Nate Pipitone Profile

• Ph.D. in Psychology, concentration in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University at Albany
• Before arriving at FGCU, I was an associate professor at Adams State University in Southern Colorado.

Broadly defined, my research considers the impact of evolution on human behavior and cognition. Specific areas include human vocal production and perception, sex differences in mating strategies, and visual processing of evolutionarily relevant stimuli.
I am also collaborating with colleagues at FGCU and around Florida state assessing the therapeutic effectiveness of medical marijuana among Florida medical marijuana patients.
The courses I teach reflect my education and research interests, with a focus on the biology of human behavior, psychopharmacology, and psychology statistics.

• General Psychology (PSY 2012)
• Survey of Analytical Techniques (PSY 3205)
• Physiological Psychology (PSB 4002)
• Drugs and Behavior (PSB 3444)
• Evolutionary Psychology (PSB 2580)
• Directed Studies (PSY 4913)

Recent peer-reviewed journal articles

• Pipitone, R. N., Cruz, L. Morales H.N., Aladro, D., Savitsky, S. R., Koroleva, M., Valdez, F., Campbell, E. & Miranda, S. (2021). Sex differences in attitudes towards casual sex: Using STI contraction likelihoods to assess evolved mating strategies, Frontiers in Psychology: Evolutionary Psychology, 12:706149. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.706149
• Sajdeya, R., Shavers, A., Jean-Jacques, J., Costales, B., Jugl, S., Crump, C., Wang, Y., Manfio, L., Pipitone, R.N., Rosenthal, M. S., Winterstein, A.G. & Cook, R.L. (2021). Practice patterns and training needs among physicians certifying patients for medical marijuana in Florida, Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 12: 1–11. DOI: 10.1177/21501327211042790
• Pipitone, R.N. & DiMattina, C. (2020). Object clusters or spectral energy? Assessing the relative contributions of image phase and amplitude spectra to trypophobia. Frontiers in Psychology: Perception Science, 11:1847. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01847
• Rosenthal, M.S. & Pipitone, R.N. (2020). Demographics, perceptions, and use of medical marijuana among patients in Florida. Medical Cannabis and Cannabinoids, 4(1) 13-20. DOI: 10.1159/000512342
• Shoup-Knox, M.L., Ostrander, G.M., Reimann, G.E. & Pipitone, R.N. (2019). Fertility-dependent acoustic variation in women’s voices previously shown to affect listener physiology and perception. Evolutionary Psychology, 1-10.
• Ostrander, G.M., Pipitone, R.N. & Shoup-Knox, M.L. (2018). Interactions between observer and stimuli fertility status: Endocrine and perceptual responses to intrasexual vocal fertility cues. Hormones and Behavior, 98, 191-197.
• Pipitone, R.N., Gallegos, B., & Walters, D. (2017). Physiological responses to trypophobic images and further scale validity of the trypophobia questionnaire. Personality and Individual Differences, 108, 66-68.
• Pipitone, R.N., Gallup, G.G.Jr., & Bartels, A. (2016). Variation in men’s masculinity affects preferences for women’s voices at different points in the menstrual cycle. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 10(3), 188-201.
• Open Science Collaboration (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251).
• Shoup-Knox, M.L., & Pipitone, R.N. (2015). Physiological changes in response to hearing female voices recorded at high and low fertility. Physiology & Behavior, 139, 386 – 392.