BENJAMIN M. WINEGARD
916 Logan Street,
Helena, MT 59601
Place of Birth:
Date of Birth:
Current Work Address:
Web:
Email: bwinegard@carroll.edu
Telephone: (256) 415 1043
Greenville, Michigan
January 7, 1980
Psychology Department
Carroll College
1601 N. Benton Ave.
Helena, MT 59625
305 Simperman Hall
406-447-4414
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EDUCATION:
 Ph.D. Developmental Psychology
University of Missouri
 M.A. Developmental Psychology
University of Missouri
 B.S. Sociology
Grand Valley State University
July, 2015
December, 2012
2009
Summa cum laude
POSITIONS:
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Carroll College
TEACHING:
COURSES TAUGHT:
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Research Methods; Developmental Psychology; General Psychology; Adolescent
Psychology; Health Psychology
GUEST LECTURES:
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Human Sex Differences; Social Stratification and Inequality; Introduction to Social
Psychology; Behavioral Ecology.
EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:
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Evolutionary Psychology
Intergroup Psychology
Sports Fandom
Popularity and adolescence
Precarious Manhood/Masculinities
Sex & Gender Differences
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Mate Flaunting
Costly Signaling
PUBLICATIONS:
In preparation or submitted
2015 and in press:
Winegard, B., & Ferguson, C.J. (in press). The development of rampage school shooters.
Winegard, B., & Winegard, B., & Geary, D.C. (2015). Too paranoid to see progress: Social
psychology is probably liberal, but it doesn’t believe in progress. Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
38, e162.
Geary, D.C., Winegard, B., & Winegard, B. (in press). Evolutionary influences on men’s lives.
Chapter to appear in APA Handbook on Masculinities.
Li, Y., Bailey, D., Winegard, B., Geary, D.C., Puts, D., Welling, L. (2015). Women's preference
for masculine traits is disrupted by images of male-on-female aggression. Plos One, 9, e110497.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110497.
2014:
Winegard, B., Winegard, B., & Deaner, R.O. (2014). Misrepresentations of evolutionary
psychology in sex and gender textbooks. Evolutionary Psychology, 12, 474-508.
Winegard, B., Winegard B., & Geary, D.C. (2014). Eastwood’s brawn and Einstein’s brain: An
Evolutionary Account of dominance, prestige, and precarious Manhood. Review of General
Psychology, 18, 34-48. (Note: Co-first author)
Winegard, B., Arline, T., Baumeister, R.F., Winegard, B., & Maner, J.K. (2014). Grief
functions as an honest indicator of commitment. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 18,
168-186
Geary, D. C., Winegard, B., & Winegard, B. (2014). Reflections on the evolution of human sex
differences: Social selection and the evolution of competition among women. In V. A. WeekesShackelford & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Evolutionary perspectives on human sexual psychology
and behavior. (393-412). New York: Springer.
Winegard, B., & Winegard, B. (2014). Darwin’s duel with Descartes. A review of Nicholas
Wade, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History. Penguin: New York,
2014, pp. 288, US$20.68, ISBN # 1594204462 (Hardcover). Evolutionary Psychology, 12, 509520.
2013:
Winegard, B., Winegard, B., & Geary, D.C. (2013). If you’ve got it, flaunt it: Humans flaunt
attractive opposite-sex partners for status and desirability. Plos One, 8, e72000
Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0072000.
Deaner, R.O., & Winegard, B. (2013). Throwing out the mismatch baby with the paleobathwater: A review of Marlene Zuk, Paleofantasy: What evolution really tells us about sex,
diet, and how we live. Evolutionary Psychology, 11, 263-269.
2012:
Winegard, B., & Geary, D. C. (2012). Oh! What a Tangled Web We Weave [Review of Robert
Trivers, The folly of fools: The logic of deceit and self-deception in human life]. Teachers
College Record. Date Published: June 21, 2012, http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 16802
Winegard, B., & Winegard, B. (2012). Round up the usual suspects: A review of Charles
Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. Crown Forum: New York,
2010, 407 pp., US$17.18, ISBN # 0307453421 (hardcover). Evolutionary Psychology, 10, 198209.
Geary, D.C., Bailey, D.H., & Winegard, B. (2012). Strategic cooperation and the rise of the
modern world [Review of the book The better angels of our nature, 2011, by Steven Pinker]
PsycCRITIQUES, 54(2).
Ferguson, C.J., Munoz, M.E., Winegard, B., & Winegard, B. (2012). The influence of
heritability, neuroticism, maternal warmth, and media use on disordered eating behaviors: A
prospective analysis of twins. Psychiatric Quarterly, 83, 353-360.
