Publications

Swami V, Arteche A, Chamorro-Premuzic T, Furnham A, Stieger S, Voracek M. Looking good: Factors affecting the likelihood of having cosmetic surgery. European Journal of Plastic Surgery. 2008;30:211-218.

Niederkrotenthaler T, Till B, Herberth A, Kapusta ND, Voracek M, Dervic K et al.. Media portrayals of suicide and imitative effects: Influence of media contents and characteristics of the recipients. 2008. Beitrag in 12th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behavior, Glasgow, Großbritannien / Vereinigtes Königreich.

Voracek M, Formann A. Meta-analysis of sex differences in Piaget's water-level tasks: Summarizing 50 years of research. International Journal of Psychology. 2008;43:67-67.

Pavlovic S, Voracek M, Formann A. Meta-analysis of sex differences in Piaget’s water-level tasks: Summarizing 50 years of research. International Journal of Psychology. 2008;43(3-4):67. doi: 10.1080/00207594.2008.10108483

Pavlovic S, Voracek M, Formann A. Meta-analysis of sex differences in Piaget’s water-level tasks: Summarizing 50 years of research. 2008. Beitrag in XXIXth International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Deutschland.

Voracek M, Kapusta ND, Niederkrotenthaler T, Dervic K, Sonneck G. Not carried away by a moonlight shadow: No evidence for associations between suicide occurrence and lunar phase among more than 65,000 suicide cases in Austria, 1970-2006. Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift: The Central European Journal of Medicine. 2008;120:343-349.

Tran U, Formann A. Piaget's water-level tasks: Performance across the lifespan with emphasis on the elderly. Personality and Individual Differences. 2008;45(3):232-237.

Voracek M. Prenatal sex-hormonal programming of behavior: Progress of digit ratio (2D:4D) research and implications for psychology. International Journal of Psychology. 2008;43:378-378.

Klug C, Berzaczy D, Voracek M, Millesi W. Preoperative chemoradiotherapy in the management of oral cancer: A review. Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery. 2008;36:75-88.

Voracek M. Psychological research on digit ratio (2D:4D): A primer. International Journal of Psychology. 2008;43(3-4):378-378.

Voracek M. Psychological research on digit ratio (2D:4D): A primer. 2008. Beitrag in XXIXth International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Deutschland.

Voracek M , Tran US, Sonneck G. Psychometric properties of the Revised Facts on Sucide Quiz in Austrian medical and psychology undergraduates. Death Studies: counseling - research - education - care - ethics. 2008;32:937-950.

Voracek M , Tran U, Sonneck G. Psychometric properties of the Revised Facts on Suicide Quiz in Austrian medical and psychology undergraduates. Death Studies: counseling - research - education - care - ethics. 2008;32:937-950.

Pietschnig J , Voracek M, Formann A. Rauscher’s Rauschen: Meta-analytische Evidenz für Pulikations-Bias, laborbedingte Unterschiede und Nonspezifität des Mozart-Effekts. 2008. Beitrag in 8. Wissenschaftliche Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Linz, Österreich.

Voracek M, Fisher ML, Haubner T. Recent decline in nonpaternity rates: A cross-temporal meta-analysis. Psychological Reports. 2008;103:799-811. doi: 10.2466

Jürimae T, Voracek M, Jürimae J, Lätt E, Haljaste K, Purge P. Relationships between finger-length ratios, ghrelin, leptin, IGF axis, and sex steroids in young male and female swimmers. European Journal of Applied Physiology. 2008;104:523-529.

Voracek M. Sex differences in directional asymmetry of digit length and its effects on sex differences in digit ratio (2D:4D). Perceptual and Motor Skills. 2008;107:576-586.

Fisher ML, Rekkas PV, Voracek M. Sex differences in feelings of guilt arising from infidelity. Evolutionary Psychology. 2008;6:436-446.

Voracek M. State IQ and elderly suicide rates in the United States. Psychological Reports. 2008;102(2):601-602.

Voracek M, Marusic A. Testing the Finno-Ugrian Suicide Hypothesis: Geographic variation of elderly suicide rates across Europe. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. 2008;62:302-308.

Voracek M, Swami V, Vintila M, Kölves K, Sinniah D, Pillai SK et al. The Beliefs in the Inheritance of Risk Factors for Suicide Scale (BIRFSS): Cross-cultural validation in Estonia, Malaysia, Romania, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior: the official journal of the American Association of Suicidology. 2008;38:688-698.

Voracek M. The contributions of Hans-Dieter Rösler: Pioneer of digit ratio (2D:4D) research. Psychological Reports. 2008;103:899-916.

Voracek M. The Gender Similarities Hypothesis of Hyde (2005) versus the reality of evidence for substantial and practically important psychological sex differences across many domains: Methodological critique, examples, and reappraisal. Romanian Journal of Applied Psychology. 2008;10(1-2):5-8.

Fisher ML, Tran U , Voracek M. The influence of relationship status, mate seeking, and sex on intrasexual competition. The Journal of Social Psychology. 2008;148(4):493-512.

