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My research focuses on Economic Growth, Development, History and Culture. I am particularly interested in the deep-rooted factors that shape the coevolution of culture and institutions. I combine theory of human development and cultural evolution with...

My research interests lie in the intersection of complex social behavior and cognition. More specifically, I am interested in mechanisms underlying cooperation, reciprocity, inequity, and other economic decisions in nonhuman primates from an evolutionary...

The origin of our big brain and sophisticated cognitive abilities remains an evolutionary puzzle. The social theory of intellect from the 1960s proposed that social demands drove the evolution of primate intelligence, challenging the then traditional view...

Behavioral & Social Scientist, Faculty Member, Pardee RAND Graduate School

Miriam Matthews was a post-doctoral researcher with the Centre for Anthropology and Mind at the University of Oxford. Her research involves applying social psychological models to...

My work lies at the intersection between the humanities and the cognitive and behavioral sciences, combining laboratory experiments with field studies to explore the effects of ritual on the individual and group level. I study effects of music on inter...

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...

A computational biologist by training, I have broad interests across data science, and I am particularly enthusiastic about research that brings together traditionally quantitative and qualitative disciplines. To that end, most of my research is...

My research focuses on the co-evolution of culture and formal institutions. I am particularly interested in the role of kin-network structures on moral behavior and the formation of nation states with well-functioning institutions. My research combines...