Karen L. Kramer

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Karen L. Kramer is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen L. Kramer has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 30 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 23 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Karen L. Kramer's work include Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (40 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (22 papers) and Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (18 papers). Karen L. Kramer is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (40 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (22 papers) and Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (18 papers). Karen L. Kramer collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Karen L. Kramer's co-authors include Russell D. Greaves, Ryan Schacht, Peter T. Ellison, Amanda Veile, Ronald Lee, Jane B. Lancaster, Erik Otárola‐Castillo, Michael Gurven, Garnett P. McMillan and Katherine McAuliffe and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Karen L. Kramer

88 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

The ontogeny of fairness in seven societies 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300
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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.

  1. The ontogeny of fairness in seven societies
    2015 323 citations Karen L. Kramer et al. profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Karen L. Kramer United States 30 1.2k 943 866 552 317 89 3.0k
A. Magdalena Hurtado United States 15 1.5k 1.2× 1.1k 1.2× 1.2k 1.3× 293 0.5× 192 0.6× 31 3.3k
Barry S. Hewlett United States 38 1.2k 1.0× 1.5k 1.6× 1.5k 1.7× 273 0.5× 724 2.3× 79 4.7k
Mark V. Flinn United States 29 1.4k 1.2× 1.1k 1.2× 1.2k 1.4× 502 0.9× 124 0.4× 62 3.5k
Jane B. Lancaster United States 22 1.4k 1.2× 931 1.0× 1.1k 1.3× 576 1.0× 217 0.7× 36 3.0k
Peter B. Gray United States 36 2.0k 1.7× 1.0k 1.1× 1.4k 1.6× 379 0.7× 228 0.7× 146 5.1k
Jonathan Stieglitz United States 30 614 0.5× 432 0.5× 418 0.5× 135 0.2× 182 0.6× 83 2.4k
Patricia Draper United States 20 2.2k 1.8× 1.2k 1.3× 1.4k 1.6× 670 1.2× 177 0.6× 42 4.5k
Napoleon A. Chagnon United States 23 1.5k 1.3× 1.6k 1.7× 793 0.9× 501 0.9× 90 0.3× 50 3.9k
Jerome O’Connell United States 18 1.0k 0.8× 690 0.7× 841 1.0× 264 0.5× 92 0.3× 40 3.3k
James S. Chisholm United States 19 871 0.7× 403 0.4× 584 0.7× 330 0.6× 89 0.3× 72 1.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karen L. Kramer

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All Works

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Crittenden, Alyssa N., Edmond Dounias, Sagan Friant, et al.. (2024). Child and adolescent foraging: New directions in evolutionary research. Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews. 33(2). e22020–e22020. 5 indexed citations
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Ellis, Bruce J., Brie M. Reid, & Karen L. Kramer. (2024). Two tiers, not one: Different sources of extrinsic mortality have opposing effects on life history traits. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 48. e99–e99. 2 indexed citations
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Ball, Helen L., et al.. (2023). Sleep tight! Adolescent sleep quality across three distinct sleep ecologies. Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 11(1). 448–460. 1 indexed citations
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Fox, Stephanie A., Brooke A. Scelza, Joan B. Silk, & Karen L. Kramer. (2022). New perspectives on the evolution of women's cooperation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1868). 20210424–20210424. 8 indexed citations
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Schacht, Ryan, Steven R. Beissinger, Claus Wedekind, et al.. (2022). Adult sex ratios: causes of variation and implications for animal and human societies. Communications Biology. 5(1). 1273–1273. 29 indexed citations
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Kramer, Karen L., et al.. (2021). The Role of Language in Structuring Social Networks Following Market Integration in a Yucatec Maya Population. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 656963–656963. 6 indexed citations
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Kramer, Karen L.. (2021). Childhood Teaching and Learning among Savanna Pumé Hunter-Gatherers. Human Nature. 32(1). 87–114. 16 indexed citations
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Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff, Mary C. Towner, Ryan Baldini, et al.. (2019). Differences between sons and daughters in the intergenerational transmission of wealth. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 374(1780). 20180076–20180076. 10 indexed citations
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Kubicka, Anna Maria, et al.. (2019). Is the timing of menarche correlated with mortality and fertility rates?. PLoS ONE. 14(4). e0215462–e0215462. 20 indexed citations
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Urlacher, Samuel S., J. Josh Snodgrass, Karen L. Kramer, et al.. (2017). Objectively Measured Childhood Physical Activity among Small-scale Populations. 1 indexed citations
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Greaves, Russell D., et al.. (2017). Seasonal Fluctuation in Body Fat Sexual Dimorphism among Pumé Hunter-Gatherers. 1 indexed citations
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Schacht, Ryan, Karen L. Kramer, Tamás Székely, & Peter M. Kappeler. (2017). Adult sex ratios and reproductive strategies: a critical re-examination of sex differences in human and animal societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 372(1729). 20160309–20160309. 46 indexed citations
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Lancelotti, Carla, Débora Zurro, Nicki J. Whitehouse, et al.. (2016). Resilience of small-scale societies’ livelihoods: a framework for studying the transition from food gathering to food production. Ecology and Society. 21(4). 15 indexed citations
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Schacht, Ryan & Karen L. Kramer. (2016). Patterns of Family Formation in Response to Sex Ratio Variation. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0160320–e0160320. 36 indexed citations
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Kramer, Karen L. & Erik Otárola‐Castillo. (2015). When mothers need others: The impact of hominin life history evolution on cooperative breeding. Journal of Human Evolution. 84. 16–24. 32 indexed citations
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Kramer, Karen L. & Russell D. Greaves. (2011). Postmarital Residence and Bilateral Kin Associations among Hunter-Gatherers. Human Nature. 22(1-2). 41–63. 39 indexed citations
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Kramer, Karen L.. (2009). Maya Children. Harvard University Press eBooks. 8 indexed citations
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Kramer, Karen L. & Garnett P. McMillan. (2006). The Effect of Labor‐Saving Technology on Longitudinal Fertility Changes. Current Anthropology. 47(1). 165–172. 30 indexed citations
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Kramer, Karen L. & James L. Boone. (2002). Why Intensive Agriculturalists Have Higher Fertility: A Household Energy Budget Approach. Current Anthropology. 43(3). 511–517. 46 indexed citations
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Kramer, Karen L.. (1998). Variation in children's work among modern Maya subsistence agriculturalists. UMI eBooks. 15 indexed citations

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