Oliver Scott Curry

3.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
43 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Oliver Scott Curry is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Oliver Scott Curry has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 20 papers in Social Psychology and 14 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Oliver Scott Curry's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (18 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (13 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (10 papers). Oliver Scott Curry is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (18 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (13 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (10 papers). Oliver Scott Curry collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and United States. Oliver Scott Curry's co-authors include Harvey Whitehouse, Robin Dunbar, Caspar J. Van Lissa, Daniel Mullins, John McAlaney, Sally Zlotowitz, Sam G. B. Roberts, Michael E. Price, Michael Bang Petersen and John Tooby and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Oliver Scott Curry

39 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

  1. Happy to help? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of performing acts of kindness on the well-being of the actor
    2018 313 citations Oliver Scott Curry, Caspar J. Van Lissa et al. profile →
  2. Is It Good to Cooperate? Testing the Theory of Morality-as-Cooperation in 60 Societies
    2019 276 citations Oliver Scott Curry, Harvey Whitehouse et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Oliver Scott Curry United Kingdom 18 721 718 425 301 245 43 1.6k
Monica Y. Bartlett United States 10 775 1.1× 1.2k 1.6× 326 0.8× 388 1.3× 467 1.9× 11 1.9k
Michael Muthukrishna United Kingdom 19 953 1.3× 718 1.0× 290 0.7× 370 1.2× 119 0.5× 50 2.1k
Theresa K. Vescio United States 25 1.6k 2.2× 1.1k 1.5× 286 0.7× 316 1.0× 297 1.2× 51 2.5k
Rosa Rodríguez‐Bailón Spain 26 1.1k 1.5× 883 1.2× 363 0.9× 236 0.8× 146 0.6× 93 1.8k
Jason E. Plaks Canada 22 959 1.3× 1.0k 1.4× 451 1.1× 407 1.4× 201 0.8× 56 1.8k
David F. Lopez United States 13 754 1.0× 665 0.9× 252 0.6× 255 0.8× 209 0.9× 20 1.6k
Daniel Sullivan United States 24 1.0k 1.4× 1.1k 1.5× 349 0.8× 312 1.0× 383 1.6× 86 2.0k
Colin Tucker Smith United States 19 1.3k 1.8× 783 1.1× 378 0.9× 222 0.7× 136 0.6× 48 1.9k
R. Matthew Montoya United States 19 953 1.3× 857 1.2× 274 0.6× 504 1.7× 326 1.3× 36 1.9k
Hirofumi Hashimoto Japan 13 690 1.0× 557 0.8× 319 0.8× 228 0.8× 113 0.5× 32 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Oliver Scott Curry

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Oliver Scott Curry

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Curry, Oliver Scott, et al.. (2024). Modular morals: Mapping the organization of the moral brain. Brain and Cognition. 180. 106201–106201. 1 indexed citations
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Curry, Oliver Scott, et al.. (2024). Kindness and happiness at work. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1).
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Leeuwen, Florian van, et al.. (2024). Morality as cooperation, politics as conflict. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 19. 1 indexed citations
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Curry, Oliver Scott, et al.. (2024). The costs and benefits of kindness for kids. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 246. 105987–105987. 1 indexed citations
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Alfano, Mark, Marc Cheong, & Oliver Scott Curry. (2024). Moral universals: A machine-reading analysis of 256 societies. Heliyon. 10(6). e25940–e25940. 7 indexed citations
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McAuliffe, William H.B., et al.. (2021). Gross values: Investigating the role of disgust in bioethics. Current Psychology. 42(4). 2888–2895. 6 indexed citations
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Curry, Oliver Scott, et al.. (2021). Moral Molecules: Morality as a Combinatorial System. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. 13(4). 1039–1058. 17 indexed citations
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Gellner, David N., Oliver Scott Curry, J. W. Cook, Mark Alfano, & Soumhya Venkatesan. (2020). Morality is fundamentally an evolved solution to problems of social co‐operation. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 26(2). 415–427. 2 indexed citations
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Curry, Oliver Scott, et al.. (2020). Modular Morals: Mapping the organisation of the moral brain. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Curry, Oliver Scott, Darragh Hare, Cameron Hepburn, et al.. (2019). Cooperative conservation: Seven ways to save the world. Conservation Science and Practice. 2(1). 15 indexed citations
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Curry, Oliver Scott, et al.. (2018). Mapping morality with a compass: Testing the theory of ‘morality-as-cooperation’ with a new questionnaire. Journal of Research in Personality. 78. 106–124. 132 indexed citations
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Curry, Oliver Scott, et al.. (2018). A range of kindness activities boost happiness. The Journal of Social Psychology. 159(3). 340–343. 52 indexed citations
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Aktipis, Athena, Lee Cronk, Joe Alcock, et al.. (2018). Understanding cooperation through fitness interdependence. Nature Human Behaviour. 2(7). 429–431. 94 indexed citations
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Dunbar, Robin, Jacques Launay, & Oliver Scott Curry. (2015). The Complexity of Jokes Is Limited by Cognitive Constraints on Mentalizing. Human Nature. 27(2). 130–140. 22 indexed citations
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Curry, Oliver Scott & Robin Dunbar. (2013). Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together?. Human Nature. 24(3). 336–347. 55 indexed citations
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Petersen, Michael Bang, Lene Aarøe, Niels Holm Jensen, & Oliver Scott Curry. (2012). Social Welfare and the Psychology of Food Sharing: Short-Term Hunger Increases Support for Social Welfare. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations
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Curry, Oliver Scott, Sam G. B. Roberts, & Robin Dunbar. (2012). Altruism in social networks: Evidence for a ‘kinship premium’. British Journal of Psychology. 104(2). 283–295. 98 indexed citations
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Curry, Oliver Scott. (2005). A change of mind?. Nature. 435(7041). 425–426. 1 indexed citations
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Curry, Oliver Scott. (2004). Rational choice theory in biology and economics.
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Curry, Oliver Scott. (2003). Evolutionary psychology: "fashionable ideology" or "new foundation"?. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 3 indexed citations

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