Muthukrishna, Michael

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Article
  • Lomas, Tim, Mehanna, Jon, Diego-Rosell, Pablo, Cowden, Richard, Holli-Anne Passmore, John, Zelenski, Michael Steger, Muthukrishna, Michael, Snower, Dennis (2025). The ecology of subjective wellbeing: a global analysis of environmental factors associated with life evaluation. Journal of Positive Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2025.2578848 picture_as_pdf
  • Kroupin, Ivan, Henrich, Joseph, Muthukrishna, Michael (2025). Inconvenience and generalization in building a better psychology commentary on Sherman (2024). American Psychologist, 80(7), 1081 - 1085. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001569 picture_as_pdf
  • Muthukrishna, Michael, Dai, Jiner, Madrid, Diana Panizo, Sabherwal, Riya, Vanoppen, Karlijn, Yao, Hanying (2025). AI can revolutionise education but technology is not enough: human development meets cultural evolution. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 26(3), 482 - 492. https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2025.2517740 picture_as_pdf
  • Ellis, Erle C., Malhi, Yadvinder, Ritchie, Hannah, Montana, Jasper, Díaz, Sandra, Obura, David, Clayton, Susan, Leach, Melissa, Pereira, Laura & Marris, Emma et al (2025). An aspirational approach to planetary futures. Nature, 642(8069), 889 - 899. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09080-1
  • Abdellaoui, Abdel, Martin, Hilary C., Rutherford, Adam, Kolk, Martin, Muthukrishna, Michael, Tropf, Felix, Mills, Melinda C., Zietsch, Brendan, Verweij, Karin J.H., Visscher, Peter M. (2025). Socio-economic status is a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences: a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences. Nature Human Behaviour, 9(5), 864 - 876. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02150-4 picture_as_pdf
  • Schimmelpfennig, Robin, Spicer, Rachel, White, Cindel J. M., Gervais, Will, Norenzayan, Ara, Heine, Steven J., Henrich, Joseph, Muthukrishna, Michael (2024). Methodological concerns underlying a lack of evidence for cultural heterogeneity in the replication of psychological effects. Communications Psychology, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00135-z picture_as_pdf
  • Schnell, Eric, Muthukrishna, Michael (2024). Reply to Gross et al. indirect reciprocity undermines large-scale cooperation under realistic conditions. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 121(27). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2410085121 picture_as_pdf
  • Schnell, Eric, Muthukrishna, Michael (2024). Indirect reciprocity undermines indirect reciprocity destabilizing large-scale cooperation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(19). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2322072121 picture_as_pdf
  • Henrich, Joseph, Muthukrishna, Michael (2024). What makes us smart? Topics in Cognitive Science, 16(2), 322 - 342. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12656 picture_as_pdf
  • Schimmelpfennig, Robin, Spicer, Rachel, White, Cindel J. M., Gervais, Will, Norenzayan, Ara, Heine, Steven J., Henrich, Joseph, Muthukrishna, Michael (2024). The moderating role of culture in the generalizability of psychological phenomena. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 7(1), 1 - 6. https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459231225163 picture_as_pdf
  • Antonakis, John, Dessi, Roberta, Fischer, Thomas, Foss, Nicolai, Haslam, S. Alexander, Kvaløy, Ola, Lonati, Sirio, Muthukrishna, Michael, Schöttner, Anja (2023). Theory in leadership and management. Leadership Quarterly, p. 101736. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101736 picture_as_pdf
  • Slingerland, Edward, Monroe, M. Willis, Muthukrishna, Michael (2023). The database of religious history (DRH) ontology, coding strategies and the future of cultural evolutionary analyses. Religion, Brain and Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2023.2200825 picture_as_pdf
  • Schimmelpfennig, Robin, Muthukrishna, Michael (2023). Cultural evolutionary behavioural science in public policy. Behavioural Public Policy, https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2022.40 picture_as_pdf
  • Uchiyama, Ryutaro, Spicer, Rachel, Muthukrishna, Michael (2022). Integrating cultural evolution and behavioral genetics. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 45, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22000036 picture_as_pdf
  • Uchiyama, Ryutaro, Spicer, Rachel, Muthukrishna, Michael (2022). Cultural evolution of genetic heritability. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21000893 picture_as_pdf
  • Schimmelpfennig, Robin, Razek, Layla, Schnell, Eric, Muthukrishna, Michael (2021). Paradox of diversity in the collective brain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, picture_as_pdf
