Randy Thornhill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3771085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randy Thornhill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randy |
| FAMILY NAME | Thornhill |
| SIGNATURE | THORNHILL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Intersexual conflict across women's ovulatory cycle
Women's preferences for men's scents associated with testosterone and cortisol levels
Parasite-stress promotes in-group assortative sociality
Throughout the world people differ in the magnitude with which they value strong family ties or heightened religiosity. We propose that this cross-cultural variation is a result of a contingent psychological adaptation that facilitates in-group assortative sociality in the face of high levels of parasite-stress while devaluing in-group assortative sociality in areas with low levels of parasite-stress. This is because in-group assortative socialit…
Men's facial masculinity predicts changes in their female partners' sexual interests across the ovulatory cycle, whereas men's intelligence does not
Fertility in the cycle predicts women's interest in sexual opportunism
Parasites, democratization, and the liberalization of values across contemporary countries
The countries of the world vary in their position along the autocracy–democracy continuum of values. Traditionally, scholars explain this variation as based on resource distribution and disparity among nations. We provide a different framework for understanding the autocracy–democracy dimension and related value dimensions, one that is complementary (not alternative) to the research tradition, but more encompassing, involving both evolutionary (u…
Hormonal correlates of women's mid-cycle preference for the scent of symmetry
Sex Differences in Detecting Sexual Infidelity
Facial sexual dimorphism, developmental stability, and susceptibility to disease in men and women
Romantic involvement often reduces men's testosterone levels--but not always
Testosterone (T) appears to facilitate what biologists refer to as mating effort--the investment of time and energy into same-sex competition and mate-seeking behavior. Multiple studies show that men who are romantically involved (i.e., are paired) have lower T than single men, which may be due to a facultative adjustment by men of T levels in response to lower demands for mating effort. The authors proceeded on the basis of the idea that men who…
Darwinian aesthetics
Current theoretical and empirical findings suggest that mate preferences are mainly cued on visual, vocal and chemical cues that reveal health including developmental health. Beautiful and irresistible features have evolved numerous times in plants and animals due to sexual selection, and such preferences and beauty standards provide evidence for the claim that human beauty and obsession with bodily beauty are mirrored in analogous traits and ten…
Straw men and fairy tales
In this paper we respond to two frequent criticisms of our book, A Natural History of Rape (Thornhill & Palmer, 2000). The first criticism portrays the book as little more than a "just-so story" that human rape is an adaptation. We demonstrate that this portrayal is not accurate. The second criticism reflects a common response to the book s challenge of the popular assertion that rapists are not motivated by sexual desire but instead commit these…
The Body and Face of Woman
The Scent of Symmetry A Human Sex Pheromone that Signals Fitness?
Facial attractiveness
Physical attractiveness and the theory of sexual selection
The evolutionary psychology of extrapair sex
Human (Homo sapiens) facial attractiveness and sexual selection
We hypothesized from the parasite theory of sexual selection that men (Homo sapiens) would prefer averageness and symmetry in women's faces, that women would prefer averageness and symmetry in men's faces, and that women would prefer largeness (not averageness) of the secondary sexual traits of men's faces. We generated computer images of men's and women's faces and of composites of the faces of each sex, and then had men and women rate opposite-…
Is There Psychological Adaptation to Rape
Psychological adaptation underlies all human behavior. Thus, rape could either arise from a rape-specific psychological adaptation or it could be a side-effect of a more general psychological adaptation not directly related to rape. The rape-specific hypothesis and the incidental effect hypothesis are explained. Determining the specific environmental cues that men’s sexual psyche has been designed by selection to process will allow us to decide w…
Human facial beauty
An evolutionary analysis of psychological pain following rape. III
Mental pain has been hypothesized to reflect psychological adaptation designed by selection to detect and cope with the occurrence of social problems that reduced individuals inclusive fitness in human evolutionary history. According to the hypothesis, mental pain is brought about by social tragedies in the lives of individuals and focuses an individual's attention on the events surrounding the pain, promoting correction of the pain-causing event…
Female Primate Sexual Behavior and Conception
Human rape
Human facial beauty
Romantic involvement often reduces men's testosterone levels--but not always
Testosterone (T) appears to facilitate what biologists refer to as mating effort--the investment of time and energy into same-sex competition and mate-seeking behavior. Multiple studies show that men who are romantically involved (i.e., are paired) have lower T than single men, which may be due to a facultative adjustment by men of T levels in response to lower demands for mating effort. The authors proceeded on the basis of the idea that men who…
Female Primate Sexual Behavior and Conception
