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Secret of Our Success
How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
AvJoseph Henrich
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
236 kr
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Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains--on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations. Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology.Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory. Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.
Weirdest People in the World
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
AvJoseph Henrich
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
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207 kr
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'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century' MATTHEW SYEDDo you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather than your family network? Do you cultivate your unique attributes and goals? If so, perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic. Unlike most who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, nonconformist, analytical and control-oriented. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically peculiar? What part did these differences play in our history, and what do they mean for our collective identity? Joseph Henrich, who developed the game-changing concept of WEIRD, uses leading-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics and evolutionary biology to explore how changing family structures, marriage practices and religious beliefs in the Middle Ages shaped the Western mind, laying the foundations for the world we know today. Brilliant, provocative, engaging and surprising, this landmark study will revolutionize your understanding of who - and how - we are now. 'Phenomenal ... The only theory I am aware of that attempts to explain broad patterns of human psychology on a global scale' Washington Post'You will never look again in the same way at your own seemingly universal values' Uta Frith, Professor of Cognitive Development, University College London
The Weirdest People in the World
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
AvJoseph Henrich
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
277 kr
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Foundations of Human Sociality
Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
AvHerbert Gintis,Ernst Fehrm. fl.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2004
718 kr
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What motives underlie the ways humans interact socially? Are these the same for all societies? Are these part of our nature, or influenced by our environments?Over the last decade, research in experimental economics has emphatically falsified the textbook representation of Homo economicus. Literally hundreds of experiments suggest that people care not only about their own material payoffs, but also about such things as fairness, equity and reciprocity. However, this research left fundamental questions unanswered: Are such social preferences stable components of human nature; or, are they modulated by economic, social and culturalenvironments?Until now, experimental research could not address this question because virtually all subjects had been university students, and while there are cultural differences among student populations throughout the world, these differences are small compared to the full range of human social and cultural environments. A vast amount of ethnographic and historical research suggests that people''s motives are influenced by economic, social, and cultural environments, yet such methods can only yieldcircumstantial evidence about human motives.Combining ethnographic and experimental approaches to fill this gap, this book breaks new ground in reporting the results of a large cross-cultural study aimed at determining the sources of social (non-selfish) preferences that underlie the diversity of human sociality. The same experiments which provided evidence for social preferences among university students were performed in fifteen small-scale societies exhibiting a wide variety of social, economic and cultural conditions by experiencedfield researchers who had also done long-term ethnographic field work in these societies.The findings of these experiments demonstrated that no society in which experimental behaviour is consistent with the canonical model of self-interest. Indeed, results showed that the variation in behaviour is far greater than previously thought, and that the differences between societies in market integration and the importance of cooperation explain a substantial portion of this variation, which individual-level economic and demographic variables could not. Finally, the extent to whichexperimental play mirrors patterns of interaction found in everyday life is traced.The book starts with a succinct but substantive introduction to the use of game theory as an analytical tool and its use in the social sciences for the rigorous testing of hypotheses about fundamental aspects of social behaviour outside artificially constructed laboratories. The results of the fifteen case studies are summarized in a suggestive chapter about the scope of the project.
Why Humans Cooperate
A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation
AvJoseph Henrich,Natalie Henrich
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
1 233 kr
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Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results. Their experimental and ethnographic data come from a small, insular group of middle-class Iraqi Christians called Chaldeans, living in metro Detroit, whom the Henrichs use as an example to show how kinship relations, ethnicity, and culturally transmitted traditions provide the key to explaining the evolution of cooperation over multiple generations.
Why Humans Cooperate
A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation
AvNatalie Henrich,Joseph Henrich
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2007
575 kr
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Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results. Their experimental and ethnographic data come from a small, insular group of middle-class Iraqi Christians called Chaldeans, living in metro Detroit, whom the Henrichs use as an example to show how kinship relations, ethnicity, and culturally transmitted traditions provide the key to explaining the evolution of cooperation over multiple generations.
Foundations of Human Sociality
Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
AvJoseph Henrich,Robert Boydm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2004
3 781 kr
