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Magnus Enquist

Magnus Enquist

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
49
Citations
11262
World Ranking
2915
National Ranking
34

Overview

Magnus Enquist is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to fields within social sciences and psychology. Their research spans key areas such as cultural studies, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, with a notable presence in developmental and educational psychology.

Their work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Cultural Differences and Values

Magnus Enquist has co-authored many papers with several key collaborators throughout their career. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Stefano Ghirlanda
  • Johan Lind
  • Fredrik Jansson
  • Vera Vinken

They have published in notable venues such as:

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Princeton University Press eBooks

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Magnus Enquist include:

  • "Underappreciated features of cultural evolution," 2021, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Modelling cultural systems and selective filters," 2021, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "A test of memory for stimulus sequences in great apes," 2023, published in PLoS ONE
  • "A-learning: A new formulation of associative learning theory," 2020, published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • "Sequence representation as an early step in the evolution of language," 2023, published in PLoS Computational Biology

Magnus Enquist has contributed to book publications with Princeton University Press, including two editions of The Human Evolutionary Transition, published in 2022 and 2023 respectively.

Best Publications

  • Why Copy Others? Insights from the Social Learning Strategies Tournament

    Luke Rendell;R Boyd;D Cownden;Magnus Enquist

  • Evolution of Fighting Behaviour: Decision Rules and Assessment of Relative Strength

    Magnus Enquist;Olof Leimar

  • Symmetry, beauty and evolution

    Magnus Enquist;Anthony Arak

  • Evolution of fighting behaviour: The effect of variation in resource value

    Magnus Enquist;Olof Leimar

  • A century of generalization

    Stefano Ghirlanda;Magnus Enquist

  • A test of the sequential assessment game: fighting in the cichlid fish Nannacara anomala

    Magnus Enquist;Olof Leimar;Tomas Ljungberg;Ylva Mallner

  • The evolution of fatal fighting

    Magnus Enquist;Olof Leimar

  • The evolution of cooperation in mobile organisms.

    Magnus Enquist;Olof Leimar

  • Communication during aggressive interactions with particular reference to variation in choice of behaviour

    Magnus Enquist

  • Critical Social Learning: A Solution to Rogers's Paradox of Nonadaptive Culture

    Magnus Enquist;Kimmo Eriksson;Stefano Ghirlanda

  • Selection of exaggerated male traits by female aesthetic senses

    Magnus Enquist;Anthony Arak

  • Effects of asymmetries in owner-intruder conflicts

    Olof Leimar;Magnus Enquist

  • Evolutionary stability of aposematic coloration and prey unprofitability a theoretical analysis

    Olof Leimar;Magnus Enquist;Birgitta Sillen-Tullberg

  • Hidden preferences and the evolution of signals

    Anthony Arak;Magnus Enquist

  • Generalization and the evolution of symmetry preferences

    Magnus Enquist;Rufus A. Johnstone

  • Modelling the evolution and diversity of cumulative culture.

    Magnus Enquist;Stefano Ghirlanda;Stefano Ghirlanda;Kimmo Eriksson

  • Animal memory: A review of delayed matching-to-sample data.

    Johan Lind;Magnus Enquist;Stefano Ghirlanda

  • CRITICAL POINTS IN CURRENT THEORY OF CONFORMIST SOCIAL LEARNING

    Kimmo Eriksson;Magnus Enquist;Stefano Ghirlanda

  • Why does human culture increase exponentially

    Magnus Enquist;Stefano Ghirlanda;Stefano Ghirlanda;Arne Jarrick;C-A Wachtmeister

  • Artificial neural networks as models of stimulus control

    Stefano Ghirlanda;Magnus Enquist

  • Neural networks and animal behavior

    Magnus Enquist;Stefano Ghirlanda

  • A strategic taxonomy of biological communication

    Peter L. Hurd;Magnus Enquist

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefano Ghirlanda
Stefano Ghirlanda Stockholm University
Marcus W. Feldman
Marcus W. Feldman Stanford University
Robert Boyd
Robert Boyd Arizona State University
Björn Forkman
Björn Forkman University of Copenhagen
Matjaž Perc
Matjaž Perc University of Maribor
Steven N. Austad
Steven N. Austad University of Alabama at Birmingham

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