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2023
West, L.M. & Brase, G.L. (in press). Improving patient understanding of prenatal screening tests: Using naturally sampled frequencies, pictures, and accounting for individual differences. PEC: Innovation.
Richards, H. & Brase, G.L. (2023). Risk diffusing operators and who uses them to help manage negative consequences of sexual decision making, Personality and Individual Differences, 213, 112280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2023.112280
Brase, G.L., Wesely, A., & Brandner, J.L. (2023). Priming and personality predictors of social reasoning: Contrasting theory of mind, trust, HEXACO, and emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 200, 111911. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111911
Brase, G. L., & Du, M.(R) (2023). Historical Changes in Introductory Psychology Lectures, Readings, and Assessments: Lessons Learned. Teaching of Psychology, 50(4) 420-426. https://doi.org/10.1177/00986283211038921
2022
Balboa, N.J. & Brase, G.L. (2022). Can’t or Won’t? Intentions Mitigate Reactions to Violations of Reciprocal Altruism Agreements. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/ebs0000306
Brase, G.L. & Brandner, J.L. (2022). Sex, and other important things: Tracking ratios of ecologically significant categories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(11), 2720-2729. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001227
Brase, G.L. & Dillon, M.H. (2022). Digging Deeper into the relationship between self-esteem and mate value. Personality and Individual Differences, 185(4), 111219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.111219
2021
Brandner, J. L., Pohlman, J. & Brase, G.L. (2021). On hits and being hit on: Error management theory, signal detection theory, and the male sexual overperception bias. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42(4), 331-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.01.002
Kolze, K.E., Brase, G.L. & Brandner, J.L. (2021). Are mating strategies shaped by foraging strategies? Individual differences associated with search patterns through dating pools. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 15(4), 340–355. https://doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000186
Brase, G. L., & Du, M. (Rebecca). (2021). Historical Changes in Introductory Psychology Lectures, Readings, and Assessments: Lessons Learned. Teaching of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00986283211038921
Brase, G.L. (2021). What facilitates Bayesian reasoning? A crucial test of ecological rationality versus nested sets hypotheses. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28(2), 703-709. https://doi.org/doi/10.3758/s13423-020-01763-2
Brase, G.L. (2021). Which individual difference traits predict good Bayesian reasoning? Concurrent comparisons of underlying abilities. Memory & Cognition, 49(2), 235-248. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-020-01087-5
Yang, Q., Gruenbacher, D.M., Brase, G.L., Heier Stamm, J.L., DeLoach, S.A., & Scoglio, C.M. (2021). Simulating human behavioral changes in livestock production systems during an epidemic: the case of the US beef cattle industry. PLoS ONE, 16(6): e0253498. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253498
2020
Brandner, J. L., Dillon, H.M., & Brase, G.L. (2020). Convergent evidence for a theory of rapid, automatic, and accurate sex ratio tracking. Acta Psychologica, 210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103161
Yang, Q., Gruenbacher, D.M., Heier Stamm, J.L., Amrine, D.E., Brase, G.L., DeLoach, S.A., & Scoglio, C.M. (2020). Impact of truck contamination and information sharing on foot-and-mouth disease spreading in beef cattle production systems. PLoS ONE, 15(10): e0240819. https://doi.org/10.1371/ journal.pone.0240819
Buss, D.M., Durkee, P.K., Shackelford, T., Bowdle, B., Schmitt, D.P. Brase, G.L., Choe, J.C, Trofimova, I. (2020). Human status criteria: Sex differences and similarities across 14 nations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119, 979-998. https://doi.org/doi/10.1037/pspa0000206
Brandner, J.L., Brase, G.L., & Huxman, S.A.J. (2020). “Weighting” to find the right person: Compensatory trait integrating versus alternative models to assess mate value. Evolution and Human Behavior, 41, 284-292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.05.001
Hood, J.C., Graber, C., & Brase, G.L. (2020). Comparing the efficacy of static and dynamic graph types in communicating complex statistical relationships, Frontiers in Psychology, 10:2986. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02986
2019
Hill, W.T., Brase, G.L., & Kenney, K. (2019). Developing a better and more user-friendly numeracy scale for patients. HLRP: Health Literacy Research and Practice, 3(3):e174-e180. https://doi.org/10.3928/24748307-20190624-01
Brase, G.L. (2019). What would it take to get you into an electric car? Consumer perceptions and decision making about electric vehicles. The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied,153, 214-236.https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.2018.1511515
