publications | Anna Szala

Preprints

Yang, X., Schulz, J. F., Schmidt, K., Kenny, A. R., Pfuhl, G., Gjoneska, B., …[incl. Szala, A.]… Görzig, A. (2024, June 5). Large-scale cross-societal examination of real- and minimal-group biases. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5gpr4

Szala, A., Wacewicz, S., Placiński, M., Poniewierska, A. E., Schmeichel, A., Stefańczyk, M., … Dunbar, R. I. M. (2024, May 10). How much language use is actually on social topics: Human conversational behavior revisited. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/d42gr

Buchanan, E. M., Cuccolo, K., Heyman, T., van Berkel, N., Coles, N. A., Iyer, A., …[incl. Szala, A.]… Lewis, S. C. (2021, December 7). Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/q4fjy

Databases

Wacewicz, S., Lewandowski, Z., Perea-García, J. O., Fiala, V., Sibierska, M., Szala, A., & Danel, D. P. (2025). ApeFD: Apemen Faces Database. Repository for Open Data. https://doi.org/10.18150/L2RHIA

Journal articles

Szala, A., Wacewicz, S., Placiński, M., Poniewierska, A. E., Schmeichel, A., Stefańczyk, M., … Dunbar, R. I. M. (2025). How much conversation content is actually social: Human conversational behaviour revisited. Language and Cognition, 17, e11. http://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2024.54

Placiński, M., Żywiczyński, P., Matzinger, T., Sibierska, M., Boruta-Żywiczyńska, M., Szala, A., & Wacewicz, S. (2023). Evolution of pantomime in dyadic interaction. A motion capture study. Journal of Language Evolution, lzad010. http://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzad010

Danel, D. P., Perea-García, J. O., Lewandowski, Z., Szala, A., Fedurek, P., Kleisner, K., & Wacewicz, S. (2023). Is there no beauty in sexually dimorphic eyes? Facial attractiveness and White Europeans ocular morphology — Brief communication. PLoS ONE, 18(4), e0284079. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284079

DeLecce, T., Pazhoohi, F., Szala, A., & Shackelford, T. K. (2022). Extreme metal guitar skill: A case of intrasexual competition, intersexual selection, or byproduct? Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000304

Dorison, C., Lerner, J. S., Heller, B. H., Rothman, A., Kawachi, I. I., Wang, K., …[incl. Szala, A.]… Coles, N. A. (2022). In COVID-19 health messaging, loss framing increases anxiety with little-to-no concomitant benefits: Experimental evidence from 84 countries. Affective Science. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/sevkf

Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration [incl. Szala, A.] (2022). A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(22), e2111091119. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/n3dyf

Wang, K., Goldenberg, A., Dorison, C. A., Miller, J. K., Uusberg, A., Lerner, J. S., Gross, J. J., Agesin, B. B., Bernardo, M., Campos, O., Eudave, L., Grzech, K., Ozery, D. H., Jackson, E. A., Luis Garcia, E. O., Drexler, S. M., Jurković, A. P., Rana, K., Wilson, J. P., …[Szala, A.]… Moshontz, H. (2021). A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behavior, 5(8), 1089–1110. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01173-x

Danel, D. P., Kozak, K., Szala, A., Dziedzic-Danel, A., Kunert-Keil, C., Seeliger, J., & Siennicka, A. (2020). The relation between premenstrual syndrome and resting cardiac vagal tone in young healthy females: the role of hormonal contraception. Neurophysiology, 51(6), 447–454. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11062-020-09841-w

Antfolk, J., Szala, A., & Öblom, A. (2019). Discrimination based on gender and ethnicity in English and Polish housing markets. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2396

Antfolk, J., Karlsson, L. C., Söderlund, J., & Szala, A. (2017). Willingness to Invest in Children: Psychological Kinship Estimates and Emotional Closeness. Evolutionary Psychology, 15(2), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704917705730

