Publications
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2015
2014
- McKibbin, W.F., Miner, E.J., Shackelford, T.K., Ehrke, A.D., & Weekes-Shackelford, V.A. Men’s mate retention varies with men’s personality and their partner’s personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 56, 62-67.
- McKibbin, W.F. (2014). Evolutionary psychology and rape avoidance. In Weekes-Shackelford, V.A., & Shackelford, T.K. (Eds.), Evolutionary perspectives on human sexual psychology and behavior. New York: Springer.
2013
- McKibbin, W.F., Pham, M.N., & Shackelford, T.K. (2013). Investigating human sperm competition in post-industrial ecologies: Cues to sperm competition predict pornographic DVD sales rank. Behavioral Ecology, 24, 819-823.
- McKibbin, W.F., & Shackelford, T.K. (2013). Comment on “Reexamining individual differences in women’s rape avoidance”, by Snyder and Fessler (2012). Archives of Sexual Behavior, 42, 1-4.
- McKibbin, W.F. (2013, February 17). Why do we orgasm at all? HuffPost TED Weekends. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-mckibbin/male-orgasm-research_b_2697390.html (Invited submission.)
- Starratt, V. G., McKibbin, W. F., & Shackelford, T. K. (2013). Experimental manipulation of psychological mechanisms responsive to female infidelity. Personality and Individual Differences, 55, 59-62.
2012
- McKibbin, W. F., & Shackelford, T.K. (2012). Women’s avoidance of rape: An evolutionary psychological perspective. In Beaver, K.M. and Walsh, A. (Eds.). The Ashgate research companion to biosocial theories of crime. Farnham, UK: Ashgate.
- McKibbin, W.F. (2012). Sperm competition and sexual conflict. In A.T. Goetz & T.K. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of sexual conflict in humans. New York: Oxford University Press.
2011
- McKibbin, W. F., & Shackelford, T.K. (2011). Women’s avoidance of rape. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 16, 437-443.
- McKibbin, W.F., Shackelford, T.K., Miner, E. J., Bates, V. M., & Liddle, J. R. (2011). Individual differences in women’s rape avoidance behaviors. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40, 343-349.
- McKibbin, W. F., Starratt, V. G., Shackelford, T. K., & Goetz, A. T. (2011). Perceived risk of female infidelity moderates the relationship between objective risk of female infidelity and sexual coercion in Humans (Homo sapiens). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 125, 370-373.
2010
- McKibbin, W.F., Bates, V.M., Shackelford, T.K., Hafen, C.A., & LaMunyon, C.W. (2010). Risk of sperm competition moderates the relationship between men’s satisfaction with their partner and men’s interest in their partner’s copulatory orgasm. Personality and Individual Differences, 49, 961-966
- Swami, V., … McKibbin, W.F., et al. (2010). The attractive female body weight and female body dissatisfaction in 26 countries across 10 world regions: Results of the International Body Project I. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 309-325
2009
- Schützwohl, A., Fuchs, A., McKibbin W.F., & Shackelford, T.K. (2009). How willing are you to accept sexual requests from slightly unattractive to exceptionally attractive imagined requestors? Human Nature, 20, 282-293.
- McKibbin, W. F., Shackelford, T.K., Goetz, A.T., Bates, V.M. Starratt, V.G., & Miner, E.J. (2009). Development and Initial Psychometric Assessment of the Rape Avoidance Inventory. Personality and Individual Differences, 39, 336-340.
2008
- Buss, D. M., Shackelford, T. K., & McKibbin, W. F. (2008). The Mate Retention Inventory-Short Form (MRI-SF). Personality and Individual Differences, 44, 322-334.
- Goetz, A. T., Shackelford, T. K., Starratt, V. G., & McKibbin, W. F. (2008). Intimate partner violence. In J. D. Duntley & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Evolutionary forensic psychology (pp. 65-78). New York: Oxford University Press.
- McKibbin, W.F., & Shackelford, T.K. (2008). Review of Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Human Ethology Bulletin, 23, 6-8.
- McKibbin, W. F., Shackelford, T. K., Goetz, A.T., & Starratt, V. G. (2008) Evolutionary psychological perspectives on rape. In J. Duntley and T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Evolutionary forensic psychology. (pp. 101-120). New York: Oxford University Press.
- McKibbin, W.F., Shackelford, T. K., Goetz, A. T., & Starratt, V. G. (2008). Why do men rape? An evolutionary psychological perspective. Review of General Psychology, 12, 86-97.
2007
- Goetz, A. T., Shackelford, T. K., Platek, S. M., Starratt, V. G., & McKibbin, W. F., (2007). Sperm competition in humans: Implications for male sexual psychology, physiology, anatomy, and behavior. Annual Review of Sex Research, 18, 1-22.
- McKibbin, W. F., Goetz, A. T., Shackelford, T. K., Schipper, L., Starratt, V. G., & Stewart-Williams, S. (2007). Why do men insult their partners? Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 231-241.
- Shackelford, T. K., Goetz, A. T., McKibbin, W. F., & Starratt, V. G. (2007). Absence makes the adaptations grow fonder: Proportion of time apart from partner, male sexual psychology, and sperm competition in humans. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 121, 214-220.
- Starratt, V. G., Shackelford, T. K., Goetz, A. T., & McKibbin, W. F., (2007). Male mate retention behaviors vary with risk of sperm competition. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 39, 523-527