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Journal articles
2024, 'Using Rhodamine to Tag Mites for Studies of Pre- and Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection', Ecology and Evolution, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70525
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,2018, 'Fitness consequences of plasticity in an extended phenotype', Journal of Experimental Biology, 221, http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.167288
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,2014, 'Prior mating success can affect allocation towards future sexual signaling in crickets', PeerJ, 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.657
,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
,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
,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
,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
,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
,2012, 'The juvenile social environment introduces variation in the choice and expression of sexually selected traits', Ecology and Evolution, 2, pp. 1036 - 1047
,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
,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
,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
,2011, 'Dynamic population structure and the evolution of mating systems', Advances in Insect Physiology
,2011, 'It’s all who you know: The evolution of socially-cued anticipatory plasticity as a mating strategy', Quarterly Review of Biology
,2011, 'Male multi-modal courtship in the peacock spider, Maratus volans', PLoS One
,2011, 'Stressing out about singing', Behavioral Ecology, 22, pp. 10 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arq080
,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
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