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Robert Deaner
PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer
1,835 Points

Contributions by role

Author 405
Reviewer 30
Editor 1,400
Answers 35

Contributions by subject area

Kinesiology
Psychiatry and Psychology
Evolutionary Studies
Anthropology
Public Health
Human-Computer Interaction
Animal Behavior
Neuroscience
Health Policy
Translational Medicine
Agricultural Science
Zoology

By Q&A topic

Evolutionary-studies
Psychiatry-and-psychology

Robert O Deaner

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

I earned my PhD in the Department of Biological Anthropology & Anatomy at Duke University (1995 – 2001), and my advisor was Carel van Schaik. Although I conducted some research on wild primates, my doctoral research consisted of comparative studies of primate life history, social systems, and cognition.

I did postdoctoral research in Duke’s Department of Neurobiology (2001-2006), and my supervisor was Michael Platt. My research focused on mechanisms of social attention in primates. During this time I took up distance running and began investigating sex differences in performance and motivation.

In 2006, I joined the Psychology Department at Grand Valley State University.

Animal Behavior Anthropology Evolutionary Studies Psychiatry & Psychology Science & Medical Education Science Policy

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Grand Valley State University

Work details

Professor of Psychology

Grand Valley State University
Psychology Department
My focus is using evolutionary theory to understand human behavior. My current research chiefly addresses sex differences in motivation, especially in sports.

Websites

  • Deaner website
  • Google Scholar
  • ResearchGate

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 3
  • Edited 10
  • Answers 2
July 21, 2016
Fast men slow more than fast women in a 10 kilometer road race
Robert O. Deaner, Vittorio Addona, Rickey E. Carter, Michael J. Joyner, Sandra K. Hunter
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2235 PubMed 27547544
April 21, 2015
Does the sex difference in competitiveness decrease in selective sub-populations? A test with intercollegiate distance runners
Robert O. Deaner, Aaron Lowen, William Rogers, Eric Saksa
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.884 PubMed 25922790
June 26, 2014
You can’t teach speed: sprinters falsify the deliberate practice model of expertise
Michael P. Lombardo, Robert O. Deaner
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.445 PubMed 25024914

Academic Editor on

October 8, 2021
Evaluation of cognitive load in team sports: literature review
Joan Fuster, Toni Caparrós, Lluis Capdevila
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12045 PubMed 34707923
May 29, 2018
Associations between psychometrically assessed life history strategy and daily behavior: data from the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR)
Joseph H. Manson
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4866 PubMed 29868275
July 25, 2017
The influence of mortality and socioeconomic status on risk and delayed rewards: a replication with British participants
Gillian V. Pepper, D Helen Corby, Rachel Bamber, Holly Smith, Nicky Wong, Daniel Nettle
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3580 PubMed 28761784
March 9, 2017
Human head orientation and eye visibility as indicators of attention for goats (Capra hircus)
Christian Nawroth, Alan G. McElligott
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3073 PubMed 28289568
October 27, 2016
Human altruistic tendencies vary with both the costliness of selfless acts and socioeconomic status
Cyril C. Grueter, Jesse A. Ingram, James W. Lewisson, Olivia R. Bradford, Melody Taba, Rebecca E. Coetzee, Michelle A. Sherwood
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2610 PubMed 27812415
August 16, 2016
Moderate evidence for a Lombard effect in a phylogenetically basal primate
Christian Schopf, Sabine Schmidt, Elke Zimmermann
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2328 PubMed 27602292
March 10, 2016
Within-person variability in men’s facial width-to-height ratio
Robin S.S. Kramer
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1801 PubMed 26989634
December 1, 2015
Watching eyes on potential litter can reduce littering: evidence from two field experiments
Melissa Bateson, Rebecca Robinson, Tim Abayomi-Cole, Josh Greenlees, Abby O’Connor, Daniel Nettle
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1443 PubMed 26644979
May 21, 2015
Sex differences in human gregariousness
Joyce F. Benenson, Sandra Stella, Anthony Ferranti
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.974 PubMed 26038729
February 17, 2015
Your wish is my command! The influence of symbolic modelling on preschool children’s delay of gratification
S Kumst, D Scarf
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.774 PubMed 25737814

2 Answers

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How is this different from the basketball example?
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accepted Is it fair to measure relative improvement this way?