Joseph Henrich

Research interests

Publications

• Beyond Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance

  Psychological Science · 2020 · 10.1177/0956797620916782

• A problem in theory

  Nature Human Behaviour · 2019 · 10.1038/s41562-018-0522-1

• The Moral Machine experiment

  Nature · 2018 · 10.1038/s41586-018-0637-6

• Can War Foster Cooperation?

  The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 2016 · 10.1257/jep.30.3.249

• The cultural evolution of prosocial religions

  Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2014 · 10.1017/s0140525x14001356

• Two ways to the top: Evidence that dominance and prestige are distinct yet viable avenues to social rank and influence.

  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2012 · 10.1037/a0030398

• Culture–gene coevolution, norm-psychology and the emergence of human prosociality

  Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 2011 · 10.1016/j.tics.2011.03.003

• The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · 10.1073/pnas.1100290108

• Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment

  Science · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1182238

• Pride, personality, and the evolutionary foundations of human social status

  Evolution and Human Behavior · 2010 · 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.02.004

• Beyond WEIRD: Towards a broad-based behavioral science

  Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2010 · 10.1017/s0140525x10000725

• Most people are not WEIRD

  Nature · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/466029a

• The weirdest people in the world?

  Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x0999152x

• The evolution of costly displays, cooperation and religion

  Evolution and Human Behavior · 2009 · 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2009.03.005

• More ‘altruistic’ punishment in larger societies

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2007.1517

• Costly Punishment Across Human Societies

  Science · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1127333

• Chimpanzees are indifferent to the welfare of unrelated group members

  Nature · 2005 · 10.1038/nature04243

• “Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies

  Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x05000142

• Demography and Cultural Evolution: How Adaptive Cultural Processes Can Produce Maladaptive Losses—The Tasmanian Case

  American Antiquity · 2004 · 10.2307/4128416

• Foundations of Human Sociality

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1093/0199262055.001.0001

• The evolution of cultural evolution

  Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews · 2003 · 10.1002/evan.10110

• Cultural group selection, coevolutionary processes and large-scale cooperation

  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization · 2003 · 10.1016/s0167-2681(03)00094-5

• Why People Punish Defectors

  Journal of Theoretical Biology · 2001 · 10.1006/jtbi.2000.2202

• In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies

  American Economic Review · 2001 · 10.1257/aer.91.2.73

• The evolution of prestige: freely conferred deference as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission

  Evolution and Human Behavior · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s1090-5138(00)00071-4

• Cultural Transmission and the Diffusion of Innovations: Adoption Dynamics Indicate That Biased Cultural Transmission Is the Predominate Force in Behavioral Change

  American Anthropologist · 2001 · 10.1525/aa.2001.103.4.992

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