Listed below you will find a list of some of my publications and works in progress. Some of the manuscripts listed contain links to downloadable reprints.
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Representative Publications
Navarrete, C.D., Fessler, D.M.T., & Seng, S.J. (2007). Increased ethnocentrism in the first trimester of pregnancy. Evolution and Human Behavior. 28: 60-65. Download PDF.
Kirkpatrick, L. & Navarrete, C.D. (2006). 'Reports of my death have been greatly exagerrated': A critique of terror management theory from an evolutionary perspective. Psychological Inquiry. Download PDF
Navarrete, C.D. & Fessler, D.M.T. (2006). Disease avoidance and ethnocentrism: the effects of disease vulnerability and disgust sensitivity on intergroup attitudes. Evolution and Human Behavior. 27(4): 270-282. Download PDF
Navarrete, C.D. (2005). Mortality concerns and other adaptive challenges: The effects of coalition-relevant challenges on worldview defense in the U.S. and Costa Rica. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. 8(4): 411-427. Download PDF
Navarrete, C.D. & Fessler, D.M.T. (2005). Normative bias and adaptive challenges: A relational approach to coalitional psycholology and a critique of terror managment theory. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology. 3: 297-325. Download PDF
Navarrete, C.D., Kurzban, R., Fessler, D.M.T, & Kirkpatrick, L. (2004). Anxiety and intergroup bias: Terror-management or coalitional psychology? Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. 7(4): 370-397. Download PDF
Working papers
Navarrete, C.D., Olsson, A., Ho, A., Mendes, W., Thomsen, L., & Sidanius, J. (in prep). The roles of race and gender in the persistence of learned fear. Download PDF
Navarrete, C.D., Ho, A., Molina, L., & Sidanius, J. (in prep). The gendered nature of race discrimination: An outgroup male target hypothesis.
Navarrete, C.D. & Fessler, D.M.T. (in prep). Does the content of religious worldviews buffer existential anxiety? An ethnographic analysis. Download PDF.
Navarrete. C.D., Pagano, S., Sidanius, J., & Abdou, C. (in prep). Ethnic identity and depression among African-American women.
Other Publications
Sidanius, J., Mitchell, M., Haley, H., & Navarrete, C.D. (2006). Support for harsh criminal sanctions, legitimizing ideologies, and Social Dominance Orientation. Social Justice Research. 19, 433-449
Fessler, D.M.T. & Navarrete, C.D. (2005). The effect of age on death disgust: A critique of terror management perspectives. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology.
Fessler, D.M.T., Eng, S.J., and Navarrete, C.D. (2005), Elevated disgust sensitivity in the first trimester of pregnancy: Evidence supporting the compensatory prophylaxis hypothesis. Evolution and Human Behavior 26(4):344-351. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T., Navarrete, C.D., Hopkins, W., & Izard, M.K. (2005). The effects of maternal age and parity on birth weight in humans and chimpanzees: Examining the terminal investment hypothesis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 26(3):245-256
Fessler, D.M.T. & Navarrete, C.D. (2004). Third-party attitudes towards sibling incest: Evidence for the Westermark hypothesis. Evolution and Human Behavior. 25 (5): 277-294.
Manson, J.H., Navarrete, C.D., Silk J.B., & Perry, S. (2004). Time-matched grooming by female primates? New analyses from two species. Animal Behaviour. 67: 493-500. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T. & Navarrete, C.D. (2003). Domain-specific variation in disgust sensitivity across the menstrual cycle. Evolution and Human Behavior. 24(6): 406-417. Download PDF
Fessler, D.M.T. & Navarrete, C.D. (2003). Meat is good to taboo: Dietary proscriptions as a product of the interaction of psychological mechanisms and social processes” Journal of Cognition and Culture. 3(1): 1-40. Download PDF
Other Manuscripts
Navarrete, C.D. (2004). Challenge, Threat and Pronormative Bias: Coalitional Psychology in Two Societies. Doctoral Dissertation: University of California, Los Angeles
Navarrete, C.D. (1999). Evolutionary History of the Neotropical Primates Based on an Analysis of Molecular and Morphological Data. Master's Thesis: California State University, Fullerton.
