Dr. Kateřina Klapilová

  • National Institute of Mental Health

Professional Experience

2015 – now: Senior researcher. Laboratory of Evolutionary Sexology, National Institute of Mental Health.

2008 – now: Assistant professor. Faculty of Humanities, Charles university.

2000 – 2012: Student. Ph.D. in Medical Psychology and Psychopathology

Expertise and Research Interests

  • Evolutionary sexuology; Disorders of sexual preference
  • Hormones and sexuality; Human sexual response
  • Female sexuality; National surveys of sexual behavior
  • Sexuality in psychiatric patients
  • The ESSM Oxford School of Sexual Medicine (Certifikát ECPS)
  • Senior researcher (and founder) in the Laboratory of Evolutionary Sexology and Psychopathology; www.sexlabnudz.cz

Selected Publications

  1. Roberts, S.C., Klapilová, K., Little, A.C., Burriss, R.P., Jones, B.C., DeBruine, L.M., Petrie, M. & Havlicek, J. (2012): Relationship satisfaction and outcome in women who meet their partner while using oral contraception. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 279, 1430-1436. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1647. (IF 5.064).
  2. Klapilova, K., Cobey, K.D., Wells, T., Roberts, S.C., Weiss, P. & Havlíček, J. (2014): Current Hormonal Contraceptive Use Predicts Female Extra-pair and Dyadic Sexual Behavior: Evidence Based on Czech National Survey Data. Evolutionary psychology, 12,1, 36-52 (IF 1.704).
  3. Havlicek, J., Cobey, C. D., Barett, L., Klapilova, K., Roberts, S.C. (2015). The spandrels of Santa Barbara? A new perspective on the peri-ovulation paradigm Behavioral Ecology 05/2015; DOI:10.1093/beheco/arv064 (IF 3.2)