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Harvey Whitehouse

Director of the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion, University of Oxford

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March 26, 2018

Happy to help? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of performing acts of kindness on the well-being of the actor→

March 26, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Oliver Curry, L Rowland, C Van Lissa, S Zlotowitz, J McAlaney, Harvey Whitehouse (2018). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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2018
AnthroLab
January 10, 2018

Synchrony and physiological arousal increase cohesion and cooperation in large naturalistic groups. →

January 10, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Joshua Conrad Jackson, Jonathan Jong, David Bilkey, Harvey Whitehouse, Stefanie Zollmann, Craig McNaughton, and Jamin Halberstadt (2018) Nature: Scientific Reports

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journal-articles, 2018
AnthroLab, Department of Psychology (Otago)
January 10, 2018

Quantitative Historical Analysis Uncovers a Single Dimension of Complexity that Structures Global Variation in Human Social Organization. →

January 10, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Peter Turchin, Thomas E. Currie, Whitehouse, Harvey, et al. (2018) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)

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journal-articles, 2018
Seshat: Global History Databank, Cultural Evolution Lab
September 21, 2017

Twenty-Five Years of CSR: A Personal Retrospective PDF→

September 21, 2017/ CSSC Administrator

Harvey Whitehouse (2017) In Luther H. Martin & Donald Wiebe (eds.)The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years. Bloomsbury Academic. Pp.43-55

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book-chapter, 2017
March 20, 2017

The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences→

March 20, 2017/ CSSC Administrator

Harvey Whitehouse et al. (2017). Nature: Scientific Reports 7.

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2017, journal-articles
AnthroLab, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, Intra and Inter Group Relations Group
March 06, 2017

Sharing genes fosters identity fusion and altruism→

March 06, 2017/ CSSC Administrator

Alexandra Vázquez, Ángel Gómez, Juan R. Ordoñana, William B. Swann & Harvey Whitehouse (2017). Self and Identity.

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2017, journal-articles
Intra and Inter Group Relations Group, Swann Lab
February 24, 2017

Grand challenges for the study of cultural evolution→

February 24, 2017/ CSSC Administrator

Joe Brewer, Michele Gelfand, Joshua Conrad Jackson, Ian F. MacDonald, Peter Neal Peregrine, Peter J. Richerson, Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse and David Sloan Wilson (2017). Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1.

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2017, journal-articles
Cultural Evolution Lab, Binghamton Neighbourhood Project, Seshat: Global History Databank
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. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46224-0 1

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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
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
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The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences

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