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• 2021

  • Why assholes are more likely to be wrong
    
    Published on 01 October 2021 by Hugo Mercier (1) — Category: Blog
  • The design of institutions & the design of the mind
    
    Published on 18 June 2021 by Thom Scott-Phillips (7) — Category: Blog
  • Fairness WhatsApp Chats
    
    Published on 10 May 2021 by Angarika Deb — Category: Blog
  • Why are Romanian cars and real estate priced in euros? A particular case of Thiers’ Law
    
    Published on 16 February 2021 by Radu Umbres — Category: Blog

• 2020

  • Notes on relevance theory
    
    Published on 26 November 2020 by Dan Sperber — Category: Blog
  • ‘It’s like you disappear’ – Fleabag’s Attentional Conflicts
    
    Published on 05 November 2020 by Inge van de Ven — Category: Blog
  • Public Relations Failures by Russian State Officials: A Botched Cultural Transmission?
    
    Published on 16 July 2020 by Victoria Fomina (2) — Category: Blog
  • “Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age” Book Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 29 June 2020 by Tiffany Morisseau (10) — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club
  • Alberto Acerbi’s response: There is much work to do
    
    Published on 29 June 2020 by Alberto Acerbi (1) — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club
  • Truth is not always the point
    
    Published on 25 June 2020 by Tiffany Morisseau (1) — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club
  • Cultural evolution – The mystery of production
    
    Published on 23 June 2020 by Pascal Boyer (1) — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club
  • The Participatory Age
    
    Published on 19 June 2020 by Mathieu Charbonneau (1) — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club
  • Consuming vs. sharing information online
    
    Published on 17 June 2020 by Hugo Mercier (1) — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club
  • Cultural transmission, reinvention, and progress
    
    Published on 15 June 2020 by Olivier Morin (1) — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club
  • What’s the recipe?
    
    Published on 12 June 2020 by Sacha Altay (1) — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club
  • Are humans ‘wary learners’?
    
    Published on 10 June 2020 by Alex Mesoudi (1) — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club
  • A précis of ‘Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age’
    
    Published on 08 June 2020 by Alberto Acerbi (1) — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club
  • ‘Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age’ Book Club
    
    Published on 08 June 2020 by Tiffany Morisseau — Category: 'Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age' Book Club
  • Board games, intuitive monopolists, and pedagogical Georgists
    
    Published on 19 May 2020 by Radu Umbres (3) — Category: Blog
  • Quiet online spaces as a form of mutualistic nudging for our hyper-networked world
    
    Published on 11 May 2020 by Dan Sperber (3) — Category: Blog
  • Do COVID-19 conspiracy theories stem from gullibility or skepticism?
    
    Published on 31 March 2020 by Inge van de Ven — Category: Blog
  • Ubiquitous yet nowhere to be found: on the Invisible Hand’s success
    
    Published on 06 March 2020 by Helena Miton (1) — Category: Blog
  • How relevant to the psychology of mindreading is knowledge-first epistemology?
    
    Published on 08 February 2020 by Pierre Jacob — Category: Blog
  • Could mindshaping be the bedrock of human social cognition?
    
    Published on 09 January 2020 by Pierre Jacob — Category: Blog

• 2019

  • If teleology is the answer, what was the question?
    
    Published on 12 December 2019 by Pierre Jacob — Category: Blog
  • A natural experiment of gradual & contingent cultural causation
    
    Published on 02 September 2019 by Thom Scott-Phillips (2) — Category: Blog
  • Ostension, insistence, and harassment
    
    Published on 29 July 2019 by Dan Sperber — Category: Blog
  • How Jordan Peterson became an Intellectual Guru
    
    Published on 23 May 2019 by Inge van de Ven — Category: Blog
  • Signalling signalhood as a means of protest
    
    Published on 11 May 2019 by Thom Scott-Phillips (2) — Category: Blog
  • Why read a big book? Quantitative Relevance in the Attention Economy
    
    Published on 03 May 2019 by Inge van de Ven (1) — Category: Blog
  • Are selves cultural attractors?
    
    Published on 27 February 2019 by Stefaan Blancke (1) — Category: Blog
  • Blatant bias and blood libel
    
    Published on 28 January 2019 by Hugo Mercier (3) — Category: Blog
  • Open science, open society
    
    Published on 23 January 2019 by Thom Scott-Phillips (3) — Category: Blog
  • Blind imitation or a matter of taste?
    
    Published on 09 January 2019 by Hugo Mercier (2) — Category: Blog

• 2018

  • The space of reasons and the generation of knowledge
    
    Published on 19 December 2018 by Stefaan Blancke (2) — Category: Blog
  • A Color Game week
    
    Published on 17 December 2018 by The Color Game — Category: Blog
  • The Color-Game-o-Scope
    
    Published on 21 November 2018 by The Color Game — Category: Blog
  • Cultures of academic (dis)agreement
    
    Published on 19 November 2018 by Radu Umbres (7) — Category: Blog
  • Governments should more frequently publish CO2 emissions data: Leveraging human psychology to fight climate change
    
    Published on 16 November 2018 by Brent Strickland (4) — Category: Blog
  • Scientific aesthetics, sacred values, and interdisciplinary collaborations
    
    Published on 13 November 2018 by Helena Miton (2) — Category: Blog
  • Are routine actions rational?
    
    Published on 14 October 2018 by Dan Sperber (1) — Category: Blog
  • It’s Color Game o’clock!
    
    Published on 02 October 2018 by The Color Game — Category: Blog
  • Reasoning against Faith: When Clerics Intervene in Popular Religion
    
    Published on 11 September 2018 by Victoria Fomina — Category: Blog
  • How Color Game pseudonyms work
    
    Published on 07 September 2018 by The Color Game — Category: Blog
  • Beheadings as honest communication devices
    
    Published on 16 August 2018 by Radu Umbres (5) — Category: Blog
  • How the best color-gamers got there
    
    Published on 23 July 2018 by The Color Game — Category: Blog
  • Can we (please) have science without the scientific journals?
    
    Published on 28 June 2018 by Pascal Boyer (2) — Category: Blog
  • How the Color Game’s players mastered the game
    
    Published on 25 June 2018 by The Color Game — Category: Blog
  • “All options remain open” – or why would one signal a lack of commitment?
    
    Published on 11 June 2018 by Bahador Bahrami and Ophelia Deroy (1) — Category: Blog
  • Are human toddlers unable to understand the aspectuality of a puppet’s belief that the bunny is not a carrot?
    
    Published on 04 June 2018 by Pierre Jacob — Category: Blog
  • Frequently Asked Questions
    
    Published on 29 May 2018 by The Color Game — Category: Blog
  • The Color Game’s World
    
    Published on 29 May 2018 by The Color Game — Category: Blog
  • Introducing the Color Game
    
    Published on 29 May 2018 by The Color Game — Category: Blog
  • What does the infant brain tell us about human Theory of Mind?
    
    Published on 25 May 2018 by Pierre Jacob — Category: Blog
  • No “Thank You!”
    
    Published on 24 May 2018 by Dan Sperber (5) — Category: Blog
  • Children’s grasp of the aspectuality of beliefs: the Sefo task revisited
    
    Published on 03 April 2018 by Pierre Jacob (4) — Category: Blog
  • Why do we flip coins ? Random draws as personal decision-making devices under uncertainty
    
    Published on 15 March 2018 by Bahador Bahrami and Ophelia Deroy (4) — Category: Blog
  • Rethinking ostension: (2) Attention manipulation
    
    Published on 08 March 2018 by Dan Sperber (4) — Category: Blog
  • How Can a Painting Make One Lose One’s Faith?
    
    Published on 02 March 2018 by Victoria Fomina (4) — Category: Blog
  • Staring back at the evil eye
    
    Published on 14 February 2018 by Radu Umbres (3) — Category: Blog
  • Rethinking ostension: (1) A terminological issue
    
    Published on 07 February 2018 by Dan Sperber (7) — Category: Blog
  • “So you’re saying … we should live like lobsters?” or: Why does politics make us stupid?
    
    Published on 01 February 2018 by Pascal Boyer (9) — Category: Blog
  • Friends
    
    Published on 20 January 2018 by Helga Vierich-Drever (5) — Category: Blog

• 2017

  • Is submentalizing part of the genetic tool-kit of human social cognition?
    
    Published on 18 December 2017 by Pierre Jacob (3) — Category: Blog
  • The invention of cuneiform: Writing in Sumer
    
    Published on 06 December 2017 by The Mint (2) — Category: Blog
  • How human are the dehumanised?
    
    Published on 04 December 2017 by Thom Scott-Phillips (9) — Category: Blog
  • Are liberals too dumb to understand this? Virtue signaling in the age of outrage advertising
    
    Published on 15 November 2017 by Brent Strickland (2) — Category: Blog
  • Can teleology explain why very young children help a mistaken agent?
    
    Published on 02 November 2017 by Pierre Jacob (5) — Category: Blog
  • What it took for break-up songs to become cultural items
    
    Published on 07 October 2017 by Helena Miton (2) — Category: Blog
  • We may be thinking about it all wrong
    
    Published on 17 September 2017 by Dan Sperber (3) — Category: Blog
  • Culture-and-cognition research on the ISIS Frontline
    
    Published on 16 September 2017 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Do chimpanzees really care about equity?
    
