Staff

Professor Robin Dunbar (Head of ICEA)

Recent publications

2010

Robin Dunbar and Susanne Shultz
‘Bondedness and Sociality’, Behaviour 147 (7), 2010, pp. 775-803(29).
Susanne Shultz and Robin Dunbar
Susanne Shultz and Robin Dunbar
‘Life-history, social bonding and adaptive peak shifts in avian brain evolution’, Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society (100), 2010, pp. 111-123.
Susanne Shultz and Robin Dunbar
Sam Roberts and Robin Dunbar
‘Communication in social networks:Effects of kinship, network size and emotional closeness’, Personal Relationships , 2010, to be published.
Susanne Shultz and Robin Dunbar
‘Species differences in executive function correlate with brain size across non-human primates’, Journal of Comparative Psychology , 2010, to be published.
Sam Roberts and Robin Dunbar
‘The costs of family and friends: An 18-month longitudinal study of relationship maintenance and decay’, Evolution and Human Behavior , 2010, to be published.
Thomas V Pollet, Sam Roberts and Robin Dunbar
‘Use of social network sites and instant messaging does not lead to increased social network size, or to emotionally closer relationships with offline network members’, Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking , 2010, to be published.
Robin Dunbar
How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks, 2010, London: Faber.

2009

Y-E. Lu, Sam Roberts, T.M.K. Cheng, Robin Dunbar, P. Lio and J. Crowcroft
Y-E. Lu, Sam Roberts, P. Lio, Robin Dunbar and J. Crowcroft
Sam Roberts, Robin Dunbar, T.V. Pollet and T Kuppens

2008

Sam Roberts, R. Wilson, P. Fedurek and Robin Dunbar
‘Individual differences and personal social network size and structure’, Personality and Individual Differences 44 , 2008, pp. 954-964.

2007

Robin Dunbar and Susanne Shultz
‘Evolution in the social brain’, Science 317 , 2007, pp. 1344-1347.
Susanne Shultz and Robin Dunbar
‘The evolution of the social brain: anthropoid primates contrast with other vertebrates’, Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B 274 , 2007, pp. 2429-2436   .
Robin Dunbar and Susanne Shultz
‘Understanding primate brain evolution’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 362 , 2007, pp. 649-658.
Robin Dunbar and J. Stiller
‘Perspective-taking and social network size in humans’, Social Networks 29 , 2007, pp. 93-104.
Robin Dunbar and S. Shultz
‘The evolution of the social brain: Anthropoid primates contrast with other vertebrates’, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 000B , 2007, pp. 000-000.
Robin Dunbar and E. Madsen, R. Tunney, G. Fieldman, H. Plotkin, J. Richardson, D. McFarland, D.
‘Altruism and kinship: a cross-cultural experimental study’, Brit. J. Psychol 98 , 2007, pp. 339-359.
Robin Dunbar and J. Lehmann, A. Korstjens
‘Fission-fusion social systems as a strategy for coping with ecological constraints: a primate case.’, Evol. Ecol. , 2007, pp. 000-000.
Robin Dunbar
Understanding primate brain evolution, 2007.
Robin Dunbar
Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, 2007, Oxford Univ Press: Oxford.

2006

Susanne Shultz and Robin Dunbar
‘Both social and ecological factors predict ungulate brain size’, Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B 273 , 2006, pp. 207-215.
Susanne Shultz and Robin Dunbar
‘Chimpanzee and felid diet is influenced by prey brain size’, Biology Letters 2 , 2006, pp. 505-508.
Robin Dunbar and S. Calhim, J. Shi
‘Sexual segregation among feral goats: testing between alternative hypotheses’, Anim. Behav 72 , 2006, pp. 207-215.
Robin Dunbar and S. Calhim, J. Shi
‘Chimpanzee and felid diet composition is influenced by prey brain size’, Biol. Lets 2 , 2006, pp. 505-508.
Robin Dunbar and S. Calhim, J. Shi
‘Both social and ecological factors predict ungulate brain size’, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. 273B , 2006, pp. 207-215.

2005

Robin Dunbar and W-X. Zhou, D. Sornette, R.A. Hill
‘Discrete hierarchical organization of social group sizes’, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 272B , 2005, pp. 439-444.
Robin Dunbar and L. Barrett, J. Lycett
Evolutionary Psychology: A Beginner’s Guide, 2005, OneWorld: Oxford.

2004

Robin Dunbar
‘Gossip in evolutionary perspective’, Rev. Gen. Psych 8 , 2004, pp. 100-110.
Robin Dunbar
The Human Story, 2004, Faber and Faber.

2003

Robin Dunbar
‘The social brain: mind, language and society in evolutionary perspective’, Ann. Rev. Anthrop 32 , 2003, pp. 163-181.
Robin Dunbar and L. Barrett, S.P. Henzi
‘Primate cognition: from ‘what now?’ to ‘what if?’’, Trends Cogn. Sci. 7 , 2003, pp. 494-497.

2002

Robin Dunbar and L. Barrett, J. Lycett
Human Evolutionary Psychology, 2002, Macmillan/Palgrave and Princeton University Press: Princeton.

2000

Robin Dunbar and G. Cowlishaw
Primate Conservation Biology, 2000, Chicago University Press: Chicago.

1999

Robin Dunbar
The Evolution of Culture, 1999, Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh.

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Susanne Shultz and Robin Dunbar
‘Species differences in executive function correlate with brain size across non-human primates’, Journal of Comparative Psychology , 0.