Robert Boyd
Impact in
- Cultural Studies top 0.01%
- Language and cultural evolution
- Safety Research top 0.01%
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Papers in
- Cultural Studies 101
- Language and cultural evolution 99
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- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation 70
- Co-authors
- Peter J. Richerson (96 shared papers)James R. Griesemer (1 shared paper)Joseph Henrich (24 shared papers)Samuel Bowles (16 shared papers)Herbert M. Gintis (13 shared papers)Ernst Fehr (10 shared papers)Richard L. McElreath (9 shared papers)Karthik Panchanathan (2 shared papers)
- Journals
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (10 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (10 papers)Journal of Theoretical Biology (9 papers)Science (8 papers)Behavioral and Brain Sciences (7 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesCanadaGermany
In The Last Decade
Robert Boyd
181 papers receiving 26.8k citations
Robert Boyd's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 187
- Cultural Studies 7.1k
- Safety Research 4.1k
- General Decision Sciences 791
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 4.1k
- Sociology and Political Science 9.8k
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Co-authors
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All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Culture and the Evolutionary Process Hit paper breakdown → | 1986 | 4959 |
| 2 | Not By Genes Alone Hit paper breakdown → | 2004 | 2073 |
| 3 | In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies Hit paper breakdown → | 2001 | 1624 |
| 4 | “Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies Hit paper breakdown → | 2005 | 1234 |
| 5 | The evolution of altruistic punishment Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 1210 |
| 6 | Punishment allows the evolution of cooperation (or anything else) in sizable groups Hit paper breakdown → | 1992 | 1047 |
| 7 | Foundations of Human Sociality Hit paper breakdown → | 2004 | 922 |
| 8 | The Evolution of Conformist Transmission and the Emergence of Between-Group Differences Hit paper breakdown → | 1998 | 860 |
| 9 | The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 855 |
| 10 | Explaining altruistic behavior in humans Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 706 |
| 11 | Indirect reciprocity can stabilize cooperation without the second-order free rider problem Hit paper breakdown → | 2004 | 664 |
| 12 | Culture and the evolution of human cooperation Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 609 |
| 13 | Why Copy Others? Insights from the Social Learning Strategies Tournament Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 583 |
| 14 | The evolution of reciprocity in sizable groups Hit paper breakdown → | 1988 | 570 |
| 15 | Why People Punish Defectors Hit paper breakdown → | 2001 | 559 |
| 16 | Coordinated Punishment of Defectors Sustains Cooperation and Can Proliferate When Rare Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 456 |
| 17 | 2001 | 433 | |
| 18 | Shared Norms and the Evolution of Ethnic Markers Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 399 |
| 19 | Why Culture Is Common, but Cultural Evolution Is Rare Hit paper breakdown → | 2005 | 381 |
| 20 | 1987 | 324 |
About Robert Boyd
Robert Boyd is a scholar working on Cultural Studies, Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Anthropology and Safety Research, having authored 194 papers that have together received 30k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Language and cultural evolution (99 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (70 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (28 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (14 papers), Indigenous Cultures and History (11 papers), Economic Theory and Institutions (6 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (6 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cultural Studies (7.1k citations), Safety Research (4.1k citations), General Decision Sciences (791 citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (4.1k citations) and Sociology and Political Science (9.8k citations). Robert Boyd has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Peter J. Richerson, James R. Griesemer, Joseph Henrich, Samuel Bowles, Herbert M. Gintis, Ernst Fehr, Richard L. McElreath, Karthik Panchanathan, Colin F. Camerer and Joe Henrich. Their work appears in journals such as Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Science and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
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