Books
Del Giudice, M. (2018).
Evolutionary psychopathology: A unified approach.
New York: Oxford University Press.
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In press & preprints
Del Giudice, M. (2023).
Data matrix disattenuation: A simple, effective method for correcting measurement error in multivariate datasets.
Preprint. DOI:10.31234/osf.io/9kaw6
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Del Giudice, M. (2022).
The prediction-explanation fallacy: A pervasive problem in scientific applications of machine learning.
Preprint (under review). DOI:10.31234/osf.io/4vq8f
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Del Giudice, M. (2021).
Individual and group differences in multivariate domains: What happens when the number of traits increases?
Preprint (under review). DOI:10.31234/osf.io/rgzd2
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Del Giudice, M. (in press).
The motivational architecture of emotions.
In L. Al-Shawaf & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of evolution and the emotions.
New York: Oxford University Press.
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Del Giudice, M. (in press).
Epilogue: Evolutionary emotion research at the crossroads.
In L. Al-Shawaf & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of evolution and the emotions.
New York: Oxford University Press.
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Del Giudice, M. (in press).
Ideological bias in the psychology of sex and gender.
In C. L. Frisby, W. T. O’Donohue, R. E. Redding, & S. O. Lilienfeld (Eds)., Political bias in psychology: Nature, scope, and solutions.
New York: Springer.
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2023
Del Giudice, M. (2023).
A general motivational architecture for human and animal personality.
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 144, 104967.
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Del Giudice, M. (2023).
The S-index: Summarizing patterns of sex differences at the distribution extremes.
Personality and Individual Differences, 205, 112088.
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Del Giudice, M. (2023).
Arbitrary, inappropriate grading criteria distort the evaluation of evidence: A comment on Kim et al.’s (2022) umbrella review.
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 147, 105089.
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Del Giudice, M., & Gangestad, S. W. (2023).
No evidence against the greater male variability hypothesis:
A commentary on Harrison et al.’s meta-analysis of animal personality.
Evolutionary Psychological Science.
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Del Giudice, M., & Haltigan, J. D. (2023).
A new look at the relations between attachment and intelligence.
Developmental Review, 67, 101054.
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2022
Del Giudice, M. (2022).
Measuring sex differences and similarities.
In D. P. VanderLaan & W. I. Wong (Eds.), Gender and sexuality development: Contemporary theory and research.
New York: Springer.
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Del Giudice, M. (2022).
The square-root scree plot: A simple improvement to a classic display.
OpenPsych, DOI:10.26775/OP.2022.11.19
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Del Giudice, M., & Gangestad, S. W. (2022).
Hormone ratios suffer from striking lack of robustness to measurement error.
Psychoneuroendocrinology, 142, 105802.
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2021
Del Giudice, M. (2021).
[Comment] Binary thinking about the sex binary: A comment on Joel (2021).
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 127, 144-145.
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Del Giudice, M. (2021).
Are we comparing apples or squared apples? The proportion of explained variance exaggerates differences between effects.
OpenPsych. DOI:10.26775/OP.2021.06.15
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Del Giudice, M. (2021).
[Comment] Åhs et al.’s (2018) systematic review on biological preparedness and resistance to extinction: A commentary and reanalysis.
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 120, 13-15.
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Del Giudice, M. (2021).
Effective dimensionality: A tutorial.
Multivariate Behavioral Research, 56, 527-542.
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Del Giudice, M., & Gangestad, S. W. (2021).
A traveler’s guide to the multiverse: Promises, pitfalls, and a framework for the evaluation of analytic decisions.
Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 4, 1-15.
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Del Giudice, M., & Haltigan, J. D. (2021).
An integrative evolutionary framework for psychopathology.
Development and Psychopathology.
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Haltigan, J. D., Del Giudice, M., & Khorsand, S. (2021).
Growing points in attachment disorganization: Looking back to advance forward.
Attachment & Human Development.
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Luoto, S., Rantala, M. J., & Del Giudice, M. (2021).
[Letter] Gender norms and the wellbeing of girls and boys.
The Lancet Global Health, 9, e397.
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2020
Del Giudice, M. (2020).
Rethinking the fast-slow continuum of individual differences.
