Scott Atran
Sociology and Political Science · 2001–2010
A researcher in the Science corpus: 10 papers; trusts 18 researchers and is trusted by 50 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.
Subfields
- Sociology and Political Science — 33 citations into it; #918 of 22,756 by trust here, #3,303 by citations
- Social Psychology — 22 citations into it; #1,013 of 15,694 by trust here, #1,964 by citations
- Developmental and Educational Psychology — 13 citations into it; #5,225 of 8,223 by trust here, #1,270 by citations
- Health — 13 citations into it; #259 of 2,035 by trust here, #397 by citations
- Cognitive Neuroscience — 12 citations into it
- Cultural Studies — 11 citations into it; #209 of 609 by trust here, #71 by citations
- Demography — 10 citations into it
- Safety Research — 9 citations into it
Whom Scott Atran trusts overall
Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.
- Joseph Henrich
- Pascal Boyer
- Robert Boyd
- Justin L. Barrett
- Ara Norenzayan
- Jonathan Haidt
- Frank C. Keil
- Richard Sosis
- R. May
- Eleanor Rosch
Who trusts Scott Atran overall
- Joseph Henrich
- Richard Sosis
- J. Monahan
- Ara Norenzayan
- Carol D. Lee
- W. Gervais
- F. Moghaddam
- Edward H. Kaplan
- V. Saroglou
- Benjamin G. Purzycki
Papers from Scott Atran's perspective
Ordered by how strongly the researchers Scott Atran trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.
- How the mind works
- The emotional dog and its rational tail: a social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. (Psychology Review)
- The evolution of altruistic punishment (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
- Cognitive templates for religious concepts: cross-cultural evidence for recall of counter-intuitive representations (Cognitive Sciences)
- The evolution of cultural evolution
- Synchrony and Cooperation (Psychology Science)
- Evolution of indirect reciprocity by image scoring
- Thinking the unthinkable: sacred values and taboo cognitions. (Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
- The Origin and Evolution of Religious Prosociality (Science)
- Basic objects in natural categories
Their papers
- Genesis of Suicide Terrorism (2003) — 614 citations
- Religion's evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion (2004) — 684 citations
- The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate Deep Commitments to Prosocial Religions (2010) — 129 citations
- Memory and Mystery: The Cultural Selection of Minimally Counterintuitive Narratives (2006) — 316 citations
- Essentialism and Folkbiology: evidence from Brazil (2002) — 105 citations
- In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (2005) — 233 citations
- Cultural and experiential differences in the development of folkbiological induction (2003) — 280 citations
- The native mind and the cultural construction of nature. (2008) — 331 citations
- Evolution and Devolution of Knowledge: A Tale of Two Biologies (2004) — 132 citations
- FOLKBIOLOGY DOESN'T COME FROM FOLKPSYCHOLOGY: EVIDENCE FROM YUKATEK MAYA IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE (2001) — 110 citations