    Published on 28 August 2017 by Nicolas Baumard (6) — Category: Blog
  • The Extension of Biology Through Culture
    
    Published on 07 August 2017 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Cecilia Heyes on the social tuning of reason
    
    Published on 05 August 2017 by Dan Sperber — Category: Blog
  • Sensitivity to shared information in social learning
    
    Published on 17 July 2017 by The Mint (2) — Category: Blog
  • Do apes produce metonymies?
    
    Published on 07 July 2017 by Dan Sperber (7) — Category: Blog
  • The sky is falling: negativity bias in social transmission
    
    Published on 13 June 2017 by The Mint (4) — Category: Blog
  • Tilting titling?
    
    Published on 29 May 2017 by Dan Sperber — Category: Blog
  • Modularity and Recombination in Technological Evolution
    
    Published on 23 May 2017 by The Mint (7) — Category: Blog
  • Random drift and culture change
    
    Published on 19 April 2017 by The Mint (2) — Category: Blog
  • Iconicity as structure mapping
    
    Published on 15 March 2017 by The Mint (1) — Category: Blog
  • Conviction, persuasion and manipulation: the ethical dimension of epistemic vigilance
    
    Published on 10 March 2017 by Johannes Mahr (3) — Category: Blog
  • “True self” Journal Club General Discussion
    
    Published on 24 February 2017 by Tiffany Morisseau (13) — Category: 'True self' Journal Club
  • Nina Strohminger’s response: A friendly desultory philippic
    
    Published on 24 February 2017 by Nina Strohminger — Category: 'True self' Journal Club
  • Anthropological doubts about the moral “true self”
    
    Published on 19 February 2017 by Radu Umbres — Category: 'True self' Journal Club
  • Is there really no such thing as the true self?
    
    Published on 18 February 2017 by Brent Strickland — Category: 'True self' Journal Club
  • The “true self,” more complex, more social
    
    Published on 17 February 2017 by Gloria Origgi — Category: 'True self' Journal Club
  • Truth and consequences
    
    Published on 16 February 2017 by Lawrence Hirschfeld — Category: 'True self' Journal Club
  • Article for February: All forms of writing
    
    Published on 15 February 2017 by The Mint (5) — Category: Blog
  • The True Self, Supernatural Agents, and the Problem of Evil
    
    Published on 15 February 2017 by Victoria Fomina — Category: 'True self' Journal Club
  • To be or not to be two?
    
    Published on 14 February 2017 by Ophelia Deroy — Category: 'True self' Journal Club
  • The true self and the situation
    
    Published on 13 February 2017 by Simon Cullen (1) — Category: 'True self' Journal Club
  • Précis of “The True Self: A psychological concept distinct from the self”
    
    Published on 12 February 2017 by Nina Strohminger — Category: 'True self' Journal Club
  • Article for January: Iconicity and the Emergence of Combinatorial Structure in Language
    
    Published on 19 January 2017 by The Mint (8) — Category: Blog

• 2016

  • Article for December: Population size does not explain past changes in cultural complexity (?)
    
    Published on 14 December 2016 by The Mint (5) — Category: Blog
  • Does Prospect Theory explain Trump and Brexit votes?
    
    Published on 15 November 2016 by Christophe Heintz (9) — Category: Blog
  • Article for November: Probabilistic pragmatics
    
    Published on 14 November 2016 by The Mint (4) — Category: Blog
  • Why would Japanese spirits haunt toilets and ghosts hitchhike? [Halloween special]
    
    Published on 31 October 2016 by Helena Miton (3) — Category: Blog
  • Cow-tipping, and the strange performativity of ‘scientific studies’ – and cultural transmission
    
    Published on 29 October 2016 by Helena Miton (5) — Category: Blog
  • Article for October: Pragmatic Choice in Conversation
    
    Published on 24 October 2016 by The Mint (1) — Category: Blog
  • Symposium on Helming, Strickland, and Jacob, “Solving the puzzle about early belief-ascription”
    
    Published on 18 October 2016 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Article for September: Image, Memory and Ritual: Re-viewing the Antecedents of Writing
    
    Published on 27 September 2016 by The Mint (4) — Category: Blog
  • Exit Ghost?
    
    Published on 02 September 2016 by Olivier Morin (6) — Category: Blog
  • Could preschoolers learn to reason deductively?
    
    Published on 31 August 2016 by Pierre Jacob — Category: Blog
  • The R-word: “Racism” across the political spectrum
    
    Published on 26 August 2016 by Brent Strickland (9) — Category: Blog
  • How not to combine ethnography and experiments in the study of moral judgment
    
    Published on 26 May 2016 by Dan Sperber (6) — Category: Blog
  • Cultural variation in the mitigation of moral judgments
    
    Published on 18 May 2016 by Hugo Mercier (1) — Category: Blog
  • The origin of fairy tales
    
    Published on 02 April 2016 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Blog
  • Angles of Approach
    
    Published on 10 March 2016 by Clark Barrett (3) — Category: 'The Shape of Thought' Book Club
  • Does replication matter? The case for conceptual replication and strong inference
    
    Published on 08 March 2016 by Brent Strickland — Category: Blog
  • “I can’t believe it’s evolutionary psychology!”
    
    Published on 07 March 2016 by Olivier Morin — Category: 'The Shape of Thought' Book Club
  • The Evolution of Evolutionary Psychology
    
    Published on 05 March 2016 by Daniel Burnston (5) — Category: 'The Shape of Thought' Book Club
  • A book club on Clark Barrett’s ‘The Shape of Thought’
    
    Published on 05 March 2016 by Tiffany Morisseau — Category: 'The Shape of Thought' Book Club
  • ‘The Origins of Monsters’ Book Club January 2016
    
    Published on 10 February 2016 by Tiffany Morisseau — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club
  • Alberto Acerbi blogs on new books on cultural evolution
    
    Published on 10 February 2016 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • The scope and flavours of cultural attraction theory
    
    Published on 29 January 2016 by Denis Tatone (1) — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club
  • The tale of the three-headed snail
    
    Published on 28 January 2016 by Olivier Morin (4) — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club
  • Can cultural epidemiology explain the cultural evolution of monsters?
    
    Published on 26 January 2016 by Karolina Prochownik (1) — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club
  • An important contribution – but not an amendment – to cultural epidemiology
    
    Published on 25 January 2016 by Carmen Granito & Thom Scott-Phillips — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club
  • Your very own monster creation kit
    
    Published on 22 January 2016 by Mathieu Charbonneau (5) — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club
  • The Stamped, Sealed and Delivered Riddle of the Sphinx
    
    Published on 20 January 2016 by Erhard Schüttpelz (1) — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club
  • Chimaeras as attractors: Epidemiology and cultural variation
    
    Published on 18 January 2016 by Pascal Boyer (6) — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club
  • The Speculative Origins of Monsters
    
    Published on 16 January 2016 by Alberto Acerbi (3) — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club
  • Comment on David Wengrow’s The Origins of Monsters
    
    Published on 13 January 2016 by Jeremy Tanner (1) — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club
  • A comment on The Origins of Monsters
    
    Published on 12 January 2016 by Maurice Bloch (1) — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club
  • The Origins of Monsters: A Précis
    
    Published on 10 January 2016 by David Wengrow (8) — Category: 'The Origins of Monsters' Book Club

• 2015

  • Pulotu – database of Pacific Religions
    
    Published on 02 September 2015 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • For the record: A commentary by Csibra, Senju, et al. on gaze following
    
    Published on 26 August 2015 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • State of the art research on social behavior
    
    Published on 19 August 2015 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • ‘Speaking Our Minds’ Book Club June-July 2015
    
    Published on 17 August 2015 by Olivier Morin — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club
  • Reflections on the Speaking Our Minds book club
    
    Published on 13 August 2015 by Thom Scott-Phillips — Category: Blog
  • A closer look at communication among our closest relatives
    
    Published on 02 July 2015 by Katja Liebal (2) — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club
  • Communication without Metapsychology
    
    Published on 01 July 2015 by Tad Zawidzki (4) — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club
  • Cats, tacs and kunvenshuns
    
    Published on 30 June 2015 by Tim Wharton (6) — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club
  • Natural language and the language of thought
    
    Published on 30 June 2015 by Deirdre Wilson (2) — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club
  • One explanation to rule them all?
    
    Published on 29 June 2015 by Clark Barrett (1) — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club
  • Inferential communication and information theory
    
    Published on 25 June 2015 by Greg Bryant (9) — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club
  • Intending to speak our mind, and speaking our mind
    
    Published on 25 June 2015 by Mathieu Charbonneau (2) — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club
  • Alignments across disciplines
    
    Published on 25 June 2015 by Ira Noveck and Tiffany Morisseau (1) — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club
  • Combinatoriality and codes
    
    Published on 24 June 2015 by Liz Irvine (3) — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club
  • Enjoyable, but doesn’t solve the mystery
    
    Published on 23 June 2015 by Bart de Boer (1) — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club
  • Communication, culture, and biology in the evolution of language
    
    Published on 23 June 2015 by Kenny Smith (1) — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club
  • No communication without reputation, no reputation without communication
    
    Published on 23 June 2015 by Olivier Morin (5) — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club
  • Cultural attraction, “standard” cultural evolution, and language
    
    Published on 23 June 2015 by Alberto Acerbi (3) — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club
  • Key notions in the study of communication
    
    Published on 22 June 2015 by Dan Sperber (2) — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club
  • A few comments on ‘Speaking Our Minds’
    
    Published on 22 June 2015 by Paulo Sousa and Karolina Prochownik (1) — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club
  • Why do children but not apes acquire language?
    
