Joseph Henrich

Joseph Henrich holds the Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition and Coevolution at the University of British Columbia where he is an associate professor in the departments of psychology and economics. He was previously on the faculty of Emory University.^[1]

Henrich earned a Master's degree and a doctorate in Anthropology from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1995 and 1999, respectively. He also holds bachelor degrees in anthropology and aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame, earned in 1991.^[1]

His research areas include:

• cultural learning, development and cognition, including their coevolutionary and social origins
• the evolution of cooperation, institutions, and societal complexity
• common-pool resource and public-goods problems
• evolution of social stratification
• culture and cumulative adaptation
• integration of economic decision-making and preferences with cultural evolution and evolutionary psychology
• coevolution of religious beliefs, rituals, and institutions over human history
• methodology.

Henrich is the (co-)author of a book and some forty scholarly articles.^[2] He is also a reviewer for journals in general science, anthropology, archaeology, evolution, economics, business, psychology, sociology, and philosophy as well as for several academic publishers.^[3]

See also

• Cultural economics
• Social inequity aversion
• Ultimatum game

Notes

Selected publications

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• Joseph Henrich, 2000. "Does Culture Matter in Economic Behavior? Ultimatum Game Bargaining among the Machiguenga of the Peruvian Amazon," American Economic Review, 90(4), pp. 973-979.
• _____ and Robert Boyd, 2001. "Why People Punish Defectors: Weak Conformist Transmission Can Stabilize Costly Enforcement of Norms in Cooperative Dilemmas," Journal of Theoretical Biology, 208(1), pp. 79-89 (close "Bookmarks"). Abstract.
• Joseph Henrich, 2001. "Cultural Transmission and the Diffusion of Innovations: Adoption Dynamics Indicate That Biased Cultural Transmission Is the Predominate Force in Behavioral Change," American Anthropologist, NS, 103(4), p p. 992-1013.
• Joseph Henrich et al., 2001. "In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies,", Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis and Richard McElreath American Economic Review, 91(2), pp. 73-78 (close "Bookmarks").
• Joseph Henrich and Francisco J. Gil-White, 2001. "The Evolution of Prestige: Freely Conferred Deference as a Mechanism for Enhancing the Benefits of Cultural Transmission," 22(3), pp. 165-196 Abstract.
• Joseph Henrich and Richard McElreath, 2003. "The Evolution of Cultural Evolution," Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 12(3), pp. 123-135.
• Joseph Henrich, 2004. "Demography and Cultural Evolution: How Adaptive Cultural Processes can Produce Maladaptive Losses: The Tasmanian Case," American Antiquity, 69(2), p p. 197-214.
• _____ et al., 2004. "Cultural Group Selection, Coevolutionary Processes and Large-Scale Cooperation," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 53(1), pp. 3-35. Abstract.
• Joseph Henrich et al., ed., 2004. Foundations of Human Sociality. Oxford. Description and scroll to chapter-preview. links.
  • Larry Samuelson, 2005. "Foundations of Human Sociality: A Review Essay," Journal of Economic Literature, 43(2), pp. 488-497.
• Joseph Henrich et al., 2005. "'Economic Man' in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-scale Societies," Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28(6), pp. 795-815. Abstract.
• Joan B. Silk, ..., Joseph Henrich, et al., 2005. "Chimpanzees Are Indifferent to the Welfare of Unrelated Group Members," Nature, 437, pp. 1357–1359. Abstract.
• Joseph Henrich et al., 2006. "Costly Punishment Across Human Societies," Science, 23:312,no. 5781, pp. 1767 - 1770 (close Bookmarks there). Abstract.
• Daniel J. Hruschka and Joseph Henrich, 2006. "Friendship, Cliquishness, and the Emergence of Cooperation, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 239(1), pp. 1-15. Abstract.
• John Henrich and Natalie Henrich, 2006. "Culture, Evolution, and the Puzzle of Human Cooperation," Cognitive Systems Research, 7, pp. 220-245 (close "Bookmarks").
• Joseph Henrich and Robert Boyd, 2008. "Division of Labor, Economic Specialization, and the Evolution of Social Stratification," Current Anthropology, 49(4), pp. 715-724.
• Herbert Gintis, Joseph Henrich, et al., 2008. "Strong Reciprocity and the Roots of Human Morality," Social Justice Research, 21(2), pp. 241-253 (close Pages tab).
• Joseph Henrich, 2009. "The Evolution of Costly Displays, Cooperation, and Religion," Evolution and Human Behavior, 30, pp. 244-260 (close "Bookmarks").
• _____ et al., 2010. "Markets, Religion, Community Size and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment," Science, 327, pp. 1480–1484. Abstract.

External links

• Faculty profile, University of British Columbia