Affiliates

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...

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...

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...

I study the social and cultural foundations of long-run economic development. I have specialized in measuring the evolution of cultural traits using text-data from 300 years of U.S. local newspapers.

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...

I study the social, cognitive, and cultural evolutionary foundations of complex cultural traditions that reliably develop in human societies everywhere, including law, music, story, shamanism, and witchcraft.

Post Doctoral Scholar at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University

I use the tools of developmental and social psychology - typically: experiments with children (3- to 5-year-olds) and adults - to test the predictions of...

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.

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...