08/31/96.
National Science Foundation Grant (NSF) (BNS98-00864) and Gordon P. Getty Trust. Support for Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology, Special Project, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA. 09/01/89 – 08/31/90.
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (MH-41593 and MH-44206). Selection, evocation, and manipulation. 9/1/85 – 8/31/90.
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Media Appearances and Educational Outreach
TV Appearances. More than 30 television appearances, including CBS ("This Morning"), ABC’s 20/20, PBS (Charlie Rose Show), CBC, the Discovery Channel (frequently aired documentary "Brain Sex"), The Learning Channel, Lifetime Cable Channel (Lifetime Magazine), and several BBC documentaries (e.g., "Science of Love"). Appearances include the PBS special, The Chemistry of Love, an ABC John Stossel Special on Jealousy and Human Mating, a 4-hour documentary on love on The Learning Channel, NBC Dateline, NBC Today Show (interviewed by Matt Lauer), Dr. Phil, Dr. Drew Show, and BBC TV.
Magazine Coverage. New York Times Magazine, Time (three times), Newsweek (three times), U.S. News and World Report (cover story), American Scientist (cover article), Glamour, Elle, Mademoiselle, Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Esquire, Scientific American, Psychology Today, and Science News.
Newspaper Coverage: New York Times (15 times), Times Higher Education Supplement (UK), Sunday Times (London)Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Herald, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times (six times), Detroit News, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Hartford Courant, Wall Street Journal, and dozens of other newspapers.
Public Lectures. I regularly give keynote addresses and invited talks at colleges and universities throughout the country, as well as to publically open formats such as The Smithsonian Institute (Washington, DC), American Museum of Natural History (New York), 92nd Street Y (New York), Intelligence Squared (London), and others.
Former PhD Students and Their Current Positions (N = 27)
Dr. Laith Al-Shawaf – Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
Dr. Kelly Asao – Assistant Professor [Australian equivalent], Institute of Social Neuroscience, Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. April Bleske-Rechek -- Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Dr. Michael Botwin – Professor and Chair, California State University, Fresno
Dr. Sean Conlan – Private Sector
Dr. Jaime Cloud, Assistant Professor, Western Oregon University
Dr. Dan Conroy-Beam, Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara D. M. Buss 41
Dr. Todd DeKay -- Associate Dean, Franklin & Marshall College
Dr. Joshua Duntley – Associate Professor, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Dr. Judith Easton – Lecturer, Texas State University
Dr. Bruce Ellis – Professor, Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Research Network on Adaptations to Childhood Stress, University of Utah
Dr. Diana Santos Fleischman – Tenured Senior Lecturer, University of Portsmouth
Dr. Cari Goetz — Assistant Professor, California State University, San Bernardino
Dr. Susanna Kugeares – Clinical Private Sector [co-mentored with Dr. Michael Telch]
Dr. Martie Haselton – Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. Sarah Hill –Associate Professor, Texas Christian University
Dr. Heidi Greiling—Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland, London Campus
Dr. Joonghwan Jeon —Associate Professor, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
Dr. Tim Ketelaar — Associate Professor, New Mexico State University
Dr. Barry X. Kuhle (formerly Friedman) — Associate Professor, University of Scranton
Dr. David Lewis — Assistant Professor, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
Dr. Lisa Melchior — Vice-President, The Measurement Group
Dr. Anne McGuire — Formerly Lecturer, Harvard University [current position unknown]
Dr. Karen Parker — Associate Professor, Psychiatry, Stanford University
Dr. Carin Perilloux — Assistant Professor, Southwestern University
Dr. David Schmitt — Professor and Head, Brunel University, London, UK
Dr. Todd Shackelford — Professor and Chair, Oakland University, Michigan