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What motives underlie the ways humans interact socially? Are these the same for all societies? Are these part of our nature, or influenced by our environments? Over the last decade, research in experimental economics has emphatically falsified the textbook representation of Homo economicus. Hundreds of experiments suggest that people care not only about their own material payoffs, but also about such things as fairness, equity, and reciprocity. However, this research left fundamental questions unanswered: Are such social preferences stable components of human nature, or are they modulated by economic, social, and cultural environments? Until now, experimental research could not address this question because virtually all subjects had been university students. Combining ethnographic and experimental approaches to fill this gap, this book breaks new ground in reporting the results of a large cross-cultural study aimed at determining the sources of social (non-selfish) preferences that underlie the diversity of human sociality. In this study, the same experiments carried out with university students were performed in fifteen small-scale societies exhibiting a wide variety of social, economic, and cultural conditions. The results show that the variation in behaviour is far greater than previously thought, and that the differences between societies in market integration and the importance of cooperation explain a substantial portion of this variation, which individual-level economic and demographic variables could not. The results also trace the extent to which experimental play mirrors patterns of interaction found in everyday life. The book includes a succinct but substantive introduction to the use of game theory as an analytical tool, and to its use in the social sciences for the rigorous testing of hypotheses about fundamental aspects of social behaviour outside artificially constructed laboratories. The editors also summarize the results of the fifteen case studies in a suggestive chapter about the scope of the project.
Foundations of Human Sociality
Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
AvJoseph Henrich,Robert Boydm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
1 109 kr
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What motives underlie the ways humans interact socially? Are these the same for all societies? Are these part of our nature, or influenced by our environments?Over the last decade, research in experimental economics has emphatically falsified the textbook representation of Homo economicus. Literally hundreds of experiments suggest that people care not only about their own material payoffs, but also about such things as fairness, equity and reciprocity. However, this research left fundamental questions unanswered: Are such social preferences stable components of human nature; or, are they modulated by economic, social and cultural environments? Until now, experimental research could not address this question because virtually all subjects had been university students, and while there are cultural differences among student populations throughout the world, these differences are small compared to the full range of human social and cultural environments. A vast amount of ethnographic and historical research suggests that people's motives are influenced by economic, social, and cultural environments, yet such methods can only yield circumstantial evidence about human motives. Combining ethnographic and experimental approaches to fill this gap, this book breaks new ground in reporting the results of a large cross-cultural study aimed at determining the sources of social (non-selfish) preferences that underlie the diversity of human sociality. The same experiments which provided evidence for social preferences among university students were performed in fifteen small-scale societies exhibiting a wide variety of social, economic and cultural conditions by experienced field researchers who had also done long-term ethnographic field work in these societies. The findings of these experiments demonstrated that no society in which experimental behaviour is consistent with the canonical model of self-interest. Indeed, results showed that the variation in behaviour is far greater than previously thought, and that the differences between societies in market integration and the importance of cooperation explain a substantial portion of this variation, which individual-level economic and demographic variables could not. Finally, the extent to which experimental play mirrors patterns of interaction found in everyday life is traced.The book starts with a succinct but substantive introduction to the use of game theory as an analytical tool and its use in the social sciences for the rigorous testing of hypotheses about fundamental aspects of social behaviour outside artificially constructed laboratories. The results of the fifteen case studies are summarized in a suggestive chapter about the scope of the project.
Why Humans Cooperate
A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation
AvNatalie Henrich,Joseph Henrich
E-bok
Engelska, 2007
445 kr
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Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results. Their experimental and ethnographic data come from a small, insular group of middle-class Iraqi Christians called Chaldeans, living in metro Detroit, whom the Henrichs use as an example to show how kinship relations, ethnicity, and culturally transmitted traditions provide the key to explaining the evolution of cooperation over multiple generations.
WEIRDest People in the World
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
AvJoseph Henrich
E-bok
Engelska, 2020
221 kr
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2020A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2020A Human Behavior & Evolution Society Must-Read Popular Evolution Book of 2020A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world.Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you’re rather psychologically peculiar.Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist, and analytical. They focus on themselves—their attributes, accomplishments, and aspirations—over their relationships and social roles. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically distinct? What role did these psychological differences play in the industrial revolution and the global expansion of Europe during the last few centuries?In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more. He illuminates the origins and evolution of family structures, marriage, and religion, and the profound impact these cultural transformations had on human psychology. Mapping these shifts through ancient history and late antiquity, Henrich reveals that the most fundamental institutions of kinship and marriage changed dramatically under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church. It was these changes that gave rise to the WEIRD psychology that would coevolve with impersonal markets, occupational specialization, and free competition—laying the foundation for the modern world.Provocative and engaging in both its broad scope and its surprising details, The WEIRDest People in the World explores how culture, institutions, and psychology shape one another, and explains what this means for both our most personal sense of who we are as individuals and also the large-scale social, political, and economic forces that drive human history. Includes black-and-white illustrations.
Evolution of Religion and Morality
Volume I
AvBenjamin Grant Purzycki,Joseph Henrichm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 468 kr
