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Career

· Contributing Writer, The New Yorker2025–
· Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis2023–
· Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse2020–2023
· PhD Student, Harvard University2013–2020
· Fulbright Fellow, University of Copenhagen2012–2013

Publications (38)

Universality and diversity in human song
Science · 2019
327
cited
Form and Function in Human Song
Current Biology · 2018
158
cited
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model
Evolution and human behavior · 2022
98
cited
Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures
bioRxiv · 2020
95
cited
Potential Leaders Trade Off Goal-Oriented and Socially Oriented Behavior in Mobile Animal Groups
American Naturalist · 2015
92
cited
Belief changes associated with psychedelic use
Journal of Psychopharmacology · 2022
64
cited
Self-Interest and the Design of Rules
Human Nature · 2017
54
cited
Small gods, rituals, and cooperation: The Mentawai water spirit Sikameinan
Evolution and human behavior · 2019
53
cited
Magic, Explanations, and Evil
Current Anthropology · 2021
43
cited
Policing and punishment across the domains of social evolution
2015
35
cited
Subjective selection and the evolution of complex culture
Evolutionary Anthropology (print) · 2020
32
cited
Why do religious leaders observe costly prohibitions? Examining taboos on Mentawai shamans
Evolutionary Human Sciences · 2020
32
cited
Supernatural punishment beliefs as cognitively compelling tools of social control.
Current Opinion in Psychology · 2021
31
cited
Universality, domain-specificity and development of psychological responses to music
Nature Reviews Psychology · 2023
30
cited
Beyond social learning
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences · 2021
25
cited
Evidence for third-party mediation but not punishment in Mentawai justice
Nature Human Behaviour · 2021
25
cited
Punitive justice serves to restore reciprocal cooperation in three small-scale societies
Evolution and human behavior · 2023
19
cited
Universal interpretations of vocal music
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
18
cited
The Sympathetic Plot, Its Psychological Origins, and Implications for the Evolution of Fiction
Emotion Review · 2019
17
cited
Universals in Song
2018
14
cited
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