Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science

DE Blasi, J Henrich, E Adamou, D Kemmerer… - Trends in cognitive …, 2022 - cell.com
Abstract English is the dominant language in the study of human cognition and behavior: the
individuals studied by cognitive scientists, as well as most of the scientists themselves, are …

Dress is a fundamental component of person perception

N Hester, E Hehman - Personality and Social Psychology …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Academic Abstract Clothing, hairstyle, makeup, and accessories influence first impressions.
However, target dress is notably absent from current theories and models of person …

Ethnography and ethnohistory support the efficiency of hunting through endurance running in humans

E Morin, B Winterhalder - Nature Human Behaviour, 2024 - nature.com
Humans have two features rare in mammals: our locomotor muscles are dominated by
fatigue-resistant fibres and we effectively dissipate through sweating the metabolic heat …

Determinants of social norms I–the role of geography

S Voigt - Journal of Institutional Economics, 2024 - cambridge.org
It is now abundantly clear that social norms channel behaviour and impact economic
development. This insight leads to the question: How do social norms evolve? This survey …

[HTML][HTML] Moralistic supernatural punishment is probably not associated with social complexity

AD Lightner, T Bendixen, BG Purzycki - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
Evolutionary theories of religion frequently assume that the presence of moralizing gods is
positively associated with social complexity. An influential source of evidence for this …

The global relevance of locally grounded ethnobiology

Á Fernández-Llamazares, I Teixidor-Toneu… - Journal of ethnobiology …, 2024 - Springer
While ethnobiology is a discipline that focuses on the local, it has an outstanding, but not yet
fully realized potential to address global issues. Part of this unrealized potential is that …

Hunter-gatherer children's object play and tool use: An ethnohistorical analysis

S Lew-Levy, MM Andersen, N Lavi, F Riede - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Learning to use, make, and modify tools is key to our species' success. Researchers have
hypothesized that play with objects may have a foundational role in the ontogeny of tool use …

Same-sex competition and sexual conflict expressed through witchcraft accusations

S Peacey, OLK Campbell, R Mace - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
There is significant cross-cultural variation in the sex of individuals most likely to be accused
of practising witchcraft. Allegations of witchcraft might be a mechanism for nullifying …

Anthropological dilemmas of information society development modern stage in the context of globalisation challenges

N Shakun - Futurity Philosophy, 2022 - futurity-philosophy.com
Aims: The purpose of the article is to highlight the anthropological dilemmas of
contemporary philosophy related to the establishment of the information society. The global …

Coding, causality, and statistical craft: The emergence and evolutionary drivers of moralistic supernatural punishment remain unresolved

BG Purzycki, T Bendixen, AD Lightner - Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The target article represents another attempt to assess the relationship between social
complexity and moralistic supernatural punishment. This question is important and the …