Andrew Whiten

Andrew Whiten

University of St Andrews

H-index: 106

Europe-United Kingdom

About Andrew Whiten

Andrew Whiten, With an exceptional h-index of 106 and a recent h-index of 62 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of St Andrews, specializes in the field of Social Cognition, Evolutionary Psychology, Comparative Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Social Learning.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Do children imitate even when it is costly? New insights from a novel task

Frans de Waal (1948–2024), primatologist who questioned the uniqueness of human minds

Population interconnectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture

Cultural evolution in the science of culture and cultural evolution

Social learning and culture in the great apes

Children's distinct drive to reproduce costly rituals

Zones of proximal cognitive assimilation in the transmission of culture. Comment on" To copy or not to copy? That is the question! From chimpanzees to the foundation of human …

Cultural revolution.

Andrew Whiten Information

University

Position

Wardlaw Professor of Psychology

Citations(all)

50801

Citations(since 2020)

13434

Cited By

45263

hIndex(all)

106

hIndex(since 2020)

62

i10Index(all)

274

i10Index(since 2020)

188

Email

University Profile Page

University of St Andrews

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Andrew Whiten Skills & Research Interests

Social Cognition

Evolutionary Psychology

Comparative Psychology

Developmental Psychology

Social Learning

Top articles of Andrew Whiten

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Do children imitate even when it is costly? New insights from a novel task

British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Mingxuan Zhao

Frankie TK Fong

Andrew Whiten

Mark Nielsen

2024/3

Frans de Waal (1948–2024), primatologist who questioned the uniqueness of human minds

Nature

Andrew Whiten

2024

Population interconnectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture

bioRxiv

Cassandra Gunasekaram

Federico Battiston

Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias

Maria A van Noordwijk

Andrea Manica

...

2023/8/15

Cultural evolution in the science of culture and cultural evolution

Andrew Whiten

2023/3/22

Social learning and culture in the great apes

Andrew Whiten

2023/2/23

Children's distinct drive to reproduce costly rituals

Child development

Mingxuan Zhao

Frankie TK Fong

Andrew Whiten

Mark Nielsen

2023/12/18

Zones of proximal cognitive assimilation in the transmission of culture. Comment on" To copy or not to copy? That is the question! From chimpanzees to the foundation of human …

Andrew Whiten

2023/9

Cultural revolution.

Bart Moore-Gilbert

John Seed

2003/9/2

The role of anointing in robust capuchin monkey, Sapajus apella, social dynamics

Animal Behaviour

Emily JE Messer

Mark T Bowler

Nicolas Claidière

Andrew Whiten

2022/8/1

The ontogeny of selective social learning: Young children flexibly adopt majority-or payoff-based biases depending on task uncertainty

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Emily RR Burdett

Andrew Whiten

Nicola McGuigan

2022/2/1

Cumulative Culture

Sarah Davis

Andrew Whiten

2022/5/20

Collective knowledge and the dynamics of culture in chimpanzees

Andrew Whiten

Rachel A Harrison

Nicola McGuigan

Gillian L Vale

Stuart K Watson

2022/1/31

Copying

Gillian L Vale

Andrew Whiten

2022/5/20

The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines

Andrew Whiten

Dora Biro

Nicolas Bredeche

Ellen C Garland

Simon Kirby

2022/1/31

Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition

Andrew Whiten

2022/12/1

Correction to ‘The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines’

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

Andrew Whiten

Dora Biro

Nicolas Bredeche

Ellen C Garland

Simon Kirby

2022/5/9

Conformity versus transmission in animal cultures.

Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Andrew Whiten

2022/1/1

Cognitive flexibility supports the development of cumulative cultural learning in children

Scientific Reports

Sarah Davis

Bruce Rawlings

Jennifer M Clegg

Daniel Ikejimba

Rachel E Watson-Jones

...

2022/8/18

The burgeoning reach of social learning and culture in animals’ lives

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Andrew Whiten

2021

Why do chimpanzees have diverse behavioral repertoires yet lack more complex cultures? Invention and social information use in a cumulative task

Evolution and Human Behavior

Gillian L Vale

Nicola McGuigan

Emily Burdett

Susan P Lambeth

Amanda Lucas

...

2021/5/1

See List of Professors in Andrew Whiten University(University of St Andrews)

Co-Authors

H-index: 136
David Perrett

David Perrett

University of St Andrews

H-index: 130
Carel P. van Schaik

Carel P. van Schaik

Universität Zürich

H-index: 121
Frans de Waal

Frans de Waal

Emory & Henry College

H-index: 110
Kevin Laland

Kevin Laland

University of St Andrews

H-index: 86
Richard Byrne

Richard Byrne

University of St Andrews

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