Publications include papers in Nature, Nature Genetics, PNAS, and Proceedings of the Royal Society B, and two edited books. Summary and citation metrics are available here on Google Scholar
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BOOKS
Roberts SC (2012) Applied Evolutionary Psychology. Oxford University Press academic.oup.com/book/8882
Hurst JL, Beynon RJ, Roberts SC and Wyatt TD (eds). 2008. Chemical Signals in Vertebrates XI. Springer, New York.
ARTICLES
2024
Eastwick PW, Sparks J, Finkel EJ, Meza EM, Adamkovič M, Adu P, Ai T, Akintola AA, Al-Shawaf L, Apriliawati D, Arriaga P, Aubert-Teillaud B, Baník G, Barzykowski K, Batres C, Baucom KJ, Beaulieu EZ, Behnke M, Butcher N, Charles DY, Chen JM, Cheon JE, Chittham P, Chwiłkowska P, Cong CW, Copping LT, Corral-Frias NS, Ćubela Adorić V, Dizon M, Du H, Ehinmowo MI, Escribano DA, Espinosa NM, Expósito F, Feldman G, Freitag R, Frias Armenta M, Gallyamova A, Gillath O, Gjoneska B, Gkinopoulos T, Grafe F, Grigoryev D, Groyecka-Bernard A, Gunaydin G, Ilustrisimo R, Impett E, Kačmár P, Kim Y-H, Kocur M, Kowal M, Krishna M, Labor PD, Lu JG, Lucas MY, Małecki W, Malinakova K, Meißner S, Meier Z, Misiak M, Muise A, Novak L, O J, Özdoğru JA, Park HG, Paruzel M, Pavlović Z, Püski M, Ribeiro G, Roberts SC, Röer JP, Ropovik I, Ross RM, Sakman E, Salvador CE, Selcuk E, Skakoon-Sparling S, Sorokowska A, Sorokowski P, Spasovski O, Stanton SCE, Stewart SLK, Swami V, Szaszi B, Takashima K, Tavel P, Tejada J, Tu E, Tuominen J, Vaidis D, Vally Z, Vaughn LA, Villanueva-Moya L, Wisnuwardhani D, Yamada Y, Yonemitsu F, Žídková R, Živná K, Coles NA. 2024. A worldwide test of the predictive validity of ideal partner preference-matching. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: PPID
Sorokowski P, Misiak M, Roberts SC, Kowal M, Butovskaya M, Omar-Fauzee MS, Huanca T, Sorokowska A. 2024. Is the perception of odor pleasantness shared across cultures and ecological conditions? Evidence from East Africa, Amazonia, New Guinea, Poland, and Malaysia. Biology Letters 20, 20240120.
Groyecka-Bernard A, Sorokowski P, Karwowski M, Roberts SC, Aavik T, Akello G, Alm C, Amjad N, Asao K, Atama CS, Duyar DA, Ayebare R, Batres C, Bensafia A, Bertoni A, Bizumic B, Boussena M, Buss DM, Butovskaya M, Can S, Carrier A, Cetinkaya H, Conroy-Beam D, Varella MAC, Croy I, Cueto RM, Czerwonka M, Czub M, Donato S, Dronova D, Dural S, Duyar I, Ertugrul B, Espinosa A, Esteves CS, Frackowiak T, Gajda A, Galewska-Kustra M, Graduño JC, Guemaz F, Hromatko I, Hui C-M, Herak I, Iafrate R, Jaafar JL, Jankowska DM, Jiang F, Kafetsios K, Kavčič T, Kervyn NO, Köbis NC, Lebuda I, Lennard GR, León E, Lindholm T, Alhabahba MM, Manesi Z, McKerchar SL, Misra G, Monaghan C, Mora EC, Moya-Garófano A, Musil B, Natividade JC, Nizharadze G, Oberzaucher E, Oleszkiewicz A, Fauzee MSO, Onyishi IE, Özener B, Pazhoohi F, Perun M, Pisanski A, Pisanski K, Ponciano E, Popa C, Prokop P, Rizwan M, Salkičević S, Schmehl S, Senyk O, Sharad S, Simonetti F, Tadinac M, González KU, Uhryn O, Vauclair C-M, Vega D, Weremczuk-Marczyńska E, Widarini DA, Yoo G, Zupančič M, Anjum A, Shahid A, Sorokowska A. Conservatism negatively predicts creativity: A study across 28 countries. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 55, 368-385.
Kleisner K, Tureček P, Saribay SA, Pavlovič O, Leongómez JD, Roberts SC, Havlíček J, Varella Valentová J, Apostol S, Akoko RM, Varella MAC. 2024. Distinctiveness and femininity, rather than symmetry and masculinity, affect facial attractiveness across the world. Evolution and Human Behavior 45, 82-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.10.001
2023
Kowal M, Sorokowski P, Dinić BM, Pisanski K, Gjoneska B, Frederick DA, Pfuhl G, Milfont TL, Bode A, Aguilar L, García FE, Roberts SC, Abad-Villaverde B, Kavčič T, Miroshnik KG, Ndukaihe ILG, Šafárová K, Valentova JV, Aavik T, Blackburn AM, Çetinkaya H, Duyar I, Guemaz F, Ishii T, Kačmár P, Natividade JC, Nussinson R, Omar-Fauzee MSB, Pacquing MCT, Ponnet K, Wang AH, Yoo G, Amin R, Pirtskhalava E, Afhami R, Arvanitis A, Duyar DA, Besson T, Boussena M, Can S, Can AR, Carneiro J, Castro R, Chubinidze D, Čunichina K, Don Y, Dural S, Etchezahar E, Fekih-Romdhane F, Frackowiak T, Moharrampour NG, Gómez Yepes T, Grassini S, Jovic M, Kertechian KS, Khan F, Kobylarek; A, Križanić V, Lins S, Mandzyk T, Manunta E, Martinac Dorčić T, Muthu KN, Najmussaqib A, Otterbring T, Park JH, Pavela Banai I, Perun M, . Reyes MES, Röer JP, Şahin A, Sahli FZ, Šakan D, Singh S, Smojver-Azic A, Söylemez S, Spasovski O, Studzinska A, Toplu-Demirtas E, Urbanek A, Volkodav T, Wlodarczyk A, Yaakob MFMY; Rahimi Yusof M, Zumárraga-Espinosa M, Zupančič M, Sternberg RJ. 2023. Validation of the short version (TLS-15) of the Triangular Love Scale (TLS-45) across 37 languages. Archives of Sexual Behavior 53, 839-857. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02702-7
Loos HM, Schaal B, Pause BM, Smeets M, Fedenzi C, Roberts SC, de Groot J, Luebke K, Croy I, Freiherr J, Bensafi M, Hummel T, Havlíček J. 2023. Past, present and future of human chemical communication. Perspectives on Psychological Science (in press) https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231188147
Gray N, Roberts SC. 2023. An investigation of simulated and real touch on feelings of loneliness. Scientific Reports 13, 10587. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37467-5. [pdf]
Kaňková Š, Hlaváčová J, Roberts K, Benešová J, Havlíček J, Calda P, Dlouhá D, Roberts SC. 2023. Associations between nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, disgust sensitivity, and first-trimester maternal serum free β-hCG and PAPP-A. Hormones and Behavior 152, 105360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2023.105360 [pdf]
Dlouhá D, Roberts SC, Hlaváčová J, Nouzová K, Kaňková Š. 2023. Longitudinal changes in disgust sensitivity during pregnancy and the early postpartum period, and the role of recent health problems. Scientific Reports 13, 4752. [pdf]
Roberts K, Havlíček J; Kaňková Š, Klapilová K, Roberts SC. 2023. Testing effects of partner support and use of oral contraception during relationship formation on severity of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 23, 175. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Singleton F, Culpepper P, Sorokowski P, Sorokowska A, Havlíček J. 2023. Handshaking and hand-smelling: on the potential role of handshake greeting in human olfactory communication. In Schaal B, Keller M, Rekow D & Damon F (eds.), Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 15, Springer-Nature (in press)
Havlíček J, Roberts SC. (2023) Menstrual cycle variation in women’s mating psychology: Empirical evidence and theoretical considerations. In The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Romantic Relationships (Eds: Mogilski J, TK Shackelford), pp. 643-674. Oxford University Press.
Třebický V, Delplanque S, Ferdenzi C, Fink B, Kuncová L, Pátková Ž, Roberts SC, Röder S, Saxton TK, Schwambergová D, Šterbová Z, Třebická Fialová J, Havlíček J. 2023. Cross-modal associations of human body odour attractiveness with facial and vocal attractiveness provide little support for the backup signals hypothesis: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Evolution and Human Behavior 44, 19-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.11.001 [pdf]
2022
Roberts SC, Třebická Fialová J, Sorokowska A, Langford B, Sorokowski P, Třebický V, Havlíček J. 2022. Emotional expression in human odour. Evolutionary Human Sciences 4, e44. doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2022.44
Langford B, Cash JM, Beel G, Di Marco C, Duthie C, Haskell M, Miller G, Nicoll L, Roberts SC, Nemitz E. 2022. Passive breath monitoring of livestock: Using factor analysis to deconvolve the cattle shed. Journal of Breath Chemistry 16(2). doi: 10.1088/1752-7163/ac4d08
Fiurašková K, Roberts SC, Kaňková S, Hlaváčová J, Calda P, Havlíček J. 2022. Oral contraceptive use during relationship formation and current relationship satisfaction: Testing the congruency hypothesis in couples attending pregnancy and fertility clinics. Psychoneuroendocrinology 135, 105451. [pdf]
2021
Leongómez JD, Sánchez OR, Vásquez-Amézquita M, Roberts SC. 2021. Contextualising courtship: exploring male body odour effects on vocal modulation. Behavioural Processes 193, 104531. [pdf]
Leongómez JD, Havlíček J, Roberts SC. Musicality in human vocal communication: An evolutionary perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (in press) doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0391 x
Fiurašková K, Havlíček J, Roberts SC. Dietary and psychosocial correlates of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. Food Quality and Preference 93, 104266. doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2021.104266. [pdf]
Shah SIA, Wilson HCP, Abel PD, Wassersug RJ, Třebický V, Třebická Fialová J, Allen C, Adomat HH, Bell RH, Tomlinson Guns ES, Roberts SC. 2021. Gonadal suppression alters axillary steroid secretions in men, but does that affect olfactory social signaling? Journal of Men's Health 17, 69-76. jomh.org/articles/10.31083/jomh.2021.042. [pdf]
Kleisner K, Tureček P, Roberts SC, Havlíček J, Valentova JV, Akoko RM, Leongómez JD, Apostol S, Varella MSC, Saribay SA. 2021. How patterns of sexual dimorphism in human faces vary across the world. Scientific Reports 11, 5978 [pdf]
www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-85402-3.
