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2024
Arnocky, Steven, and Adam C. Davis. “Do lifestyle and hormonal variables explain links between health and facial attractiveness?.” Frontiers in Psychology 15 (2024) https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1404387/full
Aung, T., Hill, A. K., Hlay, J. K., Hess, C., Hess, M., Johnson, J., Doll, L., Carlson, S. M., Magdinec, C., G-Santoyo, I., Walker, R. S., Bailey, D., Arnocky, S., Kamble, S., Vardy, T., Kyritsis, T., Atkinson, Q., Jones, B., Burns, J., … Puts, D. (2024). Effects of Voice Pitch on Social Perceptions Vary With Relational Mobility and Homicide Rate. Psychological Science, 35(3), 250-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976231222288
Aung, T., Hill, A. K., Hlay, J. K., Hess, C., Hess, M., Johnson, J., Doll, L., Carlson, S. M., Magdinec, C., G-Santoyo, I., Walker, R. S., Bailey, D., Arnocky, S., Kamble, S., Vardy, T., Kyritsis, T., Atkinson, Q., Jones, B., Burns, J., … Puts, D. (2024). Effects of Voice Pitch on Social Perceptions Vary With Relational Mobility and Homicide Rate. Psychological Science, 35(3), 250-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976231222288
2023
Pokorný, Šimon, Ondřej Pavlovič, and Karel Kleisner. “Sexual Dimorphism: The Interrelation of Shape and Color.” Archives of Sexual Behavior 53.8 (2024): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0279858
Aung, T., Hill, A.K., Pfefferle, D. et al. Group size and mating system predict sex differences in vocal fundamental frequency in anthropoid primates. Nat Commun 14, 4069 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39535-w
Randall N, Küçük B, Li Y, et al. Correction to: Women’s Preference for Masculine Traits Is Disrupted by Images of Male-on-Female Aggression. PsyArXiv; 2023. DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/ap38y.
Karthikeyan, S., Puts, D.A., Aung, T. et al. Articulatory effects on perceptions of men’s status and attractiveness. Sci Rep 13, 2647 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29173-z
Pisanski, K., Puts, D. (2023). Voice Cues: Intersexual Selection. In: Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08956-5_186-1
Swift-Gallant, A., Aung, T., Rosenfield, K. et al. Organizational Effects of Gonadal Hormones on Human Sexual Orientation. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40750-023-00226-x
2022
Rosenfield, K.A., Self, H., Shirazi, T. et al. Associations Between Sexual Desire and Within-Individual Testosterone and Cortisol in Men and Women. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology 8, 156–178 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40750-022-00184-w
Aung, T., Baek, S., & Puts, D. (2022). Sex differences are insufficient evidence of ecological adaptations in human females. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E130. doi:10.1017/S0140525X22000541
Shirazi, T. N., Self, H., Rosenfield, K. A., Dawood, K., Welling, L. L. M., Cárdenas, R., Bailey, J. M., Balasubramanian, R., Delaney, A., Breedlove, S. M., & Puts, D. A. (2022). Low Perinatal Androgens Predict Recalled Childhood Gender Nonconformity in Men. Psychological Science, 33(3), 343–353. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976211036075
2021
Swift-Gallant, A., Shirazi, T., Puts, D. A., & Breedlove, S. M. (2021). Evidence for perinatal steroid influence on human sexual orientation and gendered behavior. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 14(8). https://doi.org/10.1101/cshperspect.a039123
Hughes, S.M., and Puts, D.A. (2021). Vocal modulation in human mating and competition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0388
Arnocky, S., Hodges-Simeon, C., Davis, A., Desmarais, R., Greenshields, A., Liwski, R., Quillen, E., Cárdenas, R.A., and Breedlove, S.M., Puts, D. A. (2021). Heterozygosity of the major histocompatibility complex predicts later self-reported pubertal maturation in males. Scientific Reports, 11: 19862. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99334-5 8.
Shirazi, T.N., Self, H., Dawood, K., Welling, L.L.M., Cárdenas, R.A., Rosenfield, K., Bailey, J.M., Balasubramanian, R., Delaney, A., Breedlove, S.M., and Puts, D.A. (2021). Evidence that perinatal ovarian hormones promote women’s sexual attraction to men. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 134: 105431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2021.105431 9.
