Joseph Henrich

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Joseph Henrich is affiliated with the following schools: Emory University, California Institute of Technology, University of British Columbia, University of Michigan, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Notre Dame, Stanford University, Harvard University

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According to Wikipedia, Joseph Henrich is an American professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. Before arriving at Harvard, Henrich was a professor of psychology and economics at the University of British Columbia. He is interested in the question of how humans evolved from "being a relatively unremarkable primate a few million years ago to the most successful species on the globe", and how culture shaped our species' genetic evolution.

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The weirdest people in the world? (2010) (3669)
In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small- Scale Societies (2001) (2304)
Most people are not WEIRD (2010) (1931)
The evolution of prestige: freely conferred deference as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission. (2001) (1883)
“Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies (2005) (1574)
Foundations of Human Sociality - Economic Experiments and Ethnographic: Evidence From Fifteen Small-Scale Societies (2004) (1411)
Costly Punishment Across Human Societies (2006) (1391)
Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment (2010) (1139)
The evolution of conformist transmission and the emergence of between-group differences. (1998) (1017)
Cultural group selection, coevolutionary processes and large-scale cooperation (2004) (986)
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter (2015) (941)
The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation (2011) (867)
Demography and Cultural Evolution: How Adaptive Cultural Processes Can Produce Maladaptive Losses—The Tasmanian Case (2004) (860)
The evolution of cultural evolution (2003) (851)
The Moral Machine experiment (2018) (829)
Why people punish defectors. Weak conformist transmission can stabilize costly enforcement of norms in cooperative dilemmas. (2001) (730)
Two ways to the top: evidence that dominance and prestige are distinct yet viable avenues to social rank and influence. (2013) (668)
The cultural evolution of prosocial religions (2014) (591)
Does culture matter in economic behavior? Ultimatum game bargaining among the machiguenga (2000) (569)
The evolution of costly displays, cooperation and religion: credibility enhancing displays and their implications for cultural evolution (2009) (539)
Culture–gene coevolution, norm-psychology and the emergence of human prosociality (2011) (536)
Pride, personality, and the evolutionary foundations of human social status (2010) (509)
Chimpanzees are indifferent to the welfare of unrelated group members (2005) (503)
Culture and social behavior (2015) (467)
Why Humans Cooperate: A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation (2007) (451)
Can War Foster Cooperation? (2016) (447)
Cultural transmission and the diffusion of innovations : adoption dynamics indicate that biased cultural transmission is the predominate force in behavioral change and much of sociocultural evolution (2001) (422)
Beyond WEIRD: Towards a broad-based behavioral science (2010) (381)
Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality (2016) (330)
The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate Deep Commitments to Prosocial Religions (2010) (308)
Ontogeny of prosocial behavior across diverse societies (2013) (284)
Constraining free riding in public goods games: designated solitary punishers can sustain human cooperation (2009) (276)
Five Misunderstandings About Cultural Evolution (2008) (276)
On the nature of cultural transmission networks: evidence from Fijian villages for adaptive learning biases (2011) (267)
A problem in theory (2019) (253)
The puzzle of monogamous marriage (2012) (252)
Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaption? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism (2003) (252)
Prestige-biased cultural learning: bystander's differential attention to potential models influences children's learning (2012) (250)
Gene-culture coevolution in the age of genomics (2010) (245)
In search of homo economicus: Experiments in 15 small-scale societies (2001) (241)
War’s Enduring Effects on the Development of Egalitarian Motivations and In-Group Biases (2014) (233)
On Modeling Cognition and Culture: Why cultural evolution does not require replication of representations (2002) (232)
The evolution of cultural adaptations: Fijian food taboos protect against dangerous marine toxins (2010) (218)
Gaze allocation in a dynamic situation: Effects of social status and speaking (2010) (213)
Cooperation, Reciprocity and Punishment in Fifteen Small-scale Societies (2001) (202)
