Randy Thornhill - Publications

Affiliations: 
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States 
Area:
Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology

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2014 Thornhill R, Fincher CL. The parasite-stress theory of sociality, the behavioral immune system, and human social and cognitive uniqueness. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. 8: 257-264. DOI: 10.1037/Ebs0000020  0.715
2013 Grebe NM, Gangestad SW, Garver-Apgar CE, Thornhill R. Women's luteal-phase sexual proceptivity and the functions of extended sexuality. Psychological Science. 24: 2106-10. PMID 23965377 DOI: 10.1177/0956797613485965  0.308
2013 Thornhill R, Fincher CL. The parasite-driven-wedge model of parapatric speciation Journal of Zoology. 291: 23-33. DOI: 10.1111/Jzo.12070  0.7
2013 Thornhill R, Fincher CL. Commentary on Hackman, J., & Hruschka, D. (2013). Fast life histories, not pathogens, account for state-level variation in homicide, child maltreatment, and family ties in the U.S. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34,118–124 Evolution and Human Behavior. 34: 314-315. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2013.03.006  0.684
2013 Thornhill R, Chapman JF, Gangestad SW. Women's preferences for men's scents associated with testosterone and cortisol levels: Patterns across the ovulatory cycle Evolution and Human Behavior. 34: 216-221. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2013.01.003  0.305
2013 Thornhill R, Fincher CL. The Comparative Method in Cross-Cultural and Cross-Species Research Evolutionary Biology. 40: 480-493. DOI: 10.1007/S11692-013-9239-2  0.663
2012 Fincher CL, Thornhill R. The parasite-stress theory may be a general theory of culture and sociality. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 35: 99-119. PMID 22486004 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X11001774  0.708
2012 Fincher CL, Thornhill R. Parasite-stress promotes in-group assortative sociality: the cases of strong family ties and heightened religiosity. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 35: 61-79. PMID 22289223 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X11000021  0.723
2012 Watson PJ, Thornhill R. Fluctuating asymmetry and sexual selection. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 9: 21-5. PMID 21236756 DOI: 10.1016/0169-5347(94)90227-5  0.355
2012 Letendre K, Fincher CL, Thornhill R. Parasite Stress, Collectivism, and Human Warfare The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives On Violence, Homicide, and War. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199738403.013.0021  0.685
2011 Thornhill R, Fincher CL. Parasite stress promotes homicide and child maltreatment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 366: 3466-77. PMID 22042922 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2011.0052  0.727
2011 Eppig C, Fincher CL, Thornhill R. Parasite prevalence and the distribution of intelligence among the states of the USA Intelligence. 39: 155-160. DOI: 10.1016/J.Intell.2011.02.008  0.705
2010 Hoben AD, Buunk AP, Fincher CL, Thornhill R, Schaller M. On the adaptive origins and maladaptive consequences of human inbreeding: parasite prevalence, immune functioning, and consanguineous marriage. Evolutionary Psychology : An International Journal of Evolutionary Approaches to Psychology and Behavior. 8: 658-76. PMID 22947825 DOI: 10.1177/147470491000800408  0.711
2010 Thornhill R, Fincher CL, Murray DR, Schaller M. Zoonotic and non-zoonotic diseases in relation to human personality and societal values: support for the parasite-stress model. Evolutionary Psychology : An International Journal of Evolutionary Approaches to Psychology and Behavior. 8: 151-69. PMID 22947787 DOI: 10.1177/147470491000800201  0.734
2010 Eppig C, Fincher CL, Thornhill R. Parasite prevalence and the worldwide distribution of cognitive ability. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 277: 3801-8. PMID 20591860 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2010.0973  0.703
2010 Letendre K, Fincher CL, Thornhill R. Does infectious disease cause global variation in the frequency of intrastate armed conflict and civil war? Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 85: 669-83. PMID 20377573 DOI: 10.1111/J.1469-185X.2010.00133.X  0.714
2010 Montgomerie R, Thornhill R. Fertility Advertisement in Birds: a Means of Inciting Male-male Competition? Ethology. 81: 209-220. DOI: 10.1111/J.1439-0310.1989.Tb00767.X  0.305
