Social scientists have studied collective memory for almost a century, but psychological
analyses have only recently emerged. Although no singular approach to the psychological …

There is increasing interest in understanding the processes that maintain phenotypic
variation in groups, populations, or communities. Recent studies have investigated how the …

Poor research design and data analysis encourage false-positive findings. Such poor
methods persist despite perennial calls for improvement, suggesting that they result from …

We develop a cultural evolutionary theory of the origins of prosocial religions and apply it to
resolve two puzzles in human psychology and cultural history:(1) the rise of large-scale …

Human cooperation is highly unusual. We live in large groups composed mostly of non-
relatives. Evolutionists have proposed a number of explanations for this pattern, including …

Restoration is becoming a vital tool to counteract coastal ecosystem degradation. Modifying
transplant designs of habitat-forming organisms from dispersed to clumped can amplify …

Large-scale data collection has enabled social scientists to examine psychological
constructs at broad, regional levels. However, because constructs and their measures …

The remarkable ecological and demographic success of humanity is largely attributed to our
capacity for cumulative culture,,. The accumulation of beneficial cultural innovations across …

I discuss the function of social identity signaling in facilitating cooperative group formation,
and how the nature of that function changes with the structure of social organization. I …

Seeing bodies and evolutionary histories as quantifiable features that can be measured
separately from the human cultural experience is an erroneous approach. Seeing cultural …