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- Publications
- Influence
Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan
- R. McElreath
- Computer Science
- 21 December 2015
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"Economic man" in cross-cultural perspective: behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies.
- J. Henrich, R. Boyd, +14 authors D. Tracer
- Psychology, Medicine
- The Behavioral and brain sciences
- 1 December 2005
Researchers from across the social sciences have found consistent deviations from the predictions of the canonical model of self-interest in hundreds of experiments from around the world. This… Expand
Costly Punishment Across Human Societies
- J. Henrich, R. McElreath, +11 authors J. Ziker
- Psychology, Medicine
- Science
- 23 June 2006
Recent behavioral experiments aimed at understanding the evolutionary foundations of human cooperation have suggested that a willingness to engage in costly punishment, even in one-shot situations,… Expand
Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment
- J. Henrich, J. Ensminger, +11 authors J. Ziker
- Political Science, Medicine
- Science
- 19 March 2010
A Fair Society Many of the social interactions of everyday life, especially those involving economic exchange, take place between individuals who are unrelated to each other and often do not know… Expand
The evolution of cultural evolution
- J. Henrich, R. McElreath
- Biology
- 2003
Humans are unique in their range of environments and in the nature and diversity of their behavioral adaptations. While a variety of local genetic adaptations exist within our species, it seems… Expand
The natural selection of bad science
- Paul E. Smaldino, R. McElreath
- Psychology, Physics
- Royal Society Open Science
- 31 May 2016
Poor research design and data analysis encourage false-positive findings. Such poor methods persist despite perennial calls for improvement, suggesting that they result from something more than just… Expand
Egalitarian motives in humans
- Christopher Dawes, J. Fowler, Tim Johnson, R. McElreath, O. Smirnov
- Biology, Medicine
- Nature
- 20 August 2007
Participants in laboratory games are often willing to alter others' incomes at a cost to themselves, and this behaviour has the effect of promoting cooperation. What motivates this action is unclear:… Expand
Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality
- Patrick Abbot, Jun Abe, +134 authors A. Zink
- Biology, Medicine
- Nature
- 24 March 2011
Arising from M. A. Nowak, C. E. Tarnita & E. O. Wilson 466, 1057–1062 (2010)10.1038/nature09205; Nowak et al. replyNowak et al. argue that inclusive fitness theory has been of little value in… Expand
Shared Norms and the Evolution of Ethnic Markers
- R. McElreath, Robert W. Boyd, P. Richerson
- Sociology
- Current Anthropology
- 1 February 2003
chone use of an “abundant” resource. Yukon Tourism Occasional Papers in Archaeology 3. o s w a l t , w e n d e l l h . 1963. Mission of change in Alaska. San Marino: Huntington Library. ———. 1990.… Expand
Conformists and mavericks: the empirics of frequency-dependent cultural transmission
- Charles Efferson, Charles Efferson, +5 authors M. Lubell
- Psychology
- 2008
Conformity is a type of social learning that has received considerable attention among social psychologists and human evolutionary ecologists, but existing empirical research does not identify… Expand