Alex Mesoudi

University of Exeter — United Kingdom

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Language and cultural evolution(113), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(104), Cultural Differences and Values(44), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies(21), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence(13)

Publications191 total

From information free-riding to information sharing: how have humans solved the cooperative dilemma at the heart of cumulative cultural evolution?
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Experimental evidence that reputation-based partner choice facilitates information sharing in humans
2025Open Access
Testing Evolutionary Theories of Human Cooperation via Meta-Analysis of Microfinance Repayment
2025Open Access
Experimental evidence that reputation-based partner choice facilitates information sharing in humans
2025Open Access
Testing the effect of circumscription on the evolution of social complexity in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, using agent-based models
Journal of Archaeological Science Reports·2025Open Access
Social learning preserves both useful and useless theories by canalizing learners’ exploration
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Trade-offs, control conditions, and alternative designs in the experimental study of cultural evolution
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
A formal test using agent-based models of the circumscription theory for the evolution of social complexity
Journal of Archaeological Science·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Testing the effect of circumscription on the evolution of social complexity in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, using agent-based models
2024Open Access
Decoding the Dynamics of Cultural Change: A Cultural Evolution Approach to the Psychology of Acculturation
Personality and Social Psychology Review·2024· 11 citedOpen Access
Cultural Evolution
MIT Press eBooks·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
From information free-riding to information sharing: how have humans solved the cooperative dilemma at the heart of cumulative cultural evolution?
2024Open Access
From information free-riding to information sharing: how have humans solved the cooperative dilemma at the heart of cumulative cultural evolution?
2024Open Access
A formal test using agent-based models of the circumscription theory for the evolution of social complexity
2023Open Access
Decoding the Dynamics of Cultural Change: A Cultural Evolution Approach to the Psychology of Acculturation
2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Experimental Studies of Cultural Evolution
Oxford University Press eBooks·2023· 3 cited
Beyond collective intelligence: Collective adaptation
Journal of The Royal Society Interface·2023· 78 citedOpen Access
Sentiment analysis of the Twitter response to Netflix's <i>Our Planet</i> documentary
Conservation Biology·2023· 9 citedOpen Access
Untenable propositions and alternative avenues.
Physics of Life Reviews·2022· 4 citedOpen Access
Chapter 4 Studying Cultural Transmission with in an Interdisciplinary Cultural Evolutionary Framework
Berghahn Books·2022· 2 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Andrew Whiten(8), Stephen J. Lycett(6), Michael J. O’Brien(5), Kevin N. Laland(4), Alberto Acerbi(3), Maxime Derex(3), Marius Kempe(3), Kerstin Schillinger(3), Charlotte Brand(3), Étienne Danchin(2), Anne Charmantier(2), Benoît Pujol(2), Simon Blanchet(2), Alex Thornton(2), Lei Chang(2), Robert Boyd(2), Michelle A. Kline(2), Thomas J. H. Morgan(2), Frances A. Champagne(1), Robin Dunbar(1)