Selected publications in English

  • Kocsor F, Bereczkei T(2017)Evaluative conditioning leads to differences in the social evaluation of prototypical faces PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES 104: pp. 215-219.
  • Kocsor F, Bereczkei T (2017). First Impressions of Strangers Rely on Generalization of Behavioral Traits Associated with previously Seen Facial Features CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY 36:(3) pp. 385-391.
  • Kozma L, Kocsor F (2017). Multiscale analysis of masculinity – an exploratory study. HUMAN ETHOLOGY BULLETIN (ONLINE) 32:(2) pp. 5-13.
  • Farsang, P., & Kocsor, F. (2016). The Young Male Syndrome revisited – homicide data from Hungarian and Australian populations. Human Ethology Bulletin. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295073820_The_Young_Male_Syndrome_revisited_-_homicide_data_from_Hungarian_and_Australian_populations
  • Kocsor, F., & Bereczkei, T. (2016). First Impressions of Strangers Rely on Generalization of Behavioral Traits Associated with previously Seen Facial Features. Current Psychology. pdf
  • Kocsor, F., Saxton, T. K., Láng, A., & Bereczkei, T. (2016). Preference for faces resembling opposite-sex parents is moderated by emotional closeness in childhood. Personality and Individual Differences, 96, 23–27. pdf
  • Bereczkei, T., & Birkas, B. (2014). The Insightful Manipulator: Machiavellians’ Interpersonal Tactics May Be Linked to Their Superior Information Processing Skills. International Journal of Psychological Studies, 6(4), p65. - pdf
  • Szijjarto, L., & Bereczkei, T. (2014). The Machiavellians’“Cool Syndrome”: They Experience Intensive Feelings but Have Difficulties in Expressing Their Emotions. Current Psychology, 1-13. - pdf
  • Bereczkei, T., & Czibor, A. (2014). Personality and situational factors differently influence high Mach and low Mach persons’ decisions in a social dilemma game. Personality and Individual Differences, 64, 168-173. - pdf
  • Birkás, B., Csathó, Á., Gács, B., & Bereczkei, T. (2015). Nothing ventured nothing gained: Strong associations between reward sensitivity and two measures of Machiavellianism. Personality and Individual Differences, 74, 112-115. pdf
  • Meskó, N., Láng, A. & Bernáth, L. (2014). Women evaluate their partners’ sexual infidelity: Trade-off between disease avoidance and abandonment avoidance. In Éva Farkas (Ed.) Acta Szekszardiensium/Scientific Publications, Tom XVI. (pp. 111-128.) Szekszárd: Illyés Gyula Faculty, University of Pécs - pdf
  • Meskó, N., Láng, A., Kocsor, F. (2014). The Hungarian Version of Sociosexual Orientation Inventory Revised (SOI-R): Sex and Age Differences. Interpersona, 8(1), 85-99. doi:10.5964/ijpr.v8i1.130 – pdf
  • Birkás, B., Dzhelyova, M., Lábadi, B., Bereczkei, T., & Perrett, D. I. (2014). Cross-cultural perception of trustworthiness: The effect of ethnicity features on evaluation of faces’ observed trustworthiness across four samples. Personality and Individual Differences, 69, 56-61.
