Michael Muthukrishna

London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)

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London, WC2A 2AE

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Beyond WEIRD Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 25 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2020
Michael Muthukrishna, Adrian V Bell, Joseph Henrich, Cameron M Curtin, Alexander Gedranovich, Jason McInerney and Braden Thue
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), University of Utah, Harvard University, Harvard University, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), Iowa State University and Harvard University
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WEIRD people, cultural psychology, cultural distance, cross-cultural differences, replication crisis

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Cultural Evolutionary Behavioural Science in Public Policy

Schimmelpfennig, R. & Muthukrishna, M. (2023). Cultural Evolutionary Behavioural Science and Public Policy. Behavioural Public Policy. 1.31. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2022.40
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 13 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 03 May 2023
Robin Schimmelpfennig and Michael Muthukrishna
University of Lausanne - Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne) and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
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cultural evolution, behavioural insights, behavioural public policy, endogenous change, behavioural economics, WEIRD, applied cultural evolution, behavioural science

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Appendix to Understanding Cumulative Cultural Evolution: A Reply to Vaesen, Collard, Et Al.

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 26 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2016
Joe Henrich, Robert Boyd, Maxime Derex, Michelle Kline, Alex Mesoudi, Michael Muthukrishna, Adam Powell, Stephen Shennan and Mark Thomas
University of British Columbia, Independent, Independent, Independent, Independent, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), Independent, University College London and University College London
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cumulative cultural evolution, Tasmanian effect, cultural learning

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Overconfidence Is Universal? Elicitation of Genuine Overconfidence (EGO) Method Reveals Systematic Differences Across Domain, Task Knowledge, and Incentives in Four Populations

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 06 Nov 2017
Michael Muthukrishna, Joseph Henrich, Wataru Toyokawa, Takeshi Hamamura, Tatsuya Kameda and Steven J. Heine
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), Harvard University, University of St. Andrews - School of Biology, Curtin University - School of Population Health, Hokkaido University - Behavioral Science and University of British Columbia (UBC)
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overconfidence, self-enhancement, cultural psychology, cross-cultural differences, sex differences

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Corruption, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Prosocial Institutions

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 08 Dec 2017
Michael Muthukrishna
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
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cooperation, corruption, bribery, nepotism, cronyism, large-scale cooperation, public goods game, bribery game

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The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation

Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 72, pp. 207-240, 2021, Vol. 72, pp. 207-240
Posted: 05 Feb 2021
Joseph Henrich and Michael Muthukrishna
Harvard University and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)

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Psychology as a Historical Science

Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 72, pp. 717-749, 2021, Vol. 72, pp. 717-749
Posted: 05 Feb 2021
Michael Muthukrishna, Joseph Henrich and Edward Slingerland
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), Harvard University and University of British Columbia (UBC)

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