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Conroy-Beam, D. (2024). Mating with Multi-Armed Bandits: Reinforcement Learning Models of Human Mate Search. Open Mind, 8, 995-1011. 


Agey, E., Conroy-Beam, D., & Gaulin, S. J. (2024). Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context. Evolution and Human Behavior, 45(5), 106612. 


Northover, S. B., Quillien, T., Conroy-Beam, D., & Cohen, A. B. (2024). Religious signaling and prosociality: A review of the literature. Evolution and Human Behavior, 45(5), 106593. 


Mikolaj Stefanczyk, M., Conroy-Beam, D., Ujma, B., Walter, K. V., Zborowska, Z., & Sorokowska, A. (2024). Disgust in the mating context – choosing the best and the least bad self-presentation option in a date simulation game. Telematics and Informatics, 92, 102159. 


Groyecka-Bernard, A., Sorokowski, P., Karwowski, M., Roberts, S. C., Aavik, T., Akello, G., Alm, C., Amjad, N., Asao, K., Atama, C. S., Atamtürk Duyar, D., Ayebare, R., Batres, C., Bensafia, A., Bertoni, A., Bizumic, B., Boussena, M., Buss, D. M., Butovskaya, M., … Sorokowska, A. (2024). Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity: A Study Across 28 Countries. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 55(4), 368–385. 


Conroy-Beam, D., Patton, J. Q., Goetz, C. D., Lukaszewski, A. W., & Bowser, B. (2023). Modeling mate choice in a small-scale community: Applying couple simulation in the U.S. and Conambo, Ecuador. Evolution and Human Behavior, 44(6), 605–612. 


Sorokowska, A., Kowal, M., Saluja, S., Aavik, T., Alm, C., Anjum, A., Asao, K., Batres, C., Bensafia, A., Bizumic, B., Boussena, M., Buss, D. M., Butovskaya, M., Can, S., Carrier, A., Cetinkaya, H., Conroy-Beam, D., Cueto, R. M., Czub, M., … Croy, I. (2023). Love and affectionate touch toward romantic partners all over the world. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 5497. 


Sorokowski, P., Kowal, M., Sternberg, R. J., Aavik, T., Akello, G., Alhabahba, M. M., Alm, C., Amjad, N., Anjum, A., Asao, K., Atama, C. S., Atamtürk Duyar, D., Ayebare, R., Conroy-Beam, D., Bendixen, M., Bensafia, A., Bizumic, B., Boussena, M., Buss, D. M., & Sorokowska, A. (2023). Modernization, collectivism, and gender equality predict love experiences in 45 countries. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 773. 


Conroy-Beam, D. (2022). Computational Models of Mate Choice. In D. M. Buss (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Human Mating. Oxford University Press. 


Conroy-Beam, D., Walter, K. V., Duarte, K. (2022). What is a mate preference? Probing the computational format of mate preferences using couple simulation. Evolution and Human Behavior.


Kowal, M., Sorokowski, P., Pisanski, K., Valentova, J. V., Varella, M. A., Frederick, D. A., ... & Mišetić, K. (2022). Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries. Evolution and Human Behavior


Walter, K. V., Conroy-Beam, D., Buss, D. M., Asao, K., Sorokowska, A., Sorokowski, P., ... & Zupančič, M. (2021). Sex differences in human mate preferences vary across sex ratios. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1955), 20211115.


Conroy-Beam, D. (2021). Couple Simulation: A Novel Approach for Evaluating Models of Human Mate Choice. Personality and Social Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868320971258


Sorokowska A, Saluja S, Sorokowski P, Frackowiak, T., Karwowski, M, Aavik, T.… Conroy-Beam, D. … & Croy, I. (2021). Affective interpersonal touch in close relationships: a cross-cultural perspective. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. doi:10.1177/0146167220988373


Sorokowski, P., Sorokowska, A., Karwowski, M., Groyecka, A., Aavik, T., Akello, G., … Conroy-Beam, D., ... & Atama, C. S. (2021). Universality of the triangular theory of love: adaptation and psychometric properties of the triangular love scale in 25 countries. The Journal of Sex Research, 1-10.


Conroy-Beam, D. & Buss, D. (2020). Human mate selection: A multidimensional approach. In L. Workman, W. Reader, & J. Barkow (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology, pp. 353-365). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108131797.030


Walter, K. V., Conroy-Beam, D., Buss, D. M., Asao, K., Sorokowska, A., Sorokowski, P., … Zupančič, M. (2020). Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries: A Large-Scale Replication. Psychological Science, 31(4), 408–423. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620904154


Krems, J. A., & Conroy-Beam, D. (2020). First tests of Euclidean preference integration in friendship: Euclidean friend value and power of choice on the friend market. Evolution and Human Behavior.