  • Czibor, A., Vincze, O., Bereczkei, T. (2014). Feelings and motives underlying Machiavellian behavioural strategies; narrative reports in a social dilemma situation. International Journal of Psychology - link
  • Mesko, N., Lang, A., Czibor, A., Szijjarto, L. & Bereczkei, T. (2014). Compete and Compromise: Machiavellianism and Conflict Resolution. Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies. 19 (1), 14-18. - pdf
  • Láng, A., & Birkás, B. (2014). Machiavellianism and perceived family functioning in adolescence. Personality and Individual Differences, 63, 69-74. - pdf
  • Kocsor, F., Gyuris, P., Bereczkei, T. (2013). The impact of attachment on preschool children's preference for parent-resembling faces - a possible link to sexual imprinting. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology.11(4), 171–183, DOI: 10.1556/JEP.11.2013.4.2 - pdf
  • Meskó, N. & Láng, A. (2013). Women evaluate their partners’ betrayal: Emotional reactions, forgiveness, perceived threats of infidelity. In E. Farkas (ed) Acta Szekszardiensium/Scientific Publications, Tom XV. (pp. 47-59.) Szekszárd: Illyés Gyula Faculty, University of Pécs. - pdf
  • Kovács-Bálint Zs., Bereczkei, T. & Hernádi, I. (2013). The telltale face: Posiible mechanisms behind defector and cooperatot recognition revealed by emotional facial expression metrics. British Journal of Psychology - online
  • Bereczkei, T., Deak, A., Papp, P., Perlaki, G., & Gergely, O. (2013). Neural correlates of Machiavellian strategies in a social dilemma task. Brain and Cognition, 82, 108-116. -pdf
  • Kocsor, F., Feldman, A., Bereczkei, T. & Kállai, J. (2013). Assessing facial attractiveness: individual decisions and evolutionary constraints. Socioaffective Neuroscience and Psychology, 3: 21432. DOI: 10.3402/snp.v3i0.21432 pdf
  • Esperger, Zs. & Bereczkei, T. (2012). Machiavellianism and Spontaneous Mentalization: One Step Ahead of Others. European Journal of Personality, 26, 580-587 - pdf
  • Czibor, A. & Bereczkei T. (2012) Machiavellian people’s success results from monitoring their partners. Personality and Individual Differences, 53, 202-206, 53, 202-206 - pdf
  • Kovács-Bálint Zs., Bereczkei, T. & Hernádi, I. (2012). The telltale face: Posiible mechanisms behind defector and cooperatot recognition revealed by emotional facial expression metrics. British Journal of Psychology (in press) - pdf 
  • Birkás B., Lábadi B. and Bereczkei T. (2012). If You Look Into My Eyes, I Will Trust You. Gaze Orientation of Attractive Faces Influencing Percieved Trustworthiness. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (in press).
  • Meskó, N., Paál, T., Gábor, B. (2012). The Face and Head Hair of Woman: Long Hairstyle as an Adaptive Means of Displaying Phenotipic Quality. In M. Mokryš, & A. Lieskovský (Eds.), Proceedings in Electronic International Interdisciplinary Conference, 3-7 September (pp, 463-468) Zilina, Slovak Republik pdf
  • Kocsor, F., Rezneki, R., Juhász, Sz., Bereczkei T. (2011). Facial self-resemblance and attractiveness in human mate choice. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40, 1263-1270. - pdf
  • Bereczkei, T. Birkas, B., and Kerekes, Zs. (2010). The presence of others, prosocial traits, Machiavellism. A personality X situation approach. Social Psychology 41, 238-245. - pdf  
  • Gyuris, P., Járai, R., and Bereczkei, T. (2010). The effect of childhood experiences on mate choice in personality tratis: Homogamy and sexual imprinting. Personality and Individual Differences 49, 467-472. - pdf
  • Bereczkei T., Birkas B., and Kerekes Zs. (2010). Altruism towards strangers in need: costly signaling in an industrial society. Evolution and Human Behavior 31, 95-103. - pdf
  • Bereczkei T. and P. Gyuris (2009) Oedipus complex, mate choice, imprinting: An evolutionary reconsideration of a Freudian concept based on an empirical study. The Mankind Quaterly 1, 71-94. - pdf
  • Bereczkei T., Birkas B., and Kerekes Zs. (2007) Public charity offer as a proximate factor of evolved reputation-building strategy: An experimental analysis of a real life situation. Evolution and Human Behavior 28: 277-284. pdf
  • Paal T. and Bereczkei T (2007). Adult theory of mind, Machiavellianism, and cooperation: the effect of mindreading on social relations. Personality and Individual Differences 43: 541-551. - pdf
  • Kállai J., Karádi K., Bereczkei T., Sándor R., Jacobns J., and Nadel, L. (2007) Spatial exploration behaviour in an extended labyrinth in patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia. Psychiatry Research 149: 223-230.
