Books

• Grunewald, E., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2007). Edited Volume. Researching the Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Newcastle (UK): Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2021

• Walasek, N., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Panchanathan, K. (in press). An evolutionary model of sensitive periods when the reliability of cues varies across ontogeny. Behavioral Ecology.

• Ellis, B. J., Abrams, L. S., Masten, A. S., Tottenham, N., Sternberg, R. J., & Frankenhuis,
  W. E. (2020). Hidden talents in harsh environments. Development and Psychopathology. Advance online publication: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579420000887

2020

• Hartley, C. A., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2020). Editorial overview: Sensitive and critical periods [introduction to special issue]. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 36, iii-v.

• Frankenhuis, W. E., & Nettle, D. (2020). Integration of plasticity research across disciplines. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 36, 157-162.

• Frankenhuis, W. E., & Nettle, D. (2020). Current debates in human life history research [introduction to special issue]. Evolution and Human Behavior, 41, 469-473.

• Young, E. S., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Ellis, B. J. (2020). Theory and measurement of environmental unpredictability. Evolution and Human Behavior, 41, 550-556.

• Frankenhuis, W. E., Young, E. S., & Ellis, B. J. (2020). The hidden talents approach:
  Theoretical and methodological challenges. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24, 569-581.

• Fenneman, J., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2020). Is impulsive behavior adaptive in harsh and unpredictable environments? A formal model. Evolution and Human Behavior, 41, 261–273.

• Gopnik, A., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Tomasello, M. (2020). Introduction to special issue: ‘Life history and learning: How childhood, caregiving and old age shape cognition and culture in humans and other animals’. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375, 20190489.

• Nettle, D., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2020). Life history theory in psychology and evolutionary biology: One research programme or two? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375, 20190490.

• Frankenhuis, W. E., & Nettle, D. (2020). The strengths of people in poverty. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29, 16-21.

• Frankenhuis, W. E., & Walasek, N. (2020). Modeling the evolution of sensitive periods. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 41, 100715.

• Aczel, B., et al. (2020). A consensus-based transparency checklist for social and behavioral researchers. Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 4-6.

• Frankenhuis, W. E., de Vries, S. A., Bianchi, J., & Ellis, B. J. (2020). Hidden talents in harsh conditions? A preregistered study of memory and reasoning about social dominance. Developmental Science, 23, e12835. Open Data. Video abstract.

2019

• Muskens, M., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Borghans, L. (2019). Low-income students in higher education: Undermatching predicts decreased satisfaction towards the final stage in college. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 48, 1296–1310.

•  Frankenhuis, W. E. (2019). Modeling the evolution and development of emotions. Developmental Psychology, 55, 2002-2005. [commentary on special issue]

• Nettle, D., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2019). The evolution of life history theory: A bibliometric analysis of an interdisciplinary research area. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286, 20190040.

• Frankenhuis, W. E., Nettle, D., & Dall, S. R. X. (2019). A case for environmental statistics for early life effects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374, 20180110.

• *Frankenhuis, W. E., *Panchanathan, K., & *Barto, A. (2019). Enriching behavioural ecology with reinforcement learning methods. Behavioural Processes, 161, 94-100. *Equal contributions.

2018

• Frankenhuis, W. E., Nettle, D., & McNamara, J. M. (2018). Echoes of early life: Recent insights from mathematical modeling. Child Development, 89, 1504–1518.
  

• Frankenhuis, W. E., & Nettle, D. (2018). Open science is liberating and can foster creativity. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13, 439– 447. 
  

• *Frankenhuis, W. E., & *Bijlstra, G. (2018). Does exposure to hostile environments
  predict enhanced emotion detection? Collabra: Psychology, 4, 18. *Equal contributions. Open Data.

• *Frankenhuis, W. E., & *Tiokhin, L. (2018). Bridging evolutionary biology and developmental psychology: Toward an enduring theoretical infrastructure. Child Development, 89, 2303–2306. *Equal contributions. [commentary on Bjorklund, in press]
  

• Mathot, K. J., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2018). Models of pace-of-life syndromes (POLS): A systematic review. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 72, 41.
  

