Dr Matthew Gervais
Lecturer in Psychology
Gervais, M. (2026) 'Sentiments, Respect, and the Evolution of Norm Psychology'. [Poster] Exhibited at. 2026 Annual Conference of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA2026) 16 4 2026
Rosun, N., Gervais, MM. and Willard, AK. (2026) 'Existential security and the cultural evolution of secularisation in Mauritius'. Evolution and Human Behavior, 47 (2). pp. 1 - 13. ISSN: 1090-5138 Open Access Link
Gervais, MM. (2024) 'Sentiments Organize Affect Concepts in Yasawa, Fiji: a Cultural Domain Analysis'. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 24 (3-4). pp. 127 - 181. ISSN: 1567-7095 Open Access Link
Redhead, D., Gervais, M., Kajokaite, K., Koster, J., Hurtado Manyoma, A., Hurtado Manyoma, D., et al. (2024) 'Evidence of direct and indirect reciprocity in network-structured economic games'. Communications Psychology, 2 (1). pp. 1 - 13. ISSN: 2731-9121 Open Access Link
Dale, R., Bryant, GA., Manson, JH. and Gervais, MM. (2020) 'Body synchrony in triadic interaction'. Royal Society Open Science, 7 (9). pp. 1 - 16. ISSN: 2054-5703 Open Access Link
Pisor, AC., Gervais, MM., Purzycki, BG. and Ross, CT. (2020) 'Preferences and constraints: the value of economic games for studying human behaviour'. Royal Society Open Science, 7 (6). pp. 192090 - 192090. ISSN: 2054-5703 Open Access Link
Kline, MA., Gervais, MM., Moya, C. and Boyd, RT. (2019) 'Irrelevant-action imitation is short-term and contextual: Evidence from two under-studied populations'. Developmental Science, 23 (3). pp. e12903. ISSN: 1363-755X
Brewis, A., Wutich, A., du Bray, MV., Maupin, J., Schuster, RC. and Gervais, MM. (2018) 'Community hygiene norm violators are consistently stigmatized: Evidence from four global sites and implications for sanitation interventions'. Social Science and Medicine, 220. pp. 12 - 21. ISSN: 0277-9536
Manson, JH., Gervais, MM. and Bryant, GA. (2018) 'General trust impedes perception of self-reported primary psychopathy in thin slices of social interaction'. PLOS ONE, 13 (5). pp. e0196729 - e0196729. ISSN: 1932-6203
Gervais, MM. (2016) 'RICH Economic Games for Networked Relationships and Communities: Development and Preliminary Validation in Yasawa, Fiji'. Field Methods, 29 (2). pp. 113 - 129. ISSN: 1525-822X
Gervais, MM. and Fessler, DMT. (2016) 'On the deep structure of social affect: Attitudes, emotions, sentiments, and the case of "contempt"'. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40. pp. e225. ISSN: 0140-525X
Fessler, DMT., Clark Barrett, H., Kanovsky, M., Stich, S., Holbrook, C., Henrich, J., et al. (2015) 'Moral parochialism and contextual contingency across seven societies'. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282 (1813). pp. 20150907 - 20150907. ISSN: 0962-8452
Manson, JH., Bryant, GA., Gervais, MM. and Kline, MA. (2013) 'Convergence of speech rate in conversation predicts cooperation'. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34 (6). pp. 419 - 426. ISSN: 1090-5138
Gervais, MM., Kline, M., Ludmer, M., George, R. and Manson, JH. (2013) 'The strategy of psychopathy: primary psychopathic traits predict defection on low-value relationships'. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280 (1757). pp. 20122773 - 20122773. ISSN: 0962-8452
Fessler, DMT. and Gervais, M. (2010) 'From Whence the Captains of Our Lives: Ultimate and Phylogenetic Perspectives on Emotions in Humans and Other Primates', inMind the Gap. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 261 - 280. ISBN 13: 9783642027246.
Gervais, M. and Wilson, DS. (2005) 'THE EVOLUTION AND FUNCTIONS OF LAUGHTER AND HUMOR: A SYNTHETIC APPROACH'. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 80 (4). pp. 395 - 430. ISSN: 0033-5770