2026 and Articles In Press
*indicates shared first authorship, #indicates undergraduate student mentee
Hahnel-Peeters, R. K., Krems, J. A., Williams, K. E. G., & Pederson, E. (2026). Canceling creativity? Exploring artist censure as a function of crime type. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. DOI: 10.1037/aca0000856
*Baca, P. A., *Costello, W., Hahnel-Peeters, R. K., Thomas, A. G., Schmitt, D. P., & Buss, D. M. (2026). Cross-sex and intrasexual theory of mind: Perceptions of sex-typical sexual desires. Evolution and Human Behavior, 47(2), 106842.
Costello, W., Sedlacek, A. G. B., Durkee, P. K., Crosby, C. L., Hahnel-Peeters, R. K., & Buss, D. M. (2026). Beyond falsifiability: Evolutionary psychology's many theoretical strengths--Reply to Geary (2026) and Moore (2026). American Psychologist, 81(1), 33-35.
Costello, W., Sedlacek, A. G. B., Durkee, P. K., Crosby, C. L., Hahnel-Peeters, R. K., & Buss, D. M. (2026). Evolutionary psychology hypotheses are testable and falsifiable. American Psychologist, 81(1), 1-24.
Hahnel-Peeters, R. K., Costello, W., Baca, P., Schmitt, D. P., & Buss, D. M. (2026). Cross-sex theory of mind in the domain of sexual violence: Upset, fear, and perceived likelihood. Evolution and Human Behavior, 47(2), 106835.
2025
Hahnel-Peeters, R. K. (2025, August). Examining women's defenses against sexual violence perpetrated by strangers, acquaintances, friends, and romantic partners [Dissertation]. The University of Texas at Austin. https://doi.org/10.26153/tsw/61856.
#Kim, H. & Hahnel-Peeters, R. K. (2025). Guilt helps navigate social norms and boundaries: In relation to sexual fantasies about unwanted sexual advances. In T. K. Shackelford (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Springer Nature.
2024
#Jacques, B., & Hahnel-Peeters, R. K. (2024). Femicide: Causes. In T. K. Shackelford (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Springer Nature.
#Fisher, K., & Hahnel-Peeters, R. K. (2024). Bisexuality in females: Infanticide avoidance; women, their lovers, and their children. In T. K. Shackelford (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Springer Nature.
Sasaki, R., Hahnel-Peeters, R. K., & Shimizu, E. (2024). Development of the Japanese version of the Rape Excusing Attitudes and Language Scale and comparison between rape myth acceptance in Japan and the U.S. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Hahnel-Peeters, R. K., Goetz, C. D., & Goetz, A. T. (2024). Men’s attitudes toward third-party casual sex predict rape myth acceptance. Culture and Evolution. DOI: 10.1556/2055.2023.00036
2023
Pillsworth, E. G., Hahnel-Peeters, R. K., & Clark, H. B. (2023). The role of parent-offspring conflict in Shuar partner choice and marital practices. Evolution and Human Behavior, 44(6), 639-651. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.11.002.
Krems, J. A., Hahnel-Peeters, R. K., Merrie, L. A., & Williams, K. E., Szyncer, D. (2023). Sometimes we want vicious friends: An embedded dyad framework predicts target-specificity in friend preferences. Evolution and Human Behavior. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.02.008
Freihart, B. K., McMahon, L. N., Hahnel-Peeters, R. K., & Meston, C. M. (2023). Relationship satisfaction. In T. K. Shackelford (Ed.) Springer Nature Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Springer.
Hahnel-Peeters, R. K. (2023). Bodyguard hypothesis, rape and coercion. In T. K. Shackelford (Ed.) Springer Nature encyclopedia of sexual psychology & behavior. Springer.
2022
*Hahnel-Peeters, R. K., *Goetz, A. T., & Goetz, C. D. (2022). Do environmental cues to discovery influence the likelihood to rape? Evolutionary Psychology. DOI: 10.1177/147049221141078
Crosby, C. L., Hahnel-Peeters, R. K., & Buss, D. M. (2022). Toward a more domain-specific conceptualization of female traits: A commentary on Benenson et al. (2022). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e134. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X22000450
Hahnel-Peeters, R. K., & Goetz, A. T. (2022). Development and validation of the Rape Excusing Attitudes and Language Scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 186: 111359. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111359
2021
Hahnel-Peeters, R. K., Peeters, K. J., & Goetz, A. T. (2021). Why boulder springs has no boulders and no springs: Evolved landscape preferences and naming conventions. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1037/aca0000414
2020
*Hahnel-Peeters, R. K., *Idoine, J. L., Jackson, R. E., & Goetz, A. T. (2020). Is the Vertical-Horizontal Illusion a Byproduct of the Environmental Vertical Illusion? Evolutionary Psychology. DOI: 10.1177/1474704920961953
