Robert Boyd, Ph.D.
Affiliations: | Anthropology | University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA |
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Biological AnthropologyWebsite:
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"Robert Boyd"Cross-listing: Evolution Tree
Parents
Sign in to add mentor| Kenneth E.F. Watt | grad student | 1975 | UC Davis (Evolution Tree) |
| Michael J. Wade | post-doc | 1981-1982 | Chicago (Evolution Tree) |
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Joseph Henrich | grad student | 1993-1999 | UCLA (Evolution Tree) |
| Natalie Jill Smith | grad student | 2001 | UCLA |
| Richard McElreath | grad student | 1995-2001 | UCLA |
| Francisco J. Gil-White | grad student | 2002 | UCLA (Evolution Tree) |
| Aimee M. Plourde | grad student | 2006 | UCLA (Evolution Tree) |
| Joseph V. Ferraro | grad student | 2007 | UCLA (Evolution Tree) |
| Stephen Le | grad student | 2010 | UCLA (Evolution Tree) |
| Karthik Panchanathan | grad student | 2010 | UCLA (Evolution Tree) |
| Sarah G. Mathew | grad student | 2011 | UCLA (Evolution Tree) |
| Cristina M. Moya | grad student | 2012 | UCLA (Evolution Tree) |
| Michelle A. Kline | grad student | 2013 | UCLA (Evolution Tree) |
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| Derex M, Bonnefon JF, Boyd R, et al. (2025) Social learning preserves both useful and useless theories by canalizing learners' exploration. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 292: 20242499 |
| Lenfesty H, Mathew S, Fikes T, et al. (2024) Third-party arbitration and forgiving strategies increase cooperation when perception errors are common. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 291: 20240861 |
| Yan M, Mathew S, Boyd R. (2023) "Doing what others do" does not stabilize continuous norms. Pnas Nexus. 2: pgad054 |
| Boyd R, Mathew S. (2021) Arbitration supports reciprocity when there are frequent perception errors. Nature Human Behaviour |
| Derex M, Boyd R. (2020) Technical reasoning alone does not take humans this far. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 43: e162 |
| Miu E, Boyd R, Richerson PJ, et al. (2020) A theory limited in scope and evidence. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 43: e171 |
| Richerson PJ, Boyd R. (2020) The human life history is adapted to exploit the adaptive advantages of culture. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 375: 20190498 |
| Kline MA, Gervais MM, Moya C, et al. (2019) Irrelevant-action imitation is short-term and contextual: Evidence from two under-studied populations. Developmental Science. e12903 |
| Derex M, Bonnefon JF, Boyd R, et al. (2019) Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology. Nature Human Behaviour |
| Derex M, Boyd R. (2018) Social information can potentiate understanding despite inhibiting cognitive effort. Scientific Reports. 8: 9980 |