Martie G Haselton
Biographic Data
| ID | 610761 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martie G Haselton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martie G |
| FAMILY NAME | Haselton |
| SIGNATURE | HASELTON M G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 222 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Psychological Science in the Wake of Covid-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations
The COVID-19 pandemic has extensively changed the state of psychological science from what research questions psychologists can ask to which methodologies psychologists can use to investigate them. In this article, we offer a perspective on how to optimize new research in the pandemic’s wake. Because this pandemic is inherently a social phenomenon—an event that hinges on human-to-human contact—we focus on socially relevant subfields of psychology…
“Fast” women? The effects of childhood environments on women's developmental timing, mating strategies, and reproductive outcomes
Achieving status and reducing loneliness during the transition to college: The role of entitlement, intrasexual competitiveness, and dominance
Although many emerging adults struggle to gain status and develop social relationships, particularly during the college transition, it remains unclear whether certain personality traits facilitate this transition. Using a longitudinal design, we investigated whether status-related traits-namely, entitlement, intrasexual competitiveness, and dominance-related to the development of status in 91 first-year college students ( M age =18.15, SD =0.44) …
An agent-based model of the female rivalry hypothesis for concealed ovulation in humans
Early life stress, subjective social status, and health during late adolescence
Objective: Both lower subjective social status (SSS)—or viewing oneself as having lower status relative to others—and greater early life stress consistently relate to poorer health in adolescence. Early life stress can also negatively influence one’s social relationships and may thereby shape social status. The present studies investigated how early life stress relates to the development of SSS and how SSS relates to health across the transition …
Women's evaluations of other women's natural body odor depend on target's fertility status
Genetic compatibility in long-term intimate relationships: Partner similarity at major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes may reduce in-pair attraction
Cycling on the fast track: Ovulatory shifts in sexual motivation as a proximate mechanism for regulating life history strategies
How valid are assessments of conception probability in ovulatory cycle research? Evaluations, recommendations, and theoretical implications
Condition-dependent calibration of men’s uncommitted mating orientation: Evidence from multiple samples
If looks could kill: Anger attributions are intensified by affordances for doing harm
Emotion perception is necessarily imprecise, leading to possible overperception or underperception of a given emotion extant in a target individual. When the costs of these two types of errors are recurrently asymmetrical, categorization mechanisms can be expected to be biased to commit the less costly error. Contextual factors can influence this asymmetry, resulting in a concomitant increase in biases in the perception of a given emotion. Anger …
Do women’s mate preferences change across the ovulatory cycle? A meta-analytic review
Scientific interest in whether women experience changes across the ovulatory cycle in mating-related motivations, preferences, cognitions, and behaviors has surged in the past 2 decades. A prominent hypothesis in this area, the ovulatory shift hypothesis, posits that women experience elevated immediate sexual attraction on high- relative to low-fertility days of the cycle to men with characteristics that reflected genetic quality ancestrally. Doz…
Meta-analyses and p-curves support robust cycle shifts in women’s mate preferences: Reply to Wood and Carden (2014) and Harris, Pashler, and Mickes (2014)
Two meta-analyses evaluated shifts across the ovulatory cycle in women's mate preferences but reported very different findings. In this journal, we reported robust evidence for the pattern of cycle shifts predicted by the ovulatory shift hypothesis (Gildersleeve, Haselton, & Fales, 2014). However, Wood, Kressel, Joshi, and Louie (2014) claimed an absence of compelling support for this hypothesis and asserted that the few significant cycle shifts …
Seeing storms behind the clouds: Biases in the attribution of anger
Shifts in Women’s Mate Preferences Across the Ovulatory Cycle: A Critique of Harris (2011) and Harris (2012)
Sexual Regret: Evidence for Evolved Sex Differences
Evolution and the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Social Cognition
