John Tooby
Impact in
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology top 0.02%
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- General Decision Sciences top 0.2%
Papers in
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- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation 63
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- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior 55
- Co-authors
- Leda Cosmides (117 shared papers)Jerome H. Barkow (2 shared papers)Aaron Sell (13 shared papers)Daniel Sznycer (20 shared papers)Robert Kurzban (2 shared papers)Debra Lieberman (3 shared papers)Andrew W. Delton (13 shared papers)Joshua New (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Evolution and Human Behavior (15 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (12 papers)Cognition (6 papers)Behavioral and Brain Sciences (6 papers)PLoS ONE (4 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesAustraliaGermany
In The Last Decade
John Tooby
125 papers receiving 20.2k citations
John Tooby's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 189
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 9.1k
- General Decision Sciences 1.1k
- Social Psychology 7.5k
- Cognitive Neuroscience 6.3k
- Safety Research 2.5k
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Co-authors
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All Works
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| # | Work | ||
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| 1 | The Adapted mind : evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture Hit paper breakdown → | 1992 | 3776 |
| 2 | The Psychological Foundations of Culture Hit paper breakdown → | 1992 | 2377 |
| 3 | Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange Hit paper breakdown → | 1992 | 1691 |
| 4 | The past explains the present Hit paper breakdown → | 1990 | 1247 |
| 5 | On the Universality of Human Nature and the Uniqueness of the Individual: The Role of Genetics and Adaptation Hit paper breakdown → | 1990 | 700 |
| 6 | Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization Hit paper breakdown → | 2001 | 621 |
| 7 | Formidability and the logic of human anger Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 541 |
| 8 | Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, part II Hit paper breakdown → | 1989 | 530 |
| 9 | Origins of domain specificity: The evolution of functional organization Hit paper breakdown → | 1994 | 522 |
| 10 | The architecture of human kin detection Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 504 |
| 11 | Cytoplasmic inheritance and intragenomic conflict Hit paper breakdown → | 1981 | 480 |
| 12 | 2008 | 474 | |
| 13 | 1989 | 467 | |
| 14 | 2007 | 465 | |
| 15 | Friendship and the Banker's Paradox: Other Pathways to the Evolution of Adaptations for Altruism | 1996 | 418 |
| 16 | From evolution to behavior: Evolutionary psychology as the missing link. | 1987 | 401 |
| 17 | 1994 | 379 | |
| 18 | 2002 | 328 | |
| 19 | The evolutionary psychology of the emotions and their relationship to internal regulatory variables. | 2008 | 292 |
| 20 | 2003 | 276 |
About John Tooby
John Tooby is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology, having authored 129 papers that have together received 23.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (63 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (55 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (23 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (23 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (20 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (16 papers), Language and cultural evolution (15 papers) and Emotions and Moral Behavior (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (9.1k citations), General Decision Sciences (1.1k citations), Social Psychology (7.5k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (6.3k citations) and Safety Research (2.5k citations). John Tooby has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Leda Cosmides, Jerome H. Barkow, Aaron Sell, Daniel Sznycer, Robert Kurzban, Debra Lieberman, Andrew W. Delton, Joshua New, Michael E. Price and Max M. Krasnow. Their work appears in journals such as Evolution and Human Behavior, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cognition, Behavioral and Brain Sciences and PLoS ONE.
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