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Video: UBS Center Forum in Zurich
Dr. Henrich was invited to conclude the UBS Forum for Economic Dialogue - Is culture key? with the Zurich Lecture of Economics in Society. He explains how from the ashes of intensive kinship new forms...
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Interview at CIFAR News
How should autonomous vehicles make moral decisions? Dr. Henrich interviewed with CIFAR News to discuss recent findings from the Moral Machine, which reveals global variation in such moral decisions....
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Article in CIFAR News
New research conducted by Dr. Henrich and colleagues was featured in this article titled, "War and Religion." Find out more about the study and its implications here.
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Feature in The Harvard Gazette
Dr. Henrich and colleagues' new study on the impact of war on religiousity was featured in The Harvard Gazette, Science & Technology. Read Dr. Henrich's comments and important takeaways on the...
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Interview with BFM 89.9 (Sumitra Selvaraj)
Sumitra Selvaraj is a Radio Presenter and Producer on BFM’s The Bigger Picture, where she enjoys having conversations on topics ranging from actuarial science to zoology. Dr. Henrich was featured in a...
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Media coverage for "The church, intensive kinship, and global psychological...
“If the authors are right, or even in the vicinity of being right, it couldn’t be bigger,” says Stephen Stich, a philosopher and cognitive scientist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey,...
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News Article in Undark Magazine
Undark Magazine published a story about how psychology researchers, almost a decade after Henrich et al.'s landmark WEIRD paper, are dealing (or not dealing) with questions of diversity,...
View Article"The weird West" -- Feature in Standpoint Magazine
Dr. Henrich's upcoming book, The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous was featured in Standpoint, a monthly British cultural and...
View ArticleTalk at Understanding Social Macroeconomics Conference: Evolutionary Economics
Click here to watch Dr. Henrich's talk at the Third Annual Conference: Understanding Social Macroeconomics, Evolutionary Economics Session. Dr. Henrich's talk title: Culturally Coevolving Minds and...
View ArticleWho Are “The WEIRDest People in the World?” | Amanpour and Company
Click here to watch Dr. Henrich's interview on Amanpour and Company!Are human behavioral studies giving us the complete picture? Joseph Henrich says no. As a Harvard professor of evolutionary biology,...
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How the 'Western mind' was shaped by the Medieval Church | BBC Future
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201231-how-the-way-you-think-was-shaped-centuries-ago Most research on human psychology focuses on Western societies, but the way people in the West think can be...
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Why Immigration Drives Innovation | This View of Life
https://thisviewoflife.com/why-immigration-drives-innovation/
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Martin Luther Rewired Your Brain | This View of Life
https://thisviewoflife.com/martin-luther-rewired-your-brain/
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Cultural evolution: Is causal inference the secret of our success? | Current...
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.02.013 A new study investigates hunters’ causal understandings of bow design and mechanics among the Hadza, one of the last remaining foraging populations. The...
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The WEIRDest People in the World: A Dialogue with Joseph Henrich
Click here to listen to Dr. Henrich's interview on Converging Dialogues! In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Joseph Henrich about WEIRD people and cultural evolution. They start the...
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The U.S. Is Just Different — So Let’s Stop Pretending We’re Not | Freakonomics
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/american-culture-1/ We often look to other countries for smart policies on education, healthcare, infrastructure, etc. But can a smart policy be simply transplanted...
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The World Monogamy Made | Tingis Magazine
https://www.tingismagazine.com/editorials/the-world-monogamy-made/
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Why Are Modern Americans and Europeans so WEIRD? | Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sex-murder-and-the-meaning-life/202108/why-are-modern-americans-and-europeans-so-weird
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How the Catholic Church Made Westerners the WEIRDest People in the World |...
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2021/10/78743/
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Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics | Science
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abo0713
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