Kanazawa, Satoshi

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  • Dunkel, Curtis S., van der Linden, Dimitri, Kanazawa, Satoshi (2026). Physical attractiveness and the general factor of personality: replication and extension. Personality and Individual Differences, 254, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2026.113648
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2025). Polygyny, western egalitarianism, and the relative status of women in society. Economics and Politics, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.70028
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2025). Everything is sex: theoretical extensions and empirical tests of the Maestripieri hypothesis for the beauty premium. International Journal of Manpower, 46(7), 1256 - 1274. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-10-2024-0706
  • Yong, Jose C., Kanazawa, Satoshi (2025). Why evolutionary mismatches are ubiquitous while evolutionary matches are rare when humans use technology. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000383
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2025). More personalient people are happier. Personality and Individual Differences, 236, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2024.112924
  • Yong, Jose C., Kanazawa, Satoshi (2025). Able but unwilling: intelligence is associated with earlier puberty and yet slower reproduction. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40750-025-00258-5
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Awata, Yoko (2025). Only children by choice vs. only children by circumstances why do some women have only one child? Reproductive Sciences, 32(2), 526 - 534. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43032-024-01767-6
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Lopez, Tai (2024). Why the danes are the happiest people on earth: the selective outmigration by personality hypothesis (SOPHy) of group character. European Psychologist, 29(2), 75-94. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000524
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2024). Why all evolutionary psychological theories must be tested in WEIRD societies. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 10(1), 33 - 39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-024-00383-6
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2024). The general factor of personality as a female-typical trait. Personality and Individual Differences, 218, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2023.112470
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2023). Single transverse palmar crease as a potential risk factor for COVID-19. Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, 31(3), 1 - 5. https://doi.org/10.1097/IPC.0000000000001260
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Larere, Adrien (2022). Infertility and same-sex attraction in women. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 158(3), 528 - 543. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.14035
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2022). The evolutionary novelty of childcare by and with strangers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 221, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105432
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Li, Norman P., Yong, Jose C. (2022). Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy... especially if I’m less intelligent: how sunlight and intelligence affect happiness in modern society. Cognition and Emotion, 36(4), 722 - 730. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2029358
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2022). Unrestricted sociosexuality decreases women’s (but not Men’s) homophobia. Sexuality and Culture, 26(4), 1422-1431. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-022-09951-z
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Li, Norman P., Yong, Jose C. (2022). When intelligence hurts and ignorance is bliss: global pandemic as an evolutionarily novel threat to happiness. Journal of Personality, 90(6), 971-987. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12709
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2021). Possible evolutionary origins of nationalism. Political Behavior, 43(4), 1685 - 1705. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-021-09741-7
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2021). Personality and early susceptibility to COVID-19 in the United Kingdom. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2578
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2020). Economics and epicycles. Perspectives on Psychological Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620953785
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Lee, Yueh-ting (2020). What is the next big question in evolutionary psychology?: An introduction to the special issue. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 14(4), 299 - 300. https://doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000249
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2020). What do we do with the WEIRD problem? Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 14(4), 342-346. https://doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000222
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2020). Father absence, sociosexual orientation, and same-sex sexuality in women and men. International Journal of Psychology, 55(2), 234 - 244. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12569
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2019). An association between women's physical attractiveness and the length of their reproductive career in a prospectively longitudinal nationally representative sample. American Journal of Human Biology, 31(4). https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23256
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Segal, Nancy L. (2019). Do monozygotic twins have higher genetic quality than dizygotic twins and singletons?: Hints from attractiveness ratings and self-reported health. Evolutionary Biology, 46(2), 164-169. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-019-09470-0
