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Social Bonds

Social Bond is a relational construct in behavioral ecology that denotes the enduring, affiliative associations between individual marine mammals, characterized by cooperative interactions, mutual recognition, and social preferences that enhance group cohesion and fitness outcomes within structured populations.

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Crime in the Making

Robert J. Sampson, John H. Laub · Crime & Delinquency · 1993 · 2.7K citations

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Coevolution of neocortical size, group size and language in humans

Robin Dunbar · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 1993 · 2.4K citations

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An Ecological Model of Female-Bonded Primate Groups

Richard W. Wrangham · Behaviour · 1980 · 2K citations

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Social Capital and the Collective Management of Resources

Jules Pretty · Science · 2003 · 1.6K citations · Full text

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What Do You Do When Things Go Right? The Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Benefits of Sharing Positive Events.

Shelly L. Gable, Harry T. Reis, Emily A. Impett et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2004 · 1.3K citations

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  1. RC
    Richard C. Connor

    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, United States

    23 publications · 2.8K citations

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  2. RD
    Robin Dunbar

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    22 publications · 7.1K citations

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  3. DP
    Darren P. Croft

    University of Exeter, United Kingdom

    20 publications · 1.5K citations

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  4. OS
    Oliver Schülke

    University of Göttingen, Germany

    17 publications · 1.7K citations

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    Julia Ostner

    University of Göttingen, Germany

    16 publications · 1.5K citations

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  1. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    35 h-index

    104 publications

    10.2K citations

  2. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

    Leipzig, Germany

    33 h-index

    105 publications

    15K citations

  3. University of St Andrews

    St Andrews, United Kingdom

    32 h-index

    74 publications

    9.3K citations

  4. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    28 h-index

    62 publications

    5.7K citations

  5. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    27 h-index

    89 publications

    4.1K citations

  6. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    26 h-index

    64 publications

    15.1K citations

  7. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    26 h-index

    116 publications

    4.2K citations

  8. University of Exeter

    Exeter, United Kingdom

    26 h-index

    99 publications

    5.5K citations

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  1. Animal Behaviour

    168 publications · 15.9K citations

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  2. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

    71 publications · 6.8K citations

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  4. PLoS ONE

    50 publications · 2.9K citations

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  5. Behaviour

    54 publications · 6.3K citations

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