Yang, Q., Gruenbacher, D., Heier Stamm, J.L., Brase, G.L., DeLoach, S.A., Amrine, D.E., & Scoglio, C. (2019). Developing an agent-based model to simulate the beef cattle production and transportation in southwest Kansas. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 526, 120856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2019.04.092
Asebedo, S. D., Wilmarth, M., Seay, M. C., Archuleta, K. L., Brase, G., & MacDonald, M. (2019). Personality and saving behavior among older adults. Journal of Consumer Affairs, 53(2); 488-519. https://doi.org/10.1111/joca.12199
Asebedo, S. D., Seay, M. C., Archuleta, K. L., & Brase, G. (2019). The psychological predictors of older pre-retirees’ financial self-efficacy. Journal of Behavioral Finance, 20(2), 127-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427560.2018.1492580
Brase, G.L., Osborne, E.R., Brandner, J.L. (2019). General and specific personality traits as predictors of domain-specific and general conditional reasoning. Personality and Individual Differences, 137, 157-164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.08.017
2018
Brase, G.L., Beashore, T.M., & Kenney, K.L. (2018). Error value tradeoffs in social decision-making, and beyond: Do personality values consistently map onto tradeoff preferences? Personality and Individual Differences, 135, 149-156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.07.009
2017
Brase, G.L., Vasserman, E.Y., & Hsu, W. (2017). Do different mental models influence cybersecurity behavior? Evaluations via statistical reasoning performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:1929. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01929
Brase, G.L. (2017). Emotional Reactions to Conditional Rules of Reciprocal Altruism. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 11(4) 294-308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000092
Adair, L.E. & Brase, G.L. (2017). Power in a social exchange: To what extent are decisions about fertility “shared” within intimate relationships? EvoS Journal: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium, 8, Special Issue (3), 1-15.
Schmidt, D.P.,... Brase, G.L., and 174 others. (2017). Narcissism and the strategic pursuit of short-term mating: Universal links across 11 world regions of the International Sexuality Description Project-2. Psychological Topics, 26, 89-137. (http://pt.ffri.hr/index.php/pt/article/view/394/213)
Fiddick, L., Brase, G.L., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2017). Rethinking relevance: Repetition priming reveals the psychological reality of adaptive specializations for reasoning. Evolution & Human Behavior, 38, 366-375. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.11.008
Brase, G.L. & Hill, W.T. (2017). Adding up to Good Bayesian Reasoning: Problem Format Manipulations and Individual Skill Differences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 577-591. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000280
Akao, K.A., Adair, L., & Brase, G.L. (2017). Parental attachment style, but not environmental quality, is associated with use of opposite-sex parents as a template for relationship partners. Personality and Individual Differences, 115, 103-107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.04.071
Strouts, P.H., Dillon, H.M., & Brase, G.L. (2017). Personality and evolutionary strategies: The relationships between HEXACO traits, mate value, life history strategy, and sociosexuality. Personality and Individual Differences, 115, 128-132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.03.047
Adair, L. E., Dillon, H. M., & Brase, G. L. (2017). I'll have who she's having: Mate copying, mate poaching, and mate retention. In M. L. Fisher-MacDonnell (Ed.) Handbook on Women and Competition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199376377.013.2
Dillon, H. M.*, Adair, L. E., & Brase, G. L. (2017). Operational Sex Ratio and Female Competition: Scarcity Breeds Intensity. In M. L. Fisher-MacDonnell (Ed.) Handbook on Women and Competition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199376377.013.1
2016
Fiddick, L., Brase, G.L., Ho, A.T., Hiraishi, K., Honma, A., & Smith, A. (2016). Major personality traits and regulations of social behavior: Cheaters are not the same as the reckless, and you need to know who you're dealing with. Journal of Research in Personality, 62, 6-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2016.02.007
Brase, G.L. (2016). The relationship between positive and negative attitudes towards children and reproductive intentions. Personality and Individual Differences, 90, 143-149. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2015.10.053
Erickson, L., Robinson, J., Brase, G., & Cutsor, J. (Eds.). (2016). Solar Powered Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles: A Sustainable Development. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Group.
