Adrian V. Bell

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
28 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Adrian V. Bell is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Adrian V. Bell has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 9 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 8 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Adrian V. Bell's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (15 papers), Language and cultural evolution (8 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (8 papers). Adrian V. Bell is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (15 papers), Language and cultural evolution (8 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (8 papers). Adrian V. Bell collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Adrian V. Bell's co-authors include Peter J. Richerson, Richard McElreath, Timothy M. Waring, Michael Muthukrishna, Joseph Henrich, Ryan Schacht, Charles Efferson, Mark Lubell, Lesley Newson and Vicken Hillis and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Adrian V. Bell

28 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Beyond Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance

2020 371 citations Michael Muthukrishna, Adrian V. Bell et al. Psychological Science profile →
Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence

2014 354 citations Peter J. Richerson, Ryan Baldini et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Adrian V. Bell United States	13	801	447	313	249	203	28	1.4k
Michael Muthukrishna United Kingdom	19	953 1.2×	718 1.6×	370 1.2×	311 1.2×	202 1.0×	50	2.1k
Sarah Mathew United States	13	848 1.1×	314 0.7×	315 1.0×	189 0.8×	314 1.5×	24	1.2k
Cody T. Ross United States	19	770 1.0×	296 0.7×	221 0.7×	126 0.5×	154 0.8×	60	1.4k
Pontus Strimling Sweden	20	769 1.0×	412 0.9×	118 0.4×	283 1.1×	221 1.1×	77	1.4k
Polly Wiessner United States	23	1.0k 1.3×	549 1.2×	586 1.9×	325 1.3×	258 1.3×	49	3.3k
Lee Cronk United States	26	853 1.1×	357 0.8×	638 2.0×	87 0.3×	226 1.1×	83	1.9k
Joe Henrich United States	7	668 0.8×	292 0.7×	182 0.6×	301 1.2×	195 1.0×	10	1.0k
James Thompson United Kingdom	21	596 0.7×	349 0.8×	482 1.5×	129 0.5×	109 0.5×	47	1.4k
Thomas J. H. Morgan United States	17	826 1.0×	595 1.3×	262 0.8×	572 2.3×	143 0.7×	43	1.9k
Bruce M. Knauft United States	21	1.1k 1.4×	278 0.6×	388 1.2×	139 0.6×	227 1.1×	50	1.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Beheim, Bret & Adrian V. Bell. (2024). Why cultural distance can promote – or impede – group-beneficial outcomes. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 6. e14–e14. 3 indexed citations

Bell, Adrian V.. (2023). Selection and adaptation in human migration. Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews. 32(6). 308–324. 1 indexed citations

Bell, Adrian V., et al.. (2021). Ethnic Markers and How to Find Them. Human Nature. 32(2). 470–481. 8 indexed citations

Bell, Adrian V.. (2020). A measure of social coordination and group signaling in the wild. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 2. e34–e34. 4 indexed citations

Muthukrishna, Michael, et al.. (2020). Beyond Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance. Psychological Science. 31(6). 678–701. 371 indexed citations breakdown →

Kramer, Karen L., Ryan Schacht, & Adrian V. Bell. (2017). Adult sex ratios and partner scarcity among hunter–gatherers: implications for dispersal patterns and the evolution of human sociality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 372(1729). 20160316–20160316. 38 indexed citations

Hillis, Vicken, Adrian V. Bell, Jodi Brandt, & Jeremy Brooks. (2017). Applying a cultural multilevel selection framework to the adoption of sustainable management practices in California viticulture. Sustainability Science. 13(1). 71–80. 9 indexed citations

Bell, Adrian V., et al.. (2016). Cooperative Learning Groups and the Evolution of Human Adaptability. Human Nature. 28(1). 1–15. 9 indexed citations

Schacht, Ryan & Adrian V. Bell. (2016). The evolution of monogamy in response to partner scarcity. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 32472–32472. 41 indexed citations

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Bell, Adrian V.. (2015). Linking Observed Learning Patterns to the Evolution of Cultural Complexity. Current Anthropology. 56(2). 277–281. 8 indexed citations

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Bell, Adrian V., et al.. (2015). Driving Factors in the Colonization of Oceania: Developing Island-Level Statistical Models to Test Competing Hypotheses. American Antiquity. 80(2). 397–407. 12 indexed citations

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Bell, Adrian V. & Bruce Winterhalder. (2014). The Population Ecology of Despotism. Human Nature. 25(1). 121–135. 35 indexed citations

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Richerson, Peter J., Ryan Baldini, Adrian V. Bell, et al.. (2014). Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 39. e30–e30. 354 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bell, Adrian V.. (2013). Evolutionary Thinking in Microeconomic Models: Prestige Bias and Market Bubbles. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e59805–e59805. 5 indexed citations

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Bell, Adrian V., Katie Hinde, & Lesley Newson. (2013). Who Was Helping? The Scope for Female Cooperative Breeding in Early Homo. PLoS ONE. 8(12). e83667–e83667. 10 indexed citations

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Beheim, Bret & Adrian V. Bell. (2011). Inheritance, ecology and the evolution of the canoes of east Oceania. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 278(1721). 3089–3095. 17 indexed citations

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Bell, Adrian V.. (2010). Why cultural and genetic group selection are unequal partners in the evolution of human behavior. Communicative & Integrative Biology. 3(2). 159–161. 3 indexed citations

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Bell, Adrian V., Russell B. Rader, Steven L. Peck, & Andrew Sih. (2009). The positive effects of negative interactions: Can avoidance of competitors or predators increase resource sampling by prey?. Theoretical Population Biology. 76(1). 52–58. 14 indexed citations

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McElreath, Richard, Adrian V. Bell, Charles Efferson, et al.. (2008). Beyond existence and aiming outside the laboratory: estimating frequency-dependent and pay-off-biased social learning strategies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 363(1509). 3515–3528. 185 indexed citations

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Bell, Adrian V. & Mark C. Belk. (2004). DIET OF THE LEATHERSIDE CHUB, SNYDERICHTHYS COPEI, IN THE FALL. Western North American Naturalist. 64(3). 413–416. 6 indexed citations

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