Part I. Introduction and Foundations. von Hippel, Haselton, Forgas, Evolutionary Psychology and Social Thinking: History, Issues, and Prospects. Dunbar, The Social Brain Hypothesis and Its Relevance to Social Psychology. Gangestad, Thornhill, The Evolution of Social Inference Processes: The Importance of Signaling Theory. Kenrick, Delton, Robertson, Vaughn Becker, Neuberg, How the Mind Warps: A Social Evolutionary Perspective on Cognitive Process…
Evolution and the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Social Cognition
This book seeks to combine the study of human social cognition - the way we think, decide, plan and analyze social situations - with an evolutionary framework that considers these activities in light of evolutionary adaptations for solving problems of survival faced by our ancestors over thousands of generations. The chapters report recent research and theories illustrating how evolutionary principles can shed new light on the subtle and often su…
Love, desire, and the suppression of thoughts of romantic alternatives☆
Sex Differences in Detecting Sexual Infidelity: Results of a Maximum Likelihood Method for Analyzing the Sensitivity of Sex Differences to Underreporting
Why Is Muscularity Sexy? Tests of the Fitness Indicator Hypothesis
Evolutionary scientists propose that exaggerated secondary sexual characteristics are cues of genes that increase offspring viability or reproductive success. In six studies the hypothesis that muscularity is one such cue is tested. As predicted, women rate muscular men as sexier, more physically dominant and volatile, and less committed to their mates than nonmuscular men. Consistent with the inverted-U hypothesis of masculine traits, men with m…
Desiring the muscular ideal: Men's body satisfaction in the United States, Ukraine, and Ghana
Failure to achieve a lean and muscular build, a prominent characteristic of masculinity for many men, may lead to body dissatisfaction. In four studies the authors used silhouette measures to assess men’s satisfaction with their muscularity and body fat. Across studies, many U.S. men (51‐71%) were not satisfied with their body fat level. Further, over 90% of U.S. undergraduate men wanted to be more muscular, as did many Ukrainian (69%) and Ghanai…
Male sexual attractiveness predicts differential ovulatory shifts in female extra-pair attraction and male mate retention
The Paranoid Optimist: An Integrative Evolutionary Model of Cognitive Biases
Human cognition is often biased, from judgments of the time of impact of approaching objects all the way through to estimations of social outcomes in the future. We propose these effects and a host of others may all be understood from an evolutionary psychological perspective. In this article, we elaborate error management theory (EMT; Haselton & Buss, 2000). EMT predicts that if judgments are made under uncertainty, and the costs of false positi…
Conditional expression of women's desires and men's mate guarding across the ovulatory cycle
Error management theory: A new perspective on biases in cross-sex mind reading
A new theory of cognitive biases, called error management theory (EMT), proposes that psychological mechanisms are designed to be predictably biased when the costs of false-positive and false-negative errors were asymmetrical over evolutionary history. This theory explains known phenomena such as men's overperception of women's sexual intent, and it predicts new biases in social inference such as women's underestimation of men's commitment. In St…
Desiring the muscular ideal: Men's body satisfaction in the United States, Ukraine, and Ghana
Failure to achieve a lean and muscular build, a prominent characteristic of masculinity for many men, may lead to body dissatisfaction. In four studies the authors used silhouette measures to assess men’s satisfaction with their muscularity and body fat. Across studies, many U.S. men (51‐71%) were not satisfied with their body fat level. Further, over 90% of U.S. undergraduate men wanted to be more muscular, as did many Ukrainian (69%) and Ghanai…
Ovulatory Shifts in Female Sexual Desire
Women's reproductive biology imposes heavy obligatory costs of parental investment, creating strong selective forces hypothesized to shape female mating psychology around critical decisions such as the choice of partner, the timing of sexual intercourse, and the timing of reproduction. We propose that female sexual desire has evolved as one adaptation among several designed to regulate these decisions. We hypothesize (a) an increase in desire as …
Sexual Regret: Evidence for Evolved Sex Differences
Women's Sexual Strategies: The Evolution of Long-Term Bonds and Extrapair Sex
Because of their heavy obligatory investment in offspring and limited offspring number, ancestral women faced the challenge of securing sufficient material resources for reproduction and gaining access to good genes. We review evidence indicating that selection produced two overlapping suites of psychological adaptations to address these challenges. The first set involves coupling-the formation of social partnerships for providing biparental care…