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, von Buttlar, Marie Therese (2019). A potential role of the widespread use of microwave ovens in the obesity epidemic. Clinical Psychological Science, 7(2), 340-348. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702618805077
  • Woodley of Menie, Michael A., Fernandes, Heitor B. F., Kanazawa, Satoshi, Dutton, Edward (2018). Sinistrality is associated with (slightly) lower general intelligence: a data synthesis and consideration of secular trend data in handedness. HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology, 69(3), 118-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchb.2018.06.003
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Still, Mary C. (2018). Is there really a beauty premium or an ugliness penalty on earnings? Journal of Business and Psychology, 33(2), 249-262. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-017-9489-6
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Hu, Shihao, Larere, Adrien (2018). Why do very unattractive workers earn so much? Economics and Human Biology, 29, 189-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2018.03.003
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2017). Higher intelligence and later maternal age : which way does the causal direction go? Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 65(8), 1884-1885. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.14924
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2017). Possible evolutionary origins of human female sexual fluidity. Biological Reviews, 92(3), 1251-1274. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12278
  • Diener, Ed, Kanazawa, Satoshi, Suh, Eunkook M., Oishi, Shigehiro (2015). Why people are in a generally good mood. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 19(3), 235-256. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868314544467
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2014). General intelligence, disease heritability, and health: a preliminary test. Personality and Individual Differences, 71, 83-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.07.028
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2014). Why is intelligence associated with stability of happiness? British Journal of Psychology, 105(3), 316 - 337. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12039
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2013). Childhood intelligence and adult obesity. Obesity, 21(3), 434-440. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.20018
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Fontaine, Linus (2013). Intelligent people defect more in a one-shot prisoner’s dilemma game. Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 6(3), 201-213. https://doi.org/10.1037/npe0000010
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2012). Intelligence and homosexuality. Journal of Biosocial Science, 44(5), 595-623. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932011000769
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2012). Intelligence, birth order, and family size. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(9), 1157-1164. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167212445911
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2012). The evolution of general intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 53(2), 90-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2011.05.015
  • Lynn, R., Kanazawa, Satoshi (2011). A longitudinal study of sex differences in intelligence at ages 7, 11 and 16 years. Personality and Individual Differences, 51(3), 321-324. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2011.02.028
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2011). Beautiful British parents have more daughters. Reproductive Sciences, 18(4), 353-358. https://doi.org/10.1177/1933719110393031
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2011). Intelligence and physical attractiveness. Intelligence, 39(1), 7-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2010.11.003
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Hellberg, Josephine E. E. U. (2010). Intelligence and substance use. Review of General Psychology, 14(4), 382-396.
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2010). Evolutionary psychology and intelligence research. American Psychologist, 65(4), 279-289. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0019378
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2010). Why liberals and atheists are more intelligent. Social Psychology Quarterly, 73(1), 33-57. https://doi.org/10.1177/0190272510361602
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Savage, Joanne (2009). An evolutionary psychological perspective on social capital. Journal of Economic Psychology, 30(6), 873-883. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2009.08.002
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2009). Evolutionary psychological foundations of civil wars. Journal of Politics, 71(01), 25-34. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022381608090026
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Apari, Péter (2009). Sociosexually unrestricted parents have more sons: A further application of the generalized Trivers-Willard hypothesis (gTWH). Annals of Human Biology, 36(3), 320-330. https://doi.org/10.1080/03014460902766918
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Perina, Kaja (2009). Why night owls are more intelligent. Personality and Individual Differences, 47(7), 685-690. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.05.021
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Reyniers, Diane J. (2009). The role of height in the sex difference in intelligence. American Journal of Psychology, 122(4), 527-536.
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2008). Temperature and evolutionary novelty as forces behind the evolution of general intelligence. Intelligence, 36(2), 99-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2007.04.001
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2008). Are schizophrenics more religious?: do they have more daughters? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31(3), 272-273. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X08004330
  • Miller, Alan S., Kanazawa, Satoshi (2007). 10 politically incorrect truths about human nature. Psychology Today, 40(4), 88-95.
