VITA
Douglas T. Kenrick
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona 85287-1104
(480) 965-7249)
Educational Background:
1976
Ph.D. in Psychology (Social), Arizona State University
1975
M.A. in Psychology (Clinical), Arizona State University
1970
B.A. in Psychology (minor-Sociology), Dowling College
Academic Positions
1989-
Professor, Arizona State University
2001
Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia
1994
Visiting Professor, University of Groningen, Netherlands
1987
Visiting Scholar, University of Tulsa
1982 - 1989
Associate Professor, Arizona State University
1984 - 1985
Visiting Associate Professor, Temple University
1980 - 1982
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
1976 - 1980
Assistant Professor, Montana State University
Administrative Experience:
1995 - 1997
1989 - 1994
1982 - 1993
1985 -1986
Director of social psychology program, ASU.
Director of undergraduate studies, ASU psychology.
University institutional review board, human subjects.
ASU Faculty Senate.
Editorial Experience:
2007
Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of Social Psychology
2006
Board of Consulting Editors, Evolution & Human Behavior
2006
Board of Consulting Editors, Evolutionary Psychology
2003 -
Board of Consulting Editors, Personality & Social Psychology Review
1999 -
Board of Consulting Editors, Personal Relationships.
1995 -
Board of Consulting Editors, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(Interpersonal Relations section)
1997 -2001
Board of Consulting Editors, Journal of Gender, Culture, & Health.
1989-1991
Board of Consulting Editors, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(Personality Section).
1986, 1995
Program Committee (Divisions 8, 34) American Psychological Association.
1979
Board of Consulting Editors, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
1976 - present-
Ad Hoc Reviewer: American Psychologist, Behavioral & Brain Sciences,
Psychological Review, Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, National
Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, etc.
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Professional Associations:
Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Society for Personality & Social Psychology (Fellow), American
Psychological Association (Fellow, Division 8), American Psychological Society (Fellow), Human
Behavior and Evolution Society (elected member of board of directors, 2004/6).
Teaching:
Graduate courses taught: Advanced Social Psychology: Interpersonal Processes; Evolutionary Psychology,
Advanced Evolutionary Psychology, Personality Theory and Research, Environmental Psychology, Advanced
Topics in Social Psychology, Teaching Seminar. Have funded 3-4 graduate student lines for each of the last 5
years.
2007
Finalist, ASU Graduate Mentor Award
2008
Outstanding Mentor Award
Undergraduate courses taught: General psychology, social psychology, environmental psychology, sexual
behavior, tests and measurements, abnormal psychology, psychology of adjustment, research practicum. Students
working with me won awards for best undergraduate thesis in psychology for 2003 and 2004. Have funded
undergraduate researchers working as “honorary graduate students” for 3 of last 5 years (each has gone on to their
top choice graduate school).
2004 -
Finalist, ASU Parent’s Association Teacher of the Year Award
2007 -
Special Recognition Award, ASU Parent’s Association
2008-
Special Recognition Award, ASU Parent’s Association
Publications:
1.
Cialdini, R.B., & Kenrick, D.T. (1976). Altruism as hedonism: A social developmental perspective on the
relationship of mood state and helping. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 34, 907-9l4.
2.
Cialdini, R.B., Kenrick, D.T., & Hoerig, J.H. (1976). Victim derogation in the Lerner paradigm: Just
World or just justification? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 33, 719-724.
3.
Kenrick, D.T., Reich, J.W., & Cialdini, R.B. (1976). Compensation and justification: Rosier skies for the
devalued victim. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 33, 719-724.
4.
Kenrick, D.T., & Cialdini, R.B. (1977). Romantic attraction: Misattribution vs. reinforcement
explanations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, ("featured article"), 35, 381-391.
• Reprinted in J. C. Brigham & L. S. Wrightsman (Eds.) Contemporary Issues in Social Psychology (4th
Edition). Brooks/Cole.
• Abstracted in Marriage and Family Review.
• Abstracted in Current contents.
5.
Kenrick, D.T., Cialdini, R.B., & Linder, D.E. (1979). Heterosexual attraction and attributional processes in
fear producing situations. In M. Cook & G. Wilson (Eds.), Love and attraction. London: Pergamon Press.
6.
Kenrick, D.T., & Johnson, G.A. (1979). Interpersonal attraction in aversive environments: A problem for
the classical conditioning paradigm? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37, 572-579.
7.
Kenrick, D.T., Baumann, D., & Cialdini, R.B. (1979). A step in the socialization of altruism as hedonism:
Effects of negative mood on children's generosity under public and private conditions. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 37, 747-755.
8.
Kenrick, D.T., Cialdini, R.B., & Linder, D.E. (1979). Misattribution under fear producing circumstances:
Four failures to replicate. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 5, 329-334.
9.
Kenrick, D.T. (1979). The science of friendships: A model of friends as scientists. Contemporary
Psychology, 24, 505.
10. Kenrick, D.T., & Gutierres, S. (1980). Contrast effects and judgments of physical attractiveness: When
beauty becomes a social problem. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 38, 131-140.
• Reprinted in Aronson, E. (1992 and 1994). Readings about the Social Animal. (Sixth & Seventh
Editions). New York: W.H. Freeman & Co.
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11. Kenrick, D.T., & Stringfield, D.O. (1980). Personality traits and the eye of the beholder: Crossing some
traditional philosophical boundaries in the search for consistency in all of the people. Psychological
Review, 87, 88-104.
12. Kenrick, D.T., Stringfield, D.O., Wagenhals, W.L., Dahl, R.H., & Ransdell,H.J. (1980). Sex differences,
androgyny, and approach responses to erotica: A new variation on the old volunteer problem. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 38, 517-524.
13. Baumann, D., Cialdini, R.B., & Kenrick, D.T. (1981). Altruism as hedonism: Helping and self-gratification
as equivalent responses. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 40, 1039-1046.
• Reprinted in: Schroeder, D.A., Johnson, D.E., & Jensen, T.D. (Ed.). (1985). Contemporary Readings in
Social Psychology. Chicago: Nelson-Hall.
14. Cialdini, R.B., Baumann, D.J., & Kenrick, D.T. (1981). The development of altruism as hedonism: A three
step model. Developmental Review, 1, 207-223.
15. Cialdini, R.B., Kenrick, D.T., & Baumann, D. (1982). Mood and altruism: A developmental perspective.
In N. Eisenberg (Ed.), The development of prosocial behavior. Academic Press.
16. Kenrick, D.T., & Braver, S.L. (1982). Personality - idiographic and nomothetic! A rejoinder.
Psychological Review, 89, 182-186.
17. Kenrick, D.T., Dantchik, A., & MacFarlane, S. (1983). Personality, environment, and criminal behavior:
An evolutionary perspective. In W.S. Laufer & J.M. Day (Eds.), Personality theory, moral development
and criminal behavior. Lexington, Mass: D.C. Heath & Co.
18. Kenrick, D.T., & Dantchik, A. (1983). Interactions, idiographics, and the social psychological invasion of
personality. Journal of Personality, 51, 286-307.
19. Baumann, D.J., Cialdini, R.B., & Kenrick, D.T. (1983). Mood and sex differences in the development of
altruism as hedonism. Academic Psychology Bulletin, 5, 299-207.
20. Kenrick, D.T., & Keefe, R.C. (1984). Social traits, self-observations, and other hypothetical constructs.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7, 561-562.
