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Integrating models from evolutionary biology and cognitive science to study the effects of fundamental social motivations (e.g., self-protection, status, mate search) on basic cognitive processes (e.g., attention to, encoding of, memory for different people in a rapidly presented crowd), economic decision-making and various downstream social behaviors (including aggression, conformity, creative displays, prosocial behavior).

Selected recent publications:

Kenrick, D.T., & Lundberg-Kenrick, D.E. (2022). Solving Modern Problems with a Stone-Age Brain: Human evolution and the 7 Fundamental Motives. Washington, DC: APA Books.

Pick, C.M., Ko, A., Kenrick, D.T., (team of 74 international collaborators)….. &Varnum, M.E.W. (2022). Fundamental social motives measured across forty-two cultures in two waves. Nature - Scientific Data.

Cook, C.L., Krems, J.A., & Kenrick, D.T. (2021). Fundamental motives illuminate a broad range of individual and cultural variations in thought and behavior. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 30(3), 242-250.

Ko, A., Pick, C.M., Kwon, J.Y., Barlev, M., Krems, J.A., Varnum, M.E.W… (team of 34 international collaborators) & Kenrick, D.T. (2020). Family values: Rethinking the psychology of human social motivation. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15 (1), 173-201.

Kenrick, D.T., Cohen, A.B., Cialdini, R.B., & Neuberg, S.L. (2018). The science of antiscience thinking. Scientific American, 319, 36-41. Reprinted in 2020 in special issue on Truth and Lies.

Kenrick, D.T., Griskevicius, V., Neuberg, S.L., & Schaller, M. (2010). Renovating the pyramid of needs: Contemporary extensions built upon ancient foundations. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 292–314.

Sng, O., Neuberg, S.L., Varnum, M. E.W., & Kenrick, D.T. (2018). The behavioral ecology of cultural psychological variation. Psychological Review. 125(5), 714-743.

Krems, J. A., Kenrick, D. T., & Neel, R. (2017). Individual Perceptions of Self-Actualization: What Functional Motives Are Linked to Fulfilling One’s Full Potential? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43(9), 1337-1352.

Neel, R., Kenrick, D.T., White, A.E., & Neuberg, S.L. (2016). Individual differences in fundamental social motives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110 (6) 887–907.

Kenrick, D.T., & Gomez-Jacinto, L. (2014). Economics, sex, and the emergence of society: A dynamic life history model of cultural variation. Pp. 78-123 in M. J. Gelfand, C.Y. Chiu, and Y.Y. Hong (Eds.) Advances in Culture and Psychology, Volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press.

Griskevicius, V., & Kenrick, D.T. (2013). Fundamental Motives for Why We Buy: How Evolutionary Needs Influence Consumer Behavior. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 23. 372-386.

Sundie, J.M., Kenrick, D.T., Griskevicius, V., Tybur, J., Vohs, K., & Beal, D.J. (2011). Peacocks, Porsches, and Thorsten Veblen: Conspicuous consumption as a sexual signaling system. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 664-680.

Kenrick, D.T., Neuberg, S.L., Griskevicius, V., Becker, D.V., Schaller, M. (2010). Goal-Driven Cognition and Functional Behavior: The Fundamental Motives Framework. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19, 63-67.

Kenrick, D.T., Nieuweboer, S., & Buunk, A.P. (2010). Universal mechanisms and cultural diversity: Replacing the blank slate with a coloring book. Pp. 257-271 in M. Schaller, A. Norenzayan, S. Heine, T. Yamagishi, & T. Kameda (eds.) Evolution, culture, and the human mind. New York: Psychology Press.

Griskevicius, V., Goldstein, N.J., Mortensen, C.R., Sundie, J.M., & Cialdini, R.B., Kenrick, D.T. (2009). Fear and loving in Las Vegas: Evolution, emotion, and persuasion. Journal of Marketing Research, 46, 384-395.

Becker, D.V., Kenrick, D.T., Neuberg, S.L., Blackwell, K.C., & Smith, D.M. (2007). The confounded nature of angry men and happy women. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 92, 179-190

Li, N.P., & Kenrick, D.T. (2006). Sex similarities and differences in preferences for short-term mates: What, whether, and why. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 90, 468-489.

Griskevicius, V., Goldstein, N., Mortensen, C., Cialdini, R.B., & Kenrick, D.T. (2006). Going along versus going alone: When fundamental motives facilitate strategic (non)conformity. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 91, 281-294.

Ackerman, J., Shapiro, J.R., Neuberg, S.L., Kenrick, D.T., Schaller, M., Becker, D.V., Griskevicius, V., & Maner, J.K. (2006). They all look the same to me (unless they're angry): From out-group homogeneity to out-group heterogeneity. Psychological Science, 17, 836-840.

Maner, J.K., Kenrick, D. T., Becker, D.V., Robertson, T.E., Hofer, B., Neuberg, S.L., Delton, A.W., Butner, J., & Schaller, M. (2005). Functional Projection: How Fundamental Social Motives Can Bias Interpersonal Perception. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 88, 63-78.

Kenrick, D.T., & Luce, C.L. (2004). The functional mind: Readings in evolutionary psychology. Boston: Allyn & Bacon

Kenrick, D.T., Li, N.P., & Butner, J. (2003). Dynamical evolutionary psychology: Individual decision-rules and emergent social norms. Psychological Review, 110, 3-28.