Michael E. Price
Publications and Online Articles


Archived online work:

Evolution: This View of Life articles and interviews (as morality editor, 2013-present)

‘From Darwin to Eternity’ posts (Psychology Today blog, 2011-present)

‘Natural Law’ columns (for banking magazine Global Custodian, 2010-2013)

Georgiev G., Martinez C. L. F., Price M. E. & Smart J., Eds. (2019). Evolution, Development and Complexity: Multiscale Evolutionary Models of Complex Adaptive Systems. Springer Publishing.

 

Campbell J. O., Price M. E. (2019). Universal Darwinism and the origins of order. In Evolution, Development and Complexity: Multiscale Evolutionary Models of Complex Adaptive Systems (pp. 261-290). Edited by G. Georgiev, C. L. F. Martinez, M. E. Price, & J. Smart. Springer Publishing. PDF

 

Price M. E. (2019). Cosmological natural selection and the function of life. In Evolution, Development and Complexity: Multiscale Evolutionary Models of Complex Adaptive Systems (pp. 3-22). Edited by G. Georgiev, C. L. F. Martinez, M. E. Price, & J. Smart. Springer Publishing.

 

Price M. E., Launay J. (2018). Increased wellbeing from social interaction in a secular congregation. Secularism and Nonreligion, 7(1). LINK

 

Price M. E., Sheehy-Skeffington J., Sidanius J., Pound N. (2017). Is sociopolitical egalitarianism related to bodily and facial formidability in men? Evolution and Human Behavior 38: 626-634. PDF

 

Price M. E. (2017). Entropy and selection: Life as an adaptation for universe replication. Complexity. doi.org/10.1155/2017/4745379. LINK

 

Price M. E. (2016). Service-for-prestige theory of leader-follower relations. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2555-1. PDF

 

Price M. E. (2015). Review of Applied evolutionary anthropology: Darwinian approaches to contemporary world issues, M. A. Gibson and D. W. Lawson, Eds. American Anthropologist 117:426-427. PDF

 

Price M. E., Brown S., Dukes A., Kang J. (2015). Bodily attractiveness and egalitarianism are negatively related in males. Evolutionary Psychology 13: 140-166. PDF

 

Price M. E., Van Vugt M. (2015). The service-for-prestige theory of leader-follower relations: A review of the evolutionary psychology and anthropology literatures. In R. D. Arvey & S. M. Colarelli (Eds.), Biological Foundations of Organizational Behavior (pp. 169-201). University of Chicago Press. PDF


Price M. E., Pound N., Scott I. (2014). Female economic dependence and the morality of promiscuity. Archives of Sexual Behavior 43: 1289-1301. PDF

Price M. E., Van Vugt M. (
2014). The evolution of leader-follower reciprocity: The theory of service-for-prestige. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8: 363. LINK

 

Coy A., Green J., Price M. E. (2014). Why is low waist-to-chest ratio attractive in males? The mediating roles of perceived dominance, fitness, and protection ability. Body Image 11: 282-289.

 

Hong J., Kang J., Price M. E. (2014). Extraction of bodily features for gait recognition and gait attractiveness evaluation. Multimedia Tools and Applications 71: 1999-2013. PDF

Pound N., Price M. E. (2013). Human sex differences: Distributions overlap but tails sometimes tell a tale. Commentary on: The ape that thought it was a peacock: Does evolutionary psychology exaggerate human sex differences?, by S. Stewart-Williams & A. Thomas. Psychological Inquiry 24: 224–230. PDF

Johnson D., Price M. E., Van Vugt M. (2013). Darwin’s invisible hand: Market competition, evolution and the firm. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. PDF

Price M. E., Pound N., Dunn J., Hopkins S., Kang J. (2013). Body shape preferences: Associations with rater body shape and sociosexuality. PLoS ONE 8(1): e52532. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0052532. LINK

Price M. E., Dunn J., Hopkins S., Kang J. (2012). Anthropometric correlates of human anger. Evolution and Human Behavior 33: 174-181. PDF

Price M. E. (2012). A distinct theory of biological group selection is unnecessary (although multilevel selection occurs). Commentary on essay by Steven Pinker, posted at Edge.org. LINK  

Price, M. E. (2012). Group selection theories are now more sophisticated, but are they more predictive? (Review of A cooperative species: Human reciprocity and its evolution). Evolutionary Psychology 10: 45-49. PDF

