James R. Roney

Address

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660
(805) 893-4871
E-mail: roney@psych.ucsb.edu
Web page: http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/roney/index.php

Education

Ph.D. Psychology/Human Development, University of Chicago (2002)

B.A. Russian and East European Studies, University of Michigan (1991)

Positions Held

Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California at Santa Barbara (2017 - Present)

Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California at Santa Barbara (2010 - 2017)

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara (2004 - 2010)

Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Institute for Mind and Biology, University of Chicago (2002 - 2004)

Lecturer, Committee on Human Development and Department of Psychology, University of Chicago (2001-2003)

Funding

UC Health Psychology Consortium Grant (co-PI), Social Support, Resilience, and Fertility in Young Women (2015-2016)

NSF Grant BCS-1349023 (PI), Endocrinology of Human Relationship Initiation (2014-2018)

Margo Wilson Award for Best Paper Published in Evolution and Human Behavior (2017)

Top Reviewer Award, Hormones and Behavior (2010)

Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara (2006)

Social Science Research Council Postdoctoral Sexuality Research Fellowship (2004, declined)

William E. Henry Best Dissertation Award, Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago (2003)

New Investigator Award, Human Behavior and Evolution Society Annual Meeting, London, England (2001)

Outstanding Poster Presentation, Human Behavior and Evolution Society Annual Meeting, Evanston, IL. (1996) 

Publications 

Roney, J. R., & Simmons, Z. L. (2015). Elevated psychological stress predicts reduced estradiol concentrations in young women. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 1, 30-40. pdf

Lukaszewski, A. W., Larson, C. M., Gildersleeve, K. L., Roney, J. R., & Haselton, M. G. (2014). Condition-dependent calibration of men's uncommitted mating orientation: evidence from multiple samples. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35, 319-326. pdf

Grillot, R. L., Simmons, Z. L., Lukaszewski, A. W., & Roney, J. R. (2014). Hormonal and morphological predictors of women's body attractiveness. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35, 176-183. pdf

Lukaszewski, A. W., Roney, J. R., Mills, M. E., & Bernard, L. C. (2013). At the interface of social cognition and psychometrics: Manipulating the sex of the reference class modulates sex differences in personality traits. Journal of Research in Personality, 47, 953-957. pdf

Roney, J. R., & Simmons, Z. L. (2013). Hormonal predictors of sexual motivation in natural menstrual cycles. Hormones and Behavior, 63, 636-645. pdf

Roney, J. R., & Simmons, Z. L. (2012). Men smelling women: Null effects of exposure to ovulatory sweat on men's testosterone. Evolutionary Psychology, 10, 703-713. pdf

Simmons, Z. L., & Roney, J. R. (2011). Variation in CAG repeat length of the androgen receptor gene predicts variables associated with intrasexual competitiveness in human males. Hormones and Behavior, 60, 306-312. pdf

Roney, J. R., Simmons, Z. L., & Gray, P. B. (2011). Changes in estradiol predict within-women shifts in attraction to facial cues of men's testosterone. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 36, 742-749. pdf

Lukaszewski, A. W., & Roney, J. R. (2011). The origins of extraversion: Joint effects of facultative calibration and genetic polymorphism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 409-421. pdf

Lukaszewski, A. W., & Roney, J. R. (2010). Kind toward whom? Mate preferences for personality traits are target specific. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31, 29-38. pdf

Roney, J. R., Simmons, Z. L., & Lukaszewski, A. W. (2010). Androgen receptor gene sequence and basal cortisol concentrations predict men's hormonal responses to potential mates. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 277, 57-63. pdf

Lukaszewski, A. W., & Roney, J. R. (2009). Estimated hormones predict women's mate preferences for dominant personality traits. Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 191-196. pdf

Roney, J. R. (2009). The role of sex hormones in the initiation of human mating relationships. In P. T. Ellison & P. B. Gray (Eds.), The endocrinology of social relationships (pp. 246-269). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pdf

Simmons, Z. L., & Roney, J. R. (2009). Androgens and energy allocation: Quasi-experimental evidence for effects of influenza vaccination on men's testosterone. American Journal of Human Biology, 21, 133-135. pdf

Roney, J. R., & Simmons, Z. L. (2008). Women's estradiol predicts preference for facial cues of men's testosterone. Hormones and Behavior, 53, 14-19. pdf