2020
Gerkin RC, Ohla K, Veldhuizen MG... Roberts SC ... Parma V. 2020. Recent smell loss is the best predictor of COVID-19 among individuals with recent respiratory symptoms. Chemical Senses 46, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjaa081. [pdf]
Parma V, Ohla K, Veldhuizen MG... Roberts SC ... Hummel T, Munger SD, Hayes JE. 2020. More than smell: COVID-19 is associated with severe impairment of smell, taste, and chemesthesis. Chemical Senses 45, 609-622. https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjaa041. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Havlíček J, Schaal B. 2020. Human olfactory communication: current challenges and future prospects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 1800: 20190258 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0258. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Misztal PK, Langford B. 2020. Decoding the social volatilome by tracking rapid context-dependent odour change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 1800: 20190259 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0259. [pdf]
Havlíček J, Winternitz J, Roberts SC. 2020. MHC-associated odour preferences and human mate choice: near and far horizons. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 1800: 20190260. doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0260. [pdf]
2019
Fialová J, Hoffman R, Roberts SC, Havlíček J. 2019. The effect of complete caloric intake restriction on human body odour quality. Physiology & Behavior 210, 112554. [pdf]
Allen C, Havlíček J, Williams K, Roberts SC. 2019. Evidence for odour-mediated assortative mating in humans: The impact of hormonal contraception and artificial fragrances. Physiology & Behavior 210, 112541. [pdf]
Allen C, Cobey KD, Havlíček J, Singleton FP, Hahn AC, Moran CN, Roberts SC. 2019. Preparation for fatherhood: A role for olfactory communication during human pregnancy? Physiology & Behavior 206, 175-180. [pdf]
Allen C, Havlíček J, Roberts SC. 2019. The effects of artificial fragrances on human olfactory communication. In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 14 (Editors: Buesching CD & Müller C), Springer.
Havlíček J, Fialová J, Roberts SC. 2019. How diet affects vertebrate semiochemistry. In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 14 (Editors: Buesching CD & Müller C), Springer.
2018
Culpepper PD, Havlíček J, Leongómez JD, Roberts SC. 2018. Visually activating pathogen disgust: A new instrument for studying the behavioural immune system. Frontiers in Evolutionary Psychology 9, 1397. [pdf]
Fialová J, Sorokowska A, Roberts SC, Kubicová L, Havlíček J. 2018. Human body odour composites are not perceived more positively than the individual samples. i-Perception 9, 1-15. [pdf]
Jones BC, Hahn AC, Fisher CI, Wang H, Kandrik M, Han C, Fasolt V, Morrison D, Lee AJ, Holzleitner IJ, O’Shea K, Roberts SC, Little AC & DeBruine L. 2018. No compelling evidence that preferences for facial masculinity track changes in women’s hormonal status. Psychological Science 29, 996-1005. [pdf]
Jern P, Kärnä A, Hujanen J, Erlin T, Gunst A, Rautaheimo H, Öhman E, Roberts SC, & Zietsch BP. 2018. A high-powered replication study finds no effect of starting or stopping hormonal contraceptive use on relationship quality. Evolution and Human Behavior 39, 373-379. [pdf]
Marzoli D, Havlíček J, Roberts SC. 2018. Human mating strategies: from past causes to present consequences. WIREs Cognitive Science 9, e1456. [pdf]
Allen C, Havlíček J, Williams K, Roberts SC. 2018. Perfume experts' perceptions of body odours: Towards a new lexicon for body odour description. Journal of Sensory Studies 33, e12314 [pdf]
d'Ettorre P, Bueno S, Rödel HG, Megherbi H, Seigneuric A, Schaal B, Roberts SC. 2018. Exposure to androstenes influences processing of emotional words. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 5:169. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00169 [pdf]
2017
Roberts SC. 2017. Effect of birth control on women's mate preferences. In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (T.K. Shackelford, V.A. Weekes-Shackelford, eds.). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_13-1. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Little AC, DeBruine LM, Petrie M. 2017. Discrimination of attractiveness and health in men’s faces: The impact of color cues and variation in relation to sex and age of rater. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology 3, 401-411. [pdf]
Leongómez JD, Mileva VR, Little AC, Roberts SC. 2017. Perceived differences in social status between speaker and listener affect the speaker's vocal characteristics. PLoS ONE 12: e0179407. [pdf]
Groyecka A, Pisanski K, Sorokowska A, Havlíček J, Karwowski M, Puts D, Roberts SC, Sorokowski P. 2017. Attractiveness is multimodal:
beauty is also in the nose and ear of the beholder. Frontiers in Psychology 8, 778. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Eryaman F. 2017. Mutual olfactory recognition between mother and child. Human Ethology Bulletin 32, 42-52. [pdf]
Sobotková M, Fialová J, Roberts SC, Havlíček J. 2017. Effect of biological relatedness on perfume selection for others. Perception 46, 498-515. [pdf]
Havlíček J, Fialová J, Roberts SC. 2017. Individual variation in body odor. In The Springer Handbook of Odor (A. Buettner, Ed.), pp. 949-961. Springer. [pdf]
Havlíček J, Třebický V, Valentova JV, Kleisner K, Akokod RM, Fialová J, Jashe R, Kočnara T, Pereira KJ, Štěrbová Z, Varella MAC, Vokurková J, Vunand E & Roberts SC. 2017. Men’s preferences for women’s breast size and shape in four cultures. Evolution and Human Behavior 38, 217-226. [pdf]
Havlíček J, Roberts SC. 2017. Male perception of cycle-related fluctuations in women's attractiveness. In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (T.K. Shackelford, V.A. Weekes-Shackelford, eds.). doi 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_8-1 [pdf]
2016
Peperkoorn S, Roberts SC, Pollet T. 2016. Revisiting the Red Effect on attractiveness and sexual receptivity: No effect of the color red on human mate preferences. Evolutionary Psychology 14(4), 1-13. [pdf]
Cobey KD, Havlíček J, Klapilová K, Roberts SC. 2016. Hormonal contraception use during relationship formation and sexual desire during pregnancy. Archives in Sexual Behavior 45, 2117-2122. [pdf]
Allen C, Cobey KD, Havlíček J, Roberts SC. 2016. The impact of artificial fragrances on the assessment of mate quality cues in body odor. Evolution and Human Behavior 37, 481-489. [pdf]
Fialová J, Roberts SC, Havlíček J. Consumption of garlic affects hedonic perception of axillary body odour. Appetite 97, 8-15. [pdf]
Lindová J, Little AC, Havlíček J, Roberts SC, Rubešová A, Flegr J. 2016. Effect of partnership status on preferences for facial self-resemblance. Frontiers in Psychology, 7: 869. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00869 [pdf]
2015
Little AC, Třebický V, Havlíček J, Roberts SC, Kleisner K. 2015. Human perception of fighting ability: facial cues predict winners in Mixed Martial Arts fights. Behavioral Ecology 26, 1470-1475. [pdf]
Havlíček J, Cobey KD, Barrett L, Klapilová K, Roberts SC. Greater precision, not parsimony, is the key to testing the peri-ovulation spandrel hypothesis. Behavioral Ecology 26, 1265-1267. [pdf]
Havlíček J, Cobey KD; Barrett L, Klapilová K, Roberts SC. The spandrels of Santa Barbara? A new perspective on the peri-ovulation paradigm. Behavioral Ecology 26, 1249-1260. [pdf]
Cobey KD, Nicholls M, Leongómez JD, Roberts SC. 2015. Self-reported dominance in women: Associations with hormonal contraceptive use, relationship status, and testosterone. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology 1, 449-459. [pdf]
Allen C, Havlíček J, Roberts SC. Effect of fragrance use on discrimination of individual body odor. Frontiers in Psychology 6, 1115. [pdf]
Sulikowski D, Burke D, Havlíček J, Roberts SC. 2015. Head-tilt and fertility contribute to different aspects of female facial attractiveness. Ethology 121, 1002-1009. [pdf]
Swaffield J, Roberts SC. 2015. Exposure to cues of harsh or safe environmental conditions alters food preferences. Evolutionary Psychological Science 1, 69-76. [pdf]
Třebický V, Fialová J, Kleisner K, Roberts SC, Little AC, Havlíček J. 2015. Further evidence for links between facial width-to-height ratio and fighting success: Commentary on Zilioli et al. (2014). Aggressive Behavior 41, 331-334. [pdf]
Martinec Nováková L, Plotená D, Roberts SC and Havlícek J (2015) Positive relationship between odor identification and affective responses of negatively valenced odors. Frontiers in Psychology 6:607. [pdf]
Jones BC, Hahn AC, Fisher CI, Wincenciak J, Kandrik M, Roberts SC, Little AC & DeBruine LM. Facial coloration tracks changes in women’s estradiol. Psychoneuroendocrinology 56, 29-34. [pdf]
Cobey KD, Little AC, Roberts SC. 2015. Hormonal effects on women's facial masculinity preferences: The influence of pregnancy, postpartum, and hormonal contraceptive use. Biological Psychology 104, 35-40. [pdf]
2014
Roberts SC, Little AC, Burriss RP, Cobey KD, Klapilová K, Havlíček J, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Petrie M. 2014. Partner choice, relationship satisfaction and oral contraception: the congruency hypothesis. Psychological Science 25, 1497-1503. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Cobey KD, Klapilová K, Havlíček J. 2014. Oral contraception and romantic relationships: from the lab to the real world. Human Ethology Bulletin 29, 4-13. [pdf]
Nováková LM, Havlíček J, Roberts SC. Olfactory processing and odor specificity: a meta-analysis of menstrual cycle variation in olfactory sensitivity. Anthropological Review 77, 331-345. [pdf]
Leongómez JD, Binter J, Kubicová L, Stolařová P, Klapilová K, Havlíček J, Roberts SC. 2014. Vocal modulation during courtship increases proceptivity even in naive listeners. Evolution and Human Behavior 35, 489-496. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 2014. Evolutionary Psychology. Oxford Bibliographies in Evolutionary Biology. Ed. J. Losos. New York: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/obo/9780199941728-0025. [pdf]
Klapilová K, Cobey KD, Wells T, Roberts SC, Weiss P, Havlíček J. 2014. Current hormonal contraceptive use predicts female extra-pair and dyadic sexual behavior: evidence based on Czech National Survey data. Evolutionary Psychology 12, 36-52. [pdf]
Roberts SC,Cobey KD, Klapilová K, Havlíček J. 2014. Oral contraceptives and sexual desire: Replies to Graham and Bancroft (2013) and Puts and Pope (2013). Archives of Sexual Behavior 43, 3-6. [pdf]
DeBruine LM, Jones BC, Roberts SC, Little AC, Watkins CD. 2014. Beauty in the eye of the beholder: Potentially adaptive individual differences in human mate preferences. In Animal Behavior, Vol.3, K. Yasukawa (ed.), pp. 311-347, ABC Clio Press, Santa Barbara, CA.
