Assoc. Prof. Dr. Martin Fieder
Artikel zur Evolution der Fremdenfreundlichkeit vs. Fremdenfeindlichkeit
Book on the Evolution of Social Status and Fertility
Research Interests
I am a biologist / evolutionary anthropologist working in the field of the evolution of human behavior and the ongoing evolution in contemporary human societies.
I am convinced that without biology we understand nothing about ourselves and our societies.
So my guiding principle is best explained in the words of Baruch Spinoza:
I have tried not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, not to hate them, but to understand them.
Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus , 1676
Specifically, I work in the following areas:
- Behavior Genetics & Evolutionary Demography
- Social Status and Reproduction
- Evolution of Religion
- Human Migration in- group vs. out group attitudes
Blogs
Publications
Fieder, M. (2024). Warum sind wir fremdenfreundlich und/oder fremdenfeindlich? Eine evolutionäre Analyse. In Evolutionäre Sozialwissenschaften: Ein Rundgang (pp. 267-282). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-43624-7_15
Hopcroft, R. L., Fieder, M., & Huber, S. (2024). Not So Weird After All: The Changing Relationship Between Status and Fertility. Taylor & Francis. https://books.google.at/books?hl=en&lr=&id=TYbwEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=info:9l9hA3FQjQ0J:scholar.google.com&ots=bQx64Yd1Lv&sig=7ARkdzZWtkcZUQG71gJYcypW8UY&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Fieder, M. Huber M. Detecting Month and Year of Birth Effects on Reproduction and Marriage Patterns in Two Long-Term Us Census Data Sets. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378378224001427
Woodley of Menie, M. A., Fieder, M., Sarraf, M. A., & Peñaherrera-Aguirre, M. (2024). Requiem for Heterosis as a Cause of the Flynn Effect: Positive Combined Effects of Numbers and Lengths of Homozygosity Runs on Offspring-Parent Differences in Educational Attainment. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 1-12. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-024-00395-2
Bechtold, U., Stauder, N., & Fieder, M. (2024). Attitudes towards Technology: Insights on Rarely Discussed Influences on Older Adults’ Willingness to Adopt Active Assisted Living (AAL). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(5), 628. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/21/5/628
Fieder, M., & Schahbasi, A. (2023). Migration und sozialer Zusammenhalt: Einstellungen zu Migration als Indikator für gesellschaftliche Dynamiken. SIAK-Zeitschrift für Polizeiwissenschaft und polizeiliche Praxis, 75-90.https://www.bmi.gv.at/104/Wissenschaft_und_Forschung/SIAK-Journal/SIAK-Journal-Ausgaben/Jahrgang_2023/files/Fieder_4_2023.pdf
Fieder, M., & Huber, S. (2023). Increasing pressure on US men for income in order to find a spouse. Biodemography and Social Biology, 68(2-3), 57-75.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19485565.2023.2220950
Fieder, M., & Huber, S. (2023). Facial attractiveness is only weakly linked to genome–wide heterozygosity. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1009962. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1009962/full
Fieder, M. (2023). An Account of Behavioural Biology on the “Concept of Religion”. In Transformation of Religion (pp. 111-117). Brill Schöningh. https://brill.com/edcollchap/book/9783657790258/BP000015.xml
M. Fieder & Shahbasi A. SIAK-Journal – Zeitschrift für Polizeiwissenschaft und polizeiliche Praxis 2023: https://www.bmi.gv.at/104/Wissenschaft_und_Forschung/SIAK-Journal/SIAK-Journal-Ausgaben/Jahrgang_2023/files/Fieder_1_2023.pdf
Schahbasi, A., Huber, S., & Fieder, M. (2022). Marriage in the Melting Pot: An Evolutionary Approach to European Ancestry, Homogamy, and Fertility in the United States. Frontiers in psychology, 13, 614003. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.614003/full
Bechtold, U., Stauder, N., Fieder, M., & Wilfing, H. (2022). Stuck in the Present: A Human Lack of Ability to Visualise (Different) Needs in the Future May Hamper Timely Implementation of AAL and Supportive Technology. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(11), 6804.
file:///C:/Users/fiederm7/Downloads/ijerph-19-06804.pdf
Göllner, T., Larena, M., Kutanan, W., Lukas, H., Fieder, M., & Schaschl, H. (2022). Unveiling the Genetic History of the Maniq, a primary hunter-gatherer society. Genome Biology and Evolution, 14(4), evac021.
https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/14/4/evac021/6526392
Fieder, M., & Huber, S. (2022). Contemporary selection pressures in modern societies? Which factors best explain variance in human reproduction and mating? Evolution and Human Behavior, 43(1).