Chimpanzees do not take advantage of very low cost opportunities to deliver food to unrelated group members (2008) (201)
Beyond Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance (2020) (199)
More ‘altruistic’ punishment in larger societies (2008) (192)
Innovation in the collective brain (2016) (191)
Cooperation, Punishment, and the Evolution of Human Institutions (2006) (185)
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous (2021) (182)
Dual-inheritance theory: The evolution of human cultural capacities and cultural evolution (2007) (179)
Strong Reciprocity and the Roots of Human Morality (2008) (177)
The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation (2019) (163)
Small-scale societies exhibit fundamental variation in the role of intentions in moral judgment (2016) (154)
Sociality influences cultural complexity (2014) (150)
THE CULTURAL TRANSMISSION OF FAITH Why innate intuitions are necessary, but insufficient, to explain religious belief (2011) (141)
Culture, evolution and the puzzle of human cooperation (2006) (129)
Friendship, cliquishness, and the emergence of cooperation. (2006) (126)
Division of Labor, Economic Specialization, and the Evolution of Social Stratification (2008) (122)
Market Incorporation, Agricultural Change, and Sustainability Among the Machiguenga Indians of the Peruvian Amazon (1997) (121)
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) do not develop contingent reciprocity in an experimental task (2009) (120)
Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems (2009) (120)
Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation (2002) (120)
Rapid cultural adaptation can facilitate the evolution of large-scale cooperation (2010) (117)
The when and who of social learning and conformist transmission (2016) (115)
The Zeus Problem: Why Representational Content Biases Cannot Explain Faith in Gods (2010) (112)
Cross-cultural evidence that the nonverbal expression of pride is an automatic status signal. (2013) (109)
Understanding cumulative cultural evolution (2016) (105)
The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation. (2020) (103)
Susceptibility to the Müller-Lyer Illusion, Theory-Neutral Observation, and the Diachronic Penetrability of the Visual Input System (2006) (102)
Teaching and the Life History of Cultural Transmission in Fijian Villages (2013) (102)
The development of contingent reciprocity in children (2013) (102)
Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation (2003) (102)
Mirrors in the Head: Cultural Variation in Objective Self-Awareness (2008) (101)
The Big Man Mechanism: how prestige fosters cooperation and creates prosocial leaders (2015) (98)
Adaptive Social Learning Strategies in Temporally and Spatially Varying Environments (2012) (97)
Experimenting with Social Norms: Fairness and Punishment in Cross-Cultural Perspective (2014) (94)
Early false-belief understanding in traditional non-Western societies (2013) (94)
The ontogeny of human prosociality: behavioral experiments with children aged 3 to 8 (2012) (92)
Chimpanzees share food for many reasons: the role of kinship, reciprocity, social bonds and harassment on food transfers (2013) (90)
Outsourcing punishment to God: beliefs in divine control reduce earthly punishment (2012) (87)
The cognitive and cultural foundations of moral behavior (2018) (87)
Impartial Institutions, Pathogen Stress and the Expanding Social Network (2014) (86)
Cultural evolution of religion (2013) (85)
Institutions, Parasites and the Persistence of In-group Preferences (2013) (83)
Are Peasants Risk‐Averse Decision Makers?1 (2002) (82)
Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies (2019) (80)
Listen, follow me: Dynamic vocal signals of dominance predict emergent social rank in humans. (2016) (73)
The evolution of religion and morality: a synthesis of ethnographic and experimental evidence from eight societies (2017) (71)
Weighing outcome vs. intent across societies: How cultural models of mind shape moral reasoning (2019) (69)
Cultural Variations in Children’s Mirror Self-Recognition (2011) (69)
The Cultural Brain Hypothesis: How culture drives brain expansion, sociality, and life history (2018) (68)
Supernatural punishment, in-group biases, and material insecurity: experiments and ethnography from Yasawa, Fiji (2016) (65)
Memory and Belief in the Transmission of Counterintuitive Content (2016) (65)
Culture-Gene Coevolution, Large-Scale Cooperation, and the Shaping of Human Social Psychology (2013) (65)
The evolution of innovation-enhancing institutions (2007) (64)
War increases religiosity (2019) (64)
Understanding Cultural Evolutionary Models: A Reply to Read's Critique (2006) (61)
Two signals of social rank: Prestige and dominance are associated with distinct nonverbal displays. (2019) (60)
What is the role of culture in bounded rationality (2001) (59)
Decision-making, cultural transmission and adaptation in economic anthropology (2001) (58)
