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

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February 25, 2019

Ritual, identity fusion, and the inauguration of president Trump: a pseudo-experiment of ritual modes theory→

February 25, 2019/ CSSC Administrator

Rohan Kapitány, Christopher Kavanagh, Michael D. Buhrmester, Martha Newson & Harvey Whitehouse (2019). Self and Identity

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journal-articles, 2019
fusion, Identity, Trump, ritual modes
February 04, 2019

Towards a More Natural Governance of Earth's Biodiversity and Resources→

February 04, 2019/ CSSC Administrator

DW Macdonald, D D. P. Johnson, H Whitehouse (2019) Conservation and Society 17.1, 108-113

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2019, journal-articles
OMS
February 01, 2019

Is it good to cooperate? Testing the theory of morality-as-cooperation in 60 societies→

February 01, 2019/ CSSC Administrator

Oliver Scott Curry, Daniel Austin Mullins and Harvey Whitehouse (2019) Current Anthropology

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journal-articles, 2019
AnthroLab
December 31, 2018

Dying for the group: Towards a general theory of extreme self-sacrifice→

December 31, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Harvey Whitehouse (2018) Behavioral and Brain Sciences 42

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2018, journal-articles
self sacrifice, Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict, AnthroLab
December 30, 2018

Four things we need to know about extreme self-sacrifice→

December 30, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Harvey Whitehouse (2018) Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 41, 2018, e222

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journal-articles, 2018
fusion
December 29, 2018

Material Correlates Analysis (MCA)→

December 29, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Michael Gantley, Harvey Whitehouse and Amy Bogaard (2018) Advances in Archaeological Practice, 6(4), pp. 328-341

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2018, journal-articles
December 19, 2018

Winning at any cost: Identity fusion, group essence, and maximizing ingroup advantage→

December 19, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Michael D. Buhrmester, Martha Newson, Alexandra Vázquez, Wallisen Tadashi Hattori & Harvey Whitehouse (2018) Self and Identity, 17:5, 500-516.

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2018, journal-articles
Identity
December 18, 2018

Evaluation→

December 18, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Pieter Francois, Stephanie Grohmann, Katja Eck, Odhran Gavin, Andreas Koller, Helmut Nagy, Christian Dirschl, Peter Turchin and Harvey Whitehouse (2018). In Feeney, K., et al. (eds.), Engineering Agile Big-Data Systems. River Publishers Series in Software Engineering.

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2018, book-chapter
October 10, 2018

Why is a Science of the Sociocultural so Difficult?→

October 10, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Harvey Whitehouse (2018) in A. Klostergaard Petersen, et al. (eds) Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: a New Synthesis - Festschrift in Honour of Armin W. Geertz, pp.413-426

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2018, book-chapter
October 10, 2018

Groups and Emotional Arousal Mediate Neural Synchrony and Perceived Ritual Efficacy →

October 10, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Philip S. Cho, Nicolas Escoffier, Yinan Mao, April Ching, Christopher Green, Jonathan Jong, Harvey Whitehouse (2018) Frontiers in Psychology (Emotion Science)

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journal-articles, 2018
Anthrolab, Emotion and Cognition Lab
August 22, 2018

The Dark Side to Loving a Group PDF→

August 22, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Harvey Whitehouse (2018). In Kurt Almqvist (ed.) Nation, State, and Empire. Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation. Pp.213-219

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2018, book-chapter
Nation
August 06, 2018

Examining memory for ritualized gesture in complex causal sequences.→

August 06, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Rohan Kapitány, Christopher Kavanagh, Harvey Whitehouse, Mark Nielsen (2018) Cognition

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2018, journal-articles
ERC, Rituals
July 28, 2018

Reply to Tosh et al.: Quantitative analyses of cultural evolution require engagement with historical and archaeological research→

July 28, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Thomas E. Currie, Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse, et.al (2018). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 115 (26) E5841-E5842

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journal-articles, 2018
June 22, 2018

Brazil's football warriors: Social bonding and inter-group violence→

June 22, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Martha Newson, Tiago Bortolini, Michael Buhrmester, Silvio Ricardo da Silva, Jefferson Nicassio Queiroga da Aquino and Harvey Whitehouse (2018) Evolution and Human Behavior

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in press, 2018
Football, AnthroLab
June 22, 2018

Not on my team: Medial prefrontal cortex responses to ingroup fusion and unfair monetary divisions→

June 22, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Matthew A. J. Apps, Ryan McKay, Ruben T. Azevedo, Harvey Whitehouse and Manos Tsakiris (2018) Brain and Behavior

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2018, journal-articles
fairness, fusion, group identity, prefrontal cortex, ultimatum game, Anthrolab, ICEA
June 01, 2018

Positive experiences of high arousal martial arts rituals are linked to identity fusion bonds and costly pro-group actions→

June 01, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Christopher Kavanagh, Jonathan Jong, Ryan McKay, Harvey Whitehouse. (2018) European Journal of Social Psychology

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2018
Martial arts, Rituals, Identity, groups, bonds, group bonds, Anthrolab
May 08, 2018

A systematic assessment of 'Axial Age' proposals using global comparative historical evidence→

May 08, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Daniel Austin Mullins, Daniel Hoyer, Christina Collins, Thomas Currie, Kevin Feeney, Pieter Francois, Patrick E. Savage, Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter Turchin (2018) American Sociological Review

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2018, journal-articles
Axial Age, Cultural Evolution Lab
May 03, 2018

How Moments Become Movements: Shared Outrage, Group Cohesion, and the Lion That Went Viral→

May 03, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Michael D. Buhrmester, Dawn Burnham, Dominic D. P. Johnson, Oliver S. Curry, David W. Macdonald, Harvey Whitehouse (2018) Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

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2018
social movements, outrage, group cohesion, AnthroLab, OMS
April 27, 2018

Dacura: A new solution to data harvesting and knowledge extraction for the historical sciences→

April 27, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Peter N. Peregrine, Rob Brennan, Thomas Currie, Kevin Feeney, Pieter Francois, Peter Turchin & Harvey Whitehouse (2018) Historical Methods

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2018
Cultural Evolution Lab
April 24, 2018

Rituals Improve Children's Ability to Delay Gratification→

April 24, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Veronika Rybanska, Ryan McKay, Jonathan Jong and Harvey Whitehouse (2018). Child Development.

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journal-articles, 2018
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