Evolution and Human Behavior, 41, 536-549.
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Del Giudice, M. (2020).
[Comment] How well do bibliometric indicators correlate with scientific eminence? A comment on Simonton (2016).
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15, 202-203.
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Del Giudice, M. (2020).
[Comment] Are complex causal models less likely to be true than simple ones? A critical comment on Trafimow (2017).
Behavior Research Methods.
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Kaiser, T., Del Giudice, M., & Booth, T. (2020).
Global sex differences in personality: Replication with an open online dataset.
Journal of Personality, 88, 415-429.
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2019
Del Giudice, M. (2019).
Invisible designers: Brain evolution through the lens of parasite manipulation.
Quarterly Review of Biology, 94, 249-282.
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Del Giudice, M. (2019).
Sex differences in attachment styles.
Current Opinion in Psychology, 25, 1-5.
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Del Giudice, M. (2019).
The evolutionary context of personality development.
In D. P. McAdams, R. L. Shiner, & J. L. Tackett (Eds.), Handbook of personality development (pp. 20-39).
New York: Guilford.
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Del Giudice, M. (2019).
[Comment] Female nonheterosexuality is associated with both “fast” and “slow” male-typical strategies: Implications for evolutionary scenarios.
Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48, 1321-1324.
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Del Giudice, M. (2019).
[Book review] Cognitive Gadgets: A provocative but flawed manifesto.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, e174.
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Ellis, B. J., & Del Giudice, M. (2019).
Developmental adaptation to stress: An evolutionary perspective.
Annual Review of Psychology, 70, 111-139.
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Gangestad, S. W., Dinh, T., Grebe, N. M., Del Giudice, M., & Emery Thompson, M. (2019).
Psychological cycle shifts redux: Revisiting a preregistered study examining preferences for muscularity.
Evolution and Human Behavior, 40, 501-516.
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Gangestad, S. W., Dinh, T., Grebe, N. M., Del Giudice, M., & Emery Thompson, M. (2019).
[Authors’ reply] Psychological cycle shifts redux, once again: Response to Stern et al., Roney, Jones et al., and Higham.
Evolution and Human Behavior, 40, 537-542.
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Grebe, N. M., Del Giudice, M., Emery Thompson, M., Nickels, N., Ponzi, D., Zilioli, S., et al. (2019).
Testosterone, cortisol, and status-striving personality features: A review and empirical evaluation of the dual hormone hypothesis.
Hormones and Behavior, 109, 25-37.
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2018
Del Giudice, M. (2018).
Addendum to: Heterogeneity coefficients for Mahalanobis’ D as a multivariate effect size.
Multivariate Behavioral Research, 53, 571-573.
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Del Giudice, M. (2018).
Middle childhood: An evolutionary-developmental synthesis.
In N. Halfon, C. B. Forrest, R. M. Lerner, & E. Faustman (Eds.), The handbook of life course health development (pp. 95-107).
New York: Springer.
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Del Giudice, M., Barrett, E. S., Belsky, J., Hartman, S., Martel, M. M., Sangenstedt, S., & Kuzawa, C. W. (2018).
Individual differences in developmental plasticity: A role for early androgens?
Psychoneuroendocrinology, 90, 165-173.
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Del Giudice, M., Buck, C. L., Chaby, L., Gormally, B. M., Taff, C. C., Thawley, C. J., et al. (2018).
What is stress? A systems perspective.
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 58, 1019-1032.
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Del Giudice, M., & Crespi, B. J. (2018).
Basic functional trade-offs in cognition: An integrative framework.
Cognition, 179, 56-70.
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Del Giudice, M., & Gangestad, S. W. (2018).
Rethinking IL-6 and CRP: Why they are more than inflammatory biomarkers, and why it matters.
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 70, 61-75.
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2017
Del Giudice, M. (2017).
The evolution of interaction shape in differential susceptibility.
Child Development, 88, 1897–1912.
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Del Giudice, M. (2017).
Statistical tests of differential susceptibility: Performance, limitations, and improvements.
Development and Psychopathology, 29, 1267-1278.
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Del Giudice, M. (2017).
[Letter] Pink, blue, and gender: An update.