    Published on 22 June 2015 by Richard Moore (2) — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club
  • A précis of ‘Speaking Our Minds’
    
    Published on 20 June 2015 by Thom Scott-Phillips — Category: Blog
  • ‘Speaking Our Minds’ Book Club
    
    Published on 20 June 2015 by Olivier Morin — Category: 'Speaking Our Minds' Book Club
  • An evolutionary framework for the study of teaching
    
    Published on 10 June 2015 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Mind-Body Dualism as Applied to Supernatural Agents: The (Dead) Emperor’s New Mind or Chicken Little
    
    Published on 09 June 2015 by K. Mitch Hodge (5) — Category: Blog
  • Social Norms and Cultural Dynamics
    
    Published on 08 June 2015 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Social Anthropology meets “the cognitive challenge”
    
    Published on 04 June 2015 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Sign language as a window into universally accessible linguistic biases
    
    Published on 09 May 2015 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Scott Atran’s address to the UN security council
    
    Published on 27 April 2015 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Astuti and Bloch on “Incest, intentionality, and morality”
    
    Published on 13 March 2015 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Should preferences based on authoritarianism and social dominance be treated as moral?
    
    Published on 06 March 2015 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Why reading minds is not like reading words
    
    Published on 22 January 2015 by Pierre Jacob (9) — Category: Blog
  • Culture: A scientific idea ready for retirement?
    
    Published on 05 January 2015 by Alberto Acerbi (17) — Category: Blog

• 2014

  • What Explains the Emergence of Moralizing Religions?
    
    Published on 24 December 2014 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • A Cognitive Science of Theology?
    
    Published on 01 December 2014 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Is probabilistic cognition universal?
    
    Published on 09 November 2014 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Another look at the two-systems model of mindreading
    
    Published on 25 October 2014 by Pierre Jacob — Category: Blog
  • Cultural Evolution at the Santa Fe Institute
    
    Published on 03 September 2014 by Olivier Morin — Category: SFI Cultural Evolution Workshop
  • Rob Boyd
    
    Published on 03 September 2014 by Rob Boyd — Category: SFI Cultural Evolution Workshop
  • Susan Blackmore
    
    Published on 02 September 2014 by Susan Blackmore — Category: SFI Cultural Evolution Workshop
  • Nicolas Claidière
    
    Published on 29 August 2014 by Nicolas Claidière — Category: SFI Cultural Evolution Workshop
  • Peter Godfrey-Smith
    
    Published on 27 August 2014 by Peter Godfrey-Smith — Category: SFI Cultural Evolution Workshop
  • Joseph Henrich
    
    Published on 25 August 2014 by Joseph Henrich — Category: SFI Cultural Evolution Workshop
  • Olivier Morin
    
    Published on 20 August 2014 by Olivier Morin — Category: SFI Cultural Evolution Workshop
  • Peter Richerson
    
    Published on 14 August 2014 by Peter Richerson — Category: SFI Cultural Evolution Workshop
  • Dan Sperber
    
    Published on 12 August 2014 by Dan Sperber — Category: SFI Cultural Evolution Workshop
  • Kim Sterelny
    
    Published on 10 August 2014 by Kim Sterelny — Category: SFI Cultural Evolution Workshop
  • Has a decimal point error misled millions into believing that spinach is a good source of iron?
    
    Published on 06 August 2014 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Perspectives on Cultural Evolution, by Daniel C. Dennett
    
    Published on 02 August 2014 by Daniel Dennett — Category: SFI Cultural Evolution Workshop
  • Random choice among the Kantu, swidden agriculturalists of Kalimantan
    
    Published on 19 July 2014 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Alberto Acerbi on cultural evolution
    
    Published on 18 June 2014 by Olivier Morin — Category: Blog
  • Babies’ and birds’ causal understanding
    
    Published on 15 June 2014 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Kinship, theology and deep grammar
    
    Published on 07 May 2014 by Carles Salazar (3) — Category: Blog
  • Combinatorial Communication in Bacteria?
    
    Published on 26 April 2014 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Negatively-Biased Credulity and the Cultural Evolution of Beliefs
    
    Published on 16 April 2014 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Making sense of early false-belief understanding
    
    Published on 11 March 2014 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • The Content of Our Cooperation, Not the Color of Our Skin
    
    Published on 02 March 2014 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Relationship Thinking
    
    Published on 30 January 2014 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Blog
  • This year’s Edge question
    
    Published on 16 January 2014 by Hugo Mercier (1) — Category: Blog

• 2013

  • Big Gods Book Club #6: Concluding Thoughts
    
    Published on 17 December 2013 by Ara Norenzayan — Category: 'Big Gods' book club
  • ‘Big Gods’ book club #5: Remarks on the two puzzles
    
    Published on 13 December 2013 by Nicolas Baumard (1) — Category: 'Big Gods' book club
  • ‘Big Gods’ book club #4: Alternative explanations?
    
    Published on 11 December 2013 by Helena Miton (1) — Category: 'Big Gods' book club
  • ‘Big Gods’ book club #3 : Testing more specific hypotheses and going beyond correlations in the origins and evolution of religious beliefs
    
    Published on 10 December 2013 by Pierrick Bourrat (3) — Category: 'Big Gods' book club
  • ‘Big Gods’ book club #2: Analytic atheism and the puzzle of apologetic
    
    Published on 08 December 2013 by Helen De Cruz (7) — Category: 'Big Gods' book club
  • ‘Big Gods’ book club #1 — Skeptical thoughts
    
    Published on 08 December 2013 by Olivier Morin (3) — Category: 'Big Gods' book club
  • A précis of ‘Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict’
    
    Published on 08 December 2013 by Ara Norenzayan (6) — Category: 'Big Gods' book club
  • A Cultural Epidemiology of Monsters?
    
    Published on 05 December 2013 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • The Phylogeny of ATU 333 (a.k.a. Little Red Riding Hood)
    
    Published on 04 December 2013 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Some thoughts on supernatural agency beliefs
    
    Published on 18 October 2013 by Martin Stehberger — Category: Blog
  • Does “science” make you moral?
    
    Published on 28 August 2013 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • The spread of medical innovations
    
    Published on 23 July 2013 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Blog
  • Did the Neandertals speak?
    
    Published on 10 July 2013 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Special issue of Mind and Society on “Cultural and Cognitive Dimensions of Innovation
    
    Published on 02 June 2013 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • The ‘gratitude trap’ where Hungarian patients keep falling
    
    Published on 13 May 2013 by Denis Tatone (4) — Category: Blog
  • Why do scammers persist in saying they are from Nigeria?
    
    Published on 26 February 2013 by Radu Umbres — Category: Blog
  • Did human language first emerge as songs?
    
    Published on 23 February 2013 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • We are not intuitive monists — but then, what are we?
    
    Published on 15 January 2013 by Helen De Cruz (5) — Category: Blog

• 2012

  • Two articles on human evolution
    
    Published on 27 November 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Why do mathematicians always agree?
    
    Published on 21 November 2012 by Christophe Heintz (12) — Category: Blog
  • Is the moral-economic fallacy universal?
    
    Published on 19 November 2012 by Pascal Boyer (8) — Category: Blog
  • Why is misinformation so sticky?
    
    Published on 22 October 2012 by Gloria Origgi (1) — Category: Blog
  • Meat-eating in the eyes of young vegetarians
    
    Published on 10 October 2012 by Denis Tatone (3) — Category: Blog
  • Religious beliefs: Matter of fact or of preference?
    
    Published on 09 October 2012 by Helen De Cruz (5) — Category: Blog
  • The spread of “Correlation does not imply causation”
    
    Published on 08 October 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Paul Harris on How Children Learn from Others
    
    Published on 22 September 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • ‘New [and polemical] thinking’ on the evolution of human cognition
    
    Published on 18 August 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Maurice Boch on the Cognitive Challenge to Anthropology
    
    Published on 15 August 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Do we use different tools to mindread a defendant and a goalkeeper?
    
    Published on 23 July 2012 by Pierre Jacob — Category: Blog
  • Why don’t people like markets?
    
    Published on 18 June 2012 by Pascal Boyer (9) — Category: Blog
  • Robin Dunbar vs. Pop Dunbar
    
    Published on 06 June 2012 by Olivier Morin (6) — Category: Dunbar's number
  • Are we sure we can groom beyond Dunbar’s number?
    
    Published on 04 June 2012 by Guillaume Dezecache (13) — Category: Dunbar's number
  • A debate on Robin Dunbar’s social brain hypothesis
    
    Published on 04 June 2012 by Olivier Morin (2) — Category: Dunbar's number
  • Dual process theories of language and thinking
    
    Published on 03 June 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Is kinship back?
    
    Published on 27 May 2012 by Dan Sperber (4) — Category: Blog
  • Social learning in humans and nonhuman animals
    
    Published on 25 May 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • The Smartphone Psychology Manifesto
    
    Published on 18 May 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Science Magazine’s special issue on Human Conflict
    
    Published on 18 May 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • The social motivation theory of autism
    
    Published on 21 April 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Do infants understand social dominance relations?
    
    Published on 19 April 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Tool use, gesture and the evolution of language
    
    Published on 06 April 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Nick Enfield reviews Hurford’s The Origins of Grammar
    
    Published on 31 March 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • What explains foxhole theism?
    
