SELECTED ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Levels of Analysis and Explanatory Progress in Psychology
Al-Shawaf, L. (2024). Levels of analysis and explanatory progress in psychology: Integrating frameworks from biology and cognitive science for a more comprehensive science of the mind. Psychological Review.
Cross-Cultural Research on Human Behavior
Kerry, N., Al-Shawaf, L., Barbato, M., Batres, C., Blake, K., Cha, Y. J., Chauvin, G., Clifton, J. D. W., Fernandez, A. M., Galbarczyk, Ghossainy, M., A., Jang, D. Jasienska, G., Karasawa, M., Laustsen, L., Loria. R., Luberti, F., Moran, J., Pavlović, Z… Murray, D. R. (in press). Experimental and cross-cultural evidence that parenthood and parental care motives increase social conservatism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Pick, C. M., Ko, A., Kenrick, D. T., Wiezel, A., Wormley, A. S., Awad, E., Al-Shawaf, L., Barry, O., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Boonyasiriwat, W., Brandstätter, E., Ceylan-Batur, S., Choy, B. K. C., Crispim, A. C., Cruz, J. E., David, D., David, O. A., Defelipe, R. P., Elmas, P., Espinosa,… & Varnum, M. E. W. (in press). Fundamental social motives measured across forty-two cultures in two waves. Scientific Data.
Pick, C. M., Ko, A., Wormley, A. S., Wiezel, A., Kenrick, D. T., Al-Shawaf, L., Barry, O., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Boonyasiriwat, W., Brandstätter, Crispim, A. C., Cruz, J. E., David, D., David, O. A., Defelipe, R. P., Elmas, P., Espinosa, A., Fernandez, A. M., Fetvadjiev, V. H., … & Varnum, M. E. W. (in press). Family still matters: Human social motivation during a global pandemic. Evolution and Human Behavior.
Kowal, M., Sorokowski, P., Pisanski, K., Valentova, J. V., Varella, M. A. C., Frederick, D. A., Al-Shawaf, L., García, F. E., Giammusso, I., Gjoneska, B., Kozma, L., Otterbring, T., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Pfuhl, G., Stöckli, S., Studzinska, A., Toplu-Demirtaş, E., Touloumakos, A. K., Bakos, B. B., ... Zumárraga-Espinosa, M. (in press). Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries. Evolution and Human Behavior.
Sawicki, A., Żemojtel-Piotrowska, M., Balcerowska, J. M., Sawicka, M. J., Piotrowski, J., Sedikides, C., Jonason, P.K., Maltby, J., Adamovic, M., Agada, A.M.G., Ahmed, O., Al-Shawaf, L., ... & Zand, S. (2021). The fear of COVID-19 scale: its structure and measurement invariance across 48 countries. Psychological Assessment.
Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Curry, O. S., De Smet, D., Ermer, E., Kim, S., Kim, S., Li, N. P., Lopez Seal, M. F., McClung, J., O, J., Ohtsubo, Y., Quillien, T., Schaub, M., Sell, A., van Leeuwen, F., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J. (2017). Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Sell, A., Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Lim, J., Krauss, A., Feldman, A., Rascanu, R., Sugiyama, L., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2017). The grammar of anger: Mapping the computational architecture of a recalibrational emotion. Cognition, 168, 110-128.
Atari, M., Chaudhary, N., & Al-Shawaf, L. (2020). Mate preferences in three Muslim-majority countries: Sex differences and personality correlates. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11(4), 533-545.
Evolution
Lewis, D. M. G., Al-Shawaf, L., Semchenko, A. Y., & Evans, K. C. (in press). Error Management Theory and biased first impressions: How do people perceive potential mates under conditions of uncertainty? Evolution and Human Behavior.
Al-Shawaf, L., Lewis, D. M. G., Barbaro, N., & Wehbe, Y. S. (in press). The Products of Evolution: Conceptual Distinctions, Evidentiary Criteria, and Empirical Examples. In Shackelford, T. K. (Ed.), The SAGE Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology.
Ghossainy, M.E., Al-Shawaf, L., & Woolley, J.D. (in press). Epistemic vigilance in early ontogeny: Children’s use of nonverbal behavior to detect deception. Evolutionary Psychology.
Al-Shawaf, L., Lewis, D.M.G., Wehbe, Y, & Buss, D.M. (in press). Context, environment, and learning in evolutionary psychology. In T.K. Shackelford and V.A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. New York: Springer.
Al-Shawaf, L., Zreik, K. A., & Buss, D.M. (2018). 13 Misunderstandings about Natural Selection. In T.K. Shackelford and V.A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. New York: Springer.