2010 Thornhill R. Nest Defense by Red Jungle Fowl (Gallus gallus spadiceus) Hens: The Roles of Renesting Potential, Parental Experience and Brood Reproductive Value Ethology. 83: 31-42. DOI: 10.1111/J.1439-0310.1989.Tb00517.X  0.306
2010 Gangestad SW, Thornhill R, Garver-Apgar CE. Men's facial masculinity predicts changes in their female partners' sexual interests across the ovulatory cycle, whereas men's intelligence does not Evolution and Human Behavior. 31: 412-424. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2010.06.001  0.336
2010 Gangestad SW, Thornhill R, Garver-Apgar CE. Fertility in the cycle predicts women's interest in sexual opportunism Evolution and Human Behavior. 31: 400-411. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2010.05.003  0.322
2009 Møller AP, Fincher CL, Thornhill R. Why men have shorter lives than women: effects of resource availability, infectious disease, and senescence. American Journal of Human Biology : the Official Journal of the Human Biology Council. 21: 357-64. PMID 19189415 DOI: 10.1002/Ajhb.20879  0.7
2009 Thornhill R, Fincher CL, Aran D. Parasites, democratization, and the liberalization of values across contemporary countries. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 84: 113-31. PMID 19046399 DOI: 10.1111/J.1469-185X.2008.00062.X  0.747
2009 Møller AP, Thornhill R. Bilateral symmetry and sexual selection: a meta-analysis. The American Naturalist. 151: 174-92. PMID 18811416 DOI: 10.1086/286110  0.368
2008 Andrews PW, Gangestad SW, Miller GF, Haselton MG, Thornhill R, Neale MC. Sex Differences in Detecting Sexual Infidelity : Results of a Maximum Likelihood Method for Analyzing the Sensitivity of Sex Differences to Underreporting. Human Nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.). 19: 347-73. PMID 26181747 DOI: 10.1007/S12110-008-9051-3  0.329
2008 Fincher CL, Thornhill R. Assortative sociality, limited dispersal, infectious disease and the genesis of the global pattern of religion diversity. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 275: 2587-94. PMID 18664438 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2008.0688  0.722
2008 Fincher CL, Thornhill R, Murray DR, Schaller M. Pathogen prevalence predicts human cross-cultural variability in individualism/collectivism. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 275: 1279-85. PMID 18302996 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2008.0094  0.71
2008 Fincher CL, Thornhill R. A parasite-driven wedge: infectious diseases may explain language and other biodiversity Oikos. 117: 1289-1297. DOI: 10.1111/J.0030-1299.2008.16684.X  0.708
2007 THORNHILL R, MØLLER AP. DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY, DISEASE AND MEDICINE Biological Reviews. 72: 497-548. DOI: 10.1017/S0006323197005082  0.348
2007 THORNHILL R, FINCHER C. What is the relevance of attachment and life history to political values? Evolution and Human Behavior. 28: 215-222. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2007.01.005  0.692
2006 Garver-Apgar CE, Gangestad SW, Thornhill R, Miller RD, Olp JJ. Major histocompatibility complex alleles, sexual responsivity, and unfaithfulness in romantic couples. Psychological Science. 17: 830-5. PMID 17100780 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9280.2006.01789.X  0.338
2006 McIntyre M, Gangestad SW, Gray PB, Chapman JF, Burnham TC, O'Rourke MT, Thornhill R. Romantic involvement often reduces men's testosterone levels--but not always: the moderating role of extrapair sexual interest. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 91: 642-51. PMID 17014290 DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.91.4.642  0.324
2006 Thornhill R, Gangestad SW. Facial sexual dimorphism, developmental stability, and susceptibility to disease in men and women Evolution and Human Behavior. 27: 131-144. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2005.06.001  0.331
2006 Thornhill R, Gangestad SW, Comer R. Human female orgasm and mate fluctuating asymmetry Sperm Competition in Humans: Classic and Contemporary Readings. 255-275. DOI: 10.1016/0003-3472(95)80014-X  0.387
2005 Gangestad SW, Thornhill R, Garver-Apgar CE. Women's sexual interests across the ovulatory cycle depend on primary partner developmental instability. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 272: 2023-7. PMID 16191612 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2005.3112  0.302
2005 Gangestad SW, Thornhill R, Garver-Apgar CE. Adaptations to ovulation: Implications for sexual and social behavior Current Directions in Psychological Science. 14: 312-316. DOI: 10.1111/J.0963-7214.2005.00388.X  0.378
