I presented work on “Corruption, Cooperation, & the Evolution of Prosocial Institutions”, including some new work on the evolution of evil eye belief and related behaviors at the CIFAR Institutions, Organizations, and Growth program’s annual meeting. Part of this work was based on a recent paper published in Nature Human Behaviour, with some context published […]
I was invited to present work on “The Cultural Evolutionary Basis of Social Psychology” at The Origins of Our Moral and Political Ideologies and Preferences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) in Toulouse, France. An excellent workshop organized by Moshe Hoffman, Bethany Burum, Erez Yoeli. Other speakers included: Alain Cohn (University of […]
I spent the weekend at a productive interdisciplinary workshop on “Religion, Ritual, Conflict, and Cooperation: Archaeological and Historical Approaches” at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. CASBS is located on the top of one of the beautiful hills around Stanford. We discussed the challenges and successes in inferring religious belief and practice from […]
On the back of the Nature Human Behaviour article on psychology’s Problem in Theory, I was invited as a Special Guest to the Metascience 2019 Symposium at Stanford University, CA. The meeting was designed as formative meeting for metascience as a discipline. One of the most interesting and thought-provoking conferences to which I’ve been. I tweeted some highlights and a few of my […]
Visiting Fellows Edward Hughes Edward is a visiting fellow at the lab, and is a scientific leader in the field of AI and an expert on fast adaptation. He received his PhD in Theoretical Physics from Queen Mary University of London, and is currently a Staff Research Engineer att Google DeepMind. He is also an […]
Under Review or In Preparation Spicer, R., Monroe, M. W., Slingerland, E., & Muthukrishna, M. (2023). Predicting the Past: Imputation of Historical Data. psychArxiv White, C., & Muthukrishna, M. (2023). More educated, more WEIRD: Higher education predicts worldwide cultural similarity to the United States and other WEIRD countries. PsychArxiv Schnell, E., Schimmelpfennig, R., & Muthukrishna, […]
I’m Associate Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics. My other affiliations include: – Affiliate of the Developmental Economics Group at STICERD – Affiliate of the Data Science Institute – Director of the PhD Programme in Psychological and Behavioural Science – Fellow at the Charter Cities Institute – Technical Director of The […]
