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  1. The weirdest people in the world? (2010)
    Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  2. Most people are not WEIRD (2010)
    Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine et al. Nature
  3. In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies (2001)
    Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd et al. American Economic Review
  4. The evolution of prestige: freely conferred deference as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission (2001)
    Joseph Henrich, Francisco Gil-White Evolution and Human Behavior
  5. “Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies (2005)
    Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  6. Costly Punishment Across Human Societies (2006)
    Joseph Henrich, Richard McElreath et al. Science
  7. Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment (2010)
    Joseph Henrich, Jean Ensminger et al. Science
  8. The Moral Machine experiment (2018)
    Edmond Awad, Sohan Dsouza et al. Nature
  9. The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation (2011)
    Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  10. Demography and Cultural Evolution: How Adaptive Cultural Processes Can Produce Maladaptive Losses—The Tasmanian Case (2004)
    Joseph Henrich American Antiquity
  11. Two ways to the top: Evidence that dominance and prestige are distinct yet viable avenues to social rank and influence. (2012)
    Joey T. Cheng, Jessica L. Tracy et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  12. Cultural group selection, coevolutionary processes and large-scale cooperation (2003)
    Joseph Henrich Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  13. The evolution of cultural evolution (2003)
    Joseph Henrich, Richard McElreath Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews
  14. Why People Punish Defectors (2001)
    Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd Journal of Theoretical Biology
  15. Culture–gene coevolution, norm-psychology and the emergence of human prosociality (2011)
    Maciej Chudek, Joseph Henrich Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  16. Can War Foster Cooperation? (2016)
    Michal Bauer, Christopher Blattman et al. The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  17. The cultural evolution of prosocial religions (2014)
    Ara Norenzayan, Azim Shariff et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  18. Beyond Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance (2020)
    Michael Muthukrishna, Adrian V. Bell et al. Psychological Science
  19. A problem in theory (2019)
    Michael Muthukrishna, Joseph Henrich Nature Human Behaviour
  20. The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation (2019)
    Jonathan Schulz, Duman Bahrami‐Rad et al. Science
  21. The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation (2020)
    Joseph Henrich, Michael Muthukrishna Annual Review of Psychology
  22. Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science (2022)
    Damián E. Blasí, Joseph Henrich et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  23. Microbial transmission in the social microbiome and host health and disease (2024)
    Amar Sarkar, Siobhán Harty et al. Cell

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Early false-belief understanding in traditional non-Western societies
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Joseph Henrich 15607 10978 6448 152 30.7k
Erving Goffman 28789 10385 4925 79 65.8k
Robert Boyd 12962 4097 4451 114 20.2k
Richard E. Nisbett 12901 15751 7224 156 40.6k
Robin Dunbar 9236 19426 8506 486 37.8k
Ara Norenzayan 9443 10215 3953 95 20.8k
Hazel Rose Markus 18368 24703 7495 190 45.7k
Leda Cosmides 6258 4395 5609 103 15.2k
Léon Festinger 14919 9686 3343 65 36.2k
Susan T. Fiske 24936 16003 4560 273 40.7k
Alice H. Eagly 21553 11329 5381 210 46.8k

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