Publications

Sevi, B., Supiyev, A., Gutierrez, A., Graham, E. K., Mroczek, D. K., & Muniz-Terrera, G. (2025). Big-5 Personality Traits as Predictors of Allostatic Load in Latino Americans: A Longitudinal Study. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 80(12), gbaf204.

Urganci, B., Sevi, B., Dogruyol, B., & Sakman, E. (2025). Examining the Role of Dark and Light Triad Traits on Sociosexuality. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 40(3), 662–676.

Sevi, B. & Shook, N. J. (2025). Sociosexuality is associated with disease avoidance tendencies and can decrease during a real-life disease threat. Current Psychology, 44, 180 – 193.

Urganci, B., Sevi, B., Dogruyol, B., & Sakman, E. (2025). Examining the Role of Dark and Light Triad Traits on Sociosexuality. Sexual and Relationship Therapy.

Ackerman, J. M., Samore, T., Fessler, D. M. T., Kupfer, T. R., Choi, S.,…Sevi, B.,… Žeželj, Z. (2025). I see sick people: Beliefs about sensory detection of infectious disease are largely consistent across cultures. Brain Behavior and Immunity, 128, 737 – 750.

Gutierrez, A., Supiyev, A., Thomas Tobin, C., Sevi, B., Morroig, A., Voll, S., & Muniz-Terrera, G. (2025). Interplay of Neighborhood and Psychosocial Factors in Predicting Trajectories of Allostatic Load among Latinx Adults in the United States. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 47(1), 68 – 96.

Sevi, B., Gutierrez, A., & Muniz-Terrera, G. (2024) Underlining Neighborhood Perception: A Possible Risk Factor for Dementia That Deserves More Attention. Brain Communications, 6(2), fcae037.

Sevi, B. (2023). Sex Differences: Disgust Response. In: Shackelford, T. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Springer, Cham.

Sevi, B. & Bostancı, İ. (2023). Big Five Personality Traits: Dating Apps. In: Shackelford, T. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Springer, Cham.

Shook, N. J., Fitzgerald, H. N., Oosterhoff, B., MacFarland, E., & Sevi, B. (2023). Is disgust proneness prospectively associated with influenza vaccine hesitancy and uptake? Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 46(1–2), 54–64.

Shook, N. J., Oosterhoff, B., & Sevi, B. (2023) A longitudinal assessment of variability in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and psychosocial correlates in a national U.S. sample. Vaccine, 41(7), 1390-1397.

Urganci, B. & Sevi, B. (2023). Sociosexuality: Infidelity. In: Shackelford, T. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Springer, Cham.

van Leeuwen, F., Inbar, Y., Petersen, M.B., Aarøe, L., Barclay, P., de Barra, M.,…Sevi, B.,… Tybur, J.M. (2023). Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women (and other sexual groups) across 31 nations. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 26(3), 629-651.

Sevi, B. & Shook, N. J. (2022) The Behavioral Immune System and Use of Transportation Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Transport & Health, 26, 101406.

Wilson, J., Sevi, B., Strough, J., & Shook, N. J. (2022). Age differences in risk aversion: Now you see them, now you don’t. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, 29(4), 651-665.

Sakman, E., Urganci, B., & Sevi, B. (2021). Your cheating heart is just afraid of ending up alone: Fear of being single mediates the relationship between attachment anxiety and infidelity. Personality and Individual Differences, 168, 110366.

Sevi, B. & Shook, N. J. (2021). The relation between disgust sensitivity and risk-taking propensity: A domain specific approach. Judgment and Decision Making, 16(4), 950-968.

Sevi, B., Altman, N., Ford, C. G, & Shook, N. J. (2021). To kneel or not to kneel: Right-wing authoritarianism predicts attitudes toward NFL kneeling protests. Current Psychology, 40, 2948–2955.

Shook, N. J., Delaney, R., Strough, J., Wilson, J., Sevi, B., & Altman, N. (2021). Playing it safe: Dispositional mindfulness partially accounts for age differences in health and safety risk-taking propensity. Current Psychology, 40, 2142–2152.

Shook, N. J., Oosterhoff, B., & Sevi, B. (2021). From disease to democracy: How disgust shapes western politics. In Consendine, N. S. & Powell, P. A. (Eds.), The Handbook of Disgust Research: Modern Perspectives and Applications. Springer, Cham.

