John Tooby

University of California, Santa Barbara — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

74h-index37.2kcitations155works5.42yr avg
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Research Topics

Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(81), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior(66), Cultural Differences and Values(28), Child and Animal Learning Development(25), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment(25)

Publications154 total

Willingness to protect from violence, independent of strength, guides partner choice
2025Open Access
Willingness to protect from violence, independent of strength, guides partner choice
Evolution and Human Behavior·2025
Coalitional support regulates resource divisions in men
Evolution and Human Behavior·2025· 1 cited
The evolution of war and its cognitive foundations
Evolution and Human Behavior·2025· 25 cited
The Past Explains the Present
Oxford University Press eBooks·2024· 1 cited
Rational inferences about social valuation
Cognition·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
Group as a biological market: Eliminating reputation concern decreases ingroup-favouring cooperation and punishment
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Rational inferences about social valuation
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Cognitive foundations for helping and harming others: Making welfare tradeoffs in industrialized and small-scale societies
Evolution and Human Behavior·2023· 25 cited
Why punish cheaters? Those who withdraw cooperation enjoy better reputations than punishers, but both are viewed as difficult to exploit
Evolution and Human Behavior·2022· 5 cited
Willingness to physically protect, independent of the ability to do so, guides social decision-making
2022Open Access
Motivations to reciprocate cooperation and punish defection are calibrated by estimates of how easily others can switch partners
PLoS ONE·2022· 5 citedOpen Access
The Evolutionary Psychology of Conflict and the Functions of Falsehood
2022· 5 cited
Motivations to reciprocate cooperation and punish defection are calibrated by estimates of how easily others can switch partners
2022· 1 citedOpen Access
Adaptationism: A Meta-Normative Theory of Rationality
The MIT Press eBooks·2021· 2 cited
Evolutionary psychology as the crystalizing core of a unified modern social science.
Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences·2020· 26 cited
The Evolutionary Psychology of Conflict and the Functions of Falsehood
2020· 28 citedOpen Access
Natural Selection and the Nature of Communication
2020· 6 cited
The Evolution of Moral Cognition
2018· 33 cited
Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2018· 192 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Leda Cosmides(48), Daniel Sznycer(6), Aaron Sell(4), Debra Lieberman(3), Jerome H. Barkow(2), Robert Kurzban(2), Christopher von Rueden(2), Michael Gurven(2), Michael E. Price(2), H. Clark Barrett(2), Lawrence S. Sugiyama(2), Joshua New(1), Stanley B. Klein(1), Sarah Chance(1), Gregory A. Bryant(1), Andre Krauss(1), Laurence Fiddick(1), Andrew W. Delton(1), Max M. Krasnow(1), Robert J. Blumenschine(1)