2013
Roberts SC. 2013. Celebrating Tinbergen's influence on human ethology. Human Ethology Bulletin 28 (4), 1-2. [pdf]
Cobey KD, Buunk AP, Pollet TV, Klipping C, Roberts SC. 2013. Men perceive their female partners, and themselves, as more attractive around ovulation. Biological Psychology 94, 513-516. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Cobey KD, Klapilová K, Havlíček J. 2013. An evolutionary approach offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between oral contraception and sexual desire. Archives of Sexual Behavior 42, 1369-1375. [pdf]
Třebický V, Havlíček J, Roberts SC, Little AC, Kleisner K. 2013. Perceived aggressiveness predicts fighting performance in Mixed Martial Arts fighters. Psychological Science 24, 1664-1672. [pdf]
Little AC, Burriss RP, Petrie M, Jones BC, Roberts SC. 2013. Oral contraceptive use in women changes preferences for male facial masculinity and is associated with partner facial masculinity. Psychoneuroendocrinology 38, 1777-1785. [pdf]
Marzoli D, Moretto F, Monti A, Tocci O, Roberts SC, Tommasi, L. 2013. Environmental Influences on mate preferences as assessed by a scenario manipulation experiment. PLoS One, 8, e74282. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Havlíček J. 2013. Humans are dunnocks, not peacocks: on cause and consequence of variation in human mating strategies. Psychological Inquiry 24, 231-236. [pdf]
Cobey KD, Roberts SC, Buunk AP. 2013. Hormonal contraceptive congruency: Implications for relationship jealousy. Personality and Individual Differences 55, 569-573. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Havlíček J, Petrie M. 2013. Repeatability of odour preferences across time. Flavour and Fragrance Journal 28, 245-250. [pdf]
Ferdenzi C, Delplanque S, Barbosa P, Court K, Guinard J, Guo T, Roberts SC, Schirmer A, Porcherot C, Cayeux I, Sander D, Grandjean D. 2013. Affective semantic space of scents. Towards a universal scale to measure odor-related feelings. Food Quality and Preference 30, 128-138. [pdf]
Saxton TK, DeBruine LM, Jones BC, Little AC, Roberts SC. 2013. Voice pitch preferences of adolescents: Do changes across time indicate a shift towards potentially adaptive adult-like preferences? Personality and Individual Differences 55, 90-94. [pdf]
Valentová J, Roberts SC, Havlíček J. 2013. Preferences for facial and vocal masculinity in homosexual men: the role of partnership status, sexual restrictiveness, and self-perceived masculinity. Perception 42, 187-197. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Vakirtzis A, Kristjánsdóttir L, Havlíček J. 2013. Who punishes? Personality traits predict individual variation in punitive sentiment. Evolutionary Psychology 11, 186-200. [pdf]
Ferdenzi C, Roberts SC, Schirmer A, Delplanque S, Cekic S, Porcherot C, Cayeux I, Sander D, Grandjean D. 2013. Variability of affective responses to odors: culture, gender and olfactory knowledge. Chemical Senses 38, 175-186. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Murray J. 2013. Applying the ‘revenge system’ to the criminal justice system and jury decision-making. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 36, 34-35. [pdf]
Fialová J, Roberts SC, Havlíček, J. 2013. Is the perception of odour cues to diet linked to sexual selection in humans? In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates XII (East ML and Dehnhard M, eds), pp. 161-169, Springer, New York. [pdf]
Havlíček J, Roberts SC. 2013. The perfume-body odour complex: an insightful model for culture-gene coevolution? In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates XII (East ML and Dehnhard M, eds), pp. 185-195, Springer, New York. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 2013. Oreotragus oreotragus Klipspringer. In JS Kingdon and M Hoffmann (eds), Mammals of Africa. Volume 6: Pigs, Hippopotamuses, Chevrotain, Giraffes, Deer and Bovids, pp. 470-476. Bloomsbury Publishing, London.
2012
Havlíček J, Nováková L, Vondrová M, Kuběna AA, Valentová J, Roberts SC. 2012. Olfactory perception is positively linked to anxiety in young adults. Perception 41, 1246-1261. [pdf]
Roberts SC, van Vugt M, Dunbar RIM. 2012. Evolutionary psychology in the modern world: applications, perspectives and strategies. Evolutionary Psychology 10, 762-769. [pdf]
Little AC, Roberts SC. 2012. Evolution, appearance and occupational success. Evolutionary Psychology 10, 782-801. [pdf]
Little AC, Roberts SC, Jones BC, DeBruine LM. 2012. The perception of attractiveness and trustworthiness in male faces affects hypothetical voting decisions differently in war and peace-time scenarios. Q J Exp Psych 65, 2018-2032. [pdf]
Roberts SC. On the relationship between scent-marking and territoriality in callitrichid primates. 2012. Int. J. Primatol. 33, 749-761. [pdf]
Kuppens T, Pollet TV, Teixeira CP, Demoulin S, Roberts SC, Little AC. 2012. Emotions in context: Anger causes ethnic bias but not gender bias in men but not women. European Journal of Social Psychology 42, 432-441. [pdf]
Cobey KD, Pollet TV, Roberts SC, Klipping C, Appels N, Zimerman Y, Bennink HC, Buunk AP. 2012. Reported jealousy differs as a function of menstrual cycle stage and contraceptive pill use: a within-subjects investigation. Evolution and Human Behavior 33, 395-401. [pdf]
Vakirtzis A, Roberts SC. 2012. Human nonindependent mate choice: is model female attractiveness everything? Evolutionary Psychology 10, 225-237. [pdf]
Lenochova P, Vohnoutova P, Kubena A, Roberts SC, Oberzaucher E, Grammer K, Havlicek J. 2012. Psychology of fragrance use: perception of individual odor and perfume blends reveals a mechanism for idiosyncratic effects on fragrance choice. PLoS One e33810. [pdf]
Welling LLM, Puts DA, Roberts SC, Little AC, Burriss RP. 2012. Hormonal contraceptive use and mate retention behavior in women and their male partners. Hormones and Behavior 61, 114-120. [pdf]
Vakirtzis A, Roberts SC. 2012. Do women really like taken men? Results from a large questionnaire study. Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology 6, 50-65. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Klapilová K, Little AC, Burriss RP, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Petrie M, Havlicek J. 2012. Relationship satisfaction and outcome in women who meet their partner while using oral contraception. Proc R Soc B 279, 1430-1436. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 2012. Applying evolutionary psychology. In Applied Evolutionary Psychology (ed. SC Roberts), pp. 1-4. Oxford University Press, Oxford. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Havlicek J. 2012. Evolutionary psychology and perfume design. In Applied Evolutionary Psychology (ed. SC Roberts), pp. 330-348. Oxford University Press, Oxford. [pdf]
2011
Havlicek J, Lenochova P, Oberzaucher E, Grammer K, Roberts SC. 2011. Does length of sampling affect quality of body odor samples? Chemosensory Perception 4, 186-194. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Kralevich A, Ferdenzi C, Saxton TK, Havlicek J. 2011. Body odor quality predicts behavioral attractiveness in humans. Archives of Sexual Behavior 40, 1111-1117. [pdf]
Ferdenzi C, Lemaître J-F, Leongómez JD, Roberts SC. 2011. Digit ratio (2D:4D) predicts facial, but not voice or body odour, attractiveness in men. Proc R Soc B 278, 3551-3557. [pdf]
Ferdenzi C, Schirmer A, Roberts SC, Delplanque S, Porcherot-Lassallette C, Cayeux I, Velazco M, Sander D, Scherer KR, Grandjean D. 2011. Affective dimensions of odor perception: a comparison between Swiss, British and Singaporean populations. Emotion 11, 1168-1181. [pdf]
Jones BC, Vukovic J, Little AC, Roberts SC & DeBruine LM. 2011. Circum-menopausal changes in women’s preferences for sexually dimorphic shape cues in peer-aged faces. Biological Psychology 87, 453-455. [pdf]
Saxton TK, Debruine LM, Jones BC, Little AC, Roberts SC. 2011. A longitudinal study of adolescents’ judgments of the attractiveness of facial symmetry, averageness and sexual dimorphism. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 9, 43-55. [pdf]
Little AC, Connely J, Feinberg DR, Jones BC, Roberts SC. 2011. Human preference for masculinity differs according to context in faces, bodies, voices, and smell. Behavioral Ecology 22, 862-868. [pdf]
DeBruine LM, Jones BC, Watkins CD, Roberts SC, Little AC, Smith FG, Quist MC. 2011. Opposite-sex siblings decrease attraction, but not prosocial attributions, to self-resembling opposite-sex faces. Proc Natl Acad Sci, USA 108, 11710-11714. [pdf]
Burriss RP, Roberts SC, Welling LLM, Puts DA, Little AC. 2011. Heterosexual romantic couples mate assortatively for facial symmetry, but not masculinity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 37, 601-613. [pdf]
Cobey KD, Pollet TV, Roberts SC, Buunk AP. 2011. Hormonal birth control use and relationship jealousy: evidence for estrogen dosage effects. Personality & Individual Differences 50, 315-317. [pdf]
2010
Roberts SC, Miner EJ and Shackelford TK. 2010. The future of an applied evolutionary psychology for human partnerships. Review of General Psychology 14, 318-329. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Owen C, Havlicek J. 2010. Distinguishing between perceiver and wearer effects in clothing color-associated attributions. Evolutionary Psychology 8, 350-364. [pdf]
Havlicek J, Murray AK, Saxton TK, Roberts SC. 2010. Current issues in the study of androstenes in human chemosignalling. Vitamins & Hormones 83, 47-81. [pdf]
Saxton TK, Kohoutova D, Roberts SC, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Havlicek J. 2010. Age, puberty and attractiveness judgments in adolescents. Personality and Individual Differences 49, 857-862. [pdf]
Vakirtzis A, Roberts SC. 2010. Nonindependent mate choice in monogamy. Behavioral Ecology 21, 898-901. [pdf]
Little AC, Saxton TK, Roberts SC, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Vukovic J, Perrett DI, Feinberg DR, & Chenore T. 2010. Women’s preferences for masculinity in male faces are highest during reproductive age-range and lower around puberty and post-menopause.
