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Thanks to my mentors, collaborators, and students. Joe Henrich Morteza Dehghani Daphna Oyserman Jonathan Schulz Jonathan Haidt Culture and Morality Lab

📢Call for papers! We’re excited to announce the 2nd Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC), taking place at King's College London on November 6–7, 2025 Keynote Speaker: Elias Papaioannou (LBS) Submission Deadline: July 4, 2025 Submit via: forms.gle/5RwcxMZxZLVznX…

Today in Broadstreet, Vicky Fouka discusses Industry and identity: How labor migration reshaped culture in 19th century Britain. broadstreet.blog/p/industry-and…

Thanks Riccardo. The podcast was a blast. Super smart idea for a podcast -- what's the backstory behind the papers that we read?

Come join us in Copenhagen this September. We expect the program to be as fabulous as usual! This time including a grad student workshop on the day before with lots of bright students also joining the conference. Copenhagen is beautiful in Sep and dinner is booked in Christiania!

Today is publication day for my book, Shamanism: The Timeless Religion. To celebrate, here are some of my striking clips of shamanic rituals that I came across while working on the book:

My first publication regarding ancient economic history is out:😊 The economics of Greco-Roman slavery sciencedirect.com/science/articl…; with Walter Scheidel.

New paper: The chronospatial revolution in psychology. With Jonathan Schulz Joe Henrich

Historical Psychology 🤝 Geographical Psychology

This Perspective by Mohammad Atari, Joe Henrich and Jonathan Schultz argues for psychology to become a historical and geographical science, a transformation they term the chronospatial revolution. nature.com/articles/s4156…

New paper: Applying computation tools to over 2000 years of textual data in Chinese, we test the hypothesis that the organization of families (kin-based institutions) shapes our psychology. Mohammad Atari Edward Slingerland Kevin Hong Jonathan Schulz

Historical psychology of China. Natural language processing + History + Cultural evolution + Religious studies + Economics + Social psychology.

Ok, i’m kind of proud of this.

📢New WP on networks in innovation Collaborating innovators form a network. Does the network position matter for outcomes? Is it helpful to have well-connected collaborators? Empirical answers based on over 28k corporate innovators. A summary 🧵👇 🔗papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

It's from 2002, but this remains an excellent survey paper on decomposing parent-child outcome correlations into nature vs. nurture, cognitive vs. schooling vs. personality, etc.

Excited to share my book exchange with Tariq Thachil & Adam Auerbach in the latest Democracy & Autocracy U-M Center for Emerging Democracies newsletter: rb.gy/spfj51 Huge thanks to Dan Slater & Rebecca Wai 卫淑颖 for the opportunity to engage with such inspiring new work on India!

Congrats to HBES Rising Star Mohammad Atari, for his work on the intersection of culture, evolution, and morality, particularly how social structures and immediate contextual cues impact people’s moral judgment and acceptance of social norms: mohammadatari.com

One thing nobody can deny, GMU alumni ask questions very few others are asking, its an amazing to learn with these kids open.substack.com/pub/theeconpla…

Article in Science News about the emerging historical psychology movement: sciencenews.org/article/ai-cul…

Our paper with Francesco Cinnirella Erik Hornung “Flow of ideas: Economic societies and the rise of useful knowledge” is out in print The Economic Journal🚨 In this paper we investigate the importance of knowledge sharing societies from the 18th century on long-run innovation. Read on for more -->