By Associate Professor Michael Matthew Kasumovic

Journal articles

Denson TF; Youssef H; Blake KR; Dixson BJW; Harmon-Jones E; Kasumovic MM, 2024, 'The effect of a physically formidable competitor or cooperator on attraction to violent video games', Motivation and Emotion, 48, pp. 729 - 745, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11031-024-10095-w

Pollo P; Reynolds TA; Blake KR; Kasumovic MM, 2024, 'Erratum: Correction: Exploring Within-Gender Differences in Friendships Using an Online Social Network (Archives of sexual behavior (2024) 53 8 DOI: 10.1007/s10508-024-02906-5)', Archives of sexual behavior, 53, pp. 3203, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-024-02973-8

Pollo P; Reynolds TA; Blake KR; Kasumovic MM, 2024, 'Exploring Within-Gender Differences in Friendships Using an Online Social Network', Archives of Sexual Behavior, 53, pp. 3187 - 3201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-024-02906-5

Mantell R; Withall A; Radford K; Kasumovic M; Monds L; Hwang YIJ, 2023, 'Design Preferences for a Serious Game-Based Cognitive Assessment of Older Adults in Prison: Thematic Analysis', JMIR Serious Games, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/45467

Pollo P; Nakagawa S; Kasumovic MM, 2022, 'The better, the choosier: A meta-analysis on interindividual variation of male mate choice', Ecology Letters, 25, pp. 1305 - 1322, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.13981

Craig HC; Yao Y; Ariotti N; Setty M; Remadevi R; Kasumovic MM; Rajkhowa R; Rawal A; Blamires SJ, 2022, 'Nanovoid formation induces property variation within and across individual silkworm silk threads', Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 10, pp. 5561 - 5570, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2tb00357k

Pollo P; Kasumovic MM, 2022, 'Let's talk about sex roles: what affects perceptions of sex differences in animal behaviour?', Animal Behaviour, 183, pp. 1 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.10.016

Denson TF; Kasumovic MM; Harmon-Jones E, 2022, 'Understanding the Desire to Play Violent Video Games: An Integrative Motivational Theory', Motivation Science, 8, pp. 161 - 173, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/mot0000246

Girard MB; Elias DO; Azevedo G; Bi K; Kasumovic MM; Waldock JM; Rosenblum EB; Hedin M, 2021, 'Phylogenomics of peacock spiders and their kin (Salticidae: Maratus), with implications for the evolution of male courtship displays', Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 132, pp. 471 - 494, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa165

Kasumovic MM; Hatcher E; Blake KR; Denson TF, 2021, 'Performance in video games affects self-perceived mate value and mate preferences.', Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 15, pp. 191 - 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000231

Santana EM; Machado G; Kasumovic MM, 2020, 'Pre-maturation social experience affects female reproductive strategies and offspring quality in a highly polyandrous insect', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-020-02917-x

Craig HC; Piorkowski D; Nakagawa S; Kasumovic MM; Blamires SJ, 2020, 'Meta-analysis reveals materiomic relationships in major ampullate silk across the spider phylogeny', Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.0471

Denson TF; Dixson BJW; Tibubos AN; Zhang E; Harmon-Jones E; Kasumovic MM, 2020, 'Violent video game play, gender, and trait aggression influence subjective fighting ability, perceptions of men's toughness, and anger facial recognition', Computers in Human Behavior, 104, pp. 106175, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.106175

Viera C; Garcia LF; Lacava M; Fang J; Wang X; Kasumovic MM; Blamires SJ, 2019, 'Author Correction: Silk physico-chemical variability and mechanical robustness facilitates intercontinental invasibility of a spider (Scientific Reports, (2019), 9, 1, (13273), 10.1038/s41598-019-49463-9)', Scientific Reports, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-54237-4

Viera C; Garcia LF; Lacava M; Fang J; Wang X; Kasumovic MM; Blamires SJ, 2019, 'Silk physico-chemical variability and mechanical robustness facilitates intercontinental invasibility of a spider', Scientific Reports, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49463-9

Kasumovic MM, 2019, 'Simplifying our understanding of contests: A comment on Chapin et al', Behavioral Ecology, 30, pp. 1189 - 1190, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz131

Craig HC; Blamires SJ; Sani MA; Kasumovic MM; Rawal A; Hook JM, 2019, 'DNP NMR spectroscopy reveals new structures, residues and interactions in wild spider silks', Chemical Communications, 55, pp. 4687 - 4690, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9CC01045A

Blamires SJ; Cerexhe G; White TE; Herberstein ME; Kasumovic MM, 2019, 'Spider silk colour covaries with thermal properties but not protein structure', Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2019.0199

Kasumovic MM; Seebacher F, 2018, 'Casual movement speed but not maximal locomotor capacity predicts mate searching success', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 31, pp. 438 - 445, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13239

Dixson BJW; Sherlock JM; Cornwell WK; Kasumovic MM, 2018, 'Contest competition and men's facial hair: beards may not provide advantages in combat', Evolution and Human Behavior, 39, pp. 147 - 153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.11.004

Blamires SJ; Martens PJ; Kasumovic MM, 2018, 'Fitness consequences of plasticity in an extended phenotype', Journal of Experimental Biology, 221, http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.167288

Girard MB; Kasumovic MM; Elias DO, 2018, 'The role of red coloration and song in peacock spider courtship: Insights into complex signaling systems', Behavioral Ecology, 29, pp. 1234 - 1244, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ary128

Kasumovic MM; Blake K; Denson TF, 2017, 'Using knowledge from human research to improve understanding of contest theory and contest dynamics', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2182

