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2009/In Press

Geary, D. C. (in press). Male, female: The evolution of human sex differences (second edition). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Geary, D. C. (2009). Evolution of general fluid intelligence. In S. M. Platek & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Foundations in evolutionary cognitive neuroscience. (pp. 22-56) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Geary, D. C. (in press). An evolutionary twist on sex, mathematics, and the sciences. In C. Hoff  Sommers (Ed.), The science of women in science. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute Press.

Vigil, J. M., Geary, D. C., Flinn, M. V., & Granger, D. A. (in press). Sex differences in salivary cortisol, alpha-amylase, and psychological functioning following hurricane Katrina. Child Development.

Geary, D. C., Bailey, D. H., & Hoard, M. K. (in press). Predicting mathematical achievement and mathematical learning disability with a simple screening tool: The Number Sets Test. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment.

Geary, D. C. (in press). Sex differences in reciprocal altruism: Reply to Mower. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour.

Geary, D. C. (in press). Missouri longitudinal study of mathematical development and disability. In R. Cowan, M. Saxton, & A. Tolmie (Eds.), Understanding number development and number difficulties (No. 7, British Journal of Educational Psychology, Monograph Series II: Psychological Aspects of Education - Current Trends, pp xxx-xxx). Leicester, UK: British Psychological Society.

Bailey, D. H, & Geary, D. C. (2009). Hominid brain evolution. Human Nature, 20.

2008

Geary, D. C., Hoard, M. K., Nugent, L., & Byrd-Craven, J. (2008). Development of number line representations in children with mathematical learning disability. Developmental Neuropsychology, 33, 277-299.

Wu, S., S., Meyer, M. L., Maeda, U., Salimpoor, V., Tomiyama, S., Geary, D. C., & Menon, V. (2008). Standardized assessment of strategy use and working memory in early mental arithmetic performance. Developmental Neuropsychology, 33, 365-393.

Hoard, M. K., Geary, D. C., Byrd-Craven, J., & Nugent, L. (2008). Mathematical cognition in intellectually precocious children. Developmental Neuropsychology, 33, 251-276.

Byrd-Craven, J., Geary, D. C., Rose, A. J., & Ponzi, D. (2008). Co-rumination increases stress hormone levels in women. Hormones and Behavior, 53, 489-492.

Geary, D. C. (2008). An evolutionarily informed education science. Educational Psychologist, 43, 279-295.

Geary, D. C. (2008). Whither Evolutionarily Educational Psychology? Educational Psychologist, 43, 217-226.

National Mathematics Advisory Panel. (2008). Foundations for Success: Final Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel. Washington, DC: United States Department of Education.

Geary, D. C., Boykin, A. W., Embretson, S., Reyna, V., Siegler, R., Berch, D. B., & Graban, J. (2008). Report of the task group on learning processes. In National Mathematics Advisory Panel, Reports of the task groups and subcommittees (pp. 4-1–4-211).

Vigil, J. M., & Geary, D. C. (2008). Developmental consequences of childhood sexual abuse. In F. Columbus (Ed.), Childhood Sexual Abuse: Issues and Challenges. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Vigil, J. M., & Geary, D. C. (2008). A preliminary investigation of family coping styles and psychological wellbeing among adolescent survivors of hurricane Katrina. Journal of Family Psychology, 22, 176-180.

Geary, D. C. (2008). Cognitive development: Biological theories. In E. M. Anderman & L. Anderman (Eds.), Psychology of classroom learning: An encyclopedia. Farmington Hill, MI: Thomas Gale.

Geary, D. C. (2008). Children’s academic development: Where evolution meets culture. Anuario de Psicología, 39, 209-223.

2007

Geary, D. C., Hoard, M. K., Byrd-Craven, J., Nugent, L., & Numtee, C. (2007). Cognitive mechanisms underlying achievement deficits in children with mathematical learning disability. Child Development, 78, 1343-1359.

Geary, D. C. (2007). An evolutionary perspective on learning disability in mathematics. Developmental Neuropsychology, 32, 1-49.