2003 Grammer K, Fink B, Møller AP, Thornhill R. Darwinian aesthetics: sexual selection and the biology of beauty. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 78: 385-407. PMID 14558590 DOI: 10.1017/S1464793102006085  0.323
2003 Palmer CT, Thornhill R. Straw men and fairy tales: Evaluating reactions to A Natural History of Rape. Journal of Sex Research. 40: 249-55. PMID 14533019 DOI: 10.1080/00224490309552189  0.341
2003 Thornhill R, Gangestad SW. Evolutionary Theory Led to Evidence for a Male Sex Pheromone that Signals Symmetry Psychological Inquiry. 14: 318-325. DOI: 10.1207/S15327965Pli1403  0.341
2002 Gangestad SW, Thornhill R, Garver CE. Changes in women's sexual interests and their partners' mate-retention tactics across the menstrual cycle: evidence for shifting conflicts of interest. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 269: 975-82. PMID 12028782 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2001.1952  0.321
2002 Thornhill R, Palmer CT. Rape and evolution: A Reply to our critics Psychology, Evolution & Gender. 4: 283-296. DOI: 10.1080/14616661.2002.10383129  0.368
2001 Gangestad SW, Bennett KL, Thornhill R. A latent variable model of developmental instability in relation to men's sexual behaviour Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 268: 1677-1684. PMID 11506680 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2001.1675  0.323
1999 Thornhill R, Gangestad SW. The scent of symmetry: A human sex pheromone that signals fitness? Evolution and Human Behavior. 20: 175-201. DOI: 10.1016/S1090-5138(99)00005-7  0.307
1998 ARNQVIST G, THORNHILL R. Evolution of animal genitalia: patterns of phenotypic and genotypic variation and condition dependence of genital and non-genital morphology in water strider (Heteroptera: Gerridae: Insecta) Genetical Research. 71: 193-212. DOI: 10.1017/S0016672398003279  0.37
1998 Thornhill R, Furlow B. Stress and Human Reproductive Behavior: Attractiveness, Women's Sexual Development, Postpartum Depression, and Baby's Cry Advances in the Study of Behavior. 27: 319-369. DOI: 10.1016/S0065-3454(08)60368-X  0.382
1997 Furlow FB, Armijo-Prewitt T, Gangestad SW, Thornhill R. Fluctuating asymmetry and psychometric intelligence Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 264: 823-829. PMID 9265189 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.1997.0115  0.361
1997 Arnqvist G, Thornhill R, Rowe L. Evolution of animal genitalia: Morphological correlates of fitness components in a water strider Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 10: 613-640. DOI: 10.1046/J.1420-9101.1997.10040613.X  0.345
1997 Gangestad SW, Thornhill R. The evolutionary psychology of extrapair sex: The role of fluctuating asymmetry Evolution and Human Behavior. 18: 69-88. DOI: 10.1016/S1090-5138(97)00003-2  0.349
1996 Thornhill R, Gangestad SW. The evolution of human sexuality Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 11: 98-102. DOI: 10.1016/0169-5347(96)81051-2  0.337
1996 THORNHILL R, GANGESTAD SW. Human female copulatory orgasm: a human adaptation or phylogenetic holdover Animal Behaviour. 52: 853-855. DOI: 10.1006/Anbe.1996.0231  0.32
1994 Grammer K, Thornhill R. Human (Homo sapiens) facial attractiveness and sexual selection: the role of symmetry and averageness. Journal of Comparative Psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983). 108: 233-42. PMID 7924253 DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.108.3.233  0.325
1994 Thornhill R. Is There Psychological Adaptation to Rape? Analyse & Kritik. 16. DOI: 10.1515/Auk-1994-0104  0.341
1994 Thornhill R, Gangestad SW. Human fluctuating asymmetry and sexual behavior Psychological Science. 5: 297-302. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9280.1994.Tb00629.X  0.338
1994 Gangestad SW, Thornhill R, Yeo RA. Facial attractiveness, developmental stability, and fluctuating asymmetry Ethology and Sociobiology. 15: 73-85. DOI: 10.1016/0162-3095(94)90018-3  0.361
1993 Johnson K, Thornhill R, Ligon JD, Zuk M. The direction of mothers' and daughters' preferences and the heritability of male ornaments in red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus) Behavioral Ecology. 4: 254-259. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/4.3.254  0.356
1993 Thornhill R, Gangestad SW. Human facial beauty - Averageness, symmetry, and parasite resistance Human Nature. 4: 237-269. DOI: 10.1007/Bf02692201  0.411
