Mgr. Jarka Valentová Ph.D.

Phone: +420 221 183 538

Research Interests: Research field: evolutionary anthropology, human ethology, evolutionary psychology Sexual orientation: proximate and ultimate causes, cross-cultural research, sex atypical traits, sexual orientation attribution, mate preferences and choice in same-sex couples Human sexuality, attractiveness, and mate choice: history of sex research, evolutionary theories of human sexuality, cross-cultural aspects of attractiveness and sexual behavior, sex differences in sexuality, vocal, facial, and behavioral attractiveness, factors influencing relationship satisfaction: homogamy X complementarity, and relationship hierarchy Evolutionary psychiatry: normality X deviation, medical X biological understanding of deviations, classification of mental diseases according to evolutionary theories, adaptiveness of mental diseases Culture and nature: biological and cultural co-evolution, interconnection between nature and nurture

Education: 2006-2010: Ph.D. in Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, (Ph.D. thesis: Perception of Male Homosexuality”) 2008-2009: research fellow at Dept. of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Chicago, USA 2004–2006: master degree in Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, Department for General Anthropology, Research Group of Human Ethology, (M.A. thesis: “The Relationship Between Personality Characteristics and Appearance in Homosexual Men”) 2000–2004: bachelor degree at Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, (B.A. thesis: „Male Homosexuality from the Biological View“)

Jobs: Since 2010 postdoctoral fellow researcher, Center for Theoretical Study (CTS), Charles University in Prague & Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic 2009-2011 Research assistant, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic (recently an external teacher)

International Research Experience: 2012 – Research on Sex ratio of street artists – Prague (Czech Rep.), Bratislava (Slovakia), Vienna (Austria), Budapest (Hungary), Bucharest (Romania) 2011-2012 – Research on Multiple aspects of human physical attractiveness from cross-cultural perspective – Institute of Psychology, University of São Paulo, Brazil 2011 – Research of physical attractiveness in relation to eye color – Adyiaman Universitesi, Turkey 2010 – Research on Possible link between physical fitness, health status and attractiveness in cross-cultural perspective – Keetmanshoop, Namibia 2008/2009 – research fellow at Dept. of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Chicago, USA

Current grants:

Possible Influence of Relationship Hierarchy on The Level of Homogamy in Same-Sex Relationships and Mate Preferences (A Cross-Cultural Study) [detail]

2013 - 2015, GA ČR 13-16959P board no. P407

Nature and culture – Interaction of cultural and biological evolution in interdisciplinary perspective [detail]

2012 - 2017, Univerzitní výzkumná centra Univerzity Karlovy v Praze (UNCE) č. 204004/2012

Selected bibliography:

Valentová, Jarka; Roberts, Craig S.; Havlíček, Jan (2013): Preferences for facial and vocal masculinity in homosexual men: the role of relationship status, sexual restrictiveness, and self-perceived masculinity

Perception, 42, 187 - 197, doi:10.1068/p6909

Valentová, Jarka (2012): Evoluční teorie mužské homosexuality

In: Evolvendi antropologicae. Vývoj v antropologických perspektivách (Ed. Hanovská, L., Horský, J., Hroníková, L.), p. 87-97, Togga: Praha, ISBN: 978-80-87258-167

Havlíček, Jan; Nováková, Lenka; Vondrová, Marta; Kuběna, Aleš; Valentová, Jarka; Roberts, Craig S. (2012): Olfactory perception is positively linked to Anxiety in young adults

Perception, 41, 1246 – 1261, doi:10.1068/p7244

Valentová, Jarka (2012): Souvislost mužské sexuální orientace a pořadí narození: review

Česká a Slovenská psychiatrie, 108 (6), 298-304

http://www.cspsychiatr.cz/dwnld/CSP_2012_6_298_304.pdf

Valentová, Jarka; Rieger, Gerulf; Havlíček, Jan; Linsenmeier, Joan; Bailey, J Michael (2011): Judgments of Sexual Orientation and Masculinity-Femininity based on Thin Slices of Behavior: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40 (6), s. 1145-52 doi: 10.1007/s10508-011-9818-1

Valentová, Jarka; Procházka, Ivo (2009): Homosexualita

In: Baštecká, B. (Ed.): Psychologická Encyklopedie – Aplikovaná psychologie, p. 118-126, Portál: Praha, ISBN 978-80-7367-470-0

Valentová, Jarka; Havlíček, Jan; Saxton, Tamsin K.; Roberts, Craig; Jozífková, Eva; Lhota, Stanislav; Flégr, Jaroslav (2008): He sees, she smells? Male and female reports of sensory reliance in mate choice and non-mate choice contexts

Personality and Individual Differences, 45: 565-570