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This volume assesses the role of religion in cooperation and prosocial behaviour using ethnographic and experimental methods across eight different field sites. The first of two volumes presents results from the first phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) Project.Using a unique combination of both experimental and ethnographic methods, the ERM project addresses pressing questions from the burgeoning cultural evolutionary sciences of religion:What is the relationship between religious beliefs and cooperation?When people are committed to punitive, knowledgeable, and morally concerned gods, are they more inclined to behave prosocially towards others?How far does this prosociality extend?Do important individual and contextual factors mediate this relationship?In addition to an omnibus report, this book offers seven site-specific reports that contextualize experimental and ethnographic data collected around the world. Collecting data from communities as diverse as the Hadza of Tanzania, villagers from two communities on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, residents of Marajó, Brazil, Fijians from Yasawa and Lovu, Tyvans from southern Siberia, and Mauritians, this ground-breaking work sets a new standard in the scientific study of religion.The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume I will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of religious studies, human evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, the cultural evolution of religion and the sociology of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion, Brain & Behavior.
Evolution of Religion and Morality
Volume I
AvBenjamin Grant Purzycki,Joseph Henrichm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
694 kr
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This volume assesses the role of religion in cooperation and prosocial behaviour using ethnographic and experimental methods across eight different field sites. The first of two volumes presents results from the first phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) Project.Using a unique combination of both experimental and ethnographic methods, the ERM project addresses pressing questions from the burgeoning cultural evolutionary sciences of religion:What is the relationship between religious beliefs and cooperation?When people are committed to punitive, knowledgeable, and morally concerned gods, are they more inclined to behave prosocially towards others?How far does this prosociality extend?Do important individual and contextual factors mediate this relationship?In addition to an omnibus report, this book offers seven site-specific reports that contextualize experimental and ethnographic data collected around the world. Collecting data from communities as diverse as the Hadza of Tanzania, villagers from two communities on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, residents of Marajó, Brazil, Fijians from Yasawa and Lovu, Tyvans from southern Siberia, and Mauritians, this ground-breaking work sets a new standard in the scientific study of religion.The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume I will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of religious studies, human evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, the cultural evolution of religion and the sociology of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion, Brain & Behavior.
Evolution of Religion and Morality
Volume II
AvMartin Lang,Benjamin Grant Purzyckim. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 468 kr
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This volume draws on a unique dataset to answer pressing questions about human religiosity. Building upon the first volume in this series, it presents results from the second phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) project.The second volume investigates key questions in the evolutionary and cognitive sciences of religion and highlights cultural variability and context specificity of diverse religious systems. Chapters draw on a dataset comprising 2,228 participants from 15 ethnographically diverse societies that stretch from Africa and India through Oceania to South America, and include hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, horticulturalists, subsistence farmers and wage laborers. Four chapters using the full dataset answer the following questions:What are the general predictors of commitment to supernatural agents?Is there a gender gap in religiosity?Does belief in punitive gods facilitates cooperation?Are supernatural agents implicitly associated with moral concerns?Chapters from individual field sites further explore the distinction between moralizing and local gods, the potentially disruptive role of belief in local gods on cooperation with anonymous co-religionists, and the relationship between belief in moralizing gods, cooperation, and differential access to material resources. Above these empirical studies, the book also includes an informed discussion with specialists on the challenges of running such a large cross-cultural project and gives concrete recommendations for future projects.The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume II will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of religious studies, human evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, the cultural evolution of religion and the sociology of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion, Brain & Behavior.
Evolution of Religion and Morality
Volume II
AvMartin Lang,Benjamin Grant Purzyckim. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
694 kr
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This volume draws on a unique dataset to answer pressing questions about human religiosity. Building upon the first volume in this series, it presents results from the second phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) project.The second volume investigates key questions in the evolutionary and cognitive sciences of religion and highlights cultural variability and context specificity of diverse religious systems. Chapters draw on a dataset comprising 2,228 participants from 15 ethnographically diverse societies that stretch from Africa and India through Oceania to South America, and include hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, horticulturalists, subsistence farmers and wage laborers. Four chapters using the full dataset answer the following questions:What are the general predictors of commitment to supernatural agents?Is there a gender gap in religiosity?Does belief in punitive gods facilitates cooperation?Are supernatural agents implicitly associated with moral concerns?Chapters from individual field sites further explore the distinction between moralizing and local gods, the potentially disruptive role of belief in local gods on cooperation with anonymous co-religionists, and the relationship between belief in moralizing gods, cooperation, and differential access to material resources. Above these empirical studies, the book also includes an informed discussion with specialists on the challenges of running such a large cross-cultural project and gives concrete recommendations for future projects.The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume II will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of religious studies, human evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, the cultural evolution of religion and the sociology of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion, Brain & Behavior.