21. Kenrick, D.T., Montello, D., & MacFarlane, S. (1985). Personality: Social learning, social cognition, or
sociobiology? In R. Hogan & W. Jones (Eds.), Perspectives in Personality (Vol. I). Greenwich, CT: JAI
Press.
22. Schutte, N.S., Kenrick, D.T., & Sadalla, E.K. (1985). The search for predictable settings: Situational
prototypes, constraint, and behavioral variation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 49, 121148.
23. Kenrick, D.T. (1986). How strong is the case against contemporary social and personality psychology: A
response to Carlson. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 839-844.
24. Kenrick, D.T., & MacFarlane, S. (1986). Ambient temperature and horn honking: A field study of
interpersonal hostility. Environment and Behavior, 18, 179-191.
25. Kenrick, D.T., & Trost, M.R. (1987). A biosocial model of relationship formation. Pp. 59-100 in K.
Kelley (Ed.), Females, males and sexuality: Theories and research. Albany: SUNY Press.
26. Kenrick, D.T. (1987). Gender, genes, and the social environment: A biosocial interactionist perspective.
Pp. 14-43 in P. Shaver & C. Hendrick (Eds.), Review of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol. 7).
Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
27. Sadalla, E.K., Kenrick, D. T., & Vershure, B. (1987). Dominance and heterosexual attraction. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 730-738.
28. Kenrick, D.T. (1988). Biology, Si! Hard-wired ability: Maybe No. Comment on Benbow: "Sex differences
in mathematical reasoning. " Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 11, 199-200.
29. Kenrick, D.T., & Funder, D.C. (1988). Profiting from controversy: Lessons from the person-situation
debate. American Psychologist, 43, 23-34.
30. Kenrick, D.T., Gutierres, S.E., & Goldberg, L. (1989). Influence of erotica on ratings of strangers and
mates. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 25, 159-167.
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31. Kenrick, D. T., & Keefe, R. C. (1989). Time to integrate sociobiology and social psychology. Comment
on Buss. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12, 24-26.
32. Kenrick, D.T., & Trost, M.R. (1989). A reproductive exchange model of heterosexual relationships: Putting
proximate economics in ultimate perspective. Pp. 92-118 in C. Hendrick (Ed.), Review of Personality &
Social Psychology (Vol. 10). Newbury Park, CA.: Sage.
33. Kenrick, D.T. (1989). A biosocial perspective on mates and traits: Reuniting personality and social
psychology. In D.M. Buss & N. Cantor (Eds.) Personality Psychology: Recent trends and emerging
directions. New York: Springer-Verlag.
34. Allen, J., Kenrick, D.T., Linder, D.E., & McCall, M. (1989). Arousal and attraction: A response facilitation
alternative to misattribution and negative reinforcement models. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 57, 261-270.
35. Kenrick, D.T. (1989). Altruism, Darwinism, and the gift of Josiah Wedgewood. Comment on Rushton.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12, 531-532.
36. Hettema, P.J., & Kenrick, D.T. (1989). Biosocial interaction and individual adaptation. In P.J. Hettema
(Ed.) Personality and Environment: Assessment of human adaptation. London: John Wiley & Sons.
37. Kenrick, D.T. (1989). Selflessness examined: Is avoiding tar and feathers nonegoistic? (Comment on
Caporeal et al.). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12, 711-712.
38. Kenrick, D. T. (1990). Personality and reproductive behavior: Integrating the social psychological and the
evolutionary perspectives. Pp. 5-24 in R.W. Bell & N.J. Bell (Eds.) Sociobiology and the Social Sciences.
(Vol. 7 of the Interfaces in Psychology series). Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press.
39. Kenrick, D.T., Sadalla, E.K., Groth, G., & Trost, M.R. (1990). Evolution, traits, and the stages of human
courtship: Qualifying the parental investment model. Journal of Personality, 58, 97-116. (Special Issue on
Biological Approaches to Personality).
• Reprinted in L. Betzig (1997). Human Nature: A critical reader. New York: Oxford University Press.
40. Kenrick, D.T., McCreath, H.E., Govern, J., King, R., & Bordin, J. (1990). Person-environment
intersections: Everyday settings and common trait dimensions. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 58, 685-698.
41. Kenrick, D.T., & Funder, D.C. (1991). The person-situation debate: Do traits really exist? In V. Derlega, B.
Winstead, & W.H. Jones (Eds.), Contemporary Research in Personality. Chicago, IL: Nelson-Hall. (pp.
149-174)
42. Kenrick, D.T. (1991). Proximate altruism and ultimate selfishness. Psychological Inquiry, 2, 135-137.
43. Kenrick, D.T. & Hogan, R. (1991). Cognitive psychology. In M. Maxwell (Ed.) The sociobiological
imagination. (pp. 171-186). Albany: SUNY Press.
44. Kenrick, D.T., & Keefe, R.C. (1992). Age preferences in mates reflect sex differences in mating strategies.
(target article) Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 15, 75- 91.
45. Seamon, J.G., & Kenrick, D.T. (1992). Psychology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
46. Kenrick, D.T., & Keefe, R.C. (1992). Sex differences in age preferences: Universal reality or ephemeral
construction (author's response). Behavioral & Brain Sciences , 15, 119-133.
47. Trost, M.R., Maass, A., & Kenrick, D.T. (1992). Minority influence: Personal relevance biases cognitive
processes and reverses private acceptance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 28, 234-254.
48. Hettema, J. & Kenrick, D.T. (1992). Models of person-environment interactions. Pp. 393-417 in G. V.
Caprara & G. VanHeck (Eds.) Modern Personality Psychology: Critical Reviews & New Directions.
London: Harvester-Wheatsheaf.
49. Kenrick, D.T., & Khavari, K.A. (1992). Evolutionary theory and applied psychology: The right way and the
wrong. New Ideas in Psychology, 10, 385-387.
50. Trost, M. R., & Kenrick, D.T. (1993). An evolutionary perspective on interpersonal communication. Pp.
120-124 in S. Petronio, J. K. Alberts, M.L. Hecht , & J.L. Buley (Eds.) Contemporary perspectives on
interpersonal communication. Madison, WI: Brown & Benchmark.
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51. Kenrick, D.T., Montello, D. R., Gutierres, S.E., & Trost, M.R. (1993). Effects of physical attractiveness on
affect and perceptual judgment: When social comparison overrides social reinforcement. Personality &
Social Psychology Bulletin, 19, 195-199.
52. Kenrick, D.T., Groth, G.R., Trost, M.R., & Sadalla, E.K. (1993). Integrating evolutionary and social
exchange perspectives on relationships: Effects of gender, self-appraisal, and involvement level on mate
selection criteria. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 951-969.
53. Kenrick, D.T. (1993). Do these sociobiologists have an answer for everything? (Comment on Perusse).
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 16, 299-300.
54. Kenrick, D.T. (1993). Linking biological and cognitive approaches to personality: Evolution, gender, and
mate preferences. In Hettema, J., & Deary, I.J. (Eds.) Basic Issues in Personality. Dordrecht, Netherlands:
Kluwer Academic Publishers.
55. Seamon, J.G., & Kenrick, D.T. (1993). Story-telling: the authors speak. Teaching of Psychology, 20, 115116.
56. Kenrick, D.T. & Trost, M.R. (1993). The evolutionary perspective. Pp. 148-172 in R.J. Sternberg & A.E.
Beall (Eds.) Perspectives on the Psychology of Gender. NY: Guilford Press.
