Rethinking minority stress: A social safety perspective on the health effects of stigma in sexually-diverse and gender-diverse populations

LM Diamond, J Alley - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
For over two decades, the minority stress model has guided research on the health of
sexually-diverse individuals (those who are not exclusively heterosexual) and gender …

Nocturnal selective pressures on the evolution of human musicality as a missing piece of the adaptationist puzzle

MAC Varella - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Human musicality exhibits the necessary hallmarks for biological adaptations. Evolutionary
explanations focus on recurrent adaptive problems that human musicality possibly solved in …

Slow life history strategies and increases in externalizing and internalizing problems during the COVID‐19 pandemic

L Chang, YY Liu, HJ Lu, JE Lansford… - Journal of Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The COVID‐19 pandemic is but one of many instances of environmental adversities that
have recurred in human history. Biobehavioral resource allocation strategies, known as fast …

Who perceives sexual harassment? Sex differences and the impact of mate value, sex of perpetrator, and sex of target

JA Hehman, CA Salmon, A Pulford, E Ramirez… - Personality and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The# MeToo movement has drawn attention to sexual harassment in the workplace. Using
an adaptationist approach, two studies were designed to investigate sex differences in …

Dark Triad traits mediate the interaction between childhood abuse and COMT Val158Met polymorphism on aggression among incarcerated Chinese males

J Zhang, J Leng, C Yang, EM Cooke, P Gong, J Liu - Current Psychology, 2023 - Springer
Both childhood abuse and Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) Val158Met polymorphism
are implicated in aggression; however, their interactive effects on aggression and the related …

Testing the cognitive niche hypothesis with structural equation modeling: different dark traits predict an evening-chronotype in males and females

JC Costa Porfírio, MA Corrêa Varella - Current Psychology, 2023 - Springer
Dark triad (DT) refers to a set of antisocial and self-interested personality traits
(Machiavellianism, sub-clinical psychopathy and narcissism). The nocturnal cognitive niche …

A cascade model of sociodevelopmental events leading to men's perpetration of violence against female romantic partners

F Kaighobadi, AJ Figueredo… - Evolutionary …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Conceptually driven by life history theory, the current study investigated a hypothesized
hierarchy of behaviors leading to men's perpetration of violence in intimate relationships …

The Madonna–whore complex: An empirical test of evolutionary hypotheses.

CO Tapia-Fonllem, R Valenzuela Peñuñuri… - Evolutionary …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Sigmund Freud described the Madonna–whore complex (MWC) as the
dichotomization of female sexuality based on its nature of either virtue or vice. Contemporary …

Associations Between Childhood Victimization, Adult Victimization, and Physical Health Among Sexually Diverse Adults at Different Stages of Life

J Alley, SA Brener, LM Diamond - LGBT health, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Purpose: Research examining health disparities in sexually diverse populations is quite
variable. The purpose of the present article was to shed light on the conflicting findings …

Evolutionary perspectives on relationship maintenance across the spectrum of sexual and gender diversity

LM Diamond, J Alley - 2023 - academic.oup.com
Most evolutionary models of relationship functioning have focused on heterosexual pairings
(ie, male–female) and on cisgender individuals (ie, individuals whose gender identity …