Secret of Our Success
How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
AvJoseph Henrich
E-bok
Engelska, 2015
251 kr
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How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosperHumans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations.Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species'' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory.Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species'' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.
Weirdest People in the World
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
AvJoseph Henrich
E-bok
Engelska, 2020
144 kr
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'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century' MATTHEW SYEDDo you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather than your family network? Do you cultivate your unique attributes and goals? If so, perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic. Unlike most who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, nonconformist, analytical and control-oriented. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically peculiar? What part did these differences play in our history, and what do they mean for our collective identity? Joseph Henrich, who developed the game-changing concept of WEIRD, uses leading-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics and evolutionary biology to explore how changing family structures, marriage practices and religious beliefs in the Middle Ages shaped the Western mind, laying the foundations for the world we know today. Brilliant, provocative, engaging and surprising, this landmark study will revolutionize your understanding of who - and how - we are now. 'Phenomenal ... The only theory I am aware of that attempts to explain broad patterns of human psychology on a global scale' Washington Post'You will never look again in the same way at your own seemingly universal values' Uta Frith, Professor of Cognitive Development, University College London
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Die seltsamsten Menschen der Welt
AvJoseph Henrich
Häftad, Tyska, 2025
297 kr
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Cei mai WEIRD oameni din lume
Cum a dobândit Occidentul o psihologie distinctă și o prosperitate ieșită din comun
AvJoseph Henrich
E-bok
Rumänska, 2022
153 kr
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Poate că și tu ești WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic): crescut într-o societate occidentală, educată, industrializată, bogată și democrată. Dacă este cazul tău, atunci s-ar putea să ai o psihologie oarecum distinctă. Spre deosebire de mare parte din lumea de azi și de majoritatea oamenilor de până acum, oamenii WEIRD sunt foarte individualiști, egocentrici, orientați spre control, nonconformiști, analitici și încrezători în străini. Se concentrează asupra lor – asupra propriilor caracteristici, reușite și visuri – în defavoarea relațiilor și rolurilor sociale. De ce au ajuns aceste societăți atât de diferite psihologic? Ce rol au jucat aceste diferențe în Revoluția Industrială și în expansiunea globală a Europei din ultimele secole?Joseph Henrich abordează aceste întrebări și altele, împletind cele mai noi studii din antropologie, psihologie, economie și biologie evoluționistă. După analizarea originilor și a evoluției structurilor familiale, ale căsătoriei și religiei, Henrich arată modul în care aceste instituții modelează biologia și hormonii oamenilor – cum gândesc, simt și percep lumea. Apoi, urmărind originea familiei nucleare monogame până în Antichitatea târzie, autorul arată modalitatea prin care a schimbat Biserica Catolică, neintenționat, psihologia oamenilor și traiectoria civilizației occidentale, transformând cele mai elementare instituții – cele legate de căsătorie și de rudenie. Aceste schimbări sociale și psihologice din Europa au catalizat extinderea piețelor impersonale, ascensiunea ocupațiilor specializate și creșterea concurenței între asociații voluntare – coevoluând cu ele și punând bazele lumii moderne. Provocator și captivant prin amploarea și caracterul surprinzător al detaliilor, volumul analizează modul în care cultura, instituțiile și psihologia se modifică reciproc și explică efectul pe care îl au atât asupra concepției propriei individualități, cât și asupra forțelor sociale, politice și economice la scară largă, care pun în mișcare istoria umană.„Joseph Henrich s-a angajat într-o muncă foarte ambițioasă care explică tranziția de la societățile bazate pe rudenie la lumea modernă, bazându-se pe o bogăție de date multidisciplinare care contribuie semnificativ la înțelegerea acestei probleme clasice în teoria socială.“Francis Fukuyama, autor al Sfârşitul istoriei?, Marea Ruptură, Viitorul nostru postum„Pornind de la antropologie, economie, istorie și psihologie, această carte magnifică ne ajută să înțelegem cât de diferiți sunt occidentalii. Aduce o contribuție importantă la dezbaterea motivului pentru care occidentalii conduc lumea. Te va face să te gândești diferit la lume.“Ian Morris, autor al War! What Is It Good For? (Război! La ce servește?)„Cea mai captivantă și provocatoare carte pe care am citit-o în ultima vreme. Expunerea fascinantă a lui Joseph Henrich privind diversitatea și evoluția culturală se bazează pe o cercetare științifică meticuloasă, iar argumentele sale depășesc lucrarea de referință a lui Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel (Arme, microbi și oțel).“Uta Frith, autor al Autism: Explaining the Enigma (Autism: Explicarea enigmei)„O reușită fascinantă. Joseph Henrich a modificat și a unificat domeniile antropologiei, istoriei, psihologiei și economiei. A spulberat prejudecăţile, răspândite în psihologie și endemice în economie, conform cărora natura umană este aceeași oriunde.“Richard E. Nisbett, autor al Mindware. Instrumente pentru o gândire inteligentăJOSEPH HENRICH a scris, printre altele, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Demesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter (Secretul succesului nostru: Cum pune cultura în mișcare evoluția umană, domesticește specia și ne face mai deștepți). Este președinte al Departamentului de biologie evoluționistă umană de la Harvard, unde cercetarea lui se concentrează asupra unor abordări evoluționiste ale culturii, psihologiei, statutului social, religiei, cooperării și puterii decizionale.„Citind această carte te simți de parcă ai descoperi un oraș dispărut în curtea ta. Joseph Henrich a scos la lumină lucruri cu adevărat uimitoare: prosperitatea Occidentului modern se datorează unor moduri de gândire ciudate, create fără voie cu secole înainte de Iluminismul european. Dacă nu ți se pare posibil, pregătește-te să te lovești de multele dovezi strânse de una dintre cele mai mari minți metodice din vremurile noastre. Această carte este și monumentală, și captivantă.“Joshua Greene, autor al Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them (Triburi morale: Emoție, gândire și prăpastia dintre noi și ei)