Lewis, D.M.G., Al-Shawaf, L., Conroy-Beam, D., Asao, K., & Buss, D. M. (2017). Evolutionary Psychology: A How-To Guide. American Psychologist.
Al-Shawaf, L., & Zreik, K. A. (2018). Constraints on natural selection. In T.K. Shackelford and V.A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. New York: Springer.
Lewis, D. M. G., Al-Shawaf, L., & Buss, D. M. (in press). Evolutionary personality psychology. In Corr, P., & Matthews, G. (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Emotions
Al-Shawaf, L., Conroy-Beam, D., Asao, K., & Buss, D.M. (2015). Human emotions: An evolutionary psychological perspective. Emotion Review, 1-14.
Al-Shawaf, L. (2016). The evolutionary psychology of hunger. Appetite, 105, 591-595.
Al-Shawaf, L., Lewis, D.M.G., & Buss, D. M (2017). Sex differences in disgust: Why are women more easily disgusted than men? Emotion Review.
Al-Shawaf, L., & Lewis, D.M.G. (2017). Evolutionary psychology and the emotions. In V. Zeigler-Hill and T.K. Shackelford (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer.
Scrivner, C., Sznycer, D., Lukaszewski, A, & Al-Shawaf, L. (in press). Social emotions are governed by a common grammar of social valuation: Theoretical foundations and applications to human personality and the criminal justice system. In L. Al-Shawaf and T. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions. Oxford University Press.
Lewis, D.M.G., & Al-Shawaf, L. (in press). How jealousy works. In L. Al-Shawaf and T. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions. Oxford University Press.
Sznycer, D., Landers, M., & Al-Shawaf, L. (in press). Shame. In L. Al-Shawaf and T. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions. Oxford University Press.
Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Curry, O. S., De Smet, D., Ermer, E., Kim, S., Kim, S., Li, N. P., Lopez Seal, M. F., McClung, J., O, J., Ohtsubo, Y., Quillien, T., Schaub, M., Sell, A., van Leeuwen, F., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J. (2017). Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Sell, A., Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Lim, J., Krauss, A., Feldman, A., Rascanu, R., Sugiyama, L., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2017). The grammar of anger: Mapping the computational architecture of a recalibrational emotion. Cognition, 168, 110-128.
Levels of Analysis and Explanatory Progress in Psychology
Al-Shawaf, L. (2024). Levels of analysis and explanatory progress in psychology: Integrating frameworks from biology and cognitive science for a more comprehensive science of the mind. Psychological Review.
Cross-Cultural Research on Human Behavior
Kerry, N., Al-Shawaf, L., Barbato, M., Batres, C., Blake, K., Cha, Y. J., Chauvin, G., Clifton, J. D. W., Fernandez, A. M., Galbarczyk, Ghossainy, M., A., Jang, D. Jasienska, G., Karasawa, M., Laustsen, L., Loria. R., Luberti, F., Moran, J., Pavlović, Z… Murray, D. R. (in press). Experimental and cross-cultural evidence that parenthood and parental care motives increase social conservatism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Pick, C. M., Ko, A., Kenrick, D. T., Wiezel, A., Wormley, A. S., Awad, E., Al-Shawaf, L., Barry, O., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Boonyasiriwat, W., Brandstätter, E., Ceylan-Batur, S., Choy, B. K. C., Crispim, A. C., Cruz, J. E., David, D., David, O. A., Defelipe, R. P., Elmas, P., Espinosa,… & Varnum, M. E. W. (in press). Fundamental social motives measured across forty-two cultures in two waves. Scientific Data.
Pick, C. M., Ko, A., Wormley, A. S., Wiezel, A., Kenrick, D. T., Al-Shawaf, L., Barry, O., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Boonyasiriwat, W., Brandstätter, Crispim, A. C., Cruz, J. E., David, D., David, O. A., Defelipe, R. P., Elmas, P., Espinosa, A., Fernandez, A. M., Fetvadjiev, V. H., … & Varnum, M. E. W. (in press). Family still matters: Human social motivation during a global pandemic. Evolution and Human Behavior.
Kowal, M., Sorokowski, P., Pisanski, K., Valentova, J. V., Varella, M. A. C., Frederick, D. A., Al-Shawaf, L., García, F. E., Giammusso, I., Gjoneska, B., Kozma, L., Otterbring, T., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Pfuhl, G., Stöckli, S., Studzinska, A., Toplu-Demirtaş, E., Touloumakos, A. K., Bakos, B. B., ... Zumárraga-Espinosa, M. (in press). Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries. Evolution and Human Behavior.