Beyond WEIRD: A review of the last decade and a look ahead to the global laboratory of the future (2020) (57)
Overview and synthesis (2004) (56)
Transmission and development of costly punishment in children (2015) (54)
Cross-cultural dataset for the evolution of religion and morality project (2016) (54)
Corrupting cooperation and how anti-corruption strategies may backfire (2017) (53)
Psychology as a Historical Science. (2020) (53)
Corrected analyses show that moralizing gods precede complex societies but serious data concerns remain : In reply to "Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history" (2019) (51)
The Cultural Evolution of Technology Facts and Theories (2012) (50)
Group Report: The Cultural and genetic Evolution of Human Cooperation (2003) (48)
Moral parochialism and contextual contingency across seven societies (2015) (46)
The Origins of WEIRD Psychology (2018) (43)
The Cultural Evolution of Technology (2013) (41)
Rice, Psychology, and Innovation (2014) (39)
Pressing questions in the study of psychological and behavioral diversity (2018) (37)
The Evolution of Prosocial Religions (2013) (36)
Homo Æqualis: A Cross-Society Experimental Analysis of Three Bargaining Games (2009) (36)
18. Cultural Evolution in Chimpanzees and Humans (2017) (34)
Culture does account for variation in game behavior (2012) (33)
Culture-gene coevolutionary theory and children’s selective social learning (2011) (30)
Reasoning About Cultural and Genetic Transmission: Developmental and Cross-Cultural Evidence From Peru, Fiji, and the United States on How People Make Inferences About Trait Transmission (2015) (30)
Culture-gene coevolutionary psychology: cultural learning, language, and ethnic psychology. (2016) (28)
Animal behaviour (communication arising): Inequity aversion in capuchins? (2004) (28)
Economic and evolutionary hypotheses for cross-population variation in parochialism (2013) (28)
Similarities and Differences in Maternal Responsiveness in Three Societies: Evidence From Fiji, Kenya, and the United States. (2016) (28)
Do minds switch bodies? Dualist interpretations across ages and societies (2017) (27)
Beyond WEIRD Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance (2020) (26)
Small gods, rituals, and cooperation: The Mentawai water spirit Sikameinan (2019) (26)
Adaptive Content Biases in Learning about Animals across the Life Course (2014) (26)
Religious Prosociality A Synthesis (2013) (25)
Kin and kinship psychology both influence cooperative coordination in Yasawa, Fiji (2017) (24)
Comparative Experimental Evidence from Machiguenga, Mapuche, Huinca, and American Populations (2014) (24)
Jesus vs. the ancestors: how specific religious beliefs shape prosociality on Yasawa Island, Fiji (2017) (24)
Overconfidence is universal? Elicitation of Genuine Overconfidence (EGO) procedure reveals systematic differences across domain, task knowledge, and incentives in four populations (2018) (24)
Selfishness and Fairness in Economic and Evolutionary Perspective : An Experimental Economic Study in Papua New Guinea (2011) (24)
Material security, life history, and moralistic religions: A cross-cultural examination (2018) (23)
How exploitation launched human cooperation (2019) (23)
Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods (2021) (22)
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science (2022) (22)
Evolutionary Anthropology (2018) (21)
Modeling Cultural Evolution (2005) (20)
Kinship intensity and the use of mental states in moral judgment across societies (2020) (20)
Models of decision-making and the coevolution of social preferences (2005) (19)
Why do religious leaders observe costly prohibitions? Examining taboos on Mentawai shamans (2020) (17)
Fairness Without Punishment : Behavioral Experiments in the Yasawa Islands , Fiji (2004) (16)
Does culture matter in economic behavior (1999) (16)
Food Aversions and Cravings during Pregnancy on Yasawa Island, Fiji (2016) (16)
Origins of human behavior and culture (2006) (15)
What is the association between religious affiliation and children’s altruism? (2016) (14)
The expression and adaptive significance of pregnancy-related nausea, vomiting, and aversions on Yasawa Island, Fiji☆ (2015) (14)
Modelling cultural evolution (2007) (14)
Parochial prosocial religions: Historical and contemporary evidence for a cultural evolutionary process (2016) (13)
Challenges for everyone: Real people, deception, one-shot games, social learning, and computers (2001) (13)
The Cultural Evolution of Epistemic Practices (2021) (12)
Further Thoughts on the Evolution of Pride’s Two Facets: A Response to Clark (2010) (12)
Dominance in humans (2022) (11)
How evolved psychological mechanisms empower cultural group selection (2016) (10)
The moralization bias of gods’ minds: a cross-cultural test (2022) (10)
The evolution of costly displays, cooperation, and religion. Inferentially potent displays and their implications for cultural evolution (2007) (10)
