Publications

2012

2011
  • 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.

2010
  • Bereczkei T., Birkás B. and Kerekes Zs.: Altruism towards strangers in need: costly signaling in an industrial society Evolution and Human Behavior (in press) - 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.

2009
  • Bereczkei, T. and Gyuris, P. (2009) Oedipus complex, mate choice, imprinting; an evolutionary reconsideration of a Freudian concept based on empirical studies. The Mankind Quaterly 1, 71-94.
 
2008
 2007

  • Bereczkei T. (2007) Parental impact on development: how proximate factors mediate adaptive plans. In: Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (Eds. R. Dunbar and L. Barrett. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 255-272.
  • 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 Differences43: 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.

2006
  • Ivan Zs., Bereczkei T. (2006) Parental Bonding, risk-taking behavior and life history theory Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology 4:
  • Bereczkei T., Mesko N. (2006) Hair length, facial attractiveness, personality attribution: a multiple fitness model of hairdressing. Review of Psychology 13: 1-60. pdf
  • 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.

2005
  • Bereczkei, T., Gyuris, P., and Weisfeld, G.(2005) Sexual imprinting in human mate choice. Szondiana, 5, 5-15
  • Ivan, Zs. And Bereczkei T. (2006) parental bonding, risk-takin behavior and life history. Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology 4: 267-275.
  • 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
  • Roland Tisljar and Tamas Bereczkei (2005 An evolutionary interpretation of humor and laughter. Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology 2-3.
  • Gyuris, P., Bernáth,B. and Bereczkei, T. (2005) Homogamy, personality, and mate choice among heterosexual and homosexual men. Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology 2-3.

2004
  • Bereczkei, T., Gyuris, P., and Weisfeld, G. (2004) Sexual imprinting in human mate choice. Proceedings of Royal Society 271: 1129-1134.
  • Mesko N. and Bereczkei T. (2004) Hairstyle as an adaptive means of displaying phenotypic quality. Human Nature 15: 251-270. pdf

2003
  • 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.

2002
  • 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

2001
  • 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.

2000
  • Bereczkei T. (2000) Evolutionary psychology: A new perspective in the behavioral sciences. European Psychologist 5: 459-481. pdf
  • Manning, J. T., Barley, J., Walton, D.,… Bereczkei, T. (2000) The 2nd:4th digit ratio, sexual dimorphism, population differences, and reproductive success: Evidence for sexually antagonistic genes? Evolution and Human Behavior 21: 163-183.
  • Bereczkei, T., Hofer, A., Ivan, Zs (2000). Low birth weight maternal birth-spacing decisions, and future reproduction. A cost-benefit analysis. Human Nature 11: 183-205.

Before 2000 (selected)
  • 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.