Forthcoming Journal Articles

1. Laurin, K., Shariff, A., Henrich, J., and Kay, A. C. (in press). Outsourcing punishment to god: Beliefs in divine control reduce earthly punishment. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
   
   
2. Tracy, J. L., Shariff, A. F., Zhao, W., & Henrich, J. (in press). Cross-Cultural Evidence that the Nonverbal Expression of Pride is an Automatic Status Signal. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [Supplemental Materials]
   
   
3. Nakahashi W., Wakano, J. & Henrich, J. (forthcoming) Adaptive social learning strategies in temporally and spatially varying environments. Human Nature.
   
   
4. House, B.R., Henrich, J, Brosnan, S.F., & Silk, J.B. (in press). The ontogeny of human prosociality: behavioral experiments with children aged 3 to 8. Evolution and Human Behavior.
   

Published Papers (top)

1. Henrich, J., & Chudek, M. (2012) Understanding the research program. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35 (1), 29-30.
   
   
2. Henrich, J. (2012) Hunter-gatherer cooperation. Nature, 481, 449-450 .
   
   
3. Henrich, J., Boyd, R., & Richerson, P. J., (2012) The Puzzle of Monogamous Marriage. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 367 (1589), 657-669.
   
   
4. Henrich, J., Boyd, R., McElreath, R., Gurven, M., Richerson, P. J., Ensminger, J., Alvard, M., Barr, A., Barrett, C., Bolyanatz, C. F., Cardenas, J-C., Fehr, E., Gintis, H. M., Gil-White, F., Gwako, E. L., Henrich, N., Hill, K., Lesorogol, C., Patton, J. Q., Marlowe, F. W., Tracer, D. P., & Ziker, J. (2012) Culture does account for variation in game behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 109(2), E32-E33. We have also provided a full length version of our reply to Lamba and Mace [Extended Online Commentary]
   
   
5. Chudek, M., Heller, S., Birch, S. & Henrich, J. (2012) Prestige-Biased Cultural Learning:Bystander’s Differential Attention to Potential Models Influences Children’s Learning. Evolution and Human Behavior, 33, 46-56. .
   
   
6. Gervais, W. M., Willard, A.K., Norenzayan, A.& Henrich, J. (2011) The Cultural Transmission of Faith: Why innate intuitions are necessary, but insufficient, to explain religious belief. Religion, 41, 389-410.
   
   
7. Henrich, J. (2011) A cultural species: How culture drove human evolution. Psychological Science Agenda. Science Brief.
   
   
8. Boyd, R., Richerson, P.J., & Henrich, J. (2011) The Cultural Niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation.. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. 108, 10918-10925.
   
   
9. Chudek, M.& Henrich, J. (2011) Culture-gene coevolution, norm-psychology and the emergence of human prosociality. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.15(5),218-226..
   
   
10. Henrich, J. & Broesch, J. (2011) On the nature of cultural transmission networks: Evidence from Fijian villages for adaptive learning biases. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 366, 1139-1148. [Data Supplement] [Talk at the Royal Society MP3 ]
    
    
11. Boyd, R., Richerson P. J., & Henrich J. (2011) Rapid cultural adaptation can facilitate the evolution of large-scale cooperation. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 65, 431-444
    
    
12. Broesch, T., Callaghan T., Henrich, J., Murphy, C. & Rochat, P. (2011) Cultural Variations in Children’s Mirror Self-Recognition. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 42(6): 1019-31.
    
    
13. Henrich, J.& Henrich, N. (2010) The Evolution of Cultural Adaptations: Fijian food taboos protect against dangerous marine toxins. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, 277, 3715-3724. [Data Supplement]
    
    
14. Henrich, J., Heine, S. J., & Norenzayan, A. (2010). Most people are not WEIRD. Nature, 466, 29.
    
    
15. Henrich, J., Heine, S. & Norenzayan, A. (2010) The Weirdest People in the World? Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [Audio File Part I] [Audio File Part II] [Coverage in Science]
    
    
16. Foulsham, T., Cheng, J., Tracy, J., Henrich, J., Kingstone, A. (2010) Gaze Allocation in a Dynamic Situation: Effects of Social Status and Speaking. Cognition, 117, 319-331.
    
    
17. Gervais, W., Henrich, J. (2010) The Zeus Problem: Why Representational Content Biases Cannot Explain Faith in Gods. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 10, (383-389).
    
    
18. Cheng, J. T., Tracy, J. L., & Henrich, J. (2010) Pride, Personality, and the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Social Status. Evolution and Human Behavior. 31(5), 334-347.
    
    
19. Shariff, A.F., Tracy, J. L., Cheng, J. T., & Henrich, J. (2010) Further thoughts on the evolution of pride's two facets: A response to Clark. Emotion Review, 2(4), 399-400. (author response to commentaries).
    
    
20. Atran, S., Henrich, J. (2010) The Evolution of Religion: How cognitive by-products, adaptive learning heuristics, ritual displays, and group competition generate deep commitments to prosocial religions. Biological Theory: Integrating Development, Evolution, and Cognition.
    
    
21. Henrich, J., Ensimger, J., McElreath, R., Barr, A., Barrett, C., Bolyanatz, A., Cardenas, J. C., Gurven, M., Gwako, E., Henrich, N., Lesorogol, C., Marlowe, F., Tracer, D., Ziker, J. (2010) Evolution of Fairness (Reply). Science, 329, 388-390.
    
