This is the highest honor that the Association for Psychological Science bestows. Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1983 23: 4, 25-58 Share. Share. Baumeister’s human sexuality contributions that have had the greatest impact (in terms of citation rates) include his review and theory papers on the topics of gender differences in sex drive, erotic plasticity, and sexual economics. Their paper examined the evolutionary advantage of bad being stronger than good. 2001b). © 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Sexual economics: Sex asfemale resource for social exchange inheterosexual interactions. Social Media; Email; Share Access; Share this article via social media. That same year, he and his co-author Mark Leary were awarded the Scientific Impact Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology for a paper they had written titled “The Need to Belong” (Baumeister and Leary 1995). After receiving his M.A. Not affiliated Victim and perpetrator accounts of interpersonal conflict: Autobiographical narratives about anger. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Note that doubling the statistic requires far more than doubling one’s success. Baumeister, R. F., & Leary, M. R. (1995). Roy F. Baumeister and Kathleen D. Vohs. The authors discuss how describing human sexual exchanges as economic exchanges with men as buyers and women as sellers can help explain various factors including the repression of women, the suppression of female sexuality, abusive relationships, rape, and changing norms and sexual attitudes. Baumeister received his PhD in experimental social psychology from Princeton University in 1978. This remarkable book begins to give us a firm basis for hope, because it provides a deep and accurate understanding of evil. Baumeister, R. F. (2000). Conscious thought is for facilitating social and cultural interactions: How mental simulations serve the animal–culture interface. He has been a strong proponent of the importance of studying behavior in the behavioral sciences, rather than relying solely or even mainly on self-reports and responses to computerized stimuli to dominate our view of the human psyche. As of the end of 2017, this article has been cited over 850 times, indicating that it is also a classic article in the field. What may be much more distinctive about humans and account for our evolutionary success is the fact that we evolved to take advantage of the ability to create and participate in culture. Drawing on the idea that men have a stronger sexual motivation than women, Baumeister (2000) suggested that the strength of men’s motivation for sex would decrease the plasticity or flexibility of the sex drive in men as compared to women. This "Cited by" count includes citations to the following articles in Scholar. A third paper on human sexuality with almost 400 citations by the end of 2017 is the paper Baumeister authored with Kathleen Vohs on sexual economics (Baumeister and Vohs 2004). Baumeister, R. F., Smart, L., & Boden, J. M. (1996). MEANINGS OF LIFE draws together evidence from psychology, history, anthropology, and sociology, integrating copious research findings into a clear and conclusive discussion of how people attempt to make sense of their lives. Baumeister, R. F., Twenge, J. M., & Nuss, C. K. (2002). A sampling of the topics covered in Baumeister’s research includes the self, belongingness and rejection, consciousness, human sexuality, human nature, suicide, psychometrics, economics, gender issues, emotion, motivation, free will, choking under pressure, UFO abductions, and sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Add co-authors Co-authors. Thirdly, women showed a lower level of consistency between their sexual attitudes and their sexual behavior than men did, suggesting that outside influences could lead to greater sexual flexibility in females compared to males. Follow this author. In their explanation, price refers not only to the price of prostitution but also the price that must be paid for marriage or divorce, courtship, or infidelity and the finding that women’s sexuality has what economists refer to as value but men’s sexuality has no such marketplace value. After receiving his Ph.D., Baumeister moved to the University of California at Berkeley for a 1-year postdoc in sociology. Francis Eppes Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology Roy F Baumeister, PhD, The Construction of the Self: A Developmental Perspective, Handbook of Cross-cultural Psychology: Social behavior and applications. Baumeister (2000) discussed possible explanations for this greater erotic plasticity in women compared to men, including the idea that women have a milder innate sex drive, allowing women’s sexual behaviors to be more responsive to sociocultural and situational factors. Suicide as escape from self. Much of his work has centered on the psychology of the self, identity, and human nature. Does high self-esteem cause better performance interpersonal success, happiness, or healthier lifestyles? From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roy F. Baumeister (/ ˈbaʊmaɪstər /; born May 16, 1953) is a social psychologist who is known for his work on the self, social rejection, belongingness, sexuality and sex differences, self-control, self-esteem, self-defeating behaviors, motivation, aggression, consciousness, and … Why is there evil, and what can scientific research tell us about the origins and persistence of evil behavior? 