Robert O. Deaner

Best Publications

• Overall Brain Size, and Not Encephalization Quotient, Best Predicts Cognitive Ability across Non-Human Primates

  Robert O. Deaner;Karin Isler;Judith Maria Burkart;Carel van Schaik

  701
  Citations

• The conditions for tool use in primates: implications for the evolution of material culture.

  Carel P. van Schaik;Robert O. Deaner;Michelle Y. Merrill

  637
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• Monkeys Pay Per View: Adaptive Valuation of Social Images by Rhesus Macaques

  Robert O. Deaner;Amit V. Khera;Michael L. Platt

  561
  Citations

• Do Some Taxa Have Better Domain-General Cognition than others? A Meta-Analysis of Nonhuman Primate Studies

  Robert O. Deaner;Carel P. van Schaik;Valen Johnson

  306
  Citations

• Social status gates social attention in monkeys.

  Stephen V. Shepherd;Robert O. Deaner;Michael L. Platt

  248
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• Reflexive Social Attention in Monkeys and Humans

  Robert O Deaner;Michael L Platt

  227
  Citations

• A Sex Difference in the Predisposition for Physical Competition: Males Play Sports Much More than Females Even in the Contemporary U.S

  Robert O. Deaner;David C. Geary;David A. Puts;Sandra A. Ham

  214
  Citations

• Mirroring of attention by neurons in macaque parietal cortex

  Stephen V. Shepherd;Jeffrey T. Klein;Robert O. Deaner;Michael L. Platt

  214
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• Sex differences in sports interest and motivation: An evolutionary perspective.

  Robert O. Deaner;Shea M. Balish;Michael P. Lombardo

  211
  Citations

• Economic principles motivating social attention in humans

  Benjamin Y Hayden;Purak C Parikh;Robert O Deaner;Michael L Platt

  195
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• Comparative tests of primate cognition: different scaling methods produce different results.

  Robert O. Deaner;Charles L. Nunn;Carel P. van Schaik

  186
  Citations

• Men are more likely than women to slow in the marathon.

  Robert O. Deaner;Rickey E. Carter;Michael J. Joyner;Sandra K. Hunter

  183
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• Familiarity accentuates gaze cuing in women but not men

  Robert O Deaner;Stephen V Shepherd;Michael L Platt

  179
  Citations

• Neural Correlates of Social Target Value in Macaque Parietal Cortex

  Jeffrey T. Klein;Robert O. Deaner;Michael L. Platt

  159
  Citations

• Body weight, not facial width-to-height ratio, predicts aggression in pro hockey players

  Robert O. Deaner;Stefan M.M. Goetz;Kraig Shattuck;Tony Schnotala

  125
  Citations

• Born at the Wrong Time: Selection Bias in the NHL Draft

  Robert O. Deaner;Aaron Lowen;Stephen Cobley

  117
  Citations

• Sex differences in sports across 50 societies

  Robert O. Deaner;Brandt A. Smith

  112
  Citations

• Patterns of participation and free riding in territorial conflicts among ringtailed lemurs (Lemur catta)

  Charles L. Nunn;Robert O. Deaner

  102
  Citations

• Distance Running as an Ideal Domain for Showing a Sex Difference in Competitiveness

  Robert O. Deaner

  101
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• 1. Life History and Cognitive Evolution in Primates

  Carel P. Van Schaik;Robert O. Deaner

  99
  Citations