Erickson, L., Brase, G., Cutsor, J., & Robinson, J. (2016). Introduction. In: L. Erickson, J. Robinson, G. Brase, & J. Cutsor (Eds.) Solar Powered Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles: A Sustainable Development. Taylor and Francis Group.
Ronnebaum, B., Erickson, L., Pahwa, A., Brase, G. & Babcock, M. (2016). Economics, Finance, and Policy. In: In: L. Erickson, J. Robinson, G. Brase, & J. Cutsor (Eds.) Solar Powered Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles: A Sustainable Development. Taylor and Francis Group.
Erickson, L., Robinson, J., Cutsor, J., & Brase, G. (2016). Sustainable Development. In: In: L. Erickson, J. Robinson, G. Brase, & J. Cutsor (Eds.) Solar Powered Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles: A Sustainable Development. Taylor and Francis Group.
Erickson, L., Brase, G., & Cutsor, J. (2016). Conclusions. In: In: L. Erickson, J. Robinson, G. Brase, & J. Cutsor (Eds.) Solar Powered Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles: A Sustainable Development. Taylor and Francis Group.
2015
Ellis, K.M. & Brase, G.L. (2015). Communicating HIV Results to Low-risk Individuals: Still Hazy After All These Years. Current HIV Research, 13, 381-390. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1570162X13666150511125629
Brase, G.L. & Hill, W.T. (2015). Good fences make for good neighbors but bad science: A review of what improves Bayesian reasoning and why. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:340 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00340
Brase, G.L. (2015). Using statistical reasoning performance to reveal information parsing preferences in the mind. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68, 459-472. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2014.944920
Dillon, H.M., Adair, L.E., & Brase, G.L. (2015). A threatening exchange: Gender and life history strategy predict perceptions and reasoning about sexual harassment. Personality and Individual Differences, 72,195-199. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.09.002
2014
Sahneh, F.D., Chowdhury, F.N., Brase, G., & Scoglio, C.M. (2014). Individual-based information dissemination in multilayer epidemic modeling. Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena, 9, 136-152. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/mmnp/20149209
Nakamura, H., Yama, H., Brase, G.L., Zakaria, N., Arai, Y., Zakaria, N., Mohd Yusof, S.A., & Kawaguchi, J. (2014). Postal addresses as an assay of cultural cognition. The International Journal of Creativity & Problem Solving, 24, 43-59.
Yamaguchi, H., Yama, H., & Brase, G.L. (2014). Two methods to measure the level of trust of Americans and Japanese: A cross-cultural study. SAGE Open, 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244014556991
Robinson, J., Brase, G., Griswold, W., Jackson, C., & Erickson, L. (2014). Business Models for Solar Powered Charging Stations to Develop Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles. Sustainability. 6, 7358-7387. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su6107358
Adair, L., Brase, G.L., Akao, K., & Jantsch, M. (2014). #babyfever: Social and Media Influences on Fertility Desires. Personality and Individual Differences, 71, 135-139. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.07.026
Brase, G.L. (2014). The nature of thinking, shallow and deep. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:435 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00435
Goldin, E., Erickson, L. Natarajan, B., Brase, G., & Pahwa, A. (2014). Solar Powered Charge Stations for Electric Vehicles. Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy, 33, 1298-1308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ep11898
Brase, G.L., Adair, L., & Monk, K. (2014). Explaining sex differences in reactions to relationship infidelities: Comparisons of sex, gender, beliefs, attachment, and sociosexual orientation. Evolutionary Psychology, 12, 73-96.
