Alex Mesoudi

Sociology and Political Science · 2004–2015

A researcher in the Science corpus: 10 papers; trusts 83 researchers and is trusted by 18 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• Sociology and Political Science — 100 citations into it; #3,053 of 22,756 by trust here, #4,189 by citations
• Cultural Studies — 77 citations into it; #38 of 609 by trust here, #41 by citations
• Social Psychology — 68 citations into it; #2,680 of 15,694 by trust here, #8,529 by citations
• Genetics — 31 citations into it
• Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics — 29 citations into it
• Experimental and Cognitive Psychology — 22 citations into it; #7,590 of 9,731 by trust here, #3,227 by citations
• Developmental and Educational Psychology — 21 citations into it; #1,382 of 8,223 by trust here, #3,875 by citations
• Demography — 20 citations into it

Whom Alex Mesoudi trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. Tatsuya Kameda
2. Kevin N. Laland
3. Joseph Henrich
4. Andrew Whiten
5. S. Shennan
6. Daisuke Nakanishi
7. R. Gray
8. Robert Boyd
9. Peter J. Richerson
10. Simon Kirby

Who trusts Alex Mesoudi overall

1. Christine A. Caldwell
2. Helena Miton
3. Ailsa E. Millen
4. Kevin N. Laland
5. Marius Kempe
6. Simon Kirby
7. Nicolas Claidière
8. Lucy M. Aplin
9. M. J. O’Brien
10. Andrew Whiten

Papers from Alex Mesoudi's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers Alex Mesoudi trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. The evolution of prestige: freely conferred deference as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission. (Evolution and human behavior)
2. The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism
3. Social learning in animals : the roots of culture
4. How the mind works
5. Conformity to cultural norms of tool use in chimpanzees (Nature)
6. The Origin and Evolution of Cultures
7. Causal knowledge and imitation/emulation switching in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens) (Animal Cognition)
8. The Modularity of mind. An essay on faculty psychology
9. Are Ethnic Groups Biological “Species” to the Human Brain? (Current Anthropology)
10. Investigating cultural evolution through biological phylogenetic analyses of Turkmen textiles

Their papers

• The Hierarchical Transformation of Event Knowledge in Human Cultural Transmission (2004) — 111 citations
• Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. (2006) — 653 citations
• An experimental simulation of the “copy-successful-individuals” cultural learning strategy: adaptive landscapes, producer–scrounger dynamics, and informational access costs (2008) — 196 citations
• An experimental comparison of human social learning strategies: payoff-biased social learning is adaptive but underused (2011) — 152 citations
• Beyond DNA: integrating inclusive inheritance into an extended theory of evolution (2011) — 713 citations
• Using the methods of experimental social psychology to study cultural evolution. (2007) — 97 citations
• Higher frequency of social learning in China than in the West shows cultural variation in the dynamics of cultural evolution (2015) — 104 citations
• An experimental demonstration of the effect of group size on cultural accumulation (2014) — 101 citations
• Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theory, Findings and Controversies (2015) — 225 citations
• The impact of imitative versus emulative learning mechanisms on artifactual variation: implications for the evolution of material culture (2015) — 88 citations