Archives of Sexual Behavior, 46, 1555-1563.
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Del Giudice, M. (2017).
Mating, sexual selection, and the evolution of schizophrenia.
World Psychiatry, 16, 141-142.
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Del Giudice, M. (2017).
Heterogeneity coefficients for Mahalanobis’ D as a multivariate effect size.
Multivariate Behavioral Research, 52, 216-221.
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Del Giudice, M. (2017).
[Comment] Integration in personality research: Evolution is the missing catalyst.
European Journal of Personality, 31, 536-537.
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Del Giudice, M., Angeleri, R., & Manera, V. (2017).
Juvenility and the juvenile transition.
In R. J. R. Levesque (Ed.), Encyclopedia of adolescence (2nd ed.).
New York: Springer.
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Ellis, B. J., Del Giudice, M., & Shirtcliff, E. A. (2017).
The Adaptive Calibration Model of stress responsivity: Concepts, findings, and implications for developmental psychopathology.
In T. P. Beauchaine & S. P. Hinshaw (Eds.), Child and adolescent psychopathology (3rd ed.) (pp. 237-276).
New York: Wiley.
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2016
Del Giudice, M. (2016).
Differential susceptibility to the environment: Are developmental models compatible with the evidence from twin studies?
Developmental Psychology, 52, 1330-1339.
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Del Giudice, M. (2016).
The life history model of psychopathology explains the structure of psychiatric disorders and the emergence of the p factor: A simulation study.
Clinical Psychological Science, 4, 299-311.
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Del Giudice, M. (2016).
The evolutionary future of psychopathology.
Current Opinion in Psychology, 7, 44-50.
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Del Giudice, M. (2016).
Sex differences in romantic attachment: A facet-level analysis.
Personality and Individual Differences, 88, 125-128.
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Del Giudice, M., & Angeleri, R. (2016).
Digit ratio (2D:4D) and attachment styles in middle childhood: Indirect evidence for an organizational effect of sex hormones.
Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 2, 1-10.
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Del Giudice, M., & Ellis, B. J. (2016).
Evolutionary foundations of developmental psychopathology.
In D. Cicchetti (Ed.), Developmental Psychopathology, Vol. 2: Developmental neuroscience (3rd ed.) (pp. 1-58).
New York: Wiley.
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Del Giudice, M., Lippa, R. A., Puts, D. A., Bailey, D. H., Bailey, J. M., & Schmitt, D. P. (2016).
[Letter] Joel et al.’s method systematically fails to detect large, consistent sex differences.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 113, E1965.
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2015
Del Giudice, M. (2015).
Plasticity as a developing trait: Exploring the implications.
Frontiers in Zoology, 12, S4.
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Del Giudice, M. (2015).
Attachment in middle childhood: An evolutionary-developmental perspective.
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 148, 15-30.
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Del Giudice, M. (2015).
Gender differences in personality and social behavior.
In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences (2nd ed.) (pp. 750-756).
New York: Elsevier.
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Del Giudice, M. (2015).
Self-regulation in an evolutionary perspective.
In G. H. E. Gendolla, M. Tops & S. Koole (Eds.), Handbook of biobehavioral approaches to self-regulation (pp. 25-42).
New York: Springer.
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Del Giudice, M. (2015).
[Comment] Children’s work as a window into the energetic, reproductive, and cognitive trade-offs of human life history: A comment on Lancy.
Current Anthropology, 56, 557-558.
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Del Giudice, M., Gangestad, S. W., & Kaplan, H. S. (2015).
Life history theory and evolutionary psychology.
In D. M. Buss (Ed.), The handbook of evolutionary psychology – Vol 1: Foundations (2nd ed.) (pp. 88-114).
New York: Wiley.
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Del Giudice, M., Lippa, R. A., Puts, D. A., Bailey, D. H., Bailey, J. M., & Schmitt, D. P. (2015).
[Online document] Mosaic brains? A methodological critique of Joel et al. (2015).
Doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1038.8566.
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2014
Del Giudice, M. (2014).
An evolutionary life history framework for psychopathology.
Psychological Inquiry, 25, 261-300.
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Del Giudice, M. (2014).
[Author’s reply] A tower unto Heaven: Toward an expanded framework for psychopathology.
