Men's and women's personalities appear to differ in several respects. Social role theories of
development assume gender differences result primarily from perceived gender roles …

Face preferences affect a diverse range of critical social outcomes, from mate choices and
decisions about platonic relationships to hiring decisions and decisions about social …

Considerable research has examined human mate preferences across cultures, finding
universal sex differences in preferences for attractiveness and resources as well as sources …

There is now substantial evidence that larger income differences in a society increase the
prevalence of most of the health and social problems that tend to occur more frequently …

The “behavioral immune system” is a motivational system that evolved as a means of
inhibiting contact with disease-causing parasites and that, in contemporary human societies …

Throughout the world people differ in the magnitude with which they value strong family ties
or heightened religiosity. We propose that this cross-cultural variation is a result of a …

I got involved in studying the economics of beauty in a curi‑ous way. Early in 1993, I noticed
that the data I was using on another research project included interviewers' ratings of the …

Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers
a battery of methods that can be used to interpret human behaviour. But the legitimacy of this …

Peter B. Smith was born near Colchester, UK, in 1937, and obtained his PhD from
Cambridge University in 1962. After working at Leeds University, he joined the University of …

We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income
inequality. We interpret the latter as any disparity in incomes between individuals. We …