Mark Atkinson

University of St Andrews — United Kingdom

Psychology · Social Sciences

10h-index381citations40works0.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Child and Animal Learning Development(20), Language and cultural evolution(17), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(6), Cultural Differences and Values(6), Primate Behavior and Ecology(4)

Publications40 total

Providing support to increase adherence to self-isolation requirements during a public health emergency
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction·2025Open Access
“I'll wait for the English one”: COVID‐19 vaccine country of origin, national identity, and their effects on vaccine perceptions and uptake willingness
Social and Personality Psychology Compass·2023· 6 citedOpen Access
Social identification and risk dynamics: How perceptions of (inter)personal and collective risk impact the adoption of COVID‐19 preventative behaviors
Risk Analysis·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
Children's use of social information from multiple models: Cognitive capacities underlying population size effects on cumulative culture
Culture and Evolution·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
Social identification and risk dynamics: how perceptions of (inter)personal and collective risk impact the adoption of COVID-19 preventative behaviours
2022Open Access
Capuchin monkeys learn to use information equally well from individual exploration and social demonstration
Animal Cognition·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
Children transition from simple associations to explicitly reasoned social learning strategies between age four and eight
Scientific Reports·2022Open Access
Restricted Access to Working Memory Does Not Prevent Cumulative Score Improvement in a Cultural Evolution Task
Entropy·2022Open Access
Taking account of others’ goals in social information use: Developmental changes in 3- to 7-year-old children
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology·2021· 1 citedOpen Access
Development of strategic social information seeking: Implications for cumulative culture
PLoS ONE·2021· 23 citedOpen Access
Limited evidence for executive function load impairing selective copying in a win-stay lose-shift task
PLoS ONE·2021· 2 citedOpen Access
The use of individual, social, and animated cue information by capuchin monkeys and children in a touchscreen task
Scientific Reports·2021· 10 citedOpen Access
Cognitive prerequisites for cumulative culture are context-dependent: Children’s potential for ratcheting depends on cue longevity
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology·2021· 13 citedOpen Access
Correction to: Harmonising, improving and using social and recreational data in National Forest Inventories across Europe
Annals of Forest Science·2020· 1 citedOpen Access
Robust, source-independent biases in children’s use of socially and individually acquired information.
Journal of Experimental Psychology General·2020· 16 cited
Inferring Behavior From Partial Social Information Plays Little or No Role in the Cultural Transmission of Adaptive Traits
Cognitive Science·2020Open Access
Flexible social learning strategies are harder than the sum of their parts
2020· 1 citedOpen Access
Development of strategic social information seeking: Implications for cumulative culture
2020· 13 citedOpen Access
Restricted Access to Working Memory Does Not Prevent Cumulative Improvement in a Cultural Evolution Task.
eScholarship (California Digital Library)·2020
Potential for cumulative culture in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella) in a simulated transmission chain study.
Cognitive Science·2020
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Frequent Co-authors

Christine A. Caldwell(25), Elizabeth Renner(20), Kirsten H. Blakey(8), Eva Rafetseder(8), Kenny Smith(6), Juliet Dunstone(5), Donna Kean(4), Charlotte Wilks(4), Fergus Neville(4), Evangelos Ntontis(4), Simon Kirby(3), Gemma Mackintosh(3), Stephen Reicher(3), Catherine Grainger(3), Gregory Mills(2), Fía Cowan-Forsythe(2), Shivani J. Sati(1), Bill Thompson(1), Dongjie Xie(1), Yanjie Su(1)