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Leda Cosmides

Active 1981–2023

70
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39,959
Citations
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Citations

Citations per year for Leda Cosmides1912: 1 citations1944: 1 citations1959: 4 citations1975: 2 citations1982: 2 citations1985: 5 citations1986: 10 citations1987: 1 citations1988: 2 citations1989: 31 citations1990: 37 citations1991: 32 citations1992: 53 citations1993: 63 citations1994: 55 citations1995: 74 citations1996: 129 citations1997: 120 citations1998: 146 citations1999: 126 citations2000: 222 citations2001: 224 citations2002: 343 citations2003: 247 citations2004: 229 citations2005: 292 citations2006: 343 citations2007: 231 citations2008: 251 citations2009: 308 citations2010: 307 citations2011: 343 citations2012: 319 citations2013: 248 citations2014: 220 citations2015: 274 citations2016: 145 citations2017: 201 citations2018: 151 citations2019: 290 citations2020: 260 citations2021: 218 citations2022: 149 citations2023: 113 citations2024: 158 citations2025: 64 citations2026: 3 citations1913–1943: no citations, so these years are not shown1945–1958: no citations, so these years are not shown1960–1974: no citations, so these years are not shown1976–1981: no citations, so these years are not shown1983–1984: no citations, so these years are not shown

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 2,281 citing papers, 40.5% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 651 citing papers, 11.6% of this breakdownCanada: 417 citing papers, 7.4% of this breakdownGermany: 349 citing papers, 6.2% of this breakdownNetherlands: 200 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownFrance: 179 citing papers, 3.2% of this breakdownAustralia: 168 citing papers, 3% of this breakdownItaly: 131 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownChina: 90 citing papers, 1.6% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 89 citing papers, 1.6% of this breakdownSpain: 76 citing papers, 1.3% of this breakdownJapan: 66 citing papers, 1.2% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Psychology32.7%
  • Neuroscience19.3%
  • Social Sciences17.4%
  • Computer Science8%
  • Decision Sciences5.7%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4%
  • Other12.9%

Topics

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment6%
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior5.1%
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation4.8%
  • Child and Animal Learning Development4.7%
  • Cultural Differences and Values2.9%
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology2.8%
  • Other73.7%

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  1. Category-specific attention for animals reflects ancestral priorities, not expertise

    Authors: Joshua New, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2007 cited by 661

  2. The Psychological Foundations of Culture

    Authors: John Tooby, Leda Cosmides - The Adapted Mind 1992 cited by 3,483

  3. Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange

    Authors: Leda Cosmides, John Tooby - The Adapted Mind 1992 cited by 2,416

  4. Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all? Rethinking some conclusions from the literature on judgment under uncertainty

    Authors: Leda Cosmides - Cognition 1996 cited by 1,300

  5. The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selection task

    Authors: Leda Cosmides - Cognition 1989 cited by 2,486

  6. The Adapted mind : evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture

    Authors: Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby - 1992 cited by 5,270

  7. Formidability and the logic of human anger

    Authors: Aaron Sell, John Tooby, Leda Cosmides - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2009 cited by 838

  8. Evolutionary Psychology: New Perspectives on Cognition and Motivation

    Authors: Leda Cosmides, John Tooby - Annual Review of Psychology 2011 cited by 457

  9. On the Universality of Human Nature and the Uniqueness of the Individual: The Role of Genetics and Adaptation

    Authors: John Tooby, Leda Cosmides - Journal of Personality 1990 cited by 1,009

  10. Cytoplasmic inheritance and intragenomic conflict

    Authors: Leda Cosmides, John Tooby - Journal of Theoretical Biology 1981 cited by 634

  11. Human adaptations for the visual assessment of strength and fighting ability from the body and face

    Authors: Aaron Sell, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, Daniel Sznycer, Christopher von Rueden, Michael Gurven - Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2008 cited by 650

  12. Decisions and the evolution of memory: Multiple systems, multiple functions.

    Authors: Stanley B. Klein, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, Sarah Chance - Psychological Review 2002 cited by 453

  13. Shame closely tracks the threat of devaluation by others, even across cultures

    Authors: Daniel Sznycer, John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, Roni Porat, Shaul Shalvi, Eran Halperin - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016 cited by 257