Stern, J., Schild, C., Jones, B.C., DeBruine, L. M., Hahn, A., Puts, D.A., Zettler, I., Kordsmeyer, T. L., Feinberg, D., Zamfir, D., Penke, L., Arslan, R.C. (2021). Do voices carry valid information about a speaker’s personality? Journal of Research in Personality, 92: 104092. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104092
Aung, T., Goetz, S.M.M., Adams, J. McKenn, C., Hess, C., Cheng, J., Zilioli, S., and Puts, D.A. (2021). Low voice pitch predicts fighting ability among male mixed martial arts fighters. Scientific Reports, 11, 905. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79408-6
Shirazi, T.N., Levenberg, K., Cunningham, H., Self, H., Dawood, K., Cárdenas, R.A., Ortiz, T., Carré, J., Breedlove, S.M., and Puts, D.A. (2021). Relationships between ovarian hormone concentrations and mental rotations performance in naturally-cyclling women. Hormones and Behavior, 127: 104886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2020.104886 12.
Albert, G., Arnocky, S., Puts, D.A., and Hodges-Simeon, C.R. (2021). Can listeners assess men’s self-reported health from their voice? Evolution and Human Behavior, 42: 91-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.08.001 13.
Aung, T., Rosenfield, K., and Puts, D.A. (2021). Male voice pitch mediates the relationship between objective and perceived formidability. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42(2): 121-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.08.007
2020
Schild, C., Aung, T., Kordsmeyer, T., Cardenas, R. A., Puts, D.A., & Penke, L. (2020). Linking human male vocal parameters to perceptions, body morphology, strength and hormonal profiles in contexts of sexual selection. Scientific Reports, 10, 21296. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77940-z PDF
Albert, G., Arnocky, S., Puts, D.A., & Hodges-Simeon, C.R. (2020). Can listeners assess men’s self-reported health from their voice? Evolution and Human Behavior, doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.08.001 PDF
Aung, T., Rosenfield, K.A., & Puts, D.A. (2020). Male voice pitch mediates the relationship between objective and perceived formidability. Evolution and Human Behavior, doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.08.007 PDF
Aung, T., & Puts, D.A. (2020). Voice pitch: A window into the communication of social power. Current Opinion in Psychology, 33, 154-161. doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.07.028 PDF
Rosenfield, K.A., Sorokowska, A., Sorokowski, P., & Puts, D.A. (2020). Sexual selection for low male voice pitch among amazonian forager-horticulturists. Evolution and Human Behavior, 41(1), 3-11. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.07.002 PDF
Shirazi, T.N., Rosenfield, K.A., Cárdenas, R.A., Breedlove, S.M., & Puts, D.A. (2020). No evidence that hormonal contraceptive use or circulating sex steroids predict complex emotion recognition. Hormones and Behavior, 119, 104647-104647. doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2019.104647 PDF
Shirazi, T.N., Self, H., Cantor, J., Dawood, K., Cárdenas, R., Rosenfield, K., . . . Puts, D.A. (2020). Timing of peripubertal steroid exposure predicts visuospatial cognition in men: Evidence from three samples. Hormones and Behavior, 121, 104712. doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2020.104712 PDF
Shirazi, T.N., Self, H., Dawood, K., Cárdenas, R., Welling, L.L.M., Rosenfield, K.A., . . . Puts, D.A. (2020). Pubertal timing predicts adult psychosexuality: Evidence from typically developing adults and adults with isolated GnRH deficiency. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 119, 104733. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104733 PDF
2019
Aung, T., Hughes, S.M, Hone, L.S.E., & Puts, D.A. (2019). Operational sex ratio predicts binge drinking across United States counties. Evolutionary Psychology, 17(3). PDF
