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PEER REVIEWED PAPERS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
For PDF copies please go to my ResearchGate or UCL page
  1. ​Chaudhary N., Page A.E., Salali G.D., et al. 2024. Hunter-Gatherer Children’s Close-Proximity Networks: Similarities and differences with cooperative and communal breeding systems. Evolutionary Human Sciences.

  2. Chaudhary, N., Salali, G.D., Swanepoel, A., 2023. Sensitive responsiveness and multiple caregiving networks among Mbendjele BaYaka hunter-gatherers: Potential implications for psychological development and well-being. Developmental Psychology.

  3. Major-Smith, D., Chaudhary, N., Dyble, M., Major-Smith, K., Page, A.E., Salali, G.D., Mace, R. and Migliano, A.B., 2023. Cooperation and partner choice among Agta hunter-gatherer children: An evolutionary developmental perspective. Plos one, 18(4), p.e0284360.

  4. Kretschmer, L., Salali, G.D., Andersen, L.B. et al. 2023. Gender differences in the distribution of children’s physical activity: evidence from nine countries. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 20, 103.

  5. Musciotto, F., Dobon, B., Greenacre, M., Mira, A., Chaudhary, N., Salali, G.D., Gerbault, P., Schlaepfer, R., Astete, L.H., Ngales, M. and Gomez-Gardenes, J., 2023. Agta hunter–gatherer oral microbiomes are shaped by contact network structure. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 5, p.e9.

  6. Salali, G. D., Uysal, M. S., Bozyel, G., Akpınar, E., & Aksu, A. 2022. Does social influence affect COVID-19 vaccination intention among the unvaccinated? Evolutionary Human Sciences, 4, e32.

  7. Hilton, C.B., Moser, C.J., Lee-Rubin, H., Bainbridge, C.M.,... Salali, G. D., Keestra, S.M.,… & Mehr, S. A.,. 2022. Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures. Nature Human Behaviour, 1-12.

  8. Ene, I., Wong, K. K.Y., Salali, G. D.*, Is it good to be bad? An evolutionary analysis of the adaptive potential of psychopathic traits. 2022. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 4, e37.

  9. Chaudhary, N, Salali, G.D., 2022. Hunter-gatherers, mismatch and mental disorder. Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health. Cambridge University Press. (Invited book chapter)

  10. Salali, G.D., Uysal, M.S. and Bevan, A., 2021. Adaptive function and correlates of anxiety during a pandemic. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 9(1), 393-405.

  11. Knight, J.K, Salali, G.D, Sikka, G., Derkx, I., Keestra, S.M., Chaudhary, N., 2021. Quantifying patterns of alcohol consumption in BaYaka hunter-gatherers and its effects on health, psychological wellbeing, and community: a mixed-methods cross-sectional study. PloS one, 16(10), e0258384.

  12. Salali, G. D., & Uysal, M. S., 2021. Effective incentives for increasing COVID-19 vaccine uptake. Psychological Medicine, 1-3.

  13. Keestra, S.M., Male, V., Salali, G.D.*, 2021. Out of balance: the role of evolutionary mismatches in the sex disparity in autoimmune disease. Medical hypotheses, 151, 110558.

  14. Arnot, M., Brandl, E., Campbell, O. L. K., Chen, Y., Du, J., Dyble, M., ... Salali, G.D., Zhang, H., 2020. How evolutionary behavioural sciences can help us understand behaviour in a pandemic. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 1: 264-278.

  15. Salali, G. D., & Uysal, M. S., 2020. COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is associated with beliefs on the origin of the novel coronavirus in the UK and Turkey. Psychological Medicine, 1-6.

  16. Salali, G.D., Dyble, M., Chaudhary, N., Sikka, G., Derkx, I., Keestra, S.M., Smith, D., Thompson, J., Vinicius, L. and Migliano, A.B., 2020. Global WEIRDing: transitions in wild plant knowledge and treatment preferences in Congo hunter–gatherers. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2.

  17. Salali, G.D., Chaudhary N., Bouer, J., Thompson, J., Vinicius L., Migliano A.B., 2019. Development of social learning and play in hunter-gatherers. Scientific Reports. 9: 11080

  18. Page, A.E., Thomas, M.G., Smith, D., Dyble, M., Viguier, S., Chaudhary, N., Salali, G.D., Thompson, J., Mace, R. and Migliano, A.B., 2019. Testing adaptive hypotheses of alloparenting in Agta foragers. Nature Human Behaviour, 3(11), pp.1154-1163.

  19. Smith, D., Dyble, M., Major, K., Page, A.E., Chaudhary, N., Salali, G.D., Thompson, J., Vinicius, L., Migliano, A.B. and Mace, R., 2019. A friend in need is a friend indeed: Need-based sharing, rather than cooperative assortment, predicts experimental resource transfers among Agta hunter-gatherers. Evolution and Human Behavior. 40(1): 82-89.