  • Falk, Carl F., Muthukrishna, Michael (2021). Parsimony in model selection: tools for assessing fit propensity. Psychological Methods, 28(1), 123-136. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000422 picture_as_pdf
  • White, Cindel J.M., Muthukrishna, Michael, Norenzayan, Ara (2021). Cultural similarity among coreligionists within and between countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(37). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109650118 picture_as_pdf
  • Schaller, Mark, Muthukrishna, Michael (2021). Modeling cultural change: computational models of interpersonal influence dynamics can yield new insights about how cultures change, which cultures change more rapidly than others, and why. American Psychologist, 76(6), 1027 - 1038. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000797 picture_as_pdf
  • Beheim, Bret, Atkinson, Quentin, Bulbulia, Joseph, Gervais, Will, Gray, Russell D, Martin, Lang, Monroe, M. Willis, Muthukrishna, Michael, Ara, Norenzayan & Grant Purzycki, Benjamin et al (2021). Treatment of missing data determines conclusions regarding moralizing gods. Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03655-4 picture_as_pdf
  • Muthukrishna, Michael, Henrich, Joseph, Slingerland, Edward (2021). Psychology as a historical science. Annual Review of Psychology, 72(1), 717 - 749. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-082820-111436
  • Heinrich, Joseph, Muthukrishna, Michael (2021). The origins and psychology of human cooperation. Annual Review of Psychology, 72(1), 207 - 240. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-081920-042106
  • Uchiyama, Ryutaro, Spicer, Rachel, Muthukrishna, Michael (2021). Harden, Kathryn Paige. 2021. The genetic lottery: why DNA matters for social equality. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, [In Press] picture_as_pdf
  • Muthukrishna, Michael (2020). Cultural evolution and the paradox of diversity. The Bridge, 50(4), 26 - 28.
  • Slingerland, Edward, Monroe, M. Willis, Sullivan, Brenton, Walsh, Robyn Faith, Veidlinger, Daniel, Noseworthy, William, Herriott, Conn, Raffield, Ben, Peterson, Janine Larmon & Rodríguez, Gretel et al (2020). Historians respond to Whitehouse et al. (2019), "Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history". Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 5(1-2), 124 - 141. https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.39393 picture_as_pdf
  • Muthukrishna, Michael, Bell, Adrian V, Henrich, Joseph, Curtin, Cameron M, Gedranovich, Alexander, McInerney, Jason, Thue, Braden (2020). Beyond Western, educated, industrial, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) psychology: measuring and mapping scales of cultural and psychological distance. Psychological Science, 31(6), 678 - 701. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620916782 picture_as_pdf
  • Slingerland, Edward, D., Atkinson Quentin, Ember, Carol R, Sheehan, Oliver, Muthukrishna, Michael, Bulbulia, Joseph, Gray, Russell D (2020). Coding culture: challenges and recommendations for comparative cultural databases. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.30 picture_as_pdf
  • Muthukrishna, Michael, Schaller, Mark (2020). Are collectivistic cultures more prone to rapid transformation? Computational models of cross-cultural differences, social network structure, dynamic social influence, and cultural change. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 24(2), 103-120. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868319855783 picture_as_pdf
  • Muthukrishna, Michael (2020). Cultural evolutionary public policy. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(1), 12 - 13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0780-6 picture_as_pdf
  • Muthukrishna, Michael, Henrich, Joseph (2019). A problem in theory. Nature Human Behaviour, 3(3), 221-229. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0522-1 picture_as_pdf
  • Uchiyama, Ryutaro, Muthukrishna, Michael (2019). Archetypes are a poor primitive for a theory of mental representations. Psychological Inquiry, 30(2), 87-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2019.1614806 picture_as_pdf
  • Muthukrishna, Michael, Doebeli, Michael, Chudek, Maciej, Henrich, Joseph (2018). The cultural brain hypothesis: how culture drives brain expansion, sociality, and life history. PLoS Computational Biology, 14(11). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006504 picture_as_pdf
  • Muthukrishna, Michael, Henrich, Joseph, Toyakawa, Wataru, Hamamura, Takeshi, Kameda, Tatsuya, Heine, Steven J. (2018). Overconfidence is universal? Elicitation of Genuine Overconfidence (EGO) procedure reveals systematic differences across domain, task knowledge, and incentives in four populations. PLOS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202288 picture_as_pdf