Psychological Inquiry, 25, 394-413.
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Del Giudice, M. (2014).
Middle childhood: An evolutionary-developmental synthesis.
Child Development Perspectives, 8, 193-200.
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Del Giudice, M. (2014).
Early stress and human behavioral development: Emerging evolutionary perspectives.
Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 5, 270-280.
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Del Giudice, M. (2014).
[Comment] Life history plasticity in humans: The predictive value of early cues depends on the temporal structure of the environment.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281, 20132222.
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Del Giudice, M., Klimczuk, A. C. E., Traficonte, D. M., & Maestripieri, D. (2014).
Autistic-like and schizotypal traits in a life history perspective: Diametrical associations with impulsivity, sensation seeking, and sociosexual behavior.
Evolution & Human Behavior, 35, 415-424.
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Ellis, B. J., & Del Giudice, M. (2014).
Beyond allostatic load: Rethinking the role of stress in regulating human development.
Development and Psychopathology, 26, 1-20.
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2013
Del Giudice, M. (2013).
Multivariate misgivings: Is D a valid measure of group and sex differences?
Evolutionary Psychology, 11, 1067-1076.
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Del Giudice, M., Ellis, B. J., & Shirtcliff, E. A. (2013).
Making sense of stress: An evolutionary-developmental framework.
In G. Laviola & S. Macrì (Eds.), Adaptive and maladaptive aspects of developmental stress (pp. 23-43).
New York: Springer.
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Becchio, C., Del Giudice, M., Dal Monte, O., Latini-Corazzini, L., & Pia, L. (2013).
In your place: Neuropsychological evidence for altercentric remapping in embodied perspective taking.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 165-170.
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Ellis, B. J., Del Giudice, M., & Shirtcliff, E. A. (2013).
Beyond allostatic load: The stress response system as a mechanism of conditional adaptation.
In T. P. Beauchaine & S. P. Hinshaw (Eds.), Child and adolescent psychopathology (2nd ed.) (pp. 251-284).
New York: Wiley.
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2012
Del Giudice, M. (2012).
Sex ratio dynamics and fluctuating selection on personality.
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 297, 48-60.
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Del Giudice, M. (2012).
Fetal programming by maternal stress: Insights from a conflict perspective.
Psychoneuroendocrinology, 37, 1614-1629.
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Del Giudice, M. (2012).
[Book review] Principles of social evolution: The grandeur of inclusive fitness.
Human Ethology Bulletin, 27, 5-7.
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Del Giudice, M. (2012).
[Letter] The twentieth century reversal of pink-blue gender coding: A scientific urban legend?
Archives of Sexual Behavior, 41, 1321-1323.
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Del Giudice, M., Angeleri, R., & Manera, V. (2012).
Juvenility and the juvenile transition.
In R. J. R. Levesque (Ed.), Encyclopedia of adolescence.
(pp. 1534-1537). New York: Springer.
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Del Giudice, M., Booth, T., & Irwing, P. (2012).
The distance between Mars and Venus: Measuring global sex differences in personality.
PLoS ONE, 7, e29265.
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Del Giudice, M., Hinnant, J. B., Ellis, B. J., & El-Sheikh, M. (2012).
Adaptive patterns of stress responsivity: A preliminary investigation.
Developmental Psychology, 48, 775-790.
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Bailey, D. H., Lippa, R. A., Del Giudice, M., Hames, R., & Geary, D. C. (2012).
[Letter] Sex differences in spatial abilities: Methodological problems in Hoffman et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1114679109.
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Ellis, B. J., Del Giudice, M., Dishion, T. J., Figueredo, A. J., Gray, P., Griskevicius, V., et al. (2012).
The evolutionary basis of risky adolescent behavior: Implications for science, policy, and practice.
Developmental Psychology, 48, 598-623.
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Frankenhuis, W. E., & Del Giudice, M. (2012).
When do adaptive developmental mechanisms yield maladaptive outcomes?
Developmental Psychology, 48, 628-642.
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Sih, A., & Del Giudice, M. (2012).
Linking behavioural syndromes and cognition: A behavioural ecology perspective.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, 367, 2762-2772.
