Jillian Jordan

4.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
36 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Jillian Jordan is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Jillian Jordan has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 22 papers in Safety Research and 18 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Jillian Jordan's work include Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (22 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (19 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (16 papers). Jillian Jordan is often cited by papers focused on Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (22 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (19 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (16 papers). Jillian Jordan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Jillian Jordan's co-authors include David G. Rand, Zhen Wang, Stefano Boccaletti, Attila Szolnoki, Matjaž Perc, Katherine McAuliffe, Felix Warneken, Moshe Hoffman, Paul Bloom and Erez Yoeli 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

Jillian Jordan

33 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Statistical physics of human cooperation

2017 1.1k citations Matjaž Perc, Jillian Jordan et al. Physics Reports profile →
Third-party punishment as a costly signal of trustworthiness

2016 301 citations Jillian Jordan, Moshe Hoffman et al. Nature profile →
Don’t get it or don’t spread it: comparing self-interested versus prosocial motivations for COVID-19 prevention behaviors

2021 175 citations Jillian Jordan, Erez Yoeli et al. Scientific Reports profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jillian Jordan United States	15	1.9k	936	724	485	429	36	2.7k
Valerio Capraro United Kingdom	31	1.5k 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	810 1.1×	286 0.6×	160 0.4×	101	2.6k
Tatsuya Kameda Japan	26	1.0k 0.5×	401 0.4×	346 0.5×	304 0.6×	99 0.2×	82	2.4k
Paul E. Smaldino United States	24	1.1k 0.5×	292 0.3×	170 0.2×	366 0.8×	130 0.3×	78	2.2k
Moshe Hoffman United States	14	744 0.4×	573 0.6×	327 0.5×	282 0.6×	114 0.3×	22	1.3k
Alexander Peysakhovich United States	13	935 0.5×	871 0.9×	413 0.6×	282 0.6×	46 0.1×	34	1.6k
Christian Hilbe Germany	26	2.1k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	96 0.1×	505 1.0×	781 1.8×	63	2.5k
Samuel Arbesman United States	11	605 0.3×	254 0.3×	91 0.1×	181 0.4×	104 0.2×	22	1.5k
Pontus Strimling Sweden	20	769 0.4×	221 0.2×	213 0.3×	118 0.2×	89 0.2×	77	1.4k
Masanori Takezawa Japan	15	515 0.3×	287 0.3×	198 0.3×	163 0.3×	49 0.1×	38	886
Hugo Mercier France	26	1.8k 0.9×	271 0.3×	858 1.2×	549 1.1×	12 0.0×	124	4.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Jillian Jordan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jillian Jordan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jordan, Jillian & Nour Kteily. (2025). Punitive but discerning: Reputation can fuel ambiguously deserved punishment, but does not erode sensitivity to nuance.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 128(5). 1072–1102.

Pritchard, Elizabeth, Jillian Jordan, William O. Dawson, et al.. (2023). 359. Effects of Developmental Age and Length of Illness in Major Depressive Disorder: A Meta-Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies. Biological Psychiatry. 93(9). S239–S239.

Jordan, Jillian. (2023). A pull versus push framework for reputation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 27(9). 852–866. 4 indexed citations

Pritchard, Elizabeth, Jillian Jordan, William O. Dawson, et al.. (2023). 282. Meta-Analysis of Functional Neuroimaging in Adults With Major Depressive Disorder. Biological Psychiatry. 93(9). S207–S207.

Jordan, Jillian, et al.. (2022). Giving-by-proxy triggers subsequent charitable behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 105. 104438–104438. 2 indexed citations

Jordan, Jillian & Roseanna Sommers. (2022). When does moral engagement risk triggering a hypocrite penalty?. Current Opinion in Psychology. 47. 101404–101404. 6 indexed citations

Jordan, Jillian, Erez Yoeli, & David G. Rand. (2021). Don’t get it or don’t spread it: comparing self-interested versus prosocial motivations for COVID-19 prevention behaviors. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 20222–20222. 175 indexed citations breakdown →

Jordan, Jillian & David G. Rand. (2019). Signaling when no one is watching: A reputation heuristics account of outrage and punishment in one-shot anonymous interactions.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 118(1). 57–88. 89 indexed citations

Perc, Matjaž, Jillian Jordan, David G. Rand, et al.. (2017). Statistical physics of human cooperation. Physics Reports. 687. 1–51. 1132 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jordan, Jillian & David G. Rand. (2017). Third-party punishment as a costly signal of high continuation probabilities in repeated games. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 421. 189–202. 29 indexed citations

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Perc, Matjaž, Jillian Jordan, David G. Rand, et al.. (2017). Statistical physics of human cooperation. Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). 4 indexed citations

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Jordan, Jillian, Roseanna Sommers, Paul Bloom, & David G. Rand. (2017). Why Do We Hate Hypocrites? Evidence for a Theory of False Signaling. Psychological Science. 28(3). 356–368. 121 indexed citations

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Jordan, Jillian & David G. Rand. (2016). Building Costly Signaling from the Ground Up: A Model of Third-Party Punishment as a Costly Signal of Exposure to Repeated Interactions. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Jordan, Jillian, Moshe Hoffman, Paul Bloom, & David G. Rand. (2016). Third-party punishment as a costly signal of trustworthiness. Nature. 530(7591). 473–476. 301 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jordan, Jillian, Alexander Peysakhovich, & David G. Rand. (2015). Why We Cooperate. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations

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Capraro, Valerio, Jillian Jordan, & David G. Rand. (2014). Heuristics guide the implementation of social preferences in one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma experiments. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 124 indexed citations

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Capraro, Valerio, Jillian Jordan, & David G. Rand. (2014). Cooperation increases with the benefit-to-cost ratio in one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma experiments.. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations

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McAuliffe, Katherine, Jillian Jordan, & Felix Warneken. (2014). Costly third-party punishment in young children. Cognition. 134. 1–10. 187 indexed citations

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Jordan, Jillian, Katherine McAuliffe, & Felix Warneken. (2014). Development of in-group favoritism in children’s third-party punishment of selfishness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(35). 12710–12715. 171 indexed citations

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Jordan, Jillian, David G. Rand, Samuel Arbesman, James H. Fowler, & Nicholas A. Christakis. (2013). Contagion of Cooperation in Static and Fluid Social Networks. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e66199–e66199. 63 indexed citations

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