Joseph Henrich

Joseph Patrick Henrich ( born September 6, 1968 in Norristown, Pennsylvania ) is a Canadian anthropologist. He is Professor of Culture, Cognition and Coevolution at the University of British Columbia ( UBC).

Life

Joseph Henrich studied anthropology (BA, 1991) and aviation and aerospace engineering (BS, 1991) at the University of Notre Dame. 1991-1993, he worked at General Electric as a systems engineer. His M. A. (1995) and his Ph.D. (1999) he received from the University of California, Los Angeles in anthropology. From 1999 to 2002 he was a visiting junior professor at the University of Michigan from 2001 to 2002 and as a scientist at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin. 2002-2007 was Henrich Professor at Emory University; since 2006 at UBC.

Work

Henrich has researched and published in the areas of socio-cultural evolution, evolution of social norms, evolution of cooperation, evolution of prestige and dominance hierarchies, religion, methodology, learning, ethnography and social behavior of chimpanzees.

• Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis (eds.): The Foundations of Human sociality: Economic experiments and ethnographic evidence from fifteen small-scale societies. Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0,199,262,047th
• Nathalie Henrich, Joseph Henrich: Why Humans Cooperate: A cultural and evolutionary explanation. Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 0,195,300,688th