| The ice-breaker effect: Singing mediates fast social bonding E Pearce, J Launay, RIM Dunbar Royal Society open science 2 (10), 150221, 2015 | 458 | 2015 |
| Social laughter is correlated with an elevated pain threshold RIM Dunbar, R Baron, A Frangou, E Pearce, EJC Van Leeuwen, J Stow, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1731), 1161-1167, 2012 | 444 | 2012 |
| New insights into differences in brain organization between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans E Pearce, C Stringer, RIM Dunbar Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1758), 20130168, 2013 | 269 | 2013 |
| The association between loneliness and depressive symptoms among adults aged 50 years and older: a 12-year population-based cohort study SL Lee, E Pearce, O Ajnakina, S Johnson, G Lewis, F Mann, A Pitman, ... The Lancet Psychiatry 8 (1), 48-57, 2021 | 262 | 2021 |
| Singing and social bonding: changes in connectivity and pain threshold as a function of group size D Weinstein, J Launay, E Pearce, RIM Dunbar, L Stewart Evolution and Human Behavior 37 (2), 152-158, 2016 | 253 | 2016 |
| The experience of loneliness among young people with depression: a qualitative meta-synthesis of the literature L Achterbergh, A Pitman, M Birken, E Pearce, H Sno, S Johnson BMC psychiatry 20, 1-23, 2020 | 187 | 2020 |
| Variation in the β-endorphin, oxytocin, and dopamine receptor genes is associated with different dimensions of human sociality E Pearce, R Wlodarski, A Machin, RIM Dunbar Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (20), 5300-5305, 2017 | 148 | 2017 |
| Fission-fusion and the evolution of hominin social systems M Grove, E Pearce, RIM Dunbar Journal of human evolution 62 (2), 191-200, 2012 | 123 | 2012 |
| Singing together or apart: The effect of competitive and cooperative singing on social bonding within and between sub-groups of a university Fraternity E Pearce, J Launay, M van Duijn, A Rotkirch, T David-Barrett, RIM Dunbar Psychology of music 44 (6), 1255-1273, 2016 | 107 | 2016 |
| Is group singing special? Health, well‐being and social bonds in community‐based adult education classes E Pearce, J Launay, A Machin, RIM Dunbar Journal of community & applied social psychology 26 (6), 518-533, 2016 | 98 | 2016 |
| Group music performance causes elevated pain thresholds and social bonding in small and large groups of singers D Weinstein, J Launay, E Pearce, RIM Dunbar, L Stewart Evolution and human behavior: official journal of the Human Behavior and …, 2016 | 94 | 2016 |
| Loneliness and the onset of new mental health problems in the general population F Mann, J Wang, E Pearce, R Ma, M Schlief, B Lloyd-Evans, S Ikhtabi, ... Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology 57 (11), 2161-2178, 2022 | 93 | 2022 |
| Tuning in to others: Exploring relational and collective bonding in singing and non-singing groups over time E Pearce, J Launay, P MacCarron, RIM Dunbar Psychology of Music 45 (4), 496-512, 2017 | 91 | 2017 |
| Functional benefits of (modest) alcohol consumption RIM Dunbar, J Launay, R Wlodarski, C Robertson, E Pearce, J Carney, ... Adaptive human behavior and physiology 3, 118-133, 2017 | 86 | 2017 |
| Latitudinal variation in light levels drives human visual system size E Pearce, R Dunbar Biology letters 8 (1), 90-93, 2012 | 61 | 2012 |
| The Monks of Westminster: Being a Register of the Brethren of the Convent from the Time of the Confessor to the Dissolution, with Lists of the Obedientiaries and an Introduction EH Pearce Cambridge University Press, 1916 | 52 | 1916 |
| Higher-order mentalising and executive functioning J Launay, E Pearce, R Wlodarski, M van Duijn, J Carney, RIM Dunbar Personality and individual differences 86, 6-14, 2015 | 45 | 2015 |
| Using obsidian transfer distances to explore social network maintenance in late Pleistocene hunter–gatherers E Pearce, T Moutsiou Journal of anthropological archaeology 36, 12-20, 2014 | 44 | 2014 |
| Modelling mechanisms of social network maintenance in hunter–gatherers E Pearce Journal of archaeological science 50, 403-413, 2014 | 39 | 2014 |
| Is orbital volume associated with eyeball and visual cortex volume in humans? E Pearce, H Bridge Annals of human biology 40 (6), 531-540, 2013 | 36 | 2013 |