Psychoneuroendrocrinology 35, 912-920. [pdf]
Ferdenzi C, Schaal B, Roberts SC. 2010. Family scents: developmental changes in body odor perception of kin. Journal of Chemical Ecology 36, 847-854. [pdf]
Vakirtzis A & Roberts SC. 2010. Mate quality bias: Sex differences in humans. Annales Zoologica Fennici 47, 149-157. [pdf]
2009
Ferdenzi C, Schaal B, Roberts SC. 2009. Human axillary odor: are there side-related perceptual differences? Chemical Senses 34, 565-571. [pdf]
Lenochova P, Saxton TK, Roberts SC, Havlicek J. 2009. Methods of human body odor sampling: the effect of freezing. Chemical Senses 34, 127-138. [pdf]
Saxton TK, Little AC, DeBruine LM, Jones BC, Roberts SC. 2009. Adolescents’ preferences for sexual dimorphism are influenced by relative exposure to male and female faces. Personality and Individual Differences 47, 864-868. [pdf]
Saxton TK, Little AC, Rowland HM, Gao T, Roberts SC. 2009. Trade-offs between markers of absolute and relative quality in human facial preferences. Behavioral Ecology 20, 1133-1137. [pdf]
Saxton TK, DeBruine LM, Jones BC, Little AC, Roberts SC. 2009. Face and voice attractiveness judgments change during adolescence. Evolution and Human Behavior 30, 398-408. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 2009. Complexity and context of MHC-correlated mating preferences in wild populations. Molecular Ecology 18, 3121-3123. [pdf]
Havlicek J & Roberts SC. 2009. Towards a neuroscience of love: olfaction, attention and a model of neurohypophysial hormone action. Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience doi: 10.3389/neuro.18.002.2009 [pdf]
Vakirtzis A & Roberts SC. 2009. Mate choice copying and mate quality bias: different processes, different species. Behavioral Ecology 20, 908-911. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Saxton TK, Murray, AK, Burriss RP, Rowland HM, Little AC. 2009. Static and dynamic facial images cue similar attractiveness judgements. Ethology 115, 588-595. [pdf]
Saxton TK, Burriss RP, Murray AK, Rowland HM, Roberts SC. 2009. Face, body and speech cues independently predict judgments of attractiveness. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 3, 23-35. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Little AC, Lyndon A, Roberts J, Havlicek J & Wright RL. 2009. Manipulation of personal odor alters men’s self-confidence and judgements of their visual attractiveness by women. International Journal of Cosmetic Science 31, 47-54. [pdf]
Havlicek J & Roberts SC. 2009. MHC-correlated mate choice in humans: a review. Psychoneuroendocrinology 34, 497-512. [pdf]
DeBruine LM, Smith FG, Jones BC, Roberts SC, Petrie M, Spector TD. 2009. Kin recognition signals in adult faces. Journal of Vision 49, 38-43. [pdf]
2008 and before
Roberts SC & Little AC. 2008. Good genes, complementary genes and human mate choice. Genetica 132, 309-321. [pdf]
Saxton TK, Lyndon A, Little AC, Roberts SC. 2008. Evidence that androstadienone, a putative human chemosignal, modulates women’s attributions of men’s attractiveness. Hormones and Behavior 54, 597-601. [pdf]
Savelev SU, Antony-Babu S, Roberts SC, Wang H, Clare AS, Gosling LM, Petrie M, Goodfellow M, O’Donnell AG, & Ward AC. 2008. Individual variation in 3-methylbutanal: a putative link between HLA and skin microflora. Journal of Chemical Ecology 34, 1253-1257. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Gosling LM, Carter V, Petrie M. 2008. MHC-correlated odour preferences in humans and the use of oral contraceptives. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275, 2715-2722. [pdf]
Havlicek J, Saxton TK, Roberts SC, Jozifkova E, Lhota S, Valentova J, Flegr J. 2008. He sees, she smells? Male and female reports of sensory reliance in mate choice and non-mate-choice contexts. Personality & Individual Differences 45, 565-570. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 2008. Nonverbal communication of mate quality in humans. In Sociobiology of Communication: An interdisciplinary perspective. (d’Ettorre P & Hughes DP, eds). Oxford University Press; pp 157-170. [pdf]
Saxton, T.K., Little, A.C. and Roberts, S.C. 2008. Ecological validity in the study of human pheromones. In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates XI (Hurst JL, Beynon RJ, Roberts SC & Wyatt TD, eds.). Springer, New York; pp. 111-120. [pdf]
Little AC, Burriss RP, Jones BC, Roberts SC. 2007. Facial appearance affects voting decisions. Evolution and Human Behaviour 28, 18-27. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 2007. Scent-marking. In Rodent Societies. (Wolff JO & Sherman PW, eds.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago; pp. 255-266. [pdf]
Pepper GV & Roberts SC. 2006. Rates of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy and dietary characteristics across populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273, 2675-2679. [pdf]
Saxton TK, Caryl PG, Roberts SC. 2006. Vocal and facial attractiveness judgments of children, adolescents and adults: the ontogeny of mate choice. Ethology 112, 1179-1185. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Hale, ML and Petrie M. 2006. Correlations between heterozygosity and measures of genetic similarity: implications for understanding mate choice. J.Evolutionary Biology 19, 558-569. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Little AC, Gosling LM, Jones BC, Perrett DI, Carter V & Petrie M. 2005. MHC-assortative facial preferences in humans. Biology Letters 1, 400-403. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Little AC, Gosling LM, Perrett DI, Jones BC, Carter V, Penton-Voak IS & Petrie M. 2005. MHC-heterozygosity and human facial attractiveness. Evolution & Human Behavior 26, 213-226. [pdf]
Jones BC, Little AC, Boothroyd L, Feinberg DR, Cornwell RE, DeBruine LM, Roberts SC, Penton-Voak IS, Law Smith MJ, Moore FR, Davis HP & Perrett DI. 2005. Women’s physical and psychological condition independently predict their preference for apparent health in faces. Evolution & Human Behaviour 26, 451-457. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Gosling LM, Spector TD, Miller P, Penn DJ & Petrie M. 2005. Body odor similarity of non-cohabiting twins. Chemical Senses 30, 651-656. [pdf]
Havlicek J, Roberts SC & Flegr J. 2005. Women’s preference for dominant male odour: effects of menstrual cycle and relationship status. Biology Letters. 1, 256-259. [pdf]
Rowe C, Harris J & Roberts SC. 2005. Seeing red? Putting sportswear in context. Nature 437, E10. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Havlicek J, Flegr J, Hruskova M, Little AC, Jones BC, Perrett DI & Petrie M. 2004. Female facial attractiveness increases during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle. Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Suppl.) 271, S270-272. [pdf]
Roberts SC & Gosling LM. 2004. Manipulation of olfactory signalling and mate choice for conservation breeding: a case study of the harvest mouse. Conservation Biology 18, 548-556. [pdf]
Roberts SC & Gosling LM. 2003. Genetic quality and similarity interact in mate choice decisions by female mice. Nature Genetics 35, 103-106. [pdf]
Gosling LM & Roberts SC. 2001. Scent-marking by male mammals: cheat-proof signals to competitors and mates. Advances in the Study of Behaviour 30, 169-217. [pdf]
Gosling LM & Roberts SC. 2001. Testing ideas about the function of scent marks in territories from spatial patterns. Animal Behaviour 62, F7-F10. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Gosling LM, Thornton EA & McClung J. 2001. Scent-marking by male mice under the risk of predation. Behavioral Ecology 12, 698-705. [pdf]
Roberts SC & Gosling LM. 2001. The economic consequences of advertising scent mark location in territories. In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates IX (Marchlewska-Koy A, Lepri JJ & Müller-Schwarze M, eds.). Kluver Academic/Plenum Press; pp. 11-17. [pdf]
Roberts SC & Dunbar RIM. 2000. Female territoriality and the function of scent-marking in a monogamous antelope (Oreotragus oreotragus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 47, 417-23. [pdf]
Gosling LM, Roberts SC, Thornton EA & Andrew MA. 2000. Life history costs of olfactory status signalling in mice. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 48, 328-332. [pdf]
Carbone C, Mace G, Roberts SC & Macdonald DW. 1999. Energetic constraints on the diet of terrestrial carnivores. Nature 402, 286-288. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 1998. Behavioural responses to scent marks of increasing age in klipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus. Ethology 104, 585-592. [pdf]
Roberts SC.1998. Long-term costs of the mopane worm harvest. Oryx 32, 6-8.
Roberts SC. & Lowen C 1997. Optimal patterns of scent marks in klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus) territories. Journal of Zoology 243, 565-578. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 1997. Selection of scent-marking sites by klipspringers (Oreotragus oreotragus). Journal of Zoology 243, 555-564. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 1996. The evolution of hornedness in female ruminants. Behaviour 133, 399-442. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 1995. Gleaning in klipspringer preorbital glands by Redwinged Starlings and Yellowbellied Bulbuls. Ostrich 66, 147-148. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 1993. Yellowbellied Bulbul gleaning on a klipspringer. Ostrich 64, 136. [pdf]
Dunbar RIM & Roberts SC. 1992. Territory quality in mountain reedbuck (Redunca fulvorufula chanleri): Distance to safety. Ethology 90, 134-142.
