Publications of Alexander Pashos

Pashos, Alexander. 2017. Asymmetric caregiving by grandparents, aunts, and uncles and the theories of kin selection and paternity certainty: how does evolution explain human behavior toward close relatives? Cross-Cultural Research 51(3): 263–284. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1069397117697671.

Pashos, Alexander, Sascha Schwarz, and David F. Bjorklund. 2016. Kin investment by step-grandparents: more than expected. Evolutionary Psychology 14(1): 1–13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704916631213.

Pashos, Alexander, Gulnazira Kinjabaeva, Aksana Ismailbekova, Yuliya Absalyamova, and Carsten Niemitz. 2014. An analysis of patrilateral kin investment biases in two patrilocal Kipchak Turk populations from Kirgizstan and Bashkortostan. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta: Serija 23; Antropologija 3: 77–77.

Pashos, Alexander. 2010. The evolutionary versus socio-economic view on grandparenthood: what are the grandparents’ underlying motivations? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33(1): 33–34. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X09991713.

Pashos, Alexander and Donald H. McBurney. 2008. Kin relationships and the caregiving biases of grandparents, aunts, and uncles: a two-generational questionnaire study. Human Nature 19(3): 311–330. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-008-9046-0.

Pashos, Alexander. 2005. Menschliche Partnerwahl aus evolutionärer und sozialer Perspektive. Mitteilungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte 26: 83–91.

Pashos, Alexander and Carsten Niemitz. 2003. Results of an explorative empirical study on human mating in Germany: handsome men, not high-status men, succeed in courtship. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 61(3): 331–341.

Pashos, Alexander. 2000. Male status vs. female beauty?: mating preferences in sociobiology and social psychology. Homo 51: S96–S96.

Pashos, A. 2000. Does paternal uncertainty explain discriminative grandparental solicitude?: a cross-cultural study in Greece and Germany. Evolution and Human Behavior 21(2): 97–109. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1090-5138(99)00030-6.

Pashos, Alexander. 2016. Grandparental investment. In: Todd K. Shackelford and Viviana Weekes-Shackelford (eds.). Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 1–9.

Pashos, Alexander. 2016. Lebenszufriedenheit und Glück – ein Motiv für Großelternschaft? Eine Analyse anhand von Daten des Deutschen Alterssurveys. In: Christine Henninghausen, Benjamin P. Lange, and Frank Schwab (eds.). Evolution des Sozialen. Die Psychogenese der Menschheit 3. Lengerich: Pabst, pp. 154–163.

Pashos, Alexander. 2007. A symmetric kin investment of grandparents, aunts and uncles: a two-generational study from Pittsburgh. In: Éva B. Bodzsár and Annamária Zsákai (eds.). New perspectives and problems in anthropology. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 57–66.

Pashos, Alexander and K. Christiansen. 2002. Male status vs. female beauty?: mating preferences in sociobiology and social psychology. In: Michael Schultz (ed.). Homo - unsere Herkunft und Zukunft. Göttingen: Cuvillier, pp. 457–463.

Pashos, Alexander and K. Christiansen. 2000. Diskriminative großelterliche Fürsorge - ein biologisches Problem? In: Michael Schultz (ed.). Schnittstelle Mensch - Umwelt in Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft. Göttingen: Cuvillier, pp. 99–102.

Heady, Patrick, Martine Guichard, and Alexander Pashos. 2017. Kinship Universals and Variation (KUV). Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Report: Department 'Integration and Conflict' 2014/2016. https://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/institute-reports/pdf/mpi-eth-institute-report-2014-2016-integration-and-conflict-de#page=61.

Pashos, Alexander. 2002. Über die Rolle von Status, physischer Attraktivität und Taktiken in der menschlichen Partnerwahl: soziokulturelle und evolutionsbiologische Mechanismen und Prozesse menschlichen Sozialverhaltens. 1. ed. Göttingen: Cuvillier.