Comments' index

• Alberto Acerbi

  • “Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age” Book Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 08 July 2020 — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • “Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age” Book Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 07 July 2020 — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • “Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age” Book Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 07 July 2020 — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • “Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age” Book Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 01 July 2020 — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • Can we (please) have science without the scientific journals?
    
    Published on 04 July 2018 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Article for December: Population size does not explain past changes in cultural complexity (?)
    
    Published on 15 December 2016 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Cow-tipping, and the strange performativity of ‘scientific studies’ – and cultural transmission
    
    Published on 05 November 2016 — Category: Blog (Helena Miton)
  • Cow-tipping, and the strange performativity of ‘scientific studies’ – and cultural transmission
    
    Published on 30 October 2016 — Category: Blog (Helena Miton)
  • The Speculative Origins of Monsters
    
    Published on 18 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Alberto Acerbi)
  • Cultural attraction, “standard” cultural evolution, and language
    
    Published on 25 June 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Alberto Acerbi)
  • Culture: A scientific idea ready for retirement?
    
    Published on 07 January 2015 — Category: Blog (Alberto Acerbi)
  • Culture: A scientific idea ready for retirement?
    
    Published on 06 January 2015 — Category: Blog (Alberto Acerbi)

• Alessandro Pignocchi

  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 04 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)

• Alex Cristia

  • What’s the point of talking to your child?
    
    Published on 15 February 2012 — Category: Blog (Alex Cristia)

• Ana Moscoso

  • Grieving animals?
    
    Published on 13 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Andrei Boutyline

  • What about cognition and society?
    
    Published on 14 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)

• Andrew Buskell

  • Can we (please) have science without the scientific journals?
    
    Published on 28 June 2018 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Culture: A scientific idea ready for retirement?
    
    Published on 09 January 2015 — Category: Blog (Alberto Acerbi)
  • Culture: A scientific idea ready for retirement?
    
    Published on 07 January 2015 — Category: Blog (Alberto Acerbi)

• Andrew Hirst

  • Why pink? Color matters
    
    Published on 10 September 2010 — Category: Blog (Ophelia Deroy)
  • Why do we make our tastes public?
    
    Published on 29 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 15 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• Aniko Sebesteny

  • Are we sure we can groom beyond Dunbar’s number?
    
    Published on 14 June 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Guillaume Dezecache)
  • Learning suicide in Sri Lanka
    
    Published on 11 November 2011 — Category: Blog (Tom Widger)
  • Atheist clergymen and belief in belief
    
    Published on 25 October 2011 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Why do we sometimes de-humanize our fellow humans? Some preliminary reflections
    
    Published on 29 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)

• Ara Norenzayan

  • A précis of ‘Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict’
    
    Published on 17 December 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Ara Norenzayan)
  • A précis of ‘Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict’
    
    Published on 16 December 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Ara Norenzayan)
  • ‘Big Gods’ book club #4: Alternative explanations?
    
    Published on 16 December 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Helena Miton)
  • A précis of ‘Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict’
    
    Published on 12 December 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Ara Norenzayan)
  • ‘Big Gods’ book club #3 : Testing more specific hypotheses and going beyond correlations in the origins and evolution of religious beliefs
    
    Published on 11 December 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Pierrick Bourrat)
  • ‘Big Gods’ book club #2: Analytic atheism and the puzzle of apologetic
    
    Published on 11 December 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Helen De Cruz)
  • ‘Big Gods’ book club #3 : Testing more specific hypotheses and going beyond correlations in the origins and evolution of religious beliefs
    
    Published on 11 December 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Pierrick Bourrat)
  • ‘Big Gods’ book club #1 — Skeptical thoughts
    
    Published on 11 December 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Olivier Morin)
  • ‘Big Gods’ book club #2: Analytic atheism and the puzzle of apologetic
    
    Published on 10 December 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Helen De Cruz)

• Arikha Noga

  • “True self” Journal Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 24 February 2017 — Category: 'True self' Journal Club (Tiffany Morisseau)

• Bahador Bahrami

  • No “Thank You!”
    
    Published on 03 June 2018 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Barbara Pavlek

  • The sky is falling: negativity bias in social transmission
    
    Published on 30 June 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Modularity and Recombination in Technological Evolution
    
    Published on 08 June 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for February: All forms of writing
    
    Published on 17 February 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for September: Image, Memory and Ritual: Re-viewing the Antecedents of Writing
    
    Published on 11 October 2016 — Category: Blog (The Mint)

• Beate Priewasser

  • Can teleology explain why very young children help a mistaken agent?
    
    Published on 20 November 2017 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)

• Ben Converse

  • Instrumentality Boosts Gratitude
    
    Published on 16 March 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Instrumentality Boosts Gratitude
    
    Published on 14 March 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)

• Benjamin Eilers

  • Believing Maurice Bloch on doubting, doubting him on believing
    
    Published on 01 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Benson Saler

  • Culture: A scientific idea ready for retirement?
    
    Published on 16 January 2015 — Category: Blog (Alberto Acerbi)
  • We are not intuitive monists — but then, what are we?
    
    Published on 23 January 2013 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Is kinship back?
    
    Published on 31 May 2012 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Theology and cognitive science
    
    Published on 25 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Do people ever engage in “magical thinking” ?
    
    Published on 21 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 05 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 28 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 23 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 22 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • An action suit, not a straightjacket: Whorf on language, Guy Deutscher on Whorf
    
    Published on 08 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Nick Enfield)
  • Can Antropologists and other Cognitive Scientist live together?
    
    Published on 22 September 2010 — Category: Blog (Maurice Bloch)
  • Opacity tasting with Dan and Maurice
    
    Published on 21 July 2010 — Category: Blog (György Gergely)
  • Believing Maurice Bloch on doubting, doubting him on believing
    
    Published on 08 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Four recipes for religion
    
    Published on 19 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)
  • Four recipes for religion
    
    Published on 18 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)

• Bill Benzon

  • Does Prospect Theory explain Trump and Brexit votes?
    
    Published on 15 November 2016 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • Does Prospect Theory explain Trump and Brexit votes?
    
    Published on 15 November 2016 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • Paul Rozin on what psychologists should study
    
    Published on 05 August 2010 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Paul Rozin on what psychologists should study
    
    Published on 05 August 2010 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • What if there had never been a Cognitive Revolution?
    
    Published on 31 July 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • What if there had never been a Cognitive Revolution?
    
    Published on 29 July 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • What if there had never been a Cognitive Revolution?
    
    Published on 25 July 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Moral camouflage or moral monkeys?
    
    Published on 22 July 2010 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)
  • Innocents fornicating and apes grieving
    
    Published on 13 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Innocents fornicating and apes grieving
    
    Published on 07 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 05 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 02 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 31 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 31 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 29 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 28 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 27 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 26 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 15 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 14 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Evolutionary psychology under attack
    
    Published on 03 July 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 01 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 30 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Paleolithic art: awesome — but not religious
    
    Published on 11 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Has anyone else enjoyed Love and Sex with Robots?
    
    Published on 08 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Emma Cohen)
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss: the first 100 years
    
    Published on 08 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Billy Clark

  • Rethinking ostension: (1) A terminological issue
    
    Published on 08 February 2018 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Brad DeWees

  • We may be thinking about it all wrong
    
    Published on 26 September 2017 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Brent Strickland

  • Governments should more frequently publish CO₂ emissions data: Leveraging human psychology to fight climate change
    
    Published on 20 November 2018 — Category: Blog (Brent Strickland)
  • Governments should more frequently publish CO₂ emissions data: Leveraging human psychology to fight climate change
    
    Published on 16 November 2018 — Category: Blog (Brent Strickland)
  • Are liberals too dumb to understand this? Virtue signaling in the age of outrage advertising
    
    Published on 16 November 2017 — Category: Blog (Brent Strickland)
  • “True self” Journal Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 07 March 2017 — Category: 'True self' Journal Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • The R-word: “Racism” across the political spectrum
    
    Published on 29 August 2016 — Category: Blog (Brent Strickland)
  • The R-word: “Racism” across the political spectrum
    
    Published on 29 August 2016 — Category: Blog (Brent Strickland)
  • The R-word: “Racism” across the political spectrum
    
    Published on 28 August 2016 — Category: Blog (Brent Strickland)
  • The R-word: “Racism” across the political spectrum
    
    Published on 28 August 2016 — Category: Blog (Brent Strickland)
  • What’s the point of talking to your child?
    
    Published on 25 February 2012 — Category: Blog (Alex Cristia)
  • The scope-severity paradox
    
    Published on 06 November 2011 — Category: Blog (Aniko Sebesteny)

• Brian Malley

  • Why do academics oppose capitalism?
    
    Published on 21 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • g Tum-mo heat meditation
    
    Published on 13 October 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • In memoriam: Nicola Knight
    
    Published on 12 June 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Anthropology in crisis – what, still?
    
    Published on 08 June 2009 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)
  • The interpretand
    
    Published on 06 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Why are minimally counter-intuitive concepts special?
    
    Published on 13 March 2009 — Category: Blog (Muhammad Afzal Upal)
  • The relevance of cognitive relevance for students of culture
    
    Published on 22 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • A case for the Cognitive principle of relevance
    
    Published on 07 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • A case for the Cognitive principle of relevance
    
    Published on 07 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • A case for the Cognitive principle of relevance
    
    Published on 06 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • A case for the Cognitive principle of relevance
    
    Published on 06 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)

• Bruce Lepper

  • Has anyone else enjoyed Love and Sex with Robots?
    
    Published on 28 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Emma Cohen)

• Bruno Costa

  • Video games as applied anthropology
    
    Published on 20 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)

• Bryan Atinsky

  • Why don’t people like markets?
    
    Published on 28 June 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• Bryce Huebner

  • A précis of ‘Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict’
    
    Published on 13 December 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Ara Norenzayan)
  • ‘Big Gods’ book club #2: Analytic atheism and the puzzle of apologetic
    
    Published on 10 December 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Helen De Cruz)

• Burton Voorhees

  • The design of institutions & the design of the mind
    
    Published on 27 June 2021 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • The design of institutions & the design of the mind
    
    Published on 19 June 2021 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • Are selves cultural attractors?
    
    Published on 13 March 2019 — Category: Blog (Stefaan Blancke)
  • Blatant bias and blood libel
    
    Published on 14 February 2019 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Cultures of academic (dis)agreement
    
    Published on 11 December 2018 — Category: Blog (Radu Umbres)
  • No “Thank You!”
    
    Published on 08 September 2018 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • How human are the dehumanised?
    
    Published on 06 December 2017 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • How human are the dehumanised?
    
    Published on 05 December 2017 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)

• Carles Salazar

  • Blatant bias and blood libel
    
    Published on 29 January 2019 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Culture: A scientific idea ready for retirement?
    
    Published on 13 January 2015 — Category: Blog (Alberto Acerbi)
  • Is kinship back?
    
    Published on 31 July 2012 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Carmen Becker

  • The interpretive process
    
    Published on 19 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)

• Cathal O'Madagain

  • Open science, open society
    
    Published on 14 February 2019 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • “So you’re saying … we should live like lobsters?” or: Why does politics make us stupid?
    
    Published on 01 February 2018 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • The R-word: “Racism” across the political spectrum
    
    Published on 27 August 2016 — Category: Blog (Brent Strickland)

• Cecilia Heyes

  • Why reading minds is not like reading words
    
    Published on 07 February 2015 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)

• Charles Stafford

  • Is a universal Michelin Guide possible?
    
    Published on 12 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Picture of the week: a Sangaku
    
    Published on 10 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Maori Memories
    
    Published on 26 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • The debate over maths in the Amazon: still counting points
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)

• Chris Frith

  • Why reading minds is not like reading words
    
    Published on 08 February 2015 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)

• Chris Goble

  • “So you’re saying … we should live like lobsters?” or: Why does politics make us stupid?
    
    Published on 08 February 2018 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • “So you’re saying … we should live like lobsters?” or: Why does politics make us stupid?
    
    Published on 08 February 2018 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• Chris Kavanagh

  • Mind-Body Dualism as Applied to Supernatural Agents: The (Dead) Emperor’s New Mind or Chicken Little
    
    Published on 12 June 2015 — Category: Blog (K. Mitch Hodge)
  • Culture: A scientific idea ready for retirement?
    
    Published on 14 January 2015 — Category: Blog (Alberto Acerbi)
  • Kinship, theology and deep grammar
    
    Published on 14 May 2014 — Category: Blog (Carles Salazar)

• Christian Kleineidam

  • g Tum-mo heat meditation
    
    Published on 20 October 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)

• Christian Prager

  • Why does sneezing elicit blessing?
    
    Published on 23 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Christiane Cunnar

  • What’s the point of talking to your child?
    
    Published on 05 August 2014 — Category: Blog (Alex Cristia)

• Christophe Heintz

  • Signalling signalhood as a means of protest
    
    Published on 17 May 2019 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • We may be thinking about it all wrong
    
    Published on 21 September 2017 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Does Prospect Theory explain Trump and Brexit votes?
    
    Published on 18 November 2016 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • Does Prospect Theory explain Trump and Brexit votes?
    
    Published on 18 November 2016 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • Does Prospect Theory explain Trump and Brexit votes?
    
    Published on 18 November 2016 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • Does Prospect Theory explain Trump and Brexit votes?
    
    Published on 15 November 2016 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • Does Prospect Theory explain Trump and Brexit votes?
    
    Published on 15 November 2016 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • Why would Japanese spirits haunt toilets and ghosts hitchhike? [Halloween special]
    
    Published on 08 November 2016 — Category: Blog (Helena Miton)
  • Why do mathematicians always agree?
    
    Published on 19 December 2012 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • Why do mathematicians always agree?
    
    Published on 19 December 2012 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • Why do mathematicians always agree?
    
    Published on 10 December 2012 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • Why do mathematicians always agree?
    
    Published on 10 December 2012 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • Why do mathematicians always agree?
    
    Published on 03 December 2012 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • What it is about women?
    
    Published on 07 March 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • False choice: Is the underrepresentation of women in science by choice or by discrimination?
    
    Published on 01 April 2011 — Category: Blog (Davie Yoon)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 23 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • What’s wrong, in the end, with Homo Œconomicus?
    
    Published on 22 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • What if there had never been a Cognitive Revolution?
    
