Scott Atran
Impact in
- Social Psychology top 0.2%
- Cultural Differences and Values
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- Child and Animal Learning Development
Papers in
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- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence 42
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation 21
- Religion and Society Interactions 17
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- Cultural Differences and Values 29
- Co-authors
- Douglas L. Medin (24 shared papers)Jeremy Ginges (22 shared papers)Ara Norenzayan (4 shared papers)John D. Coley (8 shared papers)Norbert Roß (8 shared papers)Robert Axelrod (4 shared papers)Joseph Henrich (1 shared paper)Hammad Sheikh (12 shared papers)
- Journals
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences (6 papers)Current Anthropology (5 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (5 papers)Science (5 papers)Judgment and Decision Making (4 papers)
- Partner nations
- FranceUnited StatesUnited Kingdom
In The Last Decade
Scott Atran
158 papers receiving 7.8k citations
Scott Atran's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 160
- Social Psychology 3.4k
- Developmental and Educational Psychology 1.8k
- Health 1.0k
- Cultural Studies 993
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 1.5k
Countries citing papers authored by Scott Atran
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Fields of papers citing papers by Scott Atran
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Scott Atran, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 168 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
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| 1 | Religion's evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion Hit paper breakdown → | 2004 | 527 |
| 2 | In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion Hit paper breakdown → | 2002 | 514 |
| 3 | 1998 | 496 | |
| 4 | 2003 | 433 | |
| 5 | 1992 | 328 | |
| 6 | 2004 | 323 | |
| 7 | 1997 | 282 | |
| 8 | Cognitive Foundations of Natural History | 1990 | 270 |
| 9 | 2010 | 256 | |
| 10 | 2007 | 252 | |
| 11 | 2008 | 236 | |
| 12 | 2003 | 224 | |
| 13 | 2006 | 222 | |
| 14 | 2005 | 220 | |
| 15 | 2002 | 191 | |
| 16 | 2012 | 186 | |
| 17 | 2001 | 153 | |
| 18 | 2007 | 148 | |
| 19 | 2008 | 147 | |
| 20 | 2001 | 145 |
About Scott Atran
Scott Atran is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Health and Cultural Studies, having authored 168 papers that have together received 9.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (42 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (29 papers), Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (21 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (21 papers), Categorization, perception, and language (20 papers), Language and cultural evolution (18 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (18 papers) and Religion and Society Interactions (17 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Social Psychology (3.4k citations), Developmental and Educational Psychology (1.8k citations), Health (1.0k citations), Cultural Studies (993 citations) and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (1.5k citations). Scott Atran has collaborated with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Douglas L. Medin, Jeremy Ginges, Ara Norenzayan, John D. Coley, Norbert Roß, Robert Axelrod, Joseph Henrich, Hammad Sheikh, Megan Bang and Paulo Sousa. Their work appears in journals such as Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Current Anthropology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science and Judgment and Decision Making.
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