Dan Sperber

35.8k citations
143 papers · 15.5k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 43

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Papers in

Dan Sperber

129 papers receiving 13.0k citations

Hit Papers

A mutualistic approach to morality: The evolution of fairness by partner choice 2013 · 359 citations
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Dan Sperber
Comparison fields: 5 of 174
  • Language and Linguistics 4.3k
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 5.3k
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 3.2k
  • General Decision Sciences 449
  • Philosophy 2.3k
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
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2 20200
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Replies to Critics
20191
4
Resumen de The Enigma of Reason
20190
5
TEORIA DA RELEVÂNCIA
20106
6
Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory
20107
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Une pensée à l'orée des sciences cognitives
20080
8
Metarepresentations : a multidisciplinary perspective
2000241
9
Des idées qui viennent
19993
10
INTERPRETATÍVNA ETNOGRAFIA A TEORETICKÁ ANTROPOLÓGIA
19980
11
Fodor's frame problem and relevance theory - Response
19961
12
La contagion des idées : théorie naturaliste de la culture
199618
13
La relevancia: comunicación y procesos cognitivos
199419
14
La Pertinence, communication et cognition, collection « Propositions »
19910
15
Retórica y pertinencia
19902
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On choosing the context for utterance interpretation
19859
18
El estructuralismo en antropología
19752
19
La linguistique cartésienne : un chapitre de l'histoire de la pensée rationaliste ; suivi de, La nature formelle du langage
19690
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Le structuralisme en anthropologie
19688

About Dan Sperber

Dan Sperber is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Cultural Studies, General Decision Sciences and Philosophy, having authored 143 papers that have together received 15.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (18 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (15 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (14 papers), Language and cultural evolution (13 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (13 papers), Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (10 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (7 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Language and Linguistics (4.3k citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (5.3k citations), Developmental and Educational Psychology (3.2k citations), General Decision Sciences (449 citations) and Philosophy (2.3k citations). Dan Sperber has collaborated with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and United States. Frequent co-authors include Deirdre Wilson, Hugo Mercier, Jerome H. Barkow, Olivier Mascaro, Nicolas Baumard, Nicolas Claidière, Paul Meara, Lawrence A. Hirschfeld, Luca Surian and Jean‐Baptiste André. Their work appears in journals such as Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Mind & Language, Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology General and Scientific Reports.

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