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Student Publications

LINKED HERE is a FULL LIST of lab publications, with student co-authors boldfaced.

Below is a partial list of publications from our lab over the years. Each of the below publications has student (or alum) co-authors (in bold).

In Contract or in Press (as of Fall, 2018)

• Widman, D., Philip, M., & Geher, G. (in press) Punishment of Hypothetical Polygamous Marriages. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences.

• Geher, G., Di Santo, J., & Planke, J. (in press). Social reputation. In T. Shackelford (Ed.), Encylopedia of Evolutionary Science. New York: Springer.

• Geher, G., & Wedberg, N. A. (in production). Positive Evolutionary Psychology: Darwin’s Guide to Living a Richer Life. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Geher, G., Toback, A., & Wedberg, N. (in production). The Evolutionary Studies Summer Institute at New Paltz: A High-Impact, Condensed, Interdisciplinary Educational Experience for Teachers. In D. S. Wilson, G. Geher, A. G. Gallup, and H. Head (Eds.), Darwin’s Roadmap to the Curriculum: Evolutionary Studies in Higher Education. New York: Oxford University Press.

2018

• Guitar, A, E., Glass, D. J., Geher, G., & Suvak, M. K. (2018). Situation-specific emotional states: Testing Nesse and Ellsworth’s (2009) model of emotions for situations that arise in goal pursuit using virtual-world software. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-018-9830-x

2017

• Gruskin, K., & Geher, G. (2018). The Evolved Classroom: Using Evolutionary Theory to Inform Elementary Pedagogy. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 12, 1-13.

• Geher, G., Holler, R., Chapleau, D., Fell, J., Gangemi, B., Gleason, M., Rolon, V., Shimkus, A., & Tauber, B. (2017). Using Personal Genome Technology and Psychometrics to Study the Personality of the Neanderthals. Human Ethology Bulletin, 3, 34-46.

• Johnsen, L.L., Kruger, D.J., Geher, G., Wiegand, A.G., Shaiber, R.L., & Garcia, J.R. (2017). Youth injuries as a function of sex, life history, and neighborhood safety. Human Ethology Bulletin, 3, 85-108.

• Geher, G., & Jewell, O. (2017). Out of Eden: The Surprising Consequences of Polygamy by David P. Barash, The Quarterly Review of Biology 92, 322-323.

• Geher, G., Betancourt, K., & Jewell, O. (2017). The link between emotional intelligence and creativity. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality.

• Schmitt, D. P., …. Geher, G., … Hearns, K. et al. (2017). Narcissism and the Strategic Pursuit of Short-Term Mating: Universal Links across 11 World Regions of the International Sexuality Description Project-2. Psychological Topics, 26 (1), 89-137.

• Newmark, R. L., Johnsen, L. L., & Geher, G. (2017). Intrasexual Competition Among Beauty Pageant Contestants. In M. L. Fisher (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition. NY: Oxford University Press.

2016

• Geher, G., & Wedberg, N. A. (2016). Evolutionary Psychology and Warfare. In P. Joseph (Ed.). SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. Los Angeles: Sage.

• Johnsen, L. L., & Geher, G. (2016). Fashion as a Set of Signals in Female Intrasexual Competition. In M. L. Fisher (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition. NY: Oxford University Press.

• Geher, G., Garcia, J. R., Kaufman, S. B., Kaufman, J., & Dawson, B. B. (2016) The Validity and Structure of Mating Intelligence. Evolution, Mind, and Behaviour. DOI: 10.1556/2050.2016.0001.

• Wedberg, N. A., & Geher, G. (2016). Evolutionary Mismatch and the Large-Scale Shaping of Cultural Norms. ASEBL Journal, 12, 23-24.

• Guitar, A. E., Geher, G., Kruger, D., Garcia, J. R., Fisher, M., & Fitzgerald, C. J. (2016). Defining and interpreting definitions of emotional and sexual infidelity. Current Psychology.

2015

• Geher, G., Carmen, R., Guitar, A., Gangemi, B., Sancak Aydin, G., and Shimkus, A. (2015) The evolutionary psychology of small-scale versus large-scale politics: Ancestral conditions did not include large-scale politics. European Journal of Social Psychology, doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2158.; pdf

• Geher, G., & Williams, J. (2015). Why study evolutionary psychology? In K. Vaidya (Ed.), Psychology for the Curious: Why Study Psychology. The Curious Academic Publishing.

• Shimkus, A., & Geher, G. (2015). The ethologist’s corner. Human Ethology Bulletin, 30, 16-19.

• Kruger, D.J., Fisher, M.L., Fitzgerald, C.J., Garcia, J.R., Geher, G., & Guitar, A.E. (2015). Sexual and emotional aspects are distinct components of infidelity and unique predictors of anticipated distress. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 1, 44-51.

• Dillon, H. M., Adair, L. E., Geher, G., Wang, Z., & Strouts, P. H. (2015). Playing smart: The mating game and mating intelligence. Current Psychology.

• Johnsen, L. L., Guitar, A. E., & Geher, G. (2015). Divorce patterns and the male-to female mortality ratio: is midlife crisis the death of men? EvoS Journal: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium, 6(2), 33-41.

2014

• Geher, G., & Hall, S. E. (2014). Straightforward Statistics: Understanding the Tools of Research. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Hinshaw, J., Reinbold, T., Geher, M., & Geher, G. (2014). Are Women Given Voice at Psychology Conferences? A Content Analysis of Gender of Presenter at Major Evolutionist and General Psychology Conferences. EvoS Journal: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium, 6(2), 17-22.

**• Glass, D. J., Guitar, A. E., & Carmen, R. A. (2014). Evolutionary studies from the student perspective. EvoS Journal: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium, 6(1), 12-17.

**• Fell, J., Nathan, P., & Tauber, B. R. (2014). Evolutionary informed research: The future of health and fitness. EvoS Journal: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium, 6(1), 80-86.