Richard McElreath
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American anthropologist
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- Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Santa Cruz
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard McElreath is an American professor of anthropology and a director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. He's an author of the Statistical Rethinking applied Bayesian statistics textbook, among the first to largely rely on the Stan statistical environment, and the accompanying rethinking R language package.
Richard McElreath's Published Works
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Published Works
- “Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies (2005) (1574)
- Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan (2015) (1489)
- Costly Punishment Across Human Societies (2006) (1391)
- Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment (2010) (1139)
- The evolution of cultural evolution (2003) (851)
- The natural selection of bad science (2016) (505)
- Egalitarian motives in humans (2007) (495)
- Machine behaviour (2019) (495)
- Shared Norms and the Evolution of Ethnic Markers (2003) (449)
- Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality (2011) (402)
- Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies (2009) (349)
- Ontogeny of prosocial behavior across diverse societies (2013) (284)
- Mathematical models of social evolution: A guide for the perplexed (2007) (278)
- Conformists and mavericks: the empirics of frequency-dependent cultural transmission (2008) (266)
- In search of homo economicus: Experiments in 15 small-scale societies (2001) (241)
- Statistical Rethinking (2020) (241)
- Applying evolutionary models to the laboratory study of social learning (2005) (230)
- Beyond existence and aiming outside the laboratory: estimating frequency-dependent and pay-off-biased social learning strategies (2008) (221)
- Culture rather than genes provides greater scope for the evolution of large-scale human prosociality (2009) (209)
- Cooperation, Reciprocity and Punishment in Fifteen Small-scale Societies (2001) (202)
- More ‘altruistic’ punishment in larger societies (2008) (192)
- Dual-inheritance theory: The evolution of human cultural capacities and cultural evolution (2007) (179)
- How noisy information and individual asymmetries can make ‘personality’ an adaptation: a simple model (2006) (141)
- When Natural Selection Favors Imitation of Parents (2008) (120)
- A simple model of technological intensification (2006) (117)
- Different Populations of Blacklegged Tick Nymphs Exhibit Differences in Questing Behavior That Have Implications for Human Lyme Disease Risk (2015) (104)
- Behavior as a key component of integrative biology in a human-altered world. (2010) (102)
- Neural basis of egalitarian behavior (2012) (95)
- Pastoralism and Wealth Inequality (2010) (91)
- The Role of Egalitarian Motives in Altruistic Punishment (2007) (90)
- The cognitive and cultural foundations of moral behavior (2018) (87)
- Are Peasants Risk‐Averse Decision Makers?1 (2002) (82)
- Influences on communication about reproduction: The cultural evolution of low fertility (2007) (82)
- Evolution of animal personalities (2007) (78)
- Replication, Communication, and the Population Dynamics of Scientific Discovery (2015) (77)
- Increased Costs of Cooperation Help Cooperators in the Long Run (2013) (72)
- Shared norms can lead to the evolution of ethnic markers (2001) (71)
- Pay-off-biased social learning underlies the diffusion of novel extractive foraging traditions in a wild primate (2017) (70)
- Learning, productivity, and noise: an experimental study of cultural transmission on the Bolivian Altiplano ☆ (2007) (67)
- A naturalistic approach to the theory of the firm: the role of cooperation and cultural evolution (2008) (66)
- Conformity does not perpetuate suboptimal traditions in a wild population of songbirds (2017) (64)
- Social Learning and the Maintenance of Cultural Variation: An Evolutionary Model and Data from East Africa (2004) (59)
- Reputation and the evolution of conflict. (2003) (56)
- Multinomial analysis of behavior: statistical methods (2017) (56)
- Overview and synthesis (2004) (56)
- Mathematical models of social evolution (2007) (53)
