Publications
Year (field_pub_date)

von Rueden, C. 2014. 

"A comment on the service-for-prestige theory of leadership."

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 412. 

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Trumble, B., Cummings, D.K., O’Connor, K.A., Holman, D.J., Smith, E.A., Kaplan, H.S., Gurven, M.D. In press.

"Age-independent increases in male salivary testosterone during horticultural activity among Tsimane forager-farmers."

Evolution and Human Behavior. 

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Charness, Gary,Francesco Feri, Miguel Meléndez-Jiménez, and Matthias Sutter. 2014. 

"Experimental Games on Networks: Underpinnings of Behavior and Equilibrium Selection."

Econometrica.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Stieglitz, J., M. Gurven, E. Schniter, C. von Rueden, & H. Kaplan. In press. 

"Functional disability and social conflict increase risk of depression in older adulthood among Bolivian forager-farmers."

Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences. 

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

von Rueden, C., M. Gurven, H. Kaplan, & J. Stieglitz. In press. 

"Leadership in an egalitarian society."

Human Nature. 

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Veile, A., Martin, M., McAllister, L., Gurven, M.

"Modernization is associated with intensive breastfeeding patterns in the Bolivian Amazon."

Social Science and Medicine 100:148-158.

http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/gurven/papers/veileetal2014.pdf
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution Families, Gender, and Work Social Determinants of Inequality

Fessler, D.M.T, Pisor, A.C., & Navarrete, C.D.

"Negatively-biased credulity and the cultural evolution of beliefs."

PLoS ONE 9(4): e95167. 2014. 

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Von Rueden, CR, Trumble, BC, Emory Thompson, M, Stieglitz, J, Hooper, PL, Blackwell, AD, Kaplan, HS, Gurven, M. (2014)

"Political influence associates with cortisol and health among egalitarian forager-farmers, Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health"

eou021, DOI: 10.1093/emph/eou02

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

von Rueden, C., Trumble, B., Emery Thompson, M., Stieglitz, J., Hooper, P.L., Blackwell, A.D., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2014. 

"Political influence associates with cortisol and health among egalitarian forager-farmers."

Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 122-133. doi:10.1093/emph/eou021

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Von Rueden C, Trumble BC, Blackwell AD, Stieglitz J, Kaplan H, Gurven M (2014).  

"Political influence in an egalitarian society associates with lower cortisol but not lower disease burden."

Evolution Medicine and Public Health.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Miner, E., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H., Gaulin, S. 2014.

"Sex difference in travel is concentrated in adolescence and tracks reproductive interests."

Proceedings of Royal Society B281, 20141476.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Charness, Garyand Chun-Lei Yang. 

"Starting Small towards Voluntary Formation of Efficient Large Groups in Public Goods Provision."

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 102,June, 2014, 119-132. 

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Yeo, R., Pommy, J., & Padilla, E. A. 

"Strategic choices vs. maladaptive development"

[Peer commentary on "An Evolutionary Life History Framework for Psychopathology" by M. Del Giudice]. Psychological Inquiry. 2014.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Trumble BC, Smith EA, O’Connor KA, Kaplan HS, Gurven MD.  (2014).  

"Successful hunting increases testosterone and cortisol in a subsistence population."

Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281:20132876

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Trumble BC, Stieglitz J, Emery Thompson M, Fuerstenberg E, Kaplan H, Gurven M.  (2014). 

"Testosterone and male cognitive performance in Tsimane forager-horticulturalists."

American Journal of Human Biology. 

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution Families, Gender, and Work

Gurven, M., C. von Rueden, J. Stieglitz, H. Kaplan, & D. Eid Rodriguez. 2014. 

"The evolutionary fitness of personality traits in a small-scale subsistence population."

Evolution & Human Behavior, 35, 17-25. 

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

von Rueden, C. In press. 

"The roots and fruits of social status in small-scale human societies."

In J. Cheng, J. Tracy, & C. Anderson (Eds.) The Psychology of Social Status. Springer. 

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Stieglitz, J., Jaeggi, A., Blackwell, A., Trumble, BC., Gurven, M., and Kaplan, H. (In Press).

"Work to live and live to work: Productivity, transfers, and psychological well-being in adulthood and old age."

In: Weinstein, M., and Lane, M. (eds.). Advances in bio-demography: cross-species comparisons of social environments and social behaviors, and their effects on health and longevity. National Academy Press.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Lassek, W. D. and S. J. C. Gaulin. 2013.

"Breast milk DHA content predicts cognitive performance in a sample of 28 nations."

Maternal & Child Nutrition.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution Social Determinants of Inequality

Blackwell A, Martin M, Kaplan H, Gurven M.  2013.

"Antagonism between two intestinal parasites in humans: the importance of coinfection for infection risk and recovery dynamics."

Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 280(1769): 20131671. 

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1769/20131671.short
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution Social Determinants of Inequality