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Evolutionary Psychology

Editor: Todd K. Shackelford, Ph.D.

Evolutionary Psychology is an open-access peer-reviewed journal that aims to foster communication between experimental and theoretical work on the one hand and historical, conceptual and interdisciplinary writings across the whole range of the biological and human sciences on the other.

Evolutionary Psychology is indexed by PsycINFO, EBSCOhost, Scopus, Socolar, Google Scholar, and the following Thomson Reuters databases: Web of Science, Social Sciences Citation Index ( SSCI), and Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences.

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15 Nov 2009: Women's evolutionary enigmas. A review of David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton, How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories by Vandermassen, G.

31 Oct 2009: On the origin of descended scrotal testicles: the activation hypothesis by Gallup, G.G., Jr., Finn, M.M., and Sammis, B.

21 Oct 2009: Educational professionals’ knowledge and acceptance of evolution by Nadelson, L.S. and Sinatra, G.M.

30 Sep 2009: Height, relationship satisfaction, jealousy, and mate retention by Brewer, G. and Riley, C.

2 Sep 2009: Sex differences in violent versus non-violent life-threatening altruism by Fitzgerald, C. and Whitaker, M. B.

14 Aug 2009: An important contribution to the study of sexual coercion. A review of Martin N. Muller and Richard W. Wrangham, (Eds.) Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans: An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression Against Females by Palmer, C.T.

5 Aug 2009: Effects of context and relative rank on mate choice and affiliation ratings by Honey, P. L., and Coulombe, C. D.

1 Aug 2009: A growing thought. A review of Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding by Ellison, P.T.

29 Jul 2009: The chronic dependence of popular religiosity upon dysfunctional psychosociological conditions by Paul, G.

19 Jul 2009: Structural relations among negative affect, mate value, and mating effort by Kirsner, B. R., Figueredo, A. J., and Jacobs, W. J.

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