Bales, K.L. (in press) Pair-bonding in other mammals. In: Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, eds. T.K. Shackleford and V.A. Weekes-Shackelford, Springer International Publishing.
Bales, K.L. (in press) Oxytocin and vasopressin. In: The International Encyclopedia of Primatology, ed. A. Fuentes, John Wiley & Sons.
Bales, K.L. (2011) The value of unusual animal models for alcohol research. A commentary on: Anacker, Loftis, and Ryabinin, “Alcohol intake in prairie voles is influenced by the drinking level of a peer”. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 35:1379-1380.
Bales, K.L. (2010) Family Life on the Prairie. Frontiers in Neuroscience 4: 169.
Bales, K.L. (2006) Book Review: Behavioral Flexibility in Primates: Causes and Consequences by Clara B. Jones. Quarterly Review of Biology 81: 307-308.
Carter, C.S., Bales, K.L., and Porges, S.W. (2005). Neuropeptides influence expression of and capacity to form social bonds. Commentary on: A neurobehavioral model of affiliative bonding: Implications for conceptualizing a human trait of affiliation” by Richard A. Depue and Jeannine V. Morrone-Strupinsky. Behavioral Brain Sciences 28: 353-354.
Bales, K.L. (2003) Book Review: Pheromones and Animal Behaviour by Tristram D. Wyatt. International Journal of Primatology 24:1367-1369.
Recent Publications
Relationships between cortisol and urinary androgens in female titi monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus). Gen Comp Endocrinol. 2021
Parenting costs time: Changes in pair bond maintenance across pregnancy and infant rearing in a monogamous primate (Plecturocebus cupreus). New Dir Child Adolesc Dev. 2021
What is a pair bond? Horm Behav. 2021
Compositional variation in early-life parenting structures alters oxytocin and vasopressin 1a receptor development in prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster). J Neuroendocrinol. 2021
Biobehavioral organization shapes the immune epigenome in infant rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta). Brain Behav Immun. 2021
Cannabinoid receptor Type 1 densities reflect social organization in Microtus. J Comp Neurol. 2021
Pharmacological Prevention of Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal in a Pregnant Guinea Pig Model. Front Pharmacol. 2021