Price M. E., Johnson D. D. P. (2011). The adaptationist theory of cooperation in groups: Evolutionary predictions for organizational cooperation. In Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences, G. Saad, Ed. (pp. 95-134). Berlin: Springer. PDF

Price M. E., Kang J., Dunn J., Hopkins S. (2011). Muscularity and attractiveness as predictors of human egalitarianism. Personality and Individual Differences 50: 636-640. PDF

Price, M. E. (2011). Acting in your own selves interests. (Review of Why everyone [else] is a hypocrite). Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 9: 271-273. PDF

Price, M. E. (2011). Cooperation as a classic problem in behavioural biology. In Evolutionary Psychology: A Critical Introduction, V. Swami, Ed., pp. 73-106. BPS Blackwell. PDF

Takezawa M., Price M. E. (2010). Revisiting “The evolution of reciprocity in sizable groups”: Continuous reciprocity in the repeated N-Person prisoner’s dilemma. Journal of Theoretical Biology 264:188-196. PDF

Price, M. E. (2010). Free riders as a blind spot of equity theory: An evolutionary correction. In Managerial Ethics: Managing the Psychology of Morality, M. Schminke, Ed., pp. 235-256. New York: Routledge. PDF

Price M. E. (2009). How Christian beliefs harness Darwinian cooperative instincts. The Global Spiral 10:2 (May). PDF

Price M. E. (2008). The resurrection of group selection as a theory of human cooperation. (Extended review of Foundations of Human Sociality and Moral Sentiments and Material Interests). Social Justice Research 21: 228-240. PDF

Brown W. M., Price M. E., Kang J., Pound N., Zhao Y., Yu H. (2008). Fluctuating asymmetry and preferences for sex-typical bodily characteristics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105: 12938–12943. PDF

Johnson D. D. P., Price M. E., Takezawa M. (2008). Renaissance of the individual: Reciprocity, positive assortment, and the puzzle of human cooperation. In Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology, C. Crawford & D. Krebs, Eds., pp. 331-352. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum. PDF

Curry O. S., Price M. E., Price, J. G. (2008). Patience is a virtue: Cooperative people have lower discount rates. Personality and Individual Differences 44: 778–783. PDF

Price M. E., Brown W. M., Curry O. S. (2007). The integrative framework for the behavioural sciences has already been discovered, and it is the adaptationist approach. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30: 39-40. PDF

Brown W. M., Price M. E. (2007). Evolutionary psychology sensu lato. (Review of Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology). Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 5: 235-240. PDF

Price M. E. (2007). Review of Mind and religion: Psychological and cognitive foundations of religiosity. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13: 1046-1047. PDF

Price M. E. (2006). Judgments about cooperators and freeriders on a Shuar work team: An evolutionary psychological perspective. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 101: 20-35. PDF

Price M. E. (2006). Monitoring, reputation and “greenbeard” reciprocity in a Shuar work team. Journal of Organizational Behavior 27: 201-219. PDF

Tooby J., Cosmides L., Price M. E. (2006). Cognitive adaptations for n-person exchange: The evolutionary roots of organizational behavior. Managerial and Decision Economics 27:103-129. PDF

Hagen E. H., Barrett H. C., Price M. E. (2006). Do human parents face a quantity/quality tradeoff? Evidence from a Shuar community. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 130:405-418. PDF

Price M. E. (2005). Punitive sentiment among the Shuar and in industrialized societies: Cross-cultural similarities. Evolution and Human Behavior 26: 279-287. PDF

Hagen E. H., Price M. E., Tooby J. (2005). A Preliminary Report on Darkness in El Dorado. Pages 355-365 in Taking Sides: Anthropology (3rd edition), K. M. Endicott & R. L. Welsch (Eds). Guilford, CT: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. PDF

Price M. E. (2003). Pro-community altruism and social status in a Shuar village. Human Nature 14: 191-208. PDF

Price M. E., Cosmides L., Tooby J. (2002). Punitive sentiment as an anti-free rider psychological device. Evolution and Human Behavior 23: 203-231. PDF

Hagen E. H., Hames R. B., Craig N. M., Lauer M. T., Price M. E. (2001). Parental investment and child health in a Yanomamö village suffering short-term food stress. Journal of Biosocial Science 33: 503-528. PDF

 

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