Marco Del Giudice

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, University of Turin
Ph.D. in Cognitive Science

email: marco.delgiudice@unito.it

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Research Interests

My main research area is the evolutionary study of human development across the life span. This is an exciting and rapidly growing field, rife with opportunities for theoretical synthesis and interdisciplinary integration. My research interests cover a wide range of topics, from attachment and parent-child relations to personality and psychopathology; indeed, the evolutionary paradigm cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries, revealing psychology as a unified scientific endeavor and the human life course as an integrated whole. A common thread underlying much of my current work is the application of life history theory and sexual selection theory to the study of individual and sex differences in attachment, mating, social competition, and personality. A related topic is the evolution of developmental stages and transitions. I’m also interested in the neurobiological, endocrine, and genetic mechanisms that mediate the organization of individual differences and their development over the life course. Finally, I’m interested in gene-environment interactions, genomic imprinting, and parent-offspring conflict in physiology and behavior.

Alongside my main research projects, I work on a number of loosely related topics in early human development, social neuroscience, and emotion psychology. My favorite themes are developmental plasticity and canalization, the ecological approach to cognition and perception, and the expression and recognition of emotion.

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2013

Del Giudice, M., Ellis, B. J., & Shirtcliff, E. A. (2013).
Making sense of stress: An evolutionary-developmental framework.
In G. Laviola & S. Macrì (Eds.), Adaptive and maladaptive aspects of developmental stress (pp. 23-43).
New York: Springer.
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Becchio, C., Del Giudice, M., Dal Monte, O., Latini-Corazzini, L., & Pia, L. (2013).
In your place: Neuropsychological evidence for altercentric remapping in embodied perspective taking.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 165-170.
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Ellis, B. J., Del Giudice, M., & Shirtcliff, E. A. (2013).
Beyond allostatic load: The stress response system as a mechanism of conditional adaptation.
In T. P. Beauchaine & S. P. Hinshaw (Eds.), Child and adolescent psychopathology, 2nd ed. (pp. 251-284).
New York: Wiley.
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2012

Del Giudice, M. (2012).
Sex ratio dynamics and fluctuating selection on personality.
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 297, 48-60.
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Del Giudice, M. (2012).
Fetal programming by maternal stress: Insights from a conflict perspective.
Psychoneuroendocrinology, 37, 1614-1629.
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Del Giudice, M. (2012).
[Book review] Principles of social evolution: The grandeur of inclusive fitness.
Human Ethology Bulletin, 27, 5-7.
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Del Giudice, M. (2012).
[Letter] The twentieth century reversal of pink-blue gender coding: A scientific urban legend?
Archives of Sexual Behavior, 41, 1321-1323.
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Del Giudice, M., Angeleri, R., & Manera, V. (2012).
Juvenility and the juvenile transition.
In R. J. R. Levesque (Ed.), Encyclopedia of adolescence.
(pp. 1534-1537). New York: Springer.
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Del Giudice, M., Booth, T., & Irwing, P. (2012).
The distance between Mars and Venus: Measuring global sex differences in personality.
PLoS ONE, 7, e29265.
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Del Giudice, M., Hinnant, J. B., Ellis, B. J., & El-Sheikh, M. (2012).
Adaptive patterns of stress responsivity: A preliminary investigation.
Developmental Psychology, 48, 775-790.
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Bailey, D. H., Lippa, R. A., Del Giudice, M., Hames, R., & Geary, D. C. (2012).
[Letter] Sex differences in spatial abilities: Methodological problems in Hoffman et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1114679109.
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Ellis, B. J., Del Giudice, M., Dishion, T. J., Figueredo, A. J., Gray, P., Griskevicius, V., et al. (2012).
The evolutionary basis of risky adolescent behavior: Implications for science, policy, and practice.
Developmental Psychology, 48, 598-623.
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Frankenhuis, W. E., & Del Giudice, M. (2012).
When do adaptive developmental mechanisms yield maladaptive outcomes?
Developmental Psychology, 48, 628-642.
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Sih, A., & Del Giudice, M. (2012).
Linking behavioural syndromes and cognition: A behavioural ecology perspective.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, 367, 2762-2772.
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2011