    Published on 31 March 2012 by Helen De Cruz (3) — Category: Blog
  • Fluctuations in Word Use from Word Birth to Word Death
    
    Published on 23 March 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Emotion in Eastern and Western Music
    
    Published on 19 March 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Policing friendships. Lessons from the equine world
    
    Published on 12 March 2012 by Denis Tatone (2) — Category: Blog
  • The Psychosemantics of Free Riding
    
    Published on 11 March 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • The Social Evolution Forum
    
    Published on 05 March 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • What it is about women?
    
    Published on 19 February 2012 by Pascal Boyer (9) — Category: Blog
  • Learning word meanings at 6 months?
    
    Published on 16 February 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • What’s the point of talking to your child?
    
    Published on 07 February 2012 by Alex Cristia (8) — Category: Blog
  • Biology of cultural conflict
    
    Published on 26 January 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Incredible! Listening to ‘When I’m 64’ makes you forget your age
    
    Published on 24 January 2012 by Olivier Morin — Category: Blog
  • Are humans innately bad social scientists?
    
    Published on 23 January 2012 by Nicolas Baumard (3) — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • It’s All in the Mind, but Whose Mind? The participants, or the experimenter’s?
    
    Published on 22 January 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Twelve Lessons (Most of Which I Learned the Hard Way) for Evolutionary Psychologists
    
    Published on 20 January 2012 by Dan Fessler (1) — Category: Blog
  • Early social cognition in three cultural contexts
    
    Published on 17 January 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Why are the faces of primates so dramatically different from one another?
    
    Published on 16 January 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Blogs from ICCI contributors
    
    Published on 11 January 2012 by Olivier Morin — Category: Blog
  • Flavor network and the principles of food pairing
    
    Published on 10 January 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Attributing Mind to Groups vs. Group Members
    
    Published on 06 January 2012 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Why are some languages more regular than others?
    
    Published on 02 January 2012 by Dan Sperber — Category: Blog

• 2011

  • Middle childhood: Evolutionary and cross-cultural perspectives
    
    Published on 27 December 2011 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • The scope-severity paradox
    
    Published on 30 October 2011 by Aniko Sebesteny (1) — Category: Blog
  • Atheist clergymen and belief in belief
    
    Published on 22 October 2011 by Helen De Cruz (5) — Category: Blog
  • An epidemiology-of-representations solution to a WWII shipwreck mystery
    
    Published on 16 October 2011 by Dan Sperber (2) — Category: Blog
  • Anthropological light on the mind-body problem
    
    Published on 30 September 2011 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Evolutionary-psychology bashing analysed
    
    Published on 14 September 2011 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Epistemic vigilance… and epistemic recklessness
    
    Published on 08 August 2011 by Pascal Boyer (5) — Category: Blog
  • Why are human beings so interested in explaining misfortune?
    
    Published on 07 August 2011 by Pascal Boyer (14) — Category: Blog
  • Uncovering and Punishing Unconscious Bias
    
    Published on 07 August 2011 by Hugo Mercier (1) — Category: Decision-making for a social world
  • Google Effects on Memory
    
    Published on 05 August 2011 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Social influences on self-control
    
    Published on 03 August 2011 by Hugo Mercier (4) — Category: Decision-making for a social world
  • Generosity as a by-product of selection for reciprocity
    
    Published on 27 July 2011 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Polemics on Evolutionary Psychology
    
    Published on 23 July 2011 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Framing, defaults, trust
    
    Published on 18 July 2011 by Hugo Mercier (2) — Category: Decision-making for a social world
  • Modularity and decision making
    
    Published on 04 July 2011 by Hugo Mercier (3) — Category: Decision-making for a social world
  • Snipe hunters of preys with low epistemic vigilance
    
    Published on 02 July 2011 by Radu Umbres — Category: Blog
  • Mèng Zǐ (372 – 289 BCE) on the moral organ
    
    Published on 25 June 2011 by Nicolas Baumard (2) — Category: Blog
  • Adam Smith (1723-1790) on mirror neurons and empathy
    
    Published on 24 June 2011 by Nicolas Baumard — Category: Blog
  • Smith (1723-1790) on innateness and cultural variability
    
    Published on 23 June 2011 by Nicolas Baumard (2) — Category: Blog
  • Adam Smith (1723-1790) on ultimate and proximate causes in psychology
    
    Published on 22 June 2011 by Nicolas Baumard (1) — Category: Blog
  • Adam Smith (1723 – 1790) on intuitive and reflective processes
    
    Published on 21 June 2011 by Nicolas Baumard (1) — Category: Blog
  • History of social sciences week!
    
    Published on 20 June 2011 by Nicolas Baumard (3) — Category: Blog
  • Fast lemons and intuitive beliefs
    
    Published on 06 June 2011 by Ophelia Deroy (7) — Category: Blog
  • Judgments and decisions based on attempts to disambiguate the given information
    
    Published on 06 June 2011 by Hugo Mercier (2) — Category: Decision-making for a social world
  • Offensive inanity in the name of evolutionary psychology
    
    Published on 03 June 2011 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Theology and cognitive science
    
    Published on 25 May 2011 by Helen De Cruz (8) — Category: Blog
  • The cost of collaboration
    
    Published on 22 May 2011 by Hugo Mercier (2) — Category: Decision-making for a social world
  • Do people ever engage in “magical thinking” ?
    
    Published on 19 May 2011 by Pascal Boyer (13) — Category: Blog
  • Exploiting the wisdom of others
    
    Published on 09 May 2011 by Hugo Mercier (3) — Category: Decision-making for a social world
  • David Hume, the anthropologist, born May 7, 1711
    
    Published on 07 May 2011 by Dan Sperber (9) — Category: Blog
  • Patrick Suppes Prize for Nancy Nersessian
    
    Published on 04 May 2011 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Bradley Franks’ Culture and Cognition
    
    Published on 01 May 2011 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Moral Compensation and the Environment
    
    Published on 25 April 2011 by Hugo Mercier (4) — Category: Decision-making for a social world
  • Belief ascription in infants and children: the puzzle
    
    Published on 19 April 2011 by Pierre Jacob — Category: Blog
  • Where and when did languages emerge? The answer
    
    Published on 17 April 2011 by The ICCI Team (2) — Category: Blog
  • Cultural evolution of linguistic structures
    
    Published on 15 April 2011 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • What the judge ate for breakfast
    
    Published on 13 April 2011 by Dan Sperber (1) — Category: Blog
  • Cognitive Migration
    
    Published on 11 April 2011 by Hugo Mercier (3) — Category: Decision-making for a social world
  • Is social cognition reducible to theory of mind?
    
    Published on 10 April 2011 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • If “Religion is natural”, what about atheism?
    
    Published on 05 April 2011 by Helen De Cruz (4) — Category: Blog
  • Pointing among the Yucatec Maya. A reply to Emmanuel Dupoux
    
    Published on 30 March 2011 by Olivier Le Guen (1) — Category: Blog
  • Words or Deeds
    
    Published on 28 March 2011 by Hugo Mercier (5) — Category: Decision-making for a social world
  • False choice: Is the underrepresentation of women in science by choice or by discrimination?
    
    Published on 26 March 2011 by Davie Yoon (8) — Category: Blog
  • Birthers, Obama, and conflicting intuitions
    
    Published on 22 March 2011 by Pascal Boyer (3) — Category: Blog
  • Instrumentality Boosts Gratitude
    
    Published on 14 March 2011 by Hugo Mercier (5) — Category: Decision-making for a social world
  • Cultural relativism: Another victim of Arab revolutions?
    
    Published on 08 March 2011 by Nicolas Baumard (5) — Category: Blog
  • The theologian’s tragedy or the theologian’s trump card?
    
    Published on 06 March 2011 by Helen De Cruz — Category: Blog
  • What is anthropology about?
    
    Published on 01 March 2011 by Rita Astuti (3) — Category: Blog
  • Strategies for coping with questionable decisions
    
    Published on 21 February 2011 by Hugo Mercier (8) — Category: Decision-making for a social world
  • War as a moral imperative
    
    Published on 20 February 2011 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Human avoidance in pointing: a cultural universal?
    
    Published on 16 February 2011 by Emmanuel Dupoux (8) — Category: Blog
  • Profit-Seeking Punishment Corrupts Norm Obedience
    
    Published on 14 February 2011 by Hugo Mercier (2) — Category: Decision-making for a social world
  • Children as scientists
    
    Published on 10 February 2011 by Nicolas Baumard — Category: Blog
  • Evolutionary Theory and the Ultimate–Proximate Distinction in the Human Behavioral Sciences
    
    Published on 10 February 2011 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • An action suit, not a straightjacket: Whorf on language, Guy Deutscher on Whorf
    
    Published on 05 February 2011 by Nick Enfield (7) — Category: Blog
  • Introduction – Reasoning as a social device
    
    Published on 02 February 2011 by Hugo Mercier (2) — Category: Decision-making for a social world
  • Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in ‘Religion’?
    
    Published on 02 February 2011 by Pascal Boyer (24) — Category: Blog
  • What’s wrong, in the end, with Homo Œconomicus?
    
    Published on 02 February 2011 by Pascal Boyer (4) — Category: Blog
  • Culture evolves
    
    Published on 01 February 2011 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Workshop: Decision-making for a social world
    
    Published on 30 January 2011 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Decision-making for a social world
  • Learning suicide in Sri Lanka, part II: suicide as separation
    
    Published on 13 January 2011 by Tom Widger — Category: Blog
  • How much trust should we put in experimental results?
    