Necka, E.A., Kardan, O., Puts, D.A., Faig, K.E., Berman, M.G., & Norman, G.J. (2019). Visual cues to fertility are in the eye (movements) of the beholder. Hormones and Behavior, 115, 104562. doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2019.104562 PDF
Schild, C., Feinberg, D.R., Puts, D.A., Jünger. J., Fasolt, V., Holzleitner, I., O’Shea, K., Lai, R., Arslan, R., Hahn, A., Cárdenas, R., DeBruine, L.M., Jones, B.C. (2019). Are attractive female voices really best characterized by feminine fundamental and formant frequencies? Evolution and Human Behavior. PDF
Shirazi, T.N., Jones, B.C., Roney, J.R., DeBruine, L.M., and Puts, D.A. (2019). Conception risk affects in-pair and extrapair desire similarly: A comment on Shimoda et al. Behavioral Ecology. 30(4): e6-e7. PDF
Shirazi, T.N., Self, H., Dawood, K., Rosenfield, K.A., Penke, L., Carré, J. M., . . . Puts, D.A. (2019). Hormonal predictors of women’s sexual motivation. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40(3), 336-344. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.02.002 PDF
Shirazi, T.N., & Puts, D.A. (2019). Risk of Conception. In T. K. Shackelford, V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp. 1-3). Springer, Cham. PDF
Sorokowski, P., Puts, D.A., Johnson, J., Żółkiewicz O., Oleszkiewicz, A., Sorokowska, A., Kowal, M., Borkowska, B., and Pisanski K. (2019). Voice of authority: Professionals lower their vocal frequencies when giving expert advice. Journal of non-verbal behavior. 43(2): 257-269. PDF
White, J.D., and Puts, D.A. (2019). Genes influence facial attractiveness through intricate biological relationships. PLoS genetics. 15(4): e1008030. PDF
Zaidi, A.A., White, J.D., Mattern, B.C., Liebowitz, C.R., Puts, D.A., Claes, P., and Shriver, M.D. (2019). Facial masculinity does not appear to be a condition-dependent male ornament and does not reflect MHC heterozygosity in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(5): 1633-1638. PDF
2018
Jünger, J., Motta-Mena N.V., Cardenas, R., Bailey, D., Rosenfield, K.A., Schild, C., Penke, L. and Puts, D.A. (2018). Do women’s preferences for masculine voices shift across the ovulatory cycle? Hormones and Behavior. 106: 122-134. PDF
Rosenfield, K.A., Dawood, K., & Puts, D.A. (2018). Organizational effects of hormones on sexual orientation. Organizational effects of hormones on sexual orientation. In Schultheiss, O. & Mehta, P. (Eds.). Routledge International Handbook of Social Neuroendocrinology (pp. 256-280). London: Routledge. PDF
Kordsmeyer, T.L., Hunt, J., Puts, D.A., Ostner, J., and Penke, L. (2018). The relative importance of intra-and intersexual selection on human male sexually dimorphic traits. Evolution and Human Behavior. 39(4), 424-436. PDF
Necka, E.A., Faig, K.E., Hedger, K.V., Lyons, I.M., Dimitroff, S.J., Luhmann, M., Puts, D.A., and Norman G.J. (2018). Women’s attention to and memory for fertile-and non-fertile phase women across the menstrual cycle. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. 4(3): 283-305. PDF
Puts, D.A., and Motta-Mena, N.V. (2018). Is human brain masculinization estrogen receptor-mediated? Reply to Luoto and Rantala. Hormones and Behavior. 97:3-4. PDF
Puts, D.A., and Aung, T. (2018). Does men’s voice pitch signal formidability? A reply to Feinberg et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 34(3):189-190. PDF
Rosinger, A.Y. and Puts, D.A. (2018). It’s complicated: Why raters’ BMI poorly explained attractiveness ratings. Obesity. 26(3): 461-462. PDF
Shirazi, T.N., Puts, D.A., and Escasa-Dorne, M. (2018). Filipino women’s preferences for male vocal timbre: Intra-individual, life history, and hormonal predictors. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. PDF
Shirazi, T.N., Bossio, J.A., Puts, D.A., and Chivers, M.L. (2018). Menstrual cycle phase predicts women’s hormonal responses to sexual stimuli. Hormones and Behavior. 103:45-53. PDF
2017