- Cultural transmission, phylogenetics, and the archaeological record (2006) (52)
- Can Females Gain Extra Paternal Investment by Mating with Multiple Males? A Game Theoretic Approach (2001) (50)
- The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation (2019) (48)
- Another genetically promiscuous ‘polygynous’ mammal: mating system variation in Neotoma fuscipes (2009) (45)
- Using Multilevel Models to Estimate Variation in Foraging Returns (2014) (42)
- Navigating cross-cultural research: methodological and ethical considerations (2020) (42)
- Are religious individuals more generous, trusting, and cooperative? An experimental test of the effect of religion on prosociality (2011) (41)
- Patterns of paternal investment predict cross-cultural variation in jealous response (2019) (39)
- The role of cognition and emotion in cooperation (2003) (37)
- Homo Æqualis: A Cross-Society Experimental Analysis of Three Bargaining Games (2009) (36)
- Culture does account for variation in game behavior (2012) (33)
- When are two tools better than one? Mortars, millingslabs, and the California acorn economy (2015) (32)
- Resolution of apparent paradoxes in the race-specific frequency of use-of-force by police (2018) (32)
- Statistical rethinking: A bayesian course with R examples (2015) (31)
- Western scrub-jay funerals: cacophonous aggregations in response to dead conspecifics (2012) (31)
- Disease dynamics and costly punishment can foster socially imposed monogamy (2016) (29)
- Strategic Social Learning and the Population Dynamics of Human Behavior: The Game of Go (2014) (29)
- Alternative models of conspecific attraction in flies and crabs (2005) (28)
- Assets and tactics in a mating market: Economic models of negotiation offer insights into animal courtship dynamics on the lek (2011) (28)
- Greater wealth inequality, less polygyny: rethinking the polygyny threshold model (2018) (27)
- Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers (2021) (27)
- High rate of extrapair paternity in a human population demonstrates diversity in human reproductive strategies (2020) (26)
- The Behavioral Logic of Collective Action: Partisans Cooperate and Punish More than Non-Partisans (2007) (24)
- The Coevolution of Genes, Innovation, and Culture in Human Evolution (2010) (23)
- The Evolution of Covert Signaling (2017) (23)
- Modeling Cultural Evolution (2005) (20)
- Community structure, mobility, and the strength of norms in an African society : The Sangu of Tanzania (2004) (19)
- Interethnic Interaction, Strategic Bargaining Power, and the Dynamics of Cultural Norms (2017) (19)
- Models of decision-making and the coevolution of social preferences (2005) (19)
- Physical Controls on the Distribution of the Submersed Aquatic Weed Egeria densa in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta and Implications for Habitat Restoration (2016) (18)
- The evolutionary rationality of social learning (2013) (18)
- Dynamic social learning in temporally and spatially variable environments (2020) (17)
- Cooperation due to cultural norms, not individual reputation (2012) (17)
- Racial Disparities in Police Use of Deadly Force Against Unarmed Individuals Persist After Appropriately Benchmarking Shooting Data on Violent Crime Rates (2020) (16)
- Sustainability of minority culture when inter-ethnic interaction is profitable (2018) (16)
- Variants at serotonin transporter and 2A receptor genes predict cooperative behavior differentially according to presence of punishment (2013) (15)
- Modelling cultural evolution (2007) (14)
- Biological constraints and socioecological influences on women's pursuit of risk and the sexual division of labour (2020) (14)
- The importance of life history and population regulation for the evolution of social learning (2020) (13)
- Interactions between personality and institutions in cooperative behaviour in humans (2015) (12)
- Late-season snowfall is associated with decreased offspring survival in two migratory arctic-breeding songbird species (2018) (12)
- How does opportunistic behavior influence firm size? An evolutionary approach to organizational behavior (2010) (12)
- How Does Opportunistic Behavior Influence Firm Size (2006) (10)
- A Causal Framework for Cross-Cultural Generalizability (2021) (10)
- Experimental evaluation of the use of vision and barbels as references for rheotaxis in green sturgeon (2017) (9)