    Published on 28 July 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • “Oy vey, have you got the wrong vampire!” A reply to Frans de Waal
    
    Published on 24 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Why do academics oppose capitalism?
    
    Published on 21 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do academics oppose capitalism?
    
    Published on 18 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do academics oppose capitalism?
    
    Published on 18 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • The social rationality of footballers
    
    Published on 11 April 2010 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Jingle Bell – Punjabi Tadka
    
    Published on 09 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Conversation Hackers
    
    Published on 09 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Can you tell the language of the mother from her baby’s cry?
    
    Published on 04 December 2009 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Claidière)
  • How cultural is cultural epidemiology? 1. Enculturation
    
    Published on 13 August 2009 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • Success or Prestige? Hunters’ cultural biases
    
    Published on 30 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • How I found glaring errors in Einstein’s calculations
    
    Published on 08 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cross-cultural differences in risk taking
    
    Published on 09 March 2009 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • What is an institution, that people may participate in it?
    
    Published on 05 March 2009 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • What is an institution, that people may participate in it?
    
    Published on 05 March 2009 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • What is an institution, that people may participate in it?
    
    Published on 04 March 2009 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss: the first 100 years
    
    Published on 01 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Do we bend it like Beckham?
    
    Published on 29 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Picture of the week: enteromancy among the Dorze of Southern Ethiopia
    
    Published on 25 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Picture of the week: enteromancy among the Dorze of Southern Ethiopia
    
    Published on 25 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Cognition, Culture and Caricature
    
    Published on 17 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Cases of institutions that make us smart
    
    Published on 04 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • Cases of institutions that make us smart
    
    Published on 04 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)

• Claire White

  • A précis of ‘Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict’
    
    Published on 12 December 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Ara Norenzayan)
  • A précis of ‘Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict’
    
    Published on 10 December 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Ara Norenzayan)
  • Twelve Lessons (Most of Which I Learned the Hard Way) for Evolutionary Psychologists
    
    Published on 22 January 2012 — Category: Blog (Dan Fessler)

• Clark Barrett

  • How not to combine ethnography and experiments in the study of moral judgment
    
    Published on 06 June 2016 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • How not to combine ethnography and experiments in the study of moral judgment
    
    Published on 29 May 2016 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Angles of Approach
    
    Published on 26 March 2016 — Category: 'The Shape of Thought' Book Club (Clark Barrett)

• Colin Holbrook

  • In praise of neuroscience (for once)
    
    Published on 12 July 2009 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Evolutionary psychology under attack
    
    Published on 30 June 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 01 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • The future of human cooperation: Some minuscule evidence
    
    Published on 31 March 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • 10,000 Year Danger Marker?
    
    Published on 19 March 2009 — Category: Blog (Colin Holbrook)
  • Face value
    
    Published on 17 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Ophelia Deroy)

• Craig Joseph

  • Ideas of immanent justice in cognition and culture
    
    Published on 23 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Craig McKenzie

  • Framing, defaults, trust
    
    Published on 26 July 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)

• Cristina Bicchieri

  • Words or Deeds
    
    Published on 08 April 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Words or Deeds
    
    Published on 29 March 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)

• Cruber Liben

  • Is there a language instinct?
    
    Published on 29 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)

• Dan Hat

  • Better live in Sweden than in the US: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
    
    Published on 03 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)

• Dan Sperber

  • “Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age” Book Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 07 July 2020 — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • “Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age” Book Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 06 July 2020 — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • “Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age” Book Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 01 July 2020 — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • Quiet online spaces as a form of mutualistic nudging for our hyper-networked world
    
    Published on 13 May 2020 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • A natural experiment of gradual & contingent cultural causation
    
    Published on 03 September 2019 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • Why read a big book? Quantitative Relevance in the Attention Economy
    
    Published on 06 May 2019 — Category: Blog (Inge van de Ven)
  • Open science, open society
    
    Published on 25 January 2019 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • Beheadings as honest communication devices
    
    Published on 19 August 2018 — Category: Blog (Radu Umbres)
  • No “Thank You!”
    
    Published on 25 May 2018 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Children’s grasp of the aspectuality of beliefs: the Sefo task revisited
    
    Published on 25 May 2018 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)
  • Children’s grasp of the aspectuality of beliefs: the Sefo task revisited
    
    Published on 24 May 2018 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)
  • Why do we flip coins ? Random draws as personal decision-making devices under uncertainty
    
    Published on 25 March 2018 — Category: Blog (Bahador Bahrami and Ophelia Deroy)
  • Why do we flip coins ? Random draws as personal decision-making devices under uncertainty
    
    Published on 16 March 2018 — Category: Blog (Bahador Bahrami and Ophelia Deroy)
  • Rethinking ostension: (2) Attention manipulation
    
    Published on 09 March 2018 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • How Can a Painting Make One Lose One’s Faith?
    
    Published on 05 March 2018 — Category: Blog (Victoria Fomina)
  • Staring back at the evil eye
    
    Published on 15 February 2018 — Category: Blog (Radu Umbres)
  • Rethinking ostension: (1) A terminological issue
    
    Published on 11 February 2018 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Friends
    
    Published on 28 January 2018 — Category: Blog (Helga Vierich-Drever)
  • What it took for break-up songs to become cultural items
    
    Published on 09 October 2017 — Category: Blog (Helena Miton)
  • Do chimpanzees really care about equity?
    
    Published on 05 September 2017 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Do chimpanzees really care about equity?
    
    Published on 02 September 2017 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Do apes produce metonymies?
    
    Published on 13 July 2017 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Do apes produce metonymies?
    
    Published on 12 July 2017 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Do apes produce metonymies?
    
    Published on 12 July 2017 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Conviction, persuasion and manipulation: the ethical dimension of epistemic vigilance
    
    Published on 10 March 2017 — Category: Blog (Johannes Mahr)
  • “True self” Journal Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 01 March 2017 — Category: 'True self' Journal Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • “True self” Journal Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 24 February 2017 — Category: 'True self' Journal Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • Article for November: Probabilistic pragmatics
    
    Published on 26 November 2016 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Why would Japanese spirits haunt toilets and ghosts hitchhike? [Halloween special]
    
    Published on 02 November 2016 — Category: Blog (Helena Miton)
  • How not to combine ethnography and experiments in the study of moral judgment
    
    Published on 05 June 2016 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • How not to combine ethnography and experiments in the study of moral judgment
    
    Published on 02 June 2016 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Cultural variation in the mitigation of moral judgments
    
    Published on 26 May 2016 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • The Evolution of Evolutionary Psychology
    
    Published on 10 March 2016 — Category: 'The Shape of Thought' Book Club (Daniel Burnston)
  • The Evolution of Evolutionary Psychology
    
    Published on 07 March 2016 — Category: 'The Shape of Thought' Book Club (Daniel Burnston)
  • The Evolution of Evolutionary Psychology
    
    Published on 05 March 2016 — Category: 'The Shape of Thought' Book Club (Daniel Burnston)
  • Inferential communication and information theory
    
    Published on 06 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Greg Bryant)
  • Inferential communication and information theory
    
    Published on 06 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Greg Bryant)
  • A closer look at communication among our closest relatives
    
    Published on 04 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Katja Liebal)
  • Cats, tacs and kunvenshuns
    
    Published on 03 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Tim Wharton)
  • Inferential communication and information theory
    
    Published on 02 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Greg Bryant)
  • Inferential communication and information theory
    
    Published on 02 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Greg Bryant)
  • Key notions in the study of communication
    
    Published on 23 June 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Dan Sperber)
  • Why reading minds is not like reading words
    
    Published on 23 January 2015 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)
  • Why reading minds is not like reading words
    
    Published on 22 January 2015 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)
  • Culture: A scientific idea ready for retirement?
    
    Published on 07 January 2015 — Category: Blog (Alberto Acerbi)
  • Culture: A scientific idea ready for retirement?
    
    Published on 06 January 2015 — Category: Blog (Alberto Acerbi)
  • The ‘gratitude trap’ where Hungarian patients keep falling
    
    Published on 23 May 2013 — Category: Blog (Denis Tatone)
  • We are not intuitive monists — but then, what are we?
    
    Published on 26 January 2013 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Why do mathematicians always agree?
    
    Published on 06 December 2012 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • Religious beliefs: Matter of fact or of preference?
    
    Published on 19 October 2012 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Religious beliefs: Matter of fact or of preference?
    
    Published on 09 October 2012 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Are we sure we can groom beyond Dunbar’s number?
    
    Published on 07 June 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Guillaume Dezecache)
  • What’s the point of talking to your child?
    
    Published on 17 February 2012 — Category: Blog (Alex Cristia)
  • Modularity and decision making
    
    Published on 05 July 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Adam Smith (1723-1790) on ultimate and proximate causes in psychology
    
    Published on 30 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Adam Smith (1723 – 1790) on intuitive and reflective processes
    
    Published on 29 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • History of social sciences week!
    
    Published on 27 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Words or Deeds
    
    Published on 28 March 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • What is anthropology about?
    
    Published on 02 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Rita Astuti)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 23 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 23 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Human avoidance in pointing: a cultural universal?
    
    Published on 21 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Emmanuel Dupoux)
  • György Gergely on genericity
    
    Published on 30 December 2010 — Category: Pedagogy Week (György Gergely)
  • György Gergely on genericity
    
    Published on 30 December 2010 — Category: Pedagogy Week (György Gergely)
  • György Gergely on genericity
    
    Published on 21 December 2010 — Category: Pedagogy Week (György Gergely)
  • György Gergely on genericity
    
    Published on 15 December 2010 — Category: Pedagogy Week (György Gergely)
  • György Gergely on genericity
    
    Published on 06 December 2010 — Category: Pedagogy Week (György Gergely)
  • Can Antropologists and other Cognitive Scientist live together?
    
    Published on 22 September 2010 — Category: Blog (Maurice Bloch)
  • Opacity tasting with Dan and Maurice
    
    Published on 03 August 2010 — Category: Blog (György Gergely)
  • Block and Kitcher review What Darwin Got Wrong by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini
    
    Published on 02 July 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • “Oy vey, have you got the wrong vampire!” A reply to Frans de Waal
    
    Published on 28 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • “Oy vey, have you got the wrong vampire!” A reply to Frans de Waal
    
    Published on 24 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • The self in ‘face’ and ‘dignity’ cultures
    
    Published on 15 June 2010 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)
  • The self in ‘face’ and ‘dignity’ cultures
    
    Published on 13 June 2010 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)
  • Believing Maurice Bloch on doubting, doubting him on believing
    
    Published on 13 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Believing Maurice Bloch on doubting, doubting him on believing
    
    Published on 08 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Innocents fornicating and apes grieving
    
    Published on 30 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Why do we make our tastes public?
    
    Published on 30 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Learning and prestige among chimpanzees
    
    Published on 22 May 2010 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)
  • Innocents fornicating and apes grieving
    
    Published on 19 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Innocents fornicating and apes grieving
    
    Published on 10 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Are variations in economic games really caused by culture?
    
    Published on 03 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Are variations in economic games really caused by culture?
    
    Published on 03 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Endorsing evolution: A matter of authority?
    
    Published on 01 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Are variations in economic games really caused by culture?
    
    Published on 01 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Endorsing evolution: A matter of authority?
    
    Published on 01 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Are variations in economic games really caused by culture?
    
    Published on 01 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • On the Use of Natural Experiments in Anthropology
    
    Published on 08 April 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Learn about Social Neuroscience
    
    Published on 25 March 2010 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)
  • Is the “problem of evil” universal?
    
    Published on 21 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Block and Kitcher review What Darwin Got Wrong by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini
    
    Published on 21 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Cultural differences and linguistic justice
    
    Published on 16 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Block and Kitcher review What Darwin Got Wrong by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini
    
    Published on 04 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Religion science: if you pay the piper, do you call the tune?
    
    Published on 21 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Four recipes for religion
    
    Published on 17 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)
  • Mad in America
    
    Published on 25 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Ophelia Deroy)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 22 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Jingle Bell – Punjabi Tadka
    
    Published on 30 December 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • “I read Playboy for the articles”
    
    Published on 30 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Is the spell broken? Reflections on evolutionary debunking and religious beliefs
    
    Published on 20 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Grieving animals?
    
    Published on 13 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Meaning in sounds?
    
    Published on 16 September 2009 — Category: Blog (Simon Barthelme)
  • The quest for Jesus
    
    Published on 12 September 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • The interpretive process
    
    Published on 26 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Success or Prestige? Hunters’ cultural biases
    
    Published on 30 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • How I found glaring errors in Einstein’s calculations
    
    Published on 04 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Interpretive traditions
    
    Published on 29 March 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Pictures of the week: Culture and Cognition in Cetaceans
    
    Published on 18 March 2009 — Category: Blog (Anik Boileau)
  • What is an institution, that people may participate in it?
    
    Published on 09 March 2009 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cross-cultural differences in risk taking
    
    Published on 08 March 2009 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • How persistent are intuitive (erroneous) beliefs?
    
    Published on 08 March 2009 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • The relevance of cognitive relevance for students of culture
    
    Published on 13 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • “Math professor figures formula for Beatles success”
    
    Published on 07 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Noga Arikha)
  • How automatic are human social skills?
    
    Published on 29 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • A case for the Cognitive principle of relevance
    
    Published on 24 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Scots, Birds, and Names
    
    Published on 16 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Why do we sometimes de-humanize our fellow humans? Some preliminary reflections
    
    Published on 09 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)
  • A case for the Cognitive principle of relevance
    
    Published on 07 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Picture of the week: Rebuilding a house among the Zafimaniry… and rethinking cognitive approaches
    
    Published on 03 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Maurice Bloch)
  • The Wisdom of Whores
    
    Published on 15 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss: the first 100 years
    
    Published on 04 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss: the first 100 years
    
    Published on 04 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • “Times Higher Ed”, stop muddying the waters
    
    Published on 02 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Michael Stewart)
  • Do we bend it like Beckham?
    
    Published on 30 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss: the first 100 years
    
    Published on 30 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss: the first 100 years
    
    Published on 29 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • “You work in WHAT field?”
    
    Published on 27 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicola Knight)
  • Are humans intuitive dualists?
    
    Published on 18 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Paulo Sousa)
  • Community and Religion: poor predictors of the bliss of nations
    
    Published on 14 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Are humans intuitive dualists?
    
