Publications & manuscripts

Samara, I. (2026). When friendliness looks like desire. Nature Reviews Psychology. Advance online publication.

Samara, I. (2026). Sexual overperception as a proximate identification problem. Evolution and Human Behavior, 47(5), 106947.

Samara, I. (2026). Predict this: minimal commitments for testable predictive processing explanations. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 188, 106822.

Roth, T. S., Massen, J. J. M., & Samara, I. (2026). Inconsistent use of evolutionary frameworks in accounts of romantic relationships. Invited commentary. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Samara, I. (2026). Signal detection theory with multilevel models for dyadic judgments: a practical tutorial for psychological research. Methods in Psychology, 15, 100258.

Samara, I. (2026). Estimating consent clarity requires sampling absence, refusal, and withdrawal. Archives of Sexual Behavior. Advance online publication.

Samara, I. (2026). When felt states become social evidence: an identifiability framework for hot-state social inference. PsyArXiv.

Samara, I., Eastwick, P. W., Finkel, E. J., Back, M. D., Schild, C., & Roth, T. S. (under review). Desire lowers the threshold for perceiving reciprocation in early romantic interactions.

Samara, I., Fiacchino, D., Roth, T. S., de Vries, E., Kret, M. E., & Nikolić, M. (under review). The subtle art of seduction: mimicry of coy smiles enhances interpersonal attraction.

Samara, I., & van Dijk, A. (under review). The timing of post-conflict repair: a comparative review in Pan and humans.

Samara, I. (under review). Decision speed tracks generosity in giving but not in cooperation.

Samara, I., Roth, T. S., Nikolić, M., & Kret, M. E. (in preparation). Investigating the functional projection hypothesis: a replication of Maner et al. (2005).

Roth, T. S., Samara, I., & Kret, M. E. (in preparation). "I go bananas for you": extending sexually selective cognition to non-human primates.

Roth, T. S., Samara, I., Perea-García, J. O., & Kret, M. E. (2024). No immediate attentional bias towards or choice bias for male secondary sexual characteristics in Bornean orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus). Scientific Reports, 14(1), 12095.

Samara, I. (2024). How do we form romantic bonds? Investigating the effect of attraction on social cognition. Doctoral dissertation, Leiden University.

Roth, T. S., Samara, I., Perea-García, J. O., & Kret, M. E. (2023). Individual attractiveness preferences differentially modulate immediate and voluntary attention. Scientific Reports, 13, 2147.

Samara, I., Roth, T. S., Nikolić, M., Prochazkova, E., & Kret, M. E. (2023). Can third-party observers detect attraction in others based on subtle nonverbal cues? Current Psychology, 42(22), 18928–18942.

Roth, T. S., Du, X., Samara, I., & Kret, M. E. (2022). Attractiveness modulates attention, but does not enhance gaze cueing. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 16(4), 343–361.

Kret, M. E., Venneker, D., Evans, B., Samara, I., & Sauter, D. (2021). The ontogeny of human laughter. Biology Letters, 17(9).

Roth, T. S., Samara, I., & Kret, M. E. (2021). Multimodal mate choice: exploring the effects of sight, sound, and scent on partner choice in a speed-date paradigm. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42(5), 461–468.

Samara, I., Roth, T. S., & Kret, M. E. (2021). The role of emotion projection, sexual desire, and self-rated attractiveness in the sexual overperception bias. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 50(6), 2507–2516.

Samara, I.^†, Roth, T. S.^†, Tan, J., Prochazkova, E., & Kret, M. E. (2021). A comparative framework of inter-individual coordination and pair-bonding. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 39, 98–105. · ^† shared first authorship

Roth, T. S., Samara, I., & Kret, M. E. (2021). Ultimate and proximate factors underlying sexual overperception bias: a reply to Lee et al. (2020). Evolution and Human Behavior, 42(1), 73–75.

Wang, B., Samara, I., & Theeuwes, J. (2019). Statistical regularities bias overt attention. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81, 1813–1821.