Research

 

Selection of recent publications:

 

Buunk, A.P., Park, J.H., Zurriaga, R., Klavina, L. & Massar, K. (2008). Height predicts jealousy differently for men and women. Evolution and Behavior, 29, 133-139.

Buunk, A.P., Park, J.H., Dubbs, S.L. (2008). Parent-offspring conflict in mate preferences. Review of General Psychology, 21, 47-62.

Park, J.H., Buunk, A.P. & Wieling, M.B. (2007). Does the face reveal athletic flair? Positions in team sports and facial attractiveness. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 1960-1965.

Buunk, A.P., Peíró, J.M., Rodríguez, I., & Bravo, J.M. (2007). A loss of status and a sense of defeat: An evolutionary perspective on professional burnout. European Journal of Personality, 21(4), 471-485.

Buunk, A.P., Massar, K., & Dijkstra, P. (2007). A social cognitive evolutionary approach to jealousy : The automatic evaluation of one’s romantic rivals. In Forgas, J., Haselton, M., & Von Hippel, W.(Eds.) Evolution and the social mind: Evolutionary psychology and social cognition. ( pp. 213-228) New York: Psychology Press.

Buunk, A.P., & Dijkstra, P. (2006). The threat of temptation: Extradyadic relationships and jealousy. In D. Perlman & A.L. Vangelisti (Eds.). The Cambridge handbook ofpersonal relationships . (pp. 533-556). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Buunk, A.P., Zurriaga, R., & González, P. (2006). Social comparison, coping and depression in people with spinal cord injury. Psychology and Health, 21, 791-807.

Buunk, A.P. (2006). Social psychology deserves better: marketing the pivotal social sciene. In: Van Lange, P.A.M. (Ed.). Bridging social psychology. (pp. 83-89). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum

Buunk, A.P., & Gibbons, F.X. (2006). Social comparison orientation: a new perspective on those who do and those who don’t compare with others. In Guimond, S. (Ed.) Social Comparison and Social Psychology; Understanding cognition, intergroup relations and culture (pp. 15-33). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Buunk, B.P. (2005). How do people respond to others with high commitment or autonomy in their relationships? Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 22, 653-672.

Luxen, M.F., & Buunk, B.P.(2005).Second-to-fourth digit ratio related to verbal and numerical intelligence and the big five. Personality and individual differences , 39, 959-966.

Väänänen, A., Buunk, B.P., M. Kivimäki, M., Pentti, J., & Vahtera, J. (2005). When it is better to give than to receive: A 9-year prospective study on the effects of reciprocity in support exhange on health and sickness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 176-193.