List of works - Joseph Henrich

A problem in theory

scientific article published on 11 February 2019

Adaptive content biases in learning about animals across the life course

scientific article

Can War Foster Cooperation? ⬇️

scientific article published in June 2016

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) do not develop contingent reciprocity in an experimental task

scientific article published on 04 March 2009

Chimpanzees are indifferent to the welfare of unrelated group members

scientific article

Chimpanzees do not take advantage of very low cost opportunities to deliver food to unrelated group members

scientific article published on May 2008

Chimpanzees share food for many reasons: the role of kinship, reciprocity, social bonds and harassment on food transfers

scientific article

Colloquium paper: gene-culture coevolution in the age of genomics

scientific article (publication date: 11 May 2010)

Costly punishment across human societies

scientific article

Cross-cultural dataset for the evolution of religion and morality project

scientific article

Culture does account for variation in game behavior

scientific article published on 4 January 2012

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

scientific article published on 07 April 2011

Dual-inheritance theory: the evolution of human cultural capacities and cultural evolution

scientific article (publication date: 5 April 2007)

Economic and evolutionary hypotheses for cross-population variation in parochialism

scientific article

Food Aversions and Cravings during Pregnancy on Yasawa Island, Fiji

scientific article

Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures

Impartial institutions, pathogen stress and the expanding social network.

scientific article published on December 2014

Innovation in the collective brain.

scientific article published on March 2016

Institutions, parasites and the persistence of in-group preferences

scientific article

Interpretative problems with chimpanzee ultimatum game

scientific article published on 20 June 2013

Markets, religion, community size, and the evolution of fairness and punishment.

scientific article

Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality

scientific article

On the nature of cultural transmission networks: evidence from Fijian villages for adaptive learning biases

scientific article

Ontogeny of prosocial behavior across diverse societies.

scientific article

Parochial prosocial religions: Historical and contemporary evidence for a cultural evolutionary process.

scientific article published on January 2016

Rapid cultural adaptation can facilitate the evolution of large-scale cooperation

scientific article

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

scientific article

Reply to van Hoorn: Converging lines of evidence

scientific article published in June 2012

Similarities and Differences in Maternal Responsiveness in Three Societies: Evidence From Fiji, Kenya, and the United States

scientific article published on May 2016

Small-scale societies exhibit fundamental variation in the role of intentions in moral judgment

scientific article published on 28 March 2016

Teaching and the life history of cultural transmission in Fijian villages

scientific article published on December 2013

The Big Man Mechanism: how prestige fosters cooperation and creates prosocial leaders

scientific article

The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation

scientific article

The WEIRDest People in the World

2020 book by Joseph Henrich

The cultural niche: why social learning is essential for human adaptation

scientific article

The puzzle of monogamous marriage

scientific article

The weirdest people in the world?

scientific article published on 15 June 2010

Understanding cumulative cultural evolution

scientific article published on 25 October 2016

War increases religiosity

scientific article published on 28 January 2019

List of works by Joseph Henrich

A problem in theory

Adaptive content biases in learning about animals across the life course

Can War Foster Cooperation? ⬇️

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) do not develop contingent reciprocity in an experimental task

Chimpanzees are indifferent to the welfare of unrelated group members

Chimpanzees do not take advantage of very low cost opportunities to deliver food to unrelated group members

Chimpanzees share food for many reasons: the role of kinship, reciprocity, social bonds and harassment on food transfers

Colloquium paper: gene-culture coevolution in the age of genomics

Costly punishment across human societies

Cross-cultural dataset for the evolution of religion and morality project

Culture does account for variation in game behavior

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

Dual-inheritance theory: the evolution of human cultural capacities and cultural evolution

Economic and evolutionary hypotheses for cross-population variation in parochialism

Food Aversions and Cravings during Pregnancy on Yasawa Island, Fiji

Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures

Impartial institutions, pathogen stress and the expanding social network.

Innovation in the collective brain.

Institutions, parasites and the persistence of in-group preferences

Interpretative problems with chimpanzee ultimatum game

Markets, religion, community size, and the evolution of fairness and punishment.

Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality

On the nature of cultural transmission networks: evidence from Fijian villages for adaptive learning biases

Ontogeny of prosocial behavior across diverse societies.

Parochial prosocial religions: Historical and contemporary evidence for a cultural evolutionary process.

Rapid cultural adaptation can facilitate the evolution of large-scale cooperation

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

Reply to van Hoorn: Converging lines of evidence

Similarities and Differences in Maternal Responsiveness in Three Societies: Evidence From Fiji, Kenya, and the United States

Small-scale societies exhibit fundamental variation in the role of intentions in moral judgment

Teaching and the life history of cultural transmission in Fijian villages

The Big Man Mechanism: how prestige fosters cooperation and creates prosocial leaders

The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation

The WEIRDest People in the World

The cultural niche: why social learning is essential for human adaptation

The puzzle of monogamous marriage

The weirdest people in the world?

Understanding cumulative cultural evolution

War increases religiosity