Sex Differences in Detecting Sexual Infidelity
Straw men and fairy tales
In this paper we respond to two frequent criticisms of our book, A Natural History of Rape (Thornhill & Palmer, 2000). The first criticism portrays the book as little more than a "just-so story" that human rape is an adaptation. We demonstrate that this portrayal is not accurate. The second criticism reflects a common response to the book s challenge of the popular assertion that rapists are not motivated by sexual desire but instead commit these…
Human rape
Female Primate Sexual Behavior and Conception
An evolutionary analysis of psychological pain following rape. III
Mental pain has been hypothesized to reflect psychological adaptation designed by selection to detect and cope with the occurrence of social problems that reduced individuals inclusive fitness in human evolutionary history. According to the hypothesis, mental pain is brought about by social tragedies in the lives of individuals and focuses an individual's attention on the events surrounding the pain, promoting correction of the pain-causing event…
Human facial beauty
Human (Homo sapiens) facial attractiveness and sexual selection
We hypothesized from the parasite theory of sexual selection that men (Homo sapiens) would prefer averageness and symmetry in women's faces, that women would prefer averageness and symmetry in men's faces, and that women would prefer largeness (not averageness) of the secondary sexual traits of men's faces. We generated computer images of men's and women's faces and of composites of the faces of each sex, and then had men and women rate opposite-…
Is There Psychological Adaptation to Rape
Psychological adaptation underlies all human behavior. Thus, rape could either arise from a rape-specific psychological adaptation or it could be a side-effect of a more general psychological adaptation not directly related to rape. The rape-specific hypothesis and the incidental effect hypothesis are explained. Determining the specific environmental cues that men’s sexual psyche has been designed by selection to process will allow us to decide w…
The evolutionary psychology of extrapair sex
Physical attractiveness and the theory of sexual selection
The Body and Face of Woman
The Scent of Symmetry A Human Sex Pheromone that Signals Fitness?
Facial attractiveness
Darwinian aesthetics
Current theoretical and empirical findings suggest that mate preferences are mainly cued on visual, vocal and chemical cues that reveal health including developmental health. Beautiful and irresistible features have evolved numerous times in plants and animals due to sexual selection, and such preferences and beauty standards provide evidence for the claim that human beauty and obsession with bodily beauty are mirrored in analogous traits and ten…
Straw men and fairy tales
In this paper we respond to two frequent criticisms of our book, A Natural History of Rape (Thornhill & Palmer, 2000). The first criticism portrays the book as little more than a "just-so story" that human rape is an adaptation. We demonstrate that this portrayal is not accurate. The second criticism reflects a common response to the book s challenge of the popular assertion that rapists are not motivated by sexual desire but instead commit these…
Facial sexual dimorphism, developmental stability, and susceptibility to disease in men and women
Romantic involvement often reduces men's testosterone levels--but not always
Testosterone (T) appears to facilitate what biologists refer to as mating effort--the investment of time and energy into same-sex competition and mate-seeking behavior. Multiple studies show that men who are romantically involved (i.e., are paired) have lower T than single men, which may be due to a facultative adjustment by men of T levels in response to lower demands for mating effort. The authors proceeded on the basis of the idea that men who…
Hormonal correlates of women's mid-cycle preference for the scent of symmetry
Sex Differences in Detecting Sexual Infidelity
Parasites, democratization, and the liberalization of values across contemporary countries
The countries of the world vary in their position along the autocracy–democracy continuum of values. Traditionally, scholars explain this variation as based on resource distribution and disparity among nations. We provide a different framework for understanding the autocracy–democracy dimension and related value dimensions, one that is complementary (not alternative) to the research tradition, but more encompassing, involving both evolutionary (u…
Men's facial masculinity predicts changes in their female partners' sexual interests across the ovulatory cycle, whereas men's intelligence does not
Fertility in the cycle predicts women's interest in sexual opportunism
Parasite-stress promotes in-group assortative sociality
Throughout the world people differ in the magnitude with which they value strong family ties or heightened religiosity. We propose that this cross-cultural variation is a result of a contingent psychological adaptation that facilitates in-group assortative sociality in the face of high levels of parasite-stress while devaluing in-group assortative sociality in areas with low levels of parasite-stress. This is because in-group assortative socialit…
Women's preferences for men's scents associated with testosterone and cortisol levels
Intersexual conflict across women's ovulatory cycle
Psychology (21 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (20 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Biology (13 works) · Developmental psychology (13 works) · Attractiveness (11 works) · Mating (8 works) · Physical attractiveness (7 works) · Sexual selection (7 works) · Animal Behavior and Reproduction (6 works)