Geary, D. C. (2007). An evolutionary perspective on sex differences in mathematics and the  sciences. In S. J. Ceci & W. Williams (Eds.), Why aren’t more women in science? Top researchers debate the evidence (pp. 173-188). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Geary, D. C. (2007). Educating the evolved mind: Conceptual foundations for an evolutionary educational psychology. In J. S. Carlson & J. R. Levin (Eds.), Educating the evolved mind (pp. 1-99, Vol. 2, Psychological perspectives on contemporary educational issues). Greenwich, CT: Information Age.

Geary, D. C. (2007). Educating the Evolved Mind: Reflections and Refinements. In J. S. Carlson & J. R. Levin (Eds.), Educating the evolved mind (pp. 177-203, Vol. 2, Psychological perspectives on contemporary educational issues). Greenwich, CT: Information Age. [Amazon link]

Halpern, D., Benbow, C., Geary, D. C., Gur, R., Hyde, J., & Gernsbacher, M. A. (2007). Sex, Math and Scientific Achievement: Why do men dominate the fields of science, engineering and mathematics? Scientific American Mind, 18, 44-51.

Geary, D. C. (2007). The motivation to control and the evolution of general intelligence. In S. Gangestad & J. Simpson (Eds.), The evolution of mind: Fundamental questions and controversies (pp. 305-312). New York: Guilford Publications.

Halpern, D., Benbow, C., Geary, D. C., Gur, R., Hyde, J., & Gernsbacher, M. A. (2007). The science of sex differences in science and mathematics. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 8 (No 1., 1-52).

Geary, D. C., Nugent, L., Hoard, M. K., & Byrd-Craven, J. (2007). Strategy use, long-term memory, and working memory capacity. In D. B. Berch & M. M. M. Mazzocco (Eds.), Why is Math So Hard for Some Children? The Nature and Origins of Mathematical Learning Difficulties and Disabilities (pp. 83-105). Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.

DeSoto, M. C., Bumgardner, J., Close, A., & Geary, D. C. (2007). Investigating the role of hormones in theory of mind. North American Journal of Psychology, 9, 535-544.

Byrd-Craven, J., & Geary, D. C. (2007). Biological and evolutionary contributions to developmental sex differences. Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 15 (Supplement 2), 10-20

Geary, D. C. (2007). Evolution of fatherhood. In C. Salmon & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Family relationships: An evolutionary perspective (pp. 115-144). New York: Oxford University Press.

Lie, C., & Geary, D. C. (Eds.) (2007). Evolutionary psychology. Acta Psychological Sinica, 39 (special issue, pp. 381-570).

Lie, C., & Geary, D. C. (2007). The future of psychology: Evolutionary approach to scientific psychology. Acta Psychological Sinica, 39, 381-382.

Geary, D. C. (2007). An integrative model of human brain, cognitive, and behavioral evolution. Acta Psychological Sinica, 39, 383-397.

Byrd-Craven, J., Geary, D. C., Vigil, J. M., & Hoard, M. K. (2007). One mate or two? Life history traits and reproductive variation in low-income women. Acta Psychological Sinica, 39, 469-480.

Geary, D. C. (2007). Evolution and children’s learning. In F. Santoianni & C. Sabatano (Eds.), Brain Development in Learning Environments: Embodied and Perceptual Advancements (pp. 16-33). Newcaslte, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Geary, D. C. (2007). Fight or flight response. In R. Baumeister & K. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

2006

Geary, D. C. (2006). Development of mathematical understanding. In D. Kuhl & R. S. Siegler (Vol. Eds.), Cognition, perception, and language, Vol 2 (pp. 777-810). W. Damon (Gen. Ed.), Handbook of child psychology (6 th Ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Geary, D. C. (2006). Sex differences in social behavior and cognition: The utility of sexual selection for hypothesis generation. Hormones and Behavior, 49, 273-275.

Vigil, J. M., & Geary, D. C. (2006). Family and community background and variation in women’s life history development. Journal of Family Psychology, 20, 597-604.

Geary, D. C. (Ed.) (2006). Evolutionary developmental psychology. Developmental Review, 26 (special issue, pp. 113-276).

Geary, D. C. (2006). Evolutionary developmental psychology: Current status and future directions. Developmental Review, 26, 113-119.

Geary, D. C. (2006). Innate sex differences supported by untypical fatalities: Comment. Chance,19, 16-17.

