I am a computational social scientist interested in the science of culture and the culture of science. I am specifically interested in how culture shapes emotion and knowledge production. My research brings together cultural evolution, historical...
I am building mathematical models of social evolution and strategic interaction to study human culture and how it encodes and is encoded by our psychology, physiology, and environment. One focus is to explore how cooperative behavior emerges and deepens...
Michelle studies how evolutionary mismatches between small-scale and urban-industrial cultural environments shape the lives and well-being of adolescents and young adults. Before joining HEB, she received her B.A. in English and Computer Science from...
Joseph Henrich's research focuses on evolutionary approaches to psychology, decision-making and culture, and includes topics related to cultural learning, cultural evolution, culture-gene coevolution, human sociality, prestige, leadership, large-scale...