Roberts SC & Dunbar RIM. 1991. Climatic influences on the behavioural ecology of Chanler's mountain reedbuck in Kenya. African Journal of Ecology 29, 316-329. [pdf]
pdfs for personal use only
BOOKS
Roberts SC (2012) Applied Evolutionary Psychology. Oxford University Press academic.oup.com/book/8882
Hurst JL, Beynon RJ, Roberts SC and Wyatt TD (eds). 2008. Chemical Signals in Vertebrates XI. Springer, New York.
ARTICLES
2024
Eastwick PW, Sparks J, Finkel EJ, Meza EM, Adamkovič M, Adu P, Ai T, Akintola AA, Al-Shawaf L, Apriliawati D, Arriaga P, Aubert-Teillaud B, Baník G, Barzykowski K, Batres C, Baucom KJ, Beaulieu EZ, Behnke M, Butcher N, Charles DY, Chen JM, Cheon JE, Chittham P, Chwiłkowska P, Cong CW, Copping LT, Corral-Frias NS, Ćubela Adorić V, Dizon M, Du H, Ehinmowo MI, Escribano DA, Espinosa NM, Expósito F, Feldman G, Freitag R, Frias Armenta M, Gallyamova A, Gillath O, Gjoneska B, Gkinopoulos T, Grafe F, Grigoryev D, Groyecka-Bernard A, Gunaydin G, Ilustrisimo R, Impett E, Kačmár P, Kim Y-H, Kocur M, Kowal M, Krishna M, Labor PD, Lu JG, Lucas MY, Małecki W, Malinakova K, Meißner S, Meier Z, Misiak M, Muise A, Novak L, O J, Özdoğru JA, Park HG, Paruzel M, Pavlović Z, Püski M, Ribeiro G, Roberts SC, Röer JP, Ropovik I, Ross RM, Sakman E, Salvador CE, Selcuk E, Skakoon-Sparling S, Sorokowska A, Sorokowski P, Spasovski O, Stanton SCE, Stewart SLK, Swami V, Szaszi B, Takashima K, Tavel P, Tejada J, Tu E, Tuominen J, Vaidis D, Vally Z, Vaughn LA, Villanueva-Moya L, Wisnuwardhani D, Yamada Y, Yonemitsu F, Žídková R, Živná K, Coles NA. 2024. A worldwide test of the predictive validity of ideal partner preference-matching. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: PPID
Sorokowski P, Misiak M, Roberts SC, Kowal M, Butovskaya M, Omar-Fauzee MS, Huanca T, Sorokowska A. 2024. Is the perception of odor pleasantness shared across cultures and ecological conditions? Evidence from East Africa, Amazonia, New Guinea, Poland, and Malaysia. Biology Letters 20, 20240120.
Groyecka-Bernard A, Sorokowski P, Karwowski M, Roberts SC, Aavik T, Akello G, Alm C, Amjad N, Asao K, Atama CS, Duyar DA, Ayebare R, Batres C, Bensafia A, Bertoni A, Bizumic B, Boussena M, Buss DM, Butovskaya M, Can S, Carrier A, Cetinkaya H, Conroy-Beam D, Varella MAC, Croy I, Cueto RM, Czerwonka M, Czub M, Donato S, Dronova D, Dural S, Duyar I, Ertugrul B, Espinosa A, Esteves CS, Frackowiak T, Gajda A, Galewska-Kustra M, Graduño JC, Guemaz F, Hromatko I, Hui C-M, Herak I, Iafrate R, Jaafar JL, Jankowska DM, Jiang F, Kafetsios K, Kavčič T, Kervyn NO, Köbis NC, Lebuda I, Lennard GR, León E, Lindholm T, Alhabahba MM, Manesi Z, McKerchar SL, Misra G, Monaghan C, Mora EC, Moya-Garófano A, Musil B, Natividade JC, Nizharadze G, Oberzaucher E, Oleszkiewicz A, Fauzee MSO, Onyishi IE, Özener B, Pazhoohi F, Perun M, Pisanski A, Pisanski K, Ponciano E, Popa C, Prokop P, Rizwan M, Salkičević S, Schmehl S, Senyk O, Sharad S, Simonetti F, Tadinac M, González KU, Uhryn O, Vauclair C-M, Vega D, Weremczuk-Marczyńska E, Widarini DA, Yoo G, Zupančič M, Anjum A, Shahid A, Sorokowska A. Conservatism negatively predicts creativity: A study across 28 countries. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 55, 368-385.
Kleisner K, Tureček P, Saribay SA, Pavlovič O, Leongómez JD, Roberts SC, Havlíček J, Varella Valentová J, Apostol S, Akoko RM, Varella MAC. 2024. Distinctiveness and femininity, rather than symmetry and masculinity, affect facial attractiveness across the world. Evolution and Human Behavior 45, 82-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.10.001
2023
Kowal M, Sorokowski P, Dinić BM, Pisanski K, Gjoneska B, Frederick DA, Pfuhl G, Milfont TL, Bode A, Aguilar L, García FE, Roberts SC, Abad-Villaverde B, Kavčič T, Miroshnik KG, Ndukaihe ILG, Šafárová K, Valentova JV, Aavik T, Blackburn AM, Çetinkaya H, Duyar I, Guemaz F, Ishii T, Kačmár P, Natividade JC, Nussinson R, Omar-Fauzee MSB, Pacquing MCT, Ponnet K, Wang AH, Yoo G, Amin R, Pirtskhalava E, Afhami R, Arvanitis A, Duyar DA, Besson T, Boussena M, Can S, Can AR, Carneiro J, Castro R, Chubinidze D, Čunichina K, Don Y, Dural S, Etchezahar E, Fekih-Romdhane F, Frackowiak T, Moharrampour NG, Gómez Yepes T, Grassini S, Jovic M, Kertechian KS, Khan F, Kobylarek; A, Križanić V, Lins S, Mandzyk T, Manunta E, Martinac Dorčić T, Muthu KN, Najmussaqib A, Otterbring T, Park JH, Pavela Banai I, Perun M, . Reyes MES, Röer JP, Şahin A, Sahli FZ, Šakan D, Singh S, Smojver-Azic A, Söylemez S, Spasovski O, Studzinska A, Toplu-Demirtas E, Urbanek A, Volkodav T, Wlodarczyk A, Yaakob MFMY; Rahimi Yusof M, Zumárraga-Espinosa M, Zupančič M, Sternberg RJ. 2023. Validation of the short version (TLS-15) of the Triangular Love Scale (TLS-45) across 37 languages. Archives of Sexual Behavior 53, 839-857. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02702-7
Loos HM, Schaal B, Pause BM, Smeets M, Fedenzi C, Roberts SC, de Groot J, Luebke K, Croy I, Freiherr J, Bensafi M, Hummel T, Havlíček J. 2023. Past, present and future of human chemical communication. Perspectives on Psychological Science (in press) https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231188147
Gray N, Roberts SC. 2023. An investigation of simulated and real touch on feelings of loneliness. Scientific Reports 13, 10587. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37467-5. [pdf]
Kaňková Š, Hlaváčová J, Roberts K, Benešová J, Havlíček J, Calda P, Dlouhá D, Roberts SC. 2023. Associations between nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, disgust sensitivity, and first-trimester maternal serum free β-hCG and PAPP-A. Hormones and Behavior 152, 105360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2023.105360 [pdf]
Dlouhá D, Roberts SC, Hlaváčová J, Nouzová K, Kaňková Š. 2023. Longitudinal changes in disgust sensitivity during pregnancy and the early postpartum period, and the role of recent health problems. Scientific Reports 13, 4752. [pdf]
Roberts K, Havlíček J; Kaňková Š, Klapilová K, Roberts SC. 2023. Testing effects of partner support and use of oral contraception during relationship formation on severity of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 23, 175. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Singleton F, Culpepper P, Sorokowski P, Sorokowska A, Havlíček J. 2023. Handshaking and hand-smelling: on the potential role of handshake greeting in human olfactory communication. In Schaal B, Keller M, Rekow D & Damon F (eds.), Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 15, Springer-Nature (in press)
Havlíček J, Roberts SC. (2023) Menstrual cycle variation in women’s mating psychology: Empirical evidence and theoretical considerations. In The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Romantic Relationships (Eds: Mogilski J, TK Shackelford), pp. 643-674. Oxford University Press.
Třebický V, Delplanque S, Ferdenzi C, Fink B, Kuncová L, Pátková Ž, Roberts SC, Röder S, Saxton TK, Schwambergová D, Šterbová Z, Třebická Fialová J, Havlíček J. 2023. Cross-modal associations of human body odour attractiveness with facial and vocal attractiveness provide little support for the backup signals hypothesis: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Evolution and Human Behavior 44, 19-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.11.001 [pdf]
2022
Roberts SC, Třebická Fialová J, Sorokowska A, Langford B, Sorokowski P, Třebický V, Havlíček J. 2022. Emotional expression in human odour. Evolutionary Human Sciences 4, e44. doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2022.44
Langford B, Cash JM, Beel G, Di Marco C, Duthie C, Haskell M, Miller G, Nicoll L, Roberts SC, Nemitz E. 2022. Passive breath monitoring of livestock: Using factor analysis to deconvolve the cattle shed. Journal of Breath Chemistry 16(2). doi: 10.1088/1752-7163/ac4d08
Fiurašková K, Roberts SC, Kaňková S, Hlaváčová J, Calda P, Havlíček J. 2022. Oral contraceptive use during relationship formation and current relationship satisfaction: Testing the congruency hypothesis in couples attending pregnancy and fertility clinics. Psychoneuroendocrinology 135, 105451. [pdf]
2021
Leongómez JD, Sánchez OR, Vásquez-Amézquita M, Roberts SC. 2021. Contextualising courtship: exploring male body odour effects on vocal modulation. Behavioural Processes 193, 104531. [pdf]
Leongómez JD, Havlíček J, Roberts SC. Musicality in human vocal communication: An evolutionary perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (in press) doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0391 x
Fiurašková K, Havlíček J, Roberts SC. Dietary and psychosocial correlates of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. Food Quality and Preference 93, 104266. doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2021.104266. [pdf]
Shah SIA, Wilson HCP, Abel PD, Wassersug RJ, Třebický V, Třebická Fialová J, Allen C, Adomat HH, Bell RH, Tomlinson Guns ES, Roberts SC. 2021. Gonadal suppression alters axillary steroid secretions in men, but does that affect olfactory social signaling? Journal of Men's Health 17, 69-76. jomh.org/articles/10.31083/jomh.2021.042. [pdf]
Kleisner K, Tureček P, Roberts SC, Havlíček J, Valentova JV, Akoko RM, Leongómez JD, Apostol S, Varella MSC, Saribay SA. 2021. How patterns of sexual dimorphism in human faces vary across the world. Scientific Reports 11, 5978 [pdf]
www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-85402-3.