Women's fertility across the cycle increases the short-term attractiveness of creative intelligence
The sexual overperception bias: Evidence of a systematic bias in men from a survey of naturally occurring events
Sex Differences in Detecting Sexual Infidelity: Results of a Maximum Likelihood Method for Analyzing the Sensitivity of Sex Differences to Underreporting
Meta-analyses and p-curves support robust cycle shifts in women’s mate preferences: Reply to Wood and Carden (2014) and Harris, Pashler, and Mickes (2014)
Two meta-analyses evaluated shifts across the ovulatory cycle in women's mate preferences but reported very different findings. In this journal, we reported robust evidence for the pattern of cycle shifts predicted by the ovulatory shift hypothesis (Gildersleeve, Haselton, & Fales, 2014). However, Wood, Kressel, Joshi, and Louie (2014) claimed an absence of compelling support for this hypothesis and asserted that the few significant cycle shifts …
Can manipulations of cognitive load be used to test evolutionary hypotheses
D. DeSteno, M. Y. Bartlett, J. Braverman, and P. Salovey proposed that if sex-differentiated responses to infidelity are evolved, then they should be automatic, and therefore cognitive load should not attenuate them. DeSteno et al. found smaller sex differences in response to sexual versus emotional infidelity among participants under cognitive load, an effect interpreted as evidence against the evolutionary hypothesis. This logic is faulty. Cogn…
Shifts in Women’s Mate Preferences Across the Ovulatory Cycle: A Critique of Harris (2011) and Harris (2012)
Adaptations, exaptations, and spandrels
Adaptations, exaptations, and spandrels
Adaptation and natural selection are central concepts in the emerging science of evolutionary psychology. Natural selection is the only known causal process capable of producing complex functional organic mechanisms. These adaptations, along with their incidental by-products and a residue of noise, comprise all forms of life. Recently, S. J. Gould (1991) proposed that exaptations and spandrels may be more important than adaptations for evolutiona…
Interactionism, flexibility, and inferences about the past
Interactionism, flexibility, and inferences about the past
chology. Clearly, such connections haveserved psychology very well, helping us, forexample, to understand and treat broadspectrum of mental diseases, as well as re-ducing the stigma previously associated withthese diseases. Although the contributionsthat the physical sciences can make to thesocial sciences should be investigated, Busset al. went step beyond science and present-ed philosophically committed view of theworld, promoting an agenda tha…
Error management theory: A new perspective on biases in cross-sex mind reading
A new theory of cognitive biases, called error management theory (EMT), proposes that psychological mechanisms are designed to be predictably biased when the costs of false-positive and false-negative errors were asymmetrical over evolutionary history. This theory explains known phenomena such as men's overperception of women's sexual intent, and it predicts new biases in social inference such as women's underestimation of men's commitment. In St…
The sexual overperception bias: Evidence of a systematic bias in men from a survey of naturally occurring events
Ovulatory Shifts in Female Sexual Desire
Women's reproductive biology imposes heavy obligatory costs of parental investment, creating strong selective forces hypothesized to shape female mating psychology around critical decisions such as the choice of partner, the timing of sexual intercourse, and the timing of reproduction. We propose that female sexual desire has evolved as one adaptation among several designed to regulate these decisions. We hypothesize (a) an increase in desire as …
Male sexual attractiveness predicts differential ovulatory shifts in female extra-pair attraction and male mate retention
The Paranoid Optimist: An Integrative Evolutionary Model of Cognitive Biases
Human cognition is often biased, from judgments of the time of impact of approaching objects all the way through to estimations of social outcomes in the future. We propose these effects and a host of others may all be understood from an evolutionary psychological perspective. In this article, we elaborate error management theory (EMT; Haselton & Buss, 2000). EMT predicts that if judgments are made under uncertainty, and the costs of false positi…
Conditional expression of women's desires and men's mate guarding across the ovulatory cycle
Target Article: Evolutionary Foundations of Cultural Variation: Evoked Culture and Mate Preferences