• Frankenhuis, W. E., Roelofs, M. F. A., & de Vries, S. A. (2018). Does exposure to psychosocial adversity enhance deception detection ability? Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 12, 218-229. Open Data.

• Frankenhuis, W. E., & de Weerth, C. (2018). Developmental plasticity. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development (pp. 587-588). SAGE Publications, Inc.
  

2017

• Wouda, J., Bijlstra, G., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Wigboldus, D. H. J. (2017). The collaborative roots of corruption? A replication of Weisel & Shalvi (2015). Collabra: Psychology, 3, 27. Open Data.

• Frankenhuis, W. E.  & Ellis, B. J. (2017). Toward a balanced view of stress-adapted cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e325. [commentary on Pepper & Nettle, 2017]

• Frankenhuis, W. E., & Fraley, R. C. (2017). What do evolutionary models teach us about sensitive periods in psychological development? European Psychologist, 22, 141–150.

• Ellis, B. J., Bianchi, J., Griskevicius, V., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2017). Beyond risk and protective factors: An adaptation-based approach to resilience. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12, 561-587.

• Frankenhuis, W. E., Fenneman, J., van Gelder, J-L., & Godoy, I. (2017). CLASH’s life history foundations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, e84. [commentary on Van Lange et al., 2017]

2016

• Frankenhuis, W. E., & Sheehy-Skeffington, J. (2016). Psychological responses to fluctuating environments. Current Anthropology, 57, 645-646. [commentary on Quinlan et al., 2016]

• Barrett, H. C., Peterson, C. D., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2016). Mapping the cultural learnability landscape of danger. Child Development, 87, 770-781.  [Appendix].

• Frankenhuis, W. E. (2016). Environmental unpredictability. In T. Shackelford and V. Weekes‐Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp. 1-3). Springer.

• Stamps, J., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2016). Bayesian models of development.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 31, 260-268.

• Frankenhuis, W. E., Panchanathan, K., & Belsky, J. (2016). A mathematical model of the evolution of individual differences in developmental plasticity arising through parental bet-hedging. Developmental Science, 19, 251–274.

• *Panchanathan, K., & *Frankenhuis, W. E. (2016). The evolution of sensitive periods in a model of incremental development. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 283, 20152439.  [Appendix]. *Equal contributions.

• Frankenhuis, W. E., Panchanathan, K., & Nettle, D. (2016). Cognition in harsh and unpredictable environments. Current Opinion in Psychology, 7, 76-80.

2015

• Fawcett, T. W., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2015). Adaptive explanations for sensitive windows in development. Frontiers in Zoology, 12 (Suppl. 1): S3.

2014

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

• Pollet, T. V., Tybur, J. M., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Rickard, I. J. (2014). What can cross-cultural correlations teach us about human nature? Human Nature, 25, 410–429.

• Nettle, D., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Rickard, I. J. (2014). The evolution of predictive adaptive responses in humans: Response. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281, 20132822. [reply to commentary by Marco Del Giudice on Nettle et al., 2013]

• Rickard, I. J., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Nettle, D. (2014). Why are childhood family factors associated with timing of maturation? A role for internal state. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9, 3-15. With commentary by Jay Belsky.

2013

• Frankenhuis, W. E., & de Weerth, C. (2013). Does early-life exposure to stress shape or impair cognition? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22, 407-412.

• Kievit, R. A., Frankenhuis, W. E., Waldorp, L. J., & Borsboom, D. (2013). Simpson’s Paradox in psychological science: A practical guide. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 513.

• Nettle, D., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Rickard, I. J. (2013). The evolution of Predictive Adaptive Responses in human life history. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 280, 20131343.  [Supplement]

• Frankenhuis, W. E., Panchanathan, K., & Barrett, H. C. (2013). Bridging developmental systems theory and evolutionary psychology using dynamic optimization. Developmental Science, 16, 584-598. Video abstract.