Schahbasi, A., Huber, S., & Fieder, M. (2022). Marriage in the Melting Pot: An Evolutionary Approach to European Ancestry, Homogamy, and Fertility in the United States. Frontiers in psychology, 13.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.614003/full
Fieder, M., & Huber, S. (2021). Fertility Outcomes, Heritability and Genomic Associations of In-Group Preference and In-Group Marriage. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 1-9.
Fieder, M., & Huber, S. (2021). The Evolutionary Biology of Religious Behavior. Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society, 7(1), 303-334.
https://brill.com/view/journals/jrat/7/1/article-p303_14.xml?language=en
Fieder, M., Mitchell, B. L., Gordon, S., Huber, S., & Martin, N. G. (2021). Ethnic identity and genome wide runs of homozygosity. Behavior Genetics, 1-9.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10519-021-10053-z
Bechtold, U., Stauder, N., & Fieder, M. (2021). Let’s Walk It: Mobility and the Perceived Quality of Life in Older Adults. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(21), 11515.
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/21/11515
Boland, M. R., Fieder, M., John, L. H., Rijnbeek, P. R., & Huber, S. (2020). Female Reproductive Performance and Maternal Birth Month: A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Exploring Multiple Seasonal Mechanisms. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1-13.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-57377-9
Fieder, M., & Huber, S. (2020). Effects of wife’s and husband’s income on wife’s reproduction: an evolutionary perspective on human mating. Biodemography and Social Biology, 65(1), 31-40.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32065537/
Schahbasi, A., Huber, S., & Fieder, M. (2020). Factors affecting attitudes toward migrants—An evolutionary approach. American Journal of Human Biology, e23435.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.23435
Fieder, M., Schahbasi, A., & Huber, S. (2020). Homogamy and Tribalism: How Finding a Match Can Lead to Social Disruption. In the Psychology of Extremism Ed: Katharine Aumer, (pp. 113-120). Springer, Cham.
Wallner, B., Windhager, S., Schaschl, H., Nemeth, M., Pflüger, L. S., Fieder, M., … & Seidler, H. (2019). Sexual Attractiveness: a Comparative Approach to Morphological, Behavioral and Neurophysiological Aspects of Sexual Signaling in Women and Nonhuman Primate Females. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 5(2), 164-186.
Fieder, M., Schahbasi, A., & Huber, S. (2019). Do birds of a feather flock together? Factors for religious heterogamy. Journal of Biosocial Science, 1-17. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31722758/
Fieder, M., Huber, S., Pichl, E., Wallner, B., & Seidler, H. (2018). Marriage Gap in Christians and Muslims. Journal of biosocial science, 50(2), 145-160.
Huber, S., & Fieder, M. (2018). Evidence for a maximum“ shelf-life“ of oocytes in mammals suggests that human menopause may be an implication of meiotic arrest. Scientific reports, 8, 14099.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32502-2
Primes, G., & Fieder, M. (2018). Real-life helping behaviours in North America: A genome-wide association approach. PloS one, 13(1), e0190950. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0190950
Fieder, M., & Huber, S. (2018). Political attitude and fertility: Is there a selection for the political extreme?. Frontiers in psychology, 9. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02343/full
Huber, S., & Fieder, M. (2018). Mutual compensation of the effects of religious and ethnic homogamy on reproduction. American Journal of Human Biology, 30(1), e23064.
