Andrew Whiten

36.1k total citations · 9 hit papers
252 papers, 20.0k citations indexed

About

Andrew Whiten is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Developmental Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew Whiten has authored 252 papers receiving a total of 20.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 185 papers in Social Psychology, 97 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 71 papers in Developmental Biology. Recurrent topics in Andrew Whiten's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (159 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (96 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (71 papers). Andrew Whiten is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (159 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (96 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (71 papers). Andrew Whiten collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Andrew Whiten's co-authors include Richard W. Byrne, Victoria Horner, Alex Mesoudi, Justin H. G. Williams, Andrew Lock, Frans Β. Μ. de Waal, Nicola McGuigan, Kevin N. Laland, David I. Perrett and Sarah Marshall‐Pescini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Andrew Whiten

247 papers receiving 18.8k citations

Hit Papers

Cultures in chimpanzees 1988 2026 2000 2013 1999 1988 1992 2001 2004 400 800 1.2k
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. Cultures in chimpanzees
    1999 1.4k citations Andrew Whiten, Christophe Boesch et al. profile →
  2. Machiavellian Intelligence: Social Expertise and the Evolution of Intellect in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
    1988 1.2k citations Andrew Whiten et al. profile →
  3. Natural Theories of Mind: Evolution, Development and Simulation of Everyday Mindreading.
    1992 720 citations Andrew Whiten et al. profile →
  4. Imitation, mirror neurons and autism
    2001 654 citations Justin H. G. Williams, Andrew Whiten et al. profile →
  5. Causal knowledge and imitation/emulation switching in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens)
    2004 575 citations Victoria Horner, Andrew Whiten Animal Cognition profile →
  6. Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language
    2015 319 citations Andrew Whiten, Kevin N. Laland et al. profile →
  7. Potent Social Learning and Conformity Shape a Wild Primate’s Foraging Decisions
    2013 289 citations Erica van de Waal, Andrew Whiten et al. Science profile →
  8. The burgeoning reach of animal culture
    2021 159 citations Andrew Whiten Science profile →
  9. ‘Over-imitation’: A review and appraisal of a decade of research
    2019 135 citations Nicola McGuigan, Andrew Whiten 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
Andrew Whiten United Kingdom 72 12.4k 6.7k 4.3k 4.2k 4.2k 252 20.0k
Michael A. Hauser United States 73 8.1k 0.7× 5.4k 0.8× 2.7k 0.6× 2.7k 0.6× 9.4k 2.2× 273 22.3k
Josep Call Germany 82 16.6k 1.3× 13.2k 2.0× 3.6k 0.8× 2.6k 0.6× 6.9k 1.6× 427 27.3k
Frans Β. Μ. de Waal United States 74 15.7k 1.3× 3.1k 0.5× 5.3k 1.2× 800 0.2× 4.9k 1.2× 244 23.3k
Kevin N. Laland United Kingdom 88 7.7k 0.6× 2.0k 0.3× 8.7k 2.0× 5.0k 1.2× 1.9k 0.5× 237 25.3k
Robin Dunbar United Kingdom 105 20.5k 1.7× 2.9k 0.4× 9.9k 2.3× 2.3k 0.5× 6.0k 1.4× 506 40.4k
Richard W. Byrne United Kingdom 59 7.4k 0.6× 3.6k 0.5× 1.1k 0.3× 1.1k 0.3× 2.3k 0.6× 300 13.1k
Dorothy L. Cheney United States 79 12.0k 1.0× 2.4k 0.4× 1.9k 0.4× 1.5k 0.4× 1.5k 0.4× 158 18.2k
Robert M. Seyfarth United States 76 11.7k 0.9× 2.4k 0.4× 1.9k 0.4× 1.5k 0.4× 1.5k 0.4× 158 17.9k
William C. McGrew United Kingdom 57 9.1k 0.7× 2.8k 0.4× 1.1k 0.2× 974 0.2× 1.7k 0.4× 199 11.7k
Richard W. Wrangham United States 89 15.9k 1.3× 2.4k 0.4× 3.5k 0.8× 888 0.2× 1.3k 0.3× 285 24.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brakes, Philippa, Lucy M. Aplin, Emma L. Carroll, et al.. (2025). Animal culture: conservation in a changing world. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1925). 20240127–20240127. 8 indexed citations
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Whiten, Andrew. (2024). Diverse species readily acquire copies of novel actions from others that are not achieved through individual learning. Animal Behaviour. 216. 85–96. 2 indexed citations
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Battiston, Federico, Maria A. van Noordwijk, Reinhard Furrer, et al.. (2024). Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture. Science. 386(6724). 920–925. 4 indexed citations