    Published on 31 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Paulo Sousa)
  • Tasty food for anthropological thought
    
    Published on 29 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Picture of the week: enteromancy among the Dorze of Southern Ethiopia
    
    Published on 28 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Maori Memories
    
    Published on 26 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Maori Memories
    
    Published on 26 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Ideas of immanent justice in cognition and culture
    
    Published on 23 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Cognition, Culture and Caricature
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Daniel Burnston

  • Angles of Approach
    
    Published on 15 March 2016 — Category: 'The Shape of Thought' Book Club (Clark Barrett)
  • The Evolution of Evolutionary Psychology
    
    Published on 09 March 2016 — Category: 'The Shape of Thought' Book Club (Daniel Burnston)

• Darren Sherkat

  • Religion science: if you pay the piper, do you call the tune?
    
    Published on 02 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Religion science: if you pay the piper, do you call the tune?
    
    Published on 02 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)

• David Adger

  • Cats, tacs and kunvenshuns
    
    Published on 14 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Tim Wharton)
  • Cats, tacs and kunvenshuns
    
    Published on 04 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Tim Wharton)

• David Kyle

  • Cognitive Migration
    
    Published on 13 April 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)

• David Wengrow

  • The tale of the three-headed snail
    
    Published on 28 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Olivier Morin)
  • The tale of the three-headed snail
    
    Published on 28 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Olivier Morin)
  • Can cultural epidemiology explain the cultural evolution of monsters?
    
    Published on 28 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Karolina Prochownik)
  • Your very own monster creation kit
    
    Published on 26 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Mathieu Charbonneau)
  • The Origins of Monsters: A Précis
    
    Published on 26 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (David Wengrow)
  • Your very own monster creation kit
    
    Published on 24 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Mathieu Charbonneau)
  • Your very own monster creation kit
    
    Published on 22 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Mathieu Charbonneau)
  • The Stamped, Sealed and Delivered Riddle of the Sphinx
    
    Published on 22 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Erhard Schüttpelz)
  • The Origins of Monsters: A Précis
    
    Published on 20 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (David Wengrow)
  • Chimaeras as attractors: Epidemiology and cultural variation
    
    Published on 19 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Pascal Boyer)
  • The Speculative Origins of Monsters
    
    Published on 17 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Alberto Acerbi)
  • Comment on David Wengrow’s The Origins of Monsters
    
    Published on 15 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Jeremy Tanner)
  • A comment on The Origins of Monsters
    
    Published on 13 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Maurice Bloch)
  • The Origins of Monsters: A Précis
    
    Published on 11 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (David Wengrow)

• Davie Yoon

  • This year’s Edge question
    
    Published on 07 May 2014 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • What’s the point of talking to your child?
    
    Published on 19 June 2012 — Category: Blog (Alex Cristia)
  • Robin Dunbar vs. Pop Dunbar
    
    Published on 07 June 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Olivier Morin)
  • What’s the point of talking to your child?
    
    Published on 19 February 2012 — Category: Blog (Alex Cristia)
  • False choice: Is the underrepresentation of women in science by choice or by discrimination?
    
    Published on 01 April 2011 — Category: Blog (Davie Yoon)
  • False choice: Is the underrepresentation of women in science by choice or by discrimination?
    
    Published on 29 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Davie Yoon)
  • False choice: Is the underrepresentation of women in science by choice or by discrimination?
    
    Published on 29 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Davie Yoon)
  • “Neurobabble” vs Real Science
    
    Published on 23 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Davie Yoon)
  • “Neurobabble” vs Real Science
    
    Published on 22 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Davie Yoon)
  • “Neurobabble” vs Real Science
    
    Published on 22 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Davie Yoon)
  • How much trust should we put in experimental results?
    
    Published on 10 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • The Smurf Studies: Do 7-month-olds have a
    
    Published on 03 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Davie Yoon)
  • György Gergely on genericity
    
    Published on 31 December 2010 — Category: Pedagogy Week (György Gergely)
  • “Neurobabble” vs Real Science
    
    Published on 27 December 2010 — Category: Blog (Davie Yoon)
  • György Gergely on genericity
    
    Published on 16 December 2010 — Category: Pedagogy Week (György Gergely)
  • György Gergely on genericity
    
    Published on 11 December 2010 — Category: Pedagogy Week (György Gergely)
  • Natural pedagogy and A-not-B tasks
    
    Published on 01 December 2010 — Category: Pedagogy Week (Marion Vorms)

• Deirdre McCloskey

  • Bourgeois Dignity: what doesn’t explain the industrial revolution
    
    Published on 15 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Bourgeois Dignity: what doesn’t explain the industrial revolution
    
    Published on 23 December 2010 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)

• Denis Dutton

  • The Art Instinct : Denis Dutton replies to Roberto Casati
    
    Published on 13 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 28 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)

• Denis Regnier

  • What is anthropology about?
    
    Published on 01 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Rita Astuti)
  • “You work in WHAT field?”
    
    Published on 29 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicola Knight)
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss: the first 100 years
    
    Published on 29 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • “You work in WHAT field?”
    
    Published on 18 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicola Knight)

• Denis Tatone

  • No “Thank You!”
    
    Published on 28 May 2018 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • No “Thank You!”
    
    Published on 25 May 2018 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • The ‘gratitude trap’ where Hungarian patients keep falling
    
    Published on 19 May 2013 — Category: Blog (Denis Tatone)
  • Meat-eating in the eyes of young vegetarians
    
    Published on 15 October 2012 — Category: Blog (Denis Tatone)
  • Robin Dunbar vs. Pop Dunbar
    
    Published on 06 June 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Olivier Morin)
  • Are we sure we can groom beyond Dunbar’s number?
    
    Published on 04 June 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Guillaume Dezecache)
  • Policing friendships. Lessons from the equine world
    
    Published on 17 March 2012 — Category: Blog (Denis Tatone)

• Dennis Augustine

  • Why do mathematicians always agree?
    
    Published on 12 January 2014 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)

• Dennis Smith

  • Atheist clergymen and belief in belief
    
    Published on 30 January 2012 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)

• Diana Mazzarella

  • Rethinking ostension: (1) A terminological issue
    
    Published on 08 February 2018 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Diego Rios

  • Why do academics oppose capitalism?
    
    Published on 21 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do academics oppose capitalism?
    
    Published on 15 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)

• Dimitris Xygalatas

  • Beta-blocker erases fear response related to bad memories
    
    Published on 17 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Dimitris Xygalatas)

• Don Gardner

  • Religious beliefs: Matter of fact or of preference?
    
    Published on 06 November 2012 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Do people ever engage in “magical thinking” ?
    
    Published on 22 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Do people ever engage in “magical thinking” ?
    
    Published on 20 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Do people ever engage in “magical thinking” ?
    
    Published on 20 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • If “Religion is natural”, what about atheism?
    
    Published on 10 April 2011 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 05 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• Donald Strong

  • Cross-cultural variation in creationism
    
    Published on 07 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)

• Dwight Read

  • Culture: A scientific idea ready for retirement?
    
    Published on 27 April 2015 — Category: Blog (Alberto Acerbi)
  • Kinship, theology and deep grammar
    
    Published on 21 May 2014 — Category: Blog (Carles Salazar)
  • Is kinship back?
    
    Published on 30 March 2013 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Is kinship back?
    
    Published on 30 March 2013 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Are we sure we can groom beyond Dunbar’s number?
    
    Published on 17 July 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Guillaume Dezecache)

• Ellen Mellon

  • Conversation Hackers
    
    Published on 13 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)

• Elmer Rich III

  • The R-word: “Racism” across the political spectrum
    
    Published on 18 November 2016 — Category: Blog (Brent Strickland)
  • Does Prospect Theory explain Trump and Brexit votes?
    
    Published on 18 November 2016 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)

• Emilio Blanco

  • Why do we make our tastes public?
    
    Published on 25 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)

• Emma Cohen

  • Epistemic vigilance… and epistemic recklessness
    
    Published on 12 August 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Epistemic vigilance… and epistemic recklessness
    
    Published on 09 August 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Anthropology is not a science, says the AAA
    
    Published on 04 December 2010 — Category: Blog (Benson Saler)
  • Cultural differences and linguistic justice
    
    Published on 16 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • There is no such thing as sexual intercourse
    
    Published on 08 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Four recipes for religion
    
    Published on 01 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)
  • Mad in America
    
    Published on 27 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Ophelia Deroy)
  • A question about polemics
    
    Published on 03 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Grieving animals?
    
    Published on 01 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Individual recognition in horses, monkeys and humans
    
    Published on 21 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Are humans intuitive dualists? Mitch Hodge replies.
    
    Published on 16 January 2009 — Category: Blog (K. Mitch Hodge)
  • Are humans intuitive dualists? Mitch Hodge replies.
    
    Published on 14 January 2009 — Category: Blog (K. Mitch Hodge)
  • Are humans intuitive dualists?
    
    Published on 07 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Paulo Sousa)
  • Are humans intuitive dualists?
    
    Published on 07 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Paulo Sousa)
  • Are humans intuitive dualists?
    
    Published on 06 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Paulo Sousa)

• Emmanuel Lazinier

  • Mèng Zǐ (372 – 289 BCE) on the moral organ
    
    Published on 07 January 2012 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Atheist clergymen and belief in belief
    
    Published on 07 January 2012 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)

• Erhard Schüttpelz

  • The scope and flavours of cultural attraction theory
    
    Published on 30 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Denis Tatone)

• Eric Igou

  • Judgments and decisions based on attempts to disambiguate the given information
    
    Published on 12 June 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)

• Erplus Plus

  • Block and Kitcher review What Darwin Got Wrong by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini
    
    Published on 10 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Erte Xiao

  • Profit-Seeking Punishment Corrupts Norm Obedience
    
    Published on 16 February 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)

• Espen Malling

  • Can Antropologists and other Cognitive Scientist live together?
    
    Published on 14 September 2010 — Category: Blog (Maurice Bloch)

• Fernando Carvalho

  • Where and when did languages emerge? The answer
    
    Published on 19 April 2011 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)
  • Human avoidance in pointing: a cultural universal?
    
    Published on 23 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Emmanuel Dupoux)

• Florian Cova

  • Philippa Foot, Famous Philosopher, Unknown Anthropologist (1920-2010)
    
    Published on 22 October 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)

• Francois Pris

  • The R-word: “Racism” across the political spectrum
    
    Published on 28 August 2016 — Category: Blog (Brent Strickland)

• Frank Bellamy

  • Cross-cultural variation in creationism
    
    Published on 05 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)

• Gabriel Gutiu

  • Why are human beings so interested in explaining misfortune?
    
    Published on 25 August 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• Garett Jones

  • The future of human cooperation: Some minuscule evidence
    
    Published on 25 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Gavin Weston

  • Robin Dunbar vs. Pop Dunbar
    
    Published on 13 June 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Olivier Morin)
  • Robin Dunbar vs. Pop Dunbar
    
    Published on 08 June 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Olivier Morin)

• Gergely Csibra

  • Children’s grasp of the aspectuality of beliefs: the Sefo task revisited
    
    Published on 16 May 2018 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)
  • Essentialist animals?
    
    Published on 06 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Beta-blocker erases fear response related to bad memories
    
    Published on 17 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Dimitris Xygalatas)
  • Individual recognition in horses, monkeys and humans
    
    Published on 21 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • “No evidence of Human Mirror Neurons”
    
    Published on 13 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)

• Giovanni Pezzulo

  • A case for the Cognitive principle of relevance
    
    Published on 04 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • A case for the Cognitive principle of relevance
    
    Published on 09 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)

• Gloria Origgi

  • The space of reasons and the generation of knowledge
    
    Published on 19 December 2018 — Category: Blog (Stefaan Blancke)
  • “True self” Journal Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 01 March 2017 — Category: 'True self' Journal Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • Innocents fornicating and apes grieving
    
    Published on 18 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Gordon Ingram

  • Why don’t people like markets?
    
    Published on 28 June 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • What’s the point of talking to your child?
    
    Published on 13 February 2012 — Category: Blog (Alex Cristia)
  • Are humans innately bad social scientists?
    
    Published on 26 January 2012 — Category: Alphapsy Archives (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Do people ever engage in “magical thinking” ?
    
    Published on 20 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Do people ever engage in “magical thinking” ?
    
    Published on 20 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • If “Religion is natural”, what about atheism?
    
    Published on 08 April 2011 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • A question about polemics
    
    Published on 06 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)

• Greg Bryant

  • Rethinking ostension: (2) Attention manipulation
    
    Published on 08 March 2018 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Inferential communication and information theory
    
    Published on 06 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Greg Bryant)
  • Inferential communication and information theory
    
    Published on 06 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Greg Bryant)
  • Inferential communication and information theory
    
    Published on 06 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Greg Bryant)

• Guido Corneille

  • There is no such thing as sexual intercourse
    
    Published on 15 November 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• Guillaume Dezecache

  • Do chimpanzees really care about equity?
    
    Published on 02 September 2017 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • The ‘gratitude trap’ where Hungarian patients keep falling
    
    Published on 18 May 2013 — Category: Blog (Denis Tatone)
  • Meat-eating in the eyes of young vegetarians
    
    Published on 15 October 2012 — Category: Blog (Denis Tatone)
  • Are we sure we can groom beyond Dunbar’s number?
    
    Published on 18 June 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Guillaume Dezecache)
  • Are we sure we can groom beyond Dunbar’s number?
    
    Published on 07 June 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Guillaume Dezecache)
  • Are we sure we can groom beyond Dunbar’s number?
    
    Published on 05 June 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Guillaume Dezecache)
  • Does God’s omnipotence extend to vision?
    
