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Bruce Ellis is an evolutionary developmental psychologist who has made significant contributions to research on sexual development and reproductive strategies and on biological susceptibility to environmental stressors.
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Bruce Joel Ellis is an evolutionary developmental psychologist who has held academic positions at various institutions that include senior lecturer at the University of Canterbury and the John and Doris Norton Endowed Chair in Fathers, Parenting, and Families and professor at the University of Arizona. Dr. Ellis’ most recent academic appointment is professor at the University of Utah in the Departments of Psychology and Anthropology. He is also the director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Research Network on Adaptations to Childhood Stress. While Professor Ellis’ contributions span across diverse domains of evolutionary psychology, his notable work broadly focuses on aspects of household and ecological context and its impact on sexual...
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Belsky, J., Steinberg, L., & Draper, P. (1991). Childhood experience, interpersonal development, and reproductive strategy: an evolutionary theory of socialization. Child Development, 62, 647–670.
Boyce, W. T., & Ellis, B. J. (2005). Biological sensitivity to context: I. An evolutionary-developmental theory of the origins and functions of stress reactivity. Development and Psychopathology, 17, 271–301.
Del Giudice, M., Ellis, B. J., & Shirtcliff, E. A. (2011). The adaptive calibration model of stress responsivity. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 35, 1562–1592.
Ellis, B. J. (2004). Timing of pubertal maturation in girls: an integrated life history approach. Psychological Bulletin, 130, 920–958.
Ellis, B. J. (2011). On becoming an evolutionary-developmental psychologist. In X. T. Wang & Y. J. Su (Eds.), Thus spake evolutionary psychologists (pp. 158–166). Beijing: Peking University Press.
Ellis, B. J., & Del Giudice, M. (2014). Beyond allostatic load: rethinking the role of stress in regulating human development. Development and Psychopathology, 26, 1–20.
Ellis, B. J., & Essex, M. J. (2007). Family environments, adrenarche, and sexual maturation: a longitudinal test of a life history model. Child Development, 78, 1799–1817.
Ellis, B. J., Figueredo, A. J., Brumbach, B. H., & Schlomer, G. L. (2009). Fundamental dimensions of environmental risk: the impact of harsh versus unpredictable environments on the evolution and development of life history strategies. Human Nature, 20, 204–268.
Ellis, B. J., & Garber, J. (2000). Psychosocial antecedents of variation in girls’ pubertal timing: maternal depression, stepfather presence, and marital and family stress. Child Development, 71, 485–501.
Ellis, B. J., & Symons, D. (1990). Sex differences in sexual fantasy: an evolutionary psychological approach. The Journal of Sex Research, 27, 490–521.
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de Baca, T.C. (2016). Bruce J. Ellis. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1929-1
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