Groyecka, A., Pisanski, A., Sorokowska, A., Havlicek, J., Karwowski, M., Puts, D., Roberts, S. C., and Sorokowski, P. (2017). Attractiveness is multimodal: Beauty is also in the nose and ear of the beholder. Frontiers in Psychology. 8: 778. PDF
Johnson, J., and Puts, D.A. (2017). Voice Pitch. In: Encylopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, Shackelford, T.K., and Weekes-Shackelford, V., eds. Springer. PDF
Hill, A.K., Bailey, D.H., & Puts, D.A. (2017). Gorillas in our midst? Human sexual dimorphism and contest competition in men. In On Human Nature pp 235-249. PDF
Hill, A.K., Cárdenas, R.A., Wheatley, J.R., Welling, L.L.M., Burriss, R.P, Claes, P., Apicella, C.L., McDaniel, M.A., Little, A.C., Shriver, M.D., and Puts, D.A. (2017). Are there vocal cues to human developmental stability? Relationships between facial fluctuating asymmetry and vocal attractiveness. Evolution and Human Behavior. 38: 249-258 PDF
Hill, A.K. and Puts, D.A. (2017). Vocal attractiveness. In: Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, Shackelford, T.K. and Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds.). Springer. PDF
Hurst, A.C., Alquist, J.L., and Puts, D.A. (2017). Women’s fertility status alters other women’s jealousy and mate guarding. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 43: 191-203 PDF
Motta-Mena, N.V. and Puts, D.A. (2017). Endocrinology of human female sexuality, mating, and reproductive behavior. Hormones and Behavior. PDF
2016
Del Giudice, M., Lippa, R.A., Puts, D.A., Bailey, D.H., Bailey, J.M., Schmitt, D.P. (2016). Joel et al.’s method systematically fails to detect large, consistent sex differences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 113 (14), E1965. PDF
Doll, L. M., Cárdenas, R.A., Burriss, R.P., and Puts, D.A. (2016). Sexual selection and life history: Earlier recalled puberty predicts men’s phenotypic masculinization. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. 2: 134-149. PDF
Gangestad, S.W., Haselton, M.G., Welling, L. L.M., Gildersleeve, K., Pillsworth, E.G., Burriss, R.P., Larson, C.M., Puts, D.A. (2016). How valid are assessments of concept probability in ovulatory cycle research? Evaluations, recommendations, and theoretical implications. Evolution and Human Behavior 37(1) pp 85-96. PDF
Halley, A., Boretsky, M., Puts, D.A., and Shriver, M.D. (2016). Self-reported sexual behavioral interests and polymorphisms in the dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4) exon III VNTR in heterosexual young adults. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 45(8): 2091-2100. PDF
Krems, J.A., Neel, R., Neuberg, S.L., Puts, D.A., Kenrick, D.T. (2016). Women selectively guard their (desirable) mates from ovulating women. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 110(4), 551-573. PDF
Necka, E.A., Puts, D.A., Dimitroff, S.J., Norman, G.J. (2016) Other women’s fertility moderates female resource distribution across the menstrual cycle. Evolution and Human Behavior. 37 (1), 387-391. PDF
Puts, D.A. (2016). Human sexual selection. Current Opinion in Psychology. 7: 28-32. PDF
Puts, D.A. (2016). A vertical living: sexual selection strategies and upright locomotion. Speaking of which… In: The Missing Lemur Link: An Ancestral Step in the Evolution of Human Behaviour, Norscia, I. and Palagi, E., eds. Cambridge University Press, pp.60-63.
Puts, D.A., Hill, A.K., Bailey, D.H., Walker, R.S., Rendall, D., Wheatley, J.R., Welling, L.L.M., Dawood, K., Cardenas, R., Burriss, R.P., Jablonski, N.G., Shriver, M.D., Weiss, D., Lameka, A.R., Apicella, C.L., Owren, M.J., Barelli, C., Glenn, M.E.,& Ramos-Fernadez, G (2016). Sexual selection on male vocal fundamental frequency in humans and other anthropoids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences 283(1829). PDF
Shirazi, T. and Puts, D.A. (2016). Problems of assessing fertility. In: Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, Shackelford, T.K. and Weekes-Shackelford, V., eds. Springer. pp.1-6. http://dx.doi.org/0.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_224-1 6.