We articulate an evolutionary perspective on cultural variation, centering on the concept of evoked culture. We then demonstrate how the framework of evoked culture has been used to predict and explain cultural variation and report new tests of hypotheses about cultural variation in mate preferences. These tests demonstrate the predictive power of ecological variables such as parasite prevalence that are implicated by evolutionary psychological t…
Women's Sexual Strategies: The Evolution of Long-Term Bonds and Extrapair Sex
Because of their heavy obligatory investment in offspring and limited offspring number, ancestral women faced the challenge of securing sufficient material resources for reproduction and gaining access to good genes. We review evidence indicating that selection produced two overlapping suites of psychological adaptations to address these challenges. The first set involves coupling-the formation of social partnerships for providing biparental care…
Can manipulations of cognitive load be used to test evolutionary hypotheses
D. DeSteno, M. Y. Bartlett, J. Braverman, and P. Salovey proposed that if sex-differentiated responses to infidelity are evolved, then they should be automatic, and therefore cognitive load should not attenuate them. DeSteno et al. found smaller sex differences in response to sexual versus emotional infidelity among participants under cognitive load, an effect interpreted as evidence against the evolutionary hypothesis. This logic is faulty. Cogn…
Women's fertility across the cycle increases the short-term attractiveness of creative intelligence
Why Is Muscularity Sexy? Tests of the Fitness Indicator Hypothesis
Evolutionary scientists propose that exaggerated secondary sexual characteristics are cues of genes that increase offspring viability or reproductive success. In six studies the hypothesis that muscularity is one such cue is tested. As predicted, women rate muscular men as sexier, more physically dominant and volatile, and less committed to their mates than nonmuscular men. Consistent with the inverted-U hypothesis of masculine traits, men with m…
Desiring the muscular ideal: Men's body satisfaction in the United States, Ukraine, and Ghana
Failure to achieve a lean and muscular build, a prominent characteristic of masculinity for many men, may lead to body dissatisfaction. In four studies the authors used silhouette measures to assess men’s satisfaction with their muscularity and body fat. Across studies, many U.S. men (51‐71%) were not satisfied with their body fat level. Further, over 90% of U.S. undergraduate men wanted to be more muscular, as did many Ukrainian (69%) and Ghanai…
Love, desire, and the suppression of thoughts of romantic alternatives☆
Sex Differences in Detecting Sexual Infidelity: Results of a Maximum Likelihood Method for Analyzing the Sensitivity of Sex Differences to Underreporting
Evolution and the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Social Cognition
Part I. Introduction and Foundations. von Hippel, Haselton, Forgas, Evolutionary Psychology and Social Thinking: History, Issues, and Prospects. Dunbar, The Social Brain Hypothesis and Its Relevance to Social Psychology. Gangestad, Thornhill, The Evolution of Social Inference Processes: The Importance of Signaling Theory. Kenrick, Delton, Robertson, Vaughn Becker, Neuberg, How the Mind Warps: A Social Evolutionary Perspective on Cognitive Process…
Evolution and the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Social Cognition
This book seeks to combine the study of human social cognition - the way we think, decide, plan and analyze social situations - with an evolutionary framework that considers these activities in light of evolutionary adaptations for solving problems of survival faced by our ancestors over thousands of generations. The chapters report recent research and theories illustrating how evolutionary principles can shed new light on the subtle and often su…
Seeing storms behind the clouds: Biases in the attribution of anger
Shifts in Women’s Mate Preferences Across the Ovulatory Cycle: A Critique of Harris (2011) and Harris (2012)
Sexual Regret: Evidence for Evolved Sex Differences
Condition-dependent calibration of men’s uncommitted mating orientation: Evidence from multiple samples
If looks could kill: Anger attributions are intensified by affordances for doing harm
Emotion perception is necessarily imprecise, leading to possible overperception or underperception of a given emotion extant in a target individual. When the costs of these two types of errors are recurrently asymmetrical, categorization mechanisms can be expected to be biased to commit the less costly error. Contextual factors can influence this asymmetry, resulting in a concomitant increase in biases in the perception of a given emotion. Anger …
Psychology (36 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (29 works) · Social Psychology (26 works) · Developmental psychology (17 works) · Biology (12 works) · Demography (11 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Animal Behavior and Reproduction (8 works) · Attractiveness (8 works)