2020
Gerkin RC, Ohla K, Veldhuizen MG... Roberts SC ... Parma V. 2020. Recent smell loss is the best predictor of COVID-19 among individuals with recent respiratory symptoms. Chemical Senses 46, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjaa081. [pdf]
Parma V, Ohla K, Veldhuizen MG... Roberts SC ... Hummel T, Munger SD, Hayes JE. 2020. More than smell: COVID-19 is associated with severe impairment of smell, taste, and chemesthesis. Chemical Senses 45, 609-622. https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjaa041. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Havlíček J, Schaal B. 2020. Human olfactory communication: current challenges and future prospects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 1800: 20190258 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0258. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Misztal PK, Langford B. 2020. Decoding the social volatilome by tracking rapid context-dependent odour change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 1800: 20190259 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0259. [pdf]
Havlíček J, Winternitz J, Roberts SC. 2020. MHC-associated odour preferences and human mate choice: near and far horizons. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 1800: 20190260. doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0260. [pdf]
2019
Fialová J, Hoffman R, Roberts SC, Havlíček J. 2019. The effect of complete caloric intake restriction on human body odour quality. Physiology & Behavior 210, 112554. [pdf]
Allen C, Havlíček J, Williams K, Roberts SC. 2019. Evidence for odour-mediated assortative mating in humans: The impact of hormonal contraception and artificial fragrances. Physiology & Behavior 210, 112541. [pdf]
Allen C, Cobey KD, Havlíček J, Singleton FP, Hahn AC, Moran CN, Roberts SC. 2019. Preparation for fatherhood: A role for olfactory communication during human pregnancy? Physiology & Behavior 206, 175-180. [pdf]
Allen C, Havlíček J, Roberts SC. 2019. The effects of artificial fragrances on human olfactory communication. In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 14 (Editors: Buesching CD & Müller C), Springer.
Havlíček J, Fialová J, Roberts SC. 2019. How diet affects vertebrate semiochemistry. In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 14 (Editors: Buesching CD & Müller C), Springer.
2018
Culpepper PD, Havlíček J, Leongómez JD, Roberts SC. 2018. Visually activating pathogen disgust: A new instrument for studying the behavioural immune system. Frontiers in Evolutionary Psychology 9, 1397. [pdf]
Fialová J, Sorokowska A, Roberts SC, Kubicová L, Havlíček J. 2018. Human body odour composites are not perceived more positively than the individual samples. i-Perception 9, 1-15. [pdf]
Jones BC, Hahn AC, Fisher CI, Wang H, Kandrik M, Han C, Fasolt V, Morrison D, Lee AJ, Holzleitner IJ, O’Shea K, Roberts SC, Little AC & DeBruine L. 2018. No compelling evidence that preferences for facial masculinity track changes in women’s hormonal status. Psychological Science 29, 996-1005. [pdf]
Jern P, Kärnä A, Hujanen J, Erlin T, Gunst A, Rautaheimo H, Öhman E, Roberts SC, & Zietsch BP. 2018. A high-powered replication study finds no effect of starting or stopping hormonal contraceptive use on relationship quality. Evolution and Human Behavior 39, 373-379. [pdf]
Marzoli D, Havlíček J, Roberts SC. 2018. Human mating strategies: from past causes to present consequences. WIREs Cognitive Science 9, e1456. [pdf]
Allen C, Havlíček J, Williams K, Roberts SC. 2018. Perfume experts' perceptions of body odours: Towards a new lexicon for body odour description. Journal of Sensory Studies 33, e12314 [pdf]
d'Ettorre P, Bueno S, Rödel HG, Megherbi H, Seigneuric A, Schaal B, Roberts SC. 2018. Exposure to androstenes influences processing of emotional words. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 5:169. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00169 [pdf]
2017
Roberts SC. 2017. Effect of birth control on women's mate preferences. In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (T.K. Shackelford, V.A. Weekes-Shackelford, eds.). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_13-1. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Little AC, DeBruine LM, Petrie M. 2017. Discrimination of attractiveness and health in men’s faces: The impact of color cues and variation in relation to sex and age of rater. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology 3, 401-411. [pdf]
Leongómez JD, Mileva VR, Little AC, Roberts SC. 2017. Perceived differences in social status between speaker and listener affect the speaker's vocal characteristics. PLoS ONE 12: e0179407. [pdf]
Groyecka A, Pisanski K, Sorokowska A, Havlíček J, Karwowski M, Puts D, Roberts SC, Sorokowski P. 2017. Attractiveness is multimodal:
beauty is also in the nose and ear of the beholder. Frontiers in Psychology 8, 778. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Eryaman F. 2017. Mutual olfactory recognition between mother and child. Human Ethology Bulletin 32, 42-52. [pdf]
Sobotková M, Fialová J, Roberts SC, Havlíček J. 2017. Effect of biological relatedness on perfume selection for others. Perception 46, 498-515. [pdf]
Havlíček J, Fialová J, Roberts SC. 2017. Individual variation in body odor. In The Springer Handbook of Odor (A. Buettner, Ed.), pp. 949-961. Springer. [pdf]
Havlíček J, Třebický V, Valentova JV, Kleisner K, Akokod RM, Fialová J, Jashe R, Kočnara T, Pereira KJ, Štěrbová Z, Varella MAC, Vokurková J, Vunand E & Roberts SC. 2017. Men’s preferences for women’s breast size and shape in four cultures. Evolution and Human Behavior 38, 217-226. [pdf]
Havlíček J, Roberts SC. 2017. Male perception of cycle-related fluctuations in women's attractiveness. In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (T.K. Shackelford, V.A. Weekes-Shackelford, eds.). doi 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_8-1 [pdf]
2016
Peperkoorn S, Roberts SC, Pollet T. 2016. Revisiting the Red Effect on attractiveness and sexual receptivity: No effect of the color red on human mate preferences. Evolutionary Psychology 14(4), 1-13. [pdf]
Cobey KD, Havlíček J, Klapilová K, Roberts SC. 2016. Hormonal contraception use during relationship formation and sexual desire during pregnancy. Archives in Sexual Behavior 45, 2117-2122. [pdf]
Allen C, Cobey KD, Havlíček J, Roberts SC. 2016. The impact of artificial fragrances on the assessment of mate quality cues in body odor. Evolution and Human Behavior 37, 481-489. [pdf]
Fialová J, Roberts SC, Havlíček J. Consumption of garlic affects hedonic perception of axillary body odour. Appetite 97, 8-15. [pdf]
Lindová J, Little AC, Havlíček J, Roberts SC, Rubešová A, Flegr J. 2016. Effect of partnership status on preferences for facial self-resemblance. Frontiers in Psychology, 7: 869. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00869 [pdf]
2015
Little AC, Třebický V, Havlíček J, Roberts SC, Kleisner K. 2015. Human perception of fighting ability: facial cues predict winners in Mixed Martial Arts fights. Behavioral Ecology 26, 1470-1475. [pdf]
Havlíček J, Cobey KD, Barrett L, Klapilová K, Roberts SC. Greater precision, not parsimony, is the key to testing the peri-ovulation spandrel hypothesis. Behavioral Ecology 26, 1265-1267. [pdf]
Havlíček J, Cobey KD; Barrett L, Klapilová K, Roberts SC. The spandrels of Santa Barbara? A new perspective on the peri-ovulation paradigm. Behavioral Ecology 26, 1249-1260. [pdf]
Cobey KD, Nicholls M, Leongómez JD, Roberts SC. 2015. Self-reported dominance in women: Associations with hormonal contraceptive use, relationship status, and testosterone. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology 1, 449-459. [pdf]
Allen C, Havlíček J, Roberts SC. Effect of fragrance use on discrimination of individual body odor. Frontiers in Psychology 6, 1115. [pdf]
Sulikowski D, Burke D, Havlíček J, Roberts SC. 2015. Head-tilt and fertility contribute to different aspects of female facial attractiveness. Ethology 121, 1002-1009. [pdf]
Swaffield J, Roberts SC. 2015. Exposure to cues of harsh or safe environmental conditions alters food preferences. Evolutionary Psychological Science 1, 69-76. [pdf]
Třebický V, Fialová J, Kleisner K, Roberts SC, Little AC, Havlíček J. 2015. Further evidence for links between facial width-to-height ratio and fighting success: Commentary on Zilioli et al. (2014). Aggressive Behavior 41, 331-334. [pdf]
Martinec Nováková L, Plotená D, Roberts SC and Havlícek J (2015) Positive relationship between odor identification and affective responses of negatively valenced odors. Frontiers in Psychology 6:607. [pdf]
Jones BC, Hahn AC, Fisher CI, Wincenciak J, Kandrik M, Roberts SC, Little AC & DeBruine LM. Facial coloration tracks changes in women’s estradiol. Psychoneuroendocrinology 56, 29-34. [pdf]
Cobey KD, Little AC, Roberts SC. 2015. Hormonal effects on women's facial masculinity preferences: The influence of pregnancy, postpartum, and hormonal contraceptive use. Biological Psychology 104, 35-40. [pdf]
2014
Roberts SC, Little AC, Burriss RP, Cobey KD, Klapilová K, Havlíček J, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Petrie M. 2014. Partner choice, relationship satisfaction and oral contraception: the congruency hypothesis. Psychological Science 25, 1497-1503. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Cobey KD, Klapilová K, Havlíček J. 2014. Oral contraception and romantic relationships: from the lab to the real world. Human Ethology Bulletin 29, 4-13. [pdf]
Nováková LM, Havlíček J, Roberts SC. Olfactory processing and odor specificity: a meta-analysis of menstrual cycle variation in olfactory sensitivity. Anthropological Review 77, 331-345. [pdf]
Leongómez JD, Binter J, Kubicová L, Stolařová P, Klapilová K, Havlíček J, Roberts SC. 2014. Vocal modulation during courtship increases proceptivity even in naive listeners. Evolution and Human Behavior 35, 489-496. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 2014. Evolutionary Psychology. Oxford Bibliographies in Evolutionary Biology. Ed. J. Losos. New York: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/obo/9780199941728-0025. [pdf]
Klapilová K, Cobey KD, Wells T, Roberts SC, Weiss P, Havlíček J. 2014. Current hormonal contraceptive use predicts female extra-pair and dyadic sexual behavior: evidence based on Czech National Survey data. Evolutionary Psychology 12, 36-52. [pdf]
Roberts SC,Cobey KD, Klapilová K, Havlíček J. 2014. Oral contraceptives and sexual desire: Replies to Graham and Bancroft (2013) and Puts and Pope (2013). Archives of Sexual Behavior 43, 3-6. [pdf]
DeBruine LM, Jones BC, Roberts SC, Little AC, Watkins CD. 2014. Beauty in the eye of the beholder: Potentially adaptive individual differences in human mate preferences. In Animal Behavior, Vol.3, K. Yasukawa (ed.), pp. 311-347, ABC Clio Press, Santa Barbara, CA.