Denson TF; Wilkowski BM; DeWall CN; Friese M; Hofmann W; Ferguson EL; Capper MM; Kasumovic MM, 2017, '“Thou Shalt Kill”: Practicing self-control supports adherence to personal values when asked to aggress', Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 69, pp. 71 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2016.09.001

Blamires SJ; Hasemore M; Martens PJ; Kasumovic MM, 2017, 'Diet-induced co-variation between architectural and physicochemical plasticity in an extended phenotype', Journal of Experimental Biology, 220, pp. 876 - 884, http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.150029

Anderson CL; Kasumovic MM, 2017, 'Development rate rather than social environment influences cognitive performance in Australian black field crickets, Teleogryllus commodus', PeerJ, 2017, pp. e3563, http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3563

Kasumovic MM; Chen Z; Wilkins MR, 2016, 'Australian black field crickets show changes in neural gene expression associated with socially-induced morphological, life-history, and behavioral plasticity', BMC Genomics, 17, pp. 827, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-016-3119-y

Blamires SJ; Kasumovic MM; Tso IM; Martens PJ; Hook JM; Rawal A, 2016, 'Evidence of decoupling protein structure from spidroin expression in spider dragline silks', International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 17, pp. 1294, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms17081294

Girard MB; Elias DO; Kasumovic MM, 2015, 'Female preference for multi-modal courtship: Multiple signals are important for male mating success in peacock spiders', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282, pp. 20152222, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2222

Kasumovic MM; Blake K; Dixson BJ; Denson TF, 2015, 'Why do people play violent video games? Demographic, status-related, and mating-related correlates in men and women', Personality and Individual Differences, 86, pp. 204 - 211, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2015.06.018

Kasumovic MM; Kuznekoff JH, 2015, 'Erratum: Insights into sexism: Male status and performance moderates female-directed hostile and amicable behaviour (PLoS ONE (2015) 10:7 (e0131613) DOI: 10.1371/journal. pone.0131613)', PLoS ONE, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138399

Kasumovic MM; Kuznekoff JH, 2015, 'Insights into sexism: Male status and performance moderates female-directed hostile and amicable behaviour', PLoS ONE, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131613

Garcia JE; Girard MB; Kasumovic M; Petersen P; Wilksch PA; Dyer AG, 2015, 'Differentiating biological colours with few and many sensors: Spectral reconstruction with RGB and hyperspectral cameras', PLoS ONE, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125817

Elias DO; Sivalinghem S; Mason AC; Andrade MCB; Kasumovic MM, 2014, 'Mate-guarding courtship behaviour: Tactics in a changing world', Animal Behaviour, 97, pp. 25 - 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.08.007

Chiswell R; Girard M; Fricke C; Kasumovic MM, 2014, 'Prior mating success can affect allocation towards future sexual signaling in crickets', PeerJ, 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.657

Jordan LA; Kokko H; Kasumovic M, 2014, 'Reproductive foragers: Male spiders choose mates by selecting among competitive environments', American Naturalist, 183, pp. 638 - 649, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/675755

Lailvaux SP; Wilson R; Kasumovic MM, 2014, 'Trait compensation and sex-specific aging of performance in male and female professional basketball players', Evolution, 68, pp. 1523 - 1532, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.12375

Kasumovic MM; Jordan LA, 2013, 'Social factors driving settlement and relocation decisions in a solitary and aggregative spider', American Naturalist, 182, pp. 532 - 541, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/671930

Kasumovic M; Hall MD; Try H; Brooks RC, 2012, 'Developmental plasticity affects condition dependent trait expression', Behavioral Ecology, doi: 10.1093/beheco/ars180, http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/10/24/beheco.ars180.abstract?sid=f7084ca7-c3f1-4826-863a-b1235941ab9c

Stoltz JA; Andrade MCB; Kasumovic M, 2012, 'Plasticity in metabolic rates reinforces morphological plasticity in response to social cues of sexual selection', Journal of Insect Physiology, 58, pp. 985 - 990, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2012.05.002

Kasumovic M; Hall MD; Brooks RC, 2012, 'The juvenile social environment introduces variation in the choice and expression of sexually selected traits', Ecology and Evolution, 2, pp. 1036 - 1047

Girard MB; Kasumovic MM; Elias DO, 2011, 'Multi-modal courtship in the peacock spider, Maratus volans (O.P.-Cambridge, 1874)', PLoS ONE, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0025390

De Souza L; Kasumovic M; Judge K; Morris G, 2011, 'Communicating male size by tremulatory vibration in a Columbian rainforest katydid, Gnathoclita sodalis (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae)', Behaviour, 148, pp. 341 - 357, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/000579511X559418

Lailvaux SP; Kasumovic M, 2011, 'Defining individual quality over lifetimes and selective contexts', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences, 278, pp. 321 - 328, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1591

Kasumovic M; Andrade M; Elias DO, 2011, 'Dynamic population structure and the evolution of mating systems', Advances in Insect Physiology

Kasumovic M; Brooks RC, 2011, 'It’s all who you know: The evolution of socially-cued anticipatory plasticity as a mating strategy', Quarterly Review of Biology

Girard M; Kasumovic M; Elias D, 2011, 'Male multi-modal courtship in the peacock spider, Maratus volans', PLoS One

Kasumovic M, 2011, 'Stressing out about singing', Behavioral Ecology, 22, pp. 10 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arq080

Kasumovic M; Hall MD; Try H; Brooks RC, 2011, 'The importance of listening: Juvenile allocation shifts in response to acoustic cues of the social environment', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 24, pp. 1325 - 1334, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02267.x

Kasumovic M; Mason A; Andrade M; Elias D; Ma C, 2011, 'The relative importance of RHP and resource quality in contests with ownership asymmetries', Behavioral Ecology, 22, pp. 39 - 45, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arq161

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