Roney, J. R., Lukaszewski, A. W., & Simmons, Z. L. (2007). Rapid endocrine responses of young men to social interactions with young women. Hormones and Behavior, 52, 326-333. pdf

Roney, J. R., Hanson, K. N., Durante, K. M., & Maestripieri, D. (2006). Reading men's faces: women's mate attractiveness judgments track men's testosterone and interest in infants. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 273, 2169-2175. pdf

Maestripieri, D., & Roney, J. R. (2006). Evolutionary developmental psychology: Contributions from comparative research with nonhuman primates. Developmental Review, 26, 120-137. pdf

Maestripieri, D., & Roney, J. R. (2005). Primate copulation calls and post-copulatory female choice. Behavioral Ecology, 16, 106-113. pdf

Roney, J. R. (2005). On fertile ground: A natural history of human reproduction. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 34, 364-366.

Roney, J. R., & Maestripieri, D. (2004). Relative digit lengths predict men's behavior and attractiveness during social interactions with women. Human Nature, 15, 271-282. pdf

Maestripieri, D., Roney, J. R., DeBias, N., Durante, K. M., & Spaepen, G. M. (2004). Father absence, menarche, and interest in infants among adolescent girls. Developmental Science, 7, 560-566. pdf

Roney, J. R., Whitham, J. C., Leoni, M., Bellem, A., Wielebnowski, N., & Maestripieri, D. (2004). Relative digit lengths and testosterone levels in Guinea baboons. Hormones and Behavior, 45, 285-290. pdf

Roney, J. R., Mahler, S. V., & Maestripieri, D. (2003). Behavioral and hormonal responses of men to brief interactions with women. Evolution and Human Behavior, 24, 365-375. pdf

Roney, J. R., & Maestripieri, D. (2003). Social development and affiliation. In D. Maestripieri (Ed.), Primate psychology: The mind and behavior of human and non-human primates (pp. 171-204). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Roney, J. R. (2003). Effects of visual exposure to the opposite sex: Cognitive aspects of mate attraction in human males. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 393-404. pdf

Roney, J. R. (2002). Likeable but unlikely: A review of the Mating Mind. Psycoloquy, 13 (10), 1-5. http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000202/

Roney, J. R., & Maestripieri, D. (2002). The importance of comparative and phylogenetic analyses in the study of adaptation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 525.

Roney, J. R., & Wolfe, R. N. (2000). Paths after high school. In M. Csikszentmihalyi & B. Schneider (Eds.), Becoming adult: How teenagers prepare for the world of work (pp. 199-212). New York: Basic Books.

Roney, J. R. (1999). Distinguishing adaptations from by-products. American Psychologist, 54, 435-436.

Presentations

Roney, J. R. (2015, June). Hormonal modulation of motivational priorities in young women. Invited talk presented at the Adapted Mind, Adapted Body: The Evolution of Human Behavior and its Neuroendocrine Regulation Conference, The Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily, Italy.

Roney, J. R., & Simmons, Z. L. (2015, May). Ovarian hormones predict within-cycle fluctuations in women's food intake. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Columbia, MO.

Eisenbruch, A. B., Grillot, R. L., & Roney, J. R. (2015, May). Evidence of partner choice mechanisms in a one-shot bargaining game. Talk presented at the annual convention of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Columbia, MO.

Eisenbruch, A. B., & Roney, J. R. (2015, February). Partner choice algorithms in one-shot ultimatum games. Paper presented at the Evolutionary Psychology Preconference at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.

Grillot, R. L., Simmons, Z. L., Lukaszewski, A. W., & Roney, J. R. (2015, Februrary). Hormonal and morphological predictors of women's body attractiveness. Paper presented at the Social Neuroendocrinology Preconference at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.

Lukaszewski, A. W., Roney, J. R., Anderson, C. P., & Simmons, Z. L. (2014, February). Why are physically formidable men afforded higher status in organizational settings? Strength as an evolved cue to in-group contribution capacity. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX. 

Roney, J. R. (2013, September). Endocrine responses to initial encounters with potential mates. Invited talk presented at the Attraction and Relationships Preconference at the annual convention of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Berkeley, CA.

Roney, J. R., & Simmons, Z. L. (2013, July). Hormonal predictors of women's sexual motivation. Paper presented at the annual convention of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Miami Beach, FL.

