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  • Tybur, J. M., Fan, L., Jones, B. C., Holzleitner, I. J., Lee, A. J., & DeBruine, L. M. (2022). Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism: A registered report. Evolution and Human Behavior, 43, 212-223. pdf

  • Tybur, J. M., Lieberman, D., Fan, L., Kupfer, T., & De Vries, R. E. (2020). Behavioral immune tradeoffs: Interpersonal value relaxes social-pathogen avoidance. Psychological Science, 31, 1211-1221. pdf

  • Tybur, J. M., Wesseldijk, L. W., & Jern, P. (2020). Genetic and environmental influences on disgust proneness, contamination sensitivity, and their covariance. Clinical Psychological Science, 8, 1054-1061. pdf

  • Molho, C., Tybur, J. M., Van Lange, P. A. M., & Balliet, D. P. (2020). Direct and indirect punishment of norm violations in daily life. Nature Communications, 11, 1-9. pdf

  • Karinen, A. K., Molho, C., Kupfer, T. R., & Tybur, J. M. (2019). Disgust sensitivity and opposition to immigration: Does contact avoidance or resistance to foreign norms explain the relationship? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 84, 103817. pdf

  • Tybur, J. M., Çınar, C., Karinen, A. K., & Perone, P. (2018). Why do people vary in disgust? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 373, 20170203. pdf

  • Molho, C., Tybur, J. M., Güler, E., Balliet, D., & Hofmann, W. (2017). Disgust and anger relate to different aggressive responses to moral violations. Psychological Science, 28, 609-619. pdf

  • Balliet, D., Tybur, J. M., & Van Lange, P. A. M. (2017). Functional Interdependence Theory: An evolutionary account of social situations. Personality
    and Social Psychology Review, 21,     361-388. pdf

  • De Vries, R. E., Tybur, J. M., Pollet, T. V., & van Vugt, M. (2016). Evolution, situational affordances, and the HEXACO model of personality. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37, 407-421. pdf

  • Sherlock, J.M., Zietsch, B.P., Tybur, J.M., & Jern, P. (2016) The quantitative genetics of disgust sensitivity. Emotion, 16, 43-51. pdf

  • Tybur, J. M., Inbar, Y., Aarøe, L., Barclay, P., Barlow, F. K., de Barra, M.,… Žeželj, I. (2016). Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of
    political ideology across 30 nations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 12408-12413. pdf

  • Tybur, J.M., & Lieberman, D. (2016). Human pathogen avoidance adaptations. Current Opinion in Psychology, 7, 6-11. pdf

  • Tybur, J. M., Inbar, Y., Güler, E., & Molho, C. (2015). Is the relationship between pathogen avoidance and ideological conservatism explained by sexual strategies? Evolution and Human Behavior, 36, 489-497. pdf

  • Tybur, J. M., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Pollet, T. V. (2014). Behavioral immune system methods: Surveying the present to shape the future. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 8, 274-283. pdf

  • Tybur, J. M., & De Vries, R. E. (2013). Disgust sensitivity and the HEXACO model of personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 55, 660-665. pdf

  • Tybur, J. M., Lieberman, D., Kurzban, R., & DeScioli, P. (2013). Disgust: Evolved function and structure. Psychological Review, 120, 65-84. pdf

  • Tybur, J. M., Bryan, A. D., & Caldwell Hooper, A. E. (2012). An evolutionary perspective on health psychology: New approaches and applications. Evolutionary Psychology, 10, 855-867. pdf

  • Tybur, J. M., Bryan, A. D., Lieberman, D., Caldwell Hooper, A. E., & Merriman, L. A. (2011). Sex differences and sex similarities in disgust sensitivity. Personality and Individual Differences, 51, 343-348. pdf

  • Tybur, J. M., & Gangestad, S. W. (2011). Mate preferences and infectious disease: Theoretical considerations and evidence in humans. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 366, 3375-3388. pdf

  • Tybur, J. M., Lieberman, D. L., & Griskevicius, V. G. (2009). Microbes, mating, and morality: Individual differences in three functional domains of disgust. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 29, 103-122. pdf

  • Tybur, J. M., Miller, G. F., & Gangestad, S. G. (2007). Testing the controversy: An empirical examination of adaptationists' political attitudes. Human Nature, 18, 313-328. pdf