Kevin MacDonald

4.4k total citations
64 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Kevin MacDonald is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin MacDonald has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 15 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Kevin MacDonald's work include Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (24 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (12 papers) and Cognitive Abilities and Testing (9 papers). Kevin MacDonald is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (24 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (12 papers) and Cognitive Abilities and Testing (9 papers). Kevin MacDonald collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and South Africa. Kevin MacDonald's co-authors include Ross D. Parke, Dan Chiappe, Daniel P. Howrigan, Navaz Peshotan Bhavnagri, Nancy L. Segal, Aaron B. Ilan, Christina Whalen, Jennifer B. Symon, Peter J. LaFrenière and Aurelio José Figueredo and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Review, Child Development and Developmental Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Kevin MacDonald

63 papers receiving 2.5k citations

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Judith Rich Harris United States

Hugh Lytton Canada

Willem E. Frankenhuis Netherlands

Joyce F. Benenson Canada

Charles F. Halverson United States

John W. M. Whiting United States

Anthony L. Burrow United States

Anthony A. Volk Canada

Beatrice B. Whiting United States

Mark V. Flinn United States

Judith Rich Harris United States

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Cottrill, Ethan, Zach Pennington, A. Karim Ahmed, et al.. (2020). First Report of Pharmacogenomic Profiling in an Outpatient Spine Setting: Preliminary Results from a Pilot Study. World Neurosurgery. 145. e21–e31. 4 indexed citations

MacDonald, Kevin. (2018). The Familial Origins of European Individualism. The Journal of social, political, and economic studies. 43. 78. 3 indexed citations

Figueredo, Aurelio José, Pedro S. A. Wolf, Sally Olderbak, et al.. (2014). The psychometric assessment of human life history strategy: A meta-analytic construct validation.. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. 8(3). 148–185. 99 indexed citations

MacDonald, Kevin. (2009). Evolution, Psychology, and a Conflict Theory of Culture. Evolutionary Psychology. 7(2). 14 indexed citations

MacDonald, Kevin. (2008). Effortful control, explicit processing, and the regulation of human evolved predispositions.. Psychological Review. 115(4). 1012–1031. 138 indexed citations

Chiappe, Dan & Kevin MacDonald. (2005). The Evolution of Domain-General Mechanisms in Intelligence and Learning. The Journal of General Psychology. 132(1). 5–40. 112 indexed citations

MacDonald, Kevin. (2002). Statistical analysis of the distribution of modern primates: A comparative approach to the spatial analysis of the Palaeolithic. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations

MacDonald, Kevin. (2001). Theoretical Pluralism and Historical Complexity in the Development and Maintenance of Socially Imposed Monogamy: A Comment on Kanazawa and Still. Social Forces. 80(1). 343–347. 4 indexed citations

MacDonald, Kevin, et al.. (2001). Stabilizing and directional selection on facial paedomorphosis. Human Nature. 12(4). 383–402. 7 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Kevin. (2001). An Integrative Evolutionary Perspective on Ethnicity. Politics and the Life Sciences. 20(1). 67–80. 10 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Kevin. (1999). Love and confidence in protection as two independent systems underlying intimate relationships.. Journal of Family Psychology. 13(4). 492–495. 9 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Kevin. (1998). Jewish Involvement in Shaping American Immigration Policy, 1881–1965: A Historical Review. Population and Environment. 19(4). 295–356. 3 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Kevin. (1997). Life history theory and human reproductive behavior. Human Nature. 8(4). 327–359. 47 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Kevin. (1993). Parent-child play : descriptions and implications. State University of New York Press eBooks. 120 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Kevin. (1992). Warmth as a Developmental Construct: An Evolutionary Analysis. Child Development. 63(4). 753–753. 169 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Kevin. (1992). A Time and a Place for Everything: A Discrete Systems Perspective on the Role of Children's Rough-and-Tumble Play in Educational Settings. Early Education and Development. 3(4). 334–355. 8 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Kevin. (1987). Parent-child physical play with rejected, neglected, and popular boys.. Developmental Psychology. 23(5). 705–711. 88 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Kevin & Ross D. Parke. (1986). Parent-child physical play: The effects of sex and age of children and parents. Sex Roles. 15(7-8). 367–378. 158 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Kevin & Ross D. Parke. (1984). Bridging the Gap: Parent-Child Play Interaction and Peer Interactive Competence. Child Development. 55(4). 1265–1265. 293 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Kevin. (1983). Production, social controls, and ideology: Toward a sociobiology of the phenotype. Journal of Social and Biological Systems. 6(4). 297–317. 47 indexed citations

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