1992 Thornhill R, Thornhill NW. The evolutionary psychology of men's coercive sexuality Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 15: 363-375. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X00069120  0.351
1992 Thornhill R. Fluctuating asymmetry and the mating system of the Japanese scorpionfly, Panorpa japonica Animal Behaviour. 44: 867-879. DOI: 10.1016/S0003-3472(05)80583-4  0.327
1992 Thornhill R. Fluctuating asymmetry, interspecific aggression and male mating tactics in two species of Japanese scorpionflies Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 30. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00170603  0.302
1991 Thornhill NW, Thornhill R. An evolutionary analysis of psychological pain following human (Homo sapiens) rape: IV. The effect of the nature of the sexual assault. Journal of Comparative Psychology. 105: 243-252. PMID 1935004 DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.105.3.243  0.317
1990 Zuk M, Thornhill R, David Ligon J, Johnson K. Parasites And Male Ornaments In Free-Ranging And Captive Red Jungle Fowl Behaviour. 114: 232-248. DOI: 10.1163/156853990X00149  0.428
1990 Zuk M, Thornhill R, Ligon JD, Johnson K. Parasites and mate choice in red jungle fowl American Zoologist. 30: 235-244. DOI: 10.1093/Icb/30.2.235  0.354
1990 Ligon JD, Thornhill R, Zuk M, Johnson K. Male-male competition, ornamentation and the role of testosterone in sexual selection in red jungle fowl Animal Behaviour. 40: 367-373. DOI: 10.1016/S0003-3472(05)80932-7  0.341
1988 Small MF, Dare R, Kurland JA, McGrew WC, O'Neil M, Paterson JD, Steklis HD, Thornhill NW, Thornhill R. Female Primate Sexual Behavior and Conception: Are There Really Sperm to Spare? [and Comments and Reply] Current Anthropology. 29: 81-100. DOI: 10.1086/203615  0.315
1987 Thornhill R. The Relative Importance of Intra- and Interspecific Competition in Scorpionfly Mating Systems The American Naturalist. 130: 711-729. DOI: 10.1086/284740  0.324
1986 Thornhill R. EARLY HISTORY OF SEXUAL SELECTION THEORY. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 40: 446-447. PMID 28556053 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.1986.Tb00492.X  0.348
1984 Thornhill R. FIGHTING AND ASSESSMENT IN HARPOBITTACUS SCORPIONFLIES. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 38: 204-214. PMID 28556069 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.1984.Tb00272.X  0.301
1984 Thornhill R. Alternative Female Choice Tactics in the Scorpionfly Hylobittacus apicalis(Mecoptera) and Their Implications Integrative and Comparative Biology. 24: 367-383. DOI: 10.1093/Icb/24.2.367  0.3
1983 Thornhill R, Dodson G, Marshall L. Sexual Selection and Insect Mating Behavior The American Biology Teacher. 45: 310-319. DOI: 10.2307/4447713  0.368
1983 Thornhill R. Cryptic Female Choice and Its Implications in the Scorpionfly Harpobittacus nigriceps The American Naturalist. 122: 765-788. DOI: 10.1086/284170  0.305
1983 Thornhill R, Wilmsen Thornhill N. Human rape: An evolutionary analysis Ethology and Sociobiology. 4: 137-173. DOI: 10.1016/0162-3095(83)90027-4  0.38
1980 Thornhill R. MATE CHOICE IN HYLOBITTACUS APICALIS (INSECTA: MECOPTERA) AND ITS RELATION TO SOME MODELS OF FEMALE CHOICE. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 34: 519-538. PMID 28568689 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.1980.Tb04841.X  0.335
1980 Thornhill R. Sexual selection within mating swarms of the lovebug, Plecia nearctica (Diptera: Bibionidae) Animal Behaviour. 28: 405-412. DOI: 10.1016/S0003-3472(80)80049-2  0.304
1980 Thornhill R. Pape in Panorpa scorpionflies and a general rape hypothesis Animal Behaviour. 28: 52-59. DOI: 10.1016/S0003-3472(80)80007-8  0.311
1979 BENSHOOF L, THORNHILL R. The evolution of monogamy and concealed ovulation in humans Journal of Social and Biological Systems. 2: 95-106. DOI: 10.1016/0140-1750(79)90001-0  0.36
1978 Thornhill R. Some Arthropod Predators and Parasites of Adult Scorpionflies (Mecoptera) Environmental Entomology. 7: 714-716. DOI: 10.1093/Ee/7.5.714  0.337
1978 Thornhill R. Sexually Selected Predatory and Mating Behavior of the Hangingfly, Bittacus stigmaterus (Mecoptera: Bittacidae) Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 71: 597-601. DOI: 10.1093/Aesa/71.4.597  0.319
1976 Thornhill R. Sexual Selection and Nuptial Feeding Behavior in Bittacus apicalis (Insecta: Mecoptera) The American Naturalist. 110: 529-548. DOI: 10.1086/283089  0.326
1976 Thornhill R. Sexual Selection and Paternal Investment in Insects The American Naturalist. 110: 153-163. DOI: 10.1086/283055  0.307
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