Dan Sperber

Central European University — Austria

Psychology · Social Sciences

72h-index38.8kcitations279works5.42yr avg
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Research Topics

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition(50), Language and cultural evolution(39), Child and Animal Learning Development(33), Linguistics and Discourse Analysis(26), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies(25)

Publications279 total

Instintos ou dispositivos? Esse não é o debate que deveríamos estar fazendo
Letr Viv·2025Open Access
Rethinking ostensive communication in an evolutionary, comparative, and developmental perspective.
Psychological Review·2025· 22 cited
Rethinking ostensive communication in an evolutionary, comparative, and developmental perspective
2025Open Access
Cultural Attractors
MIT Press eBooks·2024Open Access
Rethinking ostensive communication in an evolutionary, comparative, and developmental perspective
2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Guinea baboons are strategic cooperators
Science Advances·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
Continuité et discontinuité entre les sciences cognitives et les sciences sociales
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)·2023
Intuitive and Reflective Beliefs
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2022· 5 cited
On Grice's Theory of Conversation*
2022· 257 cited
Learning from communication versus observation in great apes
Scientific Reports·2022· 9 citedOpen Access
When is ostensive communication used for joint action?
Cognitive Semiotics·2021· 12 citedOpen Access
Learning from Communication Versus Observation: Great Apes Ignore Theirobservation When it Contradicts Communicatively Transmitted Information
SSRN Electronic Journal·2021Open Access
QUESTÕES SOBRE LINGUAGEM E COGNIÇÃO: ALGUMAS PERGUNTAS PARA DAN SPERBER
PERcursos Linguísticos·2020· 1 citedOpen Access
Bounded reason in a social world
2020· 2 citedOpen Access
Motor constraints influence cultural evolution of rhythm
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2020· 39 citedOpen Access
Making sense of human interaction benefits from communicative cues
Scientific Reports·2020· 7 citedOpen Access
Interpreting and explaining cultural representations 1
2020· 4 cited
Kinship and Evolved psychological Dispositions
2020
Why a Deep Understanding of Cultural Evolution is Incompatible with Shallow Psycholgoy
2020· 37 cited
Mental Modularity and Cultural Diversity 1
2020· 17 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Deirdre Wilson(20), Raymond W. Gibbs(5), Pierre Demeulenaere(4), Hugo Mercier(3), Olivier Mascaro(2), Gloria Origgi(2), John A. Barnden(2), Nicolas Baumard(2), Ira Noveck(2), Nicolas Claidière(2), Lieselotte Pust(1), Jerome H. Barkow(1), Fabrice Clément(1), Christophe Heintz(1), Paul Meara(1), Daniel Nettle(1), George Lakoff(1), Mark H. Johnson(1), Gilles Fauconnier(1), Sam Glucksberg(1)