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Vandermassen, Griet (2005). Engineers have more sons, nurses have more daughters: an evolutionary psychological extension of Baren-Cohen's extreme male brain theory of autism. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 233(4), 589-599. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.11.009
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2005). Big and tall parents have more sons: further generalizations of the Trivers-Willard hypothesis. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 235(4), 583-590. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.02.010
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Novak, Deanna L. (2005). Human sexual dimorphism in size may be triggered by environmental cues. Journal of Biosocial Science, 37(5), 657-665. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932004007047
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2005). Is "discrimination" necessary to explain the sex gap in earnings? Journal of Economic Psychology, 26(2), 269-287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2004.05.001
  • Yamagishi, Toshio, Kanazawa, Satoshi, Mashima, Rie, Terai, Shigeru (2005). Separating trust from cooperation in a dynamic relationship: prisoner’s dilemma with variable dependence. Rationality and Society, 17(3), 275-308. https://doi.org/10.1177/1043463105055463
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2005). Who lies on surveys, and what can we do about it? Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies, 30(3), 361-370.
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2005). The myth of racial discrimination in pay in the United States. Managerial and Decision Economics, 26(5), 285-294. https://doi.org/10.1002/mde.1229
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Kovar, JL (2004). Why beautiful people are more intelligent. Intelligence, 32(3), 227-243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2004.03.003
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2004). General intelligence as a domain-specific adaptation. Psychological Review, 111(2), 512-523.
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2004). The Savanna principle. Managerial and Decision Economics, 25(1), 41-54. https://doi.org/10.1002/mde.1130
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Savage, J (2004). Social capital and the human psyche: why is social life "capital"? Sociological Theory, 22(3), 504-524. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0735-2751.2004.00231.x
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2004). Social sciences are branches of biology. Socio-Economic Review, 2(3), 371-390. https://doi.org/10.1093/soceco/2.3.371
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2003). Why productivity fades with age: the crime-genius connection. Journal of Research in Personality, 37(4), 257-272. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0092-6566(02)00538-X
  • Toshio, Yamagishi, Tanida, Shigehito, Mashima, Rie, Shimoma, Eri, Kanazawa, Satoshi (2003). You can judge a book by its cover: evidence that cheaters may look different from cooperators. Evolution and Human Behavior, 24(4), 290-301. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1090-5138(03)00035-7
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2003). Can evolutionary psychology explain reproductive behavior in the contemporary United States? Sociological Quarterly, 44(2), 291-302. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.2003.tb00559.x
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2003). Reading shadows on Plato's cave wall. American Sociological Review, 68(1), 159-160.
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2003). The relativity of relative satisfaction. Evolution and Human Behavior, 24(1), 71-73.
  • Savage, Joanne, Kanazawa, Satoshi (2002). Social capital, crime and human nature. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 18(2), 188-211. https://doi.org/10.1177/1043986202018002005
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2002). Bowling with our imaginary friends. Evolution and Human Behavior, 23(3), 167-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1090-5138(01)00098-8
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2001). Science vs. history: a reply to MacDonald. Social Forces, 80(1), 349-352.
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2001). Why father absence might precipitate early menarche: the role of polygyny. Evolution and Human Behavior, 22(5), 329-334. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1090-5138(01)00073-3
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2001). A bit of logic goes a long way: a reply to Sanderson. Social Forces, 80(1), 337-341.
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2001). Why we love our children. American Journal of Sociology, 106(6), 1761-1776. https://doi.org/10.1086/321305
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2001). De gustibus est disputandum. Social Forces, 79(3), 1131-1163.
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2001). Where do social structures come from? Advances in Group Processes, 18, 161-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0882-6145(01)18007-0
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Frerichs, Rebecca L. (2001). Why single men might abhor foreign cultures. Social Biology, 48(3-4), 321-328.
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Still, Mary C. (2000). Why men commit crimes (and why they desist). Sociological Theory, 18(3), 434-447. https://doi.org/10.1111/0735-2751.00110
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2000). Scientific discoveries as cultural displays: a further test of Miller's courtship model. Evolution and Human Behavior, 21(5), 317-321. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1090-5138(00)00051-9
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2000). A new solution to the collective action problem: the paradox of voter turnout. American Sociological Review, 65(3), 433-442. https://doi.org/10.2307/2657465
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Still, Mary C. (2000). Teaching may be hazardous to your marriage. Evolution and Human Behavior, 21(3), 185-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1090-5138(00)00026-X
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Still, Mary (2000). Parental investment as a game of chicken. Politics and the Life Sciences, 19(1), 17-26.
