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Joseph Henrich (born 1968) is an American professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. Before arriving at Harvard, Henrich was a professor of psychology and economics at the University of British Columbia.
Director of Undergraduate Studies. Joseph Henrich's research focuses on evolutionary approaches to psychology, decision-making and culture, and includes topics related to cultural learning, cultural evolution, culture-gene coevolution, human sociality, prestige, leadership, large-scale cooperation, religion and the emergence of complex human ...
In only about 12,000 years, how did human societies expand from relatively small-scale hunter-gatherer bands to vast and complex nation states? What drives innovation and the process of cumulative cultural evolution? How does cultural evolution shape our psychology, brains, motivations, hormonal responses, intuitive reactions, beliefs ...
Sep 16, 2020 · Harvard Staff Writer. September 16, 2020 7 min read. Book argues these cultures make people more analytical, individualistic, impersonal. Joseph Henrich thinks many people reading this are probably WEIRD. He means no offense, only that they were raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic.
About. Dr. Henrich is currently the Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Before moving to Harvard, he was a professor of both Economics and Psychology at the University of British Columbia for nearly a decade, where he held the Canada Research Chair in Culture ...
Sep 6, 2020 · Henrich, who directs Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, is a cultural evolutionary theorist, which means that he gives cultural inheritance the same weight that traditional ...
Joseph Henrich. Professor and Chair Department of Human Evolutionary Biology Harvard University. University Education. July 2019. 11 Divinity Ave Cambridge, MA 02138. henrich@fas.harvard.edu. 617-384-8640. Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1999 MA. Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995 BS.
