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What Can Cross-Cultural Correlations Teach Us about Human Nature? (2014)
Journal Article
Pollet, T., Tybur, J., Frankenhuis, W., & Rickard, I. (2014). What Can Cross-Cultural Correlations Teach Us about Human Nature?. Human Nature, 25(3), 410-429. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-014-9206-3

Many recent evolutionary psychology and human behavioral ecology studies have tested hypotheses by examining correlations between variables measured at a group level (e.g., state, country, continent). In such analyses, variables collected for each ag... Read More about What Can Cross-Cultural Correlations Teach Us about Human Nature?.

Why are childhood family factors associated with timing of maturation? A role for internal prediction (2014)
Journal Article
Rickard, I., Frankenhuis, W., & Nettle, D. (2014). Why are childhood family factors associated with timing of maturation? A role for internal prediction. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9(1), 3-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691613513467

Children, particularly girls, who experience early familial adversity tend to go on to reach sexual maturity relatively early. This feature of adolescent development is believed to be an evolved strategy that arose because individuals with genes that... Read More about Why are childhood family factors associated with timing of maturation? A role for internal prediction.