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

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April 06, 2021

An Integrative Approach to Estimating Productivity in Past Societies Using Seshat: Global History Databank→

April 06, 2021/ CSSC Administrator

Peter Turchin, Thomas Currie, Christina Collins, Jill Levine, Oluwole Oyebamiji, Neil R Edwards, Philip B Holden, Daniel Hoyer, Kevin Feeney, Pieter François and Harvey Whitehouse (2021). The Holocene.

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March 08, 2021

The Development of Identity Fusion→

March 08, 2021/ CSSC Administrator

Elaine Reese & Harvey Whitehouse (2021). Perspectives on Psychological Science.

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Department of Psychology (Otago)
January 18, 2021

United in defeat: shared suffering and group bonding among football fans→

January 18, 2021/ CSSC Administrator

Martha Newson, Michael Buhrmester & Harvey Whitehouse (2021). Managing Sport and Leisure.

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Football
October 21, 2020

Band of mothers: Childbirth as a female bonding experience→

October 21, 2020/ CSSC Administrator

Tara Tasuji, Elaine Reese, Valerie van Mulukom, and Harvey Whitehouse (2020). PLoS ONE, 15(10):e0240175.

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Department of Psychology (Otago)
October 20, 2020

Ritual and Religion as Social Technologies of Cooperation→

October 20, 2020/ CSSC Administrator

Christopher Kavanagh, Jonathan Jong, & Harvey Whitehouse (2020). In Constance A. Cummings, Laurence J. Kirmayer, Shinobu Kitayama, Robert Lemelson, & Carol M. Worthman (eds.), Culture, Mind, and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Methods, Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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October 20, 2020

A new era in the study of global history is born but it needs to be nurtured→

October 20, 2020/ CSSC Administrator

Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter François, Patrick Savage, ... & Peter Turchin (2020). Journal of Cognitive Historiography, JCH 5.1-2 (2018–19).

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October 20, 2020

An Introduction to Seshat: Global History Databank→

October 20, 2020/ CSSC Administrator

Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter Francois, Daniel Hoyer, … & Liye Xie (2020). Journal of Cognitive Historiography, JCH 5.1-2 (2018–19).

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October 14, 2020

Ritual, fusion, and conflict: The roots of agro-pastoral violence in rural Cameroon→

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Buhrmester, Michael, Zeitlyn, David & Whitehouse, Harvey (2020). Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.

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October 14, 2020

Go WILD, not WEIRD→

October 14, 2020/ CSSC Administrator

Martha Newson, Michael Buhrmester, Dimitris Xygalatas & Harvey Whitehouse (2020). Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 5.2 (2017/2019) 1–27.

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September 14, 2020

Rewarding the good and punishing the bad: The role of karma and afterlife beliefs in shaping moral norms→

September 14, 2020/ CSSC Administrator

Willard, Aiyana K., Baimel, Adam, Turpin, Hugh, ..., & Whitehouse, Harvey (2020). Evolution and Human Behavior, 41 (5), 385-396.

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June 29, 2020

Fusion and Reform: The Potential for Identity Fusion to Reduce Recidivism and Improve Reintegration→

June 29, 2020/ CSSC Administrator

Whitehouse, Harvey, & Fitzgerald, Robin (2020). Anthropology in Action, 27(1): 1-13.

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University of Queensland
June 29, 2020

Ritual Morphospace Revisited: The Form, Function and Factor Structure of Ritual Practice→

June 29, 2020/ CSSC Administrator

Kapitány, Rohan, Kavanagh, Christopher, & Whitehouse, Harvey (2020). Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B., 375: 20190436.

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June 05, 2020

The Twinning Project: how football, the beautiful game, can be used to reduce reoffending→

June 05, 2020/ CSSC Administrator

Newson, Martha, & Whitehouse, Harvey (2020). Prison Service Journal, 248.

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June 05, 2020

Exploring the Pathways Between Transformative Group Experiences and Identity Fusion→

June 05, 2020/ CSSC Administrator

Kavanagh, Christopher M., Kapitány, Rohan, Putra, Idhamsyah Eka, & Whitehouse, Harvey (2020). Frontiers in Psychology. 11:1172

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Indonesia
May 08, 2020

The Role of Religious Fundamentalism and Tightness-Looseness in Promoting Collective Narcissism and Extreme Group Behavior→

May 08, 2020/ CSSC Administrator

Whinda Yustisia, Idhamsyah Eka Putra, Christopher Kavanagh, Harvey Whitehouse, & Any Rufaidah (2020) Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. 12 (2), 231-240

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groups, Indonesia
January 24, 2020

Devoted fans release more cortisol when watching live soccer matches→

January 24, 2020/ CSSC Administrator

Newson, Martha, Shiramizu, Victor, Buhrmester, Michael, Hattori, Wallisen, Jong, Jon, Yamamoto, Emilia, Whitehouse, Harvey (2020) Stress and Health

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Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Norte
December 31, 2019

Why die for my sibling? The positive association between identity fusion and imagined loss with endorsement of self-sacrifice→

December 31, 2019/ CSSC Administrator

Alexandra Vázquez, Juan R. Ordoñana, Harvey Whitehouse & Ángel Gómez (2019) Revista de Psicología Social

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December 06, 2019

Conclusion: Was there ever an Axial Age?→

December 06, 2019/ CSSC Administrator

Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter François, Enrico Cioni, Jill Levine, Daniel Hoyer, Jenny Reddish, & Peter Turchin (2019). In Daniel Hoyer & Jenny Reddish (eds.) The Seshat History of the Axial Age, Chaplin, CT: Beresta Books.

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November 19, 2019

Cooperative conservation: Seven ways to save the world →

November 19, 2019/ CSSC Administrator

Oliver S. Curry, Darragh Hare, Cameron Hepburn, Dominic D.P. Johnson, Michael D. Buhrmester, Harvey Whitehouse, David W. Macdonald (2019) Conservation Science and Practice e123.

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OMS
April 25, 2019

Interpersonal synchrony affects performers' sense of agency→

April 25, 2019/ CSSC Administrator

Paul Reddish, Eddie M.W. Tong, Jonathan Jong & Harvey Whitehouse (2019) Self and Identity

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group identity
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Whitehouse, H. (2024). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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

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