Michael A. Hauser

38.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
273 papers, 22.3k citations indexed

About

Michael A. Hauser is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Developmental Biology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael A. Hauser has authored 273 papers receiving a total of 22.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Social Psychology, 100 papers in Developmental Biology and 87 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Michael A. Hauser's work include Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (100 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (83 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (65 papers). Michael A. Hauser is often cited by papers focused on Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (100 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (83 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (65 papers). Michael A. Hauser collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Michael A. Hauser's co-authors include W. Tecumseh Fitch, Noam Chomsky, Liane Young, Fiery Cushman, Jeffrey R. Stevens, Susan Carey, Biao Tian, Josef P. Rauschecker, Laurie R. Santos and Richard W. Wrangham and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael A. Hauser

264 papers receiving 20.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve?

2002 2.5k citations Michael A. Hauser et al. Science profile →
Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements

2007 1.0k citations Michael Koenigs, Liane Young et al. Nature profile →
The Role of Conscious Reasoning and Intuition in Moral Judgment

2006 731 citations Fiery Cushman, Liane Young et al. profile →
Processing of Complex Sounds in the Macaque Nonprimary Auditory Cortex

1995 675 citations Michael A. Hauser et al. Science profile →
The Evolution of Communication

1996 571 citations Michael A. Hauser profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Michael A. Hauser	9.4k	8.1k	5.4k	4.5k	4.0k	273	22.3k
Josep Call	6.9k 0.7×	16.6k 2.0×	13.2k 2.5×	3.9k 0.9×	4.1k 1.0×	427	27.3k
Andrew Whiten	4.2k 0.4×	12.4k 1.5×	6.7k 1.2×	4.0k 0.9×	2.2k 0.6×	252	20.0k
W. Tecumseh Fitch	3.8k 0.4×	2.7k 0.3×	2.4k 0.4×	5.1k 1.1×	3.4k 0.9×	211	14.0k
Mark H. Johnson	21.1k 2.2×	6.8k 0.8×	9.5k 1.8×	641 0.1×	8.5k 2.1×	492	37.2k
Robin Dunbar	6.0k 0.6×	20.5k 2.5×	2.9k 0.5×	5.8k 1.3×	9.0k 2.3×	506	40.4k
Tetsuro Matsuzawa	2.1k 0.2×	6.7k 0.8×	3.4k 0.6×	2.4k 0.5×	1.4k 0.3×	287	10.2k
Patricia K. Kuhl	8.7k 0.9×	1.3k 0.2×	11.7k 2.2×	1.9k 0.4×	9.5k 2.4×	257	21.8k
Frans Β. Μ. de Waal	4.9k 0.5×	15.7k 1.9×	3.1k 0.6×	4.4k 1.0×	4.9k 1.2×	244	23.3k
Michael Tomasello	19.8k 2.1×	30.3k 3.7×	43.6k 8.1×	4.5k 1.0×	12.4k 3.1×	754	74.2k
Cecilia Heyes	5.8k 0.6×	8.2k 1.0×	4.8k 0.9×	835 0.2×	1.9k 0.5×	169	12.8k

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Hauser, Michael A.. (2016). Why Only Us. 29(2). 469–473. 32 indexed citations

Vouloumanos, Athena, Michael A. Hauser, Janet F. Werker, & Alia Martin. (2010). The Tuning of Human Neonates’ Preference for Speech. Child Development. 81(2). 517–527. 113 indexed citations

Young, Liane, Antoine Bechara, Daniel Tranel, et al.. (2010). Damage to Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Impairs Judgment of Harmful Intent. Neuron. 65(6). 845–851. 147 indexed citations

Schachner, Adena, Timothy F. Brady, Irene M. Pepperberg, & Michael A. Hauser. (2009). Spontaneous Motor Entrainment to Music in Multiple Vocal Mimicking Species. Current Biology. 19(10). 831–836. 249 indexed citations

Barner, David, Justin N. Wood, Michael A. Hauser, & Susan Carey. (2008). Evidence for a non-linguistic distinction between singular and plural sets in rhesus monkeys. Cognition. 107(2). 603–622. 33 indexed citations

Wood, Justin N., et al.. (2007). The uniquely human capacity to throw evolved from a non-throwing primate: an evolutionary dissociation between action and perception. Biology Letters. 3(4). 360–365. 22 indexed citations

Hauser, Michael A.. (2007). Moral minds : the nature of right and wrong. 53 indexed citations

Koenigs, Michael, Liane Young, Ralph Adolphs, et al.. (2007). Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements. Nature. 446(7138). 908–911. 1003 indexed citations breakdown →

Egnor, S.E. Roian, et al.. (2007). Tracking silence: adjusting vocal production to avoid acoustic interference. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 193(4). 477–483. 69 indexed citations

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Young, Liane, Fiery Cushman, Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel, & Michael A. Hauser. (2006). Does emotion mediate the effect of an action's moral status on its intentional status? Neuropsychological evidence. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 102(2). 211–8. 24 indexed citations

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Hauser, Michael A. & Peter Singer. (2005). Morality Without Religion. DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library). 26. 5 indexed citations

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Hauser, Michael A., et al.. (2003). Experience-Dependent Plasticity for Auditory Processing in a Raptor. Science. 299(5610). 1195–1195. 35 indexed citations

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Santos, Laurie R., Cory T. Miller, & Michael A. Hauser. (2003). Representing tools: how two non-human primate species distinguish between the functionally relevant and irrelevant features of a tool. Animal Cognition. 6(4). 269–281. 46 indexed citations

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Flombaum, Jonathan, Laurie R. Santos, & Michael A. Hauser. (2002). Neuroecology and psychological modularity. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 6(3). 106–108. 8 indexed citations

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Hauser, Michael A. & Karin L. Akre. (2001). Asymmetries in the timing of facial and vocal expressions by rhesus monkeys: implications for hemispheric specialization. Animal Behaviour. 61(2). 391–400. 47 indexed citations

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Hauser, Michael A.. (1997). Math without Words.. Natural history. 106(8). 52–55. 1 indexed citations

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Whiten, Andrew, Andrew Whiten, Andrew Whiten, et al.. (1997). Machiavellian Intelligence II. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 257 indexed citations

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Hauser, Michael A.. (1992). The role of articulation in the production of nonhuman primate vocalizations.. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 91(4_Supplement). 2466–2466. 1 indexed citations

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Hauser, Michael A.. (1987). Behavioral ecology of free-ranging vervet monkeys : proximate and ultimate levels of explanation. University Microfilms International eBooks. 11 indexed citations

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Hauser, Michael A., Dorothy L. Cheney, & Robert M. Seyfarth. (1986). Group extinction and fusion in free‐ranging vervet monkeys. American Journal of Primatology. 11(1). 63–77. 21 indexed citations

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