  • Sullivan, Brenton, Muthukrishna, Michael, Tappenden, Frederick S., Slingerland, Edward (2018). Exploring the challenges and potentialities of the database of religious history for cognitive historiography. Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 12-31. https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.31656
  • Fox, Kieran C. R., Muthukrishna, Michael, Shultz, Susanne (2017). The social and cultural roots of whale and dolphin brains. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1(11), 1699-1705. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0336-y
  • Muthukrishna, Michael, Francois, Patrick, Pourahmadi, Shayan, Henrich, Joseph (2017). Corrupting cooperation and how anti-corruption strategies may backfire. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(7), 0138. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0138
  • Levine, Jordan, Muthukrishna, Michael, Chain, Kai, Satterfield, Terre (2017). Sea otters, social justice, and ecosystem-service perceptions in Clayoquot Sound, Canada. Conservation Biology, 31(2), 343-352. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12795
  • Henrich, Joseph, Boyd, Robert, Derex, Maxime, Kline, Michelle A., Mesoudi, Alex, Muthukrishna, Michael, Powell, Adam T., Shennan, Stephen J., Thomas, Mark G. (2016). Understanding cumulative cultural evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(44), E6724-E6725. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1610005113
  • Haar, Vonder, Lam, Frederick, Adams, Wendy, Riparip, Lara-Kirstie, Kaur, Sukhbir, Muthukrishna, Michael, Rosi, Susanna, Winstanley, Catharine (2016). Frontal traumatic brain injury in rats causes long-lasting impairments in impulse control that are differentially sensitive to pharmacotherapeutics and associated with chronic neuroinflammation. ACS Chemical Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.6b00166
  • Shariff, Azim F., Willard, Aiyana K., Muthukrishna, Michael, Kramer, Stephanie R., Henrich, Joseph (2016). What is the association between religious affiliation and children’s altruism? Current Biology, 26(15), R699-R700. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.06.031
  • Muthukrishna, Michael, Henrich, Joseph (2016). Innovation in the collective brain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1690). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0192
  • Muthukrishna, Michael, Morgan, Thomas J. H., Henrich, Joseph (2016). The when and who of social learning and conformist transmission. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37(1), 10-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.05.004 picture_as_pdf
  • Levine, Jordan, Muthukrishna, Michael, Chan, Kai M. A., Satterfield, Terre (2015). Theories of the deep: combining salience and network analyses to produce mental model visualizations of a coastal British Columbia food web. Ecology and Society, 20(4), p. 42. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08094-200442
    • Chapter
  • Uchiyama, Ryutaro, Muthukrishna, Michael (2019). Cultural evolutionary neuroscience. In Oxford handbook of cultural neuroscience and global mental health . Oxford University Press. picture_as_pdf
  • Chudek, Maciej, Muthukrishna, Michael, Henrich, Joseph (2016). Cultural evolution. In Buss, D. (Ed.), The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (pp. 749-770). John Wiley & Sons.
    • Dataset
  • Spicer, Rachel, Muthukrishna, Michael, Poulsen, Victor Møller, Slingerland, Edward, Monroe, M. Willis (2024). Standard Cross-Cultural Sample of Religion. [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12572186
    • Online resource
  • Muthukrishna, Michael (2017). In Latin America as in the wider world, corruption is rooted in our relationships.
  • Dowbiggin, Katie, Muthukrishna, Michael (2016). Innovations are rarely (if ever) the product of a single individual.
    • Working paper
  • Muthukrishna, Michael (2017). Corruption, cooperation, and the evolution of prosocial institutions. Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3082315
  • Muthukrishna, Michael, Doebeli, Michael, Chudek, Maciej, Henrich, Joseph (2017). The cultural brain hypothesis: how culture drives brain expansion, underlies sociality, and alters life history. Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.1101/209007
  • Muthukrishna, Michael, Henrich, Joseph, Toyokawa, Waturu, Hamamura, Takeshi, Kameda, Tatsuya, Heine, Steven J. (2017). Overconfidence is universal? Elicitation of genuine overconfidence (EGO) method reveals systematic differences across domain, task knowledge, and incentives in four populations. Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3064202
    • Blog post
  • Muthukrishna, Michael (22 April 2020) Long read: cultural evolution, Covid-19, and preparing for what’s next. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf