Awards

Helen Elizabeth Davis received the PostDoctoral Award at the HBES 2019 Conference for her work on spatial cognition, navigation, and mobility among children in a forager-horticulturaist population, the Tsimane of Bolivia.

Joe Henrich and colleagues received the Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize for their 2016 article entitled "The Cultural Evolution of Prosocial Religions" published by Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Helen Elizabeth Davis received the 2018 ISIR Prize for Best Paper.

Anke Becker received the 2018 UWIN Best Paper Award on Gender Economics for her paper, "On the Origins of Son Preference and Female Genital Cutting."

Joe Henrich received the 2016 Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Book of the Year Award for The Secret of Our Success.

Joe Henrich and colleagues received the 2012 Margo Wilson Award for Best Paper in Evolution and Human Behavior for their paper, “Prestige-biased cultural learning: bystander's differential attention to potential models influences children's learning."