Selected Articles

• Toward Consilience, Not Literary Darwinism. Forthcoming in The Scientific Study of Literature.
•   Why fiction is good for you
•   Jargon To Jabberwocky: 3 Books On Writing Well
• Why Storytelling is the Ultimate Weapon
• Nine Stories that Changed the World
• “The Faurie-Raymond Hypothesis.”  (Response to annual question on Edge.org: What is your favorite deep, elegant, beautiful explanation?)
• “Portrayal of personality in Victorian novels reflects modern research findings but amplifies the significance of agreeableness.” Journal of Research in Personality, 45 (2011): 50-58.(Co-authored with Joseph Carroll, John Johnson, and Daniel Kruger).

• “Everything is this way because it got this way…and that’s okay.” The Evolutionary Review 2011.
• “Of Ants and Men: A Conversation with E. O. Wilson.”  The Evolutionary Review 2011.
• “Paleolithic Politics in British Novels of the Nineteenth Century.” Co-authored with Joseph Carroll, John Johnson, and Daniel Kruger. In Creating Consilience: Integrating Science and Humanities, ed. Edward Slingerland. Oxford University Press, 2011.
• “Love’s Labors and Costs.” Review of Geoffrey Miller’s Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior.  Seed Magazine, June 2009.
• “Hierarchy in the Library: Egalitarian Dynamics in Victorian Novels.” Evolutionary Psychology. 2008. 6(4): 715-738. With Joseph Carroll, John Johnson, Daniel Kruger.
•   Hidden Histories
•  Measure for Measure
• “Human Nature in Nineteenth-Century British Novels: Doing the Math.”  Philosophy and Literature (2009). (co-authored with Joseph Carroll, John Johnson, Dan Kruger).
• “The Beauty Myth is no Myth: Emphasis on Male-Female Attractiveness in World Folktales.” Human Nature. (In Press; 2008)  (co-authored with 30 St. Lawrence University undergraduate students).
• “Burn Down the Thinkeries!” A review of Frederick Crews’s Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays.  Skeptic Magazine 2007.
• “Greater Emphasis on Female Attractiveness in Homo sapiens: A Revised Solution to an Old Evolutionary Riddle.” Evolutionary Psychology.  2007 (5): 347-358.
• “Romantic Love: A Literary Universal.” Philosophy and Literature 30 (2006): 432-452 (co-authored with Marcus Nordlund and 18 St. Lawrence University undergraduate students).
• “The Science of Story.” Feature article in New Scientist Magazine.  March 2007.
• “The Heroine with a Thousand Faces: Universal Trends in the Characterization of Female Folk Tale Protagonists.”  Evolutionary Psychology 3 (2005): 85-103.