Rohan Kapitány

684 total citations
21 papers, 350 citations indexed

About

Rohan Kapitány is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rohan Kapitány has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 350 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Social Psychology, 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 10 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Rohan Kapitány's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (8 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (7 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (6 papers). Rohan Kapitány is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (8 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (7 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (6 papers). Rohan Kapitány collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and South Africa. Rohan Kapitány's co-authors include Mark Nielsen, Harvey Whitehouse, Christopher Kavanagh, Keyan G. Tomaselli, Matti Wilks, Jacqueline Davis, Michael D. Buhrmester, Martha Newson, Idhamsyah Eka Putra and Thalia R. Goldstein and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Child Development and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Rohan Kapitány

20 papers receiving 344 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rohan Kapitány United Kingdom 11 221 158 153 58 53 21 350
Emily Burdett United Kingdom 11 204 0.9× 160 1.0× 133 0.9× 92 1.6× 76 1.4× 27 372
Nicole J. Wen United States 6 173 0.8× 148 0.9× 94 0.6× 73 1.3× 46 0.9× 11 288
Rachel E. Watson‐Jones United States 8 285 1.3× 177 1.1× 173 1.1× 60 1.0× 86 1.6× 10 484
André Luiz Souza United States 9 116 0.5× 118 0.7× 128 0.8× 26 0.4× 43 0.8× 9 358
William M. Fields United States 8 233 1.1× 205 1.3× 83 0.5× 84 1.4× 104 2.0× 11 539
Jennifer M. Clegg United States 12 312 1.4× 330 2.1× 172 1.1× 116 2.0× 62 1.2× 27 520
Melanie Nyhof United States 4 95 0.4× 53 0.3× 148 1.0× 51 0.9× 57 1.1× 7 245
Marc Malmdorf Andersen Denmark 12 116 0.5× 41 0.3× 131 0.9× 19 0.3× 105 2.0× 23 355
Lili Ma Canada 11 139 0.6× 304 1.9× 103 0.7× 33 0.6× 90 1.7× 18 453
Adam Baimel United Kingdom 11 157 0.7× 48 0.3× 178 1.2× 13 0.2× 106 2.0× 25 369

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rohan Kapitány

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kapitány, Rohan, et al.. (2025). Mourning ritual participation, subjective well-being and prosocial behaviour among the Luhya people of Kenya. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2054). 20250213–20250213.
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Buskell, Andrew, et al.. (2023). Evolved Open-Endedness in Cultural Evolution: A New Dimension in Open-Ended Evolution Research. Artificial Life. 30(3). 417–438. 8 indexed citations
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Kapitány, Rohan, et al.. (2022). Pretensive Shared Reality: From Childhood Pretense to Adult Imaginative Play. Frontiers in Psychology. 13. 774085–774085. 6 indexed citations
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Kapitány, Rohan, et al.. (2022). Shared flashbulb memories lead to identity fusion: Recalling the defeat in the Brexit referendum produces strong psychological bonds among remain supporters.. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 11(3). 374–383. 9 indexed citations
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Davis, Jacqueline, et al.. (2021). Cultural Components of Sex Differences in Color Preference. Child Development. 92(4). 1574–1589. 13 indexed citations
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Kapitány, Rohan, et al.. (2021). Shared Flashbulb Memories Lead to Identity Fusion: Recalling the Defeat in the Brexit Referendum Produces Strong Psychological Bonds Among Remain Supporters. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 1 indexed citations
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Kavanagh, Christopher, Rohan Kapitány, Idhamsyah Eka Putra, & Harvey Whitehouse. (2020). Exploring the Pathways Between Transformative Group Experiences and Identity Fusion. Frontiers in Psychology. 11. 1172–1172. 15 indexed citations
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Kapitány, Rohan, Nicole L. Nelson, Emily Burdett, & Thalia R. Goldstein. (2020). The child’s pantheon: Children’s hierarchical belief structure in real and non-real figures. PLoS ONE. 15(6). e0234142–e0234142. 6 indexed citations
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Kavanagh, Christopher & Rohan Kapitány. (2020). Promoting the Benefits and Clarifying Misconceptions about Preregistration, Preprints, and Open Science for the Cognitive Science of Religion. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 6(1-2). 1 indexed citations
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Kapitány, Rohan, Christopher Kavanagh, & Harvey Whitehouse. (2020). Ritual morphospace revisited: the form, function and factor structure of ritual practice. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1805). 20190436–20190436. 8 indexed citations
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Kapitány, Rohan, Christopher Kavanagh, Michael D. Buhrmester, Martha Newson, & Harvey Whitehouse. (2019). Ritual, identity fusion, and the inauguration of president Trump: a pseudo-experiment of ritual modes theory. Self and Identity. 19(3). 293–323. 21 indexed citations
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Kapitány, Rohan & Mark Nielsen. (2019). Ritualized Objects: How We Perceive and Respond to Causally Opaque and Goal Demoted Action. Journal of Cognition and Culture. 19(1-2). 170–194. 6 indexed citations
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Kapitány, Rohan, Christopher Kavanagh, Harvey Whitehouse, & Mark Nielsen. (2018). Examining memory for ritualized gesture in complex causal sequences. Cognition. 181. 46–57. 14 indexed citations
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Kapitány, Rohan, Jacqueline Davis, Cristine H. Legare, & Mark Nielsen. (2018). An experimental examination of object-directed ritualized action in children across two cultures. PLoS ONE. 13(11). e0206884–e0206884. 9 indexed citations
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Nielsen, Mark, Keyan G. Tomaselli, & Rohan Kapitány. (2018). The influence of goal demotion on children's reproduction of ritual behavior. Evolution and Human Behavior. 39(3). 343–348. 31 indexed citations
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Kapitány, Rohan & Mark Nielsen. (2017). Are Yawns really Contagious? A Critique and Quantification of Yawn Contagion. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. 3(2). 134–155. 20 indexed citations
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Wilks, Matti, Rohan Kapitány, & Mark Nielsen. (2016). Preschool children's learning proclivities: When the ritual stance trumps the instrumental stance. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 34(3). 402–414. 19 indexed citations
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Kapitány, Rohan & Mark Nielsen. (2016). The ritual stance and the precaution system: the role of goal-demotion and opacity in ritual and everyday actions. Religion Brain & Behavior. 7(1). 27–42. 29 indexed citations
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Kapitány, Rohan & Mark Nielsen. (2015). Adopting the ritual stance: The role of opacity and context in ritual and everyday actions. Cognition. 145. 13–29. 61 indexed citations
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Nielsen, Mark, et al.. (2014). The perpetuation of ritualistic actions as revealed by young children's transmission of normative behavior. Evolution and Human Behavior. 36(3). 191–198. 60 indexed citations

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