- Social intelligence in games : Comment on "Reasons for Conflict" by Falk, Fehr, and Fischbacher (2003) (7)
- New Methods in Quantitative Ethnography (2007) (7)
- Perspectives on Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005) (6)
- The evolution of bequeathal in stable habitats (2018) (6)
- Reliable network inference from unreliable data: A tutorial on latent network modeling using STRAND. (2021) (6)
- [Reply]: On risk‐prone peasants: Cultural transmission or Sigmoid utility maximization? (2002) (6)
- A Long-form Research Program in Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture (2017) (5)
- Reply to van Hoorn: Converging lines of evidence (2012) (5)
- Analogies are powerful and dangerous things (2006) (5)
- Hidden Markov Models Reveal Tactical Adjustment of Temporally Clustered Courtship Displays in Response to the Behaviors of a Robotic Female (2019) (5)
- When does selection favor learning from the old? Social learning in age-structured populations (2020) (5)
- The relationship between handling time and cortisol release rates changes as a function of brain parasite densities in California killifish Fundulus parvipinnis. (2016) (5)
- Individual decision making and the evolutionary roots of institutions (2008) (5)
- Sampling the Imaginary (2018) (4)
- Models and Anti-Models: The Structure of Payoff-Dependent Social Learning (2006) (4)
- Reproducibility of social learning research declines exponentially over 63 years of publication (2020) (4)
- Conformity decreases throughout middle childhood among ni-Vanuatu children: An intracultural comparison. (2021) (4)
- The ethics and logistics of field-based genetic paternity studies (2020) (4)
- Sizing up human brain evolution (2018) (4)
- Complex Dynamics From Simple Cognition: The Primary Ratchet Effect in Animal Culture (2017) (4)
- Modelling human and non-human animal network data in R using STRAND (2022) (4)
- Evolutionarily Stable Strategies (2019) (4)
- Estimating the reproducibility of social learning research published between 1955 and 2018 (2021) (4)
- Adventures in Covariance (2018) (3)
- Evolution of Cooperation Via Covert Signaling (2015) (3)
- Latent Network Models to Account for Noisy, Multiply-Reported Social Network Data (2021) (3)
- Overfitting, Regularization, and Information Criteria (2018) (3)
- The Evolution of Human Cultural Capacities and Cultural Evolution (2007) (3)
- The only thing that can stop bad causal inference is good causal inference (2021) (3)
- Appendix: estimating risk-aversion from ultimatum game data (2004) (3)
- Correction to: ‘Greater wealth inequality, less polygyny: rethinking the polygyny threshold model’ (2018) (2)
- Monsters and Mixtures (2018) (2)
- The Golem of Prague (2018) (2)
- Geocentric Models (2020) (2)
- Response—Evolution of Fairness (2010) (2)
- Investigating the use of learning mechanisms in a species that is rapidly expanding its geographic range (In principle acceptance by PCI Ecology of the version on 11 Oct 2019) (2019) (2)
- Social Intelligence in Games Comment (2012) (2)
- Rapid environmental change in games: complications and counter-intuitive outcomes (2019) (2)
- The Zoo of Models of Deliberate Ignorance (2020) (2)
- Group Size and Sincere Communication in Experimental Social Dilemmas (2008) (2)
- The Many Variables & The Spurious Waffles (2020) (2)
- Material for Costly Punishment Across Human Societies (2006) (2)
- Culture and ecology of Usangu, Tanzania (2001) (1)
- Expanding the understanding of majority-bias in children’s social learning (2022) (1)
- Conflict of Interest and Medical Innovation: Ensuring Integrity While Facilitating Innovation in Medical Research (2014) (1)
- Counting and Classification (2018) (1)
- Understanding 'it depends' in ecology: a guide to hypothesising, visualising and interpreting statistical interactions. (2023) (1)
- Models With Memory (2020) (1)
- The Coevolution of Social Learning and Sensitivity to Changing Environments (2016) (1)
- Reproducibility improves exponentially over 63 years of social learning research (2020) (1)
- [Comment] Social intelligence in games (2003) (1)
- Markov Chain Monte Carlo (2018) (1)
- The complex life course of mobility: Quantitative description of 300,000 residential moves in 1850–1950 Netherlands (2022) (1)
