I am Professor of Psychology at Saint Mary’s University, Santamarian Research Chair in Science, and Affiliate Faculty at the Kinsey Institute.
Curriculum Vitae: download my CV (PDF, October 2026)
Full publication lists: Google Scholar · ORCID · ResearchGate · Saint Mary’s University profile
For my books, please see the Books page.
Selected 2026 journal articles
- Fisher, M. L. (2026). The battle of the brides: Co-wife competition and aggression across 19 cultures. Evolution and Human Behavior, 47(6), 106957. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2026.106957
- Fisher, M. L., Figueroa, O., Valenzuela, N., Thorne, F., Polo, P., Muñoz-Reyes, J. A., Aldunate, N., & Ramirez, S. (2026). Kill them with kindness: Preliminary evidence for women’s competitive altruism. Frontiers in Psychology, 17, 1924479. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1924479
- Fisher, M. L., Komatsu, H., Kubota, H., Tanaka, N., Griffin, M., & Geher, G. (2026). Green and generous: Virtue signalling environmentalism and community-mindedness from an evolutionary perspective. Evolutionary Psychology, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/14747049261423756
- Fisher, M. L., Larsen, M., & Kennair, L. E. O. (2026). But what of women? A look at some of the implications of men’s unequal outcomes. Politics and the Life Sciences. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/pls.2026.10030
- Fisher, M. L., Wade, T. J., Komatsu, H., Tanaka, N., Kubota, H., Burch, R., Salmon, C., & Widman, D. (2026). Attachment bonds and baby booms: A cross-cultural study of reproductive success. International Journal of Psychology, 61(3), e70214. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.70214
- Fisher, M. L., Wade, T. J., Komatsu, H., Tanaka, N., Kubota, H., Burch, R., Salmon, C., & Widman, D. (2026). How many? The Big Five and the number of children across three cultures. Culture and Evolution. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1556/2055.2026.00073
- French, J. E., Barron, E., Altgelt, E. E., Fisher, M. L., & Meltzer, A. L. (2026). Hormonal contraceptives and women’s mate-value-related traits and outcomes. Human Nature. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-026-09529-w
- Larsen, M., Fisher, M. L., Komatsu, H., & Kennair, L. E. O. (2026). Bridging a reproductively oriented evolutionary psychology and interdisciplinary perspectives to the emerging reproductive crisis. Evolutionary Psychological Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-026-00478-2
- Larsen, M., Fisher, M. L., & Salmon, C. (2026). Freedom from nature: Voicing the desires of the first sexual revolution in the epistolary romance of Heloise and Abelard. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000401
- Larsen, M., Kennair, L. E. O., & Fisher, M. L. (2026). Toward individualistic reproduction: Solving the fertility crisis could require a further marginalization of men. Politics and the Life Sciences. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/pls.2026.10020
- MacEacheron, M., & Fisher, M. L. (2026). Evolutionary analysis of the use and reported meaning of a mother-related swear word. EvoS Journal: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium, 16, 78–100. https://doi.org/10.59077/ujhw2960
- Widman, D. R., Fisher, M. L., & Burch, R. L. (2026). Possible influence of psychological distance to women’s intrasexual mating competition. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 20(4), 386–400. https://doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000344