    Published on 07 January 2011 by Olivier Morin (11) — Category: Blog

• 2010

  • The Smurf Studies: Do 7-month-olds have a
    
    Published on 31 December 2010 by Davie Yoon (1) — Category: Blog
  • Denis Dutton (1944-2010)
    
    Published on 30 December 2010 by Olivier Morin (1) — Category: Blog
  • The evolutionary and cognitive basis of the cultural success of garbage trucks among western toddler
    
    Published on 27 December 2010 by Nicolas Baumard (4) — Category: Blog
  • “Neurobabble” vs Real Science
    
    Published on 20 December 2010 by Davie Yoon (8) — Category: Blog
  • The dawn of “culturomics”
    
    Published on 19 December 2010 by The ICCI Team (4) — Category: Blog
  • Folk epistemology
    
    Published on 15 December 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • In EHB : Sixteen misconceptions about the evolution of human cooperation, by West et al.
    
    Published on 12 December 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Bourgeois Dignity: what doesn’t explain the industrial revolution
    
    Published on 12 December 2010 by Hugo Mercier (5) — Category: Blog
  • Anthropology is not a science, says the AAA
    
    Published on 29 November 2010 by Benson Saler (4) — Category: Blog
  • Natural pedagogy and A-not-B tasks
    
    Published on 29 November 2010 by Marion Vorms (1) — Category: Pedagogy Week
  • Is human communication biased?
    
    Published on 28 November 2010 by Olivier Morin — Category: Pedagogy Week
  • György Gergely replies to Marion Vorms and Olivier Morin
    
    Published on 28 November 2010 by György Gergely — Category: Pedagogy Week
  • György Gergely on genericity
    
    Published on 28 November 2010 by György Gergely (11) — Category: Pedagogy Week
  • György Gergely on the A-not-B task
    
    Published on 28 November 2010 by György Gergely — Category: Pedagogy Week
  • Pedagogy week starts today!
    
    Published on 27 November 2010 by Olivier Morin — Category: Pedagogy Week
  • The Zeus problem revisited – or is it the Jedi problem?
    
    Published on 26 November 2010 by Helen De Cruz (4) — Category: Blog
  • In TiCS: Space, Time and Number
    
    Published on 24 November 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • New book: Human evolution and the origin of hierarchies
    
    Published on 23 November 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Special issue of Mind and Society on experimental economics
    
    Published on 22 November 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Where good ideas come from
    
    Published on 21 November 2010 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Blog
  • Which network structures favor the rapid spread of new ideas, behaviors, or technologies?
    
    Published on 21 November 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Video games as applied anthropology
    
    Published on 18 November 2010 by Nicolas Baumard (4) — Category: Blog
  • Picture of the week: The colors of the Web
    
    Published on 16 November 2010 by Nicolas Baumard — Category: Blog
  • Learning suicide in Sri Lanka
    
    Published on 01 November 2010 by Tom Widger (2) — Category: Blog
  • Philippa Foot, Famous Philosopher, Unknown Anthropologist (1920-2010)
    
    Published on 18 October 2010 by Nicolas Baumard (3) — Category: Blog
  • Does God’s omnipotence extend to vision?
    
    Published on 17 October 2010 by Guillaume Dezecache (3) — Category: Blog
  • Why the West Rules–For Now
    
    Published on 15 October 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Social interaction in utero?
    
    Published on 14 October 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Poetic rhyme reflects cross-linguistic differences in information structure
    
    Published on 11 October 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Picture of the week: How segregated is your city?
    
    Published on 05 October 2010 by Nicolas Baumard — Category: Blog
  • Epistemic trust in scientific practice: The case of primates studies
    
    Published on 30 September 2010 by Helen De Cruz — Category: Blog
  • Is philosophy universal?
    
    Published on 23 September 2010 by The ICCI Team (1) — Category: Blog
  • Creative pairs
    
    Published on 20 September 2010 by Dan Sperber (2) — Category: Blog
  • Can Antropologists and other Cognitive Scientist live together?
    
    Published on 13 September 2010 by Maurice Bloch (3) — Category: Blog
  • Nick Enfield reviews Searle and Runciman
    
    Published on 09 September 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Why pink? Color matters
    
    Published on 06 September 2010 by Ophelia Deroy (5) — Category: Blog
  • Scott Atran on religion and political violence
    
    Published on 22 August 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Distress, culture and gene expression
    
    Published on 20 August 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • The Zeus Problem
    
    Published on 08 August 2010 by The ICCI Team (2) — Category: Blog
  • Evolved dispositions and cultural norms. A discussion in Science
    
    Published on 28 July 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • What if there had never been a Cognitive Revolution?
    
    Published on 23 July 2010 by Nicolas Baumard (7) — Category: Blog
  • Moral camouflage or moral monkeys?
    
    Published on 22 July 2010 by The ICCI Team (1) — Category: Blog
  • Paul the Octopus, relevance and the joy of superstition
    
    Published on 13 July 2010 by Dan Sperber (3) — Category: Blog
  • Opacity tasting with Dan and Maurice
    
    Published on 11 July 2010 by György Gergely (2) — Category: Blog
  • The Price of Altruism
    
    Published on 11 July 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Paul Rozin on what psychologists should study
    
    Published on 07 July 2010 by Hugo Mercier (5) — Category: Blog
  • The weirdest people in the world?
    
    Published on 02 July 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Homeopathy as witchcraft
    
    Published on 02 July 2010 by Nicolas Baumard (5) — Category: Blog
  • The sacredness of God
    
    Published on 28 June 2010 by Brian Malley (2) — Category: Blog
  • “Oy vey, have you got the wrong vampire!” A reply to Frans de Waal
    
    Published on 22 June 2010 by Dan Sperber (5) — Category: Blog
  • Three Questions for Michael Tomasello
    
    Published on 20 June 2010 by Emma Cohen — Category: Blog
  • Why do academics oppose capitalism?
    
    Published on 14 June 2010 by Nicolas Baumard (19) — Category: Blog
  • A psychological theory of human tool use
    
    Published on 13 June 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • The self in ‘face’ and ‘dignity’ cultures
    
    Published on 12 June 2010 by The ICCI Team (7) — Category: Blog
  • Pinker on Mind and Media
    
    Published on 11 June 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Communication, punishment and common pool resources
    
    Published on 06 June 2010 by Hugo Mercier (1) — Category: Blog
  • Believing Maurice Bloch on doubting, doubting him on believing
    
    Published on 30 May 2010 by Dan Sperber (8) — Category: Blog
  • Why do we make our tastes public?
    
    Published on 24 May 2010 by Nicolas Baumard (12) — Category: Blog
  • Alphapsy blog archive
    
    Published on 23 May 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • Learning and prestige among chimpanzees
    
    Published on 22 May 2010 by The ICCI Team (1) — Category: Blog
  • A deflationary approach to economic games
    
    Published on 20 May 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Doubting among the Zafimaniry
    
    Published on 16 May 2010 by Maurice Bloch (3) — Category: Blog
  • Overimitation in Kalahari Bushman: Children and the Origins of Human Cultural Cognition
    
    Published on 15 May 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Do not confound homophily and contagion!
    
    Published on 15 May 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • camphor – ammonia = anniseed x peppermint
    
    Published on 10 May 2010 by Olivier Morin (4) — Category: Blog
  • The Moral Life of Babies
    
    Published on 10 May 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Heaven before the space age
    
    Published on 07 May 2010 by Brian Malley (2) — Category: Blog
  • Innocents fornicating and apes grieving
    
    Published on 05 May 2010 by Dan Sperber (9) — Category: Blog
  • Is there a language instinct?
    
    Published on 02 May 2010 by Nicolas Baumard (3) — Category: Blog
  • Endorsing evolution: A matter of authority?
    
    Published on 28 April 2010 by Helen De Cruz (3) — Category: Blog
  • Are variations in economic games really caused by culture?
    
    Published on 24 April 2010 by Nicolas Baumard (9) — Category: Blog
  • What explains the stability of animal culture?
    
    Published on 16 April 2010 by Nicolas Claidière — Category: Blog
  • Implied motion in Hokusai Manga
    
    Published on 14 April 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • On the Use of Natural Experiments in Anthropology
    
    Published on 06 April 2010 by Nicolas Baumard (1) — Category: Blog
  • The social rationality of footballers
    
    Published on 28 March 2010 by Hugo Mercier (3) — Category: Blog
  • Lévi-Strauss in comic form
    
    Published on 28 March 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Learn about Social Neuroscience
    
    Published on 25 March 2010 by The ICCI Team (2) — Category: Blog
  • Varieties of disbelief
    
    Published on 24 March 2010 by Dan Sperber (1) — Category: Blog
  • Is the “problem of evil” universal?
    
    Published on 18 March 2010 by Brian Malley (1) — Category: Blog
  • Babies got rhythm!
    
    Published on 18 March 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Cultural differences and linguistic justice
    
    Published on 15 March 2010 by Nicolas Baumard (6) — Category: Blog
  • Do only humans share with non-kin?
    
    Published on 14 March 2010 by The ICCI Team (1) — Category: Blog
  • Is hearing God like being a skilled athlete?
    
    Published on 13 March 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • How many minutes does it take for social norms to inhibit survival instinct?
    
