Books

• Ellis, B. J., Abrams, L. S., Masten, A. S., Tottenham, N., Sternberg, R. J., & Frankenhuis,
  W. E. (2023). The hidden talents framework: Implications for science, policy, and practice (Cambridge Elements in Applied Evolutionary Science). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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

Advance online / in press

• Hoijtink, H., Brinkman, L., de Bruin, J., Duken, S., Flores, J., Frankenhuis, W. E., & van Lissa, C. J. (in press). The open empirical cycle for hypothesis evaluation in psychology. Meta-Psychology.

• Vermeent, S., Schubert, A.-L., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (in press). Adversity is associated with lower general processing speed rather than executive functioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

• Walasek, N., Panchanathan, K., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (in press). The evolution of reversible plasticity in stable environments. Evolution Letters.

• Scheidecker, G., Abebe, T., Abimbola, S., Chaudhary, N., Frankenhuis, W. E., Keller, H., Munakata, Y., Olusanya, B. O., Ramos, D. O., & Rasheed, M. A. (2025). Beyond deficit models in early childhood development science. The Lancet, 405, 2127.

• Young, E. S., Vermeent, S., Frankenhuis, W. E., Nivison, M. D., Simpson, J. A., & Roisman, G. I. (2024). How does adversity relate to performance across different abilities within individuals?. Development and Psychopathology. Advance online publication.

• Deitzer, J. R., Frankenhuis, W. E., Ribeaud, D., Eisner, M., & van Gelder, J.-L. (2024). Effect of early interactions with the police on intertemporal choice: A longitudinal study of Zurich public school students. Crime & Delinquency. Advance online publication.

• Walasek, N., Panchanathan, K., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2024). The evolution of sensitive periods beyond early ontogeny: Bridging theory and data. Functional Ecology. Advance online publication.

• Walasek, N., Young, E. S., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2024). A framework for studying environmental statistics in developmental science. Psychological Methods. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000651

2025

• Ellwood-Lowe, M., DeJoseph, M., Reyes, G., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2025). Caregiving in lower SES contexts. Daedalus: The open access Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), 154, 52–69.

• Deitzer, J. R., Frankenhuis, W. E., Jacobsen, W. C., Ribeaud, D., Eisner, M., Feinberg, M. E., & van Gelder, J. L. (2025). Why do harsh and unpredictable environments lead to delinquency? The case for unpredictability schemas and short-term mindsets. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 62, 136–193.

• de Courson, B., Frankenhuis W. E., & Nettle D. (2025). Poverty is associated with both risk avoidance and risk taking: An empirical test of the desperation threshold model. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 292, 20242071.

• Bauer, C., Miller-Cotto, D., Silverman, D., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2025). Recognizing people’s agency amidst disadvantage: How to study inequality using a holistic approach that is accurate and non-stigmatizing. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 19, e70035.

• van Gelder, J-L., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2025). Short-time mindsets and crime. Annual Review of Criminology, 8, 333–358.

• Vermeent, S., Schubert, A.-L., DeJoseph, M. L., Denissen, J. J. A., van Gelder, J.-L., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2025). Inconclusive evidence for associations between adverse experiences in adulthood and working memory performance. Royal Society Open Science, 12, 241837. [This paper has been corrected.]

2024

• Vermeent, S., Young, E. S., van Gelder, J.-L., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2024). Childhood adversity is not associated with lowered inhibition, but slower perceptual processing: A Drift Diffusion Model Analysis. Cognitive Development, 71, 101479.

• Van Breen, J. et al. (2024). The future of interpersonal violence research: Steps towards interdisciplinary integration. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11, 1303.

• Kübel, S., Deitzer, J., Frankenhuis, W. E., Ribeaud, D., Eisner, M. P., & van Gelder, J-L. (2024). Beyond the situation: Hanging out with peers now is associated with short-term mindsets later. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 10, 51–72.

• Shannon, K. A., Conine-Nakano, A., Frankenhuis, W. E., Frank, M. C., & Gweon, H. (2024). Young children strategically adapt to unreliable social partners. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46.

• DeJoseph, M., Ellwood-Lowe, M., Miller-Cotto, D., Rakesh, D., Reyes, G., Adams Shannon, K., Silverman, D., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2024). The promise and pitfalls of a strengths-based approach to child poverty and neurocognitive development: Implications for policy. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 66, 101375.