Fieder, M., & Huber, S. (2018). Evolution and Human Reproduction. The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society, 479. Oxford University Press
Schahbasi A. & Fieder M. From Tribes to States. Evolutionary aspects of complex societiesSIAK Journal − Zeitschrift für Polizeiwissenschaft und polizeiliche Praxis (1/2018), 54 63. doi: 10.7396/2018_1_E
Schahbasi A. & Fieder M. Evolution und Integration − Zeitschrift für Polizeiwissenschaft und polizeiliche Praxis (2/2018), 67-73
Pink, K. E., Schaman, A., & Fieder, M. (2017). Sex Differences in Intergenerational Income Transmission and Educational Attainment: Testing the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 1879. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01879/full
Huber, S., Zahourek, P., & Fieder, M. (2017). Living with own or husband’s mother in the household is associated with lower number of children: a cross-cultural analysis. Royal Society open science, 4(10), 170544. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170544
Wallner, B., Windhager, S., Schaefer, K., & Fieder, M. (2017). Creativity in Higher Education: Comparative Genetic Analyses on the Dopaminergic System in Relation to Creativity, Addiction, Schizophrenia in Humans and Non-Human Primates. Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 17, 135-142.
Schahbasi A. & Fieder M. Evolution and Human Migration. Policy Implications of Anthropological Evidence. SIAK. Journal − Zeitschrift für Polizeiwissenschaft und polizeiliche Praxis (3/2017), 96 -105. doi: 10.7396/2017_3_G
Huber, S., & Fieder, M. (2016). Worldwide census Data reveal Prevalence of educational homogamy and its effect on childlessness. Frontiers in Sociology, 1, 10. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2016.00010/full
Fieder, M., & Huber, S. (2016). The association between religious homogamy and reproduction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1834), 20160294. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2016.0294#:~:text=Homogamous%20couples%20also%20share%20the,generations%20%5B58%2C59%5D.
Jäschke J. , J., Primes, G., Windhager, S., Fieder, M., & Wallner, B. (2016). Effects of Socioeconomic Status and Fairness on Salivary Cortisol. Evolutionary Psychology, 14(2), 1474704916653487. (Q4)
Fieder, M., & Huber, S. (2016). The adapting mind in the genomic era. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 78. (Q2)
Pflüger, L. S., Gutleb, D. R., Hofer, M., Fieder, M., Wallner, B., & Steinborn, R. (2016). Allelic variation of the COMT gene in a despotic primate society: A haplotype is related to cortisol excretion in Macaca fuscata. Hormones and behavior, 78, 220-230. (Q1)
Fieder, M., & Huber, S. (2015). Paternal age predicts offspring chances of marriage and reproduction. American Journal of Human Biology, 27, 339-343.
Sorz, J., Wallner, B., Seidler, H., & Fieder, M. (2015). Inconsistent year-to-year fluctuations limit the conclusiveness of global higher education rankings for university management. PeerJ, 3, e1217.
Schaschl, H., Huber, S., Schaefer, K., Windhager, S., Wallner, B., & Fieder, M. (2015). Signatures of positive selection in the cis-regulatory sequences of the human oxytocin receptor (OXTR) and arginine vasopressin receptor 1a (AVPR1A) genes. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15, 85.
https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-015-0372-7
Göllner, T., & Fieder, M. (2015). Selection in the dopamine receptor 2 gene: a candidate SNP study. PeerJ, 3, e1149.
https://peerj.com/articles/1149/
Huber, S., & Fieder, M. (2014). Advanced paternal age is associated with lower facial attractiveness. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35, 298–301.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513814000312
Windhager, S., Schaschl, H., Schaefer, K., Mitteroecker, P., Huber, S., Wallner, B., & Fieder, M. (2014). Variation at genes influencing facial morphology are not associated with developmental imprecision in human faces. PLoS ONE 9, e99009.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0099009
Domjanic, J., Fieder, M., Seidler, H., & Mitteroecker, P. (2013). Geometric morphometric footprint analysis of young women. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 6, 6-27.
Sonnweber, R. S., Stobbe, N., Zavala Romero, O., Slice, D. E., Fieder, M., & Wallner, B. (2013). A new method for the analysis of soft tissues with data acquired under field conditions. PLoS ONE 8, e67521.
Wallner, B., Fieder, M., & Seidler, H. (2012). Ownership of dwelling affects the sex ratio at birth in Uganda. PLoS ONE 7, e51463. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0051463
Fieder, M., & Huber, S. (2012). An evolutionary account of status, power, and career in modern societies. Human Nature, 23, 191-207.
