Divergent modes of ritual, social cohesion, prosociality, and conflict.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (21)

The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences

Author(s): Harvey Whitehouse, Jonathan Jong, Michael D. Buhrmester, Ángel Gómez, Brock Bastian, Christopher M. Kavanagh, Martha Newson, Miriam Matthews, Jonathan A. Lanman, Ryan McKay, Sergey Gavrilets
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 7, 2017, Page(s) 44292, ISSN 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/srep44292

Football, fan violence, and identity fusion

Author(s): Martha Newson
Published in: International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2017, Page(s) 101269021773129, ISSN 1012-6902
DOI: 10.1177/1012690217731293

Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization

Author(s): Peter Turchin, Thomas E. Currie, Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter François, Kevin Feeney, Daniel Mullins, Daniel Hoyer, Christina Collins, Stephanie Grohmann, Patrick Savage, Gavin Mendel-Gleason, Edward Turner, Agathe Dupeyron, Enrico Cioni, Jenny Reddish, Jill Levine, Greine Jordan, Eva Brandl, Alice Williams, Rudolf Cesaretti, Marta Krueger, Alessandro Ceccarelli, Joe Figliulo-Rosswurm, Po-Ju Tuan, P
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 115/2, 2018, Page(s) E144-E151, ISSN 0027-8424
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1708800115

Synchrony and Physiological Arousal Increase Cohesion and Cooperation in Large Naturalistic Groups

Author(s): Joshua Conrad Jackson, Jonathan Jong, David Bilkey, Harvey Whitehouse, Stefanie Zollmann, Craig McNaughton, Jamin Halberstadt
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 8/1, 2018, ISSN 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18023-4

Dying for the group: Towards a general theory of extreme self-sacrifice

Author(s): Harvey Whitehouse
Published in: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2018, Page(s) 1-64, ISSN 0140-525X
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X18000249

How Moments Become Movements: Shared Outrage, Group Cohesion, and the Lion That Went Viral

Author(s): Michael D. Buhrmester, Dawn Burnham, Dominic D. P. Johnson, Oliver S. Curry, David W. Macdonald, Harvey Whitehouse
Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Issue 6, 2018, ISSN 2296-701X
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00054

A Systematic Assessment of “Axial Age” Proposals Using Global Comparative Historical Evidence

Author(s): Daniel Austin Mullins, Daniel Hoyer, Christina Collins, Thomas Currie, Kevin Feeney, Pieter François, Patrick E. Savage, Harvey Whitehouse, Peter Turchin
Published in: American Sociological Review, Issue 83/3, 2018, Page(s) 596-626, ISSN 0003-1224
DOI: 10.1177/0003122418772567

Not on my team: Medial prefrontal cortex responses to ingroup fusion and unfair monetary divisions

Author(s): Matthew A. J. Apps, Ryan McKay, Ruben T. Azevedo, Harvey Whitehouse, Manos Tsakiris
Published in: Brain and Behavior, Issue 8/8, 2018, Page(s) e01030, ISSN 2162-3279
DOI: 10.1002/brb3.1030

Groups and Emotional Arousal Mediate Neural Synchrony and Perceived Ritual Efficacy

Author(s): Philip S. Cho, Nicolas Escoffier, Yinan Mao, April Ching, Christopher Green, Jonathan Jong, Harvey Whitehouse
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 9, 2018, ISSN 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02071

Is It Good to Cooperate? Testing the Theory of Morality-as-Cooperation in 60 Societies

Author(s): Oliver Scott Curry, Daniel Austin Mullins, Harvey Whitehouse
Published in: Current Anthropology, Issue 60/1, 2019, Page(s) 47-69, ISSN 0011-3204
DOI: 10.1086/701478

Winning at any cost: Identity fusion, group essence, and maximizing ingroup advantage

Author(s): Michael D. Buhrmester, Martha Newson, Alexandra Vázquez, Wallisen Tadashi Hattori, Harvey Whitehouse
Published in: Self and Identity, Issue 17/5, 2018, Page(s) 500-516, ISSN 1529-8868
DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2018.1452788

Material Correlates Analysis (MCA)

Author(s): Michael Gantley, Harvey Whitehouse, Amy Bogaard
Published in: Advances in Archaeological Practice, Issue 6/4, 2018, Page(s) 328-341, ISSN 2326-3768
DOI: 10.1017/aap.2018.9

Dacura: A new solution to data harvesting and knowledge extraction for the historical sciences

Author(s): Peter N. Peregrine, Rob Brennan, Thomas Currie, Kevin Feeney, Pieter François, Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse
Published in: Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, Issue 51/3, 2018, Page(s) 165-174, ISSN 0161-5440
DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2018.1443863

Brazil's football warriors: Social bonding and inter-group violence

Author(s): Martha Newson, Tiago Bortolini, Michael Buhrmester, Silvio Ricardo da Silva, Jefferson Nicássio Queiroga da Aquino, Harvey Whitehouse
Published in: Evolution and Human Behavior, Issue 39/6, 2018, Page(s) 675-683, ISSN 1090-5138
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.06.010

Interpersonal synchrony affects performers’ sense of agency

Author(s): Paul Reddish, Eddie M. W. Tong, Jonathan Jong, Harvey Whitehouse
Published in: Self and Identity, 2019, Page(s) 1-23, ISSN 1529-8868
DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2019.1604427

Examining memory for ritualized gesture in complex causal sequences

Author(s): R. Kapitány, C. Kavanagh, H. Whitehouse, M. Nielsen
Published in: Cognition, Issue 181, 2018, Page(s) 46-57, ISSN 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.08.005

Positive experiences of high arousal martial arts rituals are linked to identity fusion and costly pro-group actions

Author(s): Christopher M. Kavanagh, Jonathan Jong, Ryan McKay, Harvey Whitehouse
Published in: European Journal of Social Psychology, Issue 49/3, 2019, Page(s) 461-481, ISSN 0046-2772
DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2514

Four things we need to know about extreme self-sacrifice

Author(s): Harvey Whitehouse
Published in: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Issue 41, 2018, ISSN 0140-525X
DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x1800208x

Ritual, identity fusion, and the inauguration of president Trump: a pseudo-experiment of ritual modes theory

Author(s): Rohan Kapitány, Christopher Kavanagh, Michael D. Buhrmester, Martha Newson, Harvey Whitehouse
Published in: Self and Identity, 2019, Page(s) 1-31, ISSN 1529-8868
DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2019.1578686

Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history

Author(s): Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter François, Patrick E. Savage, Thomas E. Currie, Kevin C. Feeney, Enrico Cioni, Rosalind Purcell, Robert M. Ross, Jennifer Larson, John Baines, Barend ter Haar, Alan Covey, Peter Turchin
Published in: Nature, Issue 568/7751, 2019, Page(s) 226-229, ISSN 0028-0836
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1043-4

Grand challenges for the study of cultural evolution

Author(s): J. Brewer, M. Gelfand, J. C. Jackson, I. F. MacDonald, P. N. Peregrine, P. J. Richerson, P. Turchin, H. Whitehouse, D. S. Wilson
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 1/3, 2017, Page(s) 0070, ISSN 2397-334X
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0070

Other (1)

Evolutionary Pathways to Statehood: Old Theories and New Data

Author(s): Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse, Andrey Korotayev, Pieter Francois, Daniel Hoyer, Peter Peregrine, Gary Feinman, Charles Spencer, Nikolay Kradin, Thomas E. Currie
Published in: SocArXiv Papers, 2018
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/h7tr6