| Serial killers, spiders and cybersex: Social and survival information bias in the transmission of urban legends JM Stubbersfield, JJ Tehrani, EG Flynn British journal of psychology 106 (2), 288-307, 2015 | 126 | 2015 |
| Expect the unexpected? Testing for minimally counterintuitive (MCI) bias in the transmission of contemporary legends: A computational phylogenetic approach J Stubbersfield, J Tehrani Social Science Computer Review 31 (1), 90-102, 2013 | 74 | 2013 |
| Chicken tumours and a fishy revenge: Evidence for emotional content bias in the cumulative recall of urban legends JM Stubbersfield, JJ Tehrani, EG Flynn Journal of Cognition and Culture 17 (1-2), 12-26, 2017 | 56 | 2017 |
| An experimental investigation into the transmission of antivax attitudes using a fictional health controversy ÁV Jiménez, JM Stubbersfield, JJ Tehrani Social Science & Medicine 215, 23-27, 2018 | 35 | 2018 |
| Cognitive evolution and the transmission of popular narratives: A literature review and application to urban legends JM Stubbersfield, EG Flynn, JJ Tehrani Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture 1 (1), 121-136, 2017 | 30* | 2017 |
| Large language models show human-like content biases in transmission chain experiments A Acerbi, JM Stubbersfield Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (44), e2313790120, 2023 | 25 | 2023 |
| Faking the news: intentional guided variation reflects cognitive biases in transmission chains without recall J Stubbersfield, J Tehrani, E Flynn Cultural Science Journal 10 (1), 54-65, 2018 | 20 | 2018 |
| Social transmission favours the ‘morally good’over the ‘merely arousing’ JM Stubbersfield, LG Dean, S Sheikh, KN Laland, CP Cross Palgrave Communications 5 (1), 2019 | 18 | 2019 |
| Negativity bias in the spread of voter fraud conspiracy theory tweets during the 2020 US election M Youngblood, JM Stubbersfield, O Morin, R Glassman, A Acerbi Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 10 (1), 1-11, 2023 | 11* | 2023 |
| Belief correlations with parental vaccine hesitancy: Results from a national survey LJ Matthews, SA Nowak, CC Gidengil, C Chen, JM Stubbersfield, ... American Anthropologist 124 (2), 291-306, 2022 | 8 | 2022 |
| Content biases in three phases of cultural transmission: A review JM Stubbersfield Culture and Evolution 19 (1), 41-60, 2022 | 7 | 2022 |
| Conspiracy Theories: A Cultural Evolution Theory Approach J Stubbersfield The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution, 2023 | 5 | 2023 |
| The HCT index: A typology and index of health conspiracy theories with examples of use JM Stubbersfield, T Widger, AJ Russell, JJ Tehrani Wellcome Open Research 6 (196), 196, 2021 | 2 | 2021 |
| Curious about threats: Morbid curiosity and interest in conspiracy theories in US adults C Scrivner, JM Stubbersfield British Journal of Psychology 115 (1), 129-147, 2024 | 1* | 2024 |
| The Cognitive Foundations of Fictional Stories E Dubourg, V Thouzeau, B Thomas, C Bonard, P Boyer, M Clasen, ... | 1 | 2024 |
| Human-like content biases in Large Language Models (LLM0024) J Stubbersfield, A Acerbi | | 2023 |
| Review of The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve by Stewart-Williams, Steve J Stubbersfield Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture 3 (1), 147-150, 2019 | | 2019 |
| Content Biases in the Cultural Transmission and Evolution of Urban Legends J STUBBERSFIELD Durham University, 2014 | | 2014 |
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