  20. Mesman, J., Minter, T., Angnged, A., Cisse, I., Salali, G.D., Migliano, A.B. 2018. Universality without uniformity: A culturally inclusive approach to sensitive responsiveness in infant caregiving. Child Development. 89(3): 837-850

  21. Smith, D., Schlaepfer, P., Major, K., Dyble, M., Page, A.E., Thompson, J., Chaudhary, N., Salali, G.D., Mace, R., Astete, L., Astete, M., Vinicius, L., Migliano, A.B., 2017. Cooperation and the evolution of hunter-gatherer storytelling. Nature Communications. 8(1): 1853

  22. Migliano A.B., Page A., Gardenes, J.G., Salali G.D., Viguier, S., Dyble M., Latora, V., Chaudhary N., Thompson J., Smith D., Strods, J., Vinicius L., Mace R. 2017. Characterisation of hunter-gatherer networks and implications for cumulative culture. Nature Human Behaviour. 1: 0043

  23. (cover story of the February 2017 issue)

  24. Page A., Chaudhary N., Viguier, S., Thompson J., Smith D., Salali G.D., Dyble M., Mace R., Migliano A.B. 2017. Social network centrality and hunter-gatherer reproductive success. Scientific Reports. 7:1153

  25. Salali, G.D., Chaudhary N., Thompson J., Grace, O., van der Brugt, X.M., Dyble M., Page A., Smith D., Lewis, J., Mace R., Vinicius L., Migliano A.B. 2016. Knowledge sharing networks in hunter-gatherers and the evolution of cumulative culture. Current Biology. 26:1–6

  26. Chaudhary N., Salali G.D., Thompson J., Rey, A., Gerbault, P., Stevenson, E., Dyble M., Page A., Smith D., Mace R., Vinicius L., Migliano, A.B. 2016. Competition for Cooperation: variability, benefits and heritability of relational wealth in hunter-gatherers. Scientific Reports. 6: 29120

  27. Dyble M., Thompson J., Page A., Smith D., Chaudhary N., Salali G.D., Vinicius L., Mace R., Migliano A.B. 2016. Networks of food sharing reveal the functional significance of multilevel sociality in two hunter-gatherer groups. Current Biology. 26:1-5

  28. Smith, D., Dyble, M., Thompson, J., Major, K., Page, A., Chaudhary, N., Salali, G.D., Vinicius, L., Migliano, A., Mace, R. 2016. Camp Stability Predicts Patterns of Hunter-Gatherer Cooperation. Royal Society Open Science. 3: 160131

  29. Page A., Viguier, S., Dyble M., Smith D., Chaudhary N., Salali G.D., Thompson J., Vinicius L., Mace R., Migliano A.B. 2016. Reproductive trade-offs in extant hunter-gatherers suggest adaptive mechanism for the Neolithic expansion. PNAS. 113(17):  4694–4699

  30. Salali, G.D., Migliano A.B. 2015. Future discounting in Congo basin hunter-gatherers declines with socio-economic transitions. PLoS ONE. 10(9): e0137806

  31. Salali, G.D., Whitehouse H., Hochberg, M. E. 2015. A life-cycle model of human social groups produces a U-shaped distribution in group size. PLoS ONE. 10(9): e0138496

  32. Dyble M., Salali G.D., Chaudhary N., Page A., Smith D., Thompson J., Vinicius L., Mace R., Migliano A.B. 2015. Sex equality can explain the unique social structure of hunter-gatherer bands. Science. 348: 796–798.

  33. Chaudhary N., Salali G.D., Thompson J., Dyble M., Page A., Smith D., Mace R., Migliano, A.B. 2015. Polygyny without wealth: popularity in gift games predicts polygyny in BaYaka Pygmies. Royal Society Open Science. 2: 150054.

  34. Salali, G.D., Juda, M., Henrich, J. 2015. Development and imitation of costly punishment in children. Evolution and Human Behaviour. 36(2): 86-94

  35. Tanner, C.J., Salali, G.D., Jackson, A.L. 2011. The ghost of social environments past: dominance relationships include current interactions and experience carried over from previous groups. Biology Letters. 7: 818-821.

  36. Tanner, C.J., Salalı, G.D., Jackson, A.L. 2011. Feeding and non-feeding aggression can be induced in invasive shore crabs by altering food distribution. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 65(2): 249-256.

Pre-prints and papers under review
  1. Salali, G.D., Musolesi, M., Spiers, H. Flourishing Cultural Diversity in AI. 2024. PsyArXiv

  2. Kretschmer, L., Dyble, M., Chaudhary, N., Bann, D. and Salali, G.D.*, Patterns of physical activity in hunter-gatherer children compared with US and UK children (under review). 2024. medRxiv

  3. Salali, G. D., Uysal, M. S. Group psychological roots of conspiracy beliefs (under review). 2024. PsyArXiv

  4. Keestra, S., Derkx, I., Sikka, G., Chaudhary, N., & Salali, G. D.* 2021. Bitter taste perception in BaYaka hunter-gatherers. bioRxiv.

  5. Salali, G. D., & Uysal, M. S., Why some hesitate more: Cross-cultural variation in conspiracy beliefs, belief in science, and vaccine attitudes. 2021. medRxiv

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