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My academic achievements include being a recipient of a Rising Star designation from the Association for Psychological Science in 2015 for my research on the Flynn effect and related secular trends. In 2018, Todd Shackelford approached some long-time collaborators of mine to write an official biographical sketch for publication in the Springer Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. In the same year, I was also elevated to the editorial board of the Elsevier journal Intelligence.
What I am most proud of however, are my (as of this writing) 131 peer reviewed articles, and five peer reviewed books. Listed below is a selection of my favorites, divided into five broad topic areas; book, comparative psychology (my current research focus), differential and evolutionary psychology, sociology and miscellaneous, (this latter category includes publications in the fields of microbiology, plant science, theoretical ecology, and cryptozoology). I have provided links to publicly accessible full-text versions of these articles where available. In instances where they are not available, I have linked to the relevant journal or publisher instead.
Book
Hertler, S.C., Figueredo, A.J., Peñaherrera-Aguirre, M., Fernandes, H.B.F., & Woodley of Menie, M.A. (2018). Life History Evolution: A Biological Meta-Theory for the Social Sciences. London, UK: Palgrave-MacMillan.
Comparative psychology
Woodley of Menie, M.A., & Peñaherrera-Aguirre, M. (In press). General intelligence as a major source of cognitive variation among individuals of three species of lemur, uniting g with G. Evolutionary Psychological Science. doi:10.1007/s40806-021-00304-x
Woodley of Menie, M.A., & Peñaherrera-Aguirre, M. (2021). Did Molly Falla observe an instance of active tactical deception in the kea (Nestor notabilis)? Notornis. 68, 290-293.
Woodley of Menie, M.A., Peñaherrera-Aguirre, M.A., & Woodley, A.M.R. (2021). String-pulling in the Greater Vasa parrot (Coracopsis vasa): A replication of capacity, findings of longitudinal retention, and evidence for a species-level General Insight Factor across five patterned string-pulling tasks. Intelligence. 86, 101543. e.pdf
Fernandes, H.B.F., Peñaherrera-Aguirre, M., Woodley of Menie, M.A., & Figueredo, A.J. (2020). Macroevolutionary patterns and selection modes for general intelligence (G) and for commonly used neuroanatomical volume measures in primates. Intelligence. 80, 101456.
Woodley of Menie, M.A., Fernandes, H.B.F., te Nijenhuis, J., Figueredo, A.J., & Peñaherrera-Aguirre, M. (2017). General intelligence is a source of individual differences between species: Solving an anomaly. Behavioral & Brain Sciences. 40, e223.
Woodley of Menie, M.A., Fernandes, H.B.F., & Hopkins, W.D. (2015). The more g loaded, the more heritable, variable and evolvable: homology with humans in chimpanzee cognitive abilities. Intelligence. 50, 159-163.
Fernandes, H.B.F., Woodley, M.A., & te Nijenhuis, J. (2014). Differences in cognitive abilities among primates are concentrated on G: Phenotypic and phylogenetic comparisons with two meta-analytical databases. Intelligence. 46, 311-322.
Differential and evolutionary psychology
Woodley of Menie, M.A. (2021). Creativity, intelligence, and life history: A new perspective. In, M. Lenartowicz., & W.D.R. Weinbaum (Eds.), The practice of thinking: Cultivating the extraordinary. Gent, Belgium: Academia Press. (pp. 405-429).
Woodley of Menie, M.A., Peñaherrera-Aguirre, M., & Sarraf, M.A. (2021). Estimating the additive heritability of historiometric eminence in a super-pedigree comprised of four prominent families.Twin Research & Human Genetics. 24:4, 191-199.
Woodley of Menie, M.A., Luoto, S., & Peñaherrera-Aguirre, M., & Sarraf, M.A. (2021). Life history is a major source of adaptive individual and species differences: a critical commentary on Zietsch and Sidari (2020). Evolutionary Psychological Science. 7, 213-231.
Woodley of Menie, M.A., Peñaherrera-Aguirre, M., Dunkel, C., & Sarraf, M.A. (2021). Evidence for the Scarr-Rowe effect on genetic expressivity in the Health and Retirement Study. Twin Research & Human Genetics. 24, 110-115.
Woodley of Menie, M.A., Heeney, M.D., Peñaherrera-Aguirre, M., Sarraf, M.A., Banner, R., & Rindermann, H. (2020). A meta-analysis of the “erasing race” effect in the US, and some theoretical considerations. Frontiers in Psychology. 11, 1635.
Woodley of Menie, M.A., Rindermann, H., Pallesen, J., & Sarraf, M.A. (2019). How intelligence affects fertility 30 years on: Retherford and Sewell revisited – with polygenic scores and numbers of grandchildren. Twin Research & Human Genetics, 22:3, 147-153.
Woodley of Menie, M.A., te Nijenhuis, J., Shibaev, V., Li, M., & Smit, J. (2019). Are the effects of lead exposure linked to the g factor? A meta-analysis. Personality & Individual Differences, 137, 184-191.
Woodley of Menie, M.A., Pallesen, J., & Sarraf, M.A. (2018). Evidence for the Scarr-Rowe effect on genetic expressivity in a large US sample. Twin Research & Human Genetics, 21:6, 495-501.
Van der Linden, D., Dunkel, C.S., Figueredo, A.J., Gurven, M., von Rueden, C., & Woodley of Menie, M.A. (2018). How universal is the General Factor of Personality? An analysis of the Big Five in forager-farmers of the Bolivian Amazon. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 49:7, 1081-1097.
