Alicia P. Melis

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Alicia P. Melis is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alicia P. Melis has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Social Psychology, 23 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 18 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Alicia P. Melis's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (30 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (23 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (18 papers). Alicia P. Melis is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (30 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (23 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (18 papers). Alicia P. Melis collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Alicia P. Melis's co-authors include Michael Tomasello, Brian Hare, Felix Warneken, Emily Wyman, Dirk Semmann, Esther Herrmann, Claudio Tennie, Daniel Hanus, Josep Call and Richard W. Wrangham and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Alicia P. Melis

37 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation
    2012 458 citations Michael Tomasello, Alicia P. Melis et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alicia P. Melis Germany 24 2.1k 1.2k 1.1k 1.0k 528 38 3.2k
Esther Herrmann Germany 27 1.9k 0.9× 974 0.8× 1.4k 1.2× 729 0.7× 759 1.4× 66 3.3k
Susan P. Lambeth United States 31 2.2k 1.1× 835 0.7× 740 0.7× 676 0.7× 413 0.8× 81 3.2k
Laurie R. Santos United States 40 2.1k 1.0× 601 0.5× 1.8k 1.6× 722 0.7× 1.4k 2.7× 121 4.3k
Daniel B. M. Haun Germany 32 1.8k 0.9× 867 0.7× 1.5k 1.4× 1.1k 1.1× 781 1.5× 134 4.1k
Jennifer Vonk United States 25 1.5k 0.7× 477 0.4× 753 0.7× 574 0.6× 562 1.1× 124 2.8k
Sarah F. Brosnan United States 37 3.1k 1.5× 2.0k 1.6× 976 0.9× 1.7k 1.6× 1.3k 2.5× 158 5.5k
Judith M. Burkart Switzerland 31 2.7k 1.3× 787 0.6× 807 0.7× 885 0.9× 629 1.2× 97 3.9k
Katherine McAuliffe United States 26 1.3k 0.6× 1.4k 1.1× 1.0k 0.9× 571 0.6× 1.0k 2.0× 83 3.0k
Jeffrey R. Stevens United States 23 1.1k 0.5× 811 0.7× 400 0.4× 600 0.6× 539 1.0× 62 2.4k
Claudio Tennie Germany 27 1.9k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 987 0.9× 434 0.4× 403 0.8× 84 3.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alicia P. Melis

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Melis, Alicia P. & Nichola Raihani. (2023). The cognitive challenges of cooperation in human and nonhuman animals. Nature Reviews Psychology. 2(9). 523–536. 7 indexed citations
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Melis, Alicia P. & Federico Rossano. (2022). When and how do non-human great apes communicate to support cooperation?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1859). 20210109–20210109. 6 indexed citations
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Keupp, Stefanie, Sebastian Grueneisen, Elliot A. Ludvig, Felix Warneken, & Alicia P. Melis. (2021). Reduced risk-seeking in chimpanzees in a zero-outcome game. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1819). 20190673–20190673. 6 indexed citations
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Duguid, Shona & Alicia P. Melis. (2020). How animals collaborate: Underlying proximate mechanisms. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science. 11(5). e1529–e1529. 31 indexed citations
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Duguid, Shona, et al.. (2019). How chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) share the spoils with collaborators and bystanders. PLoS ONE. 14(9). e0222795–e0222795. 8 indexed citations
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Melis, Alicia P. & Michael Tomasello. (2019). Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) coordinate by communicating in a collaborative problem-solving task. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1901). 20190408–20190408. 29 indexed citations
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Melis, Alicia P.. (2017). The evolutionary roots of prosociality: the case of instrumental helping. Current Opinion in Psychology. 20. 82–86. 19 indexed citations
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Melis, Alicia P., et al.. (2016). One for You, One for Me. Psychological Science. 27(7). 987–996. 42 indexed citations
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Melis, Alicia P., et al.. (2015). Non Suicidal Self Injury On Adolescents: the Ethical Dilemmas for Psychologists. European Psychiatry. 30. 1404–1404. 1 indexed citations
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Melis, Alicia P., et al.. (2015). Non-Egalitarian Allocations among Preschool Peers in a Face-to-Face Bargaining Task. PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0120494–e0120494. 6 indexed citations
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Melis, Alicia P., et al.. (2014). Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) instrumentally help but do not communicate in a mutualistic cooperative task.. Journal of comparative psychology. 128(3). 251–260. 18 indexed citations
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Melis, Alicia P., et al.. (2012). Dogs (Canis familiaris) Evaluate Humans on the Basis of Direct Experiences Only. PLoS ONE. 7(10). e46880–e46880. 38 indexed citations
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Melis, Alicia P., et al.. (2012). Allocation of resources to collaborators and free-riders in 3-year-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 114(2). 364–370. 38 indexed citations
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Melis, Alicia P., et al.. (2011). Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes , prefer individual over collaborative strategies towards goals. Animal Behaviour. 82(5). 1135–1141. 51 indexed citations
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Melis, Alicia P., et al.. (2010). Chimpanzees help conspecifics obtain food and non-food items. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 278(1710). 1405–1413. 130 indexed citations
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Melis, Alicia P., Josep Call, & Michael Tomasello. (2009). 36‐month‐olds conceal visual and auditory information from others. Developmental Science. 13(3). 479–489. 17 indexed citations
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Warneken, Felix, Brian Hare, Alicia P. Melis, Daniel Hanus, & Michael Tomasello. (2007). Spontaneous Altruism by Chimpanzees and Young Children. PLoS Biology. 5(7). e184–e184. 346 indexed citations
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Hare, Brian, Alicia P. Melis, Vanessa Woods, Sara Hastings, & Richard W. Wrangham. (2007). Tolerance Allows Bonobos to Outperform Chimpanzees on a Cooperative Task. Current Biology. 17(7). 619–623. 323 indexed citations
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Melis, Alicia P., Josep Call, & Michael Tomasello. (2006). Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) conceal visual and auditory information from others.. Journal of comparative psychology. 120(2). 154–162. 123 indexed citations
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Herrmann, Esther, Alicia P. Melis, & Michael Tomasello. (2006). Apes' use of iconic cues in the object-choice task. Animal Cognition. 9(2). 118–130. 21 indexed citations

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