Dr Rebecca Sear
Professor - Psychology
Summary
Interdisciplinary evolutionary behavioural scientist
Founder member and currently President of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association
Qualifications
PhD Anthropology, University College London
Diploma Statistics, University College London
MSc Human Evolution and Behaviour, University College London
BSc Zoology, University of Nottingham
Responsibility
Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution
Newest selected publications
Spake, L., Hassan, A., Schaffnit, SB., Alam, N., Amoah, AS., Badjie, J., et al. (2024) 'A practical guide to cross-cultural and multi-sited data collection in the biological and behavioural sciences'. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291 (2021). pp. 1 - 12. ISSN: 0962-8452 Open Access Link
Page, AE., Ringen, EJ., Koster, J., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Kramer, K., Shenk, MK., et al. (2024) 'Women's subsistence strategies predict fertility across cultures, but context matters'. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121 (9). pp. 1 - 10. ISSN: 0027-8424 Open Access Link
Raybould, A., Mynarska, M. and Sear, R. (2023) '“The future is unstable”: Exploring changing fertility intentions in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic'. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 55 (4). pp. 229 - 238. ISSN: 1538-6341 Open Access Link
Sear, R. (2021) 'Demography and the rise, apparent fall, and resurgence of eugenics'. Population Studies, 75 (sup1: 75 years of Population Studies: A diamond anniversary special issue.). pp. 201 - 220. ISSN: 0032-4728 Open Access Link
Sear, R. (2021) 'The male breadwinner nuclear family is not the 'traditional' human family, and promotion of this myth may have adverse health consequences'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376 (1827). pp. 1 - 9. ISSN: 0962-8436 Open Access Link