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You can use this page to access links to participate in research studies in evolutionary psychology.  These studies have been approved by the Penn State Office for Research Protections.
 
 
 
:::Returning in Fall 2009:::
 
 
Harrison's reading recommendations
 
  
Buss, D.  (1994). The evolution of desire: Strategies of human mating. New York: Basic Books.
 

Daly, M. & Wilson, M. (1988). Homicide. New York: Aldine DeGruyter.

Darwin, C. (1859).  On the origin of species. London: Murray.
 
Gallup, G.G., Jr. (1970). Chimpanzees: Self-recognition. Science, 167, 86-87.
 

Geary, D.  (1998).  Male, female: The evolution of human sex differences.  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Haselton, M., Buss, D., Oubaid, V., & Angleitner, A.  (2005).  Sex, lies, and strategic inference: The psychology of deception between the sexes.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 3.

Hughes, S. & Gallup, G.G., Jr.  (2003).  Sex differences in morphological predictors of sexual behavior: Shoulder to hip and waist to hip ratios.  Evolution and Human Behavior, 24, 173-178.

Hughes, S.M., Harrison, M.A., & Gallup, G.G., Jr. (2004). Sex differences in mating strategies: Mate guarding, infidelity, and multiple concurrent sex partners.  Sexualities, Evolution, and Gender, 6(1), 3-13.

Hughes, S.M., Harrison, M.A., & Gallup, G.G., Jr.  (2007). Sex differences in kissing among college students.  Evolutionary Psychology, 5(3), 612-631.

Kanazawa, S.  (2002).  Bowling with our imaginary friends.  Evolution and Human Behavior, 23, 167-171.
 
Ridley, M. (1993). The red queen: Sex and the evolution of human nature. NY: MacMillan.
 
Symons, D. (1979). The evolution of human sexuality. New York: Oxford University Press.
 

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1990). The past explains the present: Emotional adaptations and the structure of ancestral environments. Ethology and Sociobiology, 11, 375-424.

Trivers, R.L. (1972). Parental investment and sexual selection. In B. Campbell (Ed.), Sexual selection and the descent of man 1871-1971. Chicago: Aldine.

Wright, R.  (1995). The moral animal: Why we are the way we are: The new science of evolutionary psychology. UK: Vintage.

 
 
 
If you have any questions about this site, please email Marissa Harrison at mah52@psu.edu.