Reply to: Life and death decisions of autonomous vehicles (2020) (10)
Genetic legacy of state centralization in the Kuba Kingdom of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2018) (9)
Social science: Hunter-gatherer cooperation (2012) (9)
Interpretative problems with chimpanzee ultimatum game (2013) (9)
Appendix to Understanding Cumulative Cultural Evolution: A Reply to Vaesen, Collard, Et Al. (2016) (9)
Dominance is necessary to explain human status hierarchies (2020) (8)
D RA FT Developmental and Cross-Cultural Evidence for Intuitive Dualism (2013) (8)
Human Cooperation: The Hunter-Gatherer Puzzle (2018) (8)
On the Nature of Cultural Transmission Networks (2011) (7)
Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods (2019) (7)
God's mind on morality (2020) (7)
Tabulated nonsense? Testing the validity of the Ethnographic Atlas (2021) (7)
Cultural group selection and coevolutionary processes explain human prosociality and large-scale cooperation (2001) (7)
The role of attraction in cultural evolution ( Reply to (2006) (7)
Experimenting with Social Norms (2014) (6)
[Reply]: On risk‐prone peasants: Cultural transmission or Sigmoid utility maximization? (2002) (6)
A Cultural Species and its Cognitive Phenotypes: Implications for Philosophy (2022) (6)
Reply to van Hoorn: Converging lines of evidence (2012) (5)
Comparative Experimental Evidence from Peru, Chile & the U.S. Shows Substantial Variation Among Social Groups (2000) (5)
Machiavellian strategist or cultural learner? Mentalizing and learning over development in a resource-sharing game (2021) (5)
The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies (2022) (4)
Most people are not WEIRD To understand human psychology, behavioural scientists must stop doing most of their experiments on (2010) (4)
Introduction and Guide to the Volume (2005) (4)
Appealing to the minds of gods: religious beliefs and appeals correspond to features of local social ecologies (2023) (3)
Moral parochialism misunderstood: a reply to Piazza and Sousa (2016) (3)
Innis Lecture Rethinking Economic Development* (2019) (3)
Overconfidence Is Universal? Elicitation of Genuine Overconfidence (EGO) Method Reveals Systematic Differences Across Domain, Task Knowledge, and Incentives in Four Populations (2017) (3)
Behavioral Data, Cultural Group Selection, and Genetics (2007) (3)
The Evolution of Human Cultural Capacities and Cultural Evolution (2007) (3)
A REPLY TO READ’S CRITIQUE (2006) (3)
Material for Costly Punishment Across Human Societies (2006) (2)
Tackling group-level traits by starting at the start (2014) (2)
Why societies vary in their rates of innovation The evolution of innovation-enhancing institutions (2007) (2)
Understanding the research program (2012) (2)
Introduction , Project History , and Guide to the Volume (2014) (2)
Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation ? 1 (2002) (2)
The evolution of religion and morality (2018) (2)
Appealing to the minds of gods: A novel cultural evolutionary account of religious appeals and an empirical assessment using ethnographic data from eight diverse societies (2021) (2)
Response—Evolution of Fairness (2010) (2)
Animal behaviour: Chimpanzee choice and prosociality (Reply) (2006) (2)
Overconfidence is universal ? Depends what you mean (2014) (2)
Prosocial Behavior, Cultural Differences in (2015) (2)
Thematic Series: The Emerging Science of Culture The Weirdest People in the World (2011) (2)
Adaptive Social Learning Strategies in Temporally and Spatially Varying Environments (2012) (2)
Work time and market integration in the original affluent society (2019) (1)
Peasants are not risk averse : in fact, they are risk prone (1999) (1)
Cultural evolution: Is causal inference the secret of our success? (2021) (1)
Food Aversions and Cravings during Pregnancy on Yasawa Island, Fiji (2016) (1)
Cultural evolutionary approaches to adaptation, rationality, evolutionary psychology and economic behavior (1999) (1)
The Evolution of Religion and Morality project: reflections and looking ahead (2022) (1)
Guiding the evolution of the evolutionary sciences of religion: a discussion (2022) (1)
Memory and Belief in the Transmission of Counterintuitive Content (2016) (1)
The Extended Online Version of: Culture Does Account for Variation in Game Behaviour (2011) (1)
Early False-belief Understanding in Three Traditional Non-Western Societies: New Evidence for a Human Universal (2012) (1)
Weighing Outcome vs. Intent Across Societies_preprint (2018) (1)
High fidelity (2017) (1)
Genome-wide association and large scale follow-up identifies 16 novel loci for lung function (2011) (1)
The Evolution of Cultural Evolution The evolutionary origins of human cultural capacities and their implications for understanding human behavior (2002) (0)
Michael Muthukrishna , Joseph Henrich Innovation in the collective brain (2016) (0)
