Early Life and Educational Background
Paul L. Vasey was born in Toronto, Canada, on January 30, 1966. He received his B.A. (honors) from the University of Alberta in Edmonton (1989), his M.A. from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia (1991), and his Ph.D. from the Université de Montréal in Québec (1997). He conducted postdoctoral research at the Université de Montréal and Concordia University in Montréal and at York University in Toronto.
Research Interests
Japanese Macaque Research
For over two decades, Paul L. Vasey has carried out long-term research on the development and evolution of female homosexual behavior in captive and free-ranging Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). His Japanese macaque field sites included Arashiyama (near Kyoto) and Minoo (near Osaka). Vasey’s work demonstrated that female homosexual behavior in Japanese macaques is not used to facilitate adaptive social goals (reviewed in Vasey 2006). This evidence-based claim was a significant departure...
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Leca, J.-B., Gunst, N., Ottenheimer-Carrier, L., & Vasey, P. L. (2014). Intergroup variation in non-conceptive mounting behavior in Japanese macaques: could it be cultural? Animal Behavior and Cognition, 1, 381–405.
Leca, J.-B., Gunst, N., Huffman, M. J., & Vasey, P. L. (2015a). Effect of female-biased sex ratios on female homosexual behavior in Japanese macaques: evidence for the “bisexual preference hypothesis”. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 2125–2138.
Leca, J.-B., Gunst, N., & Vasey, P. L. (2015b). Comparative development of heterosexual and homosexual behaviors in free-ranging female Japanese macaques. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 1215–1231.
Petterson, L. J., Dixson, B. J., Little, A. C., & Vasey, P. L. (2015). Viewing time measures of sexual orientation in Samoan cisgender men who engage in sexual interactions with fa’afafine. PLoS ONE, 10(2), e0116529.
Petterson, L. J., Dixson, B. J., Little, A. C., & Vasey, P. L. (2016). Reconsidering male bisexuality: sexual activity role and sexual attraction in Samoan men who engage in sexual interactions with fa’afafine. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 3, 11–26.
Semenyna, S., & Vasey, P. L. (2016). Sex and male sexual orientation differences in occupational preferences in Samoa. Human Nature, 27, 283.
Semenyna, S., Petterson, L. J., VanderLaan, D. P., & Vasey, P. L. (2016). Reproductive output by the relatives of Samoan men and fa’afafine: a replication study. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 31, 51–62.
VanderLaan, D. P., Ren, Z., & Vasey, P. L. (2013). Male androphilia in the ancestral environment: an ethnological analysis. Human Nature, 24, 375–401.
VanderLaan, D. P., Petterson, L. J., & Vasey, P. L. (2016). Femininity and kin-directed altruism in homosexual men: a test of an evolutionary developmental model. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 45, 619–633.
Vasey, P.L. (1998). Female choice and inter-sexual competition for female sexual partners in Japanese macaques. Behaviour, 135: 579–597.
Vasey, P. L. (2006). The pursuit of pleasure: homosexual behaviour, sexual reward and evolutionary history in Japanese macaques. In V. Sommer & P. L. Vasey (Eds.), Homosexual behaviour in animals: an evolutionary perspective (pp. 191–219). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Vasey, P. L., & VanderLaan, D. P. (2012). Is female homosexual behaviour in Japanese macaque truly sexual? In J. B. Leca, M. J. Huffman, & P. L. Vasey (Eds.), The monkeys of stormy mountain: over half a century of research on the Arashiyama Macaques (pp. 153–172). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Vasey, P. L., & VanderLaan, D. P. (2014). Evolving research on the evolution of male androphilia. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 23, 137–147.
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Vasey, P. (2016). Vasey, Paul. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1511-1
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