Psychology has traditionally seen itself as the science of universal human cognition, but it
has only recently begun seriously grappling with cross-cultural variation. Here we argue that …

More than half a century of cross-cultural research has demonstrated group-level differences
in psychological and behavioral phenomena, from values to attention to neural responses …

In this article, we present a tool and a method for measuring the psychological and cultural
distance between societies and creating a distance scale with any population as the point of …

Innovation is often assumed to be the work of a talented few, whose products are passed on
to the masses. Here, we argue that innovations are instead an emergent property of our …

In the last few million years, the hominin brain more than tripled in size. Comparisons across
evolutionary lineages suggest that this expansion may be part of a broader trend toward …

Where did we come from? What is our connection with other life forms? What are the
mechanisms of mind that define what it means to be a human being? Evolutionary …

Recent work has documented a wide range of important psychological differences across
societies. Multiple explanations have been offered for why such differences exist, including …

Formal evolutionary models predict when individuals rely on social learning over individual
learning and the relative strength of their conformist social learning biases. Here we use …

Behavioral genetics and cultural evolution have both revolutionized our understanding of
human behavior–largely independent of each other. Here, we reconcile these two fields …

In this chapter, I consider the benefits of viewing history through an evolutionary lens. In
recent decades, a field of research has emerged, which builds on foundations from …