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Dr Michael Price
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Quad North 124
- Email: michael.price@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266974
Price, ME. and Johnson, DDP. (2024) 'Science and religion around the world: Compatibility between belief systems predicts increased wellbeing'. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 0 (accepted, in press). pp. 1 - 20. ISSN: 2153-599X Open Access Link
Price, ME. (2023) 'Teilhard’s teleology: his greatest spiritual strength, and greatest scientific weakness'. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 13 (4). pp. 472 - 474. ISSN: 2153-599X
Price, ME. (2021) 'A moral obligation to promote future human evolution?'. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 11 (1). pp. 87 - 90. ISSN: 2153-599X
Georgiev, G., Smart, J., Martinez, CLF. and Price, M. (2019) 'Evolution, Development and Complexity Multiscale Evolutionary Models of Complex Adaptive Systems'. Springer. ISSN 10: 3030000745 ISSN 13: 9783030000745
Price, M. (2019) 'Cosmological Natural Selection and the Function of Life', in Georgiev, G., Martinez, C., Price, M. and Smart, J. (eds.) Evolution, Development and Complexity: Multiscale Evolutionary Models of Complex Adaptive Systems. Springer. pp. 3 - 22. ISBN 13: 9783030000745.
Price, M. and Campbell, J. (2019) 'Universal Darwinism and the Origins of Order', in Georgiev, G., Martinez, C., Price, M. and Smart, J. (eds.) Evolution, Development and Complexity: Multiscale Evolutionary Models of Complex Adaptive Systems. Springer. pp. 261 - 290. ISBN 13: 9783030000745.
Price, M. and Launay, J. (2018) 'Increased Wellbeing from Social Interaction in a Secular Congregation'. Secularism and Nonreligion, 7 (6). pp. 1 - 9. ISSN: 2053-6712 Open Access Link
Price, M. (2017) 'Entropy and selection: Life as an adaptation for universe replication'. Complexity, 2017. pp. 1 - 4. ISSN: 1076-2787 Open Access Link
Price, ME., Sheehy-Skeffington, J., Sidnaius, J. and Pound, N. (2017) 'Is sociopolitical egalitarianism related to bodily and facial formidability in men?'. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38 (5). pp. 626 - 634. ISSN: 1090-5138 Open Access Link
Price, M. (2016) 'Service-for-prestige theory of leader-follower relations', in Shackelford, TK. and Weekes-Shackelford, VA. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer. pp. 1 - 5.
Price, ME. (2015) 'Applied Evolutionary Anthropology: Darwinian Approaches to Contemporary World Issues'. AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, 117 (2). pp. 426 - 427. ISSN: 0002-7294 Open Access Link
Price, ME., Brown, S., Dukes, A. and Kang, J. (2015) 'Bodily Attractiveness and Egalitarianism are Negatively Related in Males'. Evolutionary Psychology, 13 (1). pp. 140 - 166. ISSN: 1474-7049 Open Access Link
Price, ME. and Van Vugt, M. (2015) 'The service-for-prestige theory of leader-follower relations: A review of the evolutionary psychology and anthropology literatures', in Colarelli, SM. and Arvey RD. (eds.) Biological Foundations of Organizational Behavior. University of Chicago Press. pp. 169 - 201.
Hong, J., Kang, J. and Price, ME. (2014) 'Extraction of bodily features for gait recognition and gait attractiveness evaluation'. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 71 (3). pp. 1999 - 2013. ISSN: 1380-7501 Open Access Link
Price, ME., Pound, N. and Scott, IM. (2014) 'Female economic dependence and the morality of promiscuity'. Archives of Sexual Behavior: an interdisciplinary research journal, 43 (7). pp. 1289 - 1301. ISSN: 1573-2800 Open Access Link
Price, ME. and Van Vugt, M. (2014) 'The evolution of leader-follower reciprocity: The theory of service-for-prestige'. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8 (JUNE). pp. 363. ISSN: 1662-5161 Open Access Link
Coy, AE., Green, JD. and Price, ME. (2014) 'Why is low waist-to-chest ratio attractive in males? The mediating roles of perceived dominance, fitness, and protection ability'. Body Image, 11 (3). pp. 282 - 289. ISSN: 1740-1445 Open Access Link
Pound, N. and Price, ME. (2013) 'Human sex differences: Distributions overlap but the tails sometimes tell a tale'. Psychological Inquiry: an international journal of peer commentary and review, 24 (3). pp. 224 - 230. ISSN: 1047-840X Open Access Link
Price, ME., Pound, N., Dunn, J., Hopkins, S. and Kang, J. (2013) 'Body shape preferences: Associations with rater body shape and sociosexuality'. PLOS ONE, 8 (1). pp. e52532 - e52532. ISSN: 1932-6203 Open Access Link
Johnson, D., Price, ME. and Van Vugt, M. (2013) 'Darwin's invisible hand: Market competition, evolution and the firm'. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 90. pp. S128 - S140. ISSN: 0167-2681
Price, ME., Dunn, J., Hopkins, S. and Kang, J. (2012) 'Anthropometric correlates of human anger'. Evolution and Human Behavior, 33 (3). pp. 174 - 181. ISSN: 1090-5138 Open Access Link
Hong, J., Kang, J. and Price, M. (2012) 'Gait analysis and identification'.18th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC) - Integration of Design and Engineering. Loughborough Univ, Leicestershire, ENGLAND. IEEE. pp. 118 - 123.
