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D-Index
78
Citations
53346
World Ranking
1540
National Ranking
918

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Jean Nicod Prize, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
  • 1999 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

John Tooby is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara, United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a focus on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Safety Research, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics such as:

  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Sex and Gender in Healthcare
  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies

John Tooby has multiple recent publications, notable among them are:

  • "Evolutionary psychology as the crystalizing core of a unified modern social science." (2020) published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
  • "The evolution of war and its cognitive foundations" (2025) published in Evolution and Human Behavior
  • "Cognitive foundations for helping and harming others: Making welfare tradeoffs in industrialized and small-scale societies" (2023) published in Evolution and Human Behavior
  • "Rational inferences about social valuation" (2023) published in Cognition
  • "Motivations to reciprocate cooperation and punish defection are calibrated by estimates of how easily others can switch partners" (2022) published in PLoS ONE

The scientist has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Evolution and Human Behavior
  • Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
  • Cognition
  • PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Leda Cosmides
  • Sakura Arai
  • Andrew W. Delton
  • Adrian V. Jaeggi
  • Julian Lim

John Tooby has received awards including the Jean Nicod Prize from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 2020, and was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1999.

Best Publications

  • The psychological foundations of culture.

    John Tooby;Leda Cosmides

  • The Adapted mind : evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture

    Jerome H. Barkow;Leda Cosmides;John Tooby

  • The past explains the present: Emotional adaptations and the structure of ancestral environments

    John Tooby;Leda Cosmides

  • Cognitive adaptations for social exchange.

    Leda Cosmides;John Tooby

  • Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all? Rethinking some conclusions from the literature on judgment under uncertainty.

    Leda Cosmides;John Tooby

  • On the universality of human nature and the uniqueness of the individual: the role of genetics and adaptation.

    John Tooby;Leda Cosmides

  • Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization

    Robert Kurzban;John Tooby;Leda Cosmides

  • From evolution to behavior: Evolutionary psychology as the missing link.

    Leda Cosmides;John Tooby

  • Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology

    John Tooby;Leda Cosmides

  • Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, part II: Case study: A computational theory of social exchange

    Leda Cosmides;John Tooby

  • Formidability and the logic of human anger

    Aaron Nathaniel Sell;John Tooby;Leda Cosmides

  • Friendship and the Banker's Paradox: Other Pathways to the Evolution of Adaptations for Altruism

    John Tooby;Leda Cosmides

  • The architecture of human kin detection

    Debra Lieberman;Debra Lieberman;John Tooby;Leda Cosmides

  • Mapping the mind: Origins of domain specificity: The evolution of functional organization

    Leda Cosmides;John Tooby

  • Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, part I: Theoretical considerations

    John Tooby;Leda Cosmides

  • Better than rational: Evolutionary psychology and the invisible hand

    Leda Cosmides;John Tooby

  • Evolutionary psychology: A Primer

    Leda Cosmides;John Tooby

  • Cytoplasmic inheritance and intragenomic conflict

    Leda Murlas Cosmides;John Tooby

  • Category-specific attention for animals reflects ancestral priorities, not expertise

    Joshua New;Leda Cosmides;John Tooby

  • Beyond intuition and instinct blindness: toward an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science

    Leda Cosmides;John Tooby

  • Decisions and the evolution of memory: multiple systems, multiple functions.

    Stanley B. Klein;Leda Cosmides;John Tooby;Sarah Chance

Frequent Co-Authors

Leda Cosmides
Leda Cosmides University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael Bang Petersen
Michael Bang Petersen Aarhus University
Stanley B. Klein
Stanley B. Klein University of California, Santa Barbara
Debra Lieberman
Debra Lieberman University of Miami
Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi University of Amsterdam
Daniel M. T. Fessler
Daniel M. T. Fessler University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Kurzban
Robert Kurzban University of Pennsylvania
Andrew M. Colman
Andrew M. Colman University of Leicester
Jerry A. Coyne
Jerry A. Coyne University of Chicago
Nancy Tyler Burley
Nancy Tyler Burley University of California, Irvine

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