2013
Roberts SC. 2013. Celebrating Tinbergen's influence on human ethology. Human Ethology Bulletin 28 (4), 1-2. [pdf]
Cobey KD, Buunk AP, Pollet TV, Klipping C, Roberts SC. 2013. Men perceive their female partners, and themselves, as more attractive around ovulation. Biological Psychology 94, 513-516. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Cobey KD, Klapilová K, Havlíček J. 2013. An evolutionary approach offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between oral contraception and sexual desire. Archives of Sexual Behavior 42, 1369-1375. [pdf]
Třebický V, Havlíček J, Roberts SC, Little AC, Kleisner K. 2013. Perceived aggressiveness predicts fighting performance in Mixed Martial Arts fighters. Psychological Science 24, 1664-1672. [pdf]
Little AC, Burriss RP, Petrie M, Jones BC, Roberts SC. 2013. Oral contraceptive use in women changes preferences for male facial masculinity and is associated with partner facial masculinity. Psychoneuroendocrinology 38, 1777-1785. [pdf]
Marzoli D, Moretto F, Monti A, Tocci O, Roberts SC, Tommasi, L. 2013. Environmental Influences on mate preferences as assessed by a scenario manipulation experiment. PLoS One, 8, e74282. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Havlíček J. 2013. Humans are dunnocks, not peacocks: on cause and consequence of variation in human mating strategies. Psychological Inquiry 24, 231-236. [pdf]
Cobey KD, Roberts SC, Buunk AP. 2013. Hormonal contraceptive congruency: Implications for relationship jealousy. Personality and Individual Differences 55, 569-573. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Havlíček J, Petrie M. 2013. Repeatability of odour preferences across time. Flavour and Fragrance Journal 28, 245-250. [pdf]
Ferdenzi C, Delplanque S, Barbosa P, Court K, Guinard J, Guo T, Roberts SC, Schirmer A, Porcherot C, Cayeux I, Sander D, Grandjean D. 2013. Affective semantic space of scents. Towards a universal scale to measure odor-related feelings. Food Quality and Preference 30, 128-138. [pdf]
Saxton TK, DeBruine LM, Jones BC, Little AC, Roberts SC. 2013. Voice pitch preferences of adolescents: Do changes across time indicate a shift towards potentially adaptive adult-like preferences? Personality and Individual Differences 55, 90-94. [pdf]
Valentová J, Roberts SC, Havlíček J. 2013. Preferences for facial and vocal masculinity in homosexual men: the role of partnership status, sexual restrictiveness, and self-perceived masculinity. Perception 42, 187-197. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Vakirtzis A, Kristjánsdóttir L, Havlíček J. 2013. Who punishes? Personality traits predict individual variation in punitive sentiment. Evolutionary Psychology 11, 186-200. [pdf]
Ferdenzi C, Roberts SC, Schirmer A, Delplanque S, Cekic S, Porcherot C, Cayeux I, Sander D, Grandjean D. 2013. Variability of affective responses to odors: culture, gender and olfactory knowledge. Chemical Senses 38, 175-186. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Murray J. 2013. Applying the ‘revenge system’ to the criminal justice system and jury decision-making. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 36, 34-35. [pdf]
Fialová J, Roberts SC, Havlíček, J. 2013. Is the perception of odour cues to diet linked to sexual selection in humans? In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates XII (East ML and Dehnhard M, eds), pp. 161-169, Springer, New York. [pdf]
Havlíček J, Roberts SC. 2013. The perfume-body odour complex: an insightful model for culture-gene coevolution? In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates XII (East ML and Dehnhard M, eds), pp. 185-195, Springer, New York. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 2013. Oreotragus oreotragus Klipspringer. In JS Kingdon and M Hoffmann (eds), Mammals of Africa. Volume 6: Pigs, Hippopotamuses, Chevrotain, Giraffes, Deer and Bovids, pp. 470-476. Bloomsbury Publishing, London.
2012
Havlíček J, Nováková L, Vondrová M, Kuběna AA, Valentová J, Roberts SC. 2012. Olfactory perception is positively linked to anxiety in young adults. Perception 41, 1246-1261. [pdf]
Roberts SC, van Vugt M, Dunbar RIM. 2012. Evolutionary psychology in the modern world: applications, perspectives and strategies. Evolutionary Psychology 10, 762-769. [pdf]
Little AC, Roberts SC. 2012. Evolution, appearance and occupational success. Evolutionary Psychology 10, 782-801. [pdf]
Little AC, Roberts SC, Jones BC, DeBruine LM. 2012. The perception of attractiveness and trustworthiness in male faces affects hypothetical voting decisions differently in war and peace-time scenarios. Q J Exp Psych 65, 2018-2032. [pdf]
Roberts SC. On the relationship between scent-marking and territoriality in callitrichid primates. 2012. Int. J. Primatol. 33, 749-761. [pdf]
Kuppens T, Pollet TV, Teixeira CP, Demoulin S, Roberts SC, Little AC. 2012. Emotions in context: Anger causes ethnic bias but not gender bias in men but not women. European Journal of Social Psychology 42, 432-441. [pdf]
Cobey KD, Pollet TV, Roberts SC, Klipping C, Appels N, Zimerman Y, Bennink HC, Buunk AP. 2012. Reported jealousy differs as a function of menstrual cycle stage and contraceptive pill use: a within-subjects investigation. Evolution and Human Behavior 33, 395-401. [pdf]
Vakirtzis A, Roberts SC. 2012. Human nonindependent mate choice: is model female attractiveness everything? Evolutionary Psychology 10, 225-237. [pdf]
Lenochova P, Vohnoutova P, Kubena A, Roberts SC, Oberzaucher E, Grammer K, Havlicek J. 2012. Psychology of fragrance use: perception of individual odor and perfume blends reveals a mechanism for idiosyncratic effects on fragrance choice. PLoS One e33810. [pdf]
Welling LLM, Puts DA, Roberts SC, Little AC, Burriss RP. 2012. Hormonal contraceptive use and mate retention behavior in women and their male partners. Hormones and Behavior 61, 114-120. [pdf]
Vakirtzis A, Roberts SC. 2012. Do women really like taken men? Results from a large questionnaire study. Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology 6, 50-65. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Klapilová K, Little AC, Burriss RP, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Petrie M, Havlicek J. 2012. Relationship satisfaction and outcome in women who meet their partner while using oral contraception. Proc R Soc B 279, 1430-1436. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 2012. Applying evolutionary psychology. In Applied Evolutionary Psychology (ed. SC Roberts), pp. 1-4. Oxford University Press, Oxford. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Havlicek J. 2012. Evolutionary psychology and perfume design. In Applied Evolutionary Psychology (ed. SC Roberts), pp. 330-348. Oxford University Press, Oxford. [pdf]
2011
Havlicek J, Lenochova P, Oberzaucher E, Grammer K, Roberts SC. 2011. Does length of sampling affect quality of body odor samples? Chemosensory Perception 4, 186-194. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Kralevich A, Ferdenzi C, Saxton TK, Havlicek J. 2011. Body odor quality predicts behavioral attractiveness in humans. Archives of Sexual Behavior 40, 1111-1117. [pdf]
Ferdenzi C, Lemaître J-F, Leongómez JD, Roberts SC. 2011. Digit ratio (2D:4D) predicts facial, but not voice or body odour, attractiveness in men. Proc R Soc B 278, 3551-3557. [pdf]
Ferdenzi C, Schirmer A, Roberts SC, Delplanque S, Porcherot-Lassallette C, Cayeux I, Velazco M, Sander D, Scherer KR, Grandjean D. 2011. Affective dimensions of odor perception: a comparison between Swiss, British and Singaporean populations. Emotion 11, 1168-1181. [pdf]
Jones BC, Vukovic J, Little AC, Roberts SC & DeBruine LM. 2011. Circum-menopausal changes in women’s preferences for sexually dimorphic shape cues in peer-aged faces. Biological Psychology 87, 453-455. [pdf]
Saxton TK, Debruine LM, Jones BC, Little AC, Roberts SC. 2011. A longitudinal study of adolescents’ judgments of the attractiveness of facial symmetry, averageness and sexual dimorphism. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 9, 43-55. [pdf]
Little AC, Connely J, Feinberg DR, Jones BC, Roberts SC. 2011. Human preference for masculinity differs according to context in faces, bodies, voices, and smell. Behavioral Ecology 22, 862-868. [pdf]
DeBruine LM, Jones BC, Watkins CD, Roberts SC, Little AC, Smith FG, Quist MC. 2011. Opposite-sex siblings decrease attraction, but not prosocial attributions, to self-resembling opposite-sex faces. Proc Natl Acad Sci, USA 108, 11710-11714. [pdf]
Burriss RP, Roberts SC, Welling LLM, Puts DA, Little AC. 2011. Heterosexual romantic couples mate assortatively for facial symmetry, but not masculinity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 37, 601-613. [pdf]
Cobey KD, Pollet TV, Roberts SC, Buunk AP. 2011. Hormonal birth control use and relationship jealousy: evidence for estrogen dosage effects. Personality & Individual Differences 50, 315-317. [pdf]
2010
Roberts SC, Miner EJ and Shackelford TK. 2010. The future of an applied evolutionary psychology for human partnerships. Review of General Psychology 14, 318-329. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Owen C, Havlicek J. 2010. Distinguishing between perceiver and wearer effects in clothing color-associated attributions. Evolutionary Psychology 8, 350-364. [pdf]
Havlicek J, Murray AK, Saxton TK, Roberts SC. 2010. Current issues in the study of androstenes in human chemosignalling. Vitamins & Hormones 83, 47-81. [pdf]
Saxton TK, Kohoutova D, Roberts SC, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Havlicek J. 2010. Age, puberty and attractiveness judgments in adolescents. Personality and Individual Differences 49, 857-862. [pdf]
Vakirtzis A, Roberts SC. 2010. Nonindependent mate choice in monogamy. Behavioral Ecology 21, 898-901. [pdf]
Little AC, Saxton TK, Roberts SC, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Vukovic J, Perrett DI, Feinberg DR, & Chenore T. 2010. Women’s preferences for masculinity in male faces are highest during reproductive age-range and lower around puberty and post-menopause.
