The Blank Slate

By Steven Pinker. 2006

330 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

1. M. van Vugt
2. J. Tooby
3. L. Cosmides
4. R. Kaiser
5. Robert P. Hogan
6. P. D. Harms
7. T. Judge
8. M. Higgs

Citations in the corpus

• Leadership, followership, and evolution: some lessons from the past. (2008, background): “Thorndike were enthusiastic Darwinians, evolutionary thinking fell out of favor in mainstream psychology for most of the 20th century (Pinker, 2002).”
• Evolutionary Origins of Leadership and Followership (2006, background): “There are reliable differences between males and females across a range of traits and behaviors that might explain sex differences in leadership (Buss, 1999; Pinker, 2002).”
• The Theoretical Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology (2015, methodology): “Themost consequential assumption is that the human psychological architecture consists predominantly of learning and reasoning mechanisms that are general purpose, content independent, and equipotential (Pinker, 2002; Tooby & Cosmides, 1992).”