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Quentin D. Atkinson

Quentin D. Atkinson

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
49
Citations
12835
World Ranking
2890
National Ranking
23

Overview

Quentin D. Atkinson is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand, specializing in social sciences with a focus on sociology and political science, social psychology, geography, planning and development, cognitive neuroscience, and cultural studies. Their research addresses a variety of topics within these fields.

The main topics covered in their work include cultural differences and values, social and intergroup psychology, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, Pacific and Southeast Asian studies, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, language and cultural evolution, and animal vocal communication and behavior.

Atkinson has contributed to several recent academic papers, including:

  • Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures, 2022, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages, 2023, Science
  • The dual evolutionary foundations of political ideology, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods, 2021, Nature
  • A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being, 2022, Religion Brain & Behavior

Their frequent co-authors include Scott Claessens, Ananish Chaudhuri, Russell D. Gray, Simon J. Greenhill, and Kyle Fischer.

Atkinson's works have been published across multiple venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Religion Brain & Behavior
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Evolutionary Human Sciences
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin

    Russell D. Gray;Quentin D. Atkinson

  • Mapping the origins and expansion of the Indo-European language family

    Remco Bouckaert;Philippe Lemey;Michael D. Dunn;Simon J. Greenhill;Simon J. Greenhill

  • Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history

    Mark Pagel;Mark Pagel;Quentin D. Atkinson;Andrew Meade

  • Phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa.

    Quentin D. Atkinson;Quentin D. Atkinson

  • Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality

    Benjamin Grant Purzycki;Coren Apicella;Quentin D. Atkinson;Quentin D. Atkinson;Emma Cohen

  • Curious parallels and curious connections : phylogenetic thinking in biology and historical linguistics

    Quentin D. Atkinson;Russell D. Gray

  • Stepwise evolution of stable sociality in primates

    Susanne Shultz;Christopher Opie;Quentin D. Atkinson;Quentin D. Atkinson

  • Languages evolve in punctuational bursts

    Quentin D. Atkinson;Andrew Meade;Chris Venditti;Simon J. Greenhill

  • Computational phylogenetics and the internal structure of Pama-Nyungan

    Claire Bowern;Quentin D. Atkinson

  • mtDNA Variation Predicts Population Size in Humans and Reveals a Major Southern Asian Chapter in Human Prehistory

    Quentin D. Atkinson;Russell D. Gray;Alexei J. Drummond

  • The cultural morphospace of ritual form ☆: Examining modes of religiosity cross-culturally

    Quentin D. Atkinson;Quentin D. Atkinson;Harvey Whitehouse

  • Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia

    Joseph Watts;Simon J. Greenhill;Quentin Douglas Atkinson;Thomas E. Currie

  • Beliefs about God, the afterlife and morality support the role of supernatural policing in human cooperation

    Quentin D. Atkinson;Quentin D. Atkinson;Pierrick Bourrat

  • Male infanticide leads to social monogamy in primates

    Christopher Opie;Quentin D. Atkinson;Robin I. M. Dunbar;Susanne Shultz

  • Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia

    Mark Pagel;Mark Pagel;Quentin D. Atkinson;Andreea S. Calude;Andrew Meade

  • Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame.

    Daniel Sznycer;Daniel Sznycer;Dimitris Xygalatas;Elizabeth Agey;Sarah Alami

  • Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies

    Joseph Watts;Oliver Sheehan;Quentin Douglas Atkinson;Joseph Bulbulia

  • Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies.

    Martin Lang;Martin Lang;Benjamin Grant Purzycki;Coren L. Apicella;Quentin Douglas Atkinson

  • FROM WORDS TO DATES: WATER INTO WINE, MATHEMAGIC OR PHYLOGENETIC INFERENCE?

    Quentin D. Atkinson;Geoff Nicholls;David Welch;Russell D. Gray

  • The shape and tempo of language evolution

    Simon J. Greenhill;Quentin Douglas Atkinson;A. Meade;Russell D. Gray

  • Population structure and cultural geography of a folktale in Europe

    Robert M. Ross;Simon J. Greenhill;Quentin D. Atkinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon J. Greenhill
Simon J. Greenhill Max Planck Society
Joseph Bulbulia
Joseph Bulbulia Victoria University of Wellington
Mark Pagel
Mark Pagel University of Reading
Susanne Shultz
Susanne Shultz University of Manchester
Ara Norenzayan
Ara Norenzayan University of British Columbia
Robin I. M. Dunbar
Robin I. M. Dunbar University of Oxford
Coren L. Apicella
Coren L. Apicella University of Pennsylvania
Harvey Whitehouse
Harvey Whitehouse University of Oxford
Alexei J. Drummond
Alexei J. Drummond University of Auckland
Chris G. Sibley
Chris G. Sibley University of Auckland

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