Psychoneuroendrocrinology 35, 912-920. [pdf]
Ferdenzi C, Schaal B, Roberts SC. 2010. Family scents: developmental changes in body odor perception of kin. Journal of Chemical Ecology 36, 847-854. [pdf]
Vakirtzis A & Roberts SC. 2010. Mate quality bias: Sex differences in humans. Annales Zoologica Fennici 47, 149-157. [pdf]
2009
Ferdenzi C, Schaal B, Roberts SC. 2009. Human axillary odor: are there side-related perceptual differences? Chemical Senses 34, 565-571. [pdf]
Lenochova P, Saxton TK, Roberts SC, Havlicek J. 2009. Methods of human body odor sampling: the effect of freezing. Chemical Senses 34, 127-138. [pdf]
Saxton TK, Little AC, DeBruine LM, Jones BC, Roberts SC. 2009. Adolescents’ preferences for sexual dimorphism are influenced by relative exposure to male and female faces. Personality and Individual Differences 47, 864-868. [pdf]
Saxton TK, Little AC, Rowland HM, Gao T, Roberts SC. 2009. Trade-offs between markers of absolute and relative quality in human facial preferences. Behavioral Ecology 20, 1133-1137. [pdf]
Saxton TK, DeBruine LM, Jones BC, Little AC, Roberts SC. 2009. Face and voice attractiveness judgments change during adolescence. Evolution and Human Behavior 30, 398-408. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 2009. Complexity and context of MHC-correlated mating preferences in wild populations. Molecular Ecology 18, 3121-3123. [pdf]
Havlicek J & Roberts SC. 2009. Towards a neuroscience of love: olfaction, attention and a model of neurohypophysial hormone action. Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience doi: 10.3389/neuro.18.002.2009 [pdf]
Vakirtzis A & Roberts SC. 2009. Mate choice copying and mate quality bias: different processes, different species. Behavioral Ecology 20, 908-911. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Saxton TK, Murray, AK, Burriss RP, Rowland HM, Little AC. 2009. Static and dynamic facial images cue similar attractiveness judgements. Ethology 115, 588-595. [pdf]
Saxton TK, Burriss RP, Murray AK, Rowland HM, Roberts SC. 2009. Face, body and speech cues independently predict judgments of attractiveness. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 3, 23-35. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Little AC, Lyndon A, Roberts J, Havlicek J & Wright RL. 2009. Manipulation of personal odor alters men’s self-confidence and judgements of their visual attractiveness by women. International Journal of Cosmetic Science 31, 47-54. [pdf]
Havlicek J & Roberts SC. 2009. MHC-correlated mate choice in humans: a review. Psychoneuroendocrinology 34, 497-512. [pdf]
DeBruine LM, Smith FG, Jones BC, Roberts SC, Petrie M, Spector TD. 2009. Kin recognition signals in adult faces. Journal of Vision 49, 38-43. [pdf]
2008 and before
Roberts SC & Little AC. 2008. Good genes, complementary genes and human mate choice. Genetica 132, 309-321. [pdf]
Saxton TK, Lyndon A, Little AC, Roberts SC. 2008. Evidence that androstadienone, a putative human chemosignal, modulates women’s attributions of men’s attractiveness. Hormones and Behavior 54, 597-601. [pdf]
Savelev SU, Antony-Babu S, Roberts SC, Wang H, Clare AS, Gosling LM, Petrie M, Goodfellow M, O’Donnell AG, & Ward AC. 2008. Individual variation in 3-methylbutanal: a putative link between HLA and skin microflora. Journal of Chemical Ecology 34, 1253-1257. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Gosling LM, Carter V, Petrie M. 2008. MHC-correlated odour preferences in humans and the use of oral contraceptives. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275, 2715-2722. [pdf]
Havlicek J, Saxton TK, Roberts SC, Jozifkova E, Lhota S, Valentova J, Flegr J. 2008. He sees, she smells? Male and female reports of sensory reliance in mate choice and non-mate-choice contexts. Personality & Individual Differences 45, 565-570. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 2008. Nonverbal communication of mate quality in humans. In Sociobiology of Communication: An interdisciplinary perspective. (d’Ettorre P & Hughes DP, eds). Oxford University Press; pp 157-170. [pdf]
Saxton, T.K., Little, A.C. and Roberts, S.C. 2008. Ecological validity in the study of human pheromones. In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates XI (Hurst JL, Beynon RJ, Roberts SC & Wyatt TD, eds.). Springer, New York; pp. 111-120. [pdf]
Little AC, Burriss RP, Jones BC, Roberts SC. 2007. Facial appearance affects voting decisions. Evolution and Human Behaviour 28, 18-27. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 2007. Scent-marking. In Rodent Societies. (Wolff JO & Sherman PW, eds.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago; pp. 255-266. [pdf]
Pepper GV & Roberts SC. 2006. Rates of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy and dietary characteristics across populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273, 2675-2679. [pdf]
Saxton TK, Caryl PG, Roberts SC. 2006. Vocal and facial attractiveness judgments of children, adolescents and adults: the ontogeny of mate choice. Ethology 112, 1179-1185. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Hale, ML and Petrie M. 2006. Correlations between heterozygosity and measures of genetic similarity: implications for understanding mate choice. J.Evolutionary Biology 19, 558-569. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Little AC, Gosling LM, Jones BC, Perrett DI, Carter V & Petrie M. 2005. MHC-assortative facial preferences in humans. Biology Letters 1, 400-403. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Little AC, Gosling LM, Perrett DI, Jones BC, Carter V, Penton-Voak IS & Petrie M. 2005. MHC-heterozygosity and human facial attractiveness. Evolution & Human Behavior 26, 213-226. [pdf]
Jones BC, Little AC, Boothroyd L, Feinberg DR, Cornwell RE, DeBruine LM, Roberts SC, Penton-Voak IS, Law Smith MJ, Moore FR, Davis HP & Perrett DI. 2005. Women’s physical and psychological condition independently predict their preference for apparent health in faces. Evolution & Human Behaviour 26, 451-457. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Gosling LM, Spector TD, Miller P, Penn DJ & Petrie M. 2005. Body odor similarity of non-cohabiting twins. Chemical Senses 30, 651-656. [pdf]
Havlicek J, Roberts SC & Flegr J. 2005. Women’s preference for dominant male odour: effects of menstrual cycle and relationship status. Biology Letters. 1, 256-259. [pdf]
Rowe C, Harris J & Roberts SC. 2005. Seeing red? Putting sportswear in context. Nature 437, E10. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Havlicek J, Flegr J, Hruskova M, Little AC, Jones BC, Perrett DI & Petrie M. 2004. Female facial attractiveness increases during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle. Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Suppl.) 271, S270-272. [pdf]
Roberts SC & Gosling LM. 2004. Manipulation of olfactory signalling and mate choice for conservation breeding: a case study of the harvest mouse. Conservation Biology 18, 548-556. [pdf]
Roberts SC & Gosling LM. 2003. Genetic quality and similarity interact in mate choice decisions by female mice. Nature Genetics 35, 103-106. [pdf]
Gosling LM & Roberts SC. 2001. Scent-marking by male mammals: cheat-proof signals to competitors and mates. Advances in the Study of Behaviour 30, 169-217. [pdf]
Gosling LM & Roberts SC. 2001. Testing ideas about the function of scent marks in territories from spatial patterns. Animal Behaviour 62, F7-F10. [pdf]
Roberts SC, Gosling LM, Thornton EA & McClung J. 2001. Scent-marking by male mice under the risk of predation. Behavioral Ecology 12, 698-705. [pdf]
Roberts SC & Gosling LM. 2001. The economic consequences of advertising scent mark location in territories. In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates IX (Marchlewska-Koy A, Lepri JJ & Müller-Schwarze M, eds.). Kluver Academic/Plenum Press; pp. 11-17. [pdf]
Roberts SC & Dunbar RIM. 2000. Female territoriality and the function of scent-marking in a monogamous antelope (Oreotragus oreotragus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 47, 417-23. [pdf]
Gosling LM, Roberts SC, Thornton EA & Andrew MA. 2000. Life history costs of olfactory status signalling in mice. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 48, 328-332. [pdf]
Carbone C, Mace G, Roberts SC & Macdonald DW. 1999. Energetic constraints on the diet of terrestrial carnivores. Nature 402, 286-288. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 1998. Behavioural responses to scent marks of increasing age in klipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus. Ethology 104, 585-592. [pdf]
Roberts SC.1998. Long-term costs of the mopane worm harvest. Oryx 32, 6-8.
Roberts SC. & Lowen C 1997. Optimal patterns of scent marks in klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus) territories. Journal of Zoology 243, 565-578. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 1997. Selection of scent-marking sites by klipspringers (Oreotragus oreotragus). Journal of Zoology 243, 555-564. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 1996. The evolution of hornedness in female ruminants. Behaviour 133, 399-442. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 1995. Gleaning in klipspringer preorbital glands by Redwinged Starlings and Yellowbellied Bulbuls. Ostrich 66, 147-148. [pdf]
Roberts SC. 1993. Yellowbellied Bulbul gleaning on a klipspringer. Ostrich 64, 136. [pdf]
Dunbar RIM & Roberts SC. 1992. Territory quality in mountain reedbuck (Redunca fulvorufula chanleri): Distance to safety. Ethology 90, 134-142.
Roberts SC & Dunbar RIM. 1991. Climatic influences on the behavioural ecology of Chanler's mountain reedbuck in Kenya. African Journal of Ecology 29, 316-329. [pdf]