Price, ME. (2012) 'Group selection theories are now more sophisticated, but are they more predictive? A review of Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and its Evolution'. Evol Psychol, 10 (1). pp. 45 - 49.Open Access Link
Price, ME. and Johnson, DDP. (2011) 'The adaptationist theory of cooperation in groups: Evolutionary predictions for organizational cooperation', in Saad, G. (ed.) Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences. Springer. pp. 95 - 134. ISBN 10: 3540927832. ISBN 13: 978-3540927839.
Price, ME. (2011) 'Cooperation as a classic problem in behavioural biology', in Swami, V. (ed.) Evolutionary Psychology: A Critical Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 73 - 106. ISBN 10: 1405191228. ISBN 13: 978-1405191227.
Price, ME. (2011) 'Acting in your own selves interests (review of Why everyone [else] is a hypocrite by Robert Kurzban)'. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 9. pp. 271 - 273.
Price, ME., Kang, J., Dunn, J. and Hopkins, S. (2011) 'Muscularity and attractiveness as predictors of human egalitarianism'. Personality and Individual Differences, 50 (5). pp. 636 - 640. ISSN: 0191-8869 Open Access Link
Price, ME. (2010) 'Free riders as a blind spot of equity theory: an evolutionary correction', in Schminke, M. (ed.) Managerial Ethics: Managing the Psychology of Morality. Routledge/Psychology Press/Taylor and Francis. pp. 235 - 256. ISBN 10: 1848728336. ISBN 13: 978-1848728332.
Takezawa, M. and Price, ME. (2010) 'Revisiting "The evolution of reciprocity in sizable groups": continuous reciprocity in the repeated n-person prisoner's dilemma'. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 264 (2). pp. 188 - 196. ISSN: 0022-5193
Price, ME. (2009) 'How Christian beliefs harness Darwinian cooperative instincts'. The Global Spiral, 10 (2).
Brown, WM., Price, ME., Kang, J., Pound, N., Zhao, Y. and Yu, H. (2008) 'Fluctuating asymmetry and preferences for sex-typical bodily characteristics'. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105 (35). pp. 12938 - 12943. ISSN: 1091-6490 Open Access Link
Curry, OS., Price, ME. and Price, JG. (2008) 'Patience is a virtue: Cooperative people have lower discount rates'. Personality and Individual Differences, 44 (3). pp. 780 - 785. ISSN: 0191-8869 Open Access Link
Johnson, DDP., Price, ME. and Takezawa, M. (2008) 'Renaissance of the individual: reciprocity, positive assortment, and the puzzle of human cooperation', in Crawford, C. and Krebs, D. (eds.) Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology. New York : Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 331 - 352.
Price, ME. (2008) 'The resurrection of group selection as a theory of human cooperation'. Social Justice Research, 21 (2). pp. 228 - 240. ISSN: 1573-6725 Open Access Link
Price, ME. (2007) 'Review of Mind and Religion: Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity'. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 13 (4). pp. 1046 - 1047. ISSN: 1359-0987
Brown, WM. and Price, ME. (2007) 'Evolutionary psychology sensu lato: A review of The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology edited by Robin Dunbar and Louise Barrett, Oxford University Press (2007)'. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 5 (1-4). pp. 235 - 240. ISSN: 1789-2082
Price, ME., Brown, WM. and Curry, OS. (2007) 'The integrative framework for the behavioural sciences has already been discovered, and it is the adaptationist approach'. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30 (1). pp. 39 - 40. ISSN: 0140-525X Open Access Link
Price, ME., Barrett, HC. and Hagen, EH. (2006) 'Do human parents face a quantity-quality tradeoff? Evidence from a Shuar community'. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 130 (3). pp. 405 - 418. ISSN: 0002-9483
Price, ME. (2006) 'Monitoring, reputation and "greenbeard" reciprocity in a Shuar work team'. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 27 (2). pp. 201 - 219. ISSN: 0894-3796
Tooby, J., Cosmides, L. and Price, ME. (2006) 'Cognitive adaptations for n-person exchange: The evolutionary roots of organizational behavior'. Managerial and Decision Economics, 27 (2-3). pp. 103 - 129. ISSN: 0143-6570
Price, ME. (2006) 'Judgments about cooperators and freeriders on a Shuar work team: An evolutionary psychological perspective'. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 101 (1). pp. 20 - 35. ISSN: 0749-5978
Price, ME. (2005) 'Punitive sentiment among the Shuar and in industrialized societies: Cross-cultural similarities'. Evolution and Human Behavior, 26 (3). pp. 279 - 287. ISSN: 1090-5138
Hagen, EH., Price, ME. and Tooby, J. (2005) 'A Preliminary Report on Darkness in El Dorado', in Endicott, KM. and Welsch, RL. (eds.) Anthropology: Taking Sides - Clashing Views in Anthropology. Guilford, CT : McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. pp. 355 - 365. ISBN 10: 0073515221. ISBN 13: 9780073515229.
Price, ME. (2003) 'Pro-community altruism and social status in a Shuar village'. Human Nature, 14 (2). pp. 191 - 208. ISSN: 1045-6767
Price, ME., Cosmides, L. and Tooby, J. (2002) 'Punitive sentiment as an anti-free rider psychological device'. Evolution and Human Behavior, 23 (3). pp. 203 - 231. ISSN: 1090-5138
Hagen, EH., Hames, RB., Craig, NM., Lauer, MT. and Price, ME. (2001) 'Parental investment and child health in a Yanomamö village suffering short-term food stress'. Journal of Biosocial Science, 33 (4). pp. 503 - 528. ISSN: 0021-9320 Open Access Link