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Willard, Aiyana, Coren Apicella, Adam Baimel, Alexander Bolyanatz, Justin Busch, Maria Ferreira, Eva Klocová, et al. “Supernatural Explanations and Norm Enforcement in Nine Societies”. Evolution and Human Behavior, 2026.
Willard, Aiyana, Coren Apicella, Adam Baimel, Alexander Bolyanatz, Justin Busch, Maria Ferreira, Eva Klocová, et al. “Supernatural Explanations and Norm Enforcement in Nine Societies”. Evolution and Human Behavior, 2026.
Historical and ethnographic evidence suggests that people around the world use supernatural beliefs to explain misfortune. The cross-cultural prevalence of this pattern may arise from our expectations that norm violations lead to sanctioning. In cases...
Curtin, Cameron M., Narcedalia Vasquez Martinez, Yunitza Vásquez Vásquez, and Joseph Henrich. “Zapotec Cooperative Institutions: Exploring the Psychological and Social Mechanisms”. Current Anthropology, 2026.
Curtin, Cameron M., Narcedalia Vasquez Martinez, Yunitza Vásquez Vásquez, and Joseph Henrich. “Zapotec Cooperative Institutions: Exploring the Psychological and Social Mechanisms”. Current Anthropology, 2026.
Cross-cultural variation in the scale and intensity of human cooperation poses a challenge to classic evolutionary accounts. Confronting popular evolutionary explanations that deemphasize “culture,” researchers have proposed that social norms and...
Bergeron, Augustin, Jean-Paul Carvalho, Joseph Henrich, Nathan Nunn, and Jonathan L. Weigel. “The Dynamics of Development in a Zero-Sum World”. Econometric Society Monographs, Cambridge University Press, no. NBER Working Paper No. 35813 (2026).
Bergeron, Augustin, Jean-Paul Carvalho, Joseph Henrich, Nathan Nunn, and Jonathan L. Weigel. “The Dynamics of Development in a Zero-Sum World”. Econometric Society Monographs, Cambridge University Press, no. NBER Working Paper No. 35813 (2026).
This chapter examines the consequences of zero-sum environments for cultural change, innovation, and long-term economic growth. We introduce innovation into the framework developed by Bergeron et al. (forthcoming), in which zero-sum environments give rise...
Savitskiy, Viacheslav, Raphael Mu, and Joseph Henrich. “Cultural Evolution for Economists”. Edited by Nathan Nunn, Benjamin Enke, and Paola Giuliano. Handbook of Cultural Economics, 2026.
Savitskiy, Viacheslav, Raphael Mu, and Joseph Henrich. “Cultural Evolution for Economists”. Edited by Nathan Nunn, Benjamin Enke, and Paola Giuliano. Handbook of Cultural Economics, 2026.
Bergeron, Augustin, Jean-Paul Carvalho, Joseph Henrich, Nathan Nunn, and Jonathan Weigel. “Zero-Sum Environments, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development”. The Review of Economic Studies, 2026.
Bergeron, Augustin, Jean-Paul Carvalho, Joseph Henrich, Nathan Nunn, and Jonathan Weigel. “Zero-Sum Environments, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development”. The Review of Economic Studies, 2026.
2026
Boghossian, Paul, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Kit Fine, Joseph Henrich, Katherine E. Fleming, Jason Merchant, Gary Saul Morson, Gideon Rosen, Ashley Rubin, and Sean Wilentz. “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences”, 2026, 30.
Boghossian, Paul, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Kit Fine, Joseph Henrich, Katherine E. Fleming, Jason Merchant, Gary Saul Morson, Gideon Rosen, Ashley Rubin, and Sean Wilentz. “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences”, 2026, 30.
Henrich, Joseph. “Special Commission Report: Anthropology”, 2026.
Henrich, Joseph. “Special Commission Report: Anthropology”, 2026.
Posch, Max, Jonathan Schulz, and Joseph Henrich. “How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surname and Patents in U.S. History”. Journal of Political Economy, 2026.
Posch, Max, Jonathan Schulz, and Joseph Henrich. “How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surname and Patents in U.S. History”. Journal of Political Economy, 2026.
Kroupin, Ivan, Helen Elizabeth Davis, Emily Burdett, and Joseph Henrich. “Reply to Mazzaferro et Al. And Niebaum: The Limits of Alignment: Grounding Executive Functions Without Assuming Special Contexts”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 (2026): e2603106123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2603106123.
Kroupin, Ivan, Helen Elizabeth Davis, Emily Burdett, and Joseph Henrich. “Reply to Mazzaferro et Al. And Niebaum: The Limits of Alignment: Grounding Executive Functions Without Assuming Special Contexts”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 (2026): e2603106123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2603106123.
Henrich, Joseph. “Game Theory in Cultural Evolution”. In One Hundred Years Of Game Theory: A Nobel Symposium, edited by Mark Voorneveld al., Jörgen W. Weibull, Tommy Andersson, Roger Myerson, Jean-François Laslier, Rida Laraki, and Yukio Koriyama, 357-74. Cambridge University Press, 2026.
Henrich, Joseph. “Game Theory in Cultural Evolution”. In One Hundred Years Of Game Theory: A Nobel Symposium, edited by Mark Voorneveld al., Jörgen W. Weibull, Tommy Andersson, Roger Myerson, Jean-François Laslier, Rida Laraki, and Yukio Koriyama, 357-74. Cambridge University Press, 2026.
Hong, Ze, and Joseph Henrich. “Chance Neglect in Performance Judgments”. Cognition 268 (2026).
Hong, Ze, and Joseph Henrich. “Chance Neglect in Performance Judgments”. Cognition 268 (2026).
2025
Kroupin, Ivan, Joseph Henrich, and Michael Muthukrishna. “Inconvenience and Generalization in Building a Better Psychology: Commentary on Sherman (2025)”. American Psychologist 80, no. 7 (2025).
Kroupin, Ivan, Joseph Henrich, and Michael Muthukrishna. “Inconvenience and Generalization in Building a Better Psychology: Commentary on Sherman (2025)”. American Psychologist 80, no. 7 (2025).