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Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics

Dr. W.E. (Willem) Frankenhuis

Associate Professor of Evolutionary Psychobiology
Faculty of Science
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics
Visiting address
  • Science Park 904
Postal address
  • Postbus 94240
    1090 GE Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Website

    willem.maartenfrankenhuis.nl

  • Publications

    2024

    2023

    • Brener, S., Frankenhuis, W., Young, E., & Ellis, B. J. (2023). Social class, sex, and the ability to recognize emotions: The main effect is in the interaction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231159775
    • Ellis, B. J., Abrams, L. S., Masten, A. S., Sternberg, R. J., Tottenham, N., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2023). The hidden talents framework: Implications for science, policy, and practice. (Elements in Applied Evolutionary Science). Cambridge University Press. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009350051
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., & Gopnik, A. (2023). Early adversity and the development of explore-exploit tradeoffs. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27(7), 616-630. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2023.04.001
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., Borsboom, D., Nettle, D., & Roisman, G. I. (2023). Formalizing theories of Child Development: Introduction to the Special Section. Child Development, 94(6), 1425-1431. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14020
    • Kübel, S. L., Deitzer, J. R., Frankenhuis, W. E., Ribeaud, D., Eisner, M. P., & van Gelder, J. L. (2023). The shortsighted victim: Short-term mindsets mediate the link between victimization and later offending. Journal of Criminal Justice, 86, Article 102062. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2023.102062
    • Nettle, D., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Panchanathan, K. (2023). Biology, Society, or Choice: How Do Non-Experts Interpret Explanations of Behaviour? Open Mind, 7, 625-651. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00098
    • Weinberg, D., Stevens, G. W. J. M., Peeters, M., Visser, K., Frankenhuis, W., & Finkenauer, C. (2023). The role of social cognitions in the social gradient in adolescent mental health: A longitudinal mediation model. Development and Psychopathology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579423000214
    • de Courson, B., Frankenhuis, W. E., Nettle, D., & van Gelder, J. L. (2023). Why is violence high and persistent in deprived communities? A formal model. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(1993), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2095

    2022

    • Bolhuis, E., Belsky, J., Frankenhuis, W. E., Shalev, I., Hastings, W. J., Tollenaar, M. S., O'Donnell, K. J., McGill, M. G., Pokhvisneva, I., Meaney, M. J., Lin, D. T. S., MacIsaac, J. L., Kobor, M. S., de Weerth, C., & Beijers, R. (2022). Attachment insecurity and the biological embedding of reproductive strategies: Investigating the role of cellular aging. Biological Psychology, 175, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108446
    • Ellis, B. J., Abrams, L. S., Masten, A. S., Sternberg, R. J., Tottenham, N., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2022). Hidden talents in harsh environments. Development and Psychopathology, 34(1), 95-113. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579420000887
    • Fenneman, J., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Todd, P. M. (2022). In which environments is impulsive behavior adaptive? A cross-discipline review and integration of formal models. Psychological Bulletin, 148(7-8), 555-587. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000375
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., & Amir, D. (2022). What is the expected human childhood? Insights from evolutionary anthropology. Development and Psychopathology, 34(2), 473-497. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579421001401
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., Weijman, E. L., de Vries, S. A., van Zanten, M., & Borghuis, J. (2022). Exposure to violence is not associated with accuracy in forecasting conflict outcomes. Collabra: Psychology, 8(1), Article 38604. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.38604
    • Frankenhuis, W., Panchanathan, K., & Smaldino, P. (2022). Strategic ambiguity in the social sciences. Social Psychological Bulletin, 18. https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.9923
    • Walasek, N., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Panchanathan, K. (2022). An evolutionary model of sensitive periods when the reliability of cues varies across ontogeny. Behavioral Ecology, 33(1), 101-114. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab113
    • Walasek, N., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Panchanathan, K. (2022). Sensitive periods, but not critical periods, evolve in a fluctuating environment: a model of incremental development. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289(1969), Article 20212623. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2623
    • Young, E. S., Frankenhuis, W. E., DelPriore, D. J., & Ellis, B. J. (2022). Hidden talents in context: Cognitive performance with abstract versus ecological stimuli among adversity-exposed youth. Child Development, 93(5), 1493-1510. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13766