TEACHING AND THE LIF E HISTORY OF CULTURAL TRANSMISSION IN FIJI AN VILLAGES (2012) (0)
6. Why Some People Have Blue Eyes (2016) (0)
10. Intergroup Competition Shapes Cultural Evolution (2016) (0)
1. A Puzzling Primate (2016) (0)
When can cultural selection explain adaptation? (2022) (0)
Supplemental to: Interpretative Concerns (2013) (0)
Reply to: Life and death decisions of autonomous vehicles (2020) (0)
Nber Working Paper Series Can War Foster Cooperation? Can War Foster Cooperation? Case Evidence on the Effects of Exposure to Wartime Violence Disentangling Correlation and Causation Meta-analysis (2016) (0)
3. Lost European Explorers (2016) (0)
On modeling cognition and culture How formal models of social learning can inform our understanding of cultural evolution (2001) (0)
Discussion and Criticism On Risk Preferences and Curvilinear Utility Curves (2001) (0)
GraffiWii: The Wiimote as a text entry device (2009) (0)
A problem in theory (2019) (0)
Kin-based institutions and economic development (2022) (0)
Gaze allocation in a dynamic social situation : Effects of social status and speaking (2010) (0)
Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities: a cross-cultural investigation (2022) (0)
2. It’s Not Our Intelligence (2016) (0)
8. Prestige, Dominance, and Menopause (2016) (0)
Cross-cultural Ultimatum Game Research Group (2004) (0)
How exploitation launched human cooperation (2019) (0)
What Makes Us Smart? (2023) (0)
Cultural evolution may influence heritability by shaping assortative mating (2022) (0)
The Evolution of Religion and Morality (CERC) (2017) (0)
Diffusion of Innovations curves indicate that biased cultural transmission is the predominate force in much of sociocultural evolution (2000) (0)
9. In- Laws, Incest Taboos, and Rituals (2016) (0)
A Review of Experimenting with Social Norms : Fairness and Punishment in Cross-Cultural Perspective (2015) (0)
Evolutionary links between cooperation , religion , and ritual The evolution of inferentially potent displays and their implications for cultural evolution (2007) (0)
The Moral Machine experiment (2018) (0)
Title : The cultural evolution of epistemic practices : the case of divination Author : (2021) (0)
Evolutionary ecology of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy in Yasawa Island, Fiji (2013) (0)
Look who’s talking (and follow the leader)! Eye movements in a social interaction reveal effects of speaking and social status (2010) (0)
Self-denial by shamans promotes perceptions of religious credibility (2019) (0)
12. Our Collective Brains (2016) (0)
14. Enculturated Brains and Honorable Hormones (2016) (0)
Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics. (2022) (0)
Emergent Social Rank Measure (2016) (0)
19 Religious Prosociality A Synthesis (2013) (0)
On modeling cognition and culture How formal models of social learning can inform our understanding of cultural evolution (2001) (0)
Impartial Institutions, Pathogen Stress and the Expanding Social Network (2014) (0)
The Development of Contingent Reciprocity in Children 1 2 (2012) (0)
4. How to Make a Cultural Species (2016) (0)
War increases religiosity (2019) (0)
Adaptive Content Biases in Learning about Animals across the Life Course (2014) (0)
Facts and Theories (2013) (0)
One con conflict ’ The puzzle of monogamous marriage (2012) (0)
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Society for American Archaeology Demography and Cultural Evolution: How Adaptive Cultural Processes can Produce Maladaptive Losses: The Tasmanian Case Author(s): (2015) (0)
Risk and hunter-gatherer toolkit structure : a regional perspective from the pacific northwest (2018) (0)
THE WHEN AND WHO OF SOCI AL 1 LEARNING AND CONFORM IST 2 TRANSMISSION 3 (2014) (0)
11. Self- Domestication (2016) (0)
Supplementary Appendix : Can War Foster Cooperation ? (2016) (0)
Teaching and the Life History of Cultural Transmission in Fijian Villages (2013) (0)
The Cultural Brain Hypothesis: How culture drives brain expansion, underlies sociality, and alters life history (2017) (0)
17. A New Kind of Animal (2016) (0)
REA S ONIN G A B OUT C UL T URA L A ND GENE TIC T RA NS MIS S I ON (2013) (0)
Evolution of Fairness and Punishment Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the (2010) (0)
Rationality, cultural transmission and adaption : the problem of culture and decision-making in anthropology (1999) (0)
Historical Psychology (2023) (0)
7. On the Origin of Faith (2016) (0)
Book Review (2009) (0)
The Diachronic Cognitive Penetrability of the Visual System: The Mueller-Lyer Illusion (2004) (0)
5. What Are Big Brains For? Or, How Culture Stole Our Guts (2016) (0)
15. When We Crossed the Rubicon (2016) (0)
Cognitive bugs, alternative models, and new data (2022) (0)
CPHP_A_146217 1..23 (2005) (0)
13. Communicative Tools with Rules (2016) (0)
On Risk Preferences and Curvilinear Utility Curves (2001) (0)

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