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Cultural evolution: Is causal inference the secret of our success? | Current Biology

April 26, 2021

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.02.013 A new study investigates hunters’ causal understandings of bow design and mechanics among the Hadza, one of the last remaining foraging populations. The results suggest that sophisticated technology can evolve...

Martin Luther Rewired Your Brain | This View of Life

February 09, 2021

https://thisviewoflife.com/martin-luther-rewired-your-brain/

The World Monogamy Made | Tingis Magazine

February 06, 2021

https://www.tingismagazine.com/editorials/the-world-monogamy-made/

Why Immigration Drives Innovation | This View of Life

January 26, 2021

https://thisviewoflife.com/why-immigration-drives-innovation/

How the 'Western mind' was shaped by the Medieval Church | BBC Future

January 03, 2021

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201231-how-the-way-you-think-was-s… Most research on human psychology focuses on Western societies, but the way people in the West think can be traced to changes in family structures in the Middle...

Who Are “The WEIRDest People in the World?” | Amanpour and Company

November 10, 2020

Click here to watch Dr. Henrich's interview on Amanpour and Company! Are human behavioral studies giving us the complete picture? Joseph Henrich says no. As a Harvard professor of evolutionary biology, he argues that our understanding of human nature is...

Talk at Understanding Social Macroeconomics Conference: Evolutionary Economics

November 09, 2020

Click here to watch Dr. Henrich's talk at the Third Annual Conference: Understanding Social Macroeconomics, Evolutionary Economics Session. Dr. Henrich's talk title: Culturally Coevolving Minds and Institutions

"The weird West" -- Feature in Standpoint Magazine

September 01, 2020

Dr. Henrich's upcoming book, The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous was featured in Standpoint, a monthly British cultural and political magazine. Read the article here: https:/...

News Article in Undark Magazine

January 21, 2020

Undark Magazine published a story about how psychology researchers, almost a decade after Henrich et al.'s landmark WEIRD paper, are dealing (or not dealing) with questions of diversity, representation, and generalizability. This article features comments...

Media coverage for "The church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation"

November 08, 2019

“If the authors are right, or even in the vicinity of being right, it couldn’t be bigger,” says Stephen Stich, a philosopher and cognitive scientist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who wasn’t involved in the work. “What they are...

Interview with BFM 89.9 (Sumitra Selvaraj)

October 18, 2019

Sumitra Selvaraj is a Radio Presenter and Producer on BFM’s The Bigger Picture, where she enjoys having conversations on topics ranging from actuarial science to zoology. Dr. Henrich was featured in a segment titled, "Live & Learn," where he discussed how...

Feature in The Harvard Gazette

March 05, 2019

Dr. Henrich and colleagues' new study on the impact of war on religiousity was featured in The Harvard Gazette, Science & Technology. Read Dr. Henrich's comments and important takeaways on the article here.