Woodley of Menie, M. A., Cabeza de Baca, T., Fernandes, H. B. F., Madison, G., & Figueredo, A. J. (2017). Slow and steady wins the race: K positively predicts fertility in the USA and Sweden. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 3, 109–117.
Woodley of Menie, M.A., Schwartz, J.A., & Beaver, K.M. (2016). How cognitive genetic factors influence fertility outcomes: A meditational SEM analysis. Twin Research & Human Genetics, 19, 628-637.
Woodley of Menie, M.A. (2016). Consideration of cognitive variance components potentially solves Beauchamp’s paradox. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 113, E5780-E5781.
Woodley of Menie, M.A., Peñaherrera, M.A., Fernandes, H.B.F., Becker, D., & Flynn, J.R. (2016). It’s getting bigger all the time: Estimating the Flynn effect from secular brain mass increases in Britain and Germany. Learning & Individual Differences, 45, 95-100.
Figueredo, A.J., Woodley of Menie, M.A., & Jacobs, W.J. (2015). The evolutionary psychology of the general factor of personality: A hierarchical life history model. In Buss, D.M., (Ed.), Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, Second Edition. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley (pp. 943-967).
Woodley of Menie, M.A., Figueredo, A.J., Cabeza de Baca, T., Fernandes, H.B.F., Madison, G., Wolf, P., & Black, C. (2015). Strategic differentiation and integration of genomic-level heritabilities facilitate individual differences in preparedness and plasticity of human life history. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:422.
Woodley of Menie, M.A., Fernandes, H.B.F., Figueredo, A.J., & Meisenberg, G. (2015). By their words ye shall know them: Evidence of genetic selection against general intelligence and concurrent environmental enrichment in vocabulary usage since the mid 19th century. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:361.
Figueredo, A.J., Cabeza de Baca, T., Black, C.J., Fernandes, H.B.F., Wolf, P.S.A., & Woodley of Menie, M.A. (2015). Methodologically sound: Evaluating the psychometric approach to the assessment of human life history [Reply to Copping, Campbell, and Muncer, 2014]. Evolutionary Psychology, 13, 299-338.
Woodley of Menie, M.A., & Madison, G. (2015). The association between g and K in a sample of 4246 Swedish twins: A behavior genetic analysis. Personality & Individual Differences, 75, 80-84.
Figueredo, A.J., Woodley, M.A., & Fernandes, H.B.F. (2014). Life history selection and phenotypic diversification. Psychological Inquiry, 25, 325-329.
Woodley, M.A., te Nijenhuis, J., Must, O., & Must, A. (2014). Controlling for increased guessing enhances the independence of the Flynn effect from g: The return of the Brand effect. Intelligence, 43:2, 27-34.
Figueredo, A.J., Woodley, M.A., Brown, S.D., & Ross, K.C. (2013). Multiple successful tests of the strategic differentiation-integration effort (SD-IE) hypothesis. Journal of Social, Evolutionary & Cultural Psychology, 7:4, 361-383.
Woodley, M.A., te Nijenhuis, J., & Murphy, R. (2013). Were the Victorians cleverer than us? A decline in general intelligence estimated from a meta-analysis of the slowing of simple reaction time. Intelligence, 41:6, 843-850.
Woodley, M.A., & Bell, E. (2013). Consanguinity as a major predictor of levels of democracy: A study of 70 nations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 44:2, 263-280.
Woodley, M.A. (2012). A life history model of the Lynn-Flynn effect. Personality and Individual Differences, 53:2, 152-156.
Woodley, M.A. (2011). Heterosis doesn’t cause the Flynn effect: A critical examination of Mingroni (2007). Psychological Review, 118:4, 689-693.
Woodley, M.A. (2011). The cognitive differentiation-integration effort hypothesis: A synthesis between the fitness indicator and life history models of human intelligence. Review of General Psychology, 15:3, 228-245.
Woodley, M.A. (2010). Are high-IQ individuals deficient in common sense? A critical examination of the ‘clever sillies’ hypothesis. Intelligence, 38:5, 471-480.
Sociology
Carl, N., & Woodley of Menie, M.A. (2019). A scientometric analysis of controversies in the field of intelligence research. Intelligence, 77, 101397.
Cofnas, N., Carl, N., & Woodley of Menie, M.A. (2018). Does activism in social science explain conservatives’ distrust of scientists? The American Sociologist, 49:1, 135-148.
Carl, N., Cofnas, N., Woodley of Menie, M.A. (2016). Scientific literacy, optimism about science and conservatism. Personality & Individual Differences, 94, 299-302.
Woodley of Menie, M.A., Dutton, E., Figueredo, A.J., Carl, N., Debes, F., Hertler, S., Irwing, P., Kura, K., Lynn, R., Madison, G., Meisenberg, G., Miller, E.M., te Nijenhuis, J., Nyborg, H., & Rindermann, H. (2018). Communicating intelligence research: Media misrepresentation, the Gould Effect, and unexpected forces. Intelligence, 70, 84-87.
Miscellaneous topics
Woodley of Menie, M.A., Pawlik, P., Webb, M.T., Bruce, K.D., & Devlin, P.F. (2019). Circadian leaf movements facilitate overtopping of neighbours. Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology, 146, 104-111.
Stratford, J.P., Woodley, M.A., & Park, S. (2013). Variation in the morphology of Bacillus mycoides due to applied force and substrate structure. PLOS ONE, 8:12, e81549.
Woodley, M.A., Naish, D., & Shanahan, H.P. (2008). How many extant pinniped species remain to be described? Historical Biology, 20:4, 225-235.
Woodley, M.A. (2007). On the possible operation of natural laws in ecosystems. Rivista di Biologia/Biology Forum, 100:3, 475-486.
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