Grillot, R. L., Eisenbruch, A. B., & Roney, J. R. (2013, July). Fertility cues in female bodies: Estrogen predicts attractiveness after controlling for BMI. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Miami Beach, FL.

Roney, J. R. (2013, April). Endocrine responses of men to social interactions with women. Invited talk presented at the Program in Interdisciplinary Biological and Biomedical Sciences Speaker Series, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.

Roney, J. R. (2013, March). Hormonal predictors of sexual motivation in natural menstrual cycles. Invited talk presented at the Evolution of Sexuality Conference, Oakland University, Rochester, MI.

Simmons, Z. L., & Roney, J. R. (2013, January). Men's testosterone responses to potential mates: Eliciting conditions and functional consequences. Invited talk presented at the Social Neuroendocrinology Pre-Conference at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

Simmons, Z. L., & Roney, J. R. (2012, June). Risk and reward: Testosterone responses to potential mates facilitate risk-taking and future discounting. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Albuquerque, NM.

Roney, J. R., & Simmons, Z. L. (2012, April). Hormonal predictors of cycle phase shifts in women's mating psychology. Invited symposium talk presented at the annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.

Roney, J. R. (2011, August). Hormonal responses to potential mates: Evidence for a phylogenetically conserved mating response in human males. Invited symposium talk presented at the annual meeting of the International Academy of Sex Research, Los Angeles, CA.

Simmons, Z. L., & Roney, J. R. (2011, January). Winning intrasexual contests produces increases in men's strength. Poster presented at the Evolutionary Psychology Pre-Conference at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.

Lukaszewski, A. W., & Roney, J. R. (2010, June). The origins of extraversion: Joint effects of facultative calibration and functional genetic polymorphism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Eugene, OR. [*Winner of the New Investigator Award*]

Simmons, Z. L., & Roney, J. R. (2010, June). Relationships between androgen receptor gene polymorphisms and mating effort: Evidence for morphological and behavioral influences. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Eugene, OR. 

Roney, J. R. (2010, April). New directions in the study of human mate choice. Invited plenary talk at the Southern California Primate Research Forum, Fullerton, CA.

Lukaszewski, A. W., & Roney, J. R. (2010, January). Why do people differ in their levels of extraversion? Evidence for facultative calibration in response to personal characteristics. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.

Simmons, Z. L., & Roney, J. R. (2010, January). Brief interactions with females produce transient increases in men's strength. Poster presented at the Evolutionary Psychology Pre-Conference at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.

Roney, J. R., Lukaszewski, A. W., & Simmons, Z. L. (2009, May). Endocrine responses of men to social interactions with women. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Fullerton, CA.

Simmons, Z. L., Lukaszewski, A. W., & Roney, J. R. (2009, May). Putting your best face forward: Subtle facial signals produced by exposure to potential mates. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Fullerton, CA.

Lukaszewski, A. W., & Roney, J. R. (2009, May). Kind toward whom? Mate preferences for personality traits depend on the targets of behavioral acts. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Fullerton, CA.

Hanson Sobraske, K. N., & Roney, J. R. (2009, May). Written all over his face? Testosterone, masculinity, and men's facial morphology. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Fullerton, CA.

Roney, J. R., & Maestripieri, D. (2009, April). Primatology and evolutionary psychology: The importance of comparative and phylogenetic analyses in the study of human psychological adaptations. Invited symposium talk presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Chicago, IL. [talk delivered by D. M.]

Roney, J. R., Lukaszewski, A. W., & Simmons, Z. L. (2009, February). Hormonal correlates of men's mating behavior. Invited symposium talk presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.

Lukaszewski, A. W., & Roney, J. R. (2009, February). Hormonal correlates of women's mate preferences for dominant personality traits. Poster presented at the Evolutionary Psychology Pre-Conference at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.

Simmons, Z. L., Lukaszewski, A. W., & Roney, J. R. (2009, February). The courtship face: Facial expressions in response to potential mates and their influence on men's mate attractiveness. Poster presented at the Evolutionary Psychology Pre-Conference at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.

Roney, J. R. (2008, August). Neuroendocrine mechanisms in women's mating psychology. Invited talk presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Lukaszewski, A. W., Simmons, Z. L., & Roney, J. R. (2008, February). Rapid endocrine responses of young men to social interactions with young women. Poster presented at the Evolutionary Psychology Preconference at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.