Swami V, Rozmus-Wrzesinska M, Voracek M, Danel D, Pawlowski B, Stanistreet D et al. The influence of skin tone, body weight, and hair colour on perceptions of women's attractiveness and health: A cross-cultural investigation. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology. 2008;6(4):321-341. doi: 10.1556/jep.6.2008.4.4

Voracek M, Sonneck G. The malleability of beliefs in the genetics of suicide: An intervention study with the Beliefs in the Inheritance of Risk Factors for Suicide Scale (BIRFSS). Psychiatria Danubina. 2008;20(1):16-25.

Voracek M. The relation of digit ratio (2D:4D) and absolute finger length to Pavlovian temperament dimensions. Psychological Reports. 2008;103:783-792.

Voracek M, Haubner T. Twin-singleton differences in intelligence: A meta-analysis. Psychological Reports. 2008;102(3):951-962. doi: 10.2466

Schmitt DP, Realo A, Voracek M, Allik J. Why can't a man be more like a woman? Sex differences in Big Five personality traits across 55 cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 2008;94(1):168-182. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.94.1.168

Pietschnig J , Voracek M, Formann A. Wishful thinking: Meta-analysis reveals publication bias, lab differences, and nonspecificity in the Mozart effect. International Journal of Psychology. 2008;43(3-4):690-690. doi: 10.1080/00207594.2008.10108486

Voracek M, Vintila M, Muranyi D. A further test of the Finno-Ugrian Suicide Hypothesis: Correspondence of county suicide rates in Romania and population proportion of ethnic Hungarians. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 2007;(105):1209-1222.

Fessler DMT, Haley K, Asaridou SS, Cravalho M, Delgado T, Fisher ML et al.. Additional cross-cultural evidence for the role of foot size relative to stature in judgments of attractiveness and age. 2007. Beitrag in 19th Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Williamsburg (Virginia), USA / Vereinigte Staaten.

Voracek M. Autism and fetal androgens: Commentary on Levy et al. (Lancet 2009; 374: 1627-38). 2007. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/ze8ps

Voracek M. Belief and disbelief in the existence of genetic risk factors for suicide: cross-cultural comparisons. Psychological Reports. 2007;(101):1189-1195.

Voracek M, Swami V, Loibl L, Furnham A. Beliefs in genetic determinism and attitudes towards psychiatric genetic research: Psychometric scale properties, construct associations, demographic correlates, and cross-cultural comparisons. Psychological Reports. 2007;101:979-986.

Voracek M, Loibl L, Sonneck G. Beliefs in the Inheritance of Risk Factors for Suicide Scale: Development, reliability, stability, and convergent and discriminant validity. Psychological Reports. 2007;(101):1107-1117.

Scharnowski F, Hermens F, Herzog MH. Bloch's law and the dynamics of feature fusion. Vision Research. 2007;47(18):2444-2452. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.05.004

Voracek M, Loibl L, Egle J, Schleicher S, Sonneck G. Correlates, item-sequence invariance, and test-retest reliability of the Beliefs in the Inheritance of Risk Factors for Suicide Scale (BIRFSS). Psychological Reports. 2007;101:1107-1117.

Voracek M , Tran U. Dietary tryptophan intake and suicide rate in industrialized nations. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2007;98:259-262.

Voracek M, Bagdonas A, Dressler S. Digit ratio (2D:4D) in Lithuania once and now: Testing for sex differences, relations with eye and hair color, and a possible secular change. Collegium Antropologicum. 2007;31(3):863-868.

Voracek M, Dressler S. Digit ratio (2D:4D) in twins: Heritability estimates and evidence for a masculinized trait expression in women from opposite-sex pairs. Psychological Reports. 2007;(100):115-126.

Voracek M, Offenmüller D. Digit ratios (2D:4D and other) and relative thumb length: A test of developmental stability. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 2007;(105):143-152.

Voracek M. Digit-ratio (2D:4D) research for differential psychologists: An introduction. 2007. Beitrag in 9. Arbeitstagung der Fachgruppe für Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik, Wien, Österreich.

Voracek M. Early 20th century social ecology of U.S. state IQ and suicide rates: Evidence from the Army Alpha and Beta Intelligence Test data of Yerkes (1921). Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal. 2007;(35):1027-1030.

Gold C, Wigram T, Voracek M. Effectiveness of music therapy for children and adolescents with psychopathology: A quasi-experimental study. Psychotherapy Research. 2007;(17):292-300.

Voracek M. Evidence for a positive ecological correlation of regional intelligence and suicide mortality in the United States during the early 20th century. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 2007;105:391-402.

Voracek M, Dressler S, Manning JT. Evidence for assortative mating on digit ratio (2D:4D), a biomarker for prenatal androgen exposure. Journal of Biosocial Science. 2007;39:599-612.

Voracek M , Tran U, Sonneck G. Facts and myths about seasonal variation in suicide. Psychological Reports. 2007;(100):810-814.

Scharnowski F, Hermens F, Kammer T, Ögmen H, Herzog MH. Feature fusion reveals slow and fast visual memories. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2007;19(4):632-641. doi: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.4.632