Khandis Blake

Female Self-Sexualization Covaries with Mate Value but Not Mate Availability

Lindsie C Arthur, Robert C Brooks, Khandis R Blake

Journal article  |  2020  |  Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

In the context of romantic attraction, beautification can increase assertiveness in women

Khandis R Blake, Robert Brooks, Lindsie C Arthur, Thomas F Denson

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLOS ONE

Can beautification empower women to act assertively? Some women report that beautification is an agentic and assertive act, wherea..

The Effects of the Mating Market, Sex, Age, and Income on Sociopolitical Orientation : Insights from Evolutionary Theory and Sexual Economics Theory.

Francesca R Luberti, Khandis R Blake, Robert C Brooks

Journal article  |  2020  |  Human Nature

Sociopolitical attitudes are often the root cause of conflicts between individuals, groups, and even nations, but little is known ..

On Attenuated Interactions, Measurement Error, and Statistical Power: Guidelines for Social and Personality Psychologists.

Khandis R Blake, Steven Gangestad

Journal article  |  2020  |  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

The replication crisis has seen increased focus on best practice techniques to improve the reliability of scientific findings. Wha..

Status anxiety mediates the positive relationship between income inequality and sexualization

Khandis R Blake, Robert C Brooks

Journal article  |  2019  |  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Income inequality generates and amplifies incentives, particularly incentives for individuals to elevate or maintain their status,..

Gendered Fitness Interests: A Method Partitioning the Effects of Family Composition on Socio-Political Attitudes and Behaviors

Robert C Brooks, Khandis R Blake

Journal article  |  2019  |  BioRxiv: The Preprint Server for Biology

Whereas most people are biologically either male or female, their genetic interests are almost never aligned with just their own s..

Income inequality and its implications for gendered conflict

Khandis Blake, Robert Brooks

Book Chapter  |  2019

We argue that inequality plays such an important role in shaping human behavior because of the strong effects it exerts on individ..

What drives female objectification? An investigation of appearance-based interpersonal perceptions and the objectification of women.

Dax J Kellie, Khandis R Blake, Robert C Brooks

Journal article  |  2019  |  PLoS One

Previous research finds that both men and women perceive sexualized women as lacking in certain human qualities such as mental cap..

Resolving speculations of methodological inadequacies in the standardized protocol for characterizing women's fertility: Comment on Lobmaier and Bachofner (2018)

Khandis R Blake

Journal article  |  2018  |  Hormones and Behavior

Who suppresses female sexuality? An examination of support for Islamic veiling in a secular Muslim democracy as a function of sex and offspring sex

Khandis R Blake, Maleke Fourati, Robert C Brooks

Journal article  |  2018  |  Evolution and Human Behavior

Whether it is men or women who suppress female sexuality has important implications for understanding gendered relations, ultimate..

Contexts for men’s aggression against men

Khandis Blake, Thomas Denson

Book Chapter  |  2018

This comprehensive, ten volume reference work reflects the interdisciplinary influences on evolutionary psychology and serves as a..

Income inequality not gender inequality positively covaries with female sexualization on social media

Khandis R Blake, Brock Bastian, Thomas F Denson, Pauline Grosjean, Robert C Brooks

Journal article  |  2018  |  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The role of mating context and fecundability in women's preferences for men's facial masculinity and beardedness

Barnaby JW Dixson, Khandis R Blake, Thomas F Denson, Amany Gooda-Vossos, Siobhan M O'Dean, Danielle Sulikowski, Markus J Rantala, Robert C Brooks

Journal article  |  2018  |  Psychoneuroendocrinology

Aggression in Women: Behavior, Brain and Hormones

Thomas F Denson, Siobhan M O'Dean, Khandis R Blake, Joanne R Beames

Journal article  |  2018  |  Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Relationship Quality and Cognitive Reappraisal Moderate the Effects of Negative Urgency on Behavioral Inclinations Toward Aggression and Intimate Partner Violence

Khandis R Blake, Rachel E Hopkins, Joel G Sprunger, Christopher I Eckhardt, Thomas F Denson

Journal article  |  2018  |  Psychology of Violence

Objective: Intimate partner violence refers to verbal and physical aggression occurring between people who are, or were formerly, ..

Women's preferences for men's beards show no relation to their ovarian cycle phase and sex hormone levels

Barnaby JW Dixson, Anthony J Lee, Khandis R Blake, Grazyna Jasienska, Urszula M Marcinkowska

Journal article  |  2018  |  Hormones and Behavior

Heightened male aggression toward sexualized women following romantic rejection: The mediating role of sex goal activation

Khandis R Blake, Brock Bastian, Thomas F Denson

Journal article  |  2018  |  Aggressive Behavior

Using knowledge from human research to improve understanding of contest theory and contest dynamics

Michael M Kasumovic, Khandis Blake, Thomas F Denson

Journal article  |  2017  |  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

No compelling positive association between ovarian hormones and wearing red clothing when using multinomial analyses

Khandis R Blake, Barnaby JW Dixson, Siobhan M O'Dean, Thomas F Denson

Journal article  |  2017  |  Hormones and Behavior

Skin-transmitted pathogens and the heebie jeebies: evidence for a subclass of disgust stimuli that evoke a qualitatively unique emotional response

Khandis R Blake, Jennifer Yih, Kun Zhao, Billy Sung, Cindy Harmon-Jones

Journal article  |  2017  |  Cognition and Emotion

High estradiol and low progesterone are associated with high assertiveness in women

Khandis R Blake, Brock Bastian, Siobhan M O'Dean, Thomas F Denson

Journal article  |  2017  |  Psychoneuroendocrinology

Perceptions of low agency and high sexual openness mediate the relationship between sexualization and sexual aggression

Khandis R Blake, Brock Bastian, Thomas F Denson

Journal article  |  2016  |  Aggressive Behavior

Standardized protocols for characterizing women's fertility: A data-driven approach

Khandis R Blake, Barnaby JW Dixson, Siobhan M O'Dean, Thomas F Denson

Journal article  |  2016  |  Hormones and Behavior

Why do people play violent video games? Demographic, status-related, and mating-related correlates in men and women

Michael M Kasurnovic, Khandis Blake, Barnaby J Dixson, Thomas F Denson

Journal article  |  2015  |  Personality and Individual Differences

To Which World Regions Does the Valence-Dominance Model of Social Perception Apply?

Benedict C Jones, Lisa Marie DeBruine, Jessica Kay Flake, Marco Tullio Liuzza, Jan Antfolk, Nwadiogo Chisom Arinze, Izuchukwu Lawrence Gabriel Ndukaihe, Nicholas Bloxsom, Savannah Lewis, Francesco Foroni, Megan Willis, Carmelo P Cubillas, Miguel A Vadillo, michael gilead, Almog Simchon, Selahattin Adil Saribay, Nicholas Calbraith Owsley, Dustin P Calvillo, Anna Włodarczyk, Yue Qi, et al.

Journal article

Over the last ten years, Oosterhof and Todorov’s valence-dominance model has emerged as the most prominent account of how people e..

High Mate Value Men Become More Accepting of Intimate Partner Abuse When Primed With Gender Equality

Khandis R Blake, Robert C Brooks

Journal article  |  Frontiers in Sociology