My work focuses on the emotional underpinnings of status hierarchies. I believe that a set of human emotions - pride, humility, respect, and admiration - evolved under a larger psychology designed to facilitate cultural learning processes. While cultural...
My theoretical interests are in empirically examining predictions from cultural transmission theory to determine their validity explaining patterns of cultural transmission in the real-world. I am also interested in how cultural transmission theory might...
My primary research interests focus broadly upon how ecological variables influence cross-cultural differences and social behaviour. Disease, for example, has ubiquitously posed a threat to humans throughout their history. It's therefore worth considering...
I am interested in the area of cultural evolution and transmission. I am particularly interested in transmission of folktales, myths, and religious beliefs. This includes how certain types of content and narrative structures become high fidelity parts of...
During my undergraduate degree, I studied the social, cultural, and biological factors that influence cognitive abilities such as attention and emotional learning. After receiving a BA in Psychology, I became interested in the neurobiological mechanisms...
Had you met me 10 years ago, I would have probably told you that all I wanted to do with my life was become a Rabbi. Despite these ambitions, I have opted to pursue my fascination with religions, religious thought and behaviours from within the frame work...
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...
I study how features of contemporary industrialized societies, in contrast to our hunter‑gatherer past, shape young people’s social worlds, coming‑of‑age experiences, and mental health, with an eye toward improving how we support adolescents and young...
