Leda Cosmides
Impact in
- General Decision Sciences top 0.2%
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology top 0.05%
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Papers in
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- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation 59
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- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior 51
- Co-authors
- John Tooby (102 shared papers)Jerome H. Barkow (2 shared papers)Aaron Sell (11 shared papers)Robert Kurzban (2 shared papers)Daniel Sznycer (20 shared papers)Stanley B. Klein (10 shared papers)Debra Lieberman (2 shared papers)Andrew W. Delton (15 shared papers)
- Journals
- Evolution and Human Behavior (16 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (13 papers)Cognition (8 papers)Behavioral and Brain Sciences (6 papers)Social Cognition (6 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesAustraliaDenmark
In The Last Decade
Leda Cosmides
117 papers receiving 16.2k citations
Leda Cosmides's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 189
- General Decision Sciences 1.2k
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 6.7k
- Cognitive Neuroscience 5.2k
- Social Psychology 5.4k
- Safety Research 2.0k
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Leda Cosmides, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
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 | 3129 |
| 2 | The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selection task Hit paper breakdown → | 1989 | 1411 |
| 3 | The past explains the present Hit paper breakdown → | 1990 | 1050 |
| 4 | Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all? Rethinking some conclusions from the literature on judgment under uncertainty Hit paper breakdown → | 1996 | 743 |
| 5 | The Adapted Mind Hit paper breakdown → | 1992 | 644 |
| 6 | On the Universality of Human Nature and the Uniqueness of the Individual: The Role of Genetics and Adaptation Hit paper breakdown → | 1990 | 546 |
| 7 | Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization Hit paper breakdown → | 2001 | 528 |
| 8 | Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, part II Hit paper breakdown → | 1989 | 476 |
| 9 | 2009 | 441 | |
| 10 | 2008 | 430 | |
| 11 | 1981 | 425 | |
| 12 | 1989 | 420 | |
| 13 | 2007 | 407 | |
| 14 | 2007 | 393 | |
| 15 | Friendship and the Banker's Paradox: Other Pathways to the Evolution of Adaptations for Altruism | 1996 | 362 |
| 16 | From evolution to behavior: Evolutionary psychology as the missing link. | 1987 | 336 |
| 17 | 2002 | 291 | |
| 18 | 1994 | 263 | |
| 19 | 2003 | 248 | |
| 20 | The evolutionary psychology of the emotions and their relationship to internal regulatory variables. | 2008 | 246 |
About Leda Cosmides
Leda Cosmides is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology, having authored 120 papers that have together received 18.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (59 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (51 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (25 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (21 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (20 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (18 papers), Language and cultural evolution (13 papers) and Emotions and Moral Behavior (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in General Decision Sciences (1.2k citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (6.7k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (5.2k citations), Social Psychology (5.4k citations) and Safety Research (2.0k citations). Leda Cosmides has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and Denmark. Frequent co-authors include John Tooby, Jerome H. Barkow, Aaron Sell, Robert Kurzban, Daniel Sznycer, Stanley B. Klein, Debra Lieberman, Andrew W. Delton, Joshua New and Michael E. Price. Their work appears in journals such as Evolution and Human Behavior, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cognition, Behavioral and Brain Sciences and Social Cognition.
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