  • Birkás B., Bereczkei T., Kerekes Zs. (2006) Generosity, reputation, and costly signaling: a preliminary study of altruism toward unfamiliar people. Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology 4: 173-182.
  • Bereczkei, T., Gyuris, P., and Weisfeld, G.(2005) Sexual imprinting in human mate choice. Szondiana, 5, 5-15 
  • Sanders G, Bereczkei T, Csatho A, et al. (2005) The ratio of the 2(nd) ro 4(th) finger length predicts spatial ability in men but not in women. Cortex 41: 789-795
  • Tisljar, R. and Bereczkei, T. (2005) An evolutionary interpretation of humor and laughter. Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology, 2-3.
  • Petra Gyuris, Laszlo Bernáth, and Tamas Bereczkei (2005) Homogamy, personality, and mate choice among heterosexual and homosexual men. Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology 2-3.
  • Bereczkei, T., Gyuris, P., and Weisfeld, G. (2004) Sexual imprinting in human mate choice. Proceedings of Royal Society 271: 1129-1134. - pdf
  • Mesko N. and Bereczkei T. (2004) Hairstyle as an adaptive means of displaying phenotypic quality. Human Nature 15: 251-270.
  • Csathó Á. and Bereczkei T. (2003) Effect of males’ status and facial attractiveness on direct childcare. Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology 1: 123-130.
  • Bereczkei, T. and Dunbar, R. (2002) Helping-at-the-nest and reproduction in a Hungarian Gypsy population. Current Anthropology 43: 804-809.
  • Bereczkei, T., Gyuris, P., Koves, P., and Bernath, L. (2002) Homogamy, genetic similarity, and imprinting; parental influence on mate choice preferences. Personality and Individual Differences 33: 677-690. pdf
  • Bereczkei, T. and Csanaky, A. (2001) Stressful family environment, mortality, and child socialisation: Life-history strategies among adolescents and adults from unfavourable social circumstances. International Journal of Behavioral Development 25: 501-508.
  • Bereczkei T. (2001) Maternal trade-off in treating high-risk children. Evolution and Human Behavior 22: 197-212.
  • Bereczkei T. (2000) Evolutionary psychology: A new perspective in the behavioral sciences. European Psychologist 5: 459-481. pdf
  • Bereczkei T. (1998): Kinship network, direct childcare, and fertility among Hungarian Gipsies. Evolution and Human Behavior. 19: 234-245. pdf
  • Bereczkei, T. and Dunbar, R.I.M. (1997) Female-biased reproductive strategies in two Gipsy populations. The Royal Society Proceedings 264: 17-22.
  • Bereczkei, T., Voros, A., Gal, A., and Bernath, L. (1997) Resources, attractiveness, family commitment; Reproductive decisions in mate choice. Ethology 103: 681-699.
  • Bereczkei, T. and Csanaky, A. (1996) Evolutionary Pathway of Child Development; Lifestyles of Adolescents and Adults from Father-Absent Families. Human Nature 7: 257-280.
  • Bereczkei, T. and Csanaky, A (1996): Mate choice, marital success, and reproduction in a modern society. Ethology and Sociobiology 17: 23-45.
  • Bereczkei T. (1995) The Sondi's Legacy: Innate Dispositions Influence Our Choices. A sociobiological reinterpretation of the Szondi-theory. Szondiana, 15: 8-26.
  • Bereczkei T. (1993) r-selected reproductive strategies among Hungarian Gipsies. Ethology and Sociobiology 14: 71-88.
  • Bereczkei T. (1993) An intellectual legacy: The acceptance of sociobiology in the East-European Countries. Biology and Phylosophy 8: 399-407.
  • Bereczkei T. (1992) Biological Evolution, Genotropism, and Psychopathology: A reinterpretation of a psychoanalytical theory, Szondiana 12: 32-52.
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