Brase, G.L. (2014). The power of representation and interpretation: Doubling statistical reasoning performance with icons and frequentist interpretations of ambiguous numbers. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 26, 81-97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2013.861840
Brase, G.L. (2014). Behavioral science integration: A practical framework of multi-level converging evidence for behavioral science theories. New Ideas in Psychology, 33, 8-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2013.11.001
Brase, G.L., Martinie, S. & Castillo-Garsow, C. (2014). Intuitive conceptions of probability and the development of basic math skills. In E.J. Chernoff & B. Sriraman (Eds.), Probabilistic Thinking: Presenting Plural Perspectives. (pp. 161-194). Springer Science.
Brase, G.L. (2014). Review of Evolution and the Mechanisms of Decision Making (P. Hammerstein & J. R. Stevens, eds.: MIT Press) Journal of Bioeconomics, 16, 305-309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10818-013-9161-9
2012
Hill, W.T. & Brase, G.L. (2012). When and for whom do frequencies facilitate performance? On the role of numerical literacy. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 2343-2368. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2012.687004
Brase, G.L. & Brase, S.L. (2012). Emotional regulation of fertility decision making: What is the nature and structure of "baby fever"? Emotion, 12, 1141-1154. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0024954
2011
Rodeheffer, C.D., Daugherty, J.R. & Brase, G.L. (2011). Resistance to Evolutionary Psychology as a Continuation of Conflicts over Scientific Integration. Futures, 43, 777-786.
Brase, G.L. & Shanteau, J. (2011). The unbearable lightness of "thinking": Moving beyond simple concepts of thinking, rationality, and hypothesis testing. Behavioral & Brain Sciences. 34, 250-251. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X11000598
Brase, G.L. (2011). Three evolutionary hypotheses about how numerical formats fit with the design of the human mind. In X.T. Wang & Y.J. Su (Ed.), Thus Spake Evolutionary Psychologists (pp. 127-135). Peking University Press, Beijing, China. (Chinese/English edition).
2010
Daugherty, J.R. & Brase, G.L. (2010). Taking Time to be Healthy: Predicting Health Behaviors with Delay Discounting and Time Perspective. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 202–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.10.007
2009
Brase, G.L. (2009). How different types of participant payoffs alter task performance. Judgment and Decision Making, 4, 419-428.
Brase, G.L. (2009). Pictorial representations and numerical representations in Bayesian reasoning. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 369-381.
2008
Brase, G.L. (2008). A field study of how different numerical information formats influence charity support. Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing, 20, 1-13.
Brase, G.L. (2008). Frequency interpretation of ambiguous statistical information facilitates Bayesian reasoning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 284-289. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/PBR.15.2.284
2007
Evans, K. & Brase, G.L. (2007). A new methodology to assess sex difference and similarities in mate preferences: Above and beyond demand characteristics. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 24, 781–791. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407507081471
Brase, G.L. & Stelzer, H.E. (2007). Education and Persuasion in Extension Forestry: Effects of Different Numerical Information Formats. Journal of Extension, 45.
Brase, G.L. (2007). The (in)flexibility of evolved frequency representations for statistical reasoning: Cognitive styles and brief prompts do not influence Bayesian inference. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 39, 398-405.
Brase, G.L. (2007). Omissions, Conflations, and False Dichotomies: Conceptual and empirical problems with the Barbey & Sloman account. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 30, 258-259.
