Edward Slingerland

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Edward Slingerland is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, Edward Slingerland has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 13 papers in Social Psychology and 12 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in Edward Slingerland's work include Chinese history and philosophy (21 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (15 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (12 papers). Edward Slingerland is often cited by papers focused on Chinese history and philosophy (21 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (15 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (12 papers). Edward Slingerland collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Edward Slingerland's co-authors include Joseph Henrich, Kwong‐loi Shun, Rita Anne McNamara, 孔子, Aiyana K. Willard, Azim Shariff, Ara Norenzayan, Will M. Gervais, Mark Collard and Michael Muthukrishna and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Annual Review of Psychology and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Edward Slingerland

57 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

The cultural evolution of prosocial religions 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 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. The cultural evolution of prosocial religions
    2014 453 citations Ara Norenzayan, Azim Shariff et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Edward Slingerland Canada 21 1.2k 675 428 354 331 62 2.1k
Richard Sosis United States 28 2.4k 2.0× 993 1.5× 437 1.0× 731 2.1× 265 0.8× 109 3.5k
Catherine Lutz United States 20 1.6k 1.3× 1.1k 1.6× 195 0.5× 415 1.2× 185 0.6× 58 3.8k
Steven Heine United States 14 1.4k 1.1× 1.6k 2.4× 323 0.8× 742 2.1× 116 0.4× 101 3.3k
Carl Gustav Jung United States 23 488 0.4× 1.1k 1.7× 204 0.5× 254 0.7× 646 2.0× 82 3.3k
Stewart Guthrie United States 10 833 0.7× 536 0.8× 316 0.7× 242 0.7× 263 0.8× 27 1.6k
Aiyana K. Willard United Kingdom 20 1.4k 1.1× 924 1.4× 489 1.1× 293 0.8× 122 0.4× 43 2.2k
Benjamin Grant Purzycki Denmark 20 967 0.8× 533 0.8× 207 0.5× 260 0.7× 77 0.2× 67 1.4k
Erika Bourguignon United States 26 799 0.6× 372 0.6× 165 0.4× 106 0.3× 294 0.9× 73 2.4k
Lawrence A. Hirschfeld United States 20 1.3k 1.1× 1.3k 1.9× 680 1.6× 820 2.3× 145 0.4× 44 3.8k
Bambi B. Schieffelin United States 22 711 0.6× 367 0.5× 121 0.3× 486 1.4× 127 0.4× 50 4.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Slingerland, Edward, et al.. (2023). The Database of Religious History (DRH): ontology, coding strategies and the future of cultural evolutionary analyses. Religion Brain & Behavior. 14(2). 131–160.
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Thornton, Mark, et al.. (2022). The 3d Mind Model Characterizes How People Understand Mental States Across Modern and Historical Cultures. Affective Science. 3(1). 93–104. 11 indexed citations
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Slingerland, Edward, Quentin D. Atkinson, Carol R. Ember, et al.. (2020). Coding culture: challenges and recommendations for comparative cultural databases. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 2. e29–e29. 27 indexed citations
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Slingerland, Edward. (2019). Mind and Body in Early China. Oxford University Press eBooks. 16 indexed citations
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Muthukrishna, Michael, et al.. (2018). Exploring the Challenges and Potentialities of the Database of Religious History for Cognitive Historiography. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 3(1-2). 12–31. 3 indexed citations
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Slingerland, Edward. (2016). Virtue ethics, the Analects, and the problem of commensurability. 353–378. 3 indexed citations
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Hruschka, Daniel J., Charles Efferson, Ting Jiang, et al.. (2014). Impartial Institutions, Pathogen Stress and the Expanding Social Network. Human Nature. 25(4). 567–579. 87 indexed citations
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Norenzayan, Ara, Azim Shariff, Will M. Gervais, et al.. (2014). The cultural evolution of prosocial religions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 39. e1–e1. 453 indexed citations breakdown →
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Slingerland, Edward. (2013). Body and Mind in Early China: An Integrated Humanities-Science Approach. Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 81(1). 6–55. 36 indexed citations
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Collard, Mark & Edward Slingerland. (2012). Creating consilience : integrating the sciences and the humanities. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven). 63 indexed citations
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Slingerland, Edward & Maciej Chudek. (2011). The Prevalence of Mind–Body Dualism in Early China. Cognitive Science. 35(5). 997–1007. 49 indexed citations
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Slingerland, Edward & Joseph Bulbulia. (2011). Introductory essay: Evolutionary science and the study of religion. Religion. 41(3). 307–328. 11 indexed citations
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Slingerland, Edward & Mark Collard. (2011). Creating ConsilienceIntegrating the Sciences and the Humanities. Oxford University Press eBooks. 29 indexed citations
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Slingerland, Edward. (2011). Metaphor and Meaning in Early China. Dao. 10(1). 1–30. 18 indexed citations
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Slingerland, Edward. (2008). Good and Bad Reductionism: Acknowledging the Power of Culture. Style. 42. 266. 3 indexed citations
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Slingerland, Edward. (2008). The Problem of Moral Spontaneity in the Guodian Corpus. Dao. 7(3). 237–256. 14 indexed citations
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Slingerland, Edward. (2007). Chinese Thought from an Evolutionary Perspective. Philosophy East and West. 57(3). 375–388. 1 indexed citations
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Slingerland, Edward. (2004). Conceptions of the Self in the Zhuangzi : Conceptual Metaphor Analysis and Comparative Thought. Philosophy East and West. 54(3). 322–342. 28 indexed citations
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孔子 & Edward Slingerland. (2003). Confucius analects : with selections from traditional commentaries. 128 indexed citations
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Slingerland, Edward. (2003). Effortless Action. 113 indexed citations

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