57. Kenrick, D.T., Keefe, R.C., & Van Heck, G. (1993). Age and mate choice over the life span. In R.
Kastenbaum (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Adult Development. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press.
58. Kenrick, D.T. (1994). Evolutionary social psychology: From sexual selection to social cognition. In M.P.
Zanna (Ed.) Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 26. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. Pp. 75121.
59. Seamon, J.G., & Kenrick, D.T. (1994). Psychology (2nd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
60. Kenrick, D.T., & Sheets, V. (1994). Homicidal fantasies. Ethology and Sociobiology, 14, 231-246.
61. Kenrick, D.T., Neuberg, S.L., Zierk, K., & Krones, J. (1994). Evolution and social cognition: Contrast
effects as a function of sex, dominance, and physical attractiveness. Personality & Social Psychology
Bulletin, 20, 210-217.
62. Green, B. L., & Kenrick, D.T. (1994). The attractiveness of gender-typed traits at different relationship
levels: Androgynous characteristics may be desirable after all. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin,
20, 244-253.
63. Kenrick, D.T., & Keefe, R.C. (1994). Gender and sexual orientation: Why the different age preferences?
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 17, 582-584.
64. Trost, M.R., & Kenrick, D.T. (1994). Ego-involvement in the minority influence paradigm: The doubleedged sword of minority advocacy. In S. Moscovici, A. Mucchi-Faina, & A. Maass (Eds.) Minority
Influence. Chicago: Nelson-Hall. Pp. 149-162.
65. Kenrick, D.T., Keefe, R.C., Bryan, A., Barr, A., & Brown, S. (1995). Age preferences and mate choice
among homosexuals and heterosexuals: A case for modular psychological mechanisms. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 1166-1172.
66. Kenrick, D.T. (1995). Evolutionary theory versus the confederacy of dunces. Psychological Inquiry, 6, 5661.
67. Kenrick, D.T. & Brown, S. (1995). Al Capone, discrete morphs, and complex dynamic systems.
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 18, 560-561.
68. Kenrick, D.T., Trost, M.R., & Sheets, V.L. (1996). The feminist advantages of an evolutionary perspective.
Pp. 29-53 in D.M. Buss & N. Malamuth (Eds.) Sex, Power, Conflict: Feminist and Evolutionary
Perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press.
69. Kenrick, D.T. & Trost, M.R. (1996). The evolutionary psychology of relationships. In S. Duck (Ed.)
Handbook of Personal Relationships. Orlando, Fla: Academic Press.
70. Kenrick, D.T., Gabrielidis, C., Keefe, R.C., & Cornelius, J. (1996). Adolescents' age preferences for
dating partners: Support for an evolutionary model of life-history strategies. Child Development, 67, 14991511.
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71. Kenrick, D.T., & J.A. Simpson (1997). Why social psychology and evolutionary psychology need one
another. Pp. 1-20 in J. Simpson, & D.T. Kenrick, D.T. (eds). Evolutionary social psychology. Hillsdale,
NJ: Erlbaum.
72. Kenrick, D.T., Sadalla, E.K., Groth, G., & Trost, M.R. (1997). Where and when are women more selective
than men? Pp. 223-224 in L. Betzig (Ed.). Human Nature: A critical reader. New York: Oxford
University Press.
73. Simpson, J., & Kenrick, D.T. (1997). Evolutionary social psychology. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
74. Brown, S., & Kenrick, D.T. (1997). Paradoxical self-deception: Maybe not so paradoxical after all.
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 20, 109-110.
75. Kenrick, D.T. & Keefe, R.C. (1997). Age preferences in mates: An even closer look, without the distorting
lenses. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 20, 140-143.
76. Kenrick, D.T., Sadalla, E.K., & Keefe, R.C. (1998). Evolutionary cognitive psychology: The missing heart
of modern cognitive science. Pp. 485-514 in C. Crawford & D. L. Krebs (Eds.) Handbook of Evolutionary
Psychology. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
77. Buss, D.M., & Kenrick, D.T. (1998). Evolutionary social psychology. In D.T. Gilbert, S.T. Fiske, & G.
Lindzey (Eds.) Handbook of Social Psychology (4th edition). New York: Oxford University
Press/McGraw Hill. Volume II: Pp. 982-1026.
78. Kenrick, D.T., & Barr, A. (1998). Testosterone effects on behavior: Why so controversial? Behavioral &
Brain Sciences, 21, 379-380.
79. Kenrick, D.T., Neuberg, S.L., & Cialdini, R.B. (1999). Social psychology: Unravelling the mystery.
Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
80. Kenrick, D.T. (1999). Saturday night social constructivism. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 22, 227-228.
81. Gutierres, S.E., Kenrick, D.T., & Partch, J. (1999). Contrast effects in self assessment reflect gender
differences in mate selection criteria. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 1126-1134.
82. Kenrick, D.T. (1999). Of Hunter-Gatherers, Fundamental Social Motives, and Person-Situation
Interactions. Psychological Inquiry, 10, 226-229.
83. Kenrick, D.T. (2000). The war is over: We all won. Contemporary Psychology, 45, 112-114.
84. Kenrick, D.T., & Luce, C.L. (2000). An evolutionary life-history model of gender differences and
similarities. Pp. 35-64 in T. Eckes & H.M. Trautner (Eds.) The Developmental Social Psychology of
Gender. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
85. Kenrick, D.T. (2000). The role of sexual choice in shaping human intellectual creativity (Review of G.
Miller’s The mating mind). International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships Bulletin.
86. Kenrick, D.T., Li, N., & Butner, J. (2000). Dynamical systems and the mating game. Behavioral & Brain
Sciences, 23, 607-608.
87. Kenrick, D.T., & Li. N. (2000). The Darwin is in the details. American Psychologist, 55, 1060-1061.
88. Kenrick, D.T. (2001). Evolution, cognitive science, and dynamical systems: An emerging integrative
paradigm. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 10, 13-17.
89. Kenrick, D.T. (2001). Evolutionary social psychology. In N.J. Smelser & P.B. Baltes (Eds.) International
encyclopedia of the social and behavioral and sciences. Oxford, England: Pergamon.
90. Kenrick, D.T., Sundie, J. M., Nicastle, L.D., & Stone, G.O. (2001). Can One Ever Be Too Wealthy or Too
Chaste? Searching for Nonlinearities in Mate Judgment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80,
462-471.
91. Buunk, B.P., Dijstra, P., Kenrick, D.T., & Warntjes, A. (2001). Age Differences in Preferences for Mates
are related to gender, own age, and involvement level. Evolution and Human Behavior, 22, 241-250.
92. Kenrick, D.T., Neuberg, S.L., & Cialdini, R.B. (2002). Social psychology: Unraveling the mystery (2nd
edition). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
93. Li, N.P., Bailey, J. M., Kenrick, D.T., & Linsenmeier, J.A. (2002). The necessities and luxuries of mate
preferences: Testing the trade-offs. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82,947-955.
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94. Chen, F., & Kenrick, D.T. (2002). Repulsion or attraction: Group membership and assumed attitude
similarity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 111-125.
95. Barr, A., Bryan, A., & Kenrick, D.T. (2002). Socially shared cognitions about sexual peak: Perceived
desire, frequency, and satisfaction in men and women. Personal Relationships, 9, 287-300.