Shirazi, T. and Puts, D.A. (2016). Orgasm. In: Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, Shackelford, T.K. and Weekes-Shackelford, V., eds. Springer. pp.1-4. https://doi.org/10.1007/978- 3-319-16999-6_3366-1
2015
Gonzalez-Santoyo, I. , Wheatley, J.R. , Welling, L.L.M. , Cárdenas, R.A., Jimenez-Trejo, F., Dawood, K., and Puts, D.A. (2015). The face of female dominance: Women with dominant faces have lower cortisol. Hormones and behavior , 71: 16-21. PDF
Puts, D.A. (2015). Human sexual selection. Current Opinion in Psychology, 7: 28-32. PDF
Puts, D.A., Bailey, D.H., and Reno, P. (2015). Contest competition in men. In: The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, 2nd ed. Buss, D.M. ed. Wiley and Sons, pp.385-402. PDF
Puts, D.A., Pope, L.E., Hill, A.K., Cárdenas, R.A., Welling, L.L.M., Wheatley, J.R., and Breedlove, S.M. (2015). Fulfilling desire: Evidence for negative feedback between men’s testosterone, sociosexual psychology, and sexual partner number. Hormones and Behavior, 70: 14-21. PDF
Wheatley, J.R. and Puts, D.A. (2015). Evolutionary science of female orgasm. In: The Evolution of Sexuality, Shackelford, T.K.and Hansen, R.D. (eds.). Springer, pp.123-148. PDF
2014
Bossio, J., Suschinsky, K., Puts, D.A. , and Chivers, M. (2014). Does menstrual cycle phase influence the gender specificity of heterosexual women’s genital and subjective sexual arousal? Archives of Sexual Behavior , 43(5): 941-952. PDF
Claes, L.P., Liberton, D., Daniels, K., Matthes Rosana, K., Quillen, E., Pearson, L., McEvoy, B., Bauchet, M., Zaidi, A.A., Yao, W., Tang, H., Barsh, G., Absher, D.M., Puts, D.A. , Rocha, J., Beleza, S., Pereira, R.W., Baynam, G., Suetens, P., Vandermeulen, D., Wagner, J.K., Boster, J., and Shriver, M.D.; (2014). Modeling 3D facial shape from DNA. PLoS Genetics . 10(3):e1004224. PDF
Doll, L.M., Hill, A.K. , Cárdenas, R.A., Welling, L.L.M. , Wheatley, J.R. , and Puts, D.A. (2014). How well do men’s faces and voices index mate quality and dominance? Human Nature , 25: 200-212. PDF
Hodges-Simeon, C.R., Gurven, M., Puts, D.A. , and Gaulin, S.J.C. (2014). Vocal fundamental and formant frequencies are honest signals of threat potential in adolescent males. Behavioral Ecology , 25(4): 984-988. PDF
Li, Y., Bailey, D.H., Winegard, B., Puts, D.A. , Welling, L.L.M. , and Geary, D.C. (2014). Women’s preference for masculine traits is disrupted by images of male-on-female aggression. PLoS ONE , 9(10): e110497. PDF
Puts, D.A. (2014). Review of Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior , Gray, P.B. and Garcia, J.R. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2013. Quarterly Review of Biology , 89 (3): 263-264. PDF
Puts, D.A. , Doll, L.M. , and Hill, A.K. (2014). Sexual selection on human voices. In: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Sexual Psychology and Behavior , Weekes-Shackelford, V. and Shackelford, T.K. (eds.). Springer, pp. 69-86. PDF
Welling, L.L.M. and Puts, D.A. (2014). Female adaptations to ovulation. In: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Sexual Psychology and Behavior , Weekes-Shackelford, V. and Shackelford, T.K. (eds.). Springer, pp. 245-262. PDF
Wheatley, J.R. , Apicella, C.L., Burriss, R.P. , Cárdenas, R.A., Bailey, D.H., Welling, L.L.M. , and Puts, D.A. (2014). Women’s faces and voices are cues to reproductive potential in industrial and forager societies. Evolution and Human Behavior , 35(4): 264-271. PDF
2013
Hill, A.K., Dawood, K. and Puts, D.A. (2013). Biological foundations of sexual orientation. In: Handbook of Psychology and Sexual Orientation, Patterson, C.J. and D’Augelli, A.R. (eds.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 55-68. PDF
Hill, A.K., Hunt, J., Welling, L.L.M., Wheatley, J.R., Cárdenas, R.A., Rotella, M.A., Dawood, K., Shriver, M.D., and Puts, D.A. (2013). Quantifying the strength and form of sexual selection on men’s traits. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34(5): 334-341. PDF
Kempe, V., Puts, D.A., and Cárdenas, R.A. (2013). Masculine men articulate less clearly. Human Nature, 24: 461-475. PDF
Puts, D.A., Bailey, D.H., Cárdenas, R.A., Burriss, R.P., Welling, L.L.M., Wheatley, J.R., and Dawood, K. (2013). Women’s attractiveness changes with estradiol and progesterone across the ovulatory cycle. Hormones and Behavior, 63(1): 13-19. PDF
