| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 120 |
| 1982 | - | Evolution and the Theory of Games - Maynard-Smith | :: | 44 |
| 1971 | - | The evolution of reciprocal altruism - Trivers | :: | 24 |
| 1975 | - | Logic and conversation - Grice | :: | 22 |
| 1969 | - | Convention: A Philosophical Study - Lewis | :: | 15 |
| 1964 | - | The genetical evolution of social behaviour - Hamilton | :: | 14 |
| 1996 | - | Using Language - Clark | :: | 13 |
| 1978 | - | Animal signals: Information or manipulation - Dawkins,Krebs | :: | 11 |
| 1966 | - | Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought - Williams | :: | 9 |
| 1998 | - | Evolution of indirect reciprocity by image scoring - Nowak,Sigmund | :: | 5 |
| 1991 | - | Definite reference and mutual knowledge - Clark,Marshall | :: | 4 |
| 1987 | - | Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage - Brown,Levinson | :: | 3 |
| 1960 | - | The Strategy of Conflict - Schelling | :: | 3 |
| 1993 | - | The conduit metaphor: A case of frame conflict in our language about language - Reddy | :: | 2 |
| 1985 | - | Social Evolution - Trivers | :: | 2 |
| 2006 | - | Five rules for the evolution of cooperation - Nowak | :: | 2 |
| 1987 | - | The Biology of Moral Systems - Alexander | :: | 2 |
| 2002 | - | Language as Social Action - Holtgraves | :: | 1 |
| 1982 | - | Mutual Knowledge - Smith,Smith | :: | 1 |
| 1959 | - | The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life - Goffman | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | Friendship and the Banker's Paradox: Other pathways to the evolution of adaptations for altruism - Tooby,Cosmides | :: | 1 |
| 1979 | - | Prospect theory: An analysis of decisions under risk - Kahneman,Tversky | :: | 1 |
| 2007 | - | The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature - Pinker | :: | 1 |
| 1972 | - | Meaning - Schiffer | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge - Chwe | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | The four elementary forms of sociality: Framework for a unified theory of social relations - Fiske | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | Four modes of constituting relationships: Consubstantial assimilation; space - Fiske | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Entry for ``common knowledge - Vanderschraaf,Vanderschraaf | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | Pocketful of dough - Feiler | :: | 1 |