Joseph Henrich
Harvard anthropologist of cultural evolution; author of The WEIRDest People in the World.
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- Joseph Henrich is an American anthropologist and professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard.
- He studies how culture shaped human evolution, cooperation and psychology.
- With collaborators he named WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) populations, the usual subjects of psychology research.
- His books argue culture drives human evolution.
Key facts
- Born
- 19681
- Education
- University of Notre Dame, bachelor's degrees in anthropology and aerospace engineering, 1991; UCLA, master's 1995 and PhD 1999 in anthropology1
- General Electric Aerospace
- Test and evaluation systems engineer, 1991 to 19931
- Emory University
- Department of Anthropology faculty, 2002 to 20071
- University of British Columbia
- Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition and Coevolution; professor of psychology and economics1
- Harvard University
- Named Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology in 20151
- WEIRD
- Coined the term with collaborators for the populations most psychology research samples1
- Books
- The Secret of Our Success (2016); The WEIRDest People in the World (2020)1
- Awards
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2003; Hayek Prize, 20221
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