The replication crisis facing the psychological sciences is widely regarded as rooted in
methodological or statistical shortcomings. We argue that a large part of the problem is the …

Why do people come to reject climate science or the safety and efficacy of vaccines, in
defiance of the scientific consensus? A popular view explains bad beliefs like these as …

In this article, we present a tool and a method for measuring the psychological and cultural
distance between societies and creating a distance scale with any population as the point of …

While social learning is widespread, indiscriminate copying of others is rarely beneficial.
Theory suggests that individuals should be selective in what, when, and whom they copy, by …

We propose a unified mechanism for achieving coordination and communication in Multi-
Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), through rewarding agents for having causal …

The processes underwriting the acquisition of culture remain unclear. How are shared
habits, norms, and expectations learned and maintained with precision and reliability across …

Evolutionary science has led to many practical applications of genetic evolution but few
practical uses of cultural evolution. This is because the entire study of evolution was gene …

Humans, more than any other species, have been altering their paths of development by
creating new material forms and by opening up to new possibilities of material engagement …

Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

How do humans come to acquire shared expectations about how they ought to behave in
distinct normalized social settings? This paper offers a normative framework to answer this …