Joseph Henrich

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Joseph Patrick Henrich (born September 6, 1968 in Norristown , Pennsylvania ) is an anthropologist . He was Professor of Culture, Cognition and Coevolution at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Since 2015 he has been Director and Professor of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University .

Life

Joseph Henrich first studied anthropology ( BA , 1991) and aerospace engineering ( BS , 1991) at the University of Notre Dame . 1991–1993 he worked as a systems engineer at General Electric . His MA (1995) and his Ph.D. (1999) received a degree in anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles . From 1999 to 2002 he was a visiting junior professor at the University of Michigan and from 2001 to 2002 as a scientist at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . 2002-2007 Henrich was Professor at Emory University ; at UBC since 2006.

job

Henrich has researched and published in the areas of sociocultural evolution , evolution of social norms , evolution of cooperation , evolution of prestige and dominance hierarchies , religion , methodology, cultural learning, ethnography and social behavior of chimpanzees . In his work he pointed out the WEIRD problem - psychological questions are often researched using Western test subjects, regardless of whether the same psychological mechanisms are also present in other cultures.

Books

  • Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd , Samuel Bowles , Colin Camerer , Ernst Fehr , Herbert Gintis (Eds.): The Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic experiments and ethnographic evidence from fifteen small-scale societies . Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0199262047 .
  • Nathalie Henrich, Joseph Henrich: Why Humans Cooperate: A cultural and evolutionary explanation . Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 0195300688 .
  • Joseph Henrich: Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter . Princeton University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-691-16685-8 (English).
  • Joseph Henrich: The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020, ISBN 978-0-374-71045-3 (e-book, English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Henrich, HEB, Harvard
personal data
SURNAME Henrich, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henrich, Joseph Patrick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Norristown , Pennsylvania