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I am interested in how mating systems, mating strategies, mate choice and mating effort allocation have been shaped by sexual selection and other processes. I have conducted research on both human and nonhuman behaviour, but my graduate thesis is focused on my work with Homo sapiens.
| 2000 - Present | PhD Candidate Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science McMaster University Research: Evolutionary Psychology Supervisors: Martin Daly & Margo Wilson |
| 1999 - 2000 | Research Assistant Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science University of Toronto Employer: Scott MacDougall-Shackleton |
| Summer 1999 | Research Assistant Department of Biology, Faculty of Science University of Toronto Employer: Darryl Gwynne |
| 1995 - 1999 | Honours BSc (graduated with high distinction) Animal Behaviour Departments of Biology and Psychology, Faculty of Science University of Toronto Undergraduate thesis: "Female mate choice in black-horned tree crickets (Oecanthus nigricornis): discrimination between mates based on gift size" Undergraduate supervisor: Darryl Gwynne (with special thanks to Luc Bussiere) |
Clark, A.P., & Daly, M. (2005). What is the significance of cross-national variability in sociosexuality? A response to target article, "Sociosexuality from Argentina to Zimbabwe: A 48-Nation Study of Sex, Culture, and Strategies of Human Mating" by David Schmitt. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 247-311.
Bussiere, L.F., Clark, A.P., & Gwynne, D.T. (2005). Precopulatory choice for cues of material benefits in tree crickets. Behavioral Ecology, 16, 255-259.
Sakaluk, S.K., Campbell, M.T.H., Clark, A.P., Johnson, J.C., & Keorpes, P. (2004). Male haemolymph loss during nuptial feeding as a proximate mechanism underlying the virgin-male mating advantage in sagebrush crickets. Behavioral Ecology, 15, 845-849.
Clark, A.P. (2004). Self-perceived attractiveness and masculinization predict women's sociosexuality. Evolution and Human Behavior, 25, 113-124.
MacDougall-Shackleton, S.A., Sherry, D.F., Clark, A.P., Pinkus, R., & Hernandez, A.M. (2003). Photoperiodic regulation of food-storing and hippocampus volume in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapilla). Animal Behaviour, 65, 805-812.
MacDougall-Shackleton, S.A., Hernandez, A.M., Valyear, K.F., & Clark A.P. (2003). Photostimulation induces rapid growth of song-control brain regions in male and female chickadees (Poecile atricapilla). Neuroscience Letters, 340, 165-168.
Clark, A.P. (submitted). Attracting interest: Displays of proceptivity increase the attractiveness of men and women. Animal Behaviour.
Mishra, S., Clark, A.P., Daly, M. (submitted). One woman's behaviour affects the attractiveness of others. Proceeding of the Royal Society of London, Series B.
Clark, A.P. (in prep). Men and women and the SOI: Comparing correlates of sociosexuality between the sexes.
Clark, A.P. "Predictors of sociosexual variation in women." Oral presentation at the McMaster Psychology In-House Conference, McMaster University,, June 2005.
Clark, A.P. "Cues of receptivity influence judgements of attractiveness." Oral presentation at the Human Behaviour and Evolution Society Conference, Austin, Texas, June 2005.
Clark, A.P. "Cues of receptivity influence judgements of attractiveness." Oral presentation at Darwin Day, Queen's University, Kingston, April 2005.
Clark, A.P. "Cues of receptivity influence judgements of attractiveness." Cognition and Perception Seminar at McMaster University, February 2005.
Clark, A.P. "Cues of receptivity influence judgements of attractiveness." Oral presentation at the Human Behaviour and Evolution Society Conference, Free University, Berlin, July 2004.
Clark, A.P. "Haemolymph loss as a mating cost for male sagebrush crickets." Oral presentation at the Animal Behavior Society Conference, Oaxaca, Mexico, June 2004.
Clark, A.P. "Haemolymph loss as a mating cost for male sagebrush crickets." Oral presentation at the McMaster Psychology In-House Conference, McMaster University, June 2004.
Clark, A.P. "Haemolymph loss as a mating cost for male sagebrush crickets." Oral presentation at the Ontario Ecology and Ethology Colloquium, May 2004.
Clark, A.P. "Masculinization and self-perceived attractiveness predict promiscuity in women." Oral presentation at the Human Behaviour and Evolution Society Conference, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, June 2003.
Clark, A.P. "Mating strategy is affected by self-perception of attractiveness in women." Poster presented at the Human Behaviour and Evolution Society Conference, Rutgers University, June 2002.
Clark, A.P. "Female mate choice in black-horned tree crickets (Oecanthus nigricornis): discrimination between mates based on gift size." Undergraduate Honours Thesis Presentations, University of Toronto at Mississauga, April 1999.