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Forthcoming and Published Papers
  1. Henrich, J., Heine, S. & Norenzayan, A. (Forthcoming) The Weirdest People in the World? Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

  2. Cheng, J. T., Tracy, J. L., Henrich, J. (Forthcoming) Pride, Personality, and the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Social Status. Evolution and Human Behavior. [PDF]

  3. Gervais, W., Henrich, J. (Forthcoming) The Zeus Problem: Why Representational Content Biases Cannot Explain Faith in Gods. Journal of Cognition and Culture. [PDF]

  4. Broesch, T., Callaghan T., Henrich, J., Murphy, C. and Rochat, P. (Forthcoming) Cultural Variations in Children’s Mirror Self-Recognition. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. [PDF]

  5. Henrich, J. (2009) The evolution of costly displays, cooperation, and religion: Credibility enhancing displays and their implications for cultural evolution. Evolution and Human Behaviour, 30, 244-260. [PDF]

  6. Brosnan, S. F., Joan B. Silk, Henrich, J., Mareno, M.C., Lambeth, S.P, and Schapiro, S.J, (2009) Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) do not develop contingent reciprocity in an experimental task. Animal Cognition, 12, 317-33. [PDF]

  7. Henrich, J., and Boyd, R. (2008) Division of Labor, Economic Specialization and the Evolution of Social Stratification.Current Anthropology, 49(4), (715-724). [PDF]

  8. O’Gorman, R., Henrich, J., and Van Vugt, M. (2008) Constraining free riding in public goods games: designated solitary punishers can sustain human cooperation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. [PDF]

  9. Marlowe, F.W.,Berbesque, J. C., Barr, A., Barrett, C., Bolyanatz, A., Cardenas, J.C., Ensminger, J., Gurven, M., Gwako, E., Henrich, J., Henrich, N, Lesorogol, C., McElreath, R., Tracer, D. (2008) More 'altruistic' punishment in larger societies. Proceedings of the Royal Academy, 275, 587-590. [PDF]

  10. Henrich, J., Boyd, R. and Richerson, P. (2008) Five Misunderstandings about Cultural Evolution. Human Nature. [PDF]

  11. Heine, S., Takemoto, T., Moskalenko, S., Lasaleta, J., and Henrich, J. (2008) Mirrors in the head: Cultural variation in objective self-awareness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 879-887. [PDF]

  12. Vonk, J., Sarah, Brosnan, S.F., Silk, J.B., Henrich, J., Richardson, A., Lambeth, S.P., Schapiro, S.J., Povinelli, D.J. (2008) Chimpanzees do not take advantage of very low cost opportunities to deliver food to unrelated group members. Animal Behavior, 75, 1757-1770. [PDF]

  13. Henrich, J. (2007) Behavioral Data, Cultural Group Selection, and Genetics. Psychological Inquiry, 18. [PDF]

  14. Henrich, J. (2006) Cooperation, Punishment, and the Evolution of Human Institutions. Science, 312: 60-61. [PDF]

  15. Henrich, J., McElreath, R., Barr, A., Ensimger, J., Barrett, C., Bolyanatz, A., Cardenas, J.C., Gurven, M., Gwako, E., Henrich, N., Lesorogol, C., Marlowe, F., Tracer, D., Ziker, J. (2006) Costly Punishment Across Human Societies. Science, 312: 1767- 1770. [Article PDF] [Supplemental Materials] [News and Views in Science].

  16. Henrich, J. and Henrich, N. (2006) Culture, Evolution and the Puzzle of Human Cooperation. Cognitive Systems Research, 7 (221-245). [PDF]

  17. Henrich, J. (2006) Understanding Cultural Evolutionary Models: A Reply to Read's Critique. American Antiquity. [PDF]

  18. McCauley, R. and Henrich, J. (2006) Susceptibility to the Muller-Lyer Illusion, Theory-Neutral Observation, and the Diachronic Penetrability of the Visual Input System. Philosophical Psychology, 19(1):1-23. [PDF]

  19. Hrushka, D. and Henrich, J. (2006) Friendship, cliquishness, and the emergence of cooperation. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 239(1): 1-15. [PDF]