  14. Origins of domain specificity: The evolution of functional organization

    Authors: Leda Cosmides, John Tooby - Cambridge University Press eBooks 1994 cited by 833

  15. The architecture of human kin detection

    Authors: Debra Lieberman, John Tooby, Leda Cosmides - Nature 2007 cited by 763

  16. Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology

    Authors: John Tooby, Leda Cosmides - The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology 2015 cited by 655

  17. The evolutionary psychology of the emotions and their relationship to internal regulatory variables.

    Authors: John Tooby, Leda Cosmides - http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/papers/emotionIRVLewisCh8.pdf 2008 cited by 450

  18. Who Deserves Help? Evolutionary Psychology, Social Emotions, and Public Opinion about Welfare

    Authors: Michael Bang Petersen, Daniel Sznycer, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby - Political Psychology 2012 cited by 228

  19. Looking Under the Hood of Third-Party Punishment Reveals Design for Personal Benefit

    Authors: Max M. Krasnow, Andrew W. Delton, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby - Psychological Science 2016 cited by 154

  20. Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization

    Authors: Robert Kurzban, John Tooby, Leda Cosmides - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2001 cited by 880

  21. Friendship and the Banker's Paradox: Other Pathways to the Evolution of Adaptations for Altruism

    Authors: John Tooby, Leda Cosmides - 1996 cited by 582

  22. Better than rational: Evolutionary psychology and the invisible hand

    Authors: Leda Cosmides, John Tooby - American Economic Review 2016 cited by 513

  23. Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    Authors: Patrick Abbot, Jun Abe, John Alcock, Samuel Alizon, João Alpedrinha, Malte Andersson, Jean‐Baptiste André, Minus van Baalen, François Balloux, Sigal Balshine, Nick Barton, Leo W. Beukeboom, Jay M. Biernaskie, Trine Bilde, Gerald Borgia, Michael D. Breed, Sam P. Brown, Redouan Bshary, Angus Buckling, Nancy Tyler Burley, Maxwell N. Burton-Chellew, Michael A. Cant, Michel Chapuisat, Eric L. Charnov, Tim Clutton‐Brock, Andrew Cockburn, Blaine J. Cole, Nick Colegrave, Leda Cosmides, Iain D. Couzin, Jerry A. Coyne, Scott Creel, Bernard J. Crespi, Robert L. Curry, Sasha R. X. Dall, Troy Day, Janis L. Dickinson, Lee Alan Dugatkin, Claire El Mouden, Stephen T. Emlen, Jay D. Evans, Régis Ferrière, Jeremy Field, Susanne Foitzik, Kevin R. Foster, William A. Foster, Charles W. Fox, Juergen Gadau, Sylvain Gandon, Andy Gardner, M. Gardner, Thomas Getty, Michael A. D. Goodisman, Alan Grafen, Rick Grosberg, Christina M. Grozinger, Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Darryl Gwynne, Paul Harvey, Ben J. Hatchwell, Jürgen Heınze, Heikki Helanterä, Ken R. Helms, Kim Hill, Natalie Jiricny, Rufus A. Johnstone, Alex Kacelnik, E. Toby Kiers, Hanna Kokko, Jan Komdeur, Judith Korb, Daniel J. C. Kronauer, Rolf Kümmerli, Laurent Lehmann, Timothy A. Linksvayer, Sébastien Lion, Bruce E. Lyon, James A. R. Marshall, Richard McElreath, Yannis Michalakis, Richard E. Michod, Douglas W. Mock, Thibaud Monnin, Robert Montgomerie, Allen J. Moore, Ulrich G. Mueller, Ronald Noë, Samir Okasha, Pekka Pamilo, Geoff A. Parker, Jes Søe Pedersen, Ido Pen, David W. Pfennig, David C. Queller, Daniel J. Rankin, Sarah E. Reece, H. Kern Reeve, Max Reuter, Gilbert Roberts, Simon K. A. Robson and 37 more - Nature 2011 cited by 498

  24. Does morality have a biological basis? An empirical test of the factors governing moral sentiments relating to incest

    Authors: Debra Lieberman, John Tooby, Leda Cosmides - Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2003 cited by 404