Fieder, M., & Huber, S. (2012). The association between pro-social attitude and reproductive success differs between men and women. PLoS ONE 7, e33489.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0033489
Huber, S., & Fieder, M. (2011). Educational homogamy lowers the odds of reproductive failure. PLoS ONE 6, e22330.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0022330
Fieder, M., Huber, S., & Bookstein, F. L. (2011). Socio-economic status, marital status and childlessness in men and women: An analysis of census data from six countries. Journal of Biosocial Science, 43, 619 – 635.
Huber, S., & Fieder, M. (2010). Do perinatal winter-conditions affect later reproductive performance in Romanian women? Intra- and intergenerational effects. American Journal of Human Biology, 23, 546–552.
Huber, S., Bookstein F., & Fieder M. (2010). Socio-economic status and reproduction in modern women – an evolutionary-ecological perspective. American Journal of Human Biology, 22, 578–587.
Bookstein, F., Seidler, H., Fieder, M., & Winckler, G. (2010). Too much noise in the Times Higher Education rankings. Scientometrics, 85, 295-299.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2927316/
Huber, S., & Fieder, M. (2009). Reply to D. Cummings “Response to: Strong association between birth month and reproductive performance of Vietnamese women”. American Journal of Human Biology,21, 225.
Huber, S., & Fieder, M. (2009) Strong influence of birth month on reproductive performance of Vietnamese women. American Journal of Human Biology,21, 25-345.
Huber, S., Didham, R., & Fieder, M. (2008). Month of birth and reproductive performance of women: data from the Southern hemisphere. Human Reproduction,23, 1187-1192.
Bookstein,F. L., Fieder, M.,& Huber S. (2008). Spouses age at the same rate: Reply to H. Kokko, “Human parental age difference and offspring count: a comment”. Biology Letters, 4, 261.
Fieder, M., Huber, S., & Bookstein F. L. (2008). Reply to Lindqvist et al. “Does parental age difference affect offspring count in humans? Comment on Fieder and Huber”. Biology Letters, 4, 80-81.
Fieder, M., Huber, S., & Bookstein F. L. (2008) Reply to AR Boyko “Parental age difference and offspring count in humans: a comment on Fieder and Huber”. Biology Letters,4, 83.
Huber, S., & Fieder, M., (2007). Season of birth effects on reproduction. Current Women’s Health Reviews, 3, 182-189.
Fieder, M., & Huber, S. (2007). Parental age difference and offspring count in humans. Biology Letters,3, 689-691.
Fieder, M., & Huber, S. (2007). The effect of sex and childlessness on the association between status and reproductive output in modern society. Evolution and Human Behavior, 28, 392-398.
Jongbloet, P. H., Groenewoud, H. M. M., Huber, S., Fieder, M., & Roeleveld, N. (2007). Month of birth related to fecundity and childlessness among contemporary women. Human Biology, 79, 479-490.
Fieder, M, Prossinger, H., Iber, K., Schäfer, K., Wallner, B., & Huber, S. (2006). Season-of-birth effect contributes to variation of university examination outcomes. American Journal of Human Biology, 18, 714-717.
Fieder, M., Huber, S., Bookstein, F. L., Iber, K., Schafer, K., Winckler, G., & Wallner, B. (2005). Status and reproduction in humans: New evidence for the validity of evolutionary explanations on basis of a university sample. Ethology, 111, 940-950.
Wallner, B., Huber, S., Mitterauer, L., Pavlova, B., & Fieder, M. (2005). Academic mothers have a pronounced seasonal variation in their offspring sex ratio. Neuroendocrinology Letters, 26, 759-762.
Huber, S., Fieder, M., Wallner, B., Moser, G., & Arnold, W. (2004). Brief communication: Birth month influences reproductive performance in contemporary women. Human Reproduction, 19, 1081-1082.
Huber, S., Fieder, M., Wallner, B., Iber, K., & Moser, G. (2004). Effects of season of birth on reproduction in contemporary humans: Brief communication. Human Reproduction, 19, 445-447.
Wallner, B., Fieder, M., & Iber, K. (2003). Age profile, personnel costs and scientific productivity at the University of Vienna. Scientometrics, 58, 143-153.