  20. Silk, J.B., Brosnan, S.F., Vonk, J., Henrich, J., Povinelli, D.J., Richardson, A.S., Lambeth, S.P., Mascaro, J., & Shapiro, S.J. (2005) Chimpanzees are indifferent to the welfare of unrelated group members. Nature, 437: 1357- 1359. [PDF]

  21. Henrich, J., Boyd, R., Bowles,S., Gintis,H., Fehr, E., Camerer, C., McElreath, R., Gurven, M., Hill, K., Barr, A. , Ensminger, J., Tracer, D., Marlow, F., Patton, J., Alvard, M., Gil-White F., and Henrich, N. (2005) ‘Economic Man’ in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Ethnography and Experiments from 15 small-scale societies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 795-855. [PDF with Target, Commentaries and Reply]

  22. Henrich, J. (2004) Demography and Cultural Evolution: Why adaptive cultural processes produced maladaptive losses in Tasmania. American Antiquity, 69 (2): 197-21. [PDF]

  23. Henrich, J. (2004) Cultural Group Selection, Coevolutionary Processes and Large-scale Cooperation. At target article in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 53: 3-35 and 127-143. [PDF] [Complete with Commentaries and Reply].

  24. Henrich, J. (2004) Inequity Aversion in Capuchins? Nature, 428:139 [PDF]

  25. Henrich, J. and McElreath, R. (2003) The Evolution of Cultural Evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology, 12 (3): 123-135. [PDF]

  26. Henrich, J. & Boyd, R. (2002) On Modeling Cognition and Culture: Why replicators are not necessary for cultural evolution. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2(2): 87-112. [PDF]

  27. Henrich, J. & McElreath R. (2002) Are Peasants Risk Averse Decision-Makers. Current Anthropology. 43(1): 172-181. [PDF] (Internet Enhancements)

  28. Henrich J., & McElreath, R. (2002) Reply to Kuznar’s comment on our “Are Peasants Risk Averse Decision-Makers." Current Anthropology. [PDF]

  29. Henrich, J. (2001) Challenges for everyone: real people, deception, one-shot games, social learning, and computers. Commentary on Hertwig and Ortmann for Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24 (3). [PDF]

  30. Henrich, J. (2001) Cultural Transmission and the Diffusion of Innovations: Adoption dynamics indicate that biased cultural transmission is the predominate force in behavioral change and much of sociocultural evolution. American Anthropologist, 103: 992-1013. [PDF]

  31. Henrich, J. (2001) On Risk Preferences and Curvilinear Utility Curves: A comment on Kuznar's piece. Current Anthropology, 42(5): 711. [PDF]

  32. Henrich, J., Boyd, R., Bowles, S., Camerer, C., Gintis, H., McElreath, R., and Fehr, E. (2001) In search of Homo economicus: Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies. American Economic Review, 91(2), 73-79. [PDF]

  33. Henrich, J., and Boyd, R. (2001) Why people punish defectors: conformist transmission stabilizes costly enforcement of norms in cooperative dilemmas. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 208, 79-89. [PDF]

  34. Henrich, J.& Gil-White, F. (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. [PDF]

  35. Henrich, J.(2000) Does culture matter in economic behavior? Ultimatum game bargaining among the Machiguenga. American Economic Review, 90(4): 973-979 [PDF] (or, get the uncut version)

  36. Henrich, J. and Boyd, R. (1998) The evolution of conformist transmission and between-group differences. Evolution and Human Behavior, 19: 215-242. [PDF]

  37. Henrich, J. (1997) Market Incorporation, Agricultural Change and Sustainability among the Machiguenga Indians of the Peruvian Amazon. Human Ecology, 25(2): 319-351. [PDF]
Book Chapters (top)
  1. Henrich, J. (2009) The Evolution of Innovation-Enhancing Institutions. In Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology. Altenberg Workshops in Theoretical Biology Edited by Stephen Shennan and Michael O’Brien.[PDF]

  2. Shariff, A.F., Norenzayan, A. and Henrich, J. (2009) The Birth of High Gods: How the cultural evolution of supernatural policing agents influenced the emergence of complex, cooperative human societies, paving the way for civilization. In Evolution, culture and the human mind, edited by M. Schaller, A. Norenzayan, S. Heine, T. Yamagishi, & T. Kameda. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates [PDF]

