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2018
McNamara, R. A., and J. Henrich. “Jesus vs. the Ancestors: How specific religious beliefs shape prosociality on Yasawa Island, Fiji.” Religion Brain and Behavior 8, no. 2 (2018): 185–204. Online Version
2017
Greenfield, Patricia M. “Cultural Change Over Time: Why Replicability Should Not Be the Gold Standard in Psychological Science.” Perspectives on psychological science 12, no. 5 (2017): 762–771.Abstract
By continuing to focus on the necessity for replication, psychological science misses an important and all-pervasive psychological phenomenon: the impact of social and cultural change on behavior. Or put otherwise, our discipline misinterprets failure to replicate behavioral results if we do not consider that social and cultural change can produce systematic shifts in behavior. Data on the connection between social change and behavioral change point to a new role for “replication”: not to show that results can be duplicated, but to reveal behavioral effects of sociodemographic and cultural change in the intervening years between original and replicated procedure, whether those be surveys, standardized behavioral procedures, or intelligence tests.
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Chudek, Maciej, Rita McNamara, Susan Birch, Paul Bloom, and Joseph Henrich. “Do minds switch bodies? Dualist interpretations across ages and societies.” Religion, Brain & Behavior (2017): doi:10.1080/2153599X.2017.1377757. Online Version
Muthukrishna, M., P. Francois, S. Pourahmadi, and J. Henrich. “Corrupting Cooperation and How Anti-Corruption Strategies May Backfire.” Nature Human Behaviour 1, no. 0138 (2017). Publisher's Version
Henrich, J., and C. Tennie. “Cultural Evolution in Chimpanzees and Humans.” In Chimpanzees and Human Evolution, edited by M. Muller, R. Wrangham, and D. Pilbream. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Book link PDF
2016
Henrich, Joseph, Robert Boyd, Maxime Derex, Michelle A. Kline, Alex Mesoudi, Michael Muthukrishna, Adam T. Powell, Stephen J. Shennan, and Mark G. Thomas. “Understanding cumulative cultural evolution.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 113, no. 44 (2016): E6724-E6725. Online Version

Web Appendix

McNamara, Rita Anne, and Joseph Henrich. “ Kin and Kinship Psychology both influence cooperative coordination in Yasawa, Fiji.” Evolution and Human Behavior (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.09.004. Online Version PDF
Purzycki, Benjamin, Coren L. Apicella, Quentin Atkinson, Emma Cohen, Rita McNamara, Aiyana Willard, Dimitris Xygalatas, Ara Norenzayan, and Joseph Henrich. “Cross-cultural dataset for the Evolution of Religion and Morality Project.” Scientific Data 3, no. 160099 (2016): 10.1038/sdata.2016.99. Online Version with Links to Dataset PDF
Shariff, A. F., A. K. Willard, M. Muthukrishna, S. R. Kramer, and J. Henrich. “What is the association between religious affiliation and children’s altruism?” Current Biology 26, no. 15 (2016): R699–R700. Online Access
Bauer, M., C. Blattman, J. Chytilova, J. Henrich, E. Miguel, and T. Mitts. “Can War Foster Cooperation?” Journal of Economic Perspectives 30, no. 3 (2016): 249-274. Online Version PDF
Cheng, J., J. Tracy, S. Ho, and J. Henrich. “Listen, Follow Me: Dynamic Vocal Signals of Dominance Predict Emergent Social Rank in Humans.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 145, no. 5 (2016): 536–547. Access Online

Scientific American Podcast

Barrett, H. Clark, Alex Bolyanatz, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Daniel M.T. Fessler, Simon Fitzpatrick, Michael Gurven, Joseph Henrich, et al. “Small-Scale Societies Exhibit Fundamental Variation in the Role of Intentions in Moral Judgment.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States 133, no. 17 (2016): 4688–4693. Online Version with Supplemental Materials
Norenzayan, A., A. F. Shariff, W. M. Gervais, A. Willard, R. McNamara, E. Slingerland, and J. Henrich. “The Cultural Evolution of Prosocial Religions.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39 (2016): doi: 10.1017/S0140525X14001356. Online Version
Moya, Cristina, and Joseph Henrich. “Culture–gene coevolutionary psychology: cultural learning, language, and ethnic psychology.” Current Opinion in Psychology 8 (2016): 112-118. PDF
McKerracher, Luseadra, Mark Collard, and Joseph Henrich. “Food Aversions and Cravings during Pregnancy on Yasawa Island, Fiji.” Human Nature 27, no. 3 (2016): 296-315. Online Version with Supplemental Materials PDF
Henrich, J., and R. Boyd. “How evolved psychological mechanisms empower cultural group selection.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39 (2016). Online Version PDF
Muthukrishna, Michael, and Joseph Henrich. “Innovation in the Collective Brain.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371, no. 1690 (2016): doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0192. Online Access PDF
Willard, Aiyana K., Joseph Henrich, and Ara Norenzayan. “Memory and Belief in the Transmission of Counterintuitive Content.” Human Nature 27, no. 3 (2016): 221-243. Online Access PDF
Purzycki, Benjamin Grant, Coren Apicella, Quentin D. Atkinson, Emma Cohen, Rita Anne McNamara, Aiyana K. Willard, Dimitris Xygalatas, Ara Norenzayan, and Joseph Henrich. “Moralistic Gods, Supernatural Punishment and the Expansion of Human Sociality.” Nature 530 (2016): 327–330. Online Version

Nature News & Views

Broesch, T., P. Rochat, K. Olah, J. Broesch, and J. Henrich. “Similarities and differences in maternal responsiveness in three societies: Evidence from Fiji, Kenya and US.” Child Development 87, no. 3 (2016): 700-11. Full Online Version PDF

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