Millesi, E., Prossinger, H., Dittami, J. P., & Fieder, M. (2001). Hibernation effects on memory in European ground squirrels (Spermophilus citellus). Journal of Biological Rhythms, 16, 264-271.
Prossinger, H., Seidler, H., Weaver, D. S., Schafer, K., Fieder, M., & Weber, G. W. (1999). The iceman under pressure (part I): A description of skull deformations due to 5100 years of glacial action. Collegium Antropologicum, 23, 345-267.
Bookstein, F. L., Schafer, K., Prossinger, H., Seidler, H., Fieder, M., Stringer, C., Weber, G. W., Arsuaga, J. L., Slice, D. E., Rohlf, F. J., Recheis, W., Mariam, A. J., & Marcus, L. F. (1999). Comparing frontal cranial profiles in archaic and modern Homo by morphometric analysis. Anatomical Record, 257, 217-224.
Troje, N. F., Huber, L., Loidolt, M., Aust, U., & Fieder, M. (1999). Categorical learning in pigeons: the role of texture and shape in complex static stimuli. Vision Research, 39, 353-366.
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Information:
Date of Birth: 26.9.1964
Place of Birth: Vienna
Citizenship: Austria
Education:
1984 A-Level
1984 Study of Psychology at the University of Vienna
1985–1995 Study of Biology/Behavioural Biology at the University of Vienna
1989-1996 Study of Informatics at the Technical University of Vienna
1995 Graduation; Master Thesis on “Steroids and Song Learning in the Chaffinch”
1995–1997 Doctorate- Study at the University of Vienna
1998 Promotion to Dr. rer nat. at the University of Vienna; Thesis on “Quality of Movement in Courtship Behaviour”.
Professional Career:
1991-1992 Employee at the Department of Zoology of the University of Vienna
1992-1995 Grant financed research work at the Department of Zoology of the University of Vienna
1995-1997 Employed on the FWF financed Research Project “Towards Pigeons Categorization” coordinated by Dr. Ludwig Huber.
1996-1998 Employed on the Project “Quality of Movement in Courtship behaviour” funded by the Austrian National Bank
1997-1999 Employed in the Logistic Centre of the University of Vienna as representative of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Vienna during reorganisation process.
2000- 2003 Assistant of the Rector’s team at the University of Vienna
2004-2011 Staff of the Rector’s office of the University of Vienna with the focus on strategic planning, quality assurance, contract management and organizational change and benchmarking.
2004-2008 Head of the Office of the Rectorate of the University of Vienna.
From 2009 on:Advisor of the Rectorate of the University of Zagreb in ongoing university reforms in Croatia with a special focus on change management, organization and strategic planning. Half time scientist at the Department of Anthropology and strategic consultant of the Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Vienna.
2012 Habilitation in Anthropologyat the University of Vienna – Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology
2016 since Jan. 2016 cooperation with the Austrian Ministry of Interior, Section Migration on “Evolutionary basics of Human Migration”
2017 since August 2017, Associated Professor for Evolutionary Demography
2019 November: Research stay at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane
2020 since Jan. 2020 Member of the Research Center “Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society” at the Catholic Faculty of the University of Vienna
Editorial Function: since July 2015, Associated Editor in Frontiers of Psychology in the section “Evolutionary Psychology and Neuroscience”
Reviewing:
Proceedings B
Biology Letters
American Journal of Human Biology
Evolution and Human Behavior
Population Studies, a Journal of Demography
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Marriage and the Family
Health
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Teaching
030622 VO Evolution und biologische Grundlagen menschlichen Verhaltens (Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Wahlfach Strafrecht)
300047 UE Mathematisch – statistische Übungen für Anthropologen
300084 SE Bachelorseminar für Studierende des Lehramtsstudiums Biologie und Umweltkunde
300169 SE Departmentseminar Anthropologie
300431 VO Evolution und menschliche Organisation
300084 SE Bachelorseminar für Studierende des Lehramtsstudiums Biologie und Umweltkunde
300189 VO Verhaltensgenetik
300338 SE Evolutionäre Demographie
Betreuung derzeit von ca. 7 Masterarbeiten