Puts, D.A. and Pope, L.E. (2013). Moderators, mates, and matchmakers: Effects of oral contraceptives on sexual desire may also depend on partners’ behavior and the role of female choice. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 42(8). PDF
Welling, L.L.M., Persola, L., Wheatley, J.R., Cárdenas, R.A., and Puts, D.A. (2013). Competition and men’s face preferences. Personality and Individual Differences, 54(3): 414-419. PDF
Welling, L.L.M., Singh, K.W., Puts, D.A., Jones, B.C., and Burriss, R.P. (2013). Self-reported sexual desire in homosexual men and women predicts preferences for sexually dimorphic facial cues. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 42(5): 785-791. PDF
2012
Claes, P.M., Walters, M.D., Shriver, M.D., Puts, D.A., Gibson, G., Clement, J.G., Baynam, G.,Verbeke, G., Vandermeulen, D., and Suetens, P. (2012). Sexual dimorphism in multiple aspects of 3D facial symmetry and asymmetry defined by spatially dense geometric morphometrics. Journal of Anatomy, 221(2): 97-114. PDF
Deaner, R.O., Geary, D.C., Puts, D.A., Ham, S.A., Kruger, J., Fles, E., Winegard, B., and Grandis, T. (2012). A sex difference in the predisposition for physical competition: Males play sports much more than females even in the contemporary U.S. PLoS ONE, 7(11): e49168. PDF
Puts, D.A., Apicella, C.L., and Cárdenas, R.A. (2012). Masculine voices signal men’s threat potential in forager and industrial societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279: 601-609. PDF
Puts, D.A. and Dawood, K. (2012). Is female orgasm a covert mate choice mechanism? In: Oxford Handbook of Sexual Conflict in Humans, Shackelford, T.K. and Goetz, A. (eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 184-201. PDF
Puts, D.A., Dawood, K., and Welling, L.L.M. (2012). Why women have orgasms: An evolutionary analysis. Archives of Sexual Behavior. PDF
Puts, D.A., Jones, B.C., and DeBruine, L.M. (2012). Sexual selection on human faces and voices. Journal of Sex Research, 49 (2-3): 227-243. PDF
Puts, D.A., Welling, L.L.M., Burriss, R.P., and Dawood, K. (2012). Men’s masculinity and attractiveness predict their female partners’ reported orgasm frequency and timing. Evolution and Human Behavior, 33: 1-9. PDF
Welling, L.L.M., Puts, D.A., Roberts, S.C., Little, A.C., and Burriss, R.P. (2012). Hormonal contraceptive use and mate retention behavior in women and their male partners. Hormones and Behavior, 61 (1): 114–120. PDF
2011
Burriss, R.P., Roberts, S.C., Welling, L.L.M., Puts, D.A., and Little, A.C. (2011). Heterosexual romantic couples mate assortatively for facial symmetry, but not masculinity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37 (5): 601-613. PDF
Burriss, R.P., Welling, L.L.M., and Puts, D.A. (2011). Mate-preference drives mate-choice: Men’s self-rated masculinity predicts their female partner’s preference for masculinity. Personality and Individual Differences, 51 (8): 1023-1027. PDF
Burriss, R.P., Welling, L.L.M., and Puts, D.A. (2011). Men’s attractiveness predicts their preference for female facial femininity when judging for short-term, but not long-term, partners. Personality and Individual Differences, 50 (5): 542-546. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2010.11.022 PDF
Hodges-Simeon, C.R., Gaulin, S.J.C., and Puts, D.A. (2011). Voice correlates of mating success in men: Examining “contests” versus “mate choice” modes of sexual selection. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40 (3): 551-557. PDF
Puts, D.A., Barndt, J.L., Welling, L.L.M., Dawood, K., and Burriss, R.P. (2011). Intrasexual competition among women: Vocal femininity affects perceptions of attractiveness and flirtatiousness. Personality and Individual Differences, 50(1): 111-115. PDF
Vukovic, J., Jones, B.C., Feinberg, D.R., DeBruine, L.M., Smith, F.G., Welling, L.L.M., and Little, A.C. (2011). Variation in perceptions of physical dominance and trustworthiness predicts individual differences in the effect of relationship context on women’s preferences for masculine pitch in men’s voices. British Journal of Psychology, 102 (1): 37-48. PDF
