
Professor David Schmitt
Professor - Psychology
Gaskell Building 207
- Email: david.schmitt@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 268738
Schmitt, DP. and Buss, DM. (2018) 'Mate preferences and their behavioral manifestations'. Annual Review of Psychology, 70 (1). pp. 77 - 110. ISSN: 0066-4308 Open Access Link
Treger, S. and Schmitt, DP. (2018) 'Independent, Autonomous, and Permissive: Examining the Links Between Self-Construal and Sexual Permissiveness'. Journal of Sex Research, 56 (6). pp. 1 - 13. ISSN: 0022-4499 Open Access Link
Schmitt, DP., Alcalay, L., Allik, J., Alves, ICB., Anderson, CA., Angelini, AL., et al. (2017) 'Narcissism and the strategic pursuit of short-term mating: Universal links across 11 world regions of the international sexuality description project-2'. Psychological Topics, 26 (1). pp. 89 - 137. ISSN: 1332-0742 Open Access Link
Schmitt, DP., Long, AE., McPhearson, A., O'Brien, K., Remmert, B. and Shah, SH. (2016) 'Personality and gender differences in global perspective'. International Journal of Psychology, 52 (S1). pp. 45 - 56. ISSN: 0020-7594 Open Access Link
Schmitt, DP. and Fuller, RC. (2015) 'On the varieties of sexual experience: Cross-cultural links between religiosity and human mating strategies'. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 7 (4). pp. 314 - 326. ISSN: 1941-1022
Schmitt, DP. (2015) 'Fundamentals of Human Mating Strategies', inThe Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. pp. 258 - 291. ISBN 10: 0471264032. ISBN 13: 9780471264033.
Schmitt, DP. and Rohde, PA. (2013) 'The human polygyny index and its ecological correlates: Testing sexual selection and life history theory at the cross-national level'. Social Science Quarterly, 94 (4). pp. 1159 - 1184. ISSN: 0038-4941
Buss, DM. and Schmitt, DP. (2011) 'Evolutionary Psychology and Feminism'. Sex Roles, 64 (9). pp. 768 - 787. ISSN: 0360-0025
Schmitt, DP., Realo, A., Voracek, M. and Allik, J. (2008) 'Why Can't a Man Be More Like a Woman? Sex Differences in Big Five Personality Traits Across 55 Cultures'. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94 (1). pp. 168 - 182. ISSN: 0022-3514
Schmitt, DP., Allik, J., McCrae, RR., Benet-Martínez, V., Alcalay, L., Ault, L., et al. (2007) 'The geographic distribution of Big Five personality traits: Patterns and profiles of human self-description across 56 nations'. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 38 (2). pp. 173 - 212. ISSN: 0022-0221
Schmitt, DP. (2006) 'Sexual strategies across sexual orientations: How personality traits and culture relate to sociosexuality among gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and heterosexuals'. Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality, 18 (2-3). pp. 183 - 214. ISSN: 0890-7064
Schmitt, DP. and Allik, J. (2005) 'Simultaneous administration of the Rosenberg self-esteem scale in 53 nations: Exploring the universal and culture-specific features of global self-esteem'. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89 (4). pp. 623 - 642. ISSN: 0022-3514
Schmitt, DP. (2005) 'Is short-term mating the maladaptive result of insecure attachment? A test of competing evolutionary perspectives'. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31 (6). pp. 747 - 768. ISSN: 0146-1672
Schmitt, DP. (2005) 'Sociosexuality from Argentina to Zimbabwe: A 48-nation study of sex, culture, and strategies of human mating'. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28 (2). pp. 247 - 275. ISSN: 0140-525X
Schmitt, DP. and Pilcher, JJ. (2004) 'Evaluating evidence of psychological adaptation: How do we know one when we see one?'. Psychological Science, 15 (10). pp. 643 - 649. ISSN: 0956-7976
Schmitt, DP. (2004) 'The big five related to risky sexual behaviour across 10 world regions: Differential personality associations of sexual promiscuity and relationship infidelity'. European Journal of Personality, 18 (4). pp. 301 - 319. ISSN: 0890-2070
Schmitt, DP., Alcalay, L., Allik, J., Angleitner, A., Ault, L., Austers, I., et al. (2004) 'Patterns and Universals of Mate Poaching Across 53 Nations: The Effects of Sex, Culture, and Personality on Romantically Attracting Another Person's Partner'. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86 (4). pp. 560 - 584. ISSN: 0022-3514
Schmitt, DP., Alcalay, L., Allensworth, M., Allik, J., Ault, L., Austers, I., et al. (2004) 'Patterns and universals of adult romantic attachment across 62 cultural regions: Are models of self and of other pancultural constructs?'. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 35 (4). pp. 367 - 402. ISSN: 0022-0221
Schmitt, DP., Alcalay, L., Allensworth, M., Allik, J., Ault, L., Austers, I., et al. (2003) 'Are men universally more dismissing than women? Gender differences in romantic attachment across 62 cultural regions'. Personal Relationships, 10 (3). pp. 307 - 331. ISSN: 1350-4126
Schmitt, DP. and Shackelford, TK. (2003) 'Nifty ways to leave your lover: The tactics people use to entice and disguise the process of human mate poaching'. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29 (8). pp. 1018 - 1035. ISSN: 0146-1672
Schmitt, DP., Alcalay, L., Allik, J., Ault, L., Austers, I., Bennett, KL., et al. (2003) 'Universal Sex Differences in the Desire for Sexual Variety: Tests from 52 Nations, 6 Continents, and 13 Islands'. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85 (1). pp. 85 - 104. ISSN: 0022-3514
Schmitt, DP. and Buss, DM. (2001) 'Human mate poaching: Tactics and temptations for infiltrating existing mateships'. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80 (6). pp. 894 - 917. ISSN: 0022-3514
Schmitt, DP. and Buss, DM. (2000) 'Sexual dimensions of person description: Beyond or subsumed by the big five?'. Journal of Research in Personality, 34 (2). pp. 141 - 177. ISSN: 0092-6566
Schmitt, DP. and Buss, DM. (1996) 'Strategic Self-Promotion and Competitor Derogation: Sex and Context Effects on the Perceived Effectiveness of Mate Attraction Tactics'. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70 (6). pp. 1185 - 1204. ISSN: 0022-3514
Buss, DM. and Schmitt, DP. (1993) 'Sexual Strategies Theory: An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Mating'. Psychological Review, 100 (2). pp. 204 - 232. ISSN: 0033-295X