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    Mate choice in modern societies
    Human Nature 5 (3): 255-278. 1994.
    Most research on mate choice in modern societies is based on data that may or may not reflect actual mating behavior (e.g., stated preferences, personal advertisements). In the present study, real-life matings were reported by a large representative sample of men and women (N = 1,133). These data were used to test an evolutionary model in which mate choice is hypothesized to depend on resources potentially contributed to reproduction by each sex. Consistent with the model, it was found that (a) …Read more
  •  53
    In most social species, position in the male social hierarchy and reproductive success are positively correlated; in humans, however, this relationship is less clear, with studies of traditional societies yielding mixed results. In the most economically advanced human populations, the adaptiveness of status vanishes altogether; social status and fertility are uncorrelated. These findings have been interpreted to suggest that evolutionary principles may not be appropriate for the explanation of h…Read more
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    Human status seeking is a Darwinian adaptation
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2): 312-322. 1993.
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    False belief and emotion understanding in monozygotic twins, dizygotic twins and non-twin children
    with Joane Deneault, Marcelle Ricard, Thérèse Gouin Décarie, Pierre L. Morin, Germain Quintal, Michel Boivin, and Richard E. Tremblay
    Cognition and Emotion 22 (4): 697-708. 2008.
    Children's understanding of the human mind has been found to be related to many social and experiential factors such as interactions with peers (Astington & Jenkins, 1995), parental socioeconomic a...