    Published on 02 November 2010 — Category: Blog (Guillaume Dezecache)
  • Creative pairs
    
    Published on 23 September 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• György Gergely

  • György Gergely on genericity
    
    Published on 28 December 2010 — Category: Pedagogy Week (György Gergely)

• Hady Ba

  • Bourgeois Dignity: what doesn’t explain the industrial revolution
    
    Published on 21 December 2010 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)

• Hal Morris

  • The design of institutions & the design of the mind
    
    Published on 10 August 2022 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • The design of institutions & the design of the mind
    
    Published on 09 August 2022 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • Why assholes are more likely to be wrong
    
    Published on 09 August 2022 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Ubiquitous yet nowhere to be found: on the Invisible Hand’s success
    
    Published on 04 June 2020 — Category: Blog (Helena Miton)
  • Board games, intuitive monopolists, and pedagogical Georgists
    
    Published on 03 June 2020 — Category: Blog (Radu Umbres)
  • Quiet online spaces as a form of mutualistic nudging for our hyper-networked world
    
    Published on 03 June 2020 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Signalling signalhood as a means of protest
    
    Published on 09 June 2019 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • How human are the dehumanised?
    
    Published on 06 December 2017 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • Can teleology explain why very young children help a mistaken agent?
    
    Published on 01 December 2017 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)
  • Can teleology explain why very young children help a mistaken agent?
    
    Published on 26 November 2017 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)
  • Article for December: Population size does not explain past changes in cultural complexity (?)
    
    Published on 19 December 2016 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Intending to speak our mind, and speaking our mind
    
    Published on 30 June 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Mathieu Charbonneau)
  • Mind-Body Dualism as Applied to Supernatural Agents: The (Dead) Emperor’s New Mind or Chicken Little
    
    Published on 22 June 2015 — Category: Blog (K. Mitch Hodge)
  • Why is misinformation so sticky?
    
    Published on 18 June 2015 — Category: Blog (Gloria Origgi)
  • Is the moral-economic fallacy universal?
    
    Published on 18 June 2013 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• Harvey Whitehouse

  • Four recipes for religion
    
    Published on 27 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)

• Helen De Cruz

  • ‘Big Gods’ book club #2: Analytic atheism and the puzzle of apologetic
    
    Published on 11 December 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Helen De Cruz)
  • ‘Big Gods’ book club #2: Analytic atheism and the puzzle of apologetic
    
    Published on 10 December 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Helen De Cruz)
  • We are not intuitive monists — but then, what are we?
    
    Published on 31 January 2013 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • We are not intuitive monists — but then, what are we?
    
    Published on 27 January 2013 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Religious beliefs: Matter of fact or of preference?
    
    Published on 09 October 2012 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Why are human beings so interested in explaining misfortune?
    
    Published on 07 September 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Fast lemons and intuitive beliefs
    
    Published on 09 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Ophelia Deroy)
  • Theology and cognitive science
    
    Published on 06 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • David Hume, the anthropologist, born May 7, 1711
    
    Published on 04 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • David Hume, the anthropologist, born May 7, 1711
    
    Published on 31 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • David Hume, the anthropologist, born May 7, 1711
    
    Published on 08 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • False choice: Is the underrepresentation of women in science by choice or by discrimination?
    
    Published on 27 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Davie Yoon)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 23 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • The Zeus problem revisited – or is it the Jedi problem?
    
    Published on 26 November 2010 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Video games as applied anthropology
    
    Published on 24 November 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Video games as applied anthropology
    
    Published on 24 November 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Endorsing evolution: A matter of authority?
    
    Published on 01 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Varieties of disbelief
    
    Published on 15 April 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Is the spell broken? Reflections on evolutionary debunking and religious beliefs
    
    Published on 19 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Cross-cultural variation in creationism
    
    Published on 05 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Paleolithic art: awesome — but not religious
    
    Published on 24 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • How persistent are intuitive (erroneous) beliefs?
    
    Published on 23 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Is Saint Nicholas a god?
    
    Published on 09 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Did Settlement Have Cognitive Consequences?
    
    Published on 08 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Maori Memories
    
    Published on 26 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Cases of institutions that make us smart
    
    Published on 02 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • On essentialism
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Rita Astuti)
  • The debate over maths in the Amazon: still counting points
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)

• Helena Miton

  • Scientific aesthetics, sacred values, and interdisciplinary collaborations
    
    Published on 14 November 2018 — Category: Blog (Helena Miton)
  • What it took for break-up songs to become cultural items
    
    Published on 10 October 2017 — Category: Blog (Helena Miton)
  • Why would Japanese spirits haunt toilets and ghosts hitchhike? [Halloween special]
    
    Published on 05 November 2016 — Category: Blog (Helena Miton)
  • Cow-tipping, and the strange performativity of ‘scientific studies’ – and cultural transmission
    
    Published on 04 November 2016 — Category: Blog (Helena Miton)
  • Cow-tipping, and the strange performativity of ‘scientific studies’ – and cultural transmission
    
    Published on 29 October 2016 — Category: Blog (Helena Miton)

• Helga Vierich-Drever

  • Friends
    
    Published on 29 January 2018 — Category: Blog (Helga Vierich-Drever)
  • Friends
    
    Published on 29 January 2018 — Category: Blog (Helga Vierich-Drever)

• Hillary Lenfesty

  • Do people ever engage in “magical thinking” ?
    
    Published on 22 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Do people ever engage in “magical thinking” ?
    
    Published on 22 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• Hugo Mercier

  • The design of institutions & the design of the mind
    
    Published on 20 June 2021 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • “Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age” Book Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 08 July 2020 — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • “Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age” Book Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 03 July 2020 — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • Blatant bias and blood libel
    
    Published on 29 January 2019 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Blind imitation or a matter of taste?
    
    Published on 20 January 2019 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Cultures of academic (dis)agreement
    
    Published on 20 November 2018 — Category: Blog (Radu Umbres)
  • Governments should more frequently publish CO₂ emissions data: Leveraging human psychology to fight climate change
    
    Published on 20 November 2018 — Category: Blog (Brent Strickland)
  • Beheadings as honest communication devices
    
    Published on 17 August 2018 — Category: Blog (Radu Umbres)
  • “So you’re saying … we should live like lobsters?” or: Why does politics make us stupid?
    
    Published on 01 February 2018 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Is submentalizing part of the genetic tool-kit of human social cognition?
    
    Published on 22 December 2017 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)
  • How human are the dehumanised?
    
    Published on 05 December 2017 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • How human are the dehumanised?
    
    Published on 04 December 2017 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • Are liberals too dumb to understand this? Virtue signaling in the age of outrage advertising
    
    Published on 16 November 2017 — Category: Blog (Brent Strickland)
  • We may be thinking about it all wrong
    
    Published on 22 September 2017 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Cow-tipping, and the strange performativity of ‘scientific studies’ – and cultural transmission
    
    Published on 29 October 2016 — Category: Blog (Helena Miton)
  • Chimaeras as attractors: Epidemiology and cultural variation
    
    Published on 24 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Pascal Boyer)
  • Chimaeras as attractors: Epidemiology and cultural variation
    
    Published on 23 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Pascal Boyer)
  • No communication without reputation, no reputation without communication
    
    Published on 23 June 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Olivier Morin)
  • No communication without reputation, no reputation without communication
    
    Published on 23 June 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Olivier Morin)
  • No communication without reputation, no reputation without communication
    
    Published on 23 June 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Olivier Morin)
  • Why reading minds is not like reading words
    
    Published on 09 February 2015 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)
  • ‘Big Gods’ book club #2: Analytic atheism and the puzzle of apologetic
    
    Published on 10 December 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Helen De Cruz)
  • Why don’t people like markets?
    
    Published on 18 June 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why are human beings so interested in explaining misfortune?
    
    Published on 23 August 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why are human beings so interested in explaining misfortune?
    
    Published on 21 August 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Epistemic vigilance… and epistemic recklessness
    
    Published on 11 August 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Uncovering and Punishing Unconscious Bias
    
    Published on 08 August 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Epistemic vigilance… and epistemic recklessness
    
    Published on 08 August 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Social influences on self-control
    
    Published on 05 August 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Social influences on self-control
    
    Published on 03 August 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Framing, defaults, trust
    
    Published on 18 July 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Modularity and decision making
    
    Published on 04 July 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Smith (1723-1790) on innateness and cultural variability
    
    Published on 23 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Introduction – Reasoning as a social device
    
    Published on 17 June 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Judgments and decisions based on attempts to disambiguate the given information
    
    Published on 11 June 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • David Hume, the anthropologist, born May 7, 1711
    
    Published on 03 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • The cost of collaboration
    
    Published on 22 May 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Exploiting the wisdom of others
    
    Published on 18 May 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Exploiting the wisdom of others
    
    Published on 09 May 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Moral Compensation and the Environment
    
    Published on 25 April 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • What the judge ate for breakfast
    
    Published on 13 April 2011 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Cognitive Migration
    
    Published on 11 April 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Words or Deeds
    
    Published on 28 March 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Instrumentality Boosts Gratitude
    
    Published on 17 March 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Instrumentality Boosts Gratitude
    
    Published on 14 March 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Instrumentality Boosts Gratitude
    
    Published on 14 March 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Strategies for coping with questionable decisions
    
    Published on 23 February 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Strategies for coping with questionable decisions
    
    Published on 22 February 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Strategies for coping with questionable decisions
    
    Published on 21 February 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Human avoidance in pointing: a cultural universal?
    
    Published on 16 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Emmanuel Dupoux)
  • Profit-Seeking Punishment Corrupts Norm Obedience
    
    Published on 14 February 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Bourgeois Dignity: what doesn’t explain the industrial revolution
    
    Published on 15 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • How much trust should we put in experimental results?
    
    Published on 09 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Bourgeois Dignity: what doesn’t explain the industrial revolution
    
    Published on 24 December 2010 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Why do academics oppose capitalism?
    
    Published on 24 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do academics oppose capitalism?
    
    Published on 22 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • The social rationality of footballers
    
    Published on 30 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • There is no such thing as sexual intercourse
    
    Published on 10 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • There is no such thing as sexual intercourse
    
    Published on 09 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Altruistic adoption in chimpanzees?
    
    Published on 04 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 29 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Conversation Hackers
    
    Published on 12 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • “I read Playboy for the articles”
    
    Published on 16 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Elinor Ostrom: Nobel Prize in Anthropology!
    
    Published on 13 October 2009 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • The Evolution of God?
    
    Published on 13 July 2009 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Inverse correlation between norms and behaviour?
    
    Published on 08 July 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss: the first 100 years
    
    Published on 30 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Journalistic teleology
    
    Published on 27 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Noga Arikha)
  • Cold and warm relationships: A universal metaphor?
    
    Published on 11 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Picture of the week: a Sangaku
    
    Published on 10 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Maori Memories
    
    Published on 26 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)

• Hugo Viciana

  • David Hume, the anthropologist, born May 7, 1711
    
    Published on 08 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Human avoidance in pointing: a cultural universal?
    
    Published on 18 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Emmanuel Dupoux)
  • How many minutes does it take for social norms to inhibit survival instinct?
    
    Published on 11 March 2010 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)

• Ijah Towa

  • Fame!
    
    Published on 02 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Ophelia Deroy)

• Ilan Yaniv

  • Exploiting the wisdom of others
    
    Published on 17 May 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)

• Ilkka Pyysiäinen

  • Is the moral-economic fallacy universal?
    
    Published on 31 December 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why don’t people like markets?
    
    Published on 10 July 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Theology and cognitive science
    
    Published on 01 July 2011 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 28 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • The Zeus Problem
    
    Published on 09 August 2010 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)
  • Heaven before the space age
    
    Published on 10 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Learn about Social Neuroscience
    
    Published on 26 March 2010 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)
  • Four recipes for religion
    
    Published on 19 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)
  • Four recipes for religion
    
    Published on 17 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)
  • Four recipes for religion
    
    Published on 01 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)
  • Four recipes for religion
    
    Published on 31 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)
  • Inverse correlation between norms and behaviour?
    
    Published on 24 August 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Culture and Perception, part II: The Muller-Lyer illusion
    
    Published on 13 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Simon Barthelme)
  • Culture and Perception, part II: The Muller-Lyer illusion
    
    Published on 13 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Simon Barthelme)
  • Why does sneezing elicit blessing?
    
    Published on 22 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Is Saint Nicholas a god?
    
    Published on 09 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Is Saint Nicholas a god?
    
    Published on 07 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • “No evidence of Human Mirror Neurons”
    
    Published on 12 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Are humans intuitive dualists?
    
    Published on 11 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Paulo Sousa)

• Jacky Kuman

  • Homeopathy as witchcraft
    
    Published on 25 November 2014 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)

• Jacob Lee

  • How much trust should we put in experimental results?
    
    Published on 12 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Philippa Foot, Famous Philosopher, Unknown Anthropologist (1920-2010)
    
    Published on 21 October 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Paul the Octopus, relevance and the joy of superstition
    
    Published on 16 July 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Homeopathy as witchcraft
    
    Published on 12 July 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 18 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• James Winters

  • The sky is falling: negativity bias in social transmission
    
    Published on 06 July 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Modularity and Recombination in Technological Evolution
    
    Published on 13 June 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for February: All forms of writing
    
    Published on 17 February 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for January: Iconicity and the Emergence of Combinatorial Structure in Language
    
    Published on 17 February 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for January: Iconicity and the Emergence of Combinatorial Structure in Language
    
    Published on 13 February 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for November: Probabilistic pragmatics
    
    Published on 28 November 2016 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for September: Image, Memory and Ritual: Re-viewing the Antecedents of Writing
    
    Published on 16 October 2016 — Category: Blog (The Mint)

• Jan Engelmann

  • Do chimpanzees really care about equity?
    
    Published on 06 September 2017 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Do chimpanzees really care about equity?
    
    Published on 03 September 2017 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Do chimpanzees really care about equity?
    
    Published on 03 September 2017 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)

• Jap Dhesi

  • “I read Playboy for the articles”
    
    Published on 03 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • “I read Playboy for the articles”
    
    Published on 30 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss: the first 100 years
    
    Published on 29 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Jason Slone

  • The Zeus Problem
    
    Published on 21 September 2010 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)

• Jayarava Attwood

  • A debate on Robin Dunbar’s social brain hypothesis
    
    Published on 04 June 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Olivier Morin)
  • Are we sure we can groom beyond Dunbar’s number?
    
    Published on 04 June 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Guillaume Dezecache)

• Jean-Baptiste André

  • Article for December: Population size does not explain past changes in cultural complexity (?)
    
    Published on 13 January 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Why are human beings so interested in explaining misfortune?
    
    Published on 20 September 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why do we make our tastes public?
    
    Published on 27 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Some like it hot
    
    Published on 26 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Ophelia Deroy)
  • Elinor Ostrom: Nobel Prize in Anthropology!
    
