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  1. A reply to Fairness, generosity and conditionality in the welfare system: the case of UK disability benefits by Ellioy Johnson and Daniel Nettle: Inequality and existential threat

    Article • Global Discourse, January 2021, Policy Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  2. Kleptoparasitism in gulls Laridae at an urban and a coastal foraging environment: an assessment of ecological predictors

    Article • Bird Study, November 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Dickins

  3. Evolution and Prenatal Development

    Article • March 2015, Wiley

    Professor Tom Dickins

  4. Suicide terrorism and post-mortem benefits

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, August 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  5. The Gradual Extinction of Transferred Avoidance Stimulus Functions

    Article • The Psychological Record, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Dickins

  6. Why does relative deprivation affect mental health? The role of justice, trust and social rank in psychological wellbeing and paranoid ideation

    Article • Journal of Public Mental Health, June 2014, Emerald

    Professor Tom Dickins

  7. Group-level traits can be studied with standard evolutionary theory

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  8. THE NICHE CONSTRUCTION PERSPECTIVE: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL

    Article • Evolution, January 2014, Wiley

    Professor Tom Dickins

  9. Epigenetic adaptations: a reply to Suter, Boffelli and Martin

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Tom Dickins

  10. Patterns of physical and psychological development in future teenage mothers

    Article • Evolution Medicine and Public Health, August 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Tom Dickins

  11. Editorial

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, March 2013, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Tom Dickins

  12. Reciprocal causation and the proximate–ultimate distinction

    Article • Biology & Philosophy, December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Dickins

  13. A behavioural ecological classic reborn

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, December 2012, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Tom Dickins

  14. Teenage pregnancy in the United Kingdom: A behavioral ecological perspective.

    Article • Journal of Social Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology, September 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Tom Dickins

  15. The extended evolutionary synthesis and the role of soft inheritance in evolution

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Tom Dickins

  16. A review of David Sloan Wilson (2011)The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, December 2011, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Tom Dickins

  17. Teenage pregnancy and motherhood: How might evolutionary theory inform policy?

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, March 2011, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Tom Dickins

  18. Evolutionary accounts of human behavioural diversity

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Tom Dickins

  19. Evolutionary Theory and the Ultimate–Proximate Distinction in the Human Behavioral Sciences

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, January 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tom Dickins

  20. Early-life conditions and age at first pregnancy in British women

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, November 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Tom Dickins

  21. The generation game is the cooperation game: The role of grandparents in the timing of reproduction

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, February 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  22. Two more things for consideration: Sexual orientation and conduct disorder

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, August 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  23. Changes in Art: Market Forces or Evolution?: A Response to Colin Martindale

    Article • Empirical Studies of the Arts, July 2009, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tom Dickins

  24. Birthweight and paternal involvement predict early reproduction in British women: Evidence from the National Child Development Study

    Article • American Journal of Human Biology, January 2009, Wiley

    Professor Tom Dickins

  25. Is this conjectural phenotypic dichotomy a plausible outcome of genomic imprinting?

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  26. Sex-related invariance across cultures in an online role-playing game

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, June 2008, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Tom Dickins

  27. Mother nature's tolerant ways: Why non-genetic inheritance has nothing to do with evolution

    Article • New Ideas in Psychology, March 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Tom Dickins

  28. Social dominance and sexual orientation

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, March 2008, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Tom Dickins

  29. Humane intelligence

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, March 2008, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Tom Dickins

  30. Designed calibration: Naturally selected flexibility, not non-genetic inheritance

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, August 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  31. Mind the gap(s)… in theory, method and data: Re-examining Kanazawa (2006)

    Article • British Journal of Health Psychology, May 2007, Wiley

    Professor Tom Dickins

  32. Synthesis in the human evolutionary behavioural sciences

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, March 2007, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Tom Dickins

  33. Editorial

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, March 2007, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Tom Dickins

  34. Women’s Hedonic Ratings of Body Odor of Heterosexual and Homosexual Men

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, December 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Dickins, Dr Mark D Griffiths

  35. The phylogeny and ontogeny of adaptations

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  36. Aggression, empathy and sexual orientation in males

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, February 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Tom Dickins, Dr Mark D Griffiths

  37. The self-reported importance of olfaction during human mate choice

    Article • Sexualities Evolution & Gender, December 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Dickins, Dr Mark D Griffiths

  38. Can There Ever Be a Non-Specific Adaptation? A Response to Simon J. Hampton

    Article • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, September 2005, Wiley

    Professor Tom Dickins

  39. On sociosexual cognitive architecture

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  40. Book Review: On the Aims of Evolutionary Theory

    Article • Evolutionary Psychology, January 2005, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tom Dickins

  41. Book Review: A Necessary Pain in the Heart

    Article • Evolutionary Psychology, January 2005, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tom Dickins

  42. Challenging the rational choice theorist perspective Emotion, evolution and rationality. Dylan Evans and Pierre Cruse (Eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. No. of pages 292. ISBN 0-19-852898-1. (paperback)

    Article • Applied Cognitive Psychology, January 2005, Wiley

    Professor Tom Dickins

  43. Social Constructionism as Cognitive Science

    Article • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, December 2004, Wiley

    Professor Tom Dickins

  44. Possible phylogenies: The role of hypotheses, weak inferences, and falsification

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  45. General Symbol Machines: The First Stage in the Evolution of Symbolic Communication

    Article • Evolutionary Psychology, January 2003, SAGE Publications

    Professor Tom Dickins

  46. Is empirical imagination a constraint on adaptationist theory construction?

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, August 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  47. Evolution, Development and Learning — a Nested Hierarchy?

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tom Dickins

  48. How the mind works. Steven Pinker. Allen Lane: W. W. Norton, 1998. Pp. 660.

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, March 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  49. A 'considered' evolutionary perspective on the 'glass ceiling'

    Article • Psychology Evolution & Gender, January 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Dickins

  50. Helping Undergraduates to Become More Effective Learners ‐An Evaluation of Two Learning Interventions

    Article • Innovations in Education and Training International, November 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Dickins

  51. The evolution of communication. Marc D. Hauser. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. Pp. 760.

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, April 1998, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  52. Full-time studying and long-term relationships: make or break for mature students?

    Article • British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, February 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Dickins

  53. Full-time studying and long-term relationships: Make or break for mature students?

    Article • British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, February 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tom Dickins

  54. Language and human behavior. Derek Bickerton. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995. Pp. 180.

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, July 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  55. The seeds of speech: Language origin and evolution. Aitchison Jean. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp 281.

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, April 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins

  56. Antecedents of teenage pregnancy: using an evolutionary perspective in the search for mechanisms

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tom Dickins