BOOK CHAPTER
The Social Brain Hypothesis, Dunbar’s Number, and the Stability of Religious Social Networks
I have co-authored a book chapter with Dr Michael Gantley and Dr John McKeown for The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion, which will be available on 21st November 2022.
peer-reviewed scientific articles
When Do People Prefer Dominant over Prestigious Political Leaders?
Co-authored with Dr Adam Fliton and Prof Alex Mesoudi and published in Evolutionary Human Sciences in 2021.
The Cultural Transmission of Prestige and Dominance Social Rank Cues: An Experimental Simulation
Co-authored with Prof Alex Mesoudi and published in Evolutionary Psychological Science in 2021.
Prestige Does Not Affect the Cultural Transmission of Novel Controversial Arguments in an Online Transmission Chain Experiment
Co-authored with Prof Alex Mesoudi and published in The Journal of Cognition & Culture in 2020.
No evidence that omission and confirmation biases affect the perception and recall of vaccine-related information
Co-authored with Prof Alex Mesoudi and and Prof Jamshid J. Tehrani and published in Plos One in 2020.
Prestige-biased social learning: current evidence and outstanding questions
Co-authored with Prof Alex Mesoudi and published in Pagrave Communications in 2019.
An experimental investigation into the transmission of antivax attitudes using a fictional health controversy
Co-authored with Dr Joseph Stubbersfield and Prof Jamshid J Tehrani and published in Social Science & Medicine in 2018.