• Muskens, M., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Borghans, L. (2024). Content bias in math testing: Items about money, food, and social interaction disadvantage students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. npj Science of Learning, 9, 19.

• Vermeent, S., Young, E. S., DeJoseph, M. L., Schubert, A-L., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2024). Cognitive deficits and enhancements in youth from adverse conditions: An integrative assessment using Drift Diffusion Modeling in the ABCD study. Developmental Science, e13478.

• Weinberg, D., Stevens, G. W. J. M., Frankenhuis, W. E., Peeters, M., Visser, K., & Finkenauer, C. (2024). The role of social cognitions in the social gradient in adolescent mental health: A longitudinal mediation model. Development and Psychopathology, 36, 953–966.

• Brener, S. A., Frankenhuis, W. E., Young, E. S., & Ellis, B. J. (2024). Social class, sex, and the ability to recognize emotions: The main effect is in the interaction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 50, 1197–1210.

2023

• Frankenhuis, W. E., Borsboom, D., Nettle, D., & Roisman, G. I. (2023). Formalizing theories of child development: Introduction to the special section. Child Development, 94, 1425-1431.

• Nettle, D., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Panchanathan, K. (2023). Biology, society, or choice: How do non-experts interpret scientific explanations of behaviour?. Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science, 7, 625–651.

• *Frankenhuis, W. E., & *Gopnik, A. (2023). Early adversity and the development of explore-exploit tradeoffs. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27, 616-630. *Equal contributions.

• Kübel, S., Deitzer, J., Frankenhuis, W. E., Ribeaud, D., Eisner, M. P., & van Gelder, J-L. (2023). The shortsighted victim: Testing a novel hypothesis on the link between victimization and offending. Journal of Criminal Justice, 86, 102062.

• de Courson, B., Frankenhuis W. E., Nettle D., & van Gelder, J.-L. (2023). Why is violence high and enduring in deprived neighbourhoods? A formal model. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290, 20222095. With commentary by Pat Barclay and Sandeep Mishra.

• Frankenhuis, W. E., Panchanathan, K., & Smaldino, P. E. (2023). Strategic ambiguity in the social sciences. Social Psychological Bulletin, 18, e9923.

2022

• Fenneman, J., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Todd, P. M. (2022). In which environments is impulsive behavior adaptive? A cross-discipline review and integration of formal models. Psychological Bulletin, 148, 555–587.

• Bolhuis, E., Belsky, J., Frankenhuis, W. E., Shalev, I., Hastings, W. J., Tollenaar, M. S.,
  O’Donnell, K. J., McGill, M. G., Pokhvisneva, I., Meaney, M. J., Lin., D. T. S., MacIsaac, J. L.,
  Kobor, M. S., de Weerth, C., & Beijers, R. (2022). Attachment insecurity and the biological embedding of reproductive strategies: Investigating the role of cellular aging. Biological Psychology, 175, 108446.

• Frankenhuis, W. E., Weijman, E. L., de Vries, S. A., van Zanten, M., & Borghuis, J.
  (2022). Exposure to violence is not associated with accuracy in forecasting conflict
  outcomes. Collabra: Psychology, 8, 38604.

• Young, E. S., Frankenhuis, W. E., DelPriore, D. J., Ellis, B. J. (2022). Hidden talents in context: Cognitive performance with abstract versus ecological stimuli among adversity-exposed youth. Child Development, 93, 1493–1510.

• Frankenhuis, W. E., & Amir, D. (2022). What is the expected human childhood? Insights from evolutionary anthropology. Development and Psychopathology, 34, 473–497.

• Walasek, N., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Panchanathan, K. (2022). An evolutionary model of sensitive periods when the reliability of cues varies across ontogeny. Behavioral Ecology, 33, 101–114. Prof. Dylan Gee spotlighted this paper for Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

• Walasek, N., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Panchanathan, K. (2022). Sensitive periods, but not critical periods, evolve in a fluctuating environment: A model of incremental development. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289, 20212623.

• Ellis, B. J., Abrams, L. S., Masten, A. S., Tottenham, N., Sternberg, R. J., & Frankenhuis,
  W. E. (2022). Hidden talents in harsh environments. Development and Psychopathology, 34, 95–113.

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, 2018]
  

• 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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