    Published on 14 October 2009 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why does sneezing elicit blessing?
    
    Published on 20 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • A case for the Cognitive principle of relevance
    
    Published on 06 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • A case for the Cognitive principle of relevance
    
    Published on 06 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Do we bend it like Beckham?
    
    Published on 26 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)

• Jean-Baptiste Quillien

  • Social influences on self-control
    
    Published on 28 September 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)

• Jennifer Jordan

  • Moral Compensation and the Environment
    
    Published on 11 May 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Moral Compensation and the Environment
    
    Published on 10 May 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)

• Jeremy Mousset

  • Innocents fornicating and apes grieving
    
    Published on 28 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Innocents fornicating and apes grieving
    
    Published on 28 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Grieving animals?
    
    Published on 22 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Inverse correlation between norms and behaviour?
    
    Published on 25 August 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Inverse correlation between norms and behaviour?
    
    Published on 21 August 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Jerome Pesenti

  • How much trust should we put in experimental results?
    
    Published on 13 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • How much trust should we put in experimental results?
    
    Published on 13 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)

• Jesper Soerensen

  • Do people ever engage in “magical thinking” ?
    
    Published on 27 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 28 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • The Zeus problem revisited – or is it the Jedi problem?
    
    Published on 30 November 2010 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Is Saint Nicholas a god?
    
    Published on 10 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Is Saint Nicholas a god?
    
    Published on 08 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Community and Religion: poor predictors of the bliss of nations
    
    Published on 15 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)

• Jim Royer

  • Birthers, Obama, and conflicting intuitions
    
    Published on 30 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• Joe Kable

  • Social influences on self-control
    
    Published on 04 August 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)

• Joel Mort

  • “So you’re saying … we should live like lobsters?” or: Why does politics make us stupid?
    
    Published on 02 February 2018 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• Johannes Mahr

  • Conviction, persuasion and manipulation: the ethical dimension of epistemic vigilance
    
    Published on 10 March 2017 — Category: Blog (Johannes Mahr)

• John Michael

  • Is submentalizing part of the genetic tool-kit of human social cognition?
    
    Published on 06 January 2018 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)

• Joseph Carroll

  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 01 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 01 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 30 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 30 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 28 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)

• Joshua Howard

  • Block and Kitcher review What Darwin Got Wrong by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini
    
    Published on 09 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• José-Luis Guijarro

  • Do apes produce metonymies?
    
    Published on 12 July 2017 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Do apes produce metonymies?
    
    Published on 10 July 2017 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • What explains foxhole theism?
    
    Published on 16 April 2012 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • What it is about women?
    
    Published on 22 February 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Where and when did languages emerge? The answer
    
    Published on 18 April 2011 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)
  • Cultural relativism: Another victim of Arab revolutions?
    
    Published on 11 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 03 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • An action suit, not a straightjacket: Whorf on language, Guy Deutscher on Whorf
    
    Published on 08 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Nick Enfield)
  • An action suit, not a straightjacket: Whorf on language, Guy Deutscher on Whorf
    
    Published on 07 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Nick Enfield)
  • Denis Dutton (1944-2010)
    
    Published on 13 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • “Oy vey, have you got the wrong vampire!” A reply to Frans de Waal
    
    Published on 25 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Why do academics oppose capitalism?
    
    Published on 23 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Believing Maurice Bloch on doubting, doubting him on believing
    
    Published on 05 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Doubting among the Zafimaniry
    
    Published on 20 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Maurice Bloch)
  • Block and Kitcher review What Darwin Got Wrong by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini
    
    Published on 21 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Block and Kitcher review What Darwin Got Wrong by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini
    
    Published on 14 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 05 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 04 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 02 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 31 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 31 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 29 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 28 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 27 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 22 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Na’vi Cognition and Culture
    
    Published on 20 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Gloria Origgi reviews Jon Elster’s
    
    Published on 01 October 2009 — Category: Blog (Gloria Origgi)
  • The Chameleon effect in Capuchin Monkeys
    
    Published on 23 September 2009 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Claidière)
  • Inverse correlation between norms and behaviour?
    
    Published on 06 July 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • The Art Instinct : Denis Dutton replies to Roberto Casati
    
    Published on 03 June 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • The Art Instinct : Denis Dutton replies to Roberto Casati
    
    Published on 25 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • The Art Instinct : Denis Dutton replies to Roberto Casati
    
    Published on 13 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • The Art Instinct : Denis Dutton replies to Roberto Casati
    
    Published on 12 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • The interpretive process
    
    Published on 08 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 07 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 05 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 05 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 02 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 02 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 01 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 01 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 01 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 30 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 30 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 30 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 29 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 28 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • How Grandma stopped worrying, and started to love cognitive anthropology
    
    Published on 16 March 2009 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Tasty food for anthropological thought
    
    Published on 03 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Julia Minson

  • The cost of collaboration
    
    Published on 31 May 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)

• Justin Lane

  • Culture: A scientific idea ready for retirement?
    
    Published on 15 January 2015 — Category: Blog (Alberto Acerbi)

• Justin Smith

  • Is philosophy universal?
    
    Published on 23 September 2010 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)

• K. Mitch Hodge

  • Mind-Body Dualism as Applied to Supernatural Agents: The (Dead) Emperor’s New Mind or Chicken Little
    
    Published on 23 June 2015 — Category: Blog (K. Mitch Hodge)
  • Mind-Body Dualism as Applied to Supernatural Agents: The (Dead) Emperor’s New Mind or Chicken Little
    
    Published on 12 June 2015 — Category: Blog (K. Mitch Hodge)
  • Culture: A scientific idea ready for retirement?
    
    Published on 07 January 2015 — Category: Blog (Alberto Acerbi)
  • We are not intuitive monists — but then, what are we?
    
    Published on 30 January 2013 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • If “Religion is natural”, what about atheism?
    
    Published on 12 April 2011 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • If “Religion is natural”, what about atheism?
    
    Published on 07 April 2011 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 14 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 05 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 01 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 01 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 23 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Are humans intuitive dualists? Mitch Hodge replies.
    
    Published on 15 January 2009 — Category: Blog (K. Mitch Hodge)
  • Are humans intuitive dualists? Mitch Hodge replies.
    
    Published on 12 January 2009 — Category: Blog (K. Mitch Hodge)
  • Are humans intuitive dualists?
    
    Published on 06 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Paulo Sousa)

• Karen Lofstrom

  • Why are human beings so interested in explaining misfortune?
    
    Published on 13 August 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • The self in ‘face’ and ‘dignity’ cultures
    
    Published on 22 June 2010 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)
  • The self in ‘face’ and ‘dignity’ cultures
    
    Published on 15 June 2010 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)
  • The self in ‘face’ and ‘dignity’ cultures
    
    Published on 13 June 2010 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)
  • Is the spell broken? Reflections on evolutionary debunking and religious beliefs
    
    Published on 19 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Scylla and Charybdis
    
    Published on 16 August 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Inverse correlation between norms and behaviour?
    
    Published on 29 June 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Kate Devitt

  • Experimental evidence for the Broken Window Theory
    
    Published on 17 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Claidière)
  • Magic and inference
    
    Published on 03 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)

• Konrad Talmont-Kaminski

  • What it is about women?
    
    Published on 20 February 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Epistemic vigilance… and epistemic recklessness
    
    Published on 09 August 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Do people ever engage in “magical thinking” ?
    
    Published on 22 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 24 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • What’s wrong, in the end, with Homo Œconomicus?
    
    Published on 24 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • What’s wrong, in the end, with Homo Œconomicus?
    
    Published on 03 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • The evolutionary and cognitive basis of the cultural success of garbage trucks among western toddler
    
    Published on 28 December 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • The Zeus problem revisited – or is it the Jedi problem?
    
    Published on 04 December 2010 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Paul Rozin on what psychologists should study
    
    Published on 02 August 2010 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Cultural differences and linguistic justice
    
    Published on 17 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Religion science: if you pay the piper, do you call the tune?
    
    Published on 13 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Block and Kitcher review What Darwin Got Wrong by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini
    
    Published on 13 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Religion science: if you pay the piper, do you call the tune?
    
    Published on 20 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • How cultural is cultural epidemiology? 2. Cultural embedding
    
    Published on 27 August 2007 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)

• Ksenia Galina

  • Institutions again – What is a primitive society?
    
    Published on 03 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Institutions again – What is a primitive society?
    
    Published on 01 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• Laetitia Debruyne

  • Homeopathy as witchcraft
    
    Published on 07 July 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)

• Liz Irvine

  • Combinatoriality and codes
    
    Published on 30 June 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Liz Irvine)

• Louis De Saussure

  • Rethinking ostension: (1) A terminological issue
    
    Published on 07 February 2018 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Lucien Dontask

  • Why does sneezing elicit blessing?
    
    Published on 22 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Why does sneezing elicit blessing?
    
    Published on 19 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Why does sneezing elicit blessing?
    
    Published on 18 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Why does sneezing elicit blessing?
    
    Published on 18 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Why does sneezing elicit blessing?
    
    Published on 18 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Why does sneezing elicit blessing?
    
    Published on 18 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • The color of dreams
    
    Published on 06 January 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • The color of dreams
    
    Published on 03 January 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • The color of dreams
    
    Published on 02 January 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • The color of dreams
    
    Published on 30 December 2007 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Culture and Cognition
    
    Published on 22 December 2007 — Category: Blog (Maurice Bloch)
  • Culture and Cognition
    
    Published on 22 December 2007 — Category: Blog (Maurice Bloch)
  • Are minimally counter-intuitive concepts more memorable for young children?
    
    Published on 17 December 2007 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Cartoon Faces
    
    Published on 10 December 2007 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Cartoon Faces
    
    Published on 08 December 2007 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Are minimally counter-intuitive concepts more memorable for young children?
    
    Published on 26 November 2007 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Are minimally counter-intuitive concepts more memorable for young children?
    
    Published on 24 November 2007 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)

• Lucy Fisher

  • There is no such thing as sexual intercourse
    
    Published on 30 August 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• László Király

  • The Speculative Origins of Monsters
    
    Published on 18 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Alberto Acerbi)
  • Why do mathematicians always agree?
    
    Published on 18 August 2014 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • What’s the point of talking to your child?
    
    Published on 21 March 2014 — Category: Blog (Alex Cristia)
  • The ‘gratitude trap’ where Hungarian patients keep falling
    
    Published on 21 May 2013 — Category: Blog (Denis Tatone)
  • Why do mathematicians always agree?
    
    Published on 29 March 2013 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • Why don’t people like markets?
    
    Published on 08 March 2013 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Is the moral-economic fallacy universal?
    
    Published on 22 December 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Is the moral-economic fallacy universal?
    
    Published on 28 November 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Is the moral-economic fallacy universal?
    
    Published on 20 November 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Religious beliefs: Matter of fact or of preference?
    
    Published on 19 October 2012 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Meat-eating in the eyes of young vegetarians
    
    Published on 15 October 2012 — Category: Blog (Denis Tatone)
  • Why don’t people like markets?
    
    Published on 15 July 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why don’t people like markets?
    
    Published on 28 June 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • What it is about women?
    
    Published on 24 February 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • What it is about women?
    
    Published on 21 February 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Are humans innately bad social scientists?
    
    Published on 28 January 2012 — Category: Alphapsy Archives (Nicolas Baumard)
  • History of social sciences week!
    
    Published on 24 January 2012 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Atheist clergymen and belief in belief
    
    Published on 25 October 2011 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Why are human beings so interested in explaining misfortune?
    
    Published on 21 September 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why are human beings so interested in explaining misfortune?
    
    Published on 30 August 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why are human beings so interested in explaining misfortune?
    
    Published on 28 August 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • False choice: Is the underrepresentation of women in science by choice or by discrimination?
    
    Published on 26 August 2011 — Category: Blog (Davie Yoon)
  • Why are human beings so interested in explaining misfortune?
    
    Published on 23 August 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why are human beings so interested in explaining misfortune?
    
    Published on 22 August 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • The evolutionary and cognitive basis of the cultural success of garbage trucks among western toddler
    
    Published on 28 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Fast lemons and intuitive beliefs
    
    Published on 20 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Ophelia Deroy)
  • Fast lemons and intuitive beliefs
    
    Published on 10 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Ophelia Deroy)
  • Fast lemons and intuitive beliefs
    
    Published on 07 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Ophelia Deroy)
  • Theology and cognitive science
    
    Published on 06 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Do people ever engage in “magical thinking” ?
    
    Published on 20 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Do people ever engage in “magical thinking” ?
    
    Published on 19 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Birthers, Obama, and conflicting intuitions
    
    Published on 16 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Birthers, Obama, and conflicting intuitions
    
    Published on 23 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cultural relativism: Another victim of Arab revolutions?
    
    Published on 11 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Cultural relativism: Another victim of Arab revolutions?
    
    Published on 11 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 27 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 26 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 24 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Human avoidance in pointing: a cultural universal?
    
    Published on 20 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Emmanuel Dupoux)
  • An action suit, not a straightjacket: Whorf on language, Guy Deutscher on Whorf
    
    Published on 20 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Nick Enfield)
  • An action suit, not a straightjacket: Whorf on language, Guy Deutscher on Whorf
    
    Published on 20 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Nick Enfield)
  • “Neurobabble” vs Real Science
    
    Published on 23 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Davie Yoon)
  • Learning suicide in Sri Lanka
    
    Published on 11 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Tom Widger)
  • Anthropology is not a science, says the AAA
    
    Published on 05 December 2010 — Category: Blog (Benson Saler)
  • Anthropology is not a science, says the AAA
    
    Published on 03 December 2010 — Category: Blog (Benson Saler)
  • Anthropology is not a science, says the AAA
    
    Published on 01 December 2010 — Category: Blog (Benson Saler)
  • Does God’s omnipotence extend to vision?
    
    Published on 24 October 2010 — Category: Blog (Guillaume Dezecache)
  • Why pink? Color matters
    
    Published on 29 September 2010 — Category: Blog (Ophelia Deroy)
  • What if there had never been a Cognitive Revolution?
    
    Published on 10 September 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Homeopathy as witchcraft
    
    Published on 09 July 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do academics oppose capitalism?
    