Urganci, B., Sevi, B., & Sakman, E. (2021). Better relationships shut the wandering eye: Sociosexual orientation mediates the association between relationship quality and infidelity intentions. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38(4), 1401-1409.   

Fitzgerald, H. N., Sevi, B. & Shook, N. J. (2020). Fraudulent health claims: Further consideration of the role of emotions. Social Science & Medicine, 259, 112979.

Pasha-Zaidi, N., Afari, E., Urganci, B., Sevi, B., & Durham, J. (2020). Investigating the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and resilience: A study of undergraduate students in Turkey. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma, 29(10), 1204-1221.

Sevi, B. & Dogruyol, B. (2020). Looking from the bright side: The light triad predicts Tinder use for love. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 37(7), 2136-2144.

Sevi, B., Urganci, B., & Sakman, E. (2020). Who cheats? An examination of light and dark personality traits as predictors of infidelity. Personality and Individual Differences, 164, 110126.

Shook, N. J., Sevi, B., Lee, J., Oosterhoff, B., & Fitzgerald, H. N. (2020). Disease avoidance in the time of COVID-19: The behavioral immune system is associated with concern and preventative health behaviors. PLoS ONE, 15(8), e0238015.

Wilson, J. M., Lee, J., Oosterhoff, B., Fitzgerald, H. N., Sevi, B., & Shook, N. J. (2020). Job insecurity and financial concern during the covid-19 pandemic are associated with worse mental health. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 62(9), 686-691.

Yilmaz, O., Bahcekapili, H., Harma, M, & Sevi, B. (2020). Intergroup tolerance leads to subjective morality which in turn is associated with (but does not lead to) reduced religiosity. Archive for the Psychology of Religion, 42(2), 232-243.

Bahçekapili, H., Yilmaz, O., Sevi, B. (2019). Evolutionary perspectives on religion. In: Shackelford, T. & Weekes-Shackelford, V. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham.

Bahçekapili, H., Yilmaz, O., Sevi, B. (2019). The puzzle of altruism. In: Shackelford, T. & Weekes-Shackelford, V. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham.

Pasha-Zaidi, N., Afari, E., Sevi, B., Urganci, B., & Durham, J. (2019). The responsibility of learning: A cross-cultural examination of the relationship of grit, motivational beliefs, and self-regulation among college students in the US, UAE, and Turkey. Learning Environments Research, 22(1), 83-100.

Sevi, B. (2019). The dark side of Tinder: The dark triad as correlates of Tinder use. Journal of Individual Differences, 40(4), 242-246.

Sevi, B. (2019). Brief report: Tinder users are risk takers and have low sexual disgust sensitivity. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 5(1), 104-108.

Urganci, B. & Sevi, B. (2019). Infidelity risk. In: Shackelford, T. & Weekes-Shackelford, V. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham.

Yilmaz, O., Bahçekapili, H., Sevi, B. (2019). Theory of moral development. In: Shackelford, T. & Weekes-Shackelford, V. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham.

Yilmaz, O., Bahçekapili, H., Sevi, B. (2019). The evolution of human sociality. In: Shackelford, T. & Weekes-Shackelford, V. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham.

Yilmaz, O., Sevi, B., & Bahçekapili, H. (2019). Moralizing Gods and the rise of civilization. In: Shackelford, T. & Weekes-Shackelford, V. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham.

Sevi, B. (2018). Hookup culture. In: Shackelford, T. & Weekes-Shackelford, V. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham.

Sevi, B., Aral, T, & Eskenazi, T. (2018). Exploring the hook-up app: Low sexual disgust and high sociosexuality predict motivation to use Tinder for casual sex. Personality and Individual Differences, 133, 17-20.

Sevi, B. & Eskenazi, T. (2018). The impact of perceived threat of infectious disease on the framing effect. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 4(3), 340-346.

Kezer, M., Sevi, B., Cemalcilar, Z., & Baruh, L. (2016). Age differences in privacy attitudes, literacy and privacy management on Facebook. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 10(1), Article 2.

Tybur, J.M., Inbar, Y., Aarøe, L., Barclay, P., Barlowe, F., Barraf, M.,…Sevi, B.,… Žeželj, I. (2016). Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 12408-12413.