• Frankenhuis, W. E., Gergely, G., & Watson, J. S. (2013). Infants may use contingency analysis to estimate environmental states: An evolutionary, life-history perspective. Child Development Perspectives, 7, 115-120.

• Panchanathan, K., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Silk, J. B. (2013). The bystander effect in an N-player dictator game. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 120, 285-297. [Supplement]. [News]

• Frankenhuis, W. E., House, B., Barrett, H. C., & Johnson, S. P. (2013). Infants’ perception of chasing. Cognition, 126, 224-233. [Videos]

• Frankenhuis, W. E., & Barrett, H. C. (2013). Design for learning: The case of chasing. In M. D. Rutherford, & V. A. Kuhlmeier (Eds.), Social Perception: Detection and Interpretation of Animacy, Agency, and Intention (pp. 171-195). MIT Press.

• Frankenhuis, W. E., Barrett, H. C., & Johnson, S. P. (2013). Developmental origins of biological motion perception. In K. L. Johnson, & M. Shiffrar (Eds.), People watching: Social, Perceptual, and Neurophysiological Studies of Body Perception (pp. 121-138). New York: Oxford University Press.

2012

• Frankenhuis, W. E., & Del Giudice, M. (2012). When do adaptive developmental mechanisms yield maladaptive outcomes? Developmental Psychology, 48, 628-642. With commentary by Peter Gluckman and Alan Beedle.

• Nettle, D., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Rickard, I. J. (2012). The adaptive basis of psychosocial acceleration theory. Developmental Psychology, 48, 718-721.

• Frankenhuis, W. E., & Karremans, J. C. (2012). Uncommitted men match their risk taking to female preferences, while committed men do the opposite. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 428-431.

2011

• *Frankenhuis, W. E., & *Panchanathan, K. (2011). Balancing sampling and specialization: An adaptationist model of incremental development. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 278, 3558-3565. [Appendix 1, 2, 3]. *Equal contributions. Selected by Faculty of 1000 Biology — Rank: “Must Read”

• Frankenhuis, W. E., & Panchanathan, K. (2011). Individual differences in developmental plasticity may result from stochastic sampling. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 336-347.

• Thomsen, L., Frankenhuis, W. E., Ingold-Smith, M., & Carey, S. (2011). Big and mighty: Preverbal infants mentally represent social dominance. Science, 331, 477-480. [Supplement] [Videos] [News]

• Penke, L., et al. (2011). Evolutionary psychology and intelligence research cannot be integrated the way Kanazawa (2010) suggests. American Psychologist, 66, 916-917.

2010

• Frankenhuis, W. E., Dotsch, R., Karremans, J. C., & Wigboldus, D. H. J. (2010). Male physical risk taking in a virtual environment. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 8, 75-86. [News]

• Karremans, J. C., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Arons, S. (2010). Blind men prefer a low waist-to-hip ratio. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31, 182-186. [News]

• Frankenhuis, W. E. (2010). Did insecure attachment styles evolve for the benefit of the group? Frontiers in Psychology, 1, 172.

• Panchanathan, K., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Barrett, H. C. (2010). Development: Evolutionary ecology’s midwife. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 105-106.

2009

• Haselton, M. G., Bryant, G. A., Wilke, A., Frederick, D. A., Galperin, A., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Moore, T. (2009). Adaptive rationality: An evolutionary perspective on cognitive bias. Social Cognition, 27, 733-763.

2008

• Barrett, H. C., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Wilke, A. (2008). Adaptation to moving targets: Culture/gene coevolution, not either/or.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 511-512.

2007

• Frankenhuis, W. E., & Ploeger, A. (2007). Evolutionary psychology versus Fodor: Arguments for and against the massive modularity hypothesis. Philosophical Psychology, 20, 687-710.

• Frankenhuis, W. E. (2007). What is it like to be a bird? In E. Grunewald, & W. E. Frankenhuis (Eds.), Researching the Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. ix-x). Newcastle (UK): Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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