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2011
Del Giudice, M. (2011).
Sex differences in romantic attachment: A meta-analysis.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 193-214.
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Del Giudice, M. (2011).
Alone in the dark? Modeling the conditions for visual experience in human fetuses.
Developmental Psychobiology, 53, 214-219.
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Del Giudice, M., & Belsky, J. (2011).
Parent-child relationships.
In C. A. Salmon & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of evolutionary family psychology.
(pp. 65-82). New York: Oxford University Press.
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Del Giudice, M., & Belsky, J. (2011).
The development of life history strategies: Toward a multi-stage theory.
In D. M. Buss & P. H. Hawley (Eds.), The evolution of personality and individual differences.
(pp. 154-176). New York: Oxford University Press.
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Del Giudice, M., Ellis, B. J., & Shirtcliff, E. A. (2011).
The Adaptive Calibration Model of stress responsivity.
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 35, 1562-1592.
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Colle, L., & Del Giudice, M. (2011).
Patterns of attachment and emotional competence in middle childhood.
Social Development, 20, 51-72.
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Manera, V., Del Giudice, M., Bara, B.G., Verfaillie, K., & Becchio, C. (2011).
The second-agent effect: Communicative gestures increase the likelihood of perceiving a second agent.
PLoS ONE, 6, e22650.
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Manera, V., Del Giudice, M., Grandi, E., & Colle, L. (2011).
Individual differences in the recognition of enjoyment smiles: No role for perceptual-attentional factors and autistic-like traits.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 143.
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Schlomer, G. L., Del Giudice, M., & Ellis, B. J. (2011).
Parent-offspring conflict theory: An evolutionary framework for understanding conflict within human families.
Psychological Review, 118, 496-521.
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2010
Del Giudice, M. (2010).
Reduced fertility in patients’ families is consistent with the sexual selection model of schizophrenia and schizotypy.
PLoS ONE, 5, e16040.
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Del Giudice, M., Angeleri, R., Brizio, A., & Elena, M. R. (2010).
The evolution of autistic-like and schizotypal traits: A sexual selection hypothesis.
Frontiers in Psychology, 1, 41.
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Del Giudice, M., & Belsky, J. (2010).
Sex differences in attachment emerge in middle childhood: An evolutionary hypothesis.
Child Development Perspectives, 4, 97-105.
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Del Giudice, M., & Belsky, J. (2010).
[Authors’ response] Evolving attachment theory: Beyond Bowlby and back to Darwin.
Child Development Perspectives, 4, 112-113.
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2009
Del Giudice, M. (2009).
On the real magnitude of psychological sex differences.
Evolutionary Psychology, 7, 264-279.
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Del Giudice, M. (2009).
Sex, attachment, and the development of reproductive strategies.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 1-21.
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Del Giudice, M. (2009).
[Author’s response] Human reproductive strategies: An emerging synthesis?
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 45-55.
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Del Giudice, M., Angeleri, R., & Manera, V. (2009).
The juvenile transition: A developmental switch point in human life history.
Developmental Review, 29, 1-31.
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Del Giudice, M., Manera, V., & Keysers, C. (2009).
Programmed to learn? The ontogeny of mirror neurons.
Developmental Science, 12, 350-363.
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Barone, L., Del Giudice, M., Fossati, A., Manaresi, F., Actis Perinetti, B., Castelli, P., et al. (2009).
Psychometric properties of the Manchester Child Attachment Story Task: An Italian multicentre study.
International Journal of Behavioral Development, 33, 185-190.
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2008
Del Giudice, M. (2008).
Sex-biased ratio of avoidant/ambivalent attachment in middle childhood.
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 26, 369-379.
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2007
Del Giudice, M. (2007).
The evolutionary biology of cryptic pregnancy: A re-appraisal of the ‘denied pregnancy’ phenomenon.
Medical Hypotheses, 68, 250-258.
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Del Giudice, M., & Colle, L. (2007).
Differences between children and adults in the recognition of enjoyment smiles.
Developmental Psychology, 43, 796-803.
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2006
Del Giudice, M. (2006).
Increased residual variance at developmental switch points: Statistical artifact or indicator of exposed genotypic influence?
Evolution, 60, 192-195.
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