Henrich, Joseph

The weirdest people in the world?

Henrich, J., Heine, S. J., & Norenzayan, A. (2010) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Cultural Differences and ValuesCategorization, perception, and language

Cited by 12,641

Most people are not WEIRD

Henrich, J., Heine, S. J., & Norenzayan, A. (2010) · Nature

Cultural Differences and ValuesExperimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Cited by 3,441

The evolution of prestige: freely conferred deference as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission

Henrich, J., & Gil-White, F. J. (2001) · Evolution and Human Behavior

Evolutionary Psychology and Human BehaviorLanguage and cultural evolution

Cited by 2,500

“Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies

Henrich, J., Boyd, R., Bowles, S., Camerer, C., Fehr, E., Gintis, H., McElreath, R., Alvard, M., Barr, A., Ensminger, J., et al. (2005) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Experimental Behavioral Economics StudiesEvolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation

Cited by 1,898

The Moral Machine experiment

Awad, E., Dsouza, S., Kim, R., Schulz, J., Henrich, J., Shariff, A., Bonnefon, J.-F., & Rahwan, I. (2018) · Nature

Psychology of Moral and Emotional JudgmentEthics and Social Impacts of AI

Cited by 1,859

Costly Punishment Across Human Societies

Henrich, J., McElreath, R., Barr, A., Ensminger, J., Barrett, C., Bolyanatz, A., Cardenas, J. C., Gurven, M., Gwako, E., Henrich, N., et al. (2006) · Science

Experimental Behavioral Economics StudiesEvolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation

Cited by 1,771

The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation

Boyd, R., Richerson, P. J., & Henrich, J. (2011) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Language and cultural evolutionChild and Animal Learning Development

Cited by 1,303

Cultural group selection, coevolutionary processes and large-scale cooperation

Henrich, J. (2004) · Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationLanguage and cultural evolution

Cited by 1,096

Demography and Cultural Evolution: How Adaptive Cultural Processes Can Produce Maladaptive Losses—The Tasmanian Case

Henrich, J. (2004) · American Antiquity

Language and cultural evolutionPleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

Cited by 1,066

The cultural evolution of prosocial religions

Norenzayan, A., Shariff, A. F., Gervais, W. M., Willard, A. K., McNamara, R. A., Slingerland, E., & Henrich, J. (2016) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationEvolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Cited by 934

Pride, personality, and the evolutionary foundations of human social status

Cheng, J. T., Tracy, J. L., & Henrich, J. (2010) · Evolution and Human Behavior

Emotions and Moral BehaviorEvolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Cited by 783

Culture-gene coevolution, norm-psychology and the emergence of human prosociality

Chudek, M., & Henrich, J. (2011) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Language and cultural evolutionEvolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Cited by 739

Beyond Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance

Muthukrishna, M., Bell, A. V., Henrich, J., Curtin, C. M., Gedranovich, A., McInerney, J., & Thue, B. (2020) · Psychological Science

Cultural Differences and ValuesPsychometric Methodologies and Testing

Cited by 704

The evolution of costly displays, cooperation and religion

Henrich, J. (2009) · Evolution and Human Behavior

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationLanguage and cultural evolution

Cited by 693

Beyond WEIRD: towards a broad-based behavioral science

Henrich, J., Heine, S. J., & Norenzayan, A. (2010) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Cultural Differences and ValuesExperimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Cited by 631

Cultural transmission and the diffusion of innovations: adoption dynamics indicate that biased cultural transmission is the predominate force in behavioral change

Henrich, J. (2001) · American Anthropologist

Language and cultural evolutionInnovation Diffusion and Forecasting

Cited by 545

Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality

Purzycki, B. G., Apicella, C., Atkinson, Q. D., Cohen, E., McNamara, R. A., Willard, A. K., Xygalatas, D., Norenzayan, A., & Henrich, J. (2016) · Nature

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationExperimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Cited by 494

The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate Deep Commitments to Prosocial Religions

Atran, S., & Henrich, J. (2010) · Biological Theory

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationEvolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Cited by 459

The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation

Henrich, J., & Muthukrishna, M. (2021) · Annual Review of Psychology

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationEvolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Cited by 457

Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science

Blasi, D. E., Henrich, J., Adamou, E., Kemmerer, D., & Majid, A. (2022) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Categorization, perception, and languageNeurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Cited by 396

Gene-culture coevolution in the age of genomics

Richerson, P. J., Boyd, R., & Henrich, J. (2010) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Language and cultural evolutionForensic and Genetic Research

Cited by 393

Five Misunderstandings About Cultural Evolution

Henrich, J., Boyd, R., & Richerson, P. J. (2008) · Human Nature

Language and cultural evolutionEvolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Cited by 360

Strong Reciprocity and the Roots of Human Morality

Gintis, H., Henrich, J., Bowles, S., Boyd, R., & Fehr, E. (2008) · Social Justice Research

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationPsychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Cited by 233

Cooperation, Punishment, and the Evolution of Human Institutions

Henrich, J. (2006) · Science

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationExperimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Cited by 233