Vigil, J. M., Geary, D. C., & Byrd-Craven, J. (2006). Trade-offs in low income women’s preferences for long-term and short-term mates: Within-sex differences in reproductive strategy. Human Nature, 17, 319-336.

Geary, D. C. (2006). Sexual selection and the evolution of human sex differences. Psihologijske teme, 15, 203-238. [Croatian journal Psychological Topics].

Fink, B., Brookes, H., Neave, N., Manning, J. T., & Geary, D. C. (2006). Second to fourth digit ratio and numerical competence in children. Brain and Cognition, 61, 211-218.

Geary, D. C. (2006). Evolution menschlicher Kognition (Evolution of human cognition). In J. Funke & P.A. Frensch (Eds.), Handbuch der Allgemeinen Psychologie - Kognition (pp. 29-38). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Geary, D. C. (2006). An evolutionary perspective on sexual and intimate relationships. In R.D. McAnulty & M. M. Burnette (Eds.), Sex and sexuality: Vol. 2, Sexual function and dysfunction (pp. 67-87). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.

Geary, D. C. (2006). [Review of Getting it wrong from the beginning: Our progressive inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John, Dewey, and Jean Piaget by K. Egan]. American Journal of Education, 112, 311-314.

Geary, D. C. (2006). [Review of Gender differences in mathematics: An integrative psychological approach. Edited by A. M. Gallagher & J. C. Kaufman]. British Journal of Educational Studies, 54, 245-246.

Geary, D. C. (2006). Coevolution of paternal investment and cuckoldry in humans. In T. K. Shackelford & S. Platek (Eds.), Female infidelity and paternal uncertainty (pp.14-34). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Sheldon, M. S., Cooper, L. Geary, D. C., Hoard, M. K., & DeSoto, M. C. (2006). Estrogen fluctuation and sexual motives. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 1-15.

Geary, D. C. (2006). Dyscalculia at an Early Age: Characteristics and Potential Influence on Socio-Emotional Development. In R.E. Tremblay & R.D. Peters (Eds.), Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development [online]. Montreal, Quebec: Center of Excellence for Early Childhood Development; 1-4.

2005

Geary, D. C. (2005).  The origin of mind:  Evolution of brain, cognition, and general intelligence.  Washington, DC:  American Psychological Association. [Amazon listing] Japanese translation (in press). Tokyo, Japan: Baifukan. Translator: Ryo Oda.

Geary, D. C. (2005). Evolution of life history trade-offs in mate attractiveness and health: Comment on Weeden and Sabini (2005). Psychological Bulletin, 131, 654-657.

Geary, D. C. (2005).  Evolution of paternal investment.  In D. M. Buss (Ed.), The evolutionary psychology handbook.  (pp. 483-505).  Hoboken, NJ:  John Wiley & Sons.

Vigil, J. M., Geary, D. C., & Byrd-Craven, J. (2005). A life history assessment of early childhood sexual abuse in women. Developmental Psychology, 41, 553-561.

Geary, D. C. (2005). Role of cognitive theory in study of learning difficulties in mathematics. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 38, 305-307.

Geary, D. C. (2005). The motivation to control and the origin of mind: Exploring the life-mind joint point in the tree of knowledge. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 61, 21-46.

Flinn, M. V., Geary, D. C., & Ward, C. V. (2005). Ecological dominance, social competition, and coalitionary arms races: Why humans evolved extraordinary intelligence. Evolution and Human Behavior, 26, 10-46.

Geary, D. C., & Hoard, M. K. (2005). Learning disabilities in arithmetic and mathematics: Theoretical and empirical perspectives. In J. I. D. Campbell (Ed.), Handbook of mathematical cognition (pp. 253-267). New York: Psychology Press.

Geary, D. C. (2005). Les troubles d’apprentissage en arithmétique: Role de la mémoire de travail et des connaissance conceptuelle [Learning disabilities in arithmetic: Role of working memory and conceptual knowledge] (pp. 169-191). In M.-P. Noël (Ed.), La dyscalculie: trouble du développement numérique de l’enfant [Dyscalculia: Difficulties in children’s numerical development]. Marseille, France: Solal.

