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January 09, 2017

Ritual and social evolution: Understanding social complexity through data →

January 09, 2017/ CSSC Administrator

Harvey Whitehouse (2016). In B. Bozic et al (eds.), Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities (Springer International Publishing), pp. 3–14.

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2016, book-chapter
Cultural Evolution Lab, Seshat: Global History Databank
November 03, 2016

Collective synchrony increases prosociality towards non-performers and outgroup members→

November 03, 2016/ CSSC Administrator

Paul Reddish, Eddie W. M. Tong, Jonathan Jong, Jonathan A. Lanman, and Harvey Whitehouse (2016). British Journal of Social Psychology.

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2016, journal-articles
Emotion and Cognition Lab, Singapore
November 03, 2016

A macroscope for global history: Seshat global history databank, a methodological overview→

November 03, 2016/ CSSC Administrator

Pieter Francois, J. G. Manning, Harvey Whitehouse, Rob Brennan, Thomas Currie, Kevin Feeney, and Peter Turchin (2016). Digital Humanities Quarterly 10 (4).

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2016, journal-articles
Cultural Evolution Lab, Seshat: Global History Databank
September 09, 2016

Religion promotes a love for thy neighbour: But how big is the neighbourhood? (Commentary on Norenzayan et al.)→

September 09, 2016/ CSSC Administrator

Ryan McKay and Harvey Whitehouse (2016). Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39

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2016, journal-articles
August 22, 2016

Explaining lifelong loyalty: The role of identity fusion and self-shaping group events→

August 22, 2016/ CSSC Administrator

Martha Newson, Michael D. Buhrmester, and Harvey Whitehouse (2016). PLoS ONE 11(8): e0160427. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0160427

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journal-articles, 2016
AnthroLab
July 29, 2016

Incipient social groups: An analysis via in-vivo behavioral tracking→

July 29, 2016/ CSSC Administrator

Jamin Halberstadt, Joshua Conrad Jackson, David Bilkey, Jonathan Jong, Harvey Whitehouse, Craig McNaughton, and Stefanie Zollmann (2016). PLoS ONE.

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2016, journal-articles
Department of Psychology (Otago)
July 22, 2016

Cultural diversity really is like biological diversity: reply to comments on The Nature of Religious Diversity: A Cultural Ecosystem Approach (including Target Article)→

July 22, 2016/ CSSC Administrator

David Sloan Wilson, Yasha Hartberg, Ian MacDonald, Jonathan A. Lanman, and Harvey Whitehouse (2016). Religion, Brain & Behavior  DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2015.1132243

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2016, journal-articles
Binghamton Neighbourhood Project
July 15, 2016

Religion, Cohesion, and Hostility (PDF)→

July 15, 2016/ ScienceSites

Harvey Whitehouse (2013). S. Clarke, R. Powell & J. Savulescu (eds.) Religion, Intolerance and Conflict: A Scientific and Conceptual Investigation, Oxford University Press.

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book-chapter, 2013
May 15, 2016

Ritual and Violence: Divergent Modes of Religiosity and Armed Struggle (PDF)→

May 15, 2016/ ScienceSites

Harvey Whitehouse and Brian McQuinn (2013). M. Juergensmeyer, M. Kitts & M. Jerryson (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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book-chapter, 2013
Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict
May 13, 2016

Religious Universals and Religious Variation→

May 13, 2016/ ScienceSites

Harvey Whitehouse (2011). T. Biro & I. Czachesz (eds.) Changing Minds: Religion and Cognition Through the Ages, Leuven: Peeters Publishers.

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book-chapter, 2011
April 27, 2016

Developing the field site concept for the study of cultural evolution→

April 27, 2016/ CSSC Administrator

David Sloan Wilson, Harvey Whitehouse (2016). Cliodynamics.

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2016
March 15, 2016

Modes of Religiosity and the Evolution of Social Complexity at Çatalhöyük (PDF)→

March 15, 2016/ ScienceSites

Harvey Whitehouse, Camilla Mazzucato, Ian Hodder, and Quentin D. Atkinson (2014). Ian Hodder (ed.) Religion at Work in a Neolithic Society: Vital Matters. Cambridge: CUP.

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book-chapter, 2014
Çatalhöyük, Cultural Evolution Lab, Auckland University
March 15, 2016

Whence and Whither Sociocultural Anthropology→

March 15, 2016/ CSSC Administrator

Harvey Whitehouse (2011). E. Slingerland & M. Collard (eds.) Creating Consilience: Integrating the Sciences and Humanities, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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2011, book-chapter
December 30, 2015

Shared negative experiences lead to identity fusion via personal reflection→

December 30, 2015/ ScienceSites

Jonathan Jong, Harvey Whitehouse, Christopher Kavanagh, and Justin Lane (2015). PLoS ONE 10(12): e0145611.

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2015, journal-articles
Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict, AnthroLab
November 28, 2015

To understand present day cultures we must study the past: A commentary on David Sloan Wilson→

November 28, 2015/ CSSC Administrator

Michael E. Hochberg & Harvey Whitehouse (2013). Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History, 4:126-128.

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2013, journal-articles
November 19, 2015

In-group ostracism increases high-fidelity imitation in early childhood→

November 19, 2015/ ScienceSites

Rachel E. Watson-Jones, Harvey Whitehouse, and Cristine H. Legare (2015). Psychological Science.

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journal-articles, 2015
Cognition Culture and Development Lab
November 12, 2015

Explaining religion and ritual→

November 12, 2015/ CSSC Administrator

Harvey Whitehouse (2015). K. Almqvist & A. Linklater (eds.) Religion: Perspectives from the Engelsberg seminar 2014. Stockholm: Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 261–70.

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2015, book-chapter
November 04, 2015

Identity and the developmental origins of fusion: An exploratory approach / La identidad y los orígenes de la fusion en el desarrollo: Un enfoque exploratorio →

November 04, 2015/ ScienceSites

Elena Gaviria, Carolina Ferreira, Mercedes Martínez, and Harvey Whitehouse (2015). Revista de Psicología Social / International Journal of Social Psychology, 30(3), 531–62.

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2015, journal-articles
Children's Lab for Cognition and Culture (Oxford), Intra and Inter Group Relations Group
November 04, 2015

The role of ritual in the evolution of social complexity: Five predictions and a drum roll→

November 04, 2015/ ScienceSites

Harvey Whitehouse, Peter François, and Peter Turchin (2015). Social Evolution Forum.

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2015, journal-articles
Cultural Evolution Lab
October 13, 2015

A life-cycle model of human social groups produces a U-shaped distribution in group size→

October 13, 2015/ ScienceSites

Gul Deniz Salali, Harvey Whitehouse, and Michael E. Hochberg (2015). PLoS ONE 10(9): e0138496.

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2015, journal-articles
Evolutionary Community Ecology Group
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Dying for the group: Towards a general theory of extreme self-sacrifice

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