Dominik Deffner

658 total citations
19 papers, 219 citations indexed

About

Dominik Deffner is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dominik Deffner has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 219 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 7 papers in Cultural Studies and 5 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Dominik Deffner's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (11 papers), Language and cultural evolution (7 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (3 papers). Dominik Deffner is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (11 papers), Language and cultural evolution (7 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (3 papers). Dominik Deffner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Australia. Dominik Deffner's co-authors include Richard McElreath, Julia M. Rohrer, Anne Kandler, Kevin N. Laland, John A. Endler, John Odling‐Smee, Paweł Romańczuk, Ralf H. J. M. Kurvers, Laurel Fogarty and Alan Novaes Tump and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Dominik Deffner

17 papers receiving 214 citations

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Leonora H. Astete Philippines

Marilyn Ngales Philippines

Andrew Buskell United Kingdom

Laureano Castro Spain

Wataru Nakahashi Japan

John Andrew Bunce United States

Helena Miton United States

Emily J. E. Messer United Kingdom

Gillian L. Vale United States

Daniel Redhead Germany

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19 of 19 papers shown

Deffner, Dominik, et al.. (2026). High-precision tracking of human foragers reveals adaptive social information use in the wild. Science. 391(6784). eady1055–eady1055.

Wu, Charley M., et al.. (2025). Adaptive mechanisms of social and asocial learning in immersive collective foraging. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3539–3539. 2 indexed citations

Sterner, Philipp, Florian Pargent, Dominik Deffner, & David Goretzko. (2024). A Causal Framework for the Comparability of Latent Variables. Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal. 31(5). 747–758. 6 indexed citations

Krause, Jens, Paweł Romańczuk, Dominique Pham, et al.. (2024). Evidence for a by‐product mutualism in a group hunter depends on prey movement state. Functional Ecology. 38(10). 2123–2138. 1 indexed citations

Deffner, Dominik, et al.. (2024). Collective incentives reduce over-exploitation of social information in unconstrained human groups. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2683–2683. 12 indexed citations

Deffner, Dominik, et al.. (2024). Visual social information use in collective foraging. PLoS Computational Biology. 20(5). e1012087–e1012087. 6 indexed citations

Deffner, Dominik, et al.. (2024). Risk-sensitive learning is a winning strategy for leading an urban invasion. eLife. 12.

Deffner, Dominik, et al.. (2024). Bridging theory and data: A computational workflow for cultural evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(48). e2322887121–e2322887121. 6 indexed citations

Colleran, Heidi, et al.. (2023). Copying fidelity of functional and non-functional features in ni-Vanuatu children: A transmission chain study. PLoS ONE. 18(2). e0274061–e0274061. 1 indexed citations

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Tump, Alan Novaes, Dominik Deffner, Timothy J. Pleskac, Paweł Romańczuk, & Ralf H. J. M. Kurvers. (2023). A Cognitive Computational Approach to Social and Collective Decision-Making. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 19(2). 538–551. 12 indexed citations

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Deffner, Dominik, Julia M. Rohrer, & Richard McElreath. (2022). A Causal Framework for Cross-Cultural Generalizability. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 5(3). 55 indexed citations

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Deffner, Dominik, Anne Kandler, & Laurel Fogarty. (2022). Effective population size for culturally evolving traits. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(4). e1009430–e1009430. 11 indexed citations

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Deffner, Dominik & Richard McElreath. (2022). When does selection favor learning from the old? Social learning in age-structured populations. PLoS ONE. 17(4). e0267204–e0267204. 13 indexed citations

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Blaisdell, Aaron P., et al.. (2021). Do the more flexible individuals rely more on causal cognition? Observation versus intervention in causal inference in great-tailed grackles. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. 6 indexed citations

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Deffner, Dominik, et al.. (2021). Color me impressed: A partner's target feature captures visual attention. Cognition. 220. 104989–104989. 2 indexed citations

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Deffner, Dominik, et al.. (2020). Dynamic social learning in temporally and spatially variable environments. Royal Society Open Science. 7(12). 200734–200734. 30 indexed citations

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Deffner, Dominik & Richard McElreath. (2020). The importance of life history and population regulation for the evolution of social learning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1803). 20190492–20190492. 16 indexed citations

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Deffner, Dominik, et al.. (2019). Niche Construction Affects the Variability and Strength of Natural Selection. The American Naturalist. 195(1). 16–30. 29 indexed citations

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Deffner, Dominik & Anne Kandler. (2019). Trait specialization, innovation, and the evolution of culture in fluctuating environments. Palgrave Communications. 5(1). 11 indexed citations

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