Seán G. Roberts

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Language and cultural evolution(49), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition(20), Categorization, perception, and language(13), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation(12), Linguistic Variation and Morphology(12)

Publications113 total

Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2026Open Access
Low-certainty modals not future tenses cause increased psychological discounting in English relative to Dutch
Cognition·2025Open Access
The Integration of Norse‐Derived Terms in English: Effects of Formal Similarity <sup>1</sup>
Transactions of the Philological Society·2025Open Access
Mondo: integrating disease terminology across communities
Genetics·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Nearly a third of female gamers feel guilty about their hobby – new study
2025
Not Gamers, Just Women Who Play Video Games: A Survey of Women’s Attitudes to Mobile Games in the UK
Sex Roles·2025Open Access
Language and economic behaviour: Future tense use causes less not more temporal discounting
PLoS ONE·2025Open Access
Causal graphs as a tool for exploring language evolution
Oxford University Press eBooks·2025
Get data early, get data often, iterate constantly: an explorative, participatory approach to studying language evolution
Journal of Language Evolution·2025Open Access
Reference to Patients in Nurse Shift Handover Meetings: Exploring the Dynamics of Referring Expressions
Journal of Quantitative Linguistics·2024Open Access
The Video Game Dialogue Corpus
Corpora·2024· 9 citedOpen Access
Investigating environmental effects on phonology using diachronic models
Evolutionary Human Sciences·2024· 12 citedOpen Access
A phylogenetic study of South-Western Tibetic
Journal of Language Evolution·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Explaining Mythical Composite Monsters in a Global Cross-Cultural Sample
Journal of Cognition and Culture·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Hey, <i>You</i> ! The Importance of Pragmatics in Localizations of <i>Mass Effect</i> in French and Spanish
Games and Culture·2023Open Access
Why did foraging, horticulture and pastoralism persist after the Neolithic transition? The oasis theory of agricultural intensification
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Los personajes masculinos de los videojuegos hablan el doble que los femeninos
2023
Male video game characters speak twice as much as females, largest study of its kind reveals
2023
Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology
PLoS ONE·2023· 47 citedOpen Access
Gender bias in video game dialogue
Royal Society Open Science·2023· 23 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Stephen C. Levinson(6), Damián E. Blasí(4), Tessa Verhoef(4), Fiona M. Jordan(4), Cole Robertson(4), Mark Dingemanse(3), Connie De Vos(3), James Winters(3), Caleb Everett(3), Mónica Tamariz(3), Stephanie Rennick(3), N. J. Enfield(2), Asifa Majid(2), Bill Thompson(2), Gary Lupyan(2), Francisco Torreira(2), Christine Cuskley(2), Angarika Deb(2), Catherine Sheard(2), Simon J. Greenhill(2)