Selected papers (click to access)

Necessities vs. Luxuries - The budget allocation and screening programs can be used to test tradeoffs and priorities in any domain. Contact Norm Li for more information.

Li, N. P. (2007). Mate Preference Necessities in Long- and Short-Term Mating: People Prioritize in Themselves What Their Mates Prioritize in Them. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 39, 528-535.

Cottrell, C. A., Neuberg, S. L., & Li, N. P. (2007). What Do People Desire in Others? A Sociofunctional Perspective on the Importance of Different Valued Characteristics. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 208-231.

Li, N. P., & Kenrick, D. T. (2006). Sex similarities and differences in preferences for short-term mates: What, whether, and why. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 468-489.

Li, N. P., Bailey, J. M., Kenrick, D. T., & Linsenmeier, J. A. W. (2002). The necessities and luxuries of mate preferences: Testing the tradeoffs. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 947-955.

Mating Strategies and related

Durante, K. M., & Li, N. P. (2009). Oestradiol and opportunistic mating in women. Biology Letters, 5, 179-182.

Jonason, P. K., Li, N. P., & Cason, M. J. (2009). The “booty call”: A compromise between men and women’s ideal mating strategies. Journal of Sex Research, 46, 1-11.

Jonason, P. K., Li, N. P., Webster, G. D., & Schmitt, D. P. (2009). The Dark Triad: Traits that facilitate short-term mating in men. European Journal of Personality, 23, 5-18.

Li, N. P., Griskevicius, V., Durante, K. M., Jonason, P. K., Pasisz, D. J., & Aumer, K. (2009). An evolutionary perspective on humor: Sexual selection or interest indication? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35 , 923-936.

Durante, K. M., Li, N. P., & Haselton, M. G. (2008). Changes in women’s choice of dress across the ovulatory cycle: Naturalistic and experimental evidence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1451-1460.

Li, N. P., Halterman, R. A., Cason, M. J., Knight, G. P., & Maner, J. K. (2008). The stress-affiliation paradigm revisited: Do people prefer the kindness of strangers or their attractiveness? Personality and Individual Differences, 44, 382-391.

Li, N. P. (2007). Intelligent priorities: Adaptive long- and short-term mate preferences. In G. Geher, & G. Miller (Eds.), Mating Intelligence: Sex, Relationships, and the Mind's Reproductive System. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Roese, N. J., Pennington, G. L., Coleman, J., Janicki, M., Li, N. P., & Kenrick, D. T. (2006). Sex Differences in Regret: All For Love? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 770-780.

Dynamical Systems

Kenrick, D. T., Li, N. P., & Butner, J. (2003). Dynamical evolutionary psychology: Individual decision rules and emergent social norms. Psychological Review, 110, 3-28.

Kenrick, D. T., Maner, J., Butner, J., Li, N. P., Becker, D. V., & Schaller, M. (2002). Dynamical evolutionary psychology: Mapping the domains of the new interactionist paradigm. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 6, 347-356.