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Joe Henrich
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Harvard Professor in The Dept. of Human Evolutionary Biology. Books: The Secret of Our Success & The WEIRDest People in World. Tweets r my own.
Cambridge, MA
henrich.fas.harvard.edu
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    Joe Henrich
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    Aug 30, 2020
    In the Sunday Times, London, Matthew Syed (@matthewsyed ) interviewed me about my new book: thetimes.co.uk/article/joseph… @whitneypeeling
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    Joseph Henrich interview: the anthropologist who says it’s westerners who are the weirdos
    I hate to break it to you, but you are (probably) weird. Different from most people on the planet and from most people who have lived throughout history. You se
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    Joe Henrich
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    Jun 20, 2019
    A great study of impersonal honesty using the lost wallet paradigm in 355 cities spanning 40 countries (17,000 lost wallets). Big variation across cities, but (almost) everywhere people were MORE likely to return the wallet when it had MORE money in it. @MichelAMarechal
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    Joe Henrich
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    Sep 23, 2023
    Is GPT psychologically WEIRD? Using the World Values Survey and other psych measures, we seat GPT within a global perspective. The culturally more distant a place is from the US, the lower the correlation with GPT @MohammadAtari90 @blasi_lang @DorsaAmir
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    Joe Henrich
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    Aug 26, 2022
    Anthropologists have long argued that kinship represents the oldest and most fundamental of human institutions. Does kinship--the organization of families--impact global economic outcomes in the modern world?
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    Joe Henrich
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    Aug 15, 2020
    Just arrived! 10 years of work, materialized in a compact form. @FSGtweets @whitneypeeling
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    Joe Henrich
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    Feb 10, 2022
    Great piece @AndrewYang on boys. We are creating a pool of low-status unmarried men with little stake in future. 1/3 of US men are already out of the labor force and more men under 35 live with their parents than a romantic partner. @JonHaidt @hoovlet
    Opinion | The data are clear: The boys are not all right
    From washingtonpost.com
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    Joe Henrich
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    Apr 1, 2024
    Jon is one of my favorite people to have discussions and debate with. I find his intellectual engagement to be thoughtful, serious and open minded. Until now I’ve never known anyone with this view.
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    Joe Henrich
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    Apr 1, 2024
    Humans are cultural learners, who automatically and unconsciously acquire ideas beliefs, motivations, and preferences from those around them. This is especially pronounced during the teenage years. It would be shocking if social contagion didn’t play some role in these patterns.
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    Joe Henrich
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    Apr 5, 2024
    Interesting plots from @TheEconomist Suicide and self-harm among teen girls
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    Joe Henrich
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    Jun 25, 2019
    When I discuss my concern that psychologists and behavioral economists rely on a thin and peculiar slice of humanity in order to understand HUMAN psychology, they often reply with the strong intuition that they (but perhaps not others) are studying “basic processes,” etc.
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    Joe Henrich
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    Feb 17, 2024
    Puzzling to see the @TheEconomist offering an analysis of the impact of cousin marriage without considering the recent work in Economics showing the powerful effects of the practice on economic and political outcomes. Let's review. First, the Economist's discussion:
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    Joe Henrich
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    Mar 21, 2025
    Two scholars that I greatly respect published this perspective that I think is on the wrong track. We had the entire lab read the paper, so I'll reflect the concerns of multiple cultural evolutionary scholars. @mnvrsngh
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    Joe Henrich
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    Jan 3, 2021
    Jump starting a new field: Historical Psychology. Pop the clutch... @slingerland20 @mmuthukrishna @RachelASpicer annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…
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    Joe Henrich
    @JoHenrich
    Jul 6, 2020
    Is the free exchange of diverse views out in the academy? This open letter, from a supposedly learned society, calls for the silencing and demotion of @sapinker based largely on tweets going back a decade.
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    Jonathan Haidt
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    Jul 4, 2020
    .@sapinker is an exemplary academic, bringing interesting ideas to the public, with nuance. An "open letter" against him in part for tweeting academic studies is unfair. docs.google.com/document/d/17Z…