Evolutionary Social Psychology Laboratory

Namuth, A., Bruton., S, Wright, L., Sacco, D., (2024) Behavioral Misconduct as a Basis for Scientific Retraction. Journal of Academic Ethics, 1-12.

 

Buckner, Z., Namuth, A., Brown, M., Sacco, D., (2024) The signaling function of vaccine status

and masking in evaluations of online dating profiles. Experimental Psychology Society, 1-12.

 

Sacco, D., Namuth, A., Macchione., A, Brown, M., (2024) Differences in Support for Retractions Based on Information Hazards Among Undergraduates and Federally Funded Scientists. Journal of Academic Ethics, 1-16.

 

Namuth, A., Brown, M., Macchione, A., Sacco, D., (2023). Assessing the Online Communities Support for Various Reasons for Article Retraction: A Preliminary Survey. Ethics in Progress, 14(2), 50-67.

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Brown, M., Sacco, D. F., Buckner, Z. (2023) Cheesy Does It? Comparing Women’s Preferences for Men’s Use of Successful and Unsuccessful Humor Displays. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

 

Macchione, A. L., Sacco, D. F., (2023) Comparing the Efficacy of Two Forms of Self-Affirmation to Reduce Stereotype Threat Effects on Women’s Math Performance. Journal for STEM Education Research

 

Boykin, K., Brown, M., Drea, K., Sacco D. F., (2023) Perceptions of inferred parental ability through sexually dimorphic facial features. Personal Relationships

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Macchione, A. L., Sacco, D. F, Brown, M., & Keefer, L. A. (2022). Company and perceiver characteristics influencing willingness to invest in female- versus male-led start-up companies in STEM and non-STEM fields. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

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Macchione, A. L., & Sacco, D. F. (2022). The effect of workplace gender composition on investment interest in hypothetical companies. Psychological Reports.

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Macchione, A. L., Brown, M., & Sacco, D. F. (2022). Crowd salience reduces aversion to facially communicated psychopathy but not narcissism.

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Brown, M., & Sacco, D. F. (2022). How and when crowd salience activates pathogen-avoidant motives. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences.

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Sacco, D. F., Brown, M., Macchione, A. L., & Young, S. G. (2021). No evidence for social surrogacy in fostering intentions to follow social distancing guidelines.

 

Sacco, D. F., Bruton, S. V., Brown, M., & Medlin, M. (2021). Skin in the game: Personal accountability and journal peer review. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics.

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Brown, M., Sacco, D. F., Holifield, K., Drea, K., & Macchione, A. (2021). 21 inferences of parental ability through facial and bodily features. In T. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.) Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Parenting. Oxford University Press, UK.

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Sacco, D. F., Brown, M., & May, H. (2020). Not taking a joke: The influence of target status, sex and age on reactions to workplace humor. Psychological Reports.

 

Bruton, S. V., Medlin, M., Brown, M., & Sacco, D. F. (2020). Personal motivations and systemic incentives: Scientists on questionable research practices. Science and Engineering Ethics.

 

Sacco, D. F., Holifield, K., Drea, K., Brown, M., & Macchione, A. (2020). Dad and mom bods: Inferences of parenting ability from bodily cues. Evolutionary Psychological Science.

 

Medlin, M., Sacco, D. F., & Brown, M. (2020). Political orientation and belief in science in a U.S. college sample. Psychological Reports.

 

Bruton, S. V., Brown, M., & Sacco, D. F. (2020). Ethical consistency and experience: An attempt to influence researcher attitudes toward questionable research practices through reading prompts. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics.

 

Medlin, M., Sacco, D. F., & Brown. (2020). The relation between narcissistic personality traits and accurate identification of, and preference for, facially communicated narcissism. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 6, 166-173.

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Brown, M., Keefer, L., & Sacco, D. F. (2020). Relational insecurity heightens sensitivity to limbal rings in partnered women. Personal Relationships, 27, 61-75.

 

Brown, M., Medlin, M., Sacco, D. F., & Young, S. G. (2019). Facing competing motives: Testing for motivational tradeoffs in affiliative and pathogen-avoidant motives via extraverted face preferences. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 4, 440-446.

 

Brown, M., Keefer, L. A., Sacco, D. F., & Bermond, A. (2019). Is the cure a wall? Behavioral immune system responses to a disease metaphor for immigration. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 5, 343-356.

 

Sacco, D. F., & Brown, M. (2019). Assessing the efficacy of a training intervention to reduce acceptance of questionable research practices in psychology graduate students. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 14, 209-218.

 

Sacco, D. F., Brown, M., & Medlin, M. (2019). Other-oriented perfectionism and relationship status influence health evaluations of faces with limbal rings. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 5, 447-453

 

Bruton, S. V., Brown, M., & Sacco, D. F. (2019). Testing an active intervention to deter researchers’ use of questionable research practices. Research Integrity and Peer Review. 4, 1-9.