The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

By Joseph Henrich. 2015

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Social Psychology

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Is Non-Conformity WEIRD? Cultural Variation in Adults’ Beliefs About Children’s Competency and Conformity (2017, positive): “New research on the evolution and ontogeny of social group cognition has demonstrated that imitative fidelity plays a central role in both intra- and intergenerational transmission of cultural practices (Henrich, 2015; Muthukrishna & Henrich, 2016; Watson-Jones & Legare, 2016; Watson-Jones, Whitehou”
Answering Schrödinger's question: A free-energy formulation (2017, neutral): “Approaches in developmental psychology can be used to explore the dynamic ways in which human development differentiates (error-minimising) neurocognitive and biobehavioural patterns between individuals [70], while comparative, cross-cultural, computational and dynamical approaches in evolutionary p”
Presidential Address: Social Transmission Bias in Economics and Finance (2020, positive): “Of course, often social processes improve our collective intelligence, as emphasized by Henrich (2015) and as evidenced by the rise of sophisticated arts and sciences.”
The Ontogeny of Cultural Learning. (2016, background): “…advances that characterize humans are an outcome of our species’ remarkable capacity for cumulative culture, widely recognized as one of the most important contributors to our dispersal across the planet (Boyd, Richerson, & Henrich, 2011; Henrich, 2015; Pagel, 2012; Whiten & Erdal, 2012).”
Modularity of Mind (2017, background): “What they do disagree about is whether religion is directly a product of our evolution (that means does it somehow improve our fitness; Henrich 2015; Johnson 2015; Norenzayan 2013, Norenzayan et al. 2016; Norenzayan and Gervais 2013) or if religion is just a byproduct of our other cognitive skills…”
The behavioral immune system: Current concerns and future directions (2018, background): “In light of these substantial costs, people and other animals have evolved a broad range of responses intended to cope with pathogens, including cultural adaptations such as food handling practices (Billing & Sherman, 1998; Henrich, 2015) and biological adaptations such as sickness behavior (Dantzer”
Social Influence as Intrinsic Motivation for Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning (2018, background): “Social learning is incredibly important for humans, and has been linked to our ability to achieve unprecedented progress and coordination on a massive scale (Henrich, 2015; Harari, 2014; Laland, 2017; van Schaik & Burkart, 2011; Herrmann et al., 2007).”
The Tools Challenge: Rapid Trial-and-Error Learning in Physical Problem Solving (2019, background): “Evolutionarily, distinctive tool use and construction (in the form of handaxes) dates back to early hominids more than two million years ago, and has always been one of the deﬁning dimensions of any human culture (Henrich, 2017).”
Rapid trial-and-error learning with simulation supports flexible tool use and physical reasoning (2019, background): “, distinctive tool use and construction (in the form of handaxes) dates back to early hominids more than two million years ago, and has always been one of the deﬁning dimensions of any human culture (Henrich, 2017). Our goal here is to understand these human abilities in computational terms, with su”
Living under threat: Mutual threat perception drives anti‐Muslim and anti‐Western hostility in the age of terrorism (2018, background): “…more broadly, may help sustain solidarity and coordination in large-scale groups together with conformist learning bias and corresponding cultural conventionalism and punishment of norm deviance (Norenzayan, Shariff, Gervais, Willard, McNamara, Slingerland & Henrich, 2016; Kessler & Cohrs, 2008).”