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Featured Publications

Cultural Evolution

  • Alger, I., Gavrilets, S., Durkee, P. (2024). Proximate and ultimate drivers of norms and norm change. Current Opinion in Psychology.
  • Andrighetto, G., Gavrilets, S., Gelfand, M. et al. (2024). Social norm change: drivers and consequences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
  • Bentley, R.A., Carrignon, S., Gaydarska, B., Chapman, J., Buchanan, B. et al. (2024). Modelling cultural responses to disease spread in Neolithic Trypillia mega-settlements. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 21(219): 20240313.
  • Bentley, R.A., O’Brien, M.J. (2024). On cultural traditions and innovation: finding common ground. Antiquity, 98(401): 1429–1432.
  • Bentley, R.A., O’Brien, M.J. (2024). Cultural evolution as inheritance, not intentions. Antiquity, 98(401): 1406–1416.
  • Bentley, R.A., O’Brien, M.J., Vidiella, B., Duran-Nebreda, S., Valverde, S. (2025). Archaeology and the construction of artifact lineages: From culture history to phylogenetics. Biological Theory, 1–23.
  • Dong, Y., Gavrilets, S., Qin, C.Z. et al. (2024). Kinship can hinder cooperation in heterogeneous populations. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
  • Gavrilets, S., Seabright, P. (2025). The evolution of zero-sum and positive-sum worldviews. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • Gavrilets, S., Tverskoi, D., Sánchez, A. (2024). Modelling social norms: an integration of the norm-utility approach with beliefs dynamics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
  • Gelfand, M.J., Gavrilets, S., Nunn, N. (2024). Norm dynamics: Interdisciplinary perspectives on social norm emergence, persistence, and change. Annual Review of Psychology.
  • Lipatov, M., Illari, L., Johnson, N.F. et al. (2025). Coevolution of network and attitudes under competing propaganda machines. npj Complexity.
  • Ruck, D.J., Matthews, L.J., Kyritsis, T. et al. (2020). The cultural foundations of modern democracies. Nature Human Behaviour.
  • Shteynberg, G. (2024). The psychology of collective consciousness. Journal of Consumer Psychology.
  • Shteynberg, G., Halpern, J., Sadovnik, A. et al. (2024). Does it matter if empathic AI has no empathy? Nature Machine Intelligence.
  • Shteynberg, G., Hirsh, J.B., Wolf, W. et al. (2023). Theory of collective mind. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
  • Tverskoi, D., Ember, C.R., Gelfand, M.J. et al. (2024). Cultural tightness and resilience against environmental shocks in nonindustrial societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Computational Social Science

  • Bentley, R.A., Horne, B.D. (2025). Education and climate concern. npj Climate Action.
  • Bentley, R.A., Horne, B.D., Borycz, J. et al. (2024). Cultural evolution, disinformation, and social division. Adaptive Behavior.
  • Bentley, R.A., Horne, B.D. (2025). Perceptible climate warming amplifies how education increases climate concern in the US. npj Climate Action, 4(1): 12.
  • Borycz, J., Horne, B.D., Luther, C. et al. (2025). Response to collective threat: Russian invasion unifies Ukrainians across ethnic, linguistic, religious and geographic lines. Royal Society Open Science.
  • Duran-Nebreda, S., Bentley, R.A., Valverde, S. (2022). Dilution of expertise in the rise and fall of collective innovation. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.
  • Horne, B.D., Ruck, D.J., Luther, C.A. et al. (2025). Georgia: Frontier Between Russia and the West.
  • Pitocchelli, J., Albina, A., Bentley, R.A., Guerra, D., Youngblood, M. (2025). Temporal stability in songs across the breeding range of Geothlypis philadelphia (Mourning Warbler) may be due to learning fidelity and transmission biases. Ornithology, 142(1).
  • Rosokha, Y., Lyu, X., Tverskoi, D. et al. (2025). Cooperation under the shadow of political inequality. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

Social Complexity of Science

  • He, J., Ruan, X., Huang, Y. et al. (2023). Measuring knowledge diffusion across disciplines in AI research. Journal of Informetrics.
  • He, J., Chen, C., Wang, X. et al. (2022). Mapping the social complexity of scientific collaborations: A network analysis approach. Scientometrics.
  • He, J., Liu, Y., Zhang, Z. et al. (2021). Dynamics of interdisciplinary research: Evidence from big data analytics. Research Policy.
  • He, J., Wang, X., Zhang, Y. et al. (2020). Global evolution of scientific collaboration networks in computational fields. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
  • Valverde, S., Vidiella, B. et al. (2025). Structural changes in gene ontology reveal modular and complex representations of biological function. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 42(6): msaf148.