Degree Received
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1984

Research Interests
Evolutionary psychology; social/personality psychology. General interests concern the ways in which humans' current psychological design is a product of evolutionary selection. Current research generally concerns this issue in regard to phenomena that occur within close relationships such as sexual relationships, friendships, and familial relationships. Other research concerns the developmental expressions of adaptations. Additional interests include individual differences, behavior genetics, psychometric theory, and philosophy of science.

• Andrews, P. A., Gangestad, S. W., & Matthews, D. (in press). Adaptationism--how to carry out an exaptationist program. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
• Gangestad, S. W. (in press). Sexually antagonistic coevolution: Theory, evidence, and implications for human patterns of mating and fertility. In The Biodemography of Fertility-related Behavior (working title). Washington DC: National Academy of the Sciences.
• Gangestad, S. W., & Thornhill, R. (in press). Facial masculinity and bodily fluctuating asymmetry. Evolution and Human Behavior.
• Gangestad, S. W., & Thornhill, R. (in press). Female multiple mating and genetic benefits in humans: Investigations of design. In P. M. Kappeler & C. P. van Schaik (Eds.), Sexual selection in primates: New and comparative perspectives. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Thornhill, R., & Gangestad, S. W. (in press). Do women have evolved adaptation for extra-pair copulation? In E. Voland & K. Grammer (Eds.), Darwinian aesthetics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Thornhill, R., & Gangestad, S. W. (in press). The evolutionary psychology of human physical attractiveness. In A. Moya & E. Font (Eds.), Evolution: From molecules to ecosystems. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Thornhill, R., & Gangestad, S. W. (in press). Evolutionary theory led to evidence for male sex pheromone that signals male symmetry. Psychological Inquiry.
• Thornhill, R., Gangestad, S. W., Miller, R., Scheyd, G., McCollough, J., & Franklin, M. (in press). MHC, symmetry and body scent attractiveness in men and women (Homo sapiens). Behavioral Ecology.
• Yeo, R. A., Thoma, R., & Gangestad, S. W. (in press). The neuropsychology of handedness. In Handbook of Neuropsychology.
• Gangestad, S. W., & Thornhill, R. (2003). Fluctuating asymmetry, developmental instability, and fitness: Toward model-based interpretation. In M. Polak (Ed.), Developmental instability: Causes and consequences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Polak, M., Møller, A. P., Krueger, D. E., Gangestad, S.W., Manning, J. T., & Thornhill, R. (2003). Statistical covariance in fluctuating asymmetry among traits? A meta-analysis. In M. Polak (Ed.), Developmental instability: Causes and consequences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Gangestad, S. W., Thornhill, R., & Garver, C. E. (2002). Changes in women’s sexual interests and their partners’ mate retention tactics across the menstrual cycle: Evidence for shifting conflicts of interest. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 269, 975-982.
• Thoma, R. J., Yeo, R. A., Gangestad, S. W., Lewine. J., & Davis, J. (2002). Fluctuating asymmetry and the human brain. Laterality, 7, 45-58.
• Thornhill, R., & Gangestad, S. W. (2002). Human sex pheromones. The Aroma-Chology Review, 10, 6-8.
• Gangestad, S. W. (2001). Sexual selection, good genes, and human mating. In H. R. Holcomb III (Ed.), Conceptual challenges in evolutionary psychology: Innovative research strategies. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer.
• Gangestad, S. W. (2001). Adaptive design, selective history, and women’s sexual motivation. In D. Leger, J. French, & A. Kamil (Eds.), Nebraska symposium on motivation. Volume 48: Evolutionary psychology. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
• Gangestad, S. W., Bennett, K. L., & Thornhill, R. (2001). A latent variable model of developmental instability in relation to men’s number of sex partners. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 268, 1677-1684.
• Gangestad, S. W., & Cousins, A. J. (2001). Adaptive design, female mate preferences, and shifts across the menstrual cycle. Annual Review of Sex Research.
• Simpson, J. A., & Gangestad, S. W. (2001). Evolution and relationships: A call for integration. Personal Relationships, 8, 341-355. [Introduction to the Special Issue on Evolutionary Approaches to Understanding Relationships, S. W. Gangestad & J. A. Simpson (Eds.)]
• Blanchard, J. J., Gangestad, S. W., Brown, S. A., & Horan, W. P. (2000). Hedonic capacity and schizotypy revisited: A taxometric analysis of social anhedonia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 109, 87-95.
• Gangestad, S. W. (2000). Human sexual selection, good genes, and special design. Annals of the New York Academy of the Sciences, 907, 50-61. [In special issue on evolutionary psychology]
• Gangestad, S. W., Bailey, J. M., & Martin, N. G. (2000). A taxometric analysis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 1109-1121.
• Gangestad, S. W., & Simpson, J. A. (2000). On the evolutionary psychology of human mating: Trade-offs and strategic pluralism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 573-587. [Target article]
• Gangestad, S. W., & Simpson, J. A. (2000). Trade-offs, the allocation of reproductive effort, and the evolutionary psychology of human mating. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 624-636. [Response to 43 commentaries on the target article]
• Gangestad, S. W., & Snyder, M. (2000). Self-monitoring: Appraisal and reappraisal. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 530-555.
• Jung, R. E., Yeo, R. A., & Gangestad, S. W. (2000). Developmental instability predicts individual variation in verbal memory skill following caffeine ingestion. Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, and Behavioral Neurology, 13, 195-198.
• Gangestad, S. W., & Thornhill, R. (1999). Individual differences in developmental precision and fluctuating asymmetry: A model and its implications. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 12, 402-416.
• Møller, A. P., Gangestad, S. W., & Thornhill, R. (1999). Nonlinearity and the importance of fluctuating asymmetry as a predictor of fitness. Oikos, 86, 366-368.
• Scheib, J. E., Gangestad, S. W., & Thornhill, R. (1999). Facial attractiveness, symmetry, and cues of good genes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 266, 1318-1321.
• Simpson, J. A., Gangestad, S. W., Christensen, P. N., & Leck, K. (1999). Fluctuating asymmetry, sociosexuality, and intrasexual competitive tactics. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 159-172.
• Thornhill, R., & Gangestad, S. W. (1999). Facial attractiveness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 452-460.
• Thornhill, R., & Gangestad, S. W. (1999). The scent of symmetry: A human pheromone that signals fitness? Evolution and Human Behavior, 20, 175-201.
• Thornhill, R., Møller, A. P., & Gangestad, S. W. (1999). The biological importance of fluctuating asymmetry and sexual selection: A reply to Palmer. American Naturalist, 154, 234-241.
• Yeo, R. A., Gangestad, S. W., Edgar, C., & Thoma, R. J. (1999). The evolutionary-genetic underpinnings of schizophrenia: The developmental instability model. Schizophrenia Research, 39, 197-206.
• Furlow, B. F., Gangestad, S. W., & Armijo-Prewitt, T. (1998). Fluctuating asymmetry and human violence. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 265, 1-6.
• Gangestad, S. W., & Thornhill, R. (1998). The analysis of fluctuating asymmetry redux: The robustness of parametric statistics. Animal Behaviour, 55, 497-501.
• Gangestad, S. W., & Thornhill, R. (1998). Menstrual cycle variation in women’s preferences for the scent of symmetrical men. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 265, 727-733.
• Yeo, R. A., & Gangestad, S. W. (1998). Developmental instability and phenotypic variation in neural organization. In N. Raz (Ed.), The other side of the error term: Aging and development as models in cognitive neuroscience. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 1-51.