96. Kenrick, D. T., Maner, J.K., Butner, J., Li, N.P., Becker, D.V., & Schaller, M. (2002). Dynamic
Evolutionary Psychology: Mapping the domains of the new interactionist paradigm. Personality and Social
Psychology Review, 6, 347-356.
97. Kenrick, D. T. (2002). Darwin, Freud, and the Gene Wars (Review of C. Badcock’s “Evolutionary
Psychology: A Critical Perspective”). Contemporary Psychology, 47, 686-687.
98. Buunk, B.P., Dijkstra, P., Fetchenhauer, D., & Kenrick, D.T. (2002). Age and gender differences in mate
selection criteria for various involvement levels. Personal Relationships, 9, 271-278.
99. Kenrick, D.T., Li, N.P., & Butner, J. (2003). Dynamical evolutionary psychology: Individual decision-rules
and emergent social norms. Psychological Review, 110, 3-28.
100. Kenrick, D.T., Ledlow, S., & Ackerman, J. (2003). Mate selection. Pp. 1113-1118 in J. Ponzetti (Ed.)
International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family (2 nd ed., Vol. 3). New York: Macmillan Reference.
101. Kenrick, D.T., Ackerman, J., & Ledlow, S. (2003). Evolutionary social psychology: Adaptive
predispositions and human culture. Pp. 103-124 in J. DeLamater (Ed.) Handbook of Social Psychology.
New York: Kluwer-Plenum.
102. Kenrick, D.T., Becker, D.V., Butner, J., Li, N.P., & Maner, J.K. (2003). Evolutionary Cognitive Science:
Adding What and Why to How the Mind Works. Pp. 13-38 in K. Sterelney J. Fitness & (Eds). From Mating
to Mentality: Evaluating Evolutionary Psychology. New York: Psychology Press.
103. Kenrick, D.T., & Sundie, J.M. (2003). The Missing Ink: Why Our Ancestors Scribbled on Cave Walls.
Contemporary Psychology, 48, 493-495.
104. Maner, J. K., Kenrick, D. T., & Becker, D. V., Delton, A. W., Hofer, B., Wilbur, C. J., & Neuberg, S. L.
(2003). Sexually selective cognition: Beauty captures the mind of the beholder. Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 6, 1107-1120.
105. Kenrick, D.T., & Luce, C.L. (2004). The functional mind: Readings in evolutionary psychology. Boston:
Allyn & Bacon.
106. Kenrick, D.T., Trost, M.R., & Sundie, J.M. (2004). Sex-roles as adaptations: An evolutionary perspective
on gender differences and similarities. . Pp. 65-91 in A. H. Eagly, A. Beall, & R. Sternberg (Eds.),
Psychology of Gender. New York: Guilford.
107. Kenrick, D.T., & Trost, M.R. (2004). Evolutionary approaches to relationships. Pp. 65-91 in H. T. Reis &
Rusbult, C.E. Close relationships: Key readings. New York: Psychology Press.
108. Neuberg, S.L, Kenrick, D.T., Maner, J., & Schaller, M. (2004). From evolved motives to everyday
mentation: Evolution, goals, and cognition. In J. Forgas & K. Williams (Eds.), Social motivation:
Conscious and unconscious processes. (pp. 133-152). Cambridge University Press.
109. Kenrick, D.T., & Maner, J. (2004). One path to balance and order in social psychology: An evolutionary
perspective. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 27, 346-347.
110. Schaller, M., Faulkner, J., Park, J. H., Neuberg, S. L., & Kenrick, D. T. (2004). Impressions of danger
influence impressions of people: An evolutionary perspective on individual and collective cognition.
Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology, 2, 231-247.
111. Kenrick, D.T., Neuberg, S.L., & Cialdini, R.B. (2005). Social psychology: Unraveling the mystery (3rd
edition). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
112. Maner, J.K., Kenrick, D. T., Becker, D.V., Robertson, T.E., Hofer, B., Neuberg, S.L., Delton, A.W.,
Butner, J., & Schaller, M. (2005). Functional Projection: How Fundamental Social Motives Can Bias
Interpersonal Perception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 63-78.
113. Becker, D.V., Kenrick, D.T., Guerin, S., & Maner, J.K. (2005). Concentrating on beauty: Sexual selection
and sociospatial memory. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1643-1652.
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114. Kenrick, D.T., Maner, J., & Li, N.P. (2005). Evolutionary social psychology. Pp. 803-827 in D.M. Buss
(Ed.), Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. New York: Wiley.
115. Kenrick, D.T., & Sundie, J.M. (2005). How do cultural variations emerge from universal mechanisms?
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 28, 827-828.
116. Schaller, M., Simpson, J., & Kenrick, D.T. (eds.) (2006) Evolution and social psychology. New York:
Psychology Press.
117. Kenrick, D.T., & Sundie, J.M. (2006). Dynamical evolutionary psychology: How social norms emerge from
evolved decision-rules. Pp. 285-292 in P.A.M. VanLange (Ed.), Bridging Social Psychology: Benefits of
transdisciplinary approaches. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
118. Sundie, J.M., Cialdini, R.B., Griskevicius, V., & Kenrick, D.T. (2006). Evolutionary social influence. Pp.
287-316 in M. Schaller, J. Simpson, & D.T. Kenrick (eds.) Evolution and social psychology. New York:
Psychology Press.
119. Kenrick, D.T., Schaller, M., & Simpson, J. (2006). Evolution is the new cognition. Pp. 1-16 in M. Schaller,
J. Simpson, & D.T. Kenrick (eds.) Evolution and social psychology. New York: Psychology Press.
120. Li, N.P., & Kenrick, D.T. (2006). Sex similarities and differences in preferences for short-term mates:
What, whether, and why. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 468-489.
121. Roese, N., Pennington, G.L., Coleman, J., Janicki, M., Li, N.P., & Kenrick, D.T. (2006). Sex differences in
regret: All for love or some for lust? Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 770-780.
122. Griskevicius, V., Cialdini, R.B., & Kenrick, D.T. (2006). Peacocks, Picasso, and parental investment: The
effects of romantic motives on creativity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 63-76.
123. Sundie, J.M., & Kenrick, D.T. (2006). Modular economics: Different bonds = different investments.
Psychological Inquiry, 17, 56-59.
124. Griskevicius, V., Goldstein, N., Mortensen, C., Cialdini, R.B., & Kenrick, D.T. (2006). Going along versus
going alone: When fundamental motives facilitate strategic (non)conformity. Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 91, 281-294.
125. Kenrick, D.T. (2006). This view after life: On DiMaggio, Darwin, & Dennett. Human Behavior &
Evolution Society Newsletter, Summer 2006, 8-10.
126. Kenrick, D.T. (2006). Evolutionary psychology: Resistance is futile. Psychological Inquiry, 17, 102-108.
127. Kenrick, D.T. (2006). A dynamical evolutionary view of love. Pp. 15-34 in R. J. Sternberg & K. Weis,
(Eds.) The New Psychology of Love. New Haven: Yale University Press.
128. Delton, A., Robertson, T., & Kenrick, D.T. (2006). The Mating Game Isn’t Over: A Reply to Buller’s
Critique of the Evolutionary Psychology of Mating. Evolutionary Psychology, 4, 224-234.
