Papers listed by Topic

Cooperation and Prosociality

Henrich, Joseph (2003) Cultural Group Selection, Coevolutionary Processes and Large-scale Cooperation. At target article in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. [Complete with Commentaries and Reply]

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

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

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

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.

The Evolution of our Cultural Capacities and Cultural Evolution

Henrich, Joseph. A Cultural Species. In Towards a Scientific Concept of Culture, edited by Melissa Brown

Henrich, Joseph (forthcoming) Demography and Cultural Evolution: Why adaptive cultural processes produced maladaptive losses in Tasmania. American Antiquity

Henrich, J., Boyd, R. and P. Richerson (forthcoming) Five Common Mistakes in Cultural Evolution. In Epidemiology of Ideas, edited by Dan Sperber. Open Court Publishing

Henrich, Joseph and Richard McElreath (2003) The Evolution of Cultural Evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology, 12 (3): 123-135

Henrich, Joseph & Robert Boyd (2002) On Modeling Cognition and Culture: Why replicators are not necessary for cultural evolution. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2(2): 87-112.

Henrich, Joseph (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.

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 and Robert Boyd (1998). The evolution of conformist transmission and between-group differences. Evolution and Human Behavior, 19: 215-242.

Decision-making and Experimental Economic Anthropology