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John Tooby

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89

Publications

18.1K

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56

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1981

Active since

Affiliations

University of California, Santa Barbara(Current)

Aarhus University

Griffith University

Stanford University

Stony Brook University

John Tooby is an author at University of California, Santa Barbara specializing in social sciences, psychology, and cognitive science.

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Social SciencesPsychologyCognitive ScienceSocial BehaviorCognitionBehavioral ScienceSocial CognitionBehavioral Decision MakingSocial PsychologyEvolutionary Biology

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1981–2025

89

Publications

89

The past explains the present

John Tooby, Leda Cosmides · Ethology and Sociobiology · 1990 · 1.8K citations

Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization

Robert Kurzban, John Tooby, Leda Cosmides · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2001 · 869 citations · Full text

Social Psychology, Racial Prejudice, Social Categorization +16

Formidability and the logic of human anger

Aaron Sell, John Tooby, Leda Cosmides · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · 828 citations · Full text

Behavioral Decision Making, Affective Neuroscience, Intergroup Conflict +16

The architecture of human kin detection

Debra Lieberman, John Tooby, Leda Cosmides · Nature · 2007 · 747 citations · Full text

Motion Detection, Kinesiology, Image Analysis +10

Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, part II

Leda Cosmides, John Tooby · Ethology and Sociobiology · 1989 · 665 citations

Culture, Cultural Process, Cultural Transmission +3

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