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Whiten, Andrew, et al.. (2023). Do children imitate even when it is costly? New insights from a novel task. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 42(1). 18–35. 1 indexed citations
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Messer, Emily J. E., Mark Bowler, Nicolas Claidière, & Andrew Whiten. (2022). The role of anointing in robust capuchin monkey, Sapajus apella, social dynamics. Animal Behaviour. 190. 103–114. 2 indexed citations
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Whiten, Andrew, et al.. (2021). Collective knowledge and the dynamics of culture in chimpanzees. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1843). 20200321–20200321. 10 indexed citations
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Whiten, Andrew. (2019). Social Learning: Peering Deeper into Ape Culture. Current Biology. 29(17). R845–R847. 8 indexed citations
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Davis, Sarah, Steven J. Schapiro, Susan P. Lambeth, Lara A. Wood, & Andrew Whiten. (2018). Behavioral conservatism is linked to complexity of behavior in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Implications for cognition and cumulative culture.. Journal of comparative psychology. 133(1). 20–35. 13 indexed citations
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Waal, Erica van de, Carel P. van Schaik, & Andrew Whiten. (2017). Resilience of experimentally seeded dietary traditions in wild vervets: Evidence from group fissions. American Journal of Primatology. 79(10). 23 indexed citations
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Vale, Gillian L., et al.. (2017). Acquisition of a socially learned tool use sequence in chimpanzees: Implications for cumulative culture. Evolution and Human Behavior. 38(5). 635–644. 44 indexed citations
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Price, Elizabeth E., Lara A. Wood, & Andrew Whiten. (2016). Adaptive cultural transmission biases in children and nonhuman primates. Infant Behavior and Development. 48(Pt A). 45–53. 34 indexed citations
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Nielsen, Mark, Francys Subiaul, Bennett G. Galef, Thomas R. Zentall, & Andrew Whiten. (2012). Social learning in humans and nonhuman animals: Theoretical and empirical dissections.. Journal of comparative psychology. 126(2). 109–113. 36 indexed citations
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Whiten, Andrew, et al.. (2007). Observational learning from tool using models by human-reared and mother-reared capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Animal Cognition. 11(2). 295–309. 36 indexed citations
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Williams, Justin H. G., et al.. (2007). Cortical and subcortical mechanisms at the core of imitation. Social Neuroscience. 2(1). 66–78. 33 indexed citations
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Horner, Victoria & Andrew Whiten. (2004). Causal knowledge and imitation/emulation switching in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens). Animal Cognition. 8(3). 164–181. 575 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mesoudi, Alex, Andrew Whiten, & Kevin N. Laland. (2004). PERSPECTIVE: IS HUMAN CULTURAL EVOLUTION DARWINIAN? EVIDENCE REVIEWED FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. Evolution. 58(1). 1–11. 183 indexed citations
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Suddendorf, Thomas & Andrew Whiten. (2003). Reinterpreting the mentality of apes. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 173–196. 13 indexed citations
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Whiten, Andrew & Christophe Boesch. (2001). The Cultures of Chimpanzees. Scientific American. 284(1). 60–67. 37 indexed citations
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Whiten, Andrew. (2000). Social Complexity and Social Intelligence. Novartis Foundation symposium. 233. 185–201. 25 indexed citations
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Whiten, Andrew & Robert A. Barton. (1988). Demise of the checksheet: Using off-the-shelf miniature hand-held computers for remote fieldwork applications. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 3(6). 146–148. 7 indexed citations

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