
Joseph Henrich is an anthropologist. He is the Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology of Harvard University and a professor of the department. 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 institutions. Methodologically, he integrates ethnographic tools from anthropology with experimental techniques drawn from psychology and economics. His area interests include Amazonia, Chile and Fiji.
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
2020
How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
2015
A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation
2006
Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
2004