Geary, D. C. (2005). Folk knowledge and academic learning. In B. J. Ellis & D. F. Bjorklund (Eds.), Origins of the social mind (pp. 493-519). New York: Guilford Publications.

Geary, D. C. (2005). [Review of The evolution of thought: Evolutionary origins of great ape intelligence by A. E. Russon & D. R. Begun]. Evolution and Human Behavior, 26, 206-212 .

Geary, D. C. (2005). The road to monogamy: Evolutionary pathways and proximate detours. [Review of Monogamy: Mating strategies in birds, humans and other mammals by U. H. Reichard & C. Boesch Editors]. Theoretical Primatology Project, http://www.robertwilliams.org/tpp/tppreviews.html.

2004

Geary, D. C., Hoard, M. K., & Byrd-Craven, J. (2004). Strategy choices in simple and complex addition: Contributions of working memory and counting knowledge for children with mathematical disability. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 88, 121-151.

Geary, D. C. (2004).  Mathematics and learning disabilities.  Journal of Learning Disabilities, 37, 4-15.

 Geary, D. C., Vigil, J., & Byrd-Craven, J. (2004). Evolution of human mate choice. Journal of Sex Research, 41, 27-42.

(longer version) Geary, D. C. (2004).  Why to the birds and bees do it?  In D. Rothenberg & W. J. Pryor (Eds.), Writing the future:  Progress and evolution (pp. 51-58). Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press.

Geary, D. C. (2004). [Review of Sexual Selection and Reproductive Competition in Primates: New Perspectives and Directions. Edited by Clara B. Jones]. American Journal of Human Biology, 16, 176-178.

Geary, D. C. (2004). Evolution and cognitive development. In R. Burgess & K. MacDonald (Eds.), Evolutionary perspectives on human development (pp. 99-133). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

2003

Geary, D. C. (2003). Evolution and development of folk knowledge: Implications for children's learning. Infancia y Aprendizaje, 26, 287-308. [also in Spanish, Evolución y desarrollo del conocimiento intuitivo:  Implicaciones para el apredizaje infantil.]

Geary, D. C., Byrd-Craven, J., Hoard, M. K., Vigil, J., & Numtee, C. (2003). Evolution and development of boys' social behavior. Developmental Review, 23, 444-470.

DeSoto, M. C., Geary, D. C., Hoard, M. K., Sheldon, M. S., Cooper, L. (2003). Estrogen fluctuations, oral contraceptives and borderline personality. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 28, 751-766.

Geary, D. C. (2003). Learning disabilities in arithmetic: Problem solving differences and cognitive deficits. In H. L. Swanson, K. Harris, & S. Graham (Eds.), Handbook of learning disabilities (pp. 199-212). New York: Guilford Press.

Geary, D. C. (2003). Arithmetical development: Commentary on chapters 9 through 15 and future directions. In A. Baroody & A. Dowker (Eds.), The development of arithmetic concepts and skills: Constructing adaptive expertise (pp. 453-464). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

2002

 Geary, D. C. & Huffman, K. J. (2002). Brain and cognitive evolution: Forms of modularity and functions of mind. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 667-698.

Geary, D. C. (2002). Sexual selection and human life history. In R. Kail (Ed.), Advances in child development and behavior (Vol 30, pp. 41-101). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

 Geary, D. C., & Flinn, M. V. (2002). Sex differences in behavioral and hormonal response to social threat: Commentary on Taylor et al. (2000). Psychological Review, 109, 745-750.

Geary, D. C. (2002). [Review of Sex differences: Developmental and evolutionary strategies by L. Mealey.] Quarterly Review of Biology, 77, 238.

Geary, D. C. (2002). Principles of evolutionary educational psychology. Learning and Individual Differences, 12, 317-345.

Geary, D. C. (2002). Sexual selection and sex differences in social cognition. In A. V. McGillicuddy-De Lisi & R. De Lisi (Eds.), Biology, society, and behavior: The development of sex differences in cognition (pp. 23-53). Greenwich, CT: Ablex/Greenwood.

Geary, D. C. (2002). Developmental theory: Evolutionary approach. In J. W. Guthrie (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Education (second edition). New York: Macmillan Reference.

