Sex differences in sports interest and motivation: An evolutionary perspective.

RO Deaner, SM Balish… - Evolutionary behavioral …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Although girls and women in many societies avidly participate in sports, they have been
traditionally underrepresented compared with boys and men. In this review, we address the …

The relative state model: Integrating need-based and ability-based pathways to risk-taking

S Mishra, P Barclay, A Sparks - Personality and Social …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Who takes risks, and why? Does risk-taking in one context predict risk-taking in other
contexts? We seek to address these questions by considering two non-independent …

The life history of whole-organism performance

SP Lailvaux, JF Husak - The Quarterly Review of Biology, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
For almost 40 years, studies of whole-organism performance have formed a cornerstone of
evolutionary physiology. Although its utility as a heuristic guide is beyond question, and we …

Determinants of cycling performance: a review of the dimensions and features regulating performance in elite cycling competitions

KE Phillips, WG Hopkins - Sports medicine-open, 2020 - Springer
Background A key tenet of sports performance research is to provide coaches and athletes
with information to inform better practice, yet the determinants of athletic performance in …

Focal length affects depicted shape and perception of facial images

V Třebický, J Fialová, K Kleisner, J Havlíček - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Static photographs are currently the most often employed stimuli in research on social
perception. The method of photograph acquisition might affect the depicted subject's facial …

What modern sports competitions can tell us about human nature

P Furley - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
To fully understand human behavior, it seems inevitable to approach it from an evolutionary
perspective. However, much of human behavior has been overwritten by culture and society …

“As rare as a panda”: How facial attractiveness, gender, and occupation affect interview callbacks at Chinese firms

M Maurer-Fazio, L Lei - International Journal of Manpower, 2015 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how both gender and facial attractiveness
affect job candidates' chances of obtaining interviews in China's dynamic internet job board …

Contest competition and men's facial hair: beards may not provide advantages in combat

BJW Dixson, JM Sherlock, WK Cornwell… - Evolution and Human …, 2018 - Elsevier
In contemporary human societies, where direct male-male competition is reduced compared
to ancestral societies, sporting competitions remain an avenue for status acquisition via intra …

Identifying urban areas by combining human judgment and machine learning: An application to India

V Galdo, Y Li, M Rama - Journal of Urban Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
We propose a methodology for identifying urban areas that combines subjective
assessments with machine learning, and we apply it to India, a country where several …

Analysis of the Kenyan distance-running phenomenon

R Tucker, VO Onywera… - … journal of sports …, 2015 - journals.humankinetics.com
Purpose: To investigate the ethnicity of Kenya's most successful international runners,
tracking their evolution over the period of their international emergence and current …