Social norms are the glue that holds society together, yet our knowledge of them remains
heavily intellectually siloed. This article provides an interdisciplinary review of the emerging …

The nature of harm—and therefore moral judgment—may be misunderstood. Rather than an
objective matter of reason, we argue that harm should be redefined as an intuitively …

The processes underwriting the acquisition of culture remain unclear. How are shared
habits, norms, and expectations learned and maintained with precision and reliability across …

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 …

Socioeconomic differences in behaviour are pervasive and well documented, but their
causes are not yet well understood. Here, we make the case that a cluster of behaviours is …

The large availability of user provided contents on online social media facilitates people
aggregation around shared beliefs, interests, worldviews and narratives. In spite of the …

This paper integrates social norm constructs from different disciplines into an integrated
model. Norms exist in the objective social environment in the form of behavioral regularities …

We argue that because of a long history of intergroup conflict and competition, humans
evolved to be tribal creatures. Tribalism is not inherently bad, but it can lead to ideological …

The emergence of large-scale cooperation during the Holocene remains a central problem
in the evolutionary literature. One hypothesis points to culturally evolved beliefs in …

We review limitations of the traditional paradigm for cultural research and propose an
alternative framework, polyculturalism. Polyculturalism assumes that individuals' …