  Geary, D. C., & Hoard, M. K. (2002). Learning disabilities in basic mathematics: Deficits in memory and cognition. In J. M. Royer (Ed.), Mathematical cognition (pp. 93-115). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

2001

Geary, D. C. (2001). A Darwinian perspective on mathematics and instruction. In T. Loveless (Ed.), The great curriculum debate: How should we teach reading and math? (pp. 85-107). Washington, DC: Brookings Institute.

 Geary, D. C., & Flinn, M. V. (2001). Evolution of human parental behavior and the human family. Parenting: Science and Practice, 1, 5-61.

DeSoto, M. C., Fabiani, M., Geary, D. C., & Gratton, G. (2001). When in doubt, do it both ways: Brain evidence of the simultaneous activation of conflicting motor responses in a spatial Stroop task. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 523-536.

 Stadler, M. A., Geary, D. C., & Hogan, M. E. (2001). Negative priming from activation of counting and addition knowledge. Psychological Research, 65, 24-27.

 Geary, D. C. (2001). Evolutionary theory and education. In N. J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (pp. 5024-5028). Amsterdam: Pergamon.

Geary, D. C. (2001). How much (or how many) does he have, and where did he get it? [Review of The development of intelligence by M. Anderson, editor.] Contemporary Psychology, 46, 23-25.

Geary, D. C., & DeSoto, M., C. (2001). Sex differences in spatial abilities among adults from the United States and China: Implications for evolutionary theory. Evolution and Cognition, 7, 172-177.

Geary, D. C., DeSoto, M. C., Hoard, M. K., Sheldon, M. S., & Cooper, L. (2001). Estrogens and relationship jealousy. Human Nature, 12, 299-320.

Geary, D. C., & Hoard, M. K. (2001). Numerical and arithmetical deficits in learning-disabled children: Relation to dyscalculia and dyslexia. Aphasiology, 15, 635-647.

2000

Geary, D. C. (2000). Evolution and proximate expression of human paternal investment. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 55-77.

 Geary, D. C., & Bjorklund, D. F. (2000). Evolutionary developmental psychology. Child Development, 71, 57-65.

Geary, D. C., Hamson, C. O., & Hoard, M. K. (2000). Numerical and arithmetical cognition: A longitudinal study of process and concept deficits in children with learning disability. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 77, 236-263.

Geary, D. C., Saults, S. J., Liu, F., & Hoard, M. K. (2000). Sex differences in spatial cognition, computational fluency, and arithmetical reasoning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 77, 337-353.

Geary, D. C. (2000). From infancy to adulthood: The development of numerical abilities. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 9, II11-II16.

Geary, D. C. (2000). Attachment, caregiving and parental investment. Psychological Inquiry, 11, 84-86.

MacDonald, K., & Geary, D. C. (2000). g and Darwinian algorithms. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 685-686.

Geary, D. C. (2000). Mathematical disorders: An overview for educators. Perspectives, 26, 6-9.

1999

Geary, D. C., Hoard, M. K., & Hamson, C. O. (1999). Numerical and arithmetical cognition: Patterns of functions and deficits in children at risk for a mathematical disability. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 74, 213-239.

(full text) Geary, D. C., Liu, F., Chen, G.-P., Saults, S. J., & Hoard, M. K. (1999). Contributions of computational fluency to cross-national differences in arithmetical reasoning abilities. Journal of Educational Psychology, 91, 716-719.

Geary, D. C. (1999). Evolution and developmental sex differences. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8, 115-120.

Reprinted in Junn, E. N., & Boyatzis, C. J. (Eds.)(2000/2001). Annual editions: Child growth and development 00/01 (01/02, 02/03) (pp. 29-32). Guilford, CT: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill.

 Hoard, M. K., Geary, D. C., & Hamson, C. O. (1999). Numerical and arithmetical cognition: Performance of low- and average-IQ children. Mathematical Cognition, 5, 65-91.

Geary, D. C. (1999). Sex differences in mathematical abilities: Commentary on the math-fact retrieval hypothesis. Contemporary Educational Psychology 24, 267-274.

California Department of Education. (1999). Mathematics framework for California Public Schools: Kindergarten through grade twelve. Sacramento, CA: Author.

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