    2020

    • Aczel, B., Szaszi, B., Sarafoglou, A., Kekecs, Z., Kucharský, Š., Benjamin, D., Chambers, C. D., Fisher, A., Gelman, A., Gernsbacher, M. A., Ioannidis, J. P., Johnson, E., Jonas, K., Kousta, S., Lilienfeld, S. O., Lindsay, D. S., Morey, C. C., Munafò, M., Newell, B. R., ... Wagenmakers, E. J. (2020). Author Correction: A consensus-based transparency checklist. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(1), 120. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0812-2
    • Fenneman, J., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2020). Is impulsive behavior adaptive in harsh and unpredictable environments? A formal model. Evolution and Human Behavior, 41(4), 261-273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.02.005
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., & Nettle, D. (2020). Current debates in human life history research. Evolution and Human Behavior, 41(6), 469-473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.09.005
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., & Nettle, D. (2020). Integration of plasticity research across disciplines. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 36, 157-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.10.012
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., & Nettle, D. (2020). The Strengths of People in Poverty. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(1), 16-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721419881154
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., & Walasek, N. (2020). Modeling the evolution of sensitive periods. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 41, Article 100715. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100715
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., Young, E. S., & Ellis, B. J. (2020). The Hidden Talents Approach: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(7), 569-581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.03.007
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., de Vries, S. A., Bianchi, J., & Ellis, B. J. (2020). Hidden talents in harsh conditions? A preregistered study of memory and reasoning about social dominance. Developmental Science, 23(4). https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12835
    • Gopnik, A., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Tomasello, M. (2020). Introduction to special issue: ‘Life history and learning: How childhood, caregiving and old age shape cognition and culture in humans and other animals’. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences, 375(1803). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0489
    • Hartley, C. A., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2020). Sensitive and critical periods [introduction to special issue]. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 36(12), iii-iv. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.12.001
    • Nettle, D., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2020). Life-history theory in psychology and evolutionary biology: One research programme or two? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences, 375(1803). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0490
    • Young, E. S., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Ellis, B. J. (2020). Theory and measurement of environmental unpredictability. Evolution and Human Behavior, 41(6), 550-556. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.08.006

    2019

    • Frankenhuis, W. E. (2019). Modeling the evolution and development of emotions. Developmental Psychology, 55(9), 2002-2005. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000732
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., Nettle, D., & Dall, S. R. X. (2019). A case for environmental statistics of early-life effects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences, 374(1770). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0110
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., Panchanathan, K., & Barto, A. G. (2019). Enriching behavioral ecology with reinforcement learning methods. Behavioural processes, 161, 94-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2018.01.008
    • Muskens, M., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Borghans, L. (2019). Low-Income Students in Higher Education: Undermatching Predicts Decreased Satisfaction toward the Final Stage in College. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 48(7), 1296-1310. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-019-01022-1
    • Nettle, D., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2019). The evolution of life-history theory: a bibliometric analysis of an interdisciplinary research area. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 286(1899). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0040

    2018

    • Frankenhuis, W. E., & Bijlstra, G. (2018). Does exposure to hostile environments predict enhanced emotion detection? Collabra: Psychology, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.127
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., & Nettle, D. (2018). Open Science Is Liberating and Can Foster Creativity. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(4), 439-447. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691618767878
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., & Tiokhin, L. (2018). Bridging Evolutionary Biology and Developmental Psychology: Toward An Enduring Theoretical Infrastructure. Child Development, 89(6), 2303-2306. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13021
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., & de Weerth, C. (2018). Developmental plasticity. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development (pp. 587-588). (The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development). SAGE Publications Inc.. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781506307633.n220
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., Nettle, D., & McNamara, J. M. (2018). Echoes of Early Life: Recent Insights From Mathematical Modeling. Child Development, 89(5), 1504-1518. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13108
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., Roelofs, M. F. A., & de Vries, S. A. (2018). Does exposure to psychosocial adversity enhance deception detection ability? Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 12(3), 218-229. https://doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000103
    • Mathot, K. J., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2018). Models of pace-of-life syndromes (POLS): a systematic review. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 72, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-018-2459-9

