| The evolution and functions of laughter and humor: A synthetic approach M Gervais, DS Wilson The Quarterly review of biology 80 (4), 395-430, 2005 | 812 | 2005 |
| Convergence of speech rate in conversation predicts cooperation JH Manson, GA Bryant, MM Gervais, MA Kline Evolution and Human Behavior 34 (6), 419-426, 2013 | 196 | 2013 |
| Foundations of the Crazy Bastard Hypothesis: Nonviolent physical risk-taking enhances conceptualized formidability DMT Fessler, LB Tiokhin, C Holbrook, MM Gervais, JK Snyder Evolution and human behavior 35 (1), 26-33, 2014 | 93 | 2014 |
| On the deep structure of social affect: Attitudes, emotions, sentiments, and the case of “contempt” MM Gervais, DMT Fessler Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40, e225, 2017 | 87 | 2017 |
| Managing risk through cooperation: Need-based transfers and risk pooling among the societies of the Human Generosity Project L Cronk, C Berbesque, T Conte, M Gervais, P Iyer, B McCarthy, D Sonkoi, ... Global perspectives on long term community resource management, 41-75, 2019 | 86 | 2019 |
| The strategy of psychopathy: primary psychopathic traits predict defection on low-value relationships MM Gervais, M Kline, M Ludmer, R George, JH Manson Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1757), 20122773, 2013 | 82 | 2013 |
| From whence the captains of our lives: Ultimate and phylogenetic perspectives on emotions in humans and other primates DMT Fessler, M Gervais Mind the gap: Tracing the origins of human universals, 261-280, 2010 | 71 | 2010 |
| Moral parochialism and contextual contingency across seven societies DMT Fessler, HC Barrett, M Kanovsky, S Stich, C Holbrook, J Henrich, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1813), 20150907, 2015 | 63 | 2015 |
| Preferences and constraints: the value of economic games for studying human behaviour AC Pisor, MM Gervais, BG Purzycki, CT Ross Royal Society open science 7 (6), 192090, 2020 | 56 | 2020 |
| Men’s physical strength moderates conceptualizations of prospective foes in two disparate societies DMT Fessler, C Holbrook, MM Gervais Human Nature 25, 393-409, 2014 | 47 | 2014 |
| RICH economic games for networked relationships and communities: Development and preliminary validation in Yasawa, Fiji MM Gervais Field methods 29 (2), 113-129, 2017 | 44 | 2017 |
| Irrelevant‐action imitation is short‐term and contextual: Evidence from two under‐studied populations MA Kline, MM Gervais, C Moya, RT Boyd Developmental Science 23 (3), e12903, 2020 | 42 | 2020 |
| Community hygiene norm violators are consistently stigmatized: Evidence from four global sites and implications for sanitation interventions A Brewis, A Wutich, MV du Bray, J Maupin, RC Schuster, MM Gervais Social Science & Medicine 220, 12-21, 2019 | 33 | 2019 |
| Subclinical primary psychopathy, but not physical formidability or attractiveness, predicts conversational dominance in a zero-acquaintance situation JH Manson, MM Gervais, DMT Fessler, MA Kline PloS one 9 (11), e113135, 2014 | 22 | 2014 |
| Body synchrony in triadic interaction R Dale, GA Bryant, JH Manson, MM Gervais Royal Society open science 7 (9), 200095, 2020 | 18 | 2020 |
| Structures of sentiment: Mapping the affective bases of social relationships in Yasawa, Fiji MM Gervais University of California, Los Angeles, 2013 | 16 | 2013 |
| Defectors cannot be detected during “small talk” with strangers JH Manson, MM Gervais, MA Kline PloS one 8 (12), e82531, 2013 | 15 | 2013 |
| Moral parochialism misunderstood: a reply to Piazza and Sousa DMT Fessler, C Holbrook, M Kanovsky, H Clark Barrett, AH Bolyanatz, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283 (1823), 20152628, 2016 | 6 | 2016 |
| General trust impedes perception of self-reported primary psychopathy in thin slices of social interaction JH Manson, MM Gervais, GA Bryant PloS one 13 (5), e0196729, 2018 | 4 | 2018 |
| Seeing the elephant: Parsimony, functionalism, and the emergent design of contempt and other sentiments. MM Gervais, DMT Fessler The Behavioral and brain sciences 40, e252, 2017 | 2 | 2017 |
Daniel FesslerProfessor of Anthropology, UCLAVerified email at anthro.ucla.edu