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (1999). Testing macro organizational theories in laboratory experiments. Social Science Research, 28(1), 66-87. https://doi.org/10.1006/ssre.1998.0636
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (1999). Using laboratory experiments to test theories of corporate behavior. Rationality and Society, 11(4), 443-461. https://doi.org/10.1177/104346399011004004
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Still, Mary C. (1999). Why monogamy? Social Forces, 78(1), 25-50.
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Friedman, Debra (1999). The state's contribution to social order in national societies: Somalia as an illustrative case. Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 27, 1-20.
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (1998). In defense of unrealistic assumptions. Sociological Theory, 16(2), 193-204.
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (1998). A brief note on a further refinement of the Condorcet Jury Theorem for heterogeneous groups. Mathematical Social Sciences, 35(1), 69-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0165-4896(97)00028-0
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (1998). A possible solution to the paradox of voter turnout. Journal of Politics, 60(4), 974-995. https://doi.org/10.2307/2647727
  • Hechter, Michael, Kanazawa, Satoshi (1997). Sociological rational choice theory. Annual Review of Sociology, 23, 191-214. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.23.1.191
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (1997). A solidaristic theory of social order. Advances in Group Processes, 14, 81-111.
  • Hechter, Michael, Kanazawa, Satoshi (1993). Group solidarity and social order in Japan. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 5(4), 455-493. https://doi.org/10.1177/0951692893005004002
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (1992). Outcome or expectancy?: antecedent of spontaneous causal attribution. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18(6), 659-668. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167292186001
    • Book
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi, Miller, Alan (2007). Why beautiful people have more daughters: from dating, shopping, and praying to going to war and becoming a billionaire: two evolutionary psychologists explain why we do what we do. Perigee Books.
  • Miller, Allan, Kanazawa, Satoshi (2000). Order by accident: the origins and consequences of conformity in contemporary Japan. Westview Press.
    • Chapter
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2009). Evolutionary psychology and crime. In Walsh, A. & Beaver, K. M. (Eds.), Biosocial Criminology: New Directions in Theory and Research (pp. 90-110). Routledge.
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2008). Theft. In Duntley, J. & Shackelford, T. K. (Eds.), Evolutionary Forensic Psychology: Darwinian Foundations of Crime and Law (pp. 160-175). Oxford University Press.
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2007). Mating intelligence and general intelligence as independent constructs. In Geher, G. & Miller, G. (Eds.), Mating Intelligence: Sex, Relationships, and the Mind's Reproductive System (pp. 283-310). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2007). The g-culture coevolution. In Gangestad, S. W. & Simpson, J. A. (Eds.), The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies (pp. 313-318). Guilford Publications, Inc..
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2003). A general evolutionary psychological theory of criminality and related male-typical behavior. In Walsh, A. & Ellis, L. (Eds.), Biosocial Criminology : Challenging Environmentalism’s Supremacy (pp. (chapter 3) 37-60). Nova Science Publishers.
  • Friedman, Debra, Hechter, Michael, Kanazawa, Satoshi (1999). Theories of the value of children: a new approach. In Leete, R. (Ed.), The Dynamics of Values in Fertility Change (pp. 19-50). Oxford University Press.
  • Hechter, Michael, Friedman, Debra, Kanazawa, Satoshi (1992). The attainment of global order in heterogeneous societies. In Coleman, J. S. & Fararo, T. J. (Eds.), Rational Choice Theory: Advocacy and Critique (pp. 79-97). SAGE Publications.
    • Dataset
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi (2021). Possible Evolutionary Origins of Nationalism. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/vcwaxv