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Representative Publications
Navarrete, C.D., McDonald, M., Molina, L., Sidanius, J. (in press). Prejudice at the nexus of race and gender: An out-group male target hypothesis. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology. Download PDF
Navarrete, C.D., Mott, M., Cesario, J., McDonald, M., & Sapolsky, R. (in press). Fertility and race perception predict voter preference for Barack Obama. Evolution & Human Behavior. Download PDF
Navarrete, C.D., Fessler, D., Fleischman, D., & Geyer, J. (2009). Race bias tracks conception risk across the menstrual cycle. Psychological Science. 20(6): Download PDF
Navarrete, C.D., Olsson, A., Ho, A., Mendes, W., Thomsen, L., & Sidanius, J. (2009). Fear extinction to an outgroup face: The role of target gender. Psychological Science. 20(2) 155-158. Download PDF
Navarrete, C.D., Fessler, D.M.T., & Eng, S.J. (2007). Increased ethnocentrism in the first trimester of pregnancy. Evolution and Human Behavior.28: 60-65. 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., McDonald, M., & Hauser, M. (in revision). Bridging the gap between hypothetical moral decisions and real world moral action: A virtual reality experiment
Navarrete, C.D., Goldsby, H., Panchanathan, K. (in preparation). The costs of leadership: A model of altruistic leaders and parasitic followers.
Navarrete, C.D. & McDonald, M. (in preparation). The role of stereotype internalization in the expression of race evaluation across the menstrual cycle.
Snyder, J.K., Navarrete, C.D., & Fessler, D.M.T. Lee, S.W. (in revision). Women’s mate preferences for aggressive men: Navigating a dangerous world?
Fessler, D., Pizor, A., & Navarrete, C.D. (in preparation). The spirits are not your friends: The predominance of beliefs concerning hazards.
Other Publications
Santos-Fleischman, Fessler D., & Navarrete, C.D. (in press). Oral contraceptives suppress ovarian hormone production. Psychological Science. Cesario, J., Plaks, S., Hagiwara, N., Navarrete, C.D., & Higgins, T. (in press). The ecology of automaticity: How situational contingencies shape action semantics and social behavior. Psychological Science.
Settles, I., Navarrete. C.D., Pagano, S., Sidanius, J., & Abdou, C. (2010). Ethnic identity and depression among African-American women. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology. 16(2): 248-255.
Kirkpatrick, L. & Navarrete, C.D. (2006). 'Reports of my death anxiety have been greatly exaggerated': A critique of terror management theory from an evolutionary perspective. Psychological Inquiry.Download PDF
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