    2017

    • Ellis, B. J., Bianchi, J., Griskevicius, V., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2017). Beyond Risk and Protective Factors: An Adaptation-Based Approach to Resilience. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12(4), 561-587. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691617693054
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., & Ellis, B. J. (2017). Toward a balanced view of stress-adapted cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X17000954
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., & Fraley, R. C. (2017). What do evolutionary models teach us about sensitive periods in psychological development? European Psychologist, 22(3), 141-150. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000265
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., Fenneman, J., van Gelder, J. L., & Godoy, I. (2017). CLASH's life history foundations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 20-21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X16001011
    • Wouda, J., Bijlstra, G., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Wigboldus, D. H. J. (2017). The collaborative roots of corruption? A replication of weisel & shalvi (2015). Collabra: Psychology, 3, Article 27. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.97

    2016

    • Clark Barrett, H., Peterson, C. D., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2016). Mapping the Cultural Learnability Landscape of Danger. Child Development, 87(3), 770-781. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12495
    • Frankenhuis, W. E. (2016). Environmental Unpredictability. In T. Shackelford, & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (Live ed.). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1920-1
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., & Sheehy Skeffington, J. (2016). Psychological responses to fluctuating environments. Current Anthropology, 57, 645-646.
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., Panchanathan, K., & Belsky, J. (2016). A mathematical model of the evolution of individual differences in developmental plasticity arising through parental bet-hedging. Developmental Science, 19(2), 251-274. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12309
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., Panchanathan, K., & Nettle, D. (2016). Cognition in harsh and unpredictable environments. Current Opinion in Psychology, 7, 76-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.08.011
    • Panchanathan, K., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2016). The evolution of sensitive periods in a model of incremental development. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1823), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2439
    • Stamps, J. A., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2016). Bayesian Models of Development. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 31(4), 260-268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.01.012

    2015

    2014

    • Nettle, D., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Rickard, I. J. (2014). The evolution of predictive adaptive responses in humans: Response. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1780). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2822
    • Pollet, T. V., Tybur, J. M., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Rickard, I. J. (2014). What can cross-cultural correlations teach us about human nature? Human nature, 25, 410-429. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-014-9206-3
    • Rickard, I. J., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Nettle, D. (2014). Why Are Childhood Family Factors Associated With Timing of Maturation? A Role for Internal Prediction. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9(1), 3-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691613513467
    • Tybur, J. M., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Pollet, T. V. (2014). Behavioral immune system methods: Surveying the present to shape the future. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 8(4), 274-283. https://doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000017

    2013

    • Frankenhuis, W. E., & Barrett, H. C. (2013). Design for learning: The case of chasing. In M. D. R. V. A. Kuhlmeier (Ed.), Social perception: Detection and interpretation of animacy, agency, and intention (pp. 171-195). (Social perception: Detection and interpretation of animacy, agency, and intention). MIT Press.
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., & de Weerth, C. (2013). Does Early-Life Exposure to Stress Shape or Impair Cognition? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22(5), 407-412. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721413484324
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., Barrett, H. C., & Johnson, S. P. (2013). Developmental Origins of Biological Motion Perception. In People Watching: Social, Perceptual, and Neurophysiological Studies of Body Perception (pp. 121-138). (People Watching: Social, Perceptual, and Neurophysiological Studies of Body Perception). Oxford University Press USA. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393705.003.0008
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., Gergely, G., & Watson, J. S. (2013). Infants May Use Contingency Analysis to Estimate Environmental States: An Evolutionary, Life-History Perspective. Child Development Perspectives, 7(2), 115-120. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12024
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., House, B., Clark Barrett, H., & Johnson, S. P. (2013). Infants' perception of chasing. Cognition, 126(2), 224-233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2012.10.001
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., Panchanathan, K., & Clark Barrett, H. (2013). Bridging developmental systems theory and evolutionary psychology using dynamic optimization. Developmental Science, 16(4), 584-598. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12053
    • Kievit, R. A., Frankenhuis, W. E., Waldorp, L. J., & Borsboom, D. (2013). Simpson's paradox in psychological science: a practical guide. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, Article 513. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00513 [details]
    • Nettle, D., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Rickard, I. J. (2013). The evolution of predictive adaptive responses in human life history. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280(1766). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.1343
    • Panchanathan, K., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Silk, J. B. (2013). The bystander effect in an N-person dictator game. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 120(2), 285-297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2012.06.008

