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Dan Sperber

Central European University ORCID

276

Works

35,837

Citations

70

h-index

145

i10-index

Research Topics

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Language and cultural evolution Child and Animal Learning Development

Affiliations

University of Geneva2002–2002

Google (United States)2009–2009

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique1979–2020

École Polytechnique1990–2012

University of St Andrews2010–2010

Top Works

Relevance: Communication and Cognition

Dan Sperber,Deirdre Wilson

19866,078 citations

Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation

Linguistics and Discourse Analysis

Why do humans reason? Arguments for an argumentative theory

Hugo Mercier,Dan Sperber

20112,171 citations

Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach.

Jerome H. Barkow,Dan Sperber

19981,832 citations

Epistemic Vigilance

Dan Sperber,Fabrice Clément,et al.

20101,470 citations

Pragmatics, Modularity and Mind‐reading

Dan Sperber,Deirdre Wilson

20021,265 citations

Relevance: Communication and Cognition

Paul Meara,Dan Sperber,et al.

19891,208 citations

The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought

Raymond W. Gibbs,Raymond W. Gibbs,et al.

20081,016 citations

Linguistic form and relevance

Deirdre Wilson,Dan Sperber

1993898 citations

Relevance: Communication and cognition, 2nd ed.

Dan Sperber,Deirdre Wilson

1995810 citations