    Published on 05 March 2010 by The ICCI Team (2) — Category: Blog
  • 3 Quarks Daily’s Arts and Literature Prize: Nicolas Baumard on the universality of music in the com
    
    Published on 03 March 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Pictures of the week: Globalized Prehistory in Arunachal Pradesh
    
    Published on 01 March 2010 by Philippe Ramirez — Category: Blog
  • Block and Kitcher review What Darwin Got Wrong by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini
    
    Published on 25 February 2010 by Dan Sperber (15) — Category: Blog
  • Can you tell who will win the election in another society just by looking at the faces of the candid
    
    Published on 23 February 2010 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Blog
  • Religion science: if you pay the piper, do you call the tune?
    
    Published on 19 February 2010 by Olivier Morin (8) — Category: Blog
  • How cultural is sensitivity to shape properties?
    
    Published on 18 February 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Better live in Sweden than in the US: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
    
    Published on 12 February 2010 by Nicolas Baumard (7) — Category: Blog
  • Viral columns
    
    Published on 09 February 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • There is no such thing as sexual intercourse
    
    Published on 08 February 2010 by Pascal Boyer (11) — Category: Blog
  • Altruistic adoption in chimpanzees?
    
    Published on 04 February 2010 by Nicolas Baumard (2) — Category: Blog
  • Video: A Debate on Group Selection
    
    Published on 03 February 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Experimental epidemiology: The work of Chip Heath
    
    Published on 02 February 2010 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Blog
  • The evolution of misbeliefs
    
    Published on 02 February 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Universal and culture-specific recognition of emotions
    
    Published on 31 January 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Moscow’s stray dogs
    
    Published on 29 January 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Four recipes for religion
    
    Published on 25 January 2010 by Harvey Whitehouse (13) — Category: Blog
  • Language evolution and universals
    
    Published on 24 January 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Mad in America
    
    Published on 20 January 2010 by Ophelia Deroy (2) — Category: Blog
  • Na’vi Cognition and Culture
    
    Published on 19 January 2010 by Nicolas Baumard (4) — Category: Blog
  • Cognition under the high brow
    
    Published on 14 January 2010 by Pascal Boyer (25) — Category: Blog
  • Body movement in language and cognition
    
    Published on 12 January 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Predation enhances cooperation in wee little birds.
    
    Published on 11 January 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Does power increase hypocrisy?
    
    Published on 09 January 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Cross potatoes
    
    Published on 07 January 2010 by Brian Malley (1) — Category: Blog
  • Essentialist animals?
    
    Published on 05 January 2010 by Helen De Cruz (1) — Category: Blog
  • Is Imitation Necessary?
    
    Published on 04 January 2010 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog

• 2009

  • Jingle Bell – Punjabi Tadka
    
    Published on 25 December 2009 by Dan Sperber (3) — Category: Blog
  • Monkeys recognize the faces of group mates in photographs
    
    Published on 23 December 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Golden bell and Iron shirt
    
    Published on 18 December 2009 by Brian Malley — Category: Blog
  • Uta and Chris Frith on the social brain
    
    Published on 16 December 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Conversation Hackers
    
    Published on 13 December 2009 by Olivier Morin (7) — Category: Blog
  • The study of cognition and culture today
    
    Published on 11 December 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Three Questions for Simon Baron-Cohen
    
    Published on 09 December 2009 by Emma Cohen — Category: Blog
  • The scope of natural pedagogy theory (II): uniquely human?
    
    Published on 07 December 2009 by Pierre Jacob — Category: Blog
  • The Biological Link Between Music and Speech
    
    Published on 06 December 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Can you tell the language of the mother from her baby’s cry?
    
    Published on 03 December 2009 by Nicolas Claidière (1) — Category: Blog
  • Death, where is thy sting ?
    
    Published on 01 December 2009 by Pascal Boyer (1) — Category: Blog
  • The scope of natural pedagogy theory (I): babies
    
    Published on 27 November 2009 by Pierre Jacob — Category: Blog
  • Cosma Shalizi on social contagion
    
    Published on 26 November 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Some like it hot
    
    Published on 25 November 2009 by Ophelia Deroy (2) — Category: Blog
  • Language faculty? Semiotic system? Or what?
    
    Published on 23 November 2009 by Dan Sperber (1) — Category: Blog
  • Human expansion, drift, and cultural evolution
    
    Published on 20 November 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Is the spell broken? Reflections on evolutionary debunking and religious beliefs
    
    Published on 18 November 2009 by Helen De Cruz (5) — Category: Blog
  • “I read Playboy for the articles”
    
    Published on 15 November 2009 by Hugo Mercier (7) — Category: Blog
  • FOXP2 again in the news
    
    Published on 12 November 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Alloparental care and wandering baby monkeys
    
    Published on 09 November 2009 by Nicolas Claidière — Category: Blog
  • Scott Atran: A memory of Lévi-Strauss
    
    Published on 04 November 2009 by Scott Atran — Category: Blog
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss has died
    
    Published on 03 November 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • A question about polemics
    
    Published on 01 November 2009 by Brian Malley (4) — Category: Blog
  • Grieving animals?
    
    Published on 01 November 2009 by Dan Sperber (6) — Category: Blog
  • Outbreak!
    
    Published on 28 October 2009 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Blog
  • The universality of music: Cross-cultural comparison, the recognition of emotions, and the influence
    
    Published on 26 October 2009 by Nicolas Baumard (1) — Category: Blog
  • Mind and society: Special issue on social simulation
    
    Published on 21 October 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Proper names in mind, language and culture
    
    Published on 20 October 2009 by Dan Sperber (1) — Category: Blog
  • Simian Oeconomicus II
    
    Published on 18 October 2009 by Nicolas Baumard — Category: Blog
  • The cultural group selection hypothesis
    
    Published on 13 October 2009 by The ICCI Team (1) — Category: Blog
  • Elinor Ostrom: Nobel Prize in Anthropology!
    
    Published on 12 October 2009 by Nicolas Baumard (3) — Category: Blog
  • New book on: Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind
    
    Published on 10 October 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • g Tum-mo heat meditation
    
    Published on 08 October 2009 by Brian Malley (3) — Category: Blog
  • Experimental demonstration of cultural attitudes to punishment?
    
    Published on 06 October 2009 by Nicolas Baumard — Category: Blog
  • Nick Enfield reviews Atran and Medin’s The Native Mind and the Construction of Nature
    
    Published on 05 October 2009 by Nick Enfield — Category: Blog
  • Gloria Origgi reviews Jon Elster’s
    
    Published on 01 October 2009 by Gloria Origgi (1) — Category: Blog
  • Cultural anthropology of the distant future?
    
    Published on 28 September 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • A bubble in the Humanities market?
    
    Published on 26 September 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • How to Think, Say, or Do Precisely the Worst Thing for Any Occasion
    
    Published on 22 September 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • A debate in Nature on Darwin and the mind
    
    Published on 21 September 2009 by Cognitionandculture — Category: Blog
  • A scientific evaluation of Charles Dickens
    
    Published on 20 September 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • The Chameleon effect in Capuchin Monkeys
    
    Published on 17 September 2009 by Nicolas Claidière (1) — Category: Blog
  • Keyboards, Codes and the Search for Optimality
    
    Published on 12 September 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • The quest for Jesus
    
    Published on 10 September 2009 by Brian Malley (2) — Category: Blog
  • The compromise effect or, cross-cultural psychology is messy
    
    Published on 07 September 2009 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Blog
  • Is autonomy as a universal aspiration?
    
    Published on 05 September 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Pierre Jacob reviews ‘Mothers and Others’, by Sarah B. Hrdy
    
    Published on 04 September 2009 by Pierre Jacob — Category: Blog
  • 3 Quarks Daily’s Prize in Philosophy
    
    Published on 02 September 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Formidability and the logic of human anger
    
    Published on 02 September 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • How much of a difference does culture make ?
    
    Published on 31 August 2009 by Olivier Morin (2) — Category: Blog
  • Japanese smileys vs. Ekman faces
    
    Published on 28 August 2009 by Olivier Morin (3) — Category: Blog
  • How cultural is cultural epidemiology? 2. Cultural embedding
    
    Published on 25 August 2009 by Christophe Heintz (1) — Category: Blog
  • Meaning in sounds?
    
    Published on 23 August 2009 by Simon Barthelme (2) — Category: Blog
  • Linguistic Epidemiology – Part 1, Units of analysis
    
    Published on 21 August 2009 by Nick Enfield (2) — Category: Blog
  • Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
    
    Published on 11 August 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Scylla and Charybdis
    
    Published on 06 August 2009 by Brian Malley (1) — Category: Blog
  • Repeated learning makes cultural evolution unique
    
    Published on 06 August 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Murder in Saint Andrews
    
    Published on 04 August 2009 by Nicolas Claidière — Category: Blog
  • The energetic benefits of cooperation in modern humans
    
    Published on 04 August 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • How cultural is cultural epidemiology? 1. Enculturation
    
    Published on 29 July 2009 by Christophe Heintz (2) — Category: Blog
  • Is deductive inference embedded in language?
    
    Published on 23 July 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Online videos of the 2007 CEU summer school on culture and cognition
    
    Published on 20 July 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • A role for dyslexia in language evolution?
    
    Published on 17 July 2009 by Nicolas Claidière — Category: Blog
  • Common Ground and Cultural Prominence
    
    Published on 17 July 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • The evolution of cooperative turn-taking
    
    Published on 11 July 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Simian Oeconomicus
    
    Published on 10 July 2009 by Nicolas Baumard — Category: Blog
  • The Evolution of God?
    