    Published on 03 July 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • The sacredness of God
    
    Published on 28 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Why do academics oppose capitalism?
    
    Published on 20 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do academics oppose capitalism?
    
    Published on 18 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do academics oppose capitalism?
    
    Published on 18 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do academics oppose capitalism?
    
    Published on 18 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do we make our tastes public?
    
    Published on 25 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do we make our tastes public?
    
    Published on 25 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do we make our tastes public?
    
    Published on 25 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Is there a language instinct?
    
    Published on 14 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Is there a language instinct?
    
    Published on 12 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • camphor – ammonia = anniseed x peppermint
    
    Published on 12 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • camphor – ammonia = anniseed x peppermint
    
    Published on 10 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Heaven before the space age
    
    Published on 10 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Cultural differences and linguistic justice
    
    Published on 20 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Elinor Ostrom: Nobel Prize in Anthropology!
    
    Published on 05 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Better live in Sweden than in the US: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
    
    Published on 05 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Better live in Sweden than in the US: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
    
    Published on 22 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Religion science: if you pay the piper, do you call the tune?
    
    Published on 22 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Better live in Sweden than in the US: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
    
    Published on 14 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Better live in Sweden than in the US: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
    
    Published on 14 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • There is no such thing as sexual intercourse
    
    Published on 13 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • There is no such thing as sexual intercourse
    
    Published on 12 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • There is no such thing as sexual intercourse
    
    Published on 10 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • How I found glaring errors in Einstein’s calculations
    
    Published on 10 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • There is no such thing as sexual intercourse
    
    Published on 09 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Na’vi Cognition and Culture
    
    Published on 21 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Culture and Perception, part II: The Muller-Lyer illusion
    
    Published on 16 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Simon Barthelme)
  • Cross potatoes
    
    Published on 11 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • The universality of music: Cross-cultural comparison, the recognition of emotions, and the influence
    
    Published on 28 December 2009 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Conversation Hackers
    
    Published on 16 December 2009 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Is the spell broken? Reflections on evolutionary debunking and religious beliefs
    
    Published on 18 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • The quest for Jesus
    
    Published on 14 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Is a universal Michelin Guide possible?
    
    Published on 07 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • A question about polemics
    
    Published on 02 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Japanese smileys vs. Ekman faces
    
    Published on 03 September 2009 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • How much of a difference does culture make ?
    
    Published on 02 September 2009 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • How much of a difference does culture make ?
    
    Published on 31 August 2009 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Japanese smileys vs. Ekman faces
    
    Published on 31 August 2009 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Linguistic Epidemiology – Part 1, Units of analysis
    
    Published on 26 August 2009 — Category: Blog (Nick Enfield)
  • Linguistic Epidemiology – Part 1, Units of analysis
    
    Published on 22 August 2009 — Category: Blog (Nick Enfield)
  • How cultural is cultural epidemiology? 1. Enculturation
    
    Published on 31 July 2009 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • Anthropology in crisis – what, still?
    
    Published on 11 June 2009 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)
  • Anthropology in crisis – what, still?
    
    Published on 10 June 2009 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)
  • Anthropology in crisis – what, still?
    
    Published on 09 June 2009 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)
  • The Art Instinct : Denis Dutton replies to Roberto Casati
    
    Published on 30 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • The Art Instinct : Denis Dutton replies to Roberto Casati
    
    Published on 23 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Cumulative culture in the lab and chimpanzees
    
    Published on 11 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Cross-cultural variation in creationism
    
    Published on 09 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Cross-cultural variation in creationism
    
    Published on 09 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Cross-cultural variation in creationism
    
    Published on 06 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Cross-cultural variation in creationism
    
    Published on 05 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Cross-cultural variation in creationism
    
    Published on 05 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 03 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 02 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 01 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 30 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 27 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • How I found glaring errors in Einstein’s calculations
    
    Published on 24 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Institutions again – What is a primitive society?
    
    Published on 12 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • What about cognition and society?
    
    Published on 15 March 2009 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Culture and Perception
    
    Published on 01 March 2009 — Category: Blog (Simon Barthelme)
  • Culture and Perception
    
    Published on 28 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Simon Barthelme)
  • Culture and Perception, part II: The Muller-Lyer illusion
    
    Published on 09 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Simon Barthelme)
  • Astounding! Readers use their imagination when reading
    
    Published on 04 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • A case for the Cognitive principle of relevance
    
    Published on 22 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Why do we sometimes de-humanize our fellow humans? Some preliminary reflections
    
    Published on 23 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)
  • Experimental evidence for the Broken Window Theory
    
    Published on 17 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Claidière)
  • Is a universal Michelin Guide possible?
    
    Published on 14 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Is Saint Nicholas a god?
    
    Published on 09 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Is Saint Nicholas a god?
    
    Published on 08 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Culture and Perception
    
    Published on 05 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Simon Barthelme)
  • Culture and Perception
    
    Published on 02 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Simon Barthelme)
  • “You work in WHAT field?”
    
    Published on 28 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicola Knight)
  • Your brain needs a British headmistress
    
    Published on 20 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Michael Stewart)
  • Your brain needs a British headmistress
    
    Published on 20 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Michael Stewart)
  • Picture of the week: Is fieldwork ecologically valid?
    
    Published on 08 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Charles Stafford)
  • Are humans intuitive dualists?
    
    Published on 06 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Paulo Sousa)
  • Picture of the week: Is fieldwork ecologically valid?
    
    Published on 06 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Charles Stafford)
  • Magic and inference
    
    Published on 03 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Magic and inference
    
    Published on 03 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Are humans intuitive dualists?
    
    Published on 01 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Paulo Sousa)
  • Maori Memories
    
    Published on 27 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Abortion puzzles, part two
    
    Published on 18 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Abortion puzzles, part two
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Crime without Punishment?
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicola Knight)
  • Crime without Punishment?
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicola Knight)
  • On essentialism
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Rita Astuti)
  • Does God’s omnipotence extend to vision?
    
    Published on 18 October 2010 — Category: Blog (Guillaume Dezecache)

• Maciek Chudek

  • What is an institution, that people may participate in it?
    
    Published on 16 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• Mads Solberg

  • Claude Lévi-Strauss: the first 100 years
    
    Published on 29 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Manuel Bohn

  • Do apes produce metonymies?
    
    Published on 16 July 2017 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Do apes produce metonymies?
    
    Published on 11 July 2017 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Martin Fortier

  • The Origins of Monsters: A Précis
    
    Published on 14 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (David Wengrow)
  • The Origins of Monsters: A Précis
    
    Published on 14 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (David Wengrow)

• Martin Stehberger

  • Rethinking ostension: (1) A terminological issue
    
    Published on 09 February 2018 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Exit Ghost?
    
    Published on 05 September 2016 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • ‘Big Gods’ book club #1 — Skeptical thoughts
    
    Published on 11 December 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Olivier Morin)
  • ‘Big Gods’ book club #5: Remarks on the two puzzles
    
    Published on 18 June 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do mathematicians always agree?
    
    Published on 30 December 2012 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • Why do mathematicians always agree?
    
    Published on 13 December 2012 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • Why do mathematicians always agree?
    
    Published on 05 December 2012 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • Is the moral-economic fallacy universal?
    
    Published on 05 December 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why don’t people like markets?
    
    Published on 16 July 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • What explains foxhole theism?
    
    Published on 24 April 2012 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • What explains foxhole theism?
    
    Published on 05 April 2012 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Why are human beings so interested in explaining misfortune?
    
    Published on 23 August 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• Mathieu Charbonneau

  • “Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age” Book Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 08 July 2020 — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • Modularity and Recombination in Technological Evolution
    
    Published on 20 June 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Modularity and Recombination in Technological Evolution
    
    Published on 11 June 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Your very own monster creation kit
    
    Published on 23 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Mathieu Charbonneau)
  • Cultural attraction, “standard” cultural evolution, and language
    
    Published on 25 June 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Alberto Acerbi)

• Matthew Sullivan

  • What about cognition and society?
    
    Published on 11 July 2009 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)

• Maurice Bloch

  • David Hume, the anthropologist, born May 7, 1711
    
    Published on 18 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Pointing among the Yucatec Maya. A reply to Emmanuel Dupoux
    
    Published on 31 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Olivier Le Guen)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 05 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • What is anthropology about?
    
    Published on 05 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Rita Astuti)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 22 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Creative pairs
    
    Published on 22 September 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Believing Maurice Bloch on doubting, doubting him on believing
    
    Published on 07 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Doubting among the Zafimaniry
    
    Published on 25 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Maurice Bloch)
  • Religion science: if you pay the piper, do you call the tune?
    
    Published on 19 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Four recipes for religion
    
    Published on 19 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)
  • Four recipes for religion
    
    Published on 01 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)
  • Four recipes for religion
    
    Published on 31 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)
  • Four recipes for religion
    
    Published on 26 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss: the first 100 years
    
    Published on 23 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Did Settlement Have Cognitive Consequences?
    
    Published on 23 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)

• Mauricio De Jesus Martins

  • “So you’re saying … we should live like lobsters?” or: Why does politics make us stupid?
    
    Published on 01 February 2018 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• Mauricio Martins

  • Blind imitation or a matter of taste?
    
    Published on 15 January 2019 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • “All options remain open” – or why would one signal a lack of commitment?
    
    Published on 11 June 2018 — Category: Blog (Bahador Bahrami and Ophelia Deroy)

• Michael Berthin

  • What it is about women?
    
    Published on 21 February 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Human avoidance in pointing: a cultural universal?
    
    Published on 03 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Emmanuel Dupoux)

• Mika Armenta

  • “So you’re saying … we should live like lobsters?” or: Why does politics make us stupid?
    
    Published on 08 February 2018 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• Milo Price

  • Conversation Hackers
    
    Published on 21 December 2009 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)

• Mo S

  • Rethinking ostension: (2) Attention manipulation
    
    Published on 09 March 2018 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Moin Rahman

  • Introduction – Reasoning as a social device
    
    Published on 15 June 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 25 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• Muhammad Afzal Upal

  • Claude Lévi-Strauss: the first 100 years
    
    Published on 02 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Nadya Vasilyeva

  • Individual recognition in horses, monkeys and humans
    
    Published on 26 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • On essentialism
    
    Published on 23 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Rita Astuti)

• Natalia Buitron-Arias

  • Human avoidance in pointing: a cultural universal?
    
    Published on 27 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Emmanuel Dupoux)

• Natalie Emmons

  • Mind-Body Dualism as Applied to Supernatural Agents: The (Dead) Emperor’s New Mind or Chicken Little
    
    Published on 12 June 2015 — Category: Blog (K. Mitch Hodge)

• Neuro Skeptic

  • “I read Playboy for the articles”
    
    Published on 25 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • A question about polemics
    
    Published on 03 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Japanese smileys vs. Ekman faces
    
    Published on 02 September 2009 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)

• Nicholas Allott

  • Natural language and the language of thought
    
    Published on 03 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Deirdre Wilson)

• Nicholas Smyth

  • There is no such thing as sexual intercourse
    
    Published on 30 August 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• Nick Argall

  • Conversation Hackers
    
    Published on 30 December 2009 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)

• Nick Connolly

  • Why are human beings so interested in explaining misfortune?
    
    Published on 21 September 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why are human beings so interested in explaining misfortune?
    
    Published on 12 September 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Do people ever engage in “magical thinking” ?
    
    Published on 20 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• Nick Enfield

  • An action suit, not a straightjacket: Whorf on language, Guy Deutscher on Whorf
    
    Published on 06 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Nick Enfield)
  • Proper names in mind, language and culture
    
    Published on 26 October 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Nicola Knight

  • Anthropology in crisis – what, still?
    
    Published on 09 June 2009 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)
  • Why does sneezing elicit blessing?
    
    Published on 21 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Is Saint Nicholas a god?
    
    Published on 07 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss: the first 100 years
    
    Published on 28 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • “You work in WHAT field?”
    
    Published on 28 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicola Knight)
  • “You work in WHAT field?”
    
    Published on 18 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicola Knight)
  • Cold and warm relationships: A universal metaphor?
    
    Published on 10 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Ideas of immanent justice in cognition and culture
    
    Published on 22 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Abortion puzzles, part two
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Crime without Punishment?
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicola Knight)
  • Crime without Punishment?
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicola Knight)
  • Crime without Punishment?
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicola Knight)

• Nicolas Baumard

  • Policing friendships. Lessons from the equine world
    
    Published on 16 March 2012 — Category: Blog (Denis Tatone)
  • What it is about women?
    
    Published on 21 February 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • What it is about women?
    
    Published on 21 February 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • History of social sciences week!
    
    Published on 24 January 2012 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • The evolutionary and cognitive basis of the cultural success of garbage trucks among western toddler
    
    Published on 29 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Mèng Zǐ (372 – 289 BCE) on the moral organ
    
    Published on 28 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Smith (1723-1790) on innateness and cultural variability
    
    Published on 24 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Fast lemons and intuitive beliefs
    
    Published on 17 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Ophelia Deroy)
  • Fast lemons and intuitive beliefs
    
    Published on 09 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Ophelia Deroy)
  • Theology and cognitive science
    
    Published on 25 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • David Hume, the anthropologist, born May 7, 1711
    
    Published on 09 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Moral Compensation and the Environment
    
    Published on 09 May 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • Words or Deeds
    
    Published on 29 March 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)
  • False choice: Is the underrepresentation of women in science by choice or by discrimination?
    
    Published on 27 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Davie Yoon)
  • False choice: Is the underrepresentation of women in science by choice or by discrimination?
    
    Published on 27 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Davie Yoon)
  • Cultural relativism: Another victim of Arab revolutions?
    
    Published on 11 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • What’s wrong, in the end, with Homo Œconomicus?
    
    Published on 04 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cultural differences and linguistic justice
    
    Published on 28 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • How much trust should we put in experimental results?
    
    Published on 13 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • How much trust should we put in experimental results?
    
    Published on 10 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • The evolutionary and cognitive basis of the cultural success of garbage trucks among western toddler
    
    Published on 29 December 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Death, where is thy sting ?
    