Del Giudice, M. (2011).
Sex differences in romantic attachment: A meta-analysis.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 193-214.
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Del Giudice, M. (2011).
Alone in the dark? Modeling the conditions for visual experience in human fetuses.
Developmental Psychobiology, 53, 214-219.
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Del Giudice, M., & Belsky, J. (2011).
Parent-child relationships.
In C. A. Salmon & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of evolutionary family psychology.
(pp. 65-82). New York: Oxford University Press.
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Del Giudice, M., & Belsky, J. (2011).
The development of life history strategies: Toward a multi-stage theory.
In D. M. Buss & P. H. Hawley (Eds.), The evolution of personality and individual differences.
(pp. 154-176). New York: Oxford University Press.
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Del Giudice, M., Ellis, B. J., & Shirtcliff, E. A. (2011).
The Adaptive Calibration Model of stress responsivity.
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 35, 1562-1592.
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Colle, L., & Del Giudice, M. (2011).
Patterns of attachment and emotional competence in middle childhood.
Social Development, 20, 51-72.
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Manera, V., Del Giudice, M., Bara, B.G., Verfaillie, K., & Becchio, C. (2011).
The second-agent effect: Communicative gestures increase the likelihood of perceiving a second agent.
PLoS ONE, 6, e22650.
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Manera, V., Del Giudice, M., Grandi, E., & Colle, L. (2011).
Individual differences in the recognition of enjoyment smiles: No role for perceptual-attentional factors and autistic-like traits.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 143.
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Schlomer, G. L., Del Giudice, M., & Ellis, B. J. (2011).
Parent-offspring conflict theory: An evolutionary framework for understanding conflict within human families.
Psychological Review, 118, 496-521.
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2010

Del Giudice, M. (2010).
Reduced fertility in patients’ families is consistent with the sexual selection model of schizophrenia and schizotypy.
PLoS ONE, 5, e16040.
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Del Giudice, M., Angeleri, R., Brizio, A., & Elena, M. R. (2010).
The evolution of autistic-like and schizotypal traits: A sexual selection hypothesis.
Frontiers in Psychology, 1, 41.
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Del Giudice, M., & Belsky, J. (2010).
Sex differences in attachment emerge in middle childhood: An evolutionary hypothesis.
Child Development Perspectives, 4, 97-105.
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Del Giudice, M., & Belsky, J. (2010).
[Authors' response] Evolving attachment theory: Beyond Bowlby and back to Darwin.
Child Development Perspectives, 4, 112-113.
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2009

Del Giudice, M. (2009).
On the real magnitude of psychological sex differences.
Evolutionary Psychology, 7, 264-279.
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Supplementary material: Mahalanobis D: R scripts and an Excel utility

Del Giudice, M. (2009).
Sex, attachment, and the development of reproductive strategies.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 1-21.
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Del Giudice, M. (2009).
[Author's response] Human reproductive strategies: An emerging synthesis?
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 45-55.
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Del Giudice, M., Angeleri, R., & Manera, V. (2009).
The juvenile transition: A developmental switch point in human life history.
Developmental Review, 29, 1-31.
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Del Giudice, M., Manera, V., & Keysers, C. (2009).
Programmed to learn? The ontogeny of mirror neurons.
Developmental Science, 12, 350-363.
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Barone, L., Del Giudice, M., Fossati, A., Manaresi, F., Actis Perinetti, B., Castelli, P., et al. (2009).
Psychometric properties of the Manchester Child Attachment Story Task: An Italian multicentre study.
International Journal of Behavioral Development, 33, 185-190.
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2008

Del Giudice, M. (2008).
Sex-biased ratio of avoidant/ambivalent attachment in middle childhood.
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 26, 369-379.
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2007

Del Giudice, M. (2007).
The evolutionary biology of cryptic pregnancy: A re-appraisal of the ‘denied pregnancy’ phenomenon.
Medical Hypotheses, 68, 250-258.
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Del Giudice, M., & Colle, L. (2007).
Differences between children and adults in the recognition of enjoyment smiles.
Developmental Psychology, 43, 796-803.
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2006

Del Giudice, M. (2006).
Increased residual variance at developmental switch points: Statistical artifact or indicator of exposed genotypic influence?
Evolution, 60, 192-195.
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Supplementary material: Erratum