A life history approach to the female sexual orientation spectrum: Evolution, development, causal mechanisms, and health

S Luoto, I Krams, MJ Rantala - Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2019 - Springer
Women's capacity for sexual fluidity is at least as interesting a phenomenon from the point of
view of evolutionary biology and behavioral endocrinology as exclusively homosexual …

On the psychometric study of human life history strategies: State of the science and evidence of two independent dimensions

GB Richardson, BK Sanning, MHC Lai… - Evolutionary …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This article attends to recent discussions of validity in psychometric research on human life
history strategy (LHS), provides a constructive critique of the extant literature, and describes …

Is reproductive development adaptively calibrated to early experience? Evidence from a national sample of females.

GB Richardson, D Bates, A Ross, H Liu… - Developmental …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Many developmental theories have not been sufficiently evaluated using designs that
control for unobserved familial confounds. Our long-term goal is to determine the causal …

The psychometrics of the Mini-K: Evidence from two college samples

GB Richardson, CC Chen, CL Dai… - Evolutionary …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Many published studies have employed the Mini-K to measure a single fast–slow life history
dimension. However, the internal structure of the Mini-K has not been determined and it is …

Evolutionary perspectives on personality and individual differences

Y Sela, N Barbaro - The SAGE handbook of personality and individual …, 2018 - torrossa.com
Individual differences are essential to the process of evolution by natural selection. Natural
selection is the only known process capable of creating and maintaining adaptations. The …

A life history approach to understanding developmental assets among Chinese adolescents

BB Chen, N Wiium, R Dimitrova - Child & Youth Care Forum, 2019 - Springer
Background Life history theory provides a unifying perspective on understanding human
behaviors as adaptive strategies in response to particular environmental conditions. There is …

Response to commentaries: life history evolution, causal mechanisms, and female sexual orientation

S Luoto, I Krams, MJ Rantala - Archives of sexual behavior, 2019 - Springer
Female sexual orientation and its various species-wide and species-specific manifestations
comprise a topic to which one scientific article can hardly do justice. We have nevertheless …

From environment to mating competition and Super-K in a predominantly urban sample of young adults

GB Richardson, JK Dariotis… - Evolutionary …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent research suggests human life history strategy (LHS) may be subsumed by multiple
dimensions, including mating competition and Super-K, rather than one. In this study, we test …

Advancing the psychometric study of human life history indicators: K does not measure life history speed, but theory and evidence suggest it deserves further attention

GB Richardson, N McGee, LT Copping - Human Nature, 2021 - Springer
In this article we attend to recent critiques of psychometric applications of life history (LH)
theory to variance among humans and develop theory to advance the study of latent LH …

Life history theory and recovery from substance use disorder

GB Richardson, TN Blount… - Review of General …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Recovery has emerged as an important paradigm in addictions treatment but the field has
yet to achieve consensus on how it should be defined and measured. The recovery …