129. Ackerman, J., Shapiro, J.R., Neuberg, S.L., Kenrick, D.T., Becker, D.V., Griskevicius, V., Maner, J.K., &
Schaller, M., (2006). They all look the same to me (unless they’re angry): From out-group homogeneity to
out-group heterogeneity. Psychological Science, 17, 836-840.
130. Cohen, A.B., Kenrick, D.T., & Li, X.J. (2006). Ecological Variability and Religious Beliefs. Behavioral &
Brain Sciences, 29, 498.
131. Becker, D.V., Kenrick, D.T., Neuberg, S.L., Blackwell, K.C., & Smith, D.M. (2007). The confounded
nature of angry men and happy women. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 179-190.
132. Schaller, M., Park, J.H., & Kenrick, D.T. (2007). Human evolution and social cognition. Pp. 491-504 in
R.I.M. Dunbar & L. Barrett (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. Oxford, England:
Oxford University Press.
133. Kenrick, D.T., Neuberg, S.L., & Cialdini, R.B. (2007). Social Psychology: Goals in Interaction (4th ed.)
Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
134. Kenrick, D.T., & Sundie, J.M. (2007). Dynamical evolutionary psychology and mathematical modeling:
Quantifying the implications of qualitative biases. Pp. 137-144 in S.W. Gangestad & J. A. Simpson (Eds.)
The evolution of mind: Fundamental questions and controversies. New York: Guilford Press.
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135. Kenrick, D.T., Delton, A.W., Robertson, T., Becker, D.V. & Neuberg, S.L. (2007). How the mind warps: A
social evolutionary perspective on cognitive processing disjunctions. Pp. 49-68 in J. P. Forgas, M. G.
Haselton & W. Von Hippel (Eds.). Evolution and the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Social
Cognition. New York: Psychology Press.
136. Kenrick, D.T. (2007). Mismannered: evolutionary psychology, Evolutionary Psychology, and
EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY; Capitalizing on Misconceptions. Human Behavior & Evolution
Newsletter. Spring, 2007, 7-9.
137. Griskevicius, V., Tybur, J.M., Sundie, J.M., Cialdini, R.B., Miller, G.F., & Kenrick, D.T. (2007). Blatant
benevolence and conspicuous consumption: When romantic motives elicit strategic costly signals. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 85-102.
138. Duncan, L.A., Park, J.H., Faulkner, J., Schaller, M., Neuberg, S.L., & Kenrick, D.T. (2007). Adaptive
allocation of attention: Effects of sex and sociosexuality on visual attention to attractive opposite-sex faces.
Evolution & Human Behavior, 28, 359-364.
139. Ackerman, J., Kenrick, D.T. & Schaller, M. (2007). Is friendship akin to kinship? Evolution & Human
Behavior, 28, 365-374.
140. Kenrick, D.T. (2007). Evolutionary psychology. Pp. 316-319 in R. Baumeister & K.D. Vohs (Eds.)
Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
141. Kenrick, D.T. (2007). Attraction. Pp. 70-72 in R. Baumeister & K.D. Vohs (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Social
Psychology. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
142. Kenrick, D.T. (2007). How the Dawkins Stole Christmas. Human Behavior & Evolution Newsletter. Fall,
2007, 11-12.
143. Cialdini, R.B., Griskevicius, V., Sundie, J.M., & Kenrick, D.T. (2007). Persuasion paralysis: When
unrelated motives immobilize influence. Social Influence, 2, 1-17.
144. Kenrick, D.T., Sundie, J. M. & Kurzban, R. (2008). Cooperation and conflict between kith, kin, and
strangers: Game theory by domains. Pp. 353-370 in C. Crawford & D. Krebs (Eds.), Foundations of
Evolutionary Psychology. NY: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
145. Kenrick, D.T., & Shiota, M.N. (2008). Approach and Avoidance Motivation(s): An Evolutionary
Perspective. Pp. 273-288 in A. J. Elliot (Ed.), Handbook of Approach and Avoidance Motivation. New
York: Psychology Press.
146. Ackerman, J.M., & Kenrick, D.T. (2008). The costs of benefits: Help-refusals highlight key trade-offs of
social life. Personality & Social Psychology Review, 12, 118-140.
147. Weeden, J., Cohen, A.B., & Kenrick, D.T. (2008). Religious attendance as reproductive support. Evolution
& Human Behavior, 29, 327-334.
148. Ackerman, J., & Kenrick, D.T. (2009). Selfishness and sex or cooperation and family values? Behavioral &
Brain Sciences, 32, 21.
149. Kenrick, D.T., & Li, Y.J. (2009). Evolutionary psychology and human relationships. In H. Reis & S.
Sprecher (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
150. Ackerman, J. M., Becker, D.V., Mortensen, C.R., Sasaki, T., Neuberg, S.L., & Kenrick, D.T. (2009). A pox
on the mind: Disjunction of attention and memory in the processing of physical disfigurement. Journal of
Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 478-485.
151. Griskevicius, V., Tybur, J.M., Gangestad, S.W., Perea, E.F., Shapiro, J.R., & Kenrick, D.T. (2009).
Aggress to impress: Hostility as an evolved context-dependent strategy. Journal of Personality & Social
Psychology. 96, 980-994.
152. Griskevicius, V., Goldstein, N.J., Mortensen, C.R., Sundie, J.M., & Cialdini, R.B., Kenrick, D.T. (2009).
Fear and loving in Las Vegas: Evolution, emotion, and persuasion. Journal of Marketing Research, 46,
384-395.
153. Ackerman, J., & Kenrick, D.T. (2009). Cooperative courtship: Helping friends raise and raze relationship
barriers: How men and women cooperate in courtship. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 12851300.
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154. Kenrick, D.T., & Griskevicius, V. (2009). More holes in social roles. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 32,
283-285.
155. Kenrick, D.T., Griskevicius, V., Sundie, J.M., Li, N.P., Li, Y.J. & Neuberg, S.L. (2009). Deep rationality:
The evolutionary economics of decision-making. Social cognition, 27, 764-785. (special issue on the
rationality debate).
156. Shapiro, J.R., Ackerman, J.M., Neuberg, S.L., Maner, J.K., Becker, D.V., & Kenrick, D.T. (2009).
Following in the wake of anger: When not discriminating is discriminating. Personality & Social
Psychology Bulletin, 35, 1356-1367.
157. Kenrick, D.T., Nieuweboer, S., & Buunk, A.P. (2010). Universal mechanisms and cultural diversity:
Replacing the blank slate with a coloring book. Pp. 257-271 in M. Schaller, A. Norenzayan, S. Heine, T.
Yamagishi, & T. Kameda (eds.) Evolution, culture, and the human mind. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates.
158. Kenrick, D.T., Neuberg, S.L., & Cialdini, R.B. (2010). Social psychology: Goals in interaction. 5th edition.
Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
159. Neuberg, S.L, Kenrick, D.T. & Schaller, M. (in press). Evolutionary social psychology. In S.T. Fiske, D.T.
Gilbert, & G. Lindzey (Eds.) Handbook of Social Psychology (5th edition). New York: John Wiley &
Sons.
160. Shiota, M.L., & Kenrick, D.T. (in press). Rhythm, lyrics, and dangerous things. European Journal of Social
Psychology.
161. Kenrick, D.T. (in press). Evolutionary social psychology: From animal instincts to human societies. Chapter
for A. Kruglanski, P.A.M. VanLange, & T. Higgins Handbook of Theory in Social Psychology. Newbury
Park, CA: Sage.