    
22. Henrich, J., Ensimger, J., McElreath, R., Barr, A., Barrett, C., Bolyanatz, A., Cardenas, J. C., Gurven, M., Gwako, E., Henrich, N., Lesorogol, C., Marlowe, F., Tracer, D., Ziker, J. (2010) Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment. Science, 327, 1480-1484. [Supplemental Materials] [Science Perspective by Karla Hoff] [Audio File]
    
    
23. Richerson, P. J., Boyd, R., Henrich, J. (2010) Gene-culture Coevolution in the Age of Genomics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107, 8985-8992
    
    
24. 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.
    
    
25. 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.
    
    
26. Henrich, J., and Boyd, R. (2008) Division of Labor, Economic Specialization and the Evolution of Social Stratification. Current Anthropology, 49(4), (715-724).
    
    
27. 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.
    
    
28. 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.
    
    
29. Henrich, J., Boyd, R. and Richerson, P. (2008) Five Misunderstandings about Cultural Evolution. Human Nature.
    
    
30. 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.
    
    
31. 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.
    
    
32. Henrich, J. (2007) Behavioral Data, Cultural Group Selection, and Genetics. Psychological Inquiry, 18.
    
    
33. Henrich, J. (2006) Cooperation, Punishment, and the Evolution of Human Institutions. Science, 312: 60-61.
    
    
34. 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. [Supplemental Materials] [News and Views in Science].
    
    
35. Henrich, J. and Henrich, N. (2006) Culture, Evolution and the Puzzle of Human Cooperation. Cognitive Systems Research, 7 (221-245).
    
    
36. Henrich, J. (2006) Understanding Cultural Evolutionary Models: A Reply to Read's Critique. American Antiquity.
    
    
37. 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.
    
    
38. Hrushka, D. and Henrich, J. (2006) Friendship, cliquishness, and the emergence of cooperation. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 239(1): 1-15.
    
    
39. 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.
    
    
40. 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. [with Target, Commentaries and Reply]
    
    
41. Henrich, J. (2004) Demography and Cultural Evolution: Why adaptive cultural processes produced maladaptive losses in Tasmania. American Antiquity, 69 (2): 197-21.
    
    
42. 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. [Complete with Commentaries and Reply].
    
    
43. Henrich, J. (2004) Inequity Aversion in Capuchins? Nature, 428:139
    
    
44. Henrich, J. and McElreath, R. (2003) The Evolution of Cultural Evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology, 12 (3): 123-135.
    
    
45. 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.
    
    
46. Henrich, J. & McElreath R. (2002) Are Peasants Risk Averse Decision-Makers. Current Anthropology. 43(1): 172-181. (Internet Enhancements)
    
    
47. Henrich J., & McElreath, R. (2002) Reply to Kuznar’s comment on our “Are Peasants Risk Averse Decision-Makers." Current Anthropology.
    
    
48. 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).
    
    
49. 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.
    
    
50. Henrich, J. (2001) On Risk Preferences and Curvilinear Utility Curves: A comment on Kuznar's piece. Current Anthropology, 42(5): 711.
    
    
51. 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.
    
    
52. 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.
    
    
53. 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.
    
    
54. Henrich, J.(2000) Does culture matter in economic behavior? Ultimatum game bargaining among the Machiguenga. American Economic Review, 90(4): 973-979 (or, get the uncut version)
    
    
55. Henrich, J. and Boyd, R. (1998) The evolution of conformist transmission and between-group differences. Evolution and Human Behavior, 19: 215-242.
    
    
56. Henrich, J. (1997) Market Incorporation, Agricultural Change and Sustainability among the Machiguenga Indians of the Peruvian Amazon. Human Ecology, 25(2): 319-351.

1. Chudek, Brosseau-Liard, Birch, Henrich (forthcoming) Culture-gene coevolutionary theory and children’s selective social learning. To appear in M. Banaji and S. Gelman (Eds.), The Development of Social Cognition.
   
   
2. Chudek, M., Zhao, W., and J. Henrich (forthcoming) Culture-Gene Coevolution, Large-Scale Cooperation and the Shaping of Human Social Psychology. In Signaling, Commitment, and Emotion, edited by B. Calcott, R. Joyce, and K. Sterelny. MIT Press.
   
   
3. 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.
   
   
4. 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
   
   
5. Henrich, J. (2008) A Cultural Species. In Explaining Culture Scientifically, edited by Melissa Brown. University of Washington Press. for longer (better) version click here
   
   
6. 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.
   
   
7. 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.
   
   
8. 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.
   
   
9. 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.
   
   
10. 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.
    
    
11. 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.
    
    
12. 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.
    
    
13. Fehr, E. and Henrich, J., (2003) Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation. In Genetic and Culture Evolution of Cooperation edited by Peter Hammerstein. MIT Press.
    
    
14. 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.
    
    
15. 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.

1. Cheng, J., Tracy, J., & Henrich, J. Two Ways to the Top: Evidence that Dominance and Prestige are Distinct yet Viable Avenues to Social Status.
   
   
2. Richerson, P. Henrich, J. Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems.
   
   
3. 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.
   
   
4. Henrich, J. and Henrich, N., Fairness without Punishment: Behavioral Experiments in the Yasawa Islands, Fiji. [WORD]