Current Lab Members

Joseph Henrich

Principal Investigator

Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology My research focuses on evolutionary approaches to psychology, decision-making and culture, and includes topics related to cultural learning, cultural evolution...

Mohammad Atari

Assistant Professor

I am a social psychologist, interested in why and how morality binds people together, but also blinds them into ‘‘us’’ vs. ‘‘them.’’ I am currently examining the psychological and evolutionary processes that underlie cultural change and development of...

Pietro Beltrame

Fellow

Ph.D. Candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology, School of Human Evolution and Social Change & Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University 

Damian Blasi

ICREA Research Professor

I study the cognitive, behavioral, and cultural underpinnings of the languages of the world, not only as they exist now but also as they unfolded over the course of the Holocene. I rely primarily on the statistical and computational analysis of diverse...

Patrick Burns

Associate Research Scholar

My research interests are computational philology and natural language processing with an emphasis on historical languages, primarily Latin and Ancient Greek. I received my doctorate from Fordham University in Classics in 2016 and have been active since...

Matthew Cashman

Houlden Fellow

I study information transmission via culture, and I do it with tools I've developed for measuring the flow of memes through minds. These tools are quantitative (in that we end up with bits and so have a common currency), content-agnostic (so we don't have...

Cammie Curtin

Lecturer

I am interested in understanding how human cultural practices evolve and, relatedly, how they shape psychology and behavior. My current work examines how social norms and institutions– such as those governing kinship, economic exchange, and community...

Jennifer Devereaux

Lecturer

My research sits at the intersection of Classics, philosophy, and cognitive science, examining how predictive models shape knowledge, embed bias, and regulate behavior in both ancient and algorithmic systems.

Liwen Hou

Postdoctoral Fellow

I received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northeastern University. My research focuses on ways of using computational methods and large corpora to study language change over time. More broadly, my interests are in Computational Linguistics and Natural...

Ivan Kroupin

Postdoctoral Fellow

The structure of human cognition is underdetermined by our genetic makeup to a unique degree - evident from our species' unparalleled diversity of cognitive and behavioral repertoires. It follows that determining which repertoire an individual human ends...

Raphael Mu

PhD Student (G1)

I am building mathematical models of social evolution and strategic interaction to study human culture and how it encodes and is encoded by our psychology, physiology, and environment. One focus is to explore how cooperative behavior emerges and deepens...

Michael Muthukrishna

Associate Professor

My research focuses on answering three broad questions: (1) Why are humans so different to other animals? (2) What are the psychological and evolutionary processes that underlie culture and social change, and how is information transmitted, maintained...