    Published on 10 July 2009 by Hugo Mercier (1) — Category: Blog
  • Why you should rank your friends (but not tell them)
    
    Published on 09 July 2009 by Ophelia Deroy — Category: Blog
  • Social Interaction and Geographical Distance in the Internet Era
    
    Published on 05 July 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • In praise of neuroscience (for once)
    
    Published on 01 July 2009 by Nicolas Baumard (2) — Category: Blog
  • Universals in turn-taking in conversation – PNAS paper
    
    Published on 01 July 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Universals and cultural variation in turn-taking in conversation
    
    Published on 01 July 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Daniel Nettle on cultural variation as an evolved characteristic
    
    Published on 30 June 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Wine in mind
    
    Published on 30 June 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Inverse correlation between norms and behaviour?
    
    Published on 28 June 2009 by Dan Sperber (7) — Category: Blog
  • Abstract numbers: Culture or innate core knowledge?
    
    Published on 26 June 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • David Sloane Wilson on Evolutionary Psychology
    
    Published on 25 June 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Evolutionary psychology under attack
    
    Published on 23 June 2009 by Dan Sperber (2) — Category: Blog
  • Interviews with psychologists at Edge.org
    
    Published on 21 June 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behavior
    
    Published on 15 June 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • In memoriam: Nicola Knight
    
    Published on 12 June 2009 by Dan Sperber (1) — Category: Blog
  • How to bother a pigeon
    
    Published on 09 June 2009 by Nicola Knight — Category: Blog
  • Anthropology in crisis – what, still?
    
    Published on 07 June 2009 by Harvey Whitehouse (6) — Category: Blog
  • The evolution of laughter
    
    Published on 05 June 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Attribution
    
    Published on 03 June 2009 by Brian Malley — Category: Blog
  • Cross-cultural differences in argumentation
    
    Published on 03 June 2009 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Blog
  • Is language a replicator?
    
    Published on 01 June 2009 by Nicolas Claidière — Category: Blog
  • Truth among the…
    
    Published on 31 May 2009 by Dan Sperber (2) — Category: Blog
  • Is the left hemisphere more Whorfian than the right one?
    
    Published on 21 May 2009 by Dan Sperber — Category: Blog
  • Cultural Attraction among birds
    
    Published on 19 May 2009 by Hugo Viciana — Category: Blog
  • The Art Instinct : Denis Dutton replies to Roberto Casati
    
    Published on 12 May 2009 by Roberto Casati (7) — Category: Blog
  • Cumulative culture in the lab and chimpanzees
    
    Published on 07 May 2009 by Helen De Cruz (1) — Category: Blog
  • The interpretive process
    
    Published on 06 May 2009 by Brian Malley (3) — Category: Blog
  • Cross-cultural variation in creationism
    
    Published on 04 May 2009 by Helen De Cruz (8) — Category: Blog
  • Success or Prestige? Hunters’ cultural biases
    
    Published on 30 April 2009 by Dan Sperber (5) — Category: Blog
  • Interviews with some Great Ancestors
    
    Published on 29 April 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Book review : The Art Instinct, by Denis Dutton.
    
    Published on 27 April 2009 by Roberto Casati (30) — Category: Blog
  • Incest in France
    
    Published on 24 April 2009 by Olivier Morin — Category: Blog
  • Institutions again – What is a primitive society?
    
    Published on 11 April 2009 by Pascal Boyer (3) — Category: Blog
  • Nick Enfield’s “The Anatomy of meaning”
    
    Published on 09 April 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Natural Pedagogy and Flossing Monkeys
    
    Published on 07 April 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Noga Arikha at Google
    
    Published on 07 April 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • The interpretand
    
    Published on 06 April 2009 by Brian Malley (2) — Category: Blog
  • How I found glaring errors in Einstein’s calculations
    
    Published on 01 April 2009 by Pascal Boyer (5) — Category: Blog
  • The future of human cooperation: Some minuscule evidence
    
    Published on 28 March 2009 by Dan Sperber (2) — Category: Blog
  • An update on the Pirahã
    
    Published on 22 March 2009 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Blog
  • 10,000 Year Danger Marker?
    
    Published on 19 March 2009 by Colin Holbrook (2) — Category: Blog
  • Language and colour, again
    
    Published on 18 March 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Pictures of the week: Culture and Cognition in Cetaceans
    
    Published on 15 March 2009 by Anik Boileau (1) — Category: Blog
  • Why are minimally counter-intuitive concepts special?
    
    Published on 11 March 2009 by Muhammad Afzal Upal (1) — Category: Blog
  • How Grandma stopped worrying, and started to love cognitive anthropology
    
    Published on 10 March 2009 by Olivier Morin (1) — Category: Blog
  • Interpretive traditions
    
    Published on 09 March 2009 by Brian Malley (1) — Category: Blog
  • In Bad Taste: Evidence for the Oral Origins of Moral Disgust
    
    Published on 06 March 2009 by Nicolas Baumard — Category: Blog
  • What is an institution, that people may participate in it?
    
    Published on 03 March 2009 by Pascal Boyer (6) — Category: Blog
  • Cross-cultural differences in risk taking
    
    Published on 27 February 2009 by Hugo Mercier (2) — Category: Blog
  • Paleolithic art: awesome — but not religious
    
    Published on 24 February 2009 by Pascal Boyer (3) — Category: Blog
  • How persistent are intuitive (erroneous) beliefs?
    
    Published on 23 February 2009 by Helen De Cruz (5) — Category: Blog
  • Newborn infants detect the beat in music
    
    Published on 18 February 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Do economic games tell us something about real behaviours?
    
    Published on 17 February 2009 by Nicolas Baumard (1) — Category: Blog
  • Beta-blocker erases fear response related to bad memories
    
    Published on 17 February 2009 by Dimitris Xygalatas (2) — Category: Blog
  • Face value
    
    Published on 13 February 2009 by Ophelia Deroy (1) — Category: Blog
  • Dinosaurs go Machiavellian
    
    Published on 11 February 2009 by Olivier Morin — Category: Blog
  • Spatial orientation among reindeer herders
    
    Published on 10 February 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • “The Art Instinct” by Denis Dutton
    
    Published on 09 February 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Culture and Perception, part II: The Muller-Lyer illusion
    
    Published on 09 February 2009 by Simon Barthelme (6) — Category: Blog
  • Is resonance the cement of society?
    
    Published on 06 February 2009 by Nicolas Baumard — Category: Blog
  • What about cognition and society?
    
    Published on 05 February 2009 by Nicolas Baumard (4) — Category: Blog
  • Cultured Monkeys
    
    Published on 04 February 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Astounding! Readers use their imagination when reading
    
    Published on 04 February 2009 by Olivier Morin (1) — Category: Blog
  • “Math professor figures formula for Beatles success”
    
    Published on 03 February 2009 by Noga Arikha (2) — Category: Blog
  • The relevance of cognitive relevance for students of culture
    
    Published on 02 February 2009 by Brian Malley (2) — Category: Blog
  • How automatic are human social skills?
    
    Published on 29 January 2009 by Olivier Morin (1) — Category: Blog
  • Are dogs (and chimps) really inequity-averse?
    
    Published on 27 January 2009 by Nicolas Baumard — Category: Blog
  • Cross-cultural variation of speech-accompanying gesture
    
    Published on 24 January 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Presidential OCD ?
    
    Published on 23 January 2009 by Dimitris Xygalatas — Category: Blog
  • Cultural differences in scene perception?
    
    Published on 21 January 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Individual recognition in horses, monkeys and humans
    
    Published on 21 January 2009 by Dan Sperber (3) — Category: Blog
  • Why does sneezing elicit blessing?
    
    Published on 18 January 2009 by Dan Sperber (11) — Category: Blog
  • Descartes’ skull
    
    Published on 12 January 2009 by Olivier Morin — Category: Blog
  • Are humans intuitive dualists? Mitch Hodge replies.
    
    Published on 09 January 2009 by K. Mitch Hodge (6) — Category: Blog
  • Cross-cultural investigation of Smileys
    
    Published on 08 January 2009 by Karim N'Diaye — Category: Blog
  • Social neuroscience under attack
    
    Published on 06 January 2009 by Olivier Morin — Category: Blog
  • A case for the Cognitive principle of relevance
    
    Published on 05 January 2009 by Brian Malley (12) — Category: Blog
  • ‘Animal Minds’ on Philosophy Talk
    
    Published on 02 January 2009 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog

• 2008

  • Picture of the week: Rebuilding a house among the Zafimaniry… and rethinking cognitive approaches
    
    Published on 25 December 2008 by Maurice Bloch (1) — Category: Blog
  • Cartoon Faces
    
    Published on 24 December 2008 by Olivier Morin (4) — Category: Blog
  • Why do we sometimes de-humanize our fellow humans? Some preliminary reflections
    
    Published on 21 December 2008 by Harvey Whitehouse (3) — Category: Blog
  • Has anyone else enjoyed Love and Sex with Robots?
    
    Published on 19 December 2008 by Emma Cohen (2) — Category: Blog
  • How social status shapes race
    
    Published on 17 December 2008 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Experimental evidence for the Broken Window Theory
    
    Published on 16 December 2008 by Nicolas Claidière (6) — Category: Blog
  • Into the dynamic of hot topics
    
    Published on 16 December 2008 by Nicolas Claidière (1) — Category: Blog
  • Is a universal Michelin Guide possible?
    
