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Atari, Mohammad, Ivan Kroupin, Liora Morhayim, Damián E. Blasi, Jonathan Schulz, and Joseph Henrich. “WEIRD Questions: Diversifying Conceptual Sampling”. PsyArXiv, 2025. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/vxcrj_v1.
Atari, Mohammad, Ivan Kroupin, Liora Morhayim, Damián E. Blasi, Jonathan Schulz, and Joseph Henrich. “WEIRD Questions: Diversifying Conceptual Sampling”. PsyArXiv, 2025. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/vxcrj_v1.
Curtin, Cameron M., Narcedalia Martinez, Yunitza Vásquez, and Joseph Henrich. “Prosociality Declines After a Collective Ritual: Evidence from a Patron Saint Festival in Oaxaca, Mexico”. Current Anthropology, 2026.
Curtin, Cameron M., Narcedalia Martinez, Yunitza Vásquez, and Joseph Henrich. “Prosociality Declines After a Collective Ritual: Evidence from a Patron Saint Festival in Oaxaca, Mexico”. Current Anthropology, 2026.
The cross-cultural ubiquity of costly collective rituals presents a puzzle. Researchers have proposed that collective rituals enhance group solidarity, facilitating these rituals’ spread through intergroup competition. Accordingly, studies indicate that...
Blasi, Damián E., Vishala Mishra, Adolfo M. García, and Joseph P. Dexter. “Linguistic Fairness in the U.S.: The Case of Multilingual Public Health Information about COVID-19”. Public and Global Health, n.d. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.27.21264211.
Blasi, Damián E., Vishala Mishra, Adolfo M. García, and Joseph P. Dexter. “Linguistic Fairness in the U.S.: The Case of Multilingual Public Health Information about COVID-19”. Public and Global Health, n.d. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.27.21264211.
Lack of high-quality multilingual resources can contribute to disparities in the availability of medical and public health information. The COVID-19 pandemic has required rapid dissemination of essential guidance to diverse audiences and therefore...
Bahrami-Rad, Duman, Jonathan Beauchamp, Joseph Henrich, and Jonathan Schulz. “Kin-Based Institutions and Economic Development”, n.d.
Bahrami-Rad, Duman, Jonathan Beauchamp, Joseph Henrich, and Jonathan Schulz. “Kin-Based Institutions and Economic Development”, n.d.
Atari, Mohammad, Mona J. Xue, Peter S. Park, Damián E. Blasi, and Joseph Henrich. “Which Humans?”, n.d.
Atari, Mohammad, Mona J. Xue, Peter S. Park, Damián E. Blasi, and Joseph Henrich. “Which Humans?”, n.d.
Carvalho, Jean-Paul, Augustin Bergeron, Joseph Henrich, Nathan Nunn, and Jonathan L. Weigel. “Zero-Sum Thinking, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development”. NBER, n.d.
Carvalho, Jean-Paul, Augustin Bergeron, Joseph Henrich, Nathan Nunn, and Jonathan L. Weigel. “Zero-Sum Thinking, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development”. NBER, n.d.
Kroupin, Ivan, Helen Elizabeth Davis, Joseph Henrich, and Tian Chen Zeng. “Back to School: How Formal Education Has Shaped Almost All of Cognitive Science.”
Kroupin, Ivan, Helen Elizabeth Davis, Joseph Henrich, and Tian Chen Zeng. “Back to School: How Formal Education Has Shaped Almost All of Cognitive Science.”
Atari, Mohammad, Ivan Kroupin, Liora Morhayim, Damián E. Blasi, Jonathan Schulz, and Joseph Henrich. “WEIRD Questions: Diversifying Conceptual Sampling.”
Atari, Mohammad, Ivan Kroupin, Liora Morhayim, Damián E. Blasi, Jonathan Schulz, and Joseph Henrich. “WEIRD Questions: Diversifying Conceptual Sampling.”
Schulz, Jonathan, Nathan Nunn, and Joseph Henrich. “Cultural Evolution in Economics.”
Schulz, Jonathan, Nathan Nunn, and Joseph Henrich. “Cultural Evolution in Economics.”
Economics increasingly treats preferences, beliefs, and institutions not as primitives but as products of culture — socially transmitted information that evolves over time. We review the exchange between economics and the field of cultural evolution...
Forthcoming
Savitskiy, Viacheslav, Raphael Mu, and Joseph Henrich. “Cultural Evolution for Economists”. Edited by Nathan Nunn, Benjamin Enke, and Paola Giuliano. Handbook of Cultural Economics, 2026.
Savitskiy, Viacheslav, Raphael Mu, and Joseph Henrich. “Cultural Evolution for Economists”. Edited by Nathan Nunn, Benjamin Enke, and Paola Giuliano. Handbook of Cultural Economics, 2026.
Willard, Aiyana K., Coren Apicella, Adam Baimel, Alexander Bolyanatz, Justin Busch, Maria Cristina Ferreira, Eva Kundtová Klocová, et al. “Supernatural Explanations and Norm Enforcement in Nine Societies”. Evolution and Human Behavior, 2026.
Willard, Aiyana K., Coren Apicella, Adam Baimel, Alexander Bolyanatz, Justin Busch, Maria Cristina Ferreira, Eva Kundtová Klocová, et al. “Supernatural Explanations and Norm Enforcement in Nine Societies”. Evolution and Human Behavior, 2026.
Historical and ethnographic evidence suggests that people around the world use supernatural beliefs to explain misfortune. The cross-cultural prevalence of this pattern may arise from our expectations that norm violations lead to sanctioning. In cases...
Curtin, Cameron M., Narcedalia Martinez, Yunitza Vásquez, and Joseph Henrich. “Zapotec Cooperative Institutions: Exploring the Psychological and Social Mechanisms”. Current Anthropology, 2026.
Curtin, Cameron M., Narcedalia Martinez, Yunitza Vásquez, and Joseph Henrich. “Zapotec Cooperative Institutions: Exploring the Psychological and Social Mechanisms”. Current Anthropology, 2026.
Cross-cultural variation in the scale and intensity of human cooperation poses a challenge to classic evolutionary accounts. Confronting popular evolutionary explanations that deemphasize “culture,” researchers have proposed that social norms and...