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Secret of Our Success
How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
AvJoseph Henrich
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
236 kr
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Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains--on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations. Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology.Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory. Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.
Weirdest People in the World
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
AvJoseph Henrich
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
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'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century' MATTHEW SYEDDo you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather than your family network? Do you cultivate your unique attributes and goals? If so, perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic. Unlike most who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, nonconformist, analytical and control-oriented. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically peculiar? What part did these differences play in our history, and what do they mean for our collective identity? Joseph Henrich, who developed the game-changing concept of WEIRD, uses leading-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics and evolutionary biology to explore how changing family structures, marriage practices and religious beliefs in the Middle Ages shaped the Western mind, laying the foundations for the world we know today. Brilliant, provocative, engaging and surprising, this landmark study will revolutionize your understanding of who - and how - we are now. 'Phenomenal ... The only theory I am aware of that attempts to explain broad patterns of human psychology on a global scale' Washington Post'You will never look again in the same way at your own seemingly universal values' Uta Frith, Professor of Cognitive Development, University College London
The Weirdest People in the World
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
AvJoseph Henrich
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
277 kr
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Foundations of Human Sociality
Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
AvHerbert Gintis,Ernst Fehrm. fl.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2004
718 kr
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What motives underlie the ways humans interact socially? Are these the same for all societies? Are these part of our nature, or influenced by our environments?Over the last decade, research in experimental economics has emphatically falsified the textbook representation of Homo economicus. Literally hundreds of experiments suggest that people care not only about their own material payoffs, but also about such things as fairness, equity and reciprocity. However, this research left fundamental questions unanswered: Are such social preferences stable components of human nature; or, are they modulated by economic, social and culturalenvironments?Until now, experimental research could not address this question because virtually all subjects had been university students, and while there are cultural differences among student populations throughout the world, these differences are small compared to the full range of human social and cultural environments. A vast amount of ethnographic and historical research suggests that people''s motives are influenced by economic, social, and cultural environments, yet such methods can only yieldcircumstantial evidence about human motives.Combining ethnographic and experimental approaches to fill this gap, this book breaks new ground in reporting the results of a large cross-cultural study aimed at determining the sources of social (non-selfish) preferences that underlie the diversity of human sociality. The same experiments which provided evidence for social preferences among university students were performed in fifteen small-scale societies exhibiting a wide variety of social, economic and cultural conditions by experiencedfield researchers who had also done long-term ethnographic field work in these societies.The findings of these experiments demonstrated that no society in which experimental behaviour is consistent with the canonical model of self-interest. Indeed, results showed that the variation in behaviour is far greater than previously thought, and that the differences between societies in market integration and the importance of cooperation explain a substantial portion of this variation, which individual-level economic and demographic variables could not. Finally, the extent to whichexperimental play mirrors patterns of interaction found in everyday life is traced.The book starts with a succinct but substantive introduction to the use of game theory as an analytical tool and its use in the social sciences for the rigorous testing of hypotheses about fundamental aspects of social behaviour outside artificially constructed laboratories. The results of the fifteen case studies are summarized in a suggestive chapter about the scope of the project.
Why Humans Cooperate
A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation
AvJoseph Henrich,Natalie Henrich
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
1 233 kr
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Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results. Their experimental and ethnographic data come from a small, insular group of middle-class Iraqi Christians called Chaldeans, living in metro Detroit, whom the Henrichs use as an example to show how kinship relations, ethnicity, and culturally transmitted traditions provide the key to explaining the evolution of cooperation over multiple generations.
Why Humans Cooperate
A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation
AvNatalie Henrich,Joseph Henrich
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2007
575 kr
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Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results. Their experimental and ethnographic data come from a small, insular group of middle-class Iraqi Christians called Chaldeans, living in metro Detroit, whom the Henrichs use as an example to show how kinship relations, ethnicity, and culturally transmitted traditions provide the key to explaining the evolution of cooperation over multiple generations.
Foundations of Human Sociality
Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
AvJoseph Henrich,Robert Boydm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2004
3 781 kr