Kowal, M., Sorokowski, P., Sorokowska, A., Dobrowolska, M., Pisanski, K., Oleszkiewicz, A., ... Conroy-Beam, D., … & Anjum, A. (2020). Reasons for Facebook usage: data from 46 countries. Frontiers in Psychology, 11.


Goetz, C. D., Pillsworth, E. G., Buss, D. M., & Conroy-Beam, D. (2019). Evolutionary Mismatch in Mating. Frontiers in Psychology, 10.


Conroy-Beam, D., Buss, D. M., Asao, K., Sorokowska, A., Sorokowski, P., Aavik, T., ... & Anjum, A. (2019). Contrasting computational models of mate preference integration across 45 countries. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1-13.


Boyd, R.L., Pasca, Paola, & Conroy-Beam, D. (2019). You’re only Jung once: building generalized motivational systems theories using contemporary research on language. Psychological Inquiry, 30(2), 93-98, DOI:10.1080/1047840X.2019.1633122.


Conroy-Beam,D., Roney, J. R., Lukaszewski, A. W., Buss, D. M., Asao, K., Sorokowska, A., …Zupančič, M. (2019). Assortative mating and the evolution of desirability covariation. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40(5), 479–491, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.06.003.


Conroy-Beam, D., & Buss, D. M. (2019). Why is age so important in human mating? Evolved age preferences and their influences on multiple mating behaviors. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 13(2), 127-157.


Conroy-Beam, D. (2018). Euclidean Mate Value and Power of Choice on the Mating Market. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(2), 252–264. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167217739262.


Conroy-Beam, D., & Buss, D. M. (2017). Euclidean distances discriminatively predict short-term and long-term attraction to potential mates. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38(4), 442-450.


Lewis, D. M., Al-Shawaf, L., Conroy-Beam, D., Asao, K., & Buss, D. M. (2017). Evolutionary psychology: A how-to guide. American Psychologist, 72(4), 353.


Buss, D.M., Goetz, C., Duntley, J.D., Asao, K., & Conroy-Beam, D. (2017). The mate switching hypothesis. Personality and Individual Differences, 104, 143-149.


Conroy-Beam, D., & Buss, D. M. (2016). Mate preferences. In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp. 1-11). Springer International Publishing.


Conroy-Beam, D., & Buss, D. M. (2016). Do mate preferences influence actual mating decisions? Evidence from computer simulations and three studies of mated couples. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111(1), 53-66.


Conroy-Beam, D. & Buss, D.M. (2016). How are mate preferences linked with actual mate selection? Tests of mate preference integration algorithms using computer simulations and actual mating couples. PLoS ONE, 11(6): e0156078.


Conroy-Beam, D., Goetz, C. D., & Buss, D. M. (2016). What predicts romantic relationship satisfaction and mate retention intensity: Mate preference fulfillment or mate value discrepancies? Evolution and Human Behavior, 37(6), 440-448.


Souza, A. L., Conroy-Beam, D., & Buss, D.M. (2016). Mate preferences in Brazil: Evolved desires and cultural evolution over three decades. Personality and Individual Differences, 95, 45-49.


Conroy-Beam, D., Buss, D.M., Pham, M.N., Shackelford, T.K. (2015). How sexually dimorphic are human mate preferences? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(8), 1082-1093.


Conroy-Beam, D., Goetz, C. D., & Buss, D.M. (2015). Why do humans form long-term mateships? An evolutionary game-theoretic model. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 51, 1-39.


Al-Shawaf, L., Conroy-Beam, D., Asao, K., & Buss, D.M. (2015). Human emotions: An evolutionary psychological perspective. Emotion Review, 11, 1-14.


Conroy-Beam, D. & Buss, D.M. (2014). A deeper integration of Selfish Goal Theory and modern evolutionary psychology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(2), 140-141.


Lewis, D.M.G., Al-Shawaf, L., Conroy-Beam, D., Asao, K., & Buss, D.M. (2012). Friends with benefits II: Mating activation in opposite-sex friendship as a function of sociosexual orientation and relationship status. Personality and Individual Differences, 53, 622-628.


Lewis, D.M.G., Conroy-Beam, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Raja, A., DeKay, T., & Buss, D.M. (2011). Friends with benefits: The evolved psychology of same-and opposite-sex friendships. Evolutionary Psychology, 9(4), 543-563.