162. Kenrick, D.T., Griskevicius, V., Neuberg, S.L., & Schaller, M. (in press). Renovating the pyramid of needs:
Contemporary extensions built upon ancient foundations. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
163. Maner, J., & Kenrick, D.T. (in press). Evolutionary social psychology. In R. Baumeister & E. Finkel
(Eds.). Advanced social psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.
164. Kenrick, D.T., & Li, Y.J. (in press). Evolutionary social psychology. In V.S. Ramachandran (ed.)
Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (2nd edition). New York: Elsevier.
165. Kenrick, D.T., Neuberg, S.L., Griskevicius, V., Becker, D.V., Schaller, M. (in press). Goal-Driven
Cognition and Functional Behavior: The Fundamental Motives Framework. Current Directions in
Psychological Science.
166. Mortensen, C.R., Becker, D.V., Ackerman, J.M., Neuberg, S.L., & Kenrick, D.T. (in press). Infection
Breeds Reticence: The effects of disease salience on self-perceptions of personality and behavioral
avoidance tendencies. Psychological Science.
167. Li, Y. J., Cohen, A.B., Weeden, J., & Kenrick, D.T. (in press). Mating Competitors Increase Religious
Beliefs. Journal of Experimental Psychology. In press.
168. Schaller, M., Neuberg, S.L., Griskevicius, V., & Kenrick, D.T. (2010). Pyramid power. Perspectives on
Psychological Science.
169. Becker, D.V., Anderson, U.S., Neuberg, S.L., Maner, J.K., Shapiro, J.R., Ackerman, J.M., Schaller, M., &
Kenrick, D.T. (in press). More memory bang for the attentional buck: Self-protection goals enhance
encoding efficiency for potentially threatening males. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
.
Published Abstracts/Microfilms:
Kenrick, D.T., & Gutierres, S. (1978). Influence on mass media on judgments of physical attractiveness.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 4, 358 (Abstract). ERIC Reports #ED 166 602 (Microfilm).
Paper presented at the 1978 American Psychological Association convention.
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Kenrick, D.T., & Johnson, G.A. (1978). Interpersonal attraction under negative conditions. Personality and Social
Psychology Bulletin, 4, 357-358 (Abstract). ERIC Reports #ED 166 595 (Microfilm). Paper presented at
the 1978 American Psychological Association convention.
Kenrick, D.T., & Fosse, G. (1979). Turning observers into advocates: Influence of empathy on attitude change.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 5, 266 (Abstract). Paper presented at the 1979 American
Psychological Association convention, New York.
Kenrick, D.T., Stringfield, D.O., Wagenhals, W.L., Dahl, R.H., & Ransdell,H.J. (1979). Sex differences in approach
responses to erotica: Kinsey revisited? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 5, 266 (Abstract).
Paper presented at the 1979 American Psychological Association convention, New York.
Sadalla, E.K., Kenrick, D.T., & Vershure, B. (1979). Dominance and sexual attractiveness: Sociocultural and
sociobiological models. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 5, 273 (Abstract). Paper presented at
the 1979 American Psychological Association convention, New York.
External Grants:
Kenrick, D.T., Braver, S.L., Baumann, D.T., & Parades, R. (1981). Development of Form for Assessment of Client
Treatment Services. CODAMA. $8,000.
Kenrick, D.T., Fenaughty, A., Nagoshi, C. (1992/3). Arousal, alcohol, and risky sexual decisions. Alcoholic
Beverage Medical Research Association. $48,000.
Kenrick, D.T., Schaller, M., & Neuberg, S.L. (2002/2005). Fundamental goals and social perception. National
Institute of Mental Health. $725,000 total costs.
Kenrick, D.T. & Neuberg, S.L. (2005/2008). Goal-Driven Perception and Cognition in Complex Social
Environments. Army Research Institute for Behavioral and Social Sciences: Basic Research Office.
$549,000 total costs.
Kenrick, D.T. & Neuberg, S.L. (2006-2010). Fundamental goals and social perception. National Institute of Mental
Health. $1,134,000 total costs.
Becker, V., Kenrick, D.T., & Neuberg, S.L. (2007-2010). Toward a Functionalist Psychophysics of Social
Perception. National Science Foundation. $617,000 total costs.
Kenrick, D.T., Griskevicius. V., & Neuberg, S.L. (2009-2012). Fundamental Goals and Decision-Making. National
Science Foundation. Approved (exact amount of funding pending).
Symposia and Invited Addresses:
Chaired and organized symposium titled "Implications of Sociobiology for Social Psychology". American
Psychological Association, Montreal, 1980.
Kenrick, D. T. (Spring, 1988). Sociobiology as a bridge between personality and social psychology. In Emerging
issues in personality psychology. Ann Arbor, Mich. (Invited and funded by University of Michigan)
Kenrick, D. T. (Spring, 1988). Bridging sociobiology and social psychology: The case of sexual attraction. In
Texas Tech 7th Annual Conference on Interfaces in Psychology. Lubbock, TX (Invited and funded by
sponsor).
Kenrick, D.T. (Spring, 1989). Gender, age, and mate preferences: Support for an evolutionary model. In second
Nags Head Invitational Conference on Personality and Social Behavior. Nags Head, North Carolina
(Invited).
Kenrick, D. T. (Spring, 1988). Mate selection and personality traits: An evolutionary view. In First Nags Head
Invitational Conference on Personality. Nags Head, North Carolina (Invited).
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Chaired and organized symposium titled: Evolutionary approaches to the study of relationships. In Society for
Experimental Social Psychology pre-conference on Interpersonal relationships (Madison, Wisconsin,
October, 1988).
Kenrick , D.T. & Trost, M.R. (1991). "Trophy wives" or trophy husbands: An evolutionary perspective on some
popular misunderstandings. American Psychological Association, San Francisco (invited address).
Kenrick, D.T. (1992). Sex and power in organizations: An evolutionary perspective. Invited address (Saul Sells
Memorial address, invited). Southwestern Psychological Association. Austin, TX, April.
Kenrick, D.T. (1992). Integrating Biological and Social Approaches to Personality: The Evolutionary Perspective.
Advanced Workshop on Biological and Social Approaches to Personality (key speaker, invited). Tilburg,
Netherlands, August.
Kenrick, D.T., Trost, M.R., & Keefe, R.C. (1992). Integrating evolutionary and social exchange perspectives on
relationships. European Association of Experimental Social Psychology/ Society of Experimental Social
Psychology (Joint International Meeting). Leuven, Belgium. (invited address).
Kenrick, D.T. (1993). Teaching Evolutionary Psychology Fifteenth Annual National Institute on the Teaching of
Psychology, St. Petersburg, Florida (invited address).
Kenrick, D.T. (1994). From genes to brains to love affairs: Searching for the evolutionary underpinnings of human
relationships. Society for Experimental Social Psychology pre-conference on Interpersonal relationships
(invited address).
Chaired and organized symposium on Evolutionary social psychology. Human Behavior and Evolution Society
(Ann Arbor, Michigan, June, 1994).
Kenrick, D.T. (1995). Evolutionary cognitive psychology. American Psychological Society, invited address to preconference on Teaching of Psychology. New York, June.
Chaired Robert Hogan’s invited address at American Psychological Association.
Kenrick, D.T. (1995). From sexual selection to social cognition. Kurt Lewin conference (Assen, Netherlands,
April). (invited address).