    2012

    • Frankenhuis, W. E., & Del Giudice, M. (2012). When do adaptive developmental mechanisms yield maladaptive outcomes? Developmental Psychology, 48(3), 628-642. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025629
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., & Karremans, J. C. (2012). Uncommitted men match their risk taking to female preferences, while committed men do the opposite. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(1), 428-431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2011.09.001
    • Nettle, D., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Rickard, I. J. (2012). The adaptive basis of psychosocial acceleration: Comment on beyond mental health, life history strategies articles. Developmental Psychology, 48(3), 718-721. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027507

    2011

    • Frankenhuis, W. E., & Panchanathan, K. (2011). Balancing sampling and specialization: An adaptationist model of incremental development. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 278(1724), 3558-3565. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.0055
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., & Panchanathan, K. (2011). Individual differences in developmental plasticity may result from stochastic sampling. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6(4), 336-347. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691611412602
    • Thomsen, L., Frankenhuis, W. E., Ingold-Smith, M., & Carey, S. (2011). Big and mighty: Preverbal infants mentally represent social dominance. Science, 331(6016), 477-480. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1199198

    2010

    2009

    • Haselton, M. G., Bryant, G. A., Wilke, A., Frederick, D. A., Galperin, A., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Moore, T. (2009). Adaptive rationality: An evolutionary perspective on cognitive bias. Social Cognition, 27(5), 733-763. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2009.27.5.733

    2008

    • Barrett, H. C., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Wilke, A. (2008). Adaptation to moving targets: Culture/gene coevolution, not either/or. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31(5), 511-512. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X08005013

    2007

    • Frankenhuis, W. E. (2007). What is it like to be a bird? In E. Grünewald, & W. E. Frankenhuis (Eds.), Researching the Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. ix-x). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
    • Frankenhuis, W. E., & Ploeger, A. (2007). Evolutionary psychology versus Fodor: Arguments for and against the massive modularity hypothesis. Philosophical Psychology, 20(6), 687-710. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515080701665904 [details]
    • Grünewald, E., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (Eds.) (2007). Researching the self: Interdisciplinary perspectives. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

    2024

    • van Breen, J., Kivivuori, J., Nivette, A., Kiefte-de Jong, J., Liem, M., & On behalf of the Interpersonal Violence Consortium (2024). The future of interpersonal violence research: Steps towards interdisciplinary integration. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11, Article 1303. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03760-5 [details]

    2020

    • Aczel, B., Szaszi, B., Sarafoglou, A., Kekecs, Z., Kucharský, Š., Benjamin, D., Chambers, C. D., Fisher, A., Gelman, A., Gernsbacher, M. A., Ioannidis, J. P., Johnson, E., Jonas, K., Kousta, S., Lilienfeld, S. O., Lindsay, D. S., Morey, C. C., Munafò, M., Newell, B. R., ... Wagenmakers, E-J. (2020). A consensus-based transparency checklist. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(1), 4-6. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0772-6 [details]

    2022

    • Weijman, E. L., Frankenhuis, W. E., Belgaroui, L., & Vrieling, E. (2022). Verslag co-creatie UU x Young in Prison: 10-2020 - 04-2021. OSF. https://osf.io/78eg3

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