Welling, L.L.M., Burriss, R.P., and Puts, D.A. (2011). Mate retention behavior modulates men’s preferences for self-resemblance in infant faces. Evolution and Human Behavior, 32 (2): 118-126. PDF
2010
Bestelmeyer, P.E.G., Jones, B.C., DeBruine, L.M., Little, A.C., and Welling, L.L.M. (2010). Face aftereffects suggest interdependent processing of expression and sex and of expression and race. Visual Cognition, 18(2): 255-274. PDF
Burriss, R.P. (2010). The effect of veneers on cosmetic improvement: comments on Nalbandian and Millar, 2009. British Dental Journal, 208(2): 47. PDF
DeBruine, L.M., Jones, B.C., Crawford, J.R., Welling, L.L.M., and Little, A.C. (2010). The health of a nation predicts their mate preferences: Cross-cultural variation in women’s preferences for masculinized male faces. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277(1692): 2405-2410. PDF
DeBruine, L.M., Welling, L.L.M., Jones, B.C., and Little, A.C. (2010). Opposite effects of visual versus imagined presentation of faces on subsequent sex perception. Visual Cognition, 18(6): 816-828. PDF
Grimbos, T., Dawood, K., Burriss, R.P., Zucker, K.J., and Puts, D.A. (2010). Sexual orientation and the second to fourth finger length ratio: A meta-analysis in men and women. Behavioral Neuroscience, 124(2): 278-287. PDF
Hodges-Simeon, C.R., Gaulin, S.J.C., and Puts, D.A. (2010). Different vocal parameters predict perceptions of dominance and attractiveness. Human Nature, 21(4): 406-427. PDF
Jones, B.C., DeBruine, L.M., Main, J.C., Little, A.C., Welling, L.L.M., Feinberg, D.R., and Tiddeman, B.P. (2010). Facial cues of dominance modulate the short-term gaze-cuing effect in human observers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277: 617-624. PDF
Jones, B.C., Main, J.C., DeBruine, L.M., Little, A.C., and Welling, L.L.M. (2010). Reading the look of love: Sexually dimorphic cues in opposite-sex faces influence gaze categorization. Psychological Science, 21(6): 796-798. PDF
Puts, D.A. (2010). Beauty and the beast: Mechanisms of sexual selection in humans. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31(3): 157-175. PDF
Puts, D.A. (2010). The psychologic gambit declined—a review of “Endocrinology of Social Relationships.” Evolution and Human Behavior, 31(4): 306-308. PDF
Puts, D.A., Cárdenas, R.A., Bailey, D.H., Burriss, R.P., Jordan, C.L., and Breedlove, S.M. (2010). Salivary testosterone does not predict mental rotation performance in men or women. Hormones and Behavior, 58(2): 282-289. PDF
Vukovic, J., Jones, B.C., DeBruine, L.M., Feinberg, D.R., Smith, F.G., Little, A.C., Welling, L.L.M., and Main, J.C. Women’s own voice pitch predicts their preferences for masculinity in men’s voices. Behavioral Ecology, 21(4): 767-772. PDF
Wolff, S.E., and Puts, D.A. (2010). Vocal masculinity is a robust dominance signal in men. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 64(10): 1673-1683. PDF
2009
Burriss, R.P. (2009). Esthetic effect of orthodontic appliances: comments on Berto et al., 2009. American Journal of Orthodontics & Dentofacial Orthopedics, 136(3): 305-306. PDF
Burriss, R.P. (2009). Symmetry is sexy: Reply to Hodgson’s ‘Symmetry and Humans’. Antiquity, 83(322): 1170-1175. PDF
Burriss, R.P., Rowland, H.M., and Little, A.C. (2009). Facial scarring enhances men’s attractiveness for short-term relationships. Personality and Individual Differences, 46: 213-217. PDF
Puts, D.A. (2009). The Evolution of Human Sexuality: An Anthropological Perspective (2nd ed) . Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt. View at Amazon.com
Roberts, S.C., Saxton, T.K., Murray, A.K., Burriss, R.P., Rowland, H.M., and Little, A.C. (2009). Static and dynamic facial images cue similar attractiveness judgements. Ethology, 115: 588-595. PDF
Saxton, T.K., Burriss, R.P., Murray, A.K., Rowland, H.M., and Roberts, S.C. (2009). Face, body and speech cues independently predict judgments of attractiveness. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 7: 23-35. PDF
Smith, F.G., DeBruine, L.M., Jones, B.C., Krupp, D.B., Welling, L.L.M., and Conway, C.A. (2009). Attractiveness qualifies the effect of observation on trusting behavior in an economic game. Evolution and Human Behavior, 30(6): 393-397. PDF
