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  1. Self sacrifice and kin psychology in war: threats to family predict decisions to volunteer for a women's paramilitary organization

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, November 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Robert Francis Lynch

  2. Support for populist candidates in the 2016 presidential elections predicted by declining social capital and an increase in suicides.

    Article • September 2019, Center for Open Science

    Dr Robert Francis Lynch

  3. Immigrants who integrate achieve higher social status but suffer reduced reproductive success.

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Robert Francis Lynch

  4. Sexual conflict and the Trivers-Willard hypothesis: Females prefer daughters and males prefer sons

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Robert Francis Lynch

  5. In-Group Versus Out-Group

    Article • October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Robert Francis Lynch

  6. Newly Digitized Database Reveals the Lives and Families of Forced Migrants from Finnish Karelia

    Article • Finnish Yearbook of Population Research, December 2017, Finnish Yearbook of Population Research

    Dr Robert Francis Lynch

  7. Fathers enhance social bonds among paternal half-siblings in immature olive baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis)

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Robert Francis Lynch

  8. Religious Devotion and Extrinsic Religiosity Affect In-group Altruism and Out-group Hostility Oppositely in Rural Jamaica

    Article • Evolutionary Psychological Science, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Robert Francis Lynch

  9. Common marriage practices may result from a conflict of interest within families.

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Robert Francis Lynch

  10. The impact of parental investment on lifetime reproductive success in Iceland

    Article • PeerJ, January 2017, PeerJ

    Dr Robert Francis Lynch

  11. Parents face quantity–quality trade-offs between reproduction and investment in offspring in Iceland

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, May 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Robert Francis Lynch

  12. Self-deception inhibits laughter

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, September 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Robert Francis Lynch

  13. It's funny because we think it's true: laughter is augmented by implicit preferences

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, March 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Robert Francis Lynch