Publications

Working Paper
Carvalho, Jean-Paul, Augustin Bergeron, Joseph Henrich, Nathan Nunn, and Jonathan L. Weigel. “Zero-Sum Thinking, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development.” NBER (Working Paper). Preprint PDF
Atari, Mohammad, Mona J. Xue, Peter S. Park, Damián E. Blasi, and Joseph Henrich. “Which Humans?” (Working Paper). Preprint PDF
Posch, Max, Jonathan Schulz, and Joseph Henrich. “Surname Diversity, Social Ties and Innovation” (Working Paper). Preprint PDF
Bahrami-Rad, Duman, Jonathan Beauchamp, Joseph Henrich, and Jonathan Schulz. “Kin-based institutions and economic development” (Working Paper). Preprint PDF
Forthcoming
Kroupin, Ivan, Helen E. Davis, and Joseph Henrich. “Beyond Newton: Why Assumptions of Universality are Critical to Cognitive Science, and How to Finally Move Past Them.” Psychological Bulletin (Forthcoming). Preprint PDF
Henrich, Joseph. “Game Theory in Cultural Evolution.” In One Hundred Years of Game Theory: A Nobel Symposium, edited by Mark Voorneveld et al.. Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming. PDF
Hong, Ze, Edward Slingerland, and Joseph Henrich. “Magic and empiricism in early Chinese rainmaking.” Current Anthropology (Forthcoming). PDF
2024
Lang, Martin, B. G Purzycki, J. Henrich, and A. Norenzayan, ed. The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume II. Taylor & Francis. 2024. Publisher's Version
Purzycki, B. G, J. Henrich, and A. Norenzayan, ed. The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume I. Taylor & Francis. 2024. Publisher's Version
Sarkar, A., C. J. A. McInroy, S. Harty, A. Raulo, N. G. O. Ibata, M. Valles-Colomer, Johnson K. V.-A., et al.Microbial transmission in the social microbiome and host health and disease.” Cell 187 (2024): 17-43. Publisher's Version PDF
Schimmelpfennig, Robin, Rachel Spicer, Cindel J. M. White, Will Gervais, Ara Norenzayan, Steven Heine, Joseph Henrich, and Michael Muthukrishna. “The Moderating Role of Culture in the Generalizability of Psychological Phenomena.” Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 7, no. 1 (2024). Publisher's Version PDF
2023
Brinkmann, L., F. Baumann, J. Bonnefon, M. Derex, T. F. Müller, A. Nussberger, A. Czaplicka, et al.Machine culture.” Nature Human Behavior (2023). Publisher's Version PDF
Hong, Ze, and Joseph Henrich. “Evolving payoff currencies through the construction of causal theories.” American Anthropologist (2023). Publisher's Version PDF
Priest, Eric, Joseph Henrich, Celia Deane-Drummond, and Mary Ann Meyers. “Introduction To Symposium On “Just How Special Are Humans?”Zygon 58, no. 2 (2023): 378-383. PDF
Henrich, Joseph. “How Culture Made Us Uniquely Human.” Zygon 58, no. 2 (2023): 405-424. PDF
Henrich, Joseph, and Michael Muthukrishna. “What makes us smart?Topics in Cognitive Science (2023). PDF
Atari, Mohammad, and Joseph Henrich. “Historical Psychology.” Current Directions in Psychological Science (2023): 1-8. Publisher's Version PDF
Bendixen, Theiss, Coren Apicella, Quentin Atkinson, Emma Cohen, Joseph Henrich, Rita A. McNamara, Ara Norenzayan, Aiyana K. Willard, Dimitris Xygalatas, and Benjamin Grant Purzycki. “Appealing to the minds of gods: Religious beliefs and appeals correspond to features of local social ecologies.” Religion, Brain & Behavior (2023). Publisher's Version PDF
2022
Blasi, Damián E., Joseph Henrich, Evangelia Adamou, David Kemmerer, and Asifa Majid. “Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 26, no. 12 (2022). Publisher's Version PDF
Zeng, Tian Chen, and Joseph Henrich. “Cultural evolution may influence heritability by shaping assortative mating.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45 (2022): e181. Publisher's Version PDF

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