Kenrick, D.T. (1995). Cognition and evolution. Heymann’s Institute Inaugural Address. (University of Groningen,
June). (Invited address)
Kenrick, D.T. (1998). Evolution, cognitive science, and dynamical systems: The coming interactionist paradigm.
Invited address. American Psychological Association, San Francisco, August.
Kenrick, D.T. (2000). Can one ever be too wealthy or too chaste? Nonlinearities and the search for psychological
mechanisms. Human Behavior & Evolution Society. Amherst, June. (Invited address)
Kenrick, D.T. (2002). Sex, evolution, and the emergence of culture: Standing in the gutter looking up at the stars.
Western Psychological Association. Los Angeles, April. (invited address)
Kenrick, D.T. (2003). Dynamical evolutionary psychology and the emergence of culture: The mind as a coloring
book. Keynote address for 6th annual Social Psychology conference in Malaga Spain (invited address).
Kenrick, D.T. (2004). Universal mechanisms and cultural diversity: The mind as a coloring book. Culture and
Evolution. Mind, Culture and Evolution Conference: First UBC Summer Symposium. Vancouver, British
Columbia.
Kenrick, D.T. (2006). Motivation, Cognition, & Social Domains: New Theory & Research In Evolutionary Social
Psychology. Society for Personality & Social Psychology. Palm Springs, CA. (chaired symposium).
Kenrick, D.T. (2008). Evolutionary Social Cognition: How the Mind Warps. Keynote address for Society of
Interpersonal Theory and Research. Tempe, Arizona (an international group, but they met here).
Convention Presentations (not listed above):
Kenrick, D.T., Baumann, D., & Cialdini, R.B. (1978). The socialization of altruism as a self-reinforcer. American
Psychological Association, Toronto.
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Gutierres, S.E., & Kenrick, D.T. (1979). Effects of mass media on assessments of self and others. Western
Psychological Association, San Diego.
Sadalla, E.K., & Kenrick, D.T. (1980). Dominance and sexual attractiveness: Testing a sociobiological hypothesis.
American Psychological Association, Montreal.
Kenrick, D.T., Gutierres, S.E., & Goldberg, L. (1982). Adverse influence of popular erotica. American
Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.
Kenrick, D.T. (1982). Interactions, idiographics, and the social psychological invasion of personality. Society for
ExperimentalSocial Psychology. Bloomington, Indiana. (Invited)
Kenrick, D.T., & Gutierres, S.E. (1985). Influence of erotica on interpersonal attraction: Do centerfolds' warp our
judgments. Society for the Scientific Study of Sex. San Diego, CA. (Invited)
McCreath, H., Braver, S.L., & Kenrick, D.T. (1986). Examining perceiver versus perceived with round-robin
analysis. Western Psychological Association.
Kenrick, D.T. (1986, August). Social learning, social cognition, and sociobiology: Toward a modern biosocial
synthesis. American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C. (Invited)
Kenrick, D.T., & Trost, M.R. (1988, October). Sexual attraction: Darwinian social psychology. Society for
experimental Social Psychology Relationships Preconference (Madison, Wisconsin).
Kallgren, C.A., & Kenrick, D.T. (1989). Ethical judgments and nonhuman research subjects: The effects of
phylogenetic closeness and affective valence. Eastern Psychological Association, Boston.
Kenrick, D.T. (1989). Aging and mate preference. Second invitational conference on personality and social
behavior (Nags Head, North Carolina, invited).
Kenrick, D.T. (1989). Gender, age, and attractiveness. Society for Experimental Social Psychology. Santa Monica,
CA.
Kenrick, D.T. (1990). Applying an evolutionary model to heterosexual relationships. Invitational conference on
relationships. (Nags Head, North Carolina, invitedf).
Kenrick, D.T. (1990). Social psychology as history vs. social psychology as natural history. Society for
Experimental Social Psychology (Preconference on Relationships; invited). Buffalo, NY.
Kenrick, D.T. & Sheets, V. (1993). Homicidal fantasies. American Association of Criminology. Phoenix, Arizona.
Kenrick, D.T. (1994). Evolution and social cognition. Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Mating II
symposium (Ann Arbor, Michigan).
Kenrick, D.T. (1994). Alcohol, sexual arousal, and personality. Nags Head Personality Conference, Boca Raton,
Florida.
Kenrick, D.T., Nieuweboer, S., & Buunk, B. (1995). Gender differences in age preferences in mates across
centuries and across cultures. Joint meeting of SESP/EAESP, Washington, D.C. October. (Poster).
Kenrick, D.T., & Brown, S.(1996; June). Dominance and Sexual Selection. Human Behavior & Evolution Society.
Kenrick, D.T., Barr, A., & Brown, S. (1996: June). Homosexual mate preferences as a window into evolved
cognitive mechanisms in heterosexuals. Human Behavior & Evolution Society.
Kenrick, D.T. (1996: July). Evolutionary psychology and interpersonal relationships. International Society for
Study of Personal Relationships.
Buunk, B., Kenrick, D.T., & Lockwood, C.* (1996; July). Media and culture over the centuries: The interplay of
culture and evolved psychological mechanisms. International Society for Study of Personal Relationships.
Kenrick, D.T., Keefe, R.C., Bryan, A., Barr, A., & Brown, S. (1996; July). Evolved Modular Mechanisms and Mate
Selection by Homosexuals and Heterosexuals. International Society for Study of Personal Relationships.
Kenrick, D.T., Maner, J.K., & Schaller, M. (2002). Dynamical evolutionary psychology: Mapping the domains of
the emerging interactionist paradigm. Society of Experimental Social Psychology. Columbus, Ohio.
Ackerman, Joshua M., Ledlow, Susan, Kenrick, Douglas T. (2004). Friends are to Breakfast as Strangers are to
Dinner: Implicit Associations in Three Social Relationships. Society for Personality & Social Psychology.
Austin, Texas.
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Ackerman, J.M., & Kenrick, D.T. (2005, June). Cooperative courtship: Facilitating flirtation with friends. Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Austin, TX.
Becker, D.V., Kenrick, D.T., Neuberg, S.L., Blackwell, K.C., & Smith, D.M. (2005). The confounded nature of
angry men and happy women. American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, CA.
Ackerman, J.M., Shapiro, J.R., Becker, D.V., Hofer, B., Neuberg, S.L., & Kenrick, D.T. (2005, January). Safety or
romance? The asymmetry of fundamental motivations on memory for faces. Poster presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Robertson, T., Maner, J., & Kenrick, D.T. (2005, January). Self-protection and functional projection: How
motivation and threat association influence emotional perception. Poster presented at Society for
Personality & Social Psychology – Evolutionary Social Psychology Preconference, New Orleans.
Robertson, T., Maner, J., & Kenrick, D.T. (2005). Activation of self-protection motivation selectively increases
perceptions of anger in outgroup targets. American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, CA.
Robertson, T., Maner, J., & Kenrick, D.T. (2005, June). Self-protective motivation selectively increases perceptions
of anger in outgroup members. Human Behavior & Evolution Society, Austin, TX.
Li, N., & Kenrick, D.T. (2006, January). Mating goals and humor: Why you had to be there. Paper presented annual
conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Palm Springs, CA..
Griskevicius, V., Goldstein, N., Mortensen, C., Cialdini, R., & Kenrick, D.T. (2006). Motivated Conformity:
Strategically going along and against the group. Society for Personality & Social Psychology, Palm
Springs.
