Manvir Singh

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 914 citations indexed

About

Manvir Singh is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Manvir Singh has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 914 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 9 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 8 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Manvir Singh's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (16 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (8 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (5 papers). Manvir Singh is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (16 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (8 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (5 papers). Manvir Singh collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and New Zealand. Manvir Singh's co-authors include Luke Glowacki, Samuel A. Mehr, Max M. Krasnow, Christos C. Ioannou, Iain D. Couzin, Joseph Henrich, Hunter York, Richard W. Wrangham, Jan Simson and Erin J. Hopkins and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

Manvir Singh

26 papers receiving 892 citations

Hit Papers

Universality and diversity in human song 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150 200 250
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. Universality and diversity in human song
    2019 266 citations Samuel A. Mehr, Manvir Singh et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Manvir Singh France 16 324 319 230 215 126 30 914
Max M. Krasnow United States 15 498 1.5× 481 1.5× 258 1.1× 403 1.9× 124 1.0× 24 1.1k
Bill Thompson United States 14 153 0.5× 126 0.4× 167 0.7× 299 1.4× 117 0.9× 57 986
Daniel L. Bowling Austria 20 594 1.8× 63 0.2× 323 1.4× 296 1.4× 189 1.5× 40 1.1k
Gregory A. Bryant United States 25 707 2.2× 274 0.9× 697 3.0× 1.1k 5.1× 146 1.2× 48 2.3k
Ellen Dissanayake United States 14 315 1.0× 233 0.7× 375 1.6× 347 1.6× 15 0.1× 50 1.3k
Rodrigo A. Cárdenas United States 19 321 1.0× 262 0.8× 253 1.1× 977 4.5× 40 0.3× 37 1.4k
Adena Schachner United States 11 539 1.7× 53 0.2× 304 1.3× 191 0.9× 104 0.8× 33 948
Patrick E. Savage Japan 14 528 1.6× 129 0.4× 239 1.0× 175 0.8× 295 2.3× 34 983
John R. Vokey Canada 20 858 2.6× 66 0.2× 342 1.5× 363 1.7× 53 0.4× 50 1.4k
Nori Jacoby United States 21 963 3.0× 44 0.1× 305 1.3× 300 1.4× 384 3.0× 58 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Manvir Singh

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Fields of papers citing papers by Manvir Singh

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Manvir Singh

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Manvir Singh. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Manvir Singh based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Manvir Singh. Manvir Singh is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Singh, Manvir & Kim Hill. (2025). Loss of dance and infant-directed song among the Northern Aché. Current Biology. 35(10). 2444–2447.e1.
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Singh, Manvir, et al.. (2025). Prosocial religions as folk-technologies of mutual policing.. Psychological Review. 132(6). 1410–1437. 5 indexed citations
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Molho, Catherine, Jorge Peña, Manvir Singh, & Maxime Derex. (2024). Do institutions evolve like material technologies?. Current Opinion in Psychology. 60. 101913–101913.
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Singh, Manvir, et al.. (2024). The Streptococcus phage protein paratox is an intrinsically disordered protein. Protein Science. 33(6). e5037–e5037. 1 indexed citations
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Singh, Manvir & Samuel A. Mehr. (2023). Universality, domain-specificity and development of psychological responses to music. Nature Reviews Psychology. 2(6). 333–346. 16 indexed citations
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Singh, Manvir, Luke Glowacki, Quentin D. Atkinson, et al.. (2023). Universal interpretations of vocal music. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(37). e2218593120–e2218593120. 13 indexed citations
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Singh, Manvir, et al.. (2023). White Coat Effect: Is It Because of the Hospital Setting, or Is It Physician-Induced? . Cureus. 15(4). e38144–e38144. 1 indexed citations
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Singh, Manvir, et al.. (2023). Punitive justice serves to restore reciprocal cooperation in three small-scale societies. Evolution and Human Behavior. 44(5). 502–514. 11 indexed citations
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Singh, Manvir & Zachary H. Garfield. (2022). Evidence for third-party mediation but not punishment in Mentawai justice. Nature Human Behaviour. 6(7). 930–940. 19 indexed citations
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Singh, Manvir. (2022). Subjective selection and the evolution of complex culture. Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews. 31(6). 266–280. 19 indexed citations
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Singh, Manvir. (2022). Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Superstition and Paranoia. Current Anthropology. 63(4). 456–457. 1 indexed citations
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Singh, Manvir, Alberto Acerbi, Christine A. Caldwell, et al.. (2021). Beyond social learning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1828). 20200050–20200050. 18 indexed citations
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Singh, Manvir. (2021). The Sympathetic Plot, Its Psychological Origins, and Implications for the Evolution of Fiction. Emotion Review. 13(3). 183–198. 9 indexed citations
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Singh, Manvir, et al.. (2021). Supernatural punishment beliefs as cognitively compelling tools of social control. Current Opinion in Psychology. 44. 252–257. 24 indexed citations
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Singh, Manvir & Joseph Henrich. (2020). Why do religious leaders observe costly prohibitions? Examining taboos on Mentawai shamans. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 2. e32–e32. 23 indexed citations
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Mehr, Samuel A., Manvir Singh, Dean Knox, et al.. (2019). Universality and diversity in human song. Science. 366(6468). 266 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mehr, Samuel A., Manvir Singh, Hunter York, Luke Glowacki, & Max M. Krasnow. (2018). Form and Function in Human Song. Current Biology. 28(3). 356–368.e5. 91 indexed citations
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Singh, Manvir, Richard W. Wrangham, & Luke Glowacki. (2017). Self-Interest and the Design of Rules. Human Nature. 28(4). 457–480. 45 indexed citations
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Singh, Manvir. (2017). The cultural evolution of shamanism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 41. e66–e66. 89 indexed citations
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Ioannou, Christos C., Manvir Singh, & Iain D. Couzin. (2015). Potential Leaders Trade Off Goal-Oriented and Socially Oriented Behavior in Mobile Animal Groups. The American Naturalist. 186(2). 284–293. 68 indexed citations

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