1996), and over 50 of his articles have appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (e.g., Baumeister 1984; Baumeister et al. 1990, 2002). As can be seen from the partial list of topics that he has researched, Baumeister has always had a strong interest in interdisciplinary research and has often focused on the interpersonal perspective in his work. Professor Roy F. Baumeister is currently professor of psychology at the University of Queensland, as well as affiliations with Florida State University and University of Bamberg. He has published nearly 150 scientific works and is cited in numerous sources in the popular media. Other animals may show rudiments of culture, but we are the only species to use culture to such an extent as an evolutionary strategy. Guilford Publications, Aug 9, 1991 - Philosophy - 426 pages. The e-mail addresses that you supply to use this service will not be used for any other purpose without your consent. Baumeister coined the term “bad is stronger than good” to describe the work published with colleagues (Baumeister et al. As of the end of 2017, this article has been cited over 780 times, indicating that it is a classic article in the field. Many of these books and articles on self-control have very high citation counts, and his book Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, written with John Tierney, became a New York Times bestseller and spent over a month on Amazon’s top 100 list. In recent years scientific productivity has increasingly been measured by the h-statistic, which is the highest number (H) for which the scientist has H publications that have each been cited H times. Baumeister has traveled extensively during his career, taking advantage of sabbaticals and leaves of absence to work as a visiting professor in numerous locations. Baumeister, R. F., Campbell, J. D., Krueger, J. I., & Vohs, K. D. (2003). An H of 20 signifies 20 articles cited 20 times each, while an H of 40 indicates 40 articles cited 40 times each. 2001a) on the idea that bad things exert a stronger influence on us than good things. Done. It is the most comprehensive examination of the topic to date. Theoretical views, conceptual distinctions, and a review of relevant evidence. PDF Restore Delete Forever. The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation. He is known for his work on many aspects of the self and human nature. They reviewed the existing literature, developed the theory, and determined that the need to belong was a powerful, fundamental, and extremely pervasive human motivation. Roy F. Baumeister University of Queensland, Australia. In 2015, Baumeister was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Baumeister’s h-index in 2017 was 157, and his i10-index is 446, making him one of the most cited and influential social psychologists in the world. In conjunction with the eminent social psychologist Mark R. Leary, the paper published on the need to belong (Baumeister and Leary 1995) is Baumeister’s most highly cited and influential paper, with over 15,000 citations by the end of 2017. In addition to proposing the universal need to belong, the authors also developed an exhaustive description and criteria for what is required for something to be classified as a fundamental human motivation, and it is this description and classification that is of special interest to many evolutionary scientists. Suicide has often posed somewhat of a problem for evolutionary researchers seeking to explain human behavior because most evolutionary accounts emphasizing survival and reproduction have difficulty explaining evolutionary benefits or even explanations for suicide. Firstly, individual females exhibited more variation across time in their sexual behavior than did males. Baumeister’s (1990) article on suicide as an escape from the self has had over 1500 citations as of the end of 2017. In 1993 he spent his sabbatical at the University of Virginia, in 2001 as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and in 2009 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. No hemos encontrado ninguna reseña en los sitios habituales. New articles by this author. One of Baumeister’s publications most directly relevant to evolutionary science is his book The Cultural Animal: Human Nature, Meaning, and Social Life (Baumeister 2005). He is especially known for his work on the subjects of willpower, self-control, and self-esteem, and how they relate to human morality and success. Although Baumeister has published in many different areas of psychology over the course of his career, a few of the topics he has covered may be of special interest to evolutionary psychologists.