Scott Claessens

437 total citations
14 papers, 141 citations indexed

About

Scott Claessens is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott Claessens has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 141 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 7 papers in Social Psychology and 7 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Scott Claessens's work include Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (6 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (6 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (5 papers). Scott Claessens is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (6 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (6 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (5 papers). Scott Claessens collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United States and Germany. Scott Claessens's co-authors include Quentin D. Atkinson, Chris G. Sibley, Ananish Chaudhuri, Athena Aktipis, Jessica D. Ayers, Alex H. Taylor, Lee Cronk, Peter M. Todd, Marco Campennì and Melissa R. Fales and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Scott Claessens

11 papers receiving 134 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Scott Claessens New Zealand 7 79 71 33 25 12 14 141
Kristopher M. Smith United States 8 120 1.5× 75 1.1× 60 1.8× 127 5.1× 30 2.5× 16 222
Zoi Manesi Netherlands 7 81 1.0× 57 0.8× 66 2.0× 57 2.3× 30 2.5× 9 192
Shailee R. Woodard United States 4 82 1.0× 56 0.8× 43 1.3× 12 0.5× 4 0.3× 9 137
Ashley J Thomas United States 8 71 0.9× 107 1.5× 47 1.4× 29 1.2× 15 1.3× 19 189
Márta Fülöp Hungary 4 75 0.9× 79 1.1× 27 0.8× 33 1.3× 5 0.4× 7 160
Anthea Pun Canada 6 112 1.4× 116 1.6× 56 1.7× 32 1.3× 10 0.8× 8 194
Jessica D. Ayers United States 8 107 1.4× 85 1.2× 34 1.0× 86 3.4× 38 3.2× 23 212
Marcelo Frota Lobato Benvenuti Brazil 7 43 0.5× 66 0.9× 45 1.4× 6 0.2× 25 2.1× 34 228
Melanie Nyhof United States 4 148 1.9× 95 1.3× 57 1.7× 21 0.8× 2 0.2× 7 245
Pablo Polo Chile 8 33 0.4× 50 0.7× 24 0.7× 89 3.6× 6 0.5× 22 148

Countries citing papers authored by Scott Claessens

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Fields of papers citing papers by Scott Claessens

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Scott Claessens

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Scott Claessens. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Scott Claessens 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 Scott Claessens. Scott Claessens is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

14 of 14 papers shown
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Law, Kyle Fiore, Stylianos Syropoulos, Charlie R. Crimston, et al.. (2025). Cross-national insights into moral expansiveness: Selective valuation of nature versus humans. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 107. 102778–102778.
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Claessens, Scott, et al.. (2025). Negative perceptions of outsourcing to artificial intelligence. Computers in Human Behavior. 177. 108894–108894.
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Claessens, Scott, et al.. (2025). Evidence of self-care tooling and phylogenetic modeling reveal parrot tool use is not rare. iScience. 28(4). 112156–112156.
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Claessens, Scott, Chris G. Sibley, Ananish Chaudhuri, & Quentin D. Atkinson. (2023). Cooperative and conformist behavioural preferences predict the dual dimensions of political ideology. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 4886–4886. 5 indexed citations
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Claessens, Scott, et al.. (2023). Cross-national analyses require additional controls to account for the non-independence of nations. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5776–5776. 15 indexed citations
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Claessens, Scott, et al.. (2023). Descriptive norms caused increases in mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 11856–11856. 10 indexed citations
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Claessens, Scott, et al.. (2022). Partner choice does not predict prosociality across countries. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 4. e54–e54. 2 indexed citations
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Sheehan, Oliver, Joseph Watts, Russell D. Gray, et al.. (2022). Coevolution of religious and political authority in Austronesian societies. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(1). 38–45. 3 indexed citations
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Atkinson, Quentin D., et al.. (2022). Being specific about generalisability. Religion Brain & Behavior. 13(3). 284–286. 2 indexed citations
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Claessens, Scott, et al.. (2022). Cooperative phenotype predicts climate change belief and pro-environmental behaviour. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 12730–12730. 6 indexed citations
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Krems, Jaimie Arona, Scott Claessens, Melissa R. Fales, et al.. (2021). An agent-based model of the female rivalry hypothesis for concealed ovulation in humans. Nature Human Behaviour. 5(6). 726–735. 8 indexed citations
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Claessens, Scott, et al.. (2020). The dual evolutionary foundations of political ideology. Nature Human Behaviour. 4(4). 336–345. 64 indexed citations
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Claessens, Scott, Jessica D. Ayers, Lee Cronk, & Athena Aktipis. (2020). Need-based transfer systems are more vulnerable to cheating when resources are hidden. Evolution and Human Behavior. 42(2). 104–112. 7 indexed citations
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Claessens, Scott, et al.. (2020). Contagious yawning is not a signal of empathy: no evidence of familiarity, gender or prosociality biases in dogs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1920). 20192236–20192236. 19 indexed citations

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