2006
Brase, G.L. (2006). Cues of parental investment as a factor in attractiveness. Evolution and Human Behavior, 27, 145-157. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2005. 06.003
Brase, G.L., Fiddick, L., & Harries, C. (2006). Participant recruitment methods and statistical reasoning performance. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 965–976. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724980543000132
Brase, G.L. & Barbey, A.K. (2006). Mental Representations of Statistical Information. In: A. Columbus (Ed.), Advances in Psychology Research, Volume 41 (pp 91-113). New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Raffone, A. & Brase, G.L. (2006). The key role of prefrontal cortex structure and function. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 29, 22-22.
Brase, G.L. (2004). Functional clothes for the emperor. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 27, 328-329.
2004
Brase, G.L. & Richmond, J. (2004). The white coat effect: Physician attire and perceived authority, friendliness, and attractiveness. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34, 2469-2481. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2004.tb01987.x
Brase, G.L., Caprar, D.V. & Voracek, M. (2004). Sex differences in responses to relationship threats in England and Romania. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 21, 763-778. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407504047836
Brase, G.L. & Walker, G.A. (2004). Male sexual strategies modify ratings of female models with specific waist-to-hip ratios. Human Nature, 15, 209-224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12110-004-1020-x
Brase, G.L. & Guy, E.C. (2004). The Demographics of Mate Value and Self-esteem. Personality and Individual Differences, 36, 471-484. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8869(03)00117-X
Brase, G.L. (2004). What we reason about and why: How evolution explains reasoning. In: K. Manktelow & M.C. Chung (Eds.) Psychology of reasoning: Theoretical and historical perspectives (pp. 309-331). Hove: Psychology Press.
2003
Brase, G.L. (2003). The allocation system: Using signal detection processes to regulate representations in a multi-modular mind. In K.J. Gilhooly (Series Ed.) & D.E. Over (Vol. Ed.), Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning. Evolution and the psychology of thinking: The debate (pp. 11-32). Hove: Psychology Press.
2002
Brase, G. (2002). Mental modularity, metaphors, and the marriage of evolutionary and cognitive sciences. Cognitive Processing: International Quarterly of Cognitive Science, 3-4, 3-18.
Brase, G.L. (2002). Which Statistical Formats Facilitate what Decisions? The perception and influence of different statistical information formats. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 15, 381-401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bdm.421
Brase, G.L. (2002). Ecological and Evolutionary Validity: Comments on Johnson-Laird, Legrenzi, Girotto, Legrenzi, & Caverni's (1999) Mental Model Theory of Extensional Reasoning. Psychological Review, 109, 722-728. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.109.4.722
Brase, G.L. (2002). "Bugs" built into the system: An evolutionary explanation for developmental difficulties in learning about fractions. Learning and Individual Differences, 12, 391-409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1041-6080(02)00048-1
Brase, G.L. (2002). There is no evidentiary silver bullet for the frequency adaptation hypothesis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 508-509.
Brase, G.L. (2002). Boot Camp for the Brain (review of Educating Intuition, By Robin M. Hogarth, University of Chicago Press, 2001). Trends in Cognitive Science, 6, 402.
Brase, G.L. (2002). Review of Conceptual Challenges in Evolutionary Psychology: Innovative Research Strategies, Edited by Harmon R. Holcomb III, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. The Human Nature Review, 2, 147-152.
2001
Brase, G.L. & Miller, R.L. (2001). Sex Differences in the Perception of and Reasoning About Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment. Psychology, Evolution and Gender, 3, 241-264. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616660110104814
Brase, G.L. (2001). Markers of Social Group Membership as Probabilistic Cues in Reasoning Tasks. Thinking & Reasoning, 7, 313-346. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13546780143000062
1998
Brase, G.L., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1998). Individuation, counting, and statistical inference: The roles of frequency and whole object representations in judgment under uncertainty. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 127, 3-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.127.1.3
1997
Brase, G. L. (1997). Human reasoning about social groups: Evidence of evolved mechanisms for a coalitional psychology. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering: 58(9-B), 5150 (UMI# 9809613).
1994
Levine, R.L., Martinez, T.S., Brase, G. & Sorensen, K. (1994). Helping behavior in 36 cities across the United States. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 69-82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.67.1.69
