Recent Publications
- Gottlieb, L., & Schmitt, D.P. (2023). When staying home is not safe: An investigation of the role of attachment style on stress and intimate partner violence in the time of COVID-19. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 52(2), 639-654.
- Schmitt, D.P. (2023). Extensions of Sexual Strategies Theory across peoples, cultures, and ecologies. In D.M. Buss (Ed), The oxford handbook of human mating (pp. 67-118).
- Costello, W., Rolon, V., Thomas, A. G., & Schmitt, D.P. (2022). Levels of well-being among men who are incels (Involuntarily Celibate). Evolutionary Psychological Science, 8(4), 375-390.
- Randall, A.K.,…Schmitt, D.P., et al. (2022). Coping with global uncertainty: Perceptions of COVID-19 psychological distress, relationship quality, and dyadic coping for romantic partners across 27 countries. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 39, 3-33. DOI: 10.1177/02654075211034236
- Buss, D.M., Durkee, P.K., Shackelford, T., Bowdle, B., Schmitt, D.P., Brase, G.L., Choe, J.C., & Trofimova, I. (2020). Human status criteria: Sex differences and similarities across 14 nations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119, 979-998.
- Buss, D.M., & Schmitt, D.P. (2019). Mate preferences and their behavioral manifestations. Annual Review of Psychology, 70, 77-110.
- Schmitt, D.P. (2019). Why sometimes a man is more like a woman: Insights into the “gender paradox” of psychological sex differences around the world. In Realo, A (Ed.). Festschrift for Juri Allik.
- Schmitt, D.P., & Jonason, P.K. (2019). Self-esteem as an adaptive sociometer of mating success: Evaluating evidence of sex-specific psychological design across 10 world regions. Personality and Individual Differences, 143, 13-20.
- Treger, S., & Schmitt, D.P. (2019). Individualistic, autonomous, and permissive: Examining the links between self-construal and sexual permissiveness. Journal of Sex Research, 56, 705-717.
- Schmitt, D.P. (2017). Sexual dials (not switches) theory: An evolutionary perspective on sex and gender complexity. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 1, 93-102.
- Schmitt, D.P., Alcalay, L., Allik, J., Alves, I.B., Anderson, C.A., Angelini, A.L., et al. (2017). Narcissism and the strategic pursuit of short-term mating: Universal links across 11 world regions of the International Sexuality Description Project-2. Psychological Topics, 26, 89-137.
- Schmitt, D.P. (2016). Fundamentals of human mating strategies. In D. M. Buss (Ed.), The handbook of evolutionary psychology: Foundations (p. 294–316). John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Schmitt, D.P. (2015). The evolution of culturally-variable sex differences: Men and women are not always different, but when they are…it appears not to result from patriarchy or sex role socialization. In Weekes-Shackelford, V.A., & Shackelford, T.K. (Eds.), The evolution of sexuality (pp. 221-256). New York: Springer. Pirlott, A., & Schmitt, D.P. (2014). Gendered sexual culture. In A. Cohen (Ed.), Culture reexamined: Broadening our understanding of social and evolutionary influences (pp. 191-216). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association Books.
- Schmitt, D.P. (2014). Evaluating evidence of mate preference adaptations: How do we really know what Homo sapiens sapiens really want? In Weekes-Shackelford, V.A., & Shackelford, T.K. (Eds.), Evolutionary perspectives on human sexual psychology and behavior (pp. 3-39). New York: Springer.