Peter J. Richerson

Sociology and Political Science · 1988–2014

A researcher in the Science corpus: 14 papers; trusts 33 researchers and is trusted by 33 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• Sociology and Political Science — 77 citations into it; #2,482 of 22,756 by trust here, #912 by citations
• Safety Research — 36 citations into it; #1,178 of 5,829 by trust here, #536 by citations
• Cultural Studies — 30 citations into it; #260 of 609 by trust here, #61 by citations
• Social Psychology — 29 citations into it; #8,876 of 15,694 by trust here, #5,305 by citations
• Demography — 23 citations into it
• Experimental and Cognitive Psychology — 21 citations into it; #2,513 of 9,731 by trust here, #1,217 by citations
• Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics — 13 citations into it
• Genetics — 13 citations into it

Whom Peter J. Richerson trusts overall

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

1. Joseph Henrich
2. Robert Boyd
3. A. Greif
4. V. Horner
5. Samuel Bowles
6. Robert Trivers
7. Raymond J. Fisman
8. Ernst Fehr
9. R. May
10. Joey T. Cheng

Who trusts Peter J. Richerson overall

1. Alex Mesoudi
2. Joseph Henrich
3. Kevin N. Laland
4. Lei Chang
5. Emma Cohen
6. Nathan Nunn
7. Gerd Gigerenzer
8. Ernst Fehr
9. Andrew Whiten
10. Robert Boyd

Papers from Peter J. Richerson's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers Peter J. Richerson 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. How the mind works
4. The evolution of cooperation
5. Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction
6. Social preferences: Some simple tests and a new model
7. Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments (Social Science Research Network)
8. Does culture matter in economic behavior? Ultimatum game bargaining among the machiguenga
9. The Theory of Learning in Games
10. The hidden structure of overimitation (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)

Their papers

• The evolution of altruistic punishment (2003) — 1,641 citations
• The Origin and Evolution of Cultures (2005) — 657 citations
• Cultural evolution in laboratory microsocieties including traditions of rule giving and rule following (2004) — 113 citations
• The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation (2011) — 1,075 citations
• Culture, Adaptation, and Innateness (2006) — 88 citations
• Conformists and mavericks: the empirics of frequency-dependent cultural transmission (2008) — 293 citations
• Climate, Culture, and the Evolution of Cognition (2000) — 99 citations
• Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies (2014) — 721 citations
• • AN EVOLUTIONARY MODEL OF SOCIAL LEARNING: THE EFFECTS OF SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATON (2013) — 187 citations
• Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems (2012) — 119 citations
• The evolution of conformist social learning can cause population collapse in realistically variable environments (2009) — 86 citations
• Not by Genes Alone (2004) — 469 citations
• The evolution of subjective commitment to groups: A tribal instincts hypothesis. (2001) — 139 citations
• Culture and the Evolutionary Process (1988)