Robert Boyd

Arizona State University — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

78h-index43.8kcitations295works2.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(144), Language and cultural evolution(83), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies(46), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior(42), Cultural Differences and Values(27)

Publications295 total

Successful strategies in the voluntarily repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma
2026Open Access
A norm about harvest division is maintained by a desire to follow tradition, not by social policing
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
:<i>Cultural Selection. Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Biology</i>
The Quarterly Review of Biology·2025
Social learning preserves both useful and useless theories by canalizing learners’ exploration
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Pattern and Process in Human Macroevolution
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
IDENTIFYING AND CORRELATING THE PENNSYLVANIAN ATOKA FORMATION SUBDIVISIONS IN THE SURFACE OUTCROPS OF THE BOSTON MOUNTAINS, ARKANSAS.
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America·2025
Avantages économiques de l’adaptation régionale intégrée aux changements climatiques dans les communautés côtières canadiennes: rapport technique – résumé
2025
Culture in humans and other animals
Science·2024· 2 cited
Cultural evolution: Where we have been and where we are going (maybe)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2024· 12 citedOpen Access
Third-party arbitration and forgiving strategies increase cooperation when perception errors are common
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Agentic processes in cultural evolution: relevance to Anthropocene sustainability
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2023· 12 citedOpen Access
The Cultural Niche
Oxford University Press eBooks·2023
“Doing what others do” does not stabilize continuous norms
PNAS Nexus·2023· 12 citedOpen Access
Program at a Glance
2022 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)·2022Open Access
Large‐scale cooperation in small‐scale foraging societies
Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews·2022· 96 cited
Evolution of Social Learning with Payoff and Content Bias
Games·2021· 3 citedOpen Access
Large-scale cooperation in small-scale foraging societies
2021· 9 cited
The role of causal knowledge in the evolution of traditional technology
Current Biology·2021· 57 cited
Behavioral convergence in humans and animals
Science·2021· 14 cited
Arbitration supports reciprocity when there are frequent perception errors
Nature Human Behaviour·2021· 28 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Peter J. Richerson(24), Joseph Henrich(14), Samuel Bowles(9), Herbert Gintis(9), Ernst Fehr(7), Richard McElreath(5), Colin F. Camerer(3), Kim Hill(2), Karthik Panchanathan(2), Michelle A. Kline(2), Maxime Derex(2), James R. Griesemer(1), Colin Camerer(1), Michael Alvard(1), Abigail Barr(1), Jean Ensminger(1), Natalie Henrich(1), Francisco Gil-White(1), Michael Gurven(1), Frank W. Marlowe(1)