Roney, J. R., & Simmons, Z. L. (2007, May). Women's estradiol predicts preference for facial cues of men's testosterone. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Williamsburg, VA.

Lukaszewski, A. W., & Roney, J. R. (2007, May). Psychological mechanisms designed to regulate assertiveness signaling in human males during courtship interactions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Williamsburg, VA.

Roney, J. R., & Lukaszewski, A. W. (2007, May). The role of hormones in mating psychology. Invited talk presented at the Inaugural 3 UC Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences Conference, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Roney, J. R. (2007, April). Preliminary data testing an alternative explanation for menstrual phase effects on women's mate preferences. Invited talk presented at the UCLA Behavior, Evolution, and Culture Speaker Series, Los Angeles, CA.

Roney, J. R. (2006, June). Women track facial cues of men's testosterone and interest in infants. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Lukaszewski, A. W., Simmons, Z. L., & Roney, J. R. (2006, June). Strategic variation in mate preferences for behavioral traits. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Roney, J. R. (2006, April). Women track facial cues of men's testosterone and interest in infants. Invited talk presented at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Roney, J. R. (2005, June). An alternative explanation for menstrual phase effects on women's psychology and behavior. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Austin, TX.

Roney, J. R. (2004, November). Homology as evidence for adaptation with an example from mating psychology. Invited speaker at the Evolution, Mind, and Behavior Conference, Santa Barbara, CA.

Roney, J. R. (2004, October). Effects of doula presence on post-partum cortisol concentrations in teenage mothers. Invited speaker at the Interdisciplinary Program in Human Development Seminar Series, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.

Roney, J. R. (2004, May). Effects on men of exposure to women: A biopsychosocial account of human courtship. Invited speaker and chair of the symposium, "Evolutionary Approaches to Human Sexuality" at the Annual Convention of The American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL.

Roney, J. R. (2004, January). Effects on men of exposure to women: Evidence for mating adaptations in human males. Invited talk presented at the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.

Roney, J. R., & Maestripieri, D. (2003, June). Behavioral and hormonal responses of men to brief interactions with women. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Cincinnati, OH.

Roney, J. R. (2003, June). Behavioral and hormonal responses of men to social interactions with women. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Lincoln, NE.

Roney, J. R. (2003, March). Psychological, behavioral, and hormonal responses of men to sensory cues from women. Invited talk presented at Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI.

Roney, J. R. (2002, May). Psychological effects of visual exposure to the opposite sex. Invited talk presented at the University of New England, Biddeford, ME.

Roney, J. R. (2001, June). Effects of visual exposure to the opposite sex: Evidence for mate attraction mechanisms in human males. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, London, England.

Roney, J. R. (2000, March). Methodological issues in the use of the ESM to examine working families. Roundtable presented at Work and Family: Expanding the Horizons, San Francisco, CA.

Roney, J. R. (1999, April). Psychological effects of visual exposure to the opposite sex: Do young men think differently when exposed to young women? Poster session presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM.

Roney, J. R. (1999, April). An experimental investigation of career attainment probability judgments: The role of inaccurate reasoning in career overaspiration. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.

Roney, J. R. (1996, June). Effects of mere presence of the opposite sex on attitude judgments. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Evanston, IL.

Roney, J. R. (1995, April). Social orientation and the post high school transition. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, IN.

Courses Taught

Laboratory in Developmental and Evolutionary Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara (2006-2017)

Human Mating Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara (2006-2016)

Introduction to Experimental Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara (2005-2011, 2014-2015)

Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Mating (Graduate), University of California, Santa Barbara (2005, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2016)

Evolution and Cognition, University of California, Santa Barbara (2004)

Biopsychology of Sex Differences, University of Chicago (2003)

Evolutionary Social Psychology, University of Chicago (2001, 2002)

Other Experience

Associate Editor, Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

Editorial Board Member, Hormones and Behavior  

Consulting Editor, Human Nature

Editorial Board Member, Evolutionary Psychological Science

Institute for Mind and Biology Seminar Series Committee

UCSB Subject Pool Committee, Graduate Affairs Committee, Graduate Admissions Committee, Executive Committee, Curriculum Committee, Undergraduate Council.