    Published on 12 December 2008 by Nicolas Baumard (6) — Category: Blog
  • Scots, Birds, and Names
    
    Published on 10 December 2008 by Olivier Morin (1) — Category: Blog
  • Culture and sex ratio in China
    
    Published on 09 December 2008 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • The Wisdom of Whores
    
    Published on 09 December 2008 by Hugo Mercier (1) — Category: Blog
  • Did Settlement Have Cognitive Consequences?
    
    Published on 08 December 2008 by Brian Malley (3) — Category: Blog
  • E-Curator project: 3D scan of artifacts
    
    Published on 07 December 2008 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Is Saint Nicholas a god?
    
    Published on 06 December 2008 by Helen De Cruz (13) — Category: Blog
  • The view from afar
    
    Published on 05 December 2008 by Nicholas Humphrey (1) — Category: Blog
  • Cutting and breaking across languages
    
    Published on 04 December 2008 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Blog
  • The prehistoric road to modernity
    
    Published on 03 December 2008 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • 4 Stone Hearth 54: marriage and Japanese toys
    
    Published on 03 December 2008 by Olivier Morin — Category: Blog
  • Heated debate on cognition and religion in the Guardian
    
    Published on 02 December 2008 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Culture and Perception
    
    Published on 02 December 2008 by Simon Barthelme (6) — Category: Blog
  • “Times Higher Ed”, stop muddying the waters
    
    Published on 30 November 2008 by Michael Stewart (2) — Category: Blog
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss: the first 100 years
    
    Published on 28 November 2008 by Dan Sperber (15) — Category: Blog
  • Epidemiology of flu, epidemiology of names
    
    Published on 27 November 2008 by Nicolas Baumard (3) — Category: Blog
  • Journalistic teleology
    
    Published on 26 November 2008 by Noga Arikha (1) — Category: Blog
  • Do we bend it like Beckham?
    
    Published on 25 November 2008 by Olivier Morin (5) — Category: Blog
  • A new book by Daniel Everett on the Pirahã
    
    Published on 25 November 2008 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • This week: social learning and cooperation
    
    Published on 24 November 2008 by Olivier Morin (1) — Category: Blog
  • Is culture what makes us cooperate?
    
    Published on 24 November 2008 by Jean-Baptiste André — Category: Blog
  • Fame!
    
    Published on 23 November 2008 by Ophelia Deroy (7) — Category: Blog
  • Your brain needs a British headmistress
    
    Published on 19 November 2008 by Michael Stewart (4) — Category: Blog
  • “You work in WHAT field?”
    
    Published on 18 November 2008 by Nicola Knight (9) — Category: Blog
  • Neuroanthropology or ethnographical neurosciences?
    
    Published on 17 November 2008 by Nicolas Baumard (1) — Category: Blog
  • Intuitive fatalism: adaptation or by-product?
    
    Published on 14 November 2008 by Nicolas Baumard (1) — Category: Blog
  • Phil. Trans. B issue on cultural transmission and the evolution of human behaviour
    
    Published on 13 November 2008 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Community and Religion: poor predictors of the bliss of nations
    
    Published on 11 November 2008 by Olivier Morin (5) — Category: Blog
  • Picture of the week: a Sangaku
    
    Published on 10 November 2008 by Olivier Morin (3) — Category: Blog
  • Book: Us and Them, by David Berreby
    
    Published on 09 November 2008 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Book: Iron in the Soul: Dispacement, Livelihood and Health in Cyprus
    
    Published on 08 November 2008 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Cold and warm relationships: A universal metaphor?
    
    Published on 07 November 2008 by Hugo Mercier (2) — Category: Blog
  • Picture of the week: Is fieldwork ecologically valid?
    
    Published on 06 November 2008 by Charles Stafford (2) — Category: Blog
  • “No evidence of Human Mirror Neurons”
    
    Published on 04 November 2008 by Olivier Morin (7) — Category: Blog
  • Magic and inference
    
    Published on 03 November 2008 by Brian Malley (6) — Category: Blog
  • Book: The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature
    
    Published on 02 November 2008 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Cosma Shalizi on Supernatural Horror in Electoral Politics
    
    Published on 31 October 2008 by Dan Sperber — Category: Blog
  • Are humans intuitive dualists?
    
    Published on 30 October 2008 by Paulo Sousa (10) — Category: Blog
  • Tasty food for anthropological thought
    
    Published on 28 October 2008 by Dan Sperber (4) — Category: Blog
  • The AHRC Culture & the Mind Project
    
    Published on 27 October 2008 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Maori Memories
    
    Published on 26 October 2008 by Olivier Morin (8) — Category: Blog
  • The origin and evolution of religious prosociality
    
    Published on 24 October 2008 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Religion: Bound to Believe?
    
    Published on 23 October 2008 by The ICCI Team — Category: Blog
  • Ideas of immanent justice in cognition and culture
    
    Published on 22 October 2008 by Dan Sperber (6) — Category: Blog
  • Picture of the week: enteromancy among the Dorze of Southern Ethiopia
    
    Published on 20 October 2008 by Dan Sperber (3) — Category: Blog
  • Politics and the psychology of irrational decisions
    
    Published on 05 October 2008 by Christophe Heintz (2) — Category: Blog
  • Cases of institutions that make us smart
    
    Published on 30 September 2008 by Christophe Heintz (7) — Category: Blog
  • Abortion puzzles, part two
    
    Published on 13 September 2008 by Olivier Morin (14) — Category: Blog
  • Philosophy and Psychology: Special issue on number and language
    
    Published on 03 September 2008 by Helen De Cruz — Category: Blog
  • Crime without Punishment?
    
    Published on 28 August 2008 by Nicola Knight (9) — Category: Blog
  • The spontaneous expression of pride and shame
    
    Published on 13 August 2008 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Blog
  • A cultural practice, conjuring, gives food for thought to cognitive neuroscientists
    
    Published on 12 August 2008 by Dan Sperber — Category: Blog
  • Cumulative cultural evolution in the lab
    
    Published on 07 August 2008 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Blog
  • On essentialism
    
    Published on 03 August 2008 by Rita Astuti (4) — Category: Blog
  • Economic games in and out of the lab
    
    Published on 01 August 2008 by Nicolas Baumard (1) — Category: Blog
  • Cognition, Culture and Caricature
    
    Published on 27 July 2008 by Dan Sperber (3) — Category: Blog
  • Culture and the Brain
    
    Published on 22 July 2008 by Hugo Mercier (1) — Category: Blog
  • The debate over maths in the Amazon: still counting points
    
    Published on 22 July 2008 by Olivier Morin (3) — Category: Blog
  • The natural order of events
    
    Published on 09 July 2008 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Blog
  • Neurotheology as an American Myth
    
    Published on 08 July 2008 by Olivier Morin — Category: Blog

• 2007

  • The color of dreams
    
    Published on 29 December 2007 by Olivier Morin (4) — Category: Blog
  • Culture and Cognition
    
    Published on 22 December 2007 by Maurice Bloch (2) — Category: Blog
  • Is Intelligent Design a cross-cultural universal ?
    
    Published on 15 December 2007 by Helen De Cruz — Category: Blog
  • Are minimally counter-intuitive concepts more memorable for young children?
    
    Published on 17 November 2007 by Helen De Cruz (3) — Category: Blog
  • Explanations as orgasms
    
    Published on 01 January 2007 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • The face of the thinker
    
    Published on 01 January 2007 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • God is dead?
    
    Published on 01 January 2007 by Nicolas Baumard — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • The power of mind
    
    Published on 01 January 2007 by Karim N'Diaye — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • Know thyself, yes – but how?
    
    Published on 01 January 2007 by Nicolas Baumard — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • Reassembling Latour
    
    Published on 01 January 2007 by Olivier Morin — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • The naive theories of ‘Honey I shrunk the kids!’
    
    Published on 01 January 2007 by Olivier Morin — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • What is neuroaesthetics about anyway?
    
    Published on 01 January 2007 by Simon Barthelme — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • From Sudoku to Spinoza: The Hedonistic Side of Reasoning
    
    Published on 01 January 2007 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • Who killed Gwen Stacy?
    
    Published on 01 January 2007 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • Naive theories of gender differences in maths
    
    Published on 01 January 2007 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • Do psychiatrists believe in madness?
    
    Published on 01 January 2007 by Karim N'Diaye — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • Is terror management theory dying?
    
    Published on 01 January 2007 by Nicolas Baumard — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • Long live the majority!
    
    Published on 01 January 2007 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • Who thinks the Earth is flat?
    
    Published on 01 January 2007 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • The Blushing Brain
    
    Published on 01 January 2007 by Olivier Morin — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • Art and patterns
    
    Published on 01 January 2007 by Olivier Morin — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • On conformism among social psychologists
    
    Published on 01 January 2007 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • Washing away our sins
    
    Published on 01 January 2007 by Nicolas Baumard — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • In praise of babies
    
    Published on 01 January 2007 by Hugo Mercier — Category: Alphapsy Archives

• 2006

  • How to Corax your theory of mind
    
    Published on 11 October 2006 by Olivier Morin — Category: Alphapsy Archives
  • Pitt-Rivers haunts the Musée du Quai Branly
    
    Published on 28 September 2006 by Olivier Morin — Category: Alphapsy Archives