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What motives underlie the ways humans interact socially? Are these the same for all societies? Are these part of our nature, or influenced by our environments? Over the last decade, research in experimental economics has emphatically falsified the textbook representation of Homo economicus. Hundreds of experiments suggest that people care not only about their own material payoffs, but also about such things as fairness, equity, and reciprocity. However, this research left fundamental questions unanswered: Are such social preferences stable components of human nature, or are they modulated by economic, social, and cultural environments? Until now, experimental research could not address this question because virtually all subjects had been university students. Combining ethnographic and experimental approaches to fill this gap, this book breaks new ground in reporting the results of a large cross-cultural study aimed at determining the sources of social (non-selfish) preferences that underlie the diversity of human sociality. In this study, the same experiments carried out with university students were performed in fifteen small-scale societies exhibiting a wide variety of social, economic, and cultural conditions. The results show that the variation in behaviour is far greater than previously thought, and that the differences between societies in market integration and the importance of cooperation explain a substantial portion of this variation, which individual-level economic and demographic variables could not. The results also trace the extent to which experimental play mirrors patterns of interaction found in everyday life. The book includes a succinct but substantive introduction to the use of game theory as an analytical tool, and to its use in the social sciences for the rigorous testing of hypotheses about fundamental aspects of social behaviour outside artificially constructed laboratories. The editors also summarize the results of the fifteen case studies in a suggestive chapter about the scope of the project.
Foundations of Human Sociality
Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
AvJoseph Henrich,Robert Boydm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
1 109 kr
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What motives underlie the ways humans interact socially? Are these the same for all societies? Are these part of our nature, or influenced by our environments?Over the last decade, research in experimental economics has emphatically falsified the textbook representation of Homo economicus. Literally hundreds of experiments suggest that people care not only about their own material payoffs, but also about such things as fairness, equity and reciprocity. However, this research left fundamental questions unanswered: Are such social preferences stable components of human nature; or, are they modulated by economic, social and cultural environments? Until now, experimental research could not address this question because virtually all subjects had been university students, and while there are cultural differences among student populations throughout the world, these differences are small compared to the full range of human social and cultural environments. A vast amount of ethnographic and historical research suggests that people's motives are influenced by economic, social, and cultural environments, yet such methods can only yield circumstantial evidence about human motives. Combining ethnographic and experimental approaches to fill this gap, this book breaks new ground in reporting the results of a large cross-cultural study aimed at determining the sources of social (non-selfish) preferences that underlie the diversity of human sociality. The same experiments which provided evidence for social preferences among university students were performed in fifteen small-scale societies exhibiting a wide variety of social, economic and cultural conditions by experienced field researchers who had also done long-term ethnographic field work in these societies. The findings of these experiments demonstrated that no society in which experimental behaviour is consistent with the canonical model of self-interest. Indeed, results showed that the variation in behaviour is far greater than previously thought, and that the differences between societies in market integration and the importance of cooperation explain a substantial portion of this variation, which individual-level economic and demographic variables could not. Finally, the extent to which experimental play mirrors patterns of interaction found in everyday life is traced.The book starts with a succinct but substantive introduction to the use of game theory as an analytical tool and its use in the social sciences for the rigorous testing of hypotheses about fundamental aspects of social behaviour outside artificially constructed laboratories. The results of the fifteen case studies are summarized in a suggestive chapter about the scope of the project.
Why Humans Cooperate
A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation
AvNatalie Henrich,Joseph Henrich
E-bok
Engelska, 2007
445 kr
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Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results. Their experimental and ethnographic data come from a small, insular group of middle-class Iraqi Christians called Chaldeans, living in metro Detroit, whom the Henrichs use as an example to show how kinship relations, ethnicity, and culturally transmitted traditions provide the key to explaining the evolution of cooperation over multiple generations.
WEIRDest People in the World
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
AvJoseph Henrich
E-bok
Engelska, 2020
221 kr
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2020A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2020A Human Behavior & Evolution Society Must-Read Popular Evolution Book of 2020A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world.Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you’re rather psychologically peculiar.Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist, and analytical. They focus on themselves—their attributes, accomplishments, and aspirations—over their relationships and social roles. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically distinct? What role did these psychological differences play in the industrial revolution and the global expansion of Europe during the last few centuries?In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more. He illuminates the origins and evolution of family structures, marriage, and religion, and the profound impact these cultural transformations had on human psychology. Mapping these shifts through ancient history and late antiquity, Henrich reveals that the most fundamental institutions of kinship and marriage changed dramatically under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church. It was these changes that gave rise to the WEIRD psychology that would coevolve with impersonal markets, occupational specialization, and free competition—laying the foundation for the modern world.Provocative and engaging in both its broad scope and its surprising details, The WEIRDest People in the World explores how culture, institutions, and psychology shape one another, and explains what this means for both our most personal sense of who we are as individuals and also the large-scale social, political, and economic forces that drive human history. Includes black-and-white illustrations.
Evolution of Religion and Morality
Volume I
AvBenjamin Grant Purzycki,Joseph Henrichm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 468 kr
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This volume assesses the role of religion in cooperation and prosocial behaviour using ethnographic and experimental methods across eight different field sites. The first of two volumes presents results from the first phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) Project.Using a unique combination of both experimental and ethnographic methods, the ERM project addresses pressing questions from the burgeoning cultural evolutionary sciences of religion:What is the relationship between religious beliefs and cooperation?When people are committed to punitive, knowledgeable, and morally concerned gods, are they more inclined to behave prosocially towards others?How far does this prosociality extend?Do important individual and contextual factors mediate this relationship?In addition to an omnibus report, this book offers seven site-specific reports that contextualize experimental and ethnographic data collected around the world. Collecting data from communities as diverse as the Hadza of Tanzania, villagers from two communities on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, residents of Marajó, Brazil, Fijians from Yasawa and Lovu, Tyvans from southern Siberia, and Mauritians, this ground-breaking work sets a new standard in the scientific study of religion.The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume I will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of religious studies, human evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, the cultural evolution of religion and the sociology of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion, Brain & Behavior.
Evolution of Religion and Morality
Volume I
AvBenjamin Grant Purzycki,Joseph Henrichm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
694 kr
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This volume assesses the role of religion in cooperation and prosocial behaviour using ethnographic and experimental methods across eight different field sites. The first of two volumes presents results from the first phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) Project.Using a unique combination of both experimental and ethnographic methods, the ERM project addresses pressing questions from the burgeoning cultural evolutionary sciences of religion:What is the relationship between religious beliefs and cooperation?When people are committed to punitive, knowledgeable, and morally concerned gods, are they more inclined to behave prosocially towards others?How far does this prosociality extend?Do important individual and contextual factors mediate this relationship?In addition to an omnibus report, this book offers seven site-specific reports that contextualize experimental and ethnographic data collected around the world. Collecting data from communities as diverse as the Hadza of Tanzania, villagers from two communities on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, residents of Marajó, Brazil, Fijians from Yasawa and Lovu, Tyvans from southern Siberia, and Mauritians, this ground-breaking work sets a new standard in the scientific study of religion.The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume I will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of religious studies, human evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, the cultural evolution of religion and the sociology of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion, Brain & Behavior.
Evolution of Religion and Morality
Volume II
AvMartin Lang,Benjamin Grant Purzyckim. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 468 kr
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This volume draws on a unique dataset to answer pressing questions about human religiosity. Building upon the first volume in this series, it presents results from the second phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) project.The second volume investigates key questions in the evolutionary and cognitive sciences of religion and highlights cultural variability and context specificity of diverse religious systems. Chapters draw on a dataset comprising 2,228 participants from 15 ethnographically diverse societies that stretch from Africa and India through Oceania to South America, and include hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, horticulturalists, subsistence farmers and wage laborers. Four chapters using the full dataset answer the following questions:What are the general predictors of commitment to supernatural agents?Is there a gender gap in religiosity?Does belief in punitive gods facilitates cooperation?Are supernatural agents implicitly associated with moral concerns?Chapters from individual field sites further explore the distinction between moralizing and local gods, the potentially disruptive role of belief in local gods on cooperation with anonymous co-religionists, and the relationship between belief in moralizing gods, cooperation, and differential access to material resources. Above these empirical studies, the book also includes an informed discussion with specialists on the challenges of running such a large cross-cultural project and gives concrete recommendations for future projects.The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume II will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of religious studies, human evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, the cultural evolution of religion and the sociology of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion, Brain & Behavior.
Evolution of Religion and Morality
Volume II
AvMartin Lang,Benjamin Grant Purzyckim. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
694 kr
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This volume draws on a unique dataset to answer pressing questions about human religiosity. Building upon the first volume in this series, it presents results from the second phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) project.The second volume investigates key questions in the evolutionary and cognitive sciences of religion and highlights cultural variability and context specificity of diverse religious systems. Chapters draw on a dataset comprising 2,228 participants from 15 ethnographically diverse societies that stretch from Africa and India through Oceania to South America, and include hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, horticulturalists, subsistence farmers and wage laborers. Four chapters using the full dataset answer the following questions:What are the general predictors of commitment to supernatural agents?Is there a gender gap in religiosity?Does belief in punitive gods facilitates cooperation?Are supernatural agents implicitly associated with moral concerns?Chapters from individual field sites further explore the distinction between moralizing and local gods, the potentially disruptive role of belief in local gods on cooperation with anonymous co-religionists, and the relationship between belief in moralizing gods, cooperation, and differential access to material resources. Above these empirical studies, the book also includes an informed discussion with specialists on the challenges of running such a large cross-cultural project and gives concrete recommendations for future projects.The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume II will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of religious studies, human evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, the cultural evolution of religion and the sociology of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion, Brain & Behavior.
Secret of Our Success
How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
AvJoseph Henrich
E-bok
Engelska, 2015
251 kr
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How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosperHumans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations.Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species'' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory.Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species'' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.
Weirdest People in the World
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
AvJoseph Henrich
E-bok
Engelska, 2020
144 kr
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'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century' MATTHEW SYEDDo you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather than your family network? Do you cultivate your unique attributes and goals? If so, perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic. Unlike most who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, nonconformist, analytical and control-oriented. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically peculiar? What part did these differences play in our history, and what do they mean for our collective identity? Joseph Henrich, who developed the game-changing concept of WEIRD, uses leading-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics and evolutionary biology to explore how changing family structures, marriage practices and religious beliefs in the Middle Ages shaped the Western mind, laying the foundations for the world we know today. Brilliant, provocative, engaging and surprising, this landmark study will revolutionize your understanding of who - and how - we are now. 'Phenomenal ... The only theory I am aware of that attempts to explain broad patterns of human psychology on a global scale' Washington Post'You will never look again in the same way at your own seemingly universal values' Uta Frith, Professor of Cognitive Development, University College London
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Die seltsamsten Menschen der Welt
AvJoseph Henrich
Häftad, Tyska, 2025
297 kr
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Cei mai WEIRD oameni din lume
Cum a dobândit Occidentul o psihologie distinctă și o prosperitate ieșită din comun
AvJoseph Henrich
E-bok
Rumänska, 2022
153 kr
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Poate că și tu ești WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic): crescut într-o societate occidentală, educată, industrializată, bogată și democrată. Dacă este cazul tău, atunci s-ar putea să ai o psihologie oarecum distinctă. Spre deosebire de mare parte din lumea de azi și de majoritatea oamenilor de până acum, oamenii WEIRD sunt foarte individualiști, egocentrici, orientați spre control, nonconformiști, analitici și încrezători în străini. Se concentrează asupra lor – asupra propriilor caracteristici, reușite și visuri – în defavoarea relațiilor și rolurilor sociale. De ce au ajuns aceste societăți atât de diferite psihologic? Ce rol au jucat aceste diferențe în Revoluția Industrială și în expansiunea globală a Europei din ultimele secole?Joseph Henrich abordează aceste întrebări și altele, împletind cele mai noi studii din antropologie, psihologie, economie și biologie evoluționistă. După analizarea originilor și a evoluției structurilor familiale, ale căsătoriei și religiei, Henrich arată modul în care aceste instituții modelează biologia și hormonii oamenilor – cum gândesc, simt și percep lumea. Apoi, urmărind originea familiei nucleare monogame până în Antichitatea târzie, autorul arată modalitatea prin care a schimbat Biserica Catolică, neintenționat, psihologia oamenilor și traiectoria civilizației occidentale, transformând cele mai elementare instituții – cele legate de căsătorie și de rudenie. Aceste schimbări sociale și psihologice din Europa au catalizat extinderea piețelor impersonale, ascensiunea ocupațiilor specializate și creșterea concurenței între asociații voluntare – coevoluând cu ele și punând bazele lumii moderne. Provocator și captivant prin amploarea și caracterul surprinzător al detaliilor, volumul analizează modul în care cultura, instituțiile și psihologia se modifică reciproc și explică efectul pe care îl au atât asupra concepției propriei individualități, cât și asupra forțelor sociale, politice și economice la scară largă, care pun în mișcare istoria umană.„Joseph Henrich s-a angajat într-o muncă foarte ambițioasă care explică tranziția de la societățile bazate pe rudenie la lumea modernă, bazându-se pe o bogăție de date multidisciplinare care contribuie semnificativ la înțelegerea acestei probleme clasice în teoria socială.“Francis Fukuyama, autor al Sfârşitul istoriei?, Marea Ruptură, Viitorul nostru postum„Pornind de la antropologie, economie, istorie și psihologie, această carte magnifică ne ajută să înțelegem cât de diferiți sunt occidentalii. Aduce o contribuție importantă la dezbaterea motivului pentru care occidentalii conduc lumea. Te va face să te gândești diferit la lume.“Ian Morris, autor al War! What Is It Good For? (Război! La ce servește?)„Cea mai captivantă și provocatoare carte pe care am citit-o în ultima vreme. Expunerea fascinantă a lui Joseph Henrich privind diversitatea și evoluția culturală se bazează pe o cercetare științifică meticuloasă, iar argumentele sale depășesc lucrarea de referință a lui Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel (Arme, microbi și oțel).“Uta Frith, autor al Autism: Explaining the Enigma (Autism: Explicarea enigmei)„O reușită fascinantă. Joseph Henrich a modificat și a unificat domeniile antropologiei, istoriei, psihologiei și economiei. A spulberat prejudecăţile, răspândite în psihologie și endemice în economie, conform cărora natura umană este aceeași oriunde.“Richard E. Nisbett, autor al Mindware. Instrumente pentru o gândire inteligentăJOSEPH HENRICH a scris, printre altele, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Demesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter (Secretul succesului nostru: Cum pune cultura în mișcare evoluția umană, domesticește specia și ne face mai deștepți). Este președinte al Departamentului de biologie evoluționistă umană de la Harvard, unde cercetarea lui se concentrează asupra unor abordări evoluționiste ale culturii, psihologiei, statutului social, religiei, cooperării și puterii decizionale.„Citind această carte te simți de parcă ai descoperi un oraș dispărut în curtea ta. Joseph Henrich a scos la lumină lucruri cu adevărat uimitoare: prosperitatea Occidentului modern se datorează unor moduri de gândire ciudate, create fără voie cu secole înainte de Iluminismul european. Dacă nu ți se pare posibil, pregătește-te să te lovești de multele dovezi strânse de una dintre cele mai mari minți metodice din vremurile noastre. Această carte este și monumentală, și captivantă.“Joshua Greene, autor al Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them (Triburi morale: Emoție, gândire și prăpastia dintre noi și ei)

Joseph Henrich – författare

Secret of Our Success

Weirdest People in the World

The Weirdest People in the World

Foundations of Human Sociality

Why Humans Cooperate

Why Humans Cooperate

Foundations of Human Sociality

Foundations of Human Sociality

Why Humans Cooperate

WEIRDest People in the World

Evolution of Religion and Morality

Evolution of Religion and Morality

Evolution of Religion and Morality

Evolution of Religion and Morality

Secret of Our Success

Weirdest People in the World

Die seltsamsten Menschen der Welt

Cei mai WEIRD oameni din lume

Joseph Henrich – författare

Secret of Our Success

Weirdest People in the World

The Weirdest People in the World

Foundations of Human Sociality

Why Humans Cooperate

Why Humans Cooperate

Foundations of Human Sociality

Foundations of Human Sociality

Why Humans Cooperate

WEIRDest People in the World

Evolution of Religion and Morality

Evolution of Religion and Morality

Evolution of Religion and Morality

Evolution of Religion and Morality

Secret of Our Success

Weirdest People in the World

Die seltsamsten Menschen der Welt

Cei mai WEIRD oameni din lume