- Sourcing high tissue quality brains from deceased wild primates with known socio‐ecology (2023) (1)
- Linking the micro and macro in cultural evolution [Review of "Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution" by Stephen Shennan (Ed.)] (2009) (1)
- Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and Inequality in Premodern Societies Pastoralism and Wealth Inequality (2010) (1)
- STRATEGIES FOR ADVICE TAKING: THE ROLE OF EPISTEMIC SOCIAL INFORMATION (2015) (1)
- Husband, lover, pater, genitor: Concurrency and paternity in Himba pastoralists (2019) (1)
- Sourcing high tissue quality brains from deceased wild primates with known socio‐ecology (2023) (1)
- Missing Data and Other Opportunities (2018) (1)
- Rates of ecological knowledge learning in Pemba, Tanzania: Implications for childhood evolution (2022) (1)
- New Content from Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (2022) (1)
- Replication of the natural selection of bad science (2023) (0)
- God Spiked the Integers (2020) (0)
- The life history of hunting skill: Cross-cultural and individual variation (2019) (0)
- Multivariate Linear Models (2018) (0)
- The Coevolution of Warfare , Punishment , and Culture in Homo sapiens (2011) (0)
- Machine behaviour (2019) (0)
- Correction: Resolution of apparent paradoxes in the race-specific frequency of use-of-force by police (2018) (0)
- Small Worlds and Large Worlds (2018) (0)
- Correction: Resolution of apparent paradoxes in the race-specific frequency of use-of-force by police (2018) (0)
- Rapid environmental change in games: complications and curiosities (2018) (0)
- Horoscopes (2020) (0)
- The Evolution of Cultural Diversity: A Phylogenetic Approach: The Evolution of Cultural Diversity: A Phylogenetic Approach (2006) (0)
- Big Entropy and the Generalized Linear Model (2018) (0)
- Group 1 : The Role of Cognition and Emotion in Cooperation 2 (2003) (0)
- Movie-Western scrub jay response to novel object at feeder (2014) (0)
- Selection among Groups (2007) (0)
- Cooperation, Evolution of (2019) (0)
- The Haunted DAG & The Causal Terror (2020) (0)
- Movie-Western scrub jay response to dead scrub jay at feeder (2014) (0)
- Movie-Western scrub jay response to stuffed owl predator at feeder (2014) (0)
- Cross-cultural perceptions of norm distributions at an Amazonian ethnic boundary: Causes and consequences of cultural dynamics (2015) (0)
- Sizing up human brain evolution (2018) (0)
- The Evolution of Covert Signaling (2018) (0)
- Generalized Linear Madness (2020) (0)
- Sustainability of minority culture when inter-ethnic interaction is profitable (2018) (0)
- Patterns of paternal investment predict cross-cultural variation in jealous response (2019) (0)
- Resolution of apparent paradoxes in the race-specific frequency of use-of-force by police (2018) (0)
- Interethnic Interaction, Strategic Bargaining Power, and the Dynamics of Cultural Norms (2017) (0)
- Conformity and Indifference: The Structure of Frequency-Dependent Social Learning (2006) (0)
- Anthropology the Major Program (0)
- Males punish top earners most , even when fairness motives are absent (2006) (0)
- Conditional Manatees (2020) (0)
- Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers (2021) (0)
- Allometry and Growth / Diversity Measures / Metacommunities / Neutral Community Ecology / Species Ranges Further Reading Cooperation, Evolution Of (2012) (0)
- Modeling deliberate ignorance (2021) (0)
- Altruism and Inclusive Fitness (2007) (0)
- Ethnic boundaries, norms, and cultural change in an Amazonian population (2014) (0)
- Using Multilevel Models to Estimate Variation in Foraging Returns (2014) (0)
- Rapid environmental change in games: complications and counter-intuitive outcomes (2019) (0)
- The Coevolutionary Romance of Social Learning and Parasitic Behavior (2016) (0)
- The epistemic nature of conformity (2003) (0)
- The Theoretician's Laboratory (2007) (0)
- Evolutionary dynamics in the game of Go (2014) (0)
- The Grackle Project (2017) (0)
- Cultural evolution in games of chess and go (2015) (0)
- Expanding the understanding of majority-bias in children’s social learning (2022) (0)
- Cooperation and Punishment in an Economically Diverse Community in Highland Tanzania (2014) (0)
- Multinomial analysis of behavior: statistical methods (2017) (0)
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