Norm dynamics: Interdisciplinary perspectives on social norm emergence, persistence, and change

MJ Gelfand, S Gavrilets, N Nunn - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Social norms are the glue that holds society together, yet our knowledge of them remains
heavily intellectually siloed. This article provides an interdisciplinary review of the emerging …

The origins and psychology of human cooperation

J Henrich, M Muthukrishna - Annual review of psychology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Humans are an ultrasocial species. This sociality, however, cannot be fully explained by the
canonical approaches found in evolutionary biology, psychology, or economics …

The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation

JF Schulz, D Bahrami-Rad, JP Beauchamp, J Henrich - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION A growing body of research suggests that populations around the globe
vary substantially along several important psychological dimensions and that populations …

Experimental games and social decision making

E Van Dijk, CKW De Dreu - Annual Review of Psychology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Experimental games model situations in which the future outcomes of individuals and
groups depend on their own choices and on those of other (groups of) individuals. Games …

Beyond WEIRD: A review of the last decade and a look ahead to the global laboratory of the future

C Apicella, A Norenzayan, J Henrich - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2020 - Elsevier
Marking a decade since the publication of “The weirdest people in the world,” this special
issue is dedicated to exploring how to improve the quality of the science produced by the …

Psychology as a historical science

M Muthukrishna, J Henrich… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Psychology has traditionally seen itself as the science of universal human cognition, but it
has only recently begun seriously grappling with cross-cultural variation. Here we argue that …

National parochialism is ubiquitous across 42 nations around the world

A Romano, M Sutter, JH Liu, T Yamagishi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cooperation within and across borders is of paramount importance for the provision of
public goods. Parochialism–the tendency to cooperate more with ingroup than outgroup …

Human large-scale cooperation as a product of competition between cultural groups

C Handley, S Mathew - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
A fundamental puzzle of human evolution is how we evolved to cooperate with genetically
unrelated strangers in transient interactions. Group-level selection on culturally differentiated …

Culture, institutions and social equilibria: A framework

D Acemoglu, JA Robinson - 2021 - nber.org
This paper proposes a new framework for studying the interplay between culture and
institutions. We follow the recent sociology literature and interpret culture as a" repertoire" …

Foundations of morality in Iran

M Atari, J Graham, M Dehghani - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2020 - Elsevier
Most moral psychology research has been conducted in Western, Educated, Industrialized,
Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies. As such, moral judgment, as a psychological …