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Related Faculty by Areas | Core Social/Personality | | Baron, Andrew | | Biesanz, Jeremy | | Dunn, Liz | | Dutton, Don | | Heine, Steve | | Henrich, Joseph | | Lehman, Darrin | | Norenzayan, Ara | | Paulhus, Del | | Savalei, Victoria | | Schaller, Mark | | Schmader, Toni | | Tracy, Jessica | | Walker, Larry |
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Henrich, Joseph
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Core Area(s): Social/Personality
Research Interests
Evolutionary approaches to psychology, decision-making, and culture with an emphasis on the cognition foundations of cultural learning. Culture-gene coevolution, human sociality, prestige, leadership, and large-scale cooperation. Economic behavior and the emergence of complex human institutions and societies. Cultural and evolutionary origins of faith and religion, and its relationship to cooperation and societal complexity. Methodological integrations of ethnography and experiments. Area interests in Amazonia, rural Chile, and Fiji.
Courses Taught
PSYC 205 Culture, Cognition, and Evolution, PSYC 358 Evolutionary Psychology, PSYC 529 Special Topics in Social Psychology, ECON 234 Wealth and Poverty of Nations, ECON 590 Modelling the Evolution of Social Behavior, ASTU 204A Understanding Humans
Course Websites:
Winter Term 1 2009 PSYC 358 - 001 Evolutionary Psyc
Homepage:
http://www.psych.ubc.ca/~henrich/home.html
Lab Website: http://www.psych.ubc.ca/~cultevolab/
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UBC Department of Psychology
2136 West Mall
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4
Phone: (604) 822-3007
Fax: (604)822-6923
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Representative Publications
Henrich, Joseph, Steven Heine and Ara Norenzayan (forthcoming) The Weirdest People in the World. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Henrich, Joseph (2009) The evolution of costly displays, cooperation, and religion. Evolution and Human Behavior 30, 244-260.
Henrich, Joseph and Robert Boyd (2008) Division of Labor, Economic Specialization, and the Evolution of Social Stratification. Current Anthropology, 49 (4): 715-724.
Henrich, Joseph, Richard McElreath, Abigail Barr, Jean Ensimger, Clark Barrett, Alexander Bolyanatz, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Michael Gurven, Edwins Gwako, Natalie Henrich, Carolyn Lesorogol, Frank Marlowe, David Tracer, John Ziker (2006) Costly Punishment Across Human Societies, Science, 312: 1767- 1770.
Henrich, Joseph (2006) The Evolution of Cooperative Institutions: Tacking the Problem of Equilibrium Selection, Science [Perspectives], 312: 60-61.
Henrich, J., R. Boyd, S. Bowles, H. Gintis, E. Fehr, C. Camerer, R. McElreath, M. Gurven, K. Hill, A. Barr, J. Ensminger, D. Tracer, F. Marlow, J. Patton, M. Alvard, F. Gil-White and N. Smith (2005). “Economic Man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments from 15 small-scale societies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28: 795-815 (Target Article includes 23 commentaries).
Silk, Joan B., Sarah F. Brosnan, Jennifer Vonk, Joseph Henrich, Daniel J. Povinelli, Amanda S. Richardson, Susan P. Lambeth, Jenny Mascaro, & Steven J. Shapiro (2005) Chimpanzees are indifferent to the welfare of unrelated group members. Nature, 437, 1357-1359.
Henrich, Joseph (2004). Demography and Cultural Evolution: Why adaptive cultural processes produced maladaptive losses in Tasmania. American Antiquity, 69 (2): 197-214.
Henrich, Joseph (2004) Cultural Group Selection, coevolutionary processes and large-scale cooperation. At target article in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 53: 3-35.
Henrich, Joseph & Richard McElreath (2003) The Evolutionary Foundations of Cultural Evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology, 12(3): 123-135.
Henrich, Joseph & Richard McElreath (2002) Are Peasants Risk Averse Decision-Makers. Current Anthropology. 43(1): 172-181.
Henrich, Joseph, Robert Boyd, Sam Bowles, Colin Camerer, Herbert Gintis, Richard McElreath and Ernst Fehr (2001) In search of Homo economicus: Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies. American Economic Review, 91(2), 73-79.
Henrich, Joseph and Robert Boyd (2001) Why people punish defectors: conformist transmission stabilizes costly enforcement of norms in cooperative dilemmas. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 208, 79-89.
Henrich, Joseph & Francisco Gil-White (2001) The Evolution of Prestige: freely conferred status as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission. Evolution and Human Behavior, 22, 1-32.
Henrich, Joseph (2000). Does culture matter in economic behavior? Ultimatum game bargaining among the Machiguenga. American Economic Review, 90(4): 973-979.
Henrich, Joseph and Robert Boyd (1998). The evolution of conformist transmission and between-group differences. Evolution and Human Behavior, 19: 215-242.
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