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List of works by Paul E. Smaldino

An institutional mechanism for assortment in an ecology of games.

scientific article

Cooperation in Harsh Environments and the Emergence of Spatial Patterns

scientific article published on November 2013

Correction to 'Open science and modified funding lotteries can impede the natural selection of bad science'

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Cultural group selection follows Darwin's classic syllogism for the operation of selection.

scientific article

Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence.

scientific article published on 28 October 2014

Dynamics of behavior change in the COVID world

scientific article published on 23 August 2020

Evolution of fairness in the dictator game by multilevel selection

scientific article published on 30 June 2015

Increased costs of cooperation help cooperators in the long run

scientific article published on 19 February 2013

Institutions and cooperation in an ecology of games

scientific article published on 4 February 2014

Integrating models of cognition and culture will require a bit more math

scientific article published on 28 May 2020

Invariants of human emotion

scientific article published in June 2012

Let the social sciences evolve.

scientific article

Mills made of grist, and other interesting ideas in need of clarification

scientific article published on 12 September 2019

Movement patterns, social dynamics, and the evolution of cooperation

scientific article published in August 2012

Niche diversity can explain cross-cultural differences in personality structure

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

Open science and modified funding lotteries can impede the natural selection of bad science

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

Replication, Communication, and the Population Dynamics of Scientific Discovery

scientific article

Sigmoidal Acquisition Curves Are Good Indicators of Conformist Transmission

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Simulating the evolution of the human family: cooperative breeding increases in harsh environments

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Social conformity despite individual preferences for distinctiveness

scientific article

Social identity and cooperation in cultural evolution.

scientific article published on 6 December 2017

Teaching as an exaptation

scientific article

The Evolution of Covert Signaling.

scientific article published on 20 March 2018

The cultural evolution of emergent group-level traits

scientific article

The natural selection of bad science

scientific article (publication date: September 2016)

The origins of options

scientific article published on 11 April 2012