Sawicki, A., Żemojtel-Piotrowska, M., Balcerowska, J. M., Sawicka, M. J., Piotrowski, J., Sedikides, C., Jonason, P.K., Maltby, J., Adamovic, M., Agada, A.M.G., Ahmed, O., Al-Shawaf, L., ... & Zand, S. (2021). The fear of COVID-19 scale: its structure and measurement invariance across 48 countries. Psychological Assessment.
Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Curry, O. S., De Smet, D., Ermer, E., Kim, S., Kim, S., Li, N. P., Lopez Seal, M. F., McClung, J., O, J., Ohtsubo, Y., Quillien, T., Schaub, M., Sell, A., van Leeuwen, F., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J. (2017). Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Sell, A., Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Lim, J., Krauss, A., Feldman, A., Rascanu, R., Sugiyama, L., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2017). The grammar of anger: Mapping the computational architecture of a recalibrational emotion. Cognition, 168, 110-128.
Atari, M., Chaudhary, N., & Al-Shawaf, L. (2020). Mate preferences in three Muslim-majority countries: Sex differences and personality correlates. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11(4), 533-545.
Evolution
Lewis, D. M. G., Al-Shawaf, L., Semchenko, A. Y., & Evans, K. C. (in press). Error Management Theory and biased first impressions: How do people perceive potential mates under conditions of uncertainty? Evolution and Human Behavior.
Al-Shawaf, L., Lewis, D. M. G., Barbaro, N., & Wehbe, Y. S. (in press). The Products of Evolution: Conceptual Distinctions, Evidentiary Criteria, and Empirical Examples. In Shackelford, T. K. (Ed.), The SAGE Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology.
Ghossainy, M.E., Al-Shawaf, L., & Woolley, J.D. (in press). Epistemic vigilance in early ontogeny: Children’s use of nonverbal behavior to detect deception. Evolutionary Psychology.
Al-Shawaf, L., Lewis, D.M.G., Wehbe, Y, & Buss, D.M. (in press). Context, environment, and learning in evolutionary psychology. In T.K. Shackelford and V.A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. New York: Springer.
Al-Shawaf, L., Zreik, K. A., & Buss, D.M. (2018). 13 Misunderstandings about Natural Selection. In T.K. Shackelford and V.A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. New York: Springer.
Lewis, D.M.G., Al-Shawaf, L., Conroy-Beam, D., Asao, K., & Buss, D. M. (2017). Evolutionary Psychology: A How-To Guide. American Psychologist.
Al-Shawaf, L., & Zreik, K. A. (2018). Constraints on natural selection. In T.K. Shackelford and V.A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. New York: Springer.
Lewis, D. M. G., Al-Shawaf, L., & Buss, D. M. (in press). Evolutionary personality psychology. In Corr, P., & Matthews, G. (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Emotions
Al-Shawaf, L., Conroy-Beam, D., Asao, K., & Buss, D.M. (2015). Human emotions: An evolutionary psychological perspective. Emotion Review, 1-14.
Al-Shawaf, L. (2016). The evolutionary psychology of hunger. Appetite, 105, 591-595.
Al-Shawaf, L., Lewis, D.M.G., & Buss, D. M (2017). Sex differences in disgust: Why are women more easily disgusted than men? Emotion Review.
Al-Shawaf, L., & Lewis, D.M.G. (2017). Evolutionary psychology and the emotions. In V. Zeigler-Hill and T.K. Shackelford (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer.
Scrivner, C., Sznycer, D., Lukaszewski, A, & Al-Shawaf, L. (in press). Social emotions are governed by a common grammar of social valuation: Theoretical foundations and applications to human personality and the criminal justice system. In L. Al-Shawaf and T. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions. Oxford University Press.
Lewis, D.M.G., & Al-Shawaf, L. (in press). How jealousy works. In L. Al-Shawaf and T. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions. Oxford University Press.
Sznycer, D., Landers, M., & Al-Shawaf, L. (in press). Shame. In L. Al-Shawaf and T. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions. Oxford University Press.
Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Curry, O. S., De Smet, D., Ermer, E., Kim, S., Kim, S., Li, N. P., Lopez Seal, M. F., McClung, J., O, J., Ohtsubo, Y., Quillien, T., Schaub, M., Sell, A., van Leeuwen, F., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J. (2017). Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Sell, A., Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Lim, J., Krauss, A., Feldman, A., Rascanu, R., Sugiyama, L., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2017). The grammar of anger: Mapping the computational architecture of a recalibrational emotion. Cognition, 168, 110-128.
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