Bailey, D. H., Winegard, B., Oxford, J., & Geary, D. C. (2012). Sex differences in ingroup cooperation vary dynamically with competitive conditions and outcomes. Evolutionary
Psychology, 10, 102-119.
2011:
Ferguson, C.J., Winegard, B., & Winegard, B. (2011). Who is fairest one of all? How evolution
guides peer and media influences on female body dissatisfaction. Review of General Psychology,
15, 11-28.
2010:
Winegard, B., Bailey, D.H., Oxford, J., & Geary, D.C. (2010). Trade-offs and individual
differences in evolved traits. American Psychologist, 65, 929-930.
Winegard, B., & Deaner, R.O. (2010). The evolutionary significance of Red Sox Nation: Sport
fandom as a by-product of coalitionary psychology. Evolutionary Psychology, 8, 432-446.
Bailey, D.H., Winegard, B., & Geary, D.C. (2010). Not father’s fatherhood book: A Review of
Peter B. Gray and Kermyt G. Anderson, Fatherhood: Evolution and Human Paternal Behavior.
Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 2010, 320 pp., US$23.96, ISBN 978-0674048690
(hardcover). Evolutionary Psychology, 8, 336-339.
Before 2010:
Winegard, B. (2008). What we have here is a failure to communicate: Using a model to explain
textbook representations of human evolutionary theory. McNair Scholars Journal, 12, 119-143.
POPULAR WRITINGS:
Winegard, B., & Winegard, B. (October 20, 2015). A social science without sacred values: Part
I of an article summary. Heterodox Academy at http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/10/20/asocial-science-without-sacred-values-part-i-of-an-article-summary/
Winegard, B., & Winegard, B. (October 28, 2015). A social science without sacred values: Part
II of an article summary. Heterodox Academy at http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/10/28/asocial-science-without-sacred-values-part-2-of-an-article-summary/
IN THE POPULAR PRESS:
Berezow, A. (2013, October 31). Why we flaunt our sexy partners. Forbes retrieved from
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexberezow/2013/10/31/why-we-flaunt-our-sexy-partners/
ACADEMICS:
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Ad Hoc Reviewer: Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology,
Human Nature, Evolutionary Psychological Science, Journal of Cross-Cultural
Psychology, PloS One, Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS:
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“Mate flaunting and Status”
Developmental Colloquium, University of Missouri: October 2013.
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“Misrepresentations of Evolutionary Theory in Social Science Textbooks”
4th Annual North Eastern Evolutionary Psychology Society Conference: March 2010.
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“The Significance of Red Sox Nation: An Evolutionary Perspective on Sports Fans.”
21st Annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference, Poster Presentation: May 2009.
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“Textbook Misrepresentations of Evolutionary Theory.”
21st Annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference, Poster Presentation: May 2009.
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“What we have here is a failure to communicate: Using textbooks as a window onto the
teaching of evolutionary theory”
Evolution for Everyone Meeting, Oral Presentation at Grand Valley State University: April 2009.
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“What we have here is a failure to communicate: Using textbooks as a window onto the
teaching of evolutionary theory.”
Student Scholarship Day, Oral Presentation at Grand Valley State University: April 2009.
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“Round up the Usual Suspects? Do Social Science Textbooks Systematically
Misrepresent Evolutionary Theory?”
McNair Scholars Summer Research Conference, Oral Presentation at Penn State University: July
2008.
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“The Significance of Red Sox Nation: An Evolutionary Perspective on Sports Fans.”
2nd Annual North Eastern Evolutionary Psychology Society Conference, Poster Presentation:
May 2008.
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“The Significance of Red Sox Nation: An Evolutionary Perspective on Sports Fans.”
Student Scholarship Day, Oral Presentation at Grand Valley State University: April 2008.
PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES:
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21st Annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference, Los Angeles: May
2009.
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McNair Scholars Summer Research Conference, Penn State University: July 2008.
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2nd Annual North Eastern Evolutionary Psychology Society Conference, Manchester,
MA: May 2008.
REFERENCES
David C. Geary, Ph.D.
Curators' Professor
Thomas Jefferson Fellow
Department of Psychological Sciences
Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program
210 McAlester Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211-2500
Phone: 573-882-6268
E-mail: GearyD@Missouri.edu
Web page: http://web.missouri.edu/~gearyd/
MU Math Study: http://mumathstudy.missouri.edu/
Christopher J. Ferguson
Associate Professor, Psychology
Stetson University
421 North Woodland Boulevard
DeLand, FL 32729
cjfergus@stetson.edu
386-822-7288
Robert O. Deaner, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Psychology Department
Grand Valley State University
2140 AuSable Hall
1 Campus Drive
Allendale, MI 49401-9403
phone: (616) 331-2423
fax: (616) 331-2480
email: robert.deaner@gmail.com