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D-Index
53
Citations
13033
World Ranking
4758
National Ranking
2640

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Social psychology
  • Law
  • Social science

Her main research concerns Social psychology, Cooperative behavior, Social learning, Troglodytes and Social relation. As part of her studies on Social psychology, Sarah F. Brosnan often connects relevant areas like Developmental psychology. She interconnects Pongidae and Social environment in the investigation of issues within Developmental psychology.

The various areas that Sarah F. Brosnan examines in her Social relation study include Notice, Altruism, Affect and Equity. Her Social group research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Norm, Social policy, Social preferences and Social system. Her Prosocial behavior research incorporates themes from Contingency, Reciprocal altruism, Behavioural sciences and Psychological research.

Her most cited work include:

  • Monkeys reject unequal pay (858 citations)
  • Chimpanzees are indifferent to the welfare of unrelated group members (381 citations)
  • Tolerance for inequity may increase with social closeness in chimpanzees (290 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Sarah F. Brosnan spends much of her time researching Social psychology, Cognitive psychology, Developmental psychology, Prosocial behavior and Primate. Her Social psychology research includes themes of Troglodytes and Equity. Her Cognitive psychology study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Comparative psychology, Coordination game, Behavioral economics, Nash equilibrium and Experimental economics.

Sarah F. Brosnan combines subjects such as Temptation and Prisoner's dilemma with her study of Nash equilibrium. Sarah F. Brosnan has included themes like Personality and Behavioural sciences in her Developmental psychology study. Her work carried out in the field of Social group brings together such families of science as Sociality and Morality.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Social psychology (56.41%)
  • Cognitive psychology (29.23%)
  • Developmental psychology (21.54%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2018-2021)?

  • Cognitive psychology (29.23%)
  • Experimental economics (7.18%)
  • Social psychology (56.41%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Sarah F. Brosnan focuses on Cognitive psychology, Experimental economics, Social psychology, Prisoner's dilemma and Primate. Her Cognitive psychology study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Affect, Sunk costs, Comparative psychology and Social comparison theory. The Experimental economics study combines topics in areas such as Ecology, Theme, Naturalism and Positive economics.

Her Social psychology study frequently links to other fields, such as Psittacidae. Her research investigates the connection between Prisoner's dilemma and topics such as Temptation that intersect with problems in Coordination game and Dilemma. Her Primate research integrates issues from Ephemeral key and Foraging.

Between 2018 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • A comparative approach to affect and cooperation. (13 citations)
  • Are the roots of human economic systems shared with non-human primates? (9 citations)
  • Responses to Economic Games of Cooperation and Conflict in Squirrel Monkeys (Saimiri boliviensis). (8 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Social psychology
  • Social science

Sarah F. Brosnan mainly focuses on Cognitive psychology, Temptation, Experimental economics, Nash equilibrium and Prisoner's dilemma. Sarah F. Brosnan has researched Cognitive psychology in several fields, including Affect and Comparative psychology. Her work deals with themes such as Perception, Premise, Comparative research, Cognitive neuroscience and Variety, which intersect with Affect.

The study incorporates disciplines such as Coordination game and Primate in addition to Temptation. Her studies in Coordination game integrate themes in fields like Outcome, Social decision making and Saimiri boliviensis. She integrates many fields, such as Primate and Context, in her works.

Best Publications

  • Monkeys reject unequal pay

    Sarah F. Brosnan;Frans B. M. de Waal

  • Chimpanzees are indifferent to the welfare of unrelated group members

    Joan B. Silk;Sarah F. Brosnan;Sarah F. Brosnan;Jennifer Vonk;Joseph Henrich

  • Tolerance for inequity may increase with social closeness in chimpanzees

    Sarah F. Brosnan;Hillary C. Schiff;Frans B. M. de Waal

  • Evolution of responses to (un)fairness

    Sarah F. Brosnan;Frans B. M. de Waal

  • A proximate perspective on reciprocal altruism

    Sarah F. Brosnan;Frans B. M. de Waal

  • Chimpanzees copy dominant and knowledgeable individuals: implications for cultural diversity

    Rachel Kendal;Lydia M. Hopper;Andrew Whiten;Sarah F. Brosnan;Sarah F. Brosnan

  • Nonhuman Species’ Reactions to Inequity and their Implications for Fairness

    Sarah F. Brosnan;Sarah F. Brosnan

  • Chimpanzees do not take advantage of very low cost opportunities to deliver food to unrelated group members.

    Jennifer Vonk;Jennifer Vonk;Sarah F. Brosnan;Joan B. Silk;Joseph Henrich;Joseph Henrich

  • Chimpanzees Play the Ultimatum Game

    Darby Proctor;Rebecca A. Williamson;Frans B. M. de Waal;Sarah F. Brosnan

  • Mechanisms underlying responses to inequitable outcomes in chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes

    Sarah F. Brosnan;Catherine Talbot;Megan Ahlgren;Susan P. Lambeth

  • Inequity responses of monkeys modified by effort

    Megan van Wolkenten;Sarah F. Brosnan;Frans B. M. de Waal

  • Endowment effects in chimpanzees.

    Sarah F. Brosnan;Sarah F. Brosnan;Owen D. Jones;Susan P. Lambeth;Mary Catherine Mareno

  • The interplay of cognition and cooperation

    Sarah F. Brosnan;Lucie Salwiczek;Redouan Bshary

  • Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) do not develop contingent reciprocity in an experimental task

    Sarah Frances Brosnan;Joan B. Silk;Joseph Henrich;Mary Catherine Mareno

  • Partner's behavior, not reward distribution, determines success in an unequal cooperative task in capuchin monkeys

    Sarah F. Brosnan;Sarah F. Brosnan;Cassiopeia Freeman;Frans B.M. De Waal;Frans B.M. De Waal

  • Simple and complex reciprocity in primates

    Frans B. M. de Waal;Sarah F. Brosnan

  • The ontogeny of human prosociality: behavioral experiments with children aged 3 to 8

    Bailey R. House;Joseph Henrich;Sarah F. Brosnan;Joan B. Silk

  • Social networks in primates: smart and tolerant species have more efficient networks

    Cristian Pasquaretta;Cristian Pasquaretta;Marine Levé;Marine Levé;Marine Levé;Nicolas Claidière;Erica van de Waal

  • A Hypothesis of the Co-evolution of Cooperation and Responses to Inequity

    Sarah F Brosnan

  • Chimpanzees' socially maintained food preferences indicate both conservatism and conformity.

    Lydia M. Hopper;Steven J. Schapiro;Susan P. Lambeth;Sarah F. Brosnan

Frequent Co-Authors

Frans B. M. de Waal
Frans B. M. de Waal Emory University
Steven J. Schapiro
Steven J. Schapiro The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Lydia M. Hopper
Lydia M. Hopper Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Michael J. Beran
Michael J. Beran Georgia State University
Andrew Whiten
Andrew Whiten University of St Andrews
Alexander Weiss
Alexander Weiss University of Edinburgh
Daniel J. Povinelli
Daniel J. Povinelli University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith
Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith University of Stirling
Natalie Waran
Natalie Waran Eastern Institute of Technology
Ian Handel
Ian Handel University of Edinburgh

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