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Watch Dr. Arnocky describe recent research findings surrounding the evolution of human mate-poaching on CTV News North

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1 month ago

Congrats to our former MSc student Jessica Desrochers, and current MSc student Ashley Locke on our new paper looking at whether those who are high in entitlement are lower in pro-environmental attitudes and behavior.www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/eco.2019.0078 ...

Entitlement Predicts Lower Proenvironmental Attitudes and Behavior in Young Adults

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Ecopsychology

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2 months ago

Our new paper examining the role of jealousy in mediating the relationship between women's physical appearance comparison and mate retention effortjournals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1474704920973990 ...

Jealousy Mediates the Link Between Women’s Upward Physical Appearance Comparison and Mate Retention Behavior - Steven Arnocky, Ashley Locke, 2020

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Previous research has demonstrated that men’s lower mate value predicts increased perpetration of mate retention, especially with respect to cost inflicting beh...

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4 months ago

Our new paper with Adam Davis in Archives of Sexual Behavior on the evolution of physical appearance enhancement effort ...

An Evolutionary Perspective on Appearance Enhancement Behavior

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Researchers have highlighted numerous sociocultural factors that have been shown to underpin human appearance enhancement practices, including the influence of peers, family, the media, and sexual objectification. Fewer scholars have approached appearance enhancement from an evolutionary perspective...

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

Our new article in Frontiers in Psychology on the role of the dark personality traits of narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism (i.e., the Dark Tetrad) among males who solicit prostitution. ...

The Dark Tetrad and Male Clients of Female Sex Work

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Many scholars have investigated the attitudes, beliefs, motives, and behavior of male clients of female sex workers. However, few have examined individual differences in major dimensions of personality expressed by men who purchase prostitution compared to those who do not. Although several evolutio...

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