Academic Positions

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive Development Center, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Advisor: Prof. György Gergely.

Education

UCLA, Ph.D. Biological Anthropology, 2012
University of Amsterdam, M.Sc. Psychology (cum laude), 2006
University of Amsterdam, M.A. Philosophy (cum laude), 2006
University of Amsterdam, B.Sc. Psychology (cum laude), 2005

Books

Grünewald, E., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2007). Edited Volume. Researching the Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Newcastle (UK): Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Journal Articles

Frankenhuis, W. E., & Del Giudice, M. (2012). When do adaptive developmental mechanisms yield maladaptive outcomes? Developmental Psychology 48, 628-642. With commentary by Peter Gluckman and Alan Beedle.
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, 428-431.
Frankenhuis, W. E., & Panchanathan, K. (2011). Balancing sampling and specialization: An adaptationist model of incremental development. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278, 3558-3565. [Appendix 1, 2, 3] The authors contributed equally. Selected by Faculty of 1000 Biology -- Rank: "Must Read"
Frankenhuis, W. E., & Panchanathan, K. (2011). Individual differences in developmental plasticity may result from stochastic sampling. Perspectives on Psychological Science 6, 336-347.
Thomsen, L., Frankenhuis, W. E., Ingold-Smith, M., & Carey, S. (2011). Big and mighty: Preverbal infants mentally represent social dominance. Science 331, 477-480. [Supplement] [Videos] [News]
Frankenhuis, W. E., Dotsch, R., Karremans, J. C., & Wigboldus, D. H. J. (2010). Male physical risk taking in a virtual environment. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 8, 75-86. [News]
Karremans, J. C., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Arons, S. (2010). Blind men prefer a low waist-to-hip ratio. Evolution and Human Behavior 31, 182-186. [News]
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, 733-763.
Frankenhuis, W. E., & Ploeger, A. (2007). Evolutionary psychology versus Fodor: Arguments for and against the massive modularity hypothesis. Philosophical Psychology 20, 687-710.

Book Chapters

Frankenhuis, W. E., & Barrett, H. C. (in press). Design for learning: The case of chasing. In M. D. Rutherford, & V. A. Kuhlmeier (Eds.), Social perception: Detection and interpretation of animacy, agency, and intention. MIT Press.
Frankenhuis, W. E., Barrett, H. C., & Johnson, S. P. (in press). Developmental origins of biological motion perception. In M. Shiffrar, & K. L. Johnson (Eds.), Visual Perception of the Human Body in Motion (pp. xx). New York: Oxford University Press.
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). Newcastle (UK): Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Commentaries

Nettle, D., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Rickard, I. J. (2012). The adaptive basis of psychosocial acceleration theory. Developmental Psychology. 48, 718-721.
Frankenhuis, W. E. (2010). Did insecure attachment styles evolve for the benefit of the group? Frontiers in Evolutionary Psychology 1, 172.
Panchanathan, K., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Barrett, H. C. (2010). Development: Evolutionary ecology's midwife. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33, 105-106.
Barrett, H. C., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Wilke, A. (2008). Adaptation to moving targets: Culture/gene coevolution, not either/or. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31, 511-512.

In Progress

Frankenhuis, W. E., House, B., Barrett, H. C., & Johnson, S. P. (in revision). Infants' perception of chasing.
Panchanathan, K., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Silk, J. B. (in revision). The bystander effect in an N-player dictator game.
Frankenhuis, W. E., Panchanathan, K., & Barrett, H. C. (under review). Bridging developmental systems theory and evolutionary psychology using dynamic optimization.
Frankenhuis, W. E., Panchanathan, K., & Belsky, J. (Draft). Can variation in developmental plasticity evolve because parents hedge their bets? A mathematical model.
Rickard, I. J., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Nettle, D. (Draft). Early adversity, phenotypic integration and adaptive developmental plasticity in humans.
Kievit, R. A., Frankenhuis, W. E., Waldorp, L. J., & Borsboom, D. (draft). Simpson's paradox in psychological science.

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