| Universality and diversity in human song SA Mehr, M Singh, D Knox, DM Ketter, D Pickens-Jones, S Atwood, ... Science 366 (6468), eaax0868, 2019 | 578 | 2019 |
| The cultural evolution of shamanism M Singh Behavioral and Brain Sciences 41, 2018 | 231 | 2018 |
| Form and function in human song SA Mehr, M Singh, H York, L Glowacki, MM Krasnow Current Biology 28 (3), 356-368. e5, 2018 | 200 | 2018 |
| Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures CB Hilton, CJ Moser, M Bertolo, H Lee-Rubin, D Amir, CM Bainbridge, ... Nature Human Behaviour 6 (11), 1545-1556, 2022 | 139 | 2022 |
| Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model M Singh, L Glowacki Evolution and Human Behavior 43 (5), 2022 | 108 | 2022 |
| Magic, explanations, and evil: The origins and design of witches and sorcerers M Singh Current Anthropology 62 (1), 2021 | 100 | 2021 |
| Potential leaders trade off goal-oriented and socially oriented behavior in mobile animal groups CC Ioannou, M Singh, ID Couzin The American Naturalist 186 (2), 284-293, 2015 | 100 | 2015 |
| Self-interest and the design of rules M Singh, R Wrangham, L Glowacki Human Nature, 2017 | 78 | 2017 |
| Small gods, rituals, and cooperation: The Mentawai water spirit Sikameinan M Singh, TJ Kaptchuk, J Henrich Evolution and Human Behavior 42 (1), 61-72, 2021 | 76 | 2021 |
| Supernatural punishment beliefs as cognitively compelling tools of social control L Fitouchi, M Singh Current opinion in psychology 44, 252-257, 2022 | 68* | 2022 |
| Policing and punishment across the domains of social evolution M Singh, JJ Boomsma Oikos 124 (8), 971-982, 2015 | 65 | 2015 |
| Belief changes associated with psychedelic use SM Nayak, M Singh, DB Yaden, RR Griffiths Journal of Psychopharmacology 37 (1), 80-92, 2023 | 59 | 2023 |
| Subjective selection and the evolution of complex culture M Singh Evolutionary Anthropology 31 (6), 266-280, 2022 | 59 | 2022 |
| The sympathetic plot, its psychological origins, and implications for the evolution of fiction M Singh Emotion Review 13 (3), 183-198, 2021 | 58* | 2021 |
| Punitive justice serves to restore reciprocal cooperation in three small-scale societies L Fitouchi, M Singh Evolution and Human Behavior 44 (5), 502-514, 2023 | 51 | 2023 |
| Why do religious leaders observe costly prohibitions? Examining taboos on Mentawai shamans M Singh, J Henrich Evolutionary Human Sciences 2, e32, 2020 | 35 | 2020 |
| Evidence for third-party mediation but not punishment in Mentawai justice M Singh, ZH Garfield Nature Human Behaviour 6 (7), 930-940, 2022 | 30 | 2022 |
| Beyond social learning M Singh, A Acerbi, CA Caldwell, É Danchin, G Isabel, L Molleman, ... Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376 (1828), 20200050, 2021 | 27 | 2021 |
| Universality, domain-specificity and development of psychological responses to music M Singh, SA Mehr Nature reviews psychology 2 (6), 333-346, 2023 | 21 | 2023 |
| Universal interpretations of vocal music L Yurdum, M Singh, L Glowacki, T Vardy, QD Atkinson, CB Hilton, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (37), e2218593120, 2023 | 19 | 2023 |
Samuel A. MehrSchool of Psychology, University of Auckland; and Child Study Center, Yale UniversityVerified email at auckland.ac.nz