  3. Henrich, J. (2008) A Cultural Species. In Explaining Culture Scientifically, edited by Melissa Brown. University of Washington Press. [PDF] for longer (better) version click here

  4. Henrich, J. and McElreath, R.(2007) Dual Inheritance Theory: The Evolution of Human Cultural Capacities and Cultural Evolution. In Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, edited by Robin Dunbar and Louise Barrett. Oxford University Press. [PDF]

  5. McElreath, R. and Henrich, J. (2007) Modeling Cultural Evolution. In Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, edited by Robin Dunbar and Louise Barrett. Oxford University Press. [PDF]

  6. Henrich, J., Boyd, R., Bowles, S., Camerer, C., Fehr, E., Gintis, H., and McEleath, R. (2004) Introduction and Guide to the Volume. In Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies, edited by Henrich, J., Boyd, R., Bowles, S., Gintis, H., Fehr, E., and Camerer, C. Oxford University Press.

  7. Henrich, J., Boyd, R., Bowles, S., Camerer, C. Fehr, E., Gintis, H. and McEleath, R. (2004) Overview and Synthesis. In Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies, edited by Henrich, J., Boyd, R., Bowles, S., Gintis, H., Fehr, E., and Camerer, C. Oxford University Press.

  8. Henrich, J., & Smith, N. (2004) Comparative experimental evidence from Machiguenga, Mapuche, Huinca & American populations shows substantial variation among social groups in bargaining and public goods behavior. In Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies, edited by Henrich, J., Boyd, R., Bowles, S., Gintis, H., Fehr, E. and Camerer, C. Oxford University Press.

  9. Henrich, J., Young, P., Smith, E., Bowles, S., Richerson, P., Hopfensitz, A., Sigmund K., and Weissing, F. (2003) The Culture and Genetic Origins of Human Cooperation. In Genetic and Culture Evolution of Cooperation edited by Peter Hammerstein. MIT Press.

  10. Richerson, P., Boyd R., and Henrich, J.(2003) The Cultural Evolution of Cooperation. In Genetic and Culture Evolution of Cooperation edited by Peter Hammerstein. MIT Press. [PDF]

  11. Fehr, E. and Henrich, J., (2003) Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation. In Genetic and Culture Evolution of Cooperation edited by Peter Hammerstein. MIT Press. [PDF]

  12. Henrich, J. (2002). Decision-making, cultural transmission and adaptation in economic anthropology. In Theory in Economic Anthropology edited by Jean Ensminger. AltaMira Press, 251-295. [PDF]

  13. Henrich, J., Young, P., Boyd, R., McCabe, K., Albers, W., Ockenfels, A. Gigerenzer, G. (2001). “What is the Role of Culture in Bounded Rationality?” In Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox, edited by G. Gigerenzer and R. Selten. MIT Press. [PDF]
Manuscripts under review (top)
  1. Foulsham, T., Cheng, J., Tracy, J., Henrich, J., Kingstone, A. Gaze Allocation in a Dynamic Social Situation of Social Status and Speaking [PDF]

  2. Boyd, R. P. J. Richerson, and Henrich, J. Rapid cultural adaptation can facilitate the evolution of large-scale cooperation.

  3. Chudek, M., Heller, S., Birch, S., Henrich, J. Prestige-biased learning in children: Attention from others as a cue for cultural transmission. [PDF]

  4. Richerson, P. Henrich, J. Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems. [PDF]

  5. Barr, A., Wallace, C., Ensminger, J., Henrich, J., Barrett, C., Bolyanatz, A., Cardenas, J.C., Gurven, M., Gwako, E., Lesorogol, C., Marlowe, F., McElreath, R., Tracer, D., and Ziker, J. (forthcoming) Homo Æqualis: A Cross-Society Experimental Analysis of Three Bargaining Games. [PDF]

  6. Henrich, J. and Henrich, N., Fairness without Punishment: Behavioral Experiments in the Yasawa Islands, Fiji. [WORD]

  7. Henrich, J.and Henrich, N., The Evolution of Cultural Adaptations: Fijian taboos during pregnancy and lactation protect against marine toxins.

 

  
   
 


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