Pre-registrations

Szala, A., Placiński, M., Żywiczyński, P., Poniewierska, A. E., Schmeichel, A., & Wacewicz, S. (2023, January 25). How much language use is actually on social topics: Human conversational behavior revisited. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/KJF4E

Perea-García, J. O., Szala, A., Wacewicz, S., Matzinger, T., & Szczepańska, A. (2022, November 7). Exploring reactions to eye contact with different scleral pigmentation in pygmy marmosets (C. pygmaea) in a free-viewing paradigm. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/E37BQ

Antfolk, J., Szala, A., & Öblom, A. (2022, April 20). Discrimination based on Gender and Ethnicity in English and Polish Housing Markets. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/58GR6

Book chapters

Szala, A. & Wacewicz, S. (submitted). Polskie Towarzystwo Nauk o Człowieku i Ewolucji [Polish Society for Human and Evolution Studies]. In: Walczak, K. (ed.). Słownik Polskich Towarzystw Naukowych [Dictionary of Polish Scientific Societies]. Kaliskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk.

Fry, D. P. & Szala, A. (2013). The Evolution of Agonism. In: Fry, D. P. (Ed.). War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199858996.003.0023

Conference proceedings

Fiala, V., Żywiczyński, P., Szala, A., Placiński, M. & Wacewicz, S. (2024). Exploring the influence of word definition on AI-generated facial representations. In Nölle, J., Raviv, L., Graham, K. E., Hartmann, S., Jadoul, Y., Josserand, M., Matzinger, T., Mudd, K., Pleyer, M., Slonimska, A., Wacewicz, S. & Watson, S. (Eds.): The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference (Evolang XV). https://doi.org/10.17617/2.3587960.

Szala, A., Wacewicz, S., Placiński, M., Poniewierska, A. E., Schmeichel, A., Stefańczyk, M., & Żywiczyński, P. (2024). Exploring the content of casual Polish conversations. In Nölle, J., Raviv, L., Graham, K. E., Hartmann, S., Jadoul, Y., Josserand, M., Matzinger, T., Mudd, K., Pleyer, M., Slonimska, A., Wacewicz, S. & Watson, S. (Eds.): The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference (Evolang XV). https://doi.org/10.17617/2.3587960.

Szala, A., Wacewicz, S., Placiński, M., Poniewierska, A., Schmeichel, A., Stefańczyk, M., & Żywiczyński, P. (2023). Investigating the content of casual chatting: Human conversational behaviour revisited. Human Ethology, 38(Suppl.), HES123. https://doi.org/10.22330/he/38/suppl

Szala, A., DeLecce, T., & Pazhoohi, F. (2022). The case of metal music: An application of sexual selection or a cognitive byproduct? Human Ethology, 37(Suppl.), HES73. https://doi.org/10.22330/he/37/suppl

Szala, A., Placiński, M., Poniewierska, A., Szczepańska, A., & Wacewicz, S. (2022). How much language use is actually on social topics? In Ravignani, A., Asano, R., Valente, D., Ferretti, F., Hartmann, S., Hayashi, M., Jadoul, Y., Martins, M., Oseki, Y., Rodrigues, E. D., Vasileva, O., & Wacewicz, S. (Eds.). The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE) (705–707). Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE). https://doi.org/10.17617/2.3398549

Encyclopedia entries

Fiala, V., Saribay, S. A., & Szala, A. (2024). Facial characteristics: Mate preferences. In: Shackelford, T. K. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08956-5_918-1

Szala, A. & Shackelford, T. K. (2019). Inclusive fitness. In: J. Vonk & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. New York: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55065-7_1997

Szala, A. & Shackelford, T. K. (2019). Origin of Species. In: J. Vonk & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. New York: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_539-1

Szala, A. & Shackelford, T. K. (2019). Polyandry. In: J. Vonk & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. New York: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1977-1

Szala, A. & Shackelford, T. K. (2019). Polygynandry. In: J. Vonk & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. New York: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1904-1

Szala, A. & Shackelford, T. K. (2019). Sex ratio. In: J. Vonk & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. New York: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_376-1