    Published on 09 December 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Video games as applied anthropology
    
    Published on 24 November 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why pink? Color matters
    
    Published on 10 September 2010 — Category: Blog (Ophelia Deroy)
  • Why pink? Color matters
    
    Published on 08 September 2010 — Category: Blog (Ophelia Deroy)
  • Paul Rozin on what psychologists should study
    
    Published on 07 August 2010 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Homeopathy as witchcraft
    
    Published on 12 July 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • The sacredness of God
    
    Published on 28 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Why do academics oppose capitalism?
    
    Published on 15 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do we make our tastes public?
    
    Published on 31 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do we make our tastes public?
    
    Published on 28 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do we make our tastes public?
    
    Published on 26 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do we make our tastes public?
    
    Published on 25 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do we make our tastes public?
    
    Published on 25 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Are variations in economic games really caused by culture?
    
    Published on 03 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Are variations in economic games really caused by culture?
    
    Published on 02 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • The social rationality of footballers
    
    Published on 29 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Do only humans share with non-kin?
    
    Published on 15 March 2010 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)
  • How many minutes does it take for social norms to inhibit survival instinct?
    
    Published on 10 March 2010 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)
  • Better live in Sweden than in the US: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
    
    Published on 23 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • There is no such thing as sexual intercourse
    
    Published on 09 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 26 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Na’vi Cognition and Culture
    
    Published on 19 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • The cultural group selection hypothesis
    
    Published on 23 October 2009 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)
  • In praise of neuroscience (for once)
    
    Published on 12 July 2009 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • How persistent are intuitive (erroneous) beliefs?
    
    Published on 24 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Do economic games tell us something about real behaviours?
    
    Published on 18 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • What about cognition and society?
    
    Published on 07 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • “You work in WHAT field?”
    
    Published on 18 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicola Knight)
  • Abortion puzzles, part two
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)

• Nicolas Claidière

  • Experimental evidence for the Broken Window Theory
    
    Published on 19 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Claidière)

• Nicolas Delon

  • Philippa Foot, Famous Philosopher, Unknown Anthropologist (1920-2010)
    
    Published on 26 October 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)

• Nicolas Pain

  • The dawn of “culturomics”
    
    Published on 11 January 2011 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)
  • The dawn of “culturomics”
    
    Published on 09 January 2011 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)
  • camphor – ammonia = anniseed x peppermint
    
    Published on 15 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)

• Nima Mussavifard

  • Rethinking ostension: (1) A terminological issue
    
    Published on 08 February 2018 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Nina Strohminger

  • “True self” Journal Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 15 March 2017 — Category: 'True self' Journal Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • “True self” Journal Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 27 February 2017 — Category: 'True self' Journal Club (Tiffany Morisseau)

• Olivier Le Guen

  • Human avoidance in pointing: a cultural universal?
    
    Published on 18 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Emmanuel Dupoux)

• Olivier Massin

  • Is the moral-economic fallacy universal?
    
    Published on 26 February 2013 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)

• Olivier Morin

  • Sensitivity to shared information in social learning
    
    Published on 18 August 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Modularity and Recombination in Technological Evolution
    
    Published on 06 June 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Random drift and culture change
    
    Published on 25 May 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for February: All forms of writing
    
    Published on 15 February 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for January: Iconicity and the Emergence of Combinatorial Structure in Language
    
    Published on 13 February 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for January: Iconicity and the Emergence of Combinatorial Structure in Language
    
    Published on 13 February 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for December: Population size does not explain past changes in cultural complexity (?)
    
    Published on 10 January 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for November: Probabilistic pragmatics
    
    Published on 24 November 2016 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for October: Pragmatic Choice in Conversation
    
    Published on 26 October 2016 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Exit Ghost?
    
    Published on 05 September 2016 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • The Evolution of Evolutionary Psychology
    
    Published on 07 March 2016 — Category: 'The Shape of Thought' Book Club (Daniel Burnston)
  • The tale of the three-headed snail
    
    Published on 28 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Olivier Morin)
  • The tale of the three-headed snail
    
    Published on 28 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Olivier Morin)
  • Your very own monster creation kit
    
    Published on 24 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Mathieu Charbonneau)
  • Chimaeras as attractors: Epidemiology and cultural variation
    
    Published on 23 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Pascal Boyer)
  • Chimaeras as attractors: Epidemiology and cultural variation
    
    Published on 23 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Pascal Boyer)
  • Chimaeras as attractors: Epidemiology and cultural variation
    
    Published on 19 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (Pascal Boyer)
  • The Origins of Monsters: A Précis
    
    Published on 14 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (David Wengrow)
  • The Origins of Monsters: A Précis
    
    Published on 14 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (David Wengrow)
  • The Origins of Monsters: A Précis
    
    Published on 10 January 2016 — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club (David Wengrow)
  • Communication without Metapsychology
    
    Published on 05 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Tad Zawidzki)
  • Inferential communication and information theory
    
    Published on 01 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Greg Bryant)
  • No communication without reputation, no reputation without communication
    
    Published on 23 June 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Olivier Morin)
  • Culture: A scientific idea ready for retirement?
    
    Published on 05 January 2015 — Category: Blog (Alberto Acerbi)
  • Kinship, theology and deep grammar
    
    Published on 13 May 2014 — Category: Blog (Carles Salazar)
  • ‘Big Gods’ book club #1 — Skeptical thoughts
    
    Published on 13 December 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Olivier Morin)
  • ‘Big Gods’ book club #2: Analytic atheism and the puzzle of apologetic
    
    Published on 10 December 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Helen De Cruz)
  • Is the moral-economic fallacy universal?
    
    Published on 20 November 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Why don’t people like markets?
    
    Published on 18 July 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Are we sure we can groom beyond Dunbar’s number?
    
    Published on 12 June 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Guillaume Dezecache)
  • Are we sure we can groom beyond Dunbar’s number?
    
    Published on 11 June 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Guillaume Dezecache)
  • Are we sure we can groom beyond Dunbar’s number?
    
    Published on 11 June 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Guillaume Dezecache)
  • Robin Dunbar vs. Pop Dunbar
    
    Published on 11 June 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Olivier Morin)
  • Robin Dunbar vs. Pop Dunbar
    
    Published on 06 June 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Olivier Morin)
  • A debate on Robin Dunbar’s social brain hypothesis
    
    Published on 04 June 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Olivier Morin)
  • What it is about women?
    
    Published on 21 February 2012 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Are humans innately bad social scientists?
    
    Published on 26 January 2012 — Category: Alphapsy Archives (Nicolas Baumard)
  • An epidemiology-of-representations solution to a WWII shipwreck mystery
    
    Published on 17 November 2011 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Atheist clergymen and belief in belief
    
    Published on 24 October 2011 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Fast lemons and intuitive beliefs
    
    Published on 06 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Ophelia Deroy)
  • Theology and cognitive science
    
    Published on 06 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Theology and cognitive science
    
    Published on 03 June 2011 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Theology and cognitive science
    
    Published on 25 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • David Hume, the anthropologist, born May 7, 1711
    
    Published on 08 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Cultural relativism: Another victim of Arab revolutions?
    
    Published on 11 March 2011 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • An action suit, not a straightjacket: Whorf on language, Guy Deutscher on Whorf
    
    Published on 05 February 2011 — Category: Blog (Nick Enfield)
  • “Neurobabble” vs Real Science
    
    Published on 23 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Davie Yoon)
  • How much trust should we put in experimental results?
    
    Published on 13 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • How much trust should we put in experimental results?
    
    Published on 10 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • How much trust should we put in experimental results?
    
    Published on 10 January 2011 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • The dawn of “culturomics”
    
    Published on 09 January 2011 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)
  • The dawn of “culturomics”
    
    Published on 05 January 2011 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)
  • “Neurobabble” vs Real Science
    
    Published on 28 December 2010 — Category: Blog (Davie Yoon)
  • György Gergely on genericity
    
    Published on 22 December 2010 — Category: Pedagogy Week (György Gergely)
  • “Neurobabble” vs Real Science
    
    Published on 21 December 2010 — Category: Blog (Davie Yoon)
  • György Gergely on genericity
    
    Published on 20 December 2010 — Category: Pedagogy Week (György Gergely)
  • The Zeus problem revisited – or is it the Jedi problem?
    
    Published on 26 November 2010 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Why pink? Color matters
    
    Published on 11 September 2010 — Category: Blog (Ophelia Deroy)
  • The self in ‘face’ and ‘dignity’ cultures
    
    Published on 10 August 2010 — Category: Blog (The ICCI Team)
  • What if there had never been a Cognitive Revolution?
    
    Published on 30 July 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • What if there had never been a Cognitive Revolution?
    
    Published on 03 July 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do academics oppose capitalism?
    
    Published on 21 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do academics oppose capitalism?
    
    Published on 16 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do academics oppose capitalism?
    
    Published on 15 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Why do academics oppose capitalism?
    
    Published on 14 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Innocents fornicating and apes grieving
    
    Published on 28 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Doubting among the Zafimaniry
    
    Published on 24 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Maurice Bloch)
  • camphor – ammonia = anniseed x peppermint
    
    Published on 18 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Are variations in economic games really caused by culture?
    
    Published on 03 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Are variations in economic games really caused by culture?
    
    Published on 02 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Are variations in economic games really caused by culture?
    
    Published on 01 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Cultural differences and linguistic justice
    
    Published on 15 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Religion science: if you pay the piper, do you call the tune?
    
    Published on 27 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Better live in Sweden than in the US: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
    
    Published on 14 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Altruistic adoption in chimpanzees?
    
    Published on 04 February 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 24 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Na’vi Cognition and Culture
    
    Published on 19 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Conversation Hackers
    
    Published on 14 January 2010 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Some like it hot
    
    Published on 26 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Ophelia Deroy)
  • Is the spell broken? Reflections on evolutionary debunking and religious beliefs
    
    Published on 18 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • “I read Playboy for the articles”
    
    Published on 15 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • g Tum-mo heat meditation
    
    Published on 09 October 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Meaning in sounds?
    
    Published on 15 September 2009 — Category: Blog (Simon Barthelme)
  • Anthropology in crisis – what, still?
    
    Published on 08 June 2009 — Category: Blog (Harvey Whitehouse)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 12 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • The interpretand
    
    Published on 07 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Success or Prestige? Hunters’ cultural biases
    
    Published on 04 May 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Success or Prestige? Hunters’ cultural biases
    
    Published on 30 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Success or Prestige? Hunters’ cultural biases
    
    Published on 30 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 29 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Roberto Casati)
  • How I found glaring errors in Einstein’s calculations
    
    Published on 01 April 2009 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • 10,000 Year Danger Marker?
    
    Published on 19 March 2009 — Category: Blog (Colin Holbrook)
  • What is an institution, that people may participate in it?
    
    Published on 03 March 2009 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Paleolithic art: awesome — but not religious
    
    Published on 27 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • How persistent are intuitive (erroneous) beliefs?
    
    Published on 24 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • How persistent are intuitive (erroneous) beliefs?
    
    Published on 23 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Culture and Perception, part II: The Muller-Lyer illusion
    
    Published on 13 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Simon Barthelme)
  • Culture and Perception, part II: The Muller-Lyer illusion
    
    Published on 09 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Simon Barthelme)
  • “Math professor figures formula for Beatles success”
    
    Published on 07 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Noga Arikha)
  • Cartoon Faces
    
    Published on 02 February 2009 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Why does sneezing elicit blessing?
    
    Published on 18 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • “No evidence of Human Mirror Neurons”
    
    Published on 13 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Are humans intuitive dualists? Mitch Hodge replies.
    
    Published on 09 January 2009 — Category: Blog (K. Mitch Hodge)
  • A case for the Cognitive principle of relevance
    
    Published on 05 January 2009 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Cartoon Faces
    
    Published on 28 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Is a universal Michelin Guide possible?
    
    Published on 23 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Experimental evidence for the Broken Window Theory
    
    Published on 17 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Claidière)
  • Is Saint Nicholas a god?
    
    Published on 08 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Is Saint Nicholas a god?
    
    Published on 08 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Is Saint Nicholas a god?
    
    Published on 07 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Helen De Cruz)
  • Epidemiology of flu, epidemiology of names
    
    Published on 03 December 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Do we bend it like Beckham?
    
    Published on 30 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Fame!
    
    Published on 23 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Ophelia Deroy)
  • “You work in WHAT field?”
    
    Published on 18 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicola Knight)
  • Neuroanthropology or ethnographical neurosciences?
    
    Published on 17 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Community and Religion: poor predictors of the bliss of nations
    
    Published on 15 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Community and Religion: poor predictors of the bliss of nations
    
    Published on 15 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Intuitive fatalism: adaptation or by-product?
    
    Published on 15 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Picture of the week: a Sangaku
    
    Published on 10 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Are humans intuitive dualists?
    
    Published on 06 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Paulo Sousa)
  • “No evidence of Human Mirror Neurons”
    
    Published on 05 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Magic and inference
    
    Published on 04 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Magic and inference
    
    Published on 03 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Brian Malley)
  • Maori Memories
    
    Published on 26 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Abortion puzzles, part two
    
    Published on 24 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Ideas of immanent justice in cognition and culture
    
    Published on 22 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Abortion puzzles, part two
    
    Published on 21 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Abortion puzzles, part two
    
    Published on 21 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Cases of institutions that make us smart
    
    Published on 30 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)
  • Crime without Punishment?
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicola Knight)
  • Crime without Punishment?
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicola Knight)
  • Crime without Punishment?
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicola Knight)
  • Crime without Punishment?
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicola Knight)
  • The debate over maths in the Amazon: still counting points
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • On essentialism
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Rita Astuti)
  • Economic games in and out of the lab
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Nicolas Baumard)
  • Cognition, Culture and Caricature
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Culture and the Brain
    
    Published on 25 September 2008 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)

• Ophelia Deroy

  • Quiet online spaces as a form of mutualistic nudging for our hyper-networked world
    
    Published on 13 May 2020 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • “True self” Journal Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 10 March 2017 — Category: 'True self' Journal Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • David Hume, the anthropologist, born May 7, 1711
    
    Published on 09 May 2011 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Believing Maurice Bloch on doubting, doubting him on believing
    
    Published on 31 May 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Pascal Boyer

  • Cultures of academic (dis)agreement
    
    Published on 22 November 2018 — Category: Blog (Radu Umbres)
  • How Can a Painting Make One Lose One’s Faith?
    
