Coren L. Apicella

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Coren L. Apicella is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Coren L. Apicella has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 29 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 22 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Coren L. Apicella's work include Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (42 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (22 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (16 papers). Coren L. Apicella is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (42 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (22 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (16 papers). Coren L. Apicella collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Coren L. Apicella's co-authors include Frank W. Marlowe, Anna Dreber, Anthony C. Little, James H. Fowler, Nicholas A. Christakis, David R. Feinberg, Ara Norenzayan, Joseph Henrich, David A. Puts and Kristopher M. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Coren L. Apicella

71 papers receiving 4.0k citations

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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.

Social networks and cooperation in hunter-gatherers

2012 465 citations Coren L. Apicella, Frank W. Marlowe et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Coren L. Apicella United States	35	2.1k	1.5k	1.0k	685	544	73	4.1k
Christopher von Rueden United States	30	1.7k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	1.0k 1.0×	454 0.7×	349 0.6×	57	3.2k
Peter B. Gray United States	36	2.0k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	387 0.6×	242 0.4×	146	5.1k
Asifa Majid Netherlands	38	3.7k 1.8×	1.3k 0.9×	2.3k 2.3×	1.5k 2.3×	252 0.5×	174	7.9k
Jerome H. Barkow Canada	20	2.4k 1.1×	2.9k 1.9×	1.9k 1.8×	1.1k 1.6×	459 0.8×	54	6.5k
Daniel M. T. Fessler United States	38	1.7k 0.8×	2.6k 1.7×	2.4k 2.4×	2.5k 3.7×	563 1.0×	135	6.0k
Aaron Sell United States	20	1.3k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	675 0.7×	742 1.1×	180 0.3×	28	2.1k
Willem E. Frankenhuis Netherlands	31	1.3k 0.6×	846 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	591 0.9×	178 0.3×	88	3.9k
Daniel Sznycer United States	24	899 0.4×	939 0.6×	925 0.9×	769 1.1×	248 0.5×	51	2.1k
Martie G. Haselton United States	40	3.8k 1.8×	2.4k 1.6×	1.8k 1.8×	1.3k 2.0×	206 0.4×	85	6.5k
Tamás Bereczkei Hungary	29	1.1k 0.5×	714 0.5×	635 0.6×	404 0.6×	187 0.3×	93	2.6k

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Abarbanell, Linda, et al.. (2024). Foreign-language effects in cross-cultural behavioral research: Evidence from the Tanzanian Hadza. PNAS Nexus. 3(6). pgae218–pgae218. 1 indexed citations

Bendixen, Theiss, Coren L. Apicella, Quentin D. Atkinson, et al.. (2023). Appealing to the minds of gods: religious beliefs and appeals correspond to features of local social ecologies. Religion Brain & Behavior. 14(2). 183–205. 5 indexed citations

Apicella, Coren L., et al.. (2023). A test of multimodal communication in humans using 881 judgements of men and women's physical, vocal, and olfactory attractiveness. Heliyon. 9(6). e16895–e16895. 2 indexed citations

Aung, Toe, Alexander K. Hill, Dana Pfefferle, et al.. (2023). Group size and mating system predict sex differences in vocal fundamental frequency in anthropoid primates. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4069–4069. 8 indexed citations

Jackson, Joshua Conrad, Jamin Halberstadt, Masanori Takezawa, et al.. (2023). Generalized morality culturally evolves as an adaptive heuristic in large social networks.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 125(6). 1207–1238. 4 indexed citations

Smith, Kristopher M., et al.. (2022). Why hunt? Why gather? Why share? Hadza assessments of foraging and food-sharing motive. Evolution and Human Behavior. 43(3). 257–272. 11 indexed citations

Moya, Cristina, Caitlyn D. Placek, Coren L. Apicella, et al.. (2022). The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies. Religion Brain & Behavior. 12(1-2). 18–37. 9 indexed citations

Amir, Dorsa, et al.. (2022). A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context?. Evolution and Human Behavior. 44(5). 398–410. 3 indexed citations

Apicella, Coren L., et al.. (2022). Myopia rates among Hadza hunter‐gatherers are low but not exceptional. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 179(4). 655–667. 2 indexed citations

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Smith, Kristopher M. & Coren L. Apicella. (2019). Hadza Hunter-Gatherers Disagree on Perceptions of Moral Character. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 11(5). 616–625. 20 indexed citations

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Lang, Martin, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Coren L. Apicella, et al.. (2019). Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1898). 20190202–20190202. 101 indexed citations

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Purzycki, Benjamin Grant, Joseph Henrich, Coren L. Apicella, et al.. (2017). The evolution of religion and morality: a synthesis of ethnographic and experimental evidence from eight societies. Religion Brain & Behavior. 8(2). 101–132. 47 indexed citations

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Apicella, Coren L., Alyssa N. Crittenden, & Victoria A. Tobolsky. (2017). Hunter-gatherer males are more risk-seeking than females, even in late childhood. Evolution and Human Behavior. 38(5). 592–603. 40 indexed citations

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Apicella, Coren L., et al.. (2017). No Gender Difference in Willingness to Compete When Competing against Self. American Economic Review. 107(5). 136–140. 64 indexed citations

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Smith, Kristopher M. & Coren L. Apicella. (2016). Winners, losers, and posers: The effect of power poses on testosterone and risk-taking following competition. Hormones and Behavior. 92. 172–181. 28 indexed citations

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Purzycki, Benjamin Grant, Coren L. Apicella, Quentin D. Atkinson, et al.. (2016). Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality. Nature. 530(7590). 327–330. 244 indexed citations

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Apicella, Coren L., Eduardo M. Azevedo, Nicholas A. Christakis, & James H. Fowler. (2014). Evolutionary Origins of the Endowment Effect: Evidence from Hunter-Gatherers. American Economic Review. 104(6). 1793–1805. 83 indexed citations

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Almenberg, Johan, Anna Dreber, Coren L. Apicella, & David G. Rand. (2010). Third Party Reward and Punishment: Group Size, Efficiency and Public Goods. SSRN Electronic Journal. 38 indexed citations

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Apicella, Coren L., David Cesarini, Magnus Johannesson, et al.. (2010). No Association between Oxytocin Receptor (OXTR) Gene Polymorphisms and Experimentally Elicited Social Preferences. PLoS ONE. 5(6). e11153–e11153. 83 indexed citations

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Apicella, Coren L. & Frank W. Marlowe. (2007). Men’s reproductive investment decisions. Human Nature. 18(1). 22–34. 29 indexed citations

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