Ackerman, J.M., Shapiro, J.R., Neuberg, S.L., Kenrick, D.T., Becker, D.V., & Griskevicius, V. (2006, January).
They all look the same to me unless they’re angry. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society
for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.
Shapiro, J. R., Ackerman, J. M., Neuberg, S. L., & Kenrick, D. T. (2006, January). We all look harmless and they all
look threatening: Contrast and assimilation effects for in-group and out-group threat perceptions. Poster
presented at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Palm Springs,
CA.
Duncan, L.A., Park, J.H., Faulkner, J., Schaller, M., Neuberg, S.L., & Kenrick, D.T. (2006, January). Sociosexual
Orientation and Visual Attention to Attractive Men and Women. Society for Personality & Social
Psychology, Palm Springs.
Griskevicius, V., Cialdini, R.B., & Kenrick, D.T. (2006, June). Peacocks, Picasso, and Parental Investment: The
effects of romantic motives on creativity. Human Behavior & Evolution Society, Philadelphia.
Ackerman, J. M.; Shapiro, J. R.; Kenrick, D. T.; Griskevicius, V., Maner J. K.; Schaller, M. (2006, June). They All
Look the Same to Me (Unless They're Angry): From Out-Group Homogeneity to Out-Group Heterogeneity.
Human Behavior & Evolution Society, Philadelphia.
Perea, E. F.; Anderson, U. S.; Kenrick, D. T.; Neuberg, S. L. (2006, June). Women's Attention-Memory Disjunction
for Attractive Male Faces. Human Behavior & Evolution Society, Philadelphia.
Sundie, J. M. & Kenrick, D.T. (2006, February), Peacocks, Porsches and Thorstein Veblen: Conspicuous
Consumption as a Mating Strategy, Society for Consumer Psychology, Miami, FL.
Becker, D. V., Neuberg, S. L., & Kenrick, D. T. (2006, May). Disjunction-Junction, What's your Function? Picking
up information relevant to fundamental motivations. Poster at Association for Psychological Science, New
York, NY.
Kenrick, D.T. (2007, October). A dynamical evolutionary perspective on groups. Society for Experimental Social
Psychology, Groups Preconference. Chicago, Illinois.
Griskevicius, V., Tybur, J., Gangestad, S., Perea, E., Shapiro, J., & Kenrick, D.T. (2009, February) Aggress to
impress: Status seeking primes and hostility. Society for Personality & Social Psychology, Tampa, Fla.
Kenrick, D.T., Ackerman, J., & Becker, D.V. (2009, February). Do cognitive biases favor men or women? Society
for Personality & Social Psychology, Tampa, Fla.
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Li, Y.J., Cohen, A.B., & Kenrick, D.T. (2009, February). Religiosity as a context dependent mating strategy:
Sexual competitors increase belief in God. Society for Personality & Social Psychology, Tampa, Fla.
(Poster).
Mortensen, C.R., Becker, D.V., Ackerman, J.M., Kenrick, D.T., & Kenrick, D.T. (2009, February). Concerns
regarding disease promote functionally adaptive biases in judgments and behaviors. Society for
Personality & Social Psychology, Tampa, Fla. (Poster).
Kenrick, D.T., Li, Y.J., & Sundie, J.M. (2009, June). Deep rationality and behavioral economics. Human Behavior
& Evolution Society, Fullerton, CA.
Li, Y.J., Cohen, A.B., & Kenrick, D.T. (2009, June). Religiosity as a Context Dependent Mating Strategy: Sexual
Competitors Increase Belief in God. Human Behavior & Evolution Society, Fullerton, CA.
Neel, R., Becker, D. V., Neuberg, S.L, & Kenrick, D.T. (2009, June). Illusory conjunctions of angry facial
expressions follow intergroup biases. Human Behavior & Evolution Society, Fullerton, CA. (poster).
Note several additional unlisted conference talks over last few years, including: Human Behavior & Evolution
Society 1997, 1999, Society for Experimental Social Psychology 1997 and 1998. Successful Relationships
Conference, 1997; American Psychological Association, 1998. In addition, probably 10 or 15 others on
which I was second author, and graduate students first author on data presentations at various conferences.
Invited Colloquia:
April, 1985 "The person/situation debate: What have we learned?" Univ. of Delaware.
April, 1987 "Sociobiology and sexual attraction", Univ. of Arkansas.
June, 1987 "Attrazione sessuale: Una teora sociobiologico", Univ. of Padua, Italy.
October, 1987 "Sociobiology and sexual attraction", Univ. of Oklahoma.
January, 1988 "Sexual attraction: Integrating social psychology and sociobiology", Department of Zoology, Arizona
State University.
January, 1990 "Evolutionary social psychology and heterosexual attraction." University of Pennsylvania.
May, 1990 "Age, gender, and sexual attractiveness: Social psychology in evolutionary perspective" University of
Georgia.
February, 1991. "Sexual selection: Darwinian social psychology" New Mexico State University.
March, 1992. "An evolutionary perspective on human sexual attraction." Pennsylvania State University-Behrends
College.
November, 1992. "Sex and Power in Organizations: An evolutionary perspective." University of Michigan.
November, 1993. "Sexual harassment, trophy wives, and evolved gender differences" Family Studies Dept.:
University of Arizona.
March, 1994. "Gender differences in sex and aggression: MTV or DNA?" Montana State University.
April, 1994. "Evolutionary social cognition." University of Michigan: Center for the Study of Evolution and
Human Behavior.
April, 1994. "Sex, aggression, and gender differences in relationships: MTV or DNA?" University of Michigan:
Dept. of Communication.
May, 1995. Sex and Power in Organizations: An evolutionary perspective. University of Tilburg.
June, 1995. Gender differences in sex and aggression: MTV or DNA? University of Amsterdam.
September, 1995. Evolutionary social cognition. University of Michigan (series on evolution and cognition).
February, 1996. Evolutionary social psychology: From sexual selection to social cognition. Albion College.
October, 1997. Evolutionary social psychology. University of British Columbia.
February, 1999. Sex, evolution, and dynamical systems: Lying in the gutter gazing at the stars. University of
California, Riverside.
June, 2000 - Sex, evolution, and dynamical systems. University of Connecticut.
August, 2000 – Sex, evolution, and dynamical systems. Simon Fraser University.
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November, 2001 – Dynamical evolutionary psychology. University of British Columbia.
November, 2001 - Trophy wives, MTV, and evolved life history strategies. Simon Fraser University, Dept. of
Biology.
November, 2001 - Sex, evolution, and dynamical systems: Lying in the gutter gazing at the stars. Western
Washington University.
June, 2002 - From universal mechanisms to cultural diversity: What trophy wives tell us about the emergence of
human society. University of California, Los Angeles, Dept. of Anthropology.
June, 2002 - MTV or DNA? Evolved mechanisms and the mass media. University of California, Los Angeles, Dept.
of Communication.
March, 2003 – How the mind warps: Evolution and social cognition. University of British Columbia.
November, 2007 – How the mind warps: Evolutionary social cognition. University of Arizona.
March, 2008 - How the mind warps: Evolutionary social cognition. University of Western Ontario.
March, 2008 - How the mind warps: Evolutionary social cognition. University of Michigan.
The above list is also incomplete, I’ve also given other talks to anthropology and psychology at University of New
Mexico and University of Arizona, for example, to management at ASU, and several others.
REVISED: January, 2009.