    Published on 07 March 2018 — Category: Blog (Victoria Fomina)
  • Staring back at the evil eye
    
    Published on 16 February 2018 — Category: Blog (Radu Umbres)
  • “So you’re saying … we should live like lobsters?” or: Why does politics make us stupid?
    
    Published on 05 February 2018 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • Friends
    
    Published on 28 January 2018 — Category: Blog (Helga Vierich-Drever)
  • Culture: A scientific idea ready for retirement?
    
    Published on 07 January 2015 — Category: Blog (Alberto Acerbi)
  • Paul the Octopus, relevance and the joy of superstition
    
    Published on 15 July 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Pascal Engel

  • Truth among the…
    
    Published on 02 June 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Paul Thiem

  • “I read Playboy for the articles”
    
    Published on 24 April 2010 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Block and Kitcher review What Darwin Got Wrong by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini
    
    Published on 30 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Block and Kitcher review What Darwin Got Wrong by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini
    
    Published on 20 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Block and Kitcher review What Darwin Got Wrong by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini
    
    Published on 10 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Block and Kitcher review What Darwin Got Wrong by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini
    
    Published on 04 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Block and Kitcher review What Darwin Got Wrong by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini
    
    Published on 04 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Paulo Sousa

  • Conviction, persuasion and manipulation: the ethical dimension of epistemic vigilance
    
    Published on 10 March 2017 — Category: Blog (Johannes Mahr)
  • “True self” Journal Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 24 February 2017 — Category: 'True self' Journal Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • Believing Maurice Bloch on doubting, doubting him on believing
    
    Published on 09 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Are humans intuitive dualists? Mitch Hodge replies.
    
    Published on 11 January 2009 — Category: Blog (K. Mitch Hodge)
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss: the first 100 years
    
    Published on 30 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Ideas of immanent justice in cognition and culture
    
    Published on 22 October 2008 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Philippe Ramirez

  • Jingle Bell – Punjabi Tadka
    
    Published on 28 December 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Pierre Jacob

  • Are routine actions rational?
    
    Published on 24 October 2018 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Children’s grasp of the aspectuality of beliefs: the Sefo task revisited
    
    Published on 25 May 2018 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)
  • Why do we flip coins ? Random draws as personal decision-making devices under uncertainty
    
    Published on 23 March 2018 — Category: Blog (Bahador Bahrami and Ophelia Deroy)
  • Rethinking ostension: (2) Attention manipulation
    
    Published on 08 March 2018 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Is submentalizing part of the genetic tool-kit of human social cognition?
    
    Published on 07 January 2018 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)
  • Can teleology explain why very young children help a mistaken agent?
    
    Published on 29 November 2017 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)
  • Can teleology explain why very young children help a mistaken agent?
    
    Published on 21 November 2017 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)
  • Why reading minds is not like reading words
    
    Published on 13 February 2015 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)
  • Why reading minds is not like reading words
    
    Published on 08 February 2015 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)
  • Why reading minds is not like reading words
    
    Published on 23 January 2015 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)
  • Why reading minds is not like reading words
    
    Published on 23 January 2015 — Category: Blog (Pierre Jacob)

• Pierrick Bourrat

  • ‘Big Gods’ book club #3 : Testing more specific hypotheses and going beyond correlations in the origins and evolution of religious beliefs
    
    Published on 11 December 2013 — Category: 'Big Gods' book club (Pierrick Bourrat)

• Piers Kelly

  • Scientific aesthetics, sacred values, and interdisciplinary collaborations
    
    Published on 14 November 2018 — Category: Blog (Helena Miton)
  • The invention of cuneiform: Writing in Sumer
    
    Published on 11 December 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • The sky is falling: negativity bias in social transmission
    
    Published on 20 June 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Modularity and Recombination in Technological Evolution
    
    Published on 12 June 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Random drift and culture change
    
    Published on 17 May 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for February: All forms of writing
    
    Published on 27 February 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for January: Iconicity and the Emergence of Combinatorial Structure in Language
    
    Published on 14 February 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for January: Iconicity and the Emergence of Combinatorial Structure in Language
    
    Published on 03 February 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for December: Population size does not explain past changes in cultural complexity (?)
    
    Published on 15 December 2016 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for September: Image, Memory and Ritual: Re-viewing the Antecedents of Writing
    
    Published on 12 October 2016 — Category: Blog (The Mint)

• Radu Umbres

  • Public Relations Failures by Russian State Officials: A Botched Cultural Transmission?
    
    Published on 16 July 2020 — Category: Blog (Victoria Fomina)
  • Board games, intuitive monopolists, and pedagogical Georgists
    
    Published on 21 May 2020 — Category: Blog (Radu Umbres)
  • Cultures of academic (dis)agreement
    
    Published on 23 November 2018 — Category: Blog (Radu Umbres)
  • Cultures of academic (dis)agreement
    
    Published on 20 November 2018 — Category: Blog (Radu Umbres)
  • Governments should more frequently publish CO₂ emissions data: Leveraging human psychology to fight climate change
    
    Published on 16 November 2018 — Category: Blog (Brent Strickland)
  • Beheadings as honest communication devices
    
    Published on 20 August 2018 — Category: Blog (Radu Umbres)
  • Beheadings as honest communication devices
    
    Published on 17 August 2018 — Category: Blog (Radu Umbres)
  • How Can a Painting Make One Lose One’s Faith?
    
    Published on 09 March 2018 — Category: Blog (Victoria Fomina)
  • Staring back at the evil eye
    
    Published on 19 February 2018 — Category: Blog (Radu Umbres)
  • Friends
    
    Published on 22 January 2018 — Category: Blog (Helga Vierich-Drever)
  • How human are the dehumanised?
    
    Published on 05 December 2017 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • “True self” Journal Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 26 February 2017 — Category: 'True self' Journal Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • “Oy vey, have you got the wrong vampire!” A reply to Frans de Waal
    
    Published on 23 June 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Richard Moore

  • Exit Ghost?
    
    Published on 05 September 2016 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Exit Ghost?
    
    Published on 02 September 2016 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Exit Ghost?
    
    Published on 02 September 2016 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Exit Ghost?
    
    Published on 02 September 2016 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)
  • Why do children but not apes acquire language?
    
    Published on 23 June 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Richard Moore)

• Robert Kurzban

  • Modularity and decision making
    
    Published on 06 July 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)

• Romain Ligneul

  • Why do we flip coins ? Random draws as personal decision-making devices under uncertainty
    
    Published on 16 March 2018 — Category: Blog (Bahador Bahrami and Ophelia Deroy)

• Royston Snart

  • Language faculty? Semiotic system? Or what?
    
    Published on 29 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Grieving animals?
    
    Published on 14 November 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Saara Koikkalainen

  • Cognitive Migration
    
    Published on 12 April 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)

• Samuel Veissière

  • “True self” Journal Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 07 March 2017 — Category: 'True self' Journal Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • “True self” Journal Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 03 March 2017 — Category: 'True self' Journal Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • The true self and the situation
    
    Published on 14 February 2017 — Category: 'True self' Journal Club (Simon Cullen)
  • Does Prospect Theory explain Trump and Brexit votes?
    
    Published on 15 November 2016 — Category: Blog (Christophe Heintz)

• Scott Howard

  • Paul Rozin on what psychologists should study
    
    Published on 02 August 2010 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)
  • Paul the Octopus, relevance and the joy of superstition
    
    Published on 20 July 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Communication, punishment and common pool resources
    
    Published on 02 July 2010 — Category: Blog (Hugo Mercier)

• Sebastian Benavides

  • Truth among the…
    
    Published on 09 June 2009 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Simon Barthelme

  • An epidemiology-of-representations solution to a WWII shipwreck mystery
    
    Published on 14 November 2011 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Stefaan Blancke

  • The space of reasons and the generation of knowledge
    
    Published on 21 December 2018 — Category: Blog (Stefaan Blancke)

• Stephen Lyon

  • Are we sure we can groom beyond Dunbar’s number?
    
    Published on 09 June 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Guillaume Dezecache)

• Steve Merrick

  • Strategies for coping with questionable decisions
    
    Published on 22 April 2011 — Category: Decision-making for a social world (Hugo Mercier)

• Tad Zawidzki

  • Communication without Metapsychology
    
    Published on 05 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Tad Zawidzki)
  • Communication without Metapsychology
    
    Published on 04 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Tad Zawidzki)

• Tadeg Quillien

  • Angles of Approach
    
    Published on 21 March 2016 — Category: 'The Shape of Thought' Book Club (Clark Barrett)
  • Culture: A scientific idea ready for retirement?
    
    Published on 09 January 2015 — Category: Blog (Alberto Acerbi)
  • Culture: A scientific idea ready for retirement?
    
    Published on 08 January 2015 — Category: Blog (Alberto Acerbi)

• The ICCI Team

  • Alberto Acerbi’s response: There is much work to do
    
    Published on 29 June 2020 — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club (Alberto Acerbi)
  • Truth is not always the point
    
    Published on 25 June 2020 — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club (Tiffany Morisseau)
  • Cultural evolution – The mystery of production
    
    Published on 23 June 2020 — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club (Pascal Boyer)
  • The Participatory Age
    
    Published on 19 June 2020 — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club (Mathieu Charbonneau)
  • Consuming vs. sharing information online
    
    Published on 17 June 2020 — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club (Hugo Mercier)
  • Cultural transmission, reinvention, and progress
    
    Published on 15 June 2020 — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club (Olivier Morin)
  • What’s the recipe?
    
    Published on 12 June 2020 — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club (Sacha Altay)
  • Are humans ‘wary learners’?
    
    Published on 10 June 2020 — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club (Alex Mesoudi)
  • A précis of ‘Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age’
    
    Published on 08 June 2020 — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club (Alberto Acerbi)

• Thom Scott-Phillips

  • The design of institutions & the design of the mind
    
    Published on 26 June 2021 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • A natural experiment of gradual & contingent cultural causation
    
    Published on 16 September 2019 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • Cultures of academic (dis)agreement
    
    Published on 21 March 2019 — Category: Blog (Radu Umbres)
  • Open science, open society
    
    Published on 26 January 2019 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • Cultures of academic (dis)agreement
    
    Published on 19 November 2018 — Category: Blog (Radu Umbres)
  • “So you’re saying … we should live like lobsters?” or: Why does politics make us stupid?
    
    Published on 01 February 2018 — Category: Blog (Pascal Boyer)
  • How human are the dehumanised?
    
    Published on 21 December 2017 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • How human are the dehumanised?
    
    Published on 05 December 2017 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • How human are the dehumanised?
    
    Published on 05 December 2017 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • The R-word: “Racism” across the political spectrum
    
    Published on 29 August 2016 — Category: Blog (Brent Strickland)
  • The R-word: “Racism” across the political spectrum
    
    Published on 29 August 2016 — Category: Blog (Brent Strickland)
  • How not to combine ethnography and experiments in the study of moral judgment
    
    Published on 03 June 2016 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • How not to combine ethnography and experiments in the study of moral judgment
    
    Published on 31 May 2016 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)
  • Combinatoriality and codes
    
    Published on 12 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Liz Irvine)
  • Cats, tacs and kunvenshuns
    
    Published on 12 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Tim Wharton)
  • A closer look at communication among our closest relatives
    
    Published on 05 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Katja Liebal)
  • One explanation to rule them all?
    
    Published on 05 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Clark Barrett)
  • Communication without Metapsychology
    
    Published on 03 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Tad Zawidzki)
  • Cats, tacs and kunvenshuns
    
    Published on 03 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Tim Wharton)
  • Natural language and the language of thought
    
    Published on 02 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Deirdre Wilson)
  • Inferential communication and information theory
    
    Published on 02 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Greg Bryant)
  • Intending to speak our mind, and speaking our mind
    
    Published on 01 July 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Mathieu Charbonneau)
  • Communication, culture, and biology in the evolution of language
    
    Published on 29 June 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Kenny Smith)
  • Enjoyable, but doesn’t solve the mystery
    
    Published on 26 June 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Bart de Boer)
  • Alignments across disciplines
    
    Published on 26 June 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Ira Noveck and Tiffany Morisseau)
  • Combinatoriality and codes
    
    Published on 25 June 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Liz Irvine)
  • No communication without reputation, no reputation without communication
    
    Published on 24 June 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Olivier Morin)
  • Cultural attraction, “standard” cultural evolution, and language
    
    Published on 24 June 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Alberto Acerbi)
  • A few comments on ‘Speaking Our Minds’
    
    Published on 24 June 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Paulo Sousa and Karolina Prochownik)
  • Why do children but not apes acquire language?
    
    Published on 23 June 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Richard Moore)
  • Key notions in the study of communication
    
    Published on 23 June 2015 — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club (Dan Sperber)
  • Culture: A scientific idea ready for retirement?
    
    Published on 05 January 2015 — Category: Blog (Alberto Acerbi)
  • Are we sure we can groom beyond Dunbar’s number?
    
    Published on 11 June 2012 — Category: Dunbar's number (Guillaume Dezecache)
  • Block and Kitcher review What Darwin Got Wrong by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini
    
    Published on 05 March 2010 — Category: Blog (Dan Sperber)

• Thomas Müller

  • The invention of cuneiform: Writing in Sumer
    
    Published on 08 December 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Sensitivity to shared information in social learning
    
    Published on 01 August 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • The sky is falling: negativity bias in social transmission
    
    Published on 19 June 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Modularity and Recombination in Technological Evolution
    
    Published on 08 June 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Iconicity as structure mapping
    
    Published on 27 March 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for February: All forms of writing
    
    Published on 24 February 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for January: Iconicity and the Emergence of Combinatorial Structure in Language
    
    Published on 15 February 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for January: Iconicity and the Emergence of Combinatorial Structure in Language
    
    Published on 26 January 2017 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for November: Probabilistic pragmatics
    
    Published on 22 November 2016 — Category: Blog (The Mint)
  • Article for September: Image, Memory and Ritual: Re-viewing the Antecedents of Writing
    
    Published on 12 October 2016 — Category: Blog (The Mint)

• Tiffany Morisseau

  • The design of institutions & the design of the mind
    
    Published on 23 June 2021 — Category: Blog (Thom Scott-Phillips)
  • “No evidence of Human Mirror Neurons”
    
    Published on 06 November 2008 — Category: Blog (Olivier Morin)

• Tim Wharton

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