Smith, F.G., Jones, B.C., Little, A.C., DeBruine, L.M., Welling, L.L.M., Vukovic, J., and Conway, C.A. (2009). Hormonal contraceptive use and perceptions of trust modulate the effect of relationship context on women’s preferences for sexual dimorphism in male face shape. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 7(3): 195-210. PDF
Wolff, S.E., and Puts, D.A. (2009). Book review: Sex Differences: Summarizing More Than a Century of Scientific Research, by L. Ellis, S. Hershberger, E. Field, S. Wesinger, S. Pellis, D. Geary, C. Palmer, K. Hoyenga, A. Hetsroni, and K. Karadi. New York: Psychology Press, 2008. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 38(6): 1070. PDF
2008
Dawood, K. and Puts, D.A. (2008). Genetics and the development of human sexual orientation. In: LGBTQ America Today , J.C. Hawley (ed.). Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, pp. 469-477. PDF
Martin, J., Puts, D.A., and Breedlove, S.M. (2008). Hand asymmetry in heterosexual and homosexual men and women: Relationship to 2D:4D digit ratios and other sexually dimorphic anatomical traits. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 37(1): 119-132. PDF
Puts, D.A., McDaniel, M.A., Jordan, C.L., and Breedlove, S.M. (2008). Spatial ability and prenatal androgens: Meta-analyses of congenital adrenal hyperplasia and digit ratio (2D:4D) studies. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 37(1): 100-111. PDF
Zuloaga, D.G., Puts, D.A., Jordan, C.L., and Breedlove, S.M. (2008). The role of androgen receptors in the masculinization of brain and behavior: What we’ve learned from the testicular feminization mutation. Hormones and Behavior, 53(5): 613-626. PDF
2007
Puts, D.A. (2007). Arousing imaginations: Review of Handbook of the Evolution of Human Sexuality , M.R. Kauth (ed.). Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2006. Evolutionary Psychology , 5(4): 778-785. PDF
Puts, D.A. (2007). Of bugs and boojums: Female orgasm as a facultative adaptation. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 36(3): 337-339. PDF
Puts, D.A. , Gaulin, S.J.C., and Breedlove, S.M. (2007). Sex differences in spatial ability: Evolution, hormones, and the brain. In: Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience , S.M. Platek, J.P. Keenan, and T.K. Shackelford (eds.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, pp. 329-379. PDF
Puts, D.A., Hodges, C.R., Cárdenas, R.A., and Gaulin, S.J.C. (2007). Men’s voices as dominance signals: Vocal fundamental and formant frequencies influence dominance attributions among men. Evolution and Human Behavior, 28(5): 340-344. PDF
2006
Puts, D.A. (2006). And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Response to Wallen. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 35(6): 637-639. PDF
Puts, D.A. (2006). Review of The Case of Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution, by E.A. Lloyd. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 35(1): 103-108. PDF
Puts, D.A. (2006). Cyclic variation in women’s preferences for masculine traits: Potential hormonal causes. Human Nature, 17(1): 114-127. PDF
Puts, D.A. and Dawood, K. (2006). The evolution of female orgasm: Adaptation or byproduct? Twin Research and Human Genetics, 9(3): 467-472. PDF
Puts, D.A., Gaulin, S.J.C., and Verdolini, K. (2006). Dominance and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in human voice pitch. Evolution and Human Behavior, 27(4): 283-296. PDF
Puts, D.A., Jordan, C.L., and Breedlove, S.M. (2006). Defending the brain from estrogen. Nature Neuroscience, 9(2): 155-156. PDF
Puts, D.A., Jordan, C.L., and Breedlove, S.M. (2006). O brother, where art thou? The fraternal birth-order effect on male sexual orientation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 103(28): 10531-10532. PDF
2005 and earlier
Puts, D.A. (2005). Mating context and menstrual phase affect women’s preferences for male voice pitch. Evolution and Human Behavior, 26(5): 388-397. PDF
Puts, D.A., Gaulin, S.J.C., Sporter, R.J., and McBurney, D.H. (2004). Sex hormones and finger length: What does 2D:4D indicate? Evolution and Human Behavior, 25(3): 182-199. PDF
Puts, D.A. (2003). Human Sexuality: A Holistic Approach . Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt.