Charles Efferson

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57 publications

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2024
When norm change hurts
Efferson Charles, Ehret Sönke, von Flüe Lukas, Vogt Sonja, 2024/03/11. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379 (1897). Peer-reviewed.
[URN][DOI][Pmid][serval:BIB_FE2DB4339459]
 
Super-additive cooperation
Efferson Charles, Bernhard Helen, Fischbacher Urs, Fehr Ernst, 2024/02/21. Nature. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][Pmid][serval:BIB_1A059405C3FB]
Agentic processes in cultural evolution: relevance to Anthropocene sustainability
Richerson Peter J., Boyd Robert T., Efferson Charles, 2024/01. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379 (1893). Peer-reviewed.
[URN][DOI][Pmid][serval:BIB_BEC983134E79]
 
Green preferences sustain greenwashing: challenges in the cultural transition to a sustainable future
von Flüe Lukas, Efferson Charles, Vogt Sonja, 2024/01. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379 (1893). Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][Pmid][serval:BIB_40D194B20BB7]
 
Identifying culture as cause: Challenges and opportunities
Lonati Sirio, Lalive Rafael, Efferson Charles, 2024. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 6. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][Pmid][serval:BIB_C975845E349E]
 
Isolating a culture of son preference among Armenian, Georgian and Azeri Parents in Soviet-era Russia
Schief Matthias, Vogt Sonja, Churilova Elena, Efferson Charles, 2024. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 6. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][serval:BIB_C4727F4A2A03]
Our fragile future under the cumulative cultural evolution of two technologies
Efferson Charles, Richerson Peter J., Weinberger Vanessa P., 2024/01. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379 (1893). Peer-reviewed.
[URN][DOI][Pmid][serval:BIB_CC411ADE4309]
2023
A market for integrity. The use of competition to reduce bribery in education
Soraperra Ivan, Köbis Nils, Shalvi Shaul, Vogt Sonja, Efferson Charles, Offerman Theo, 2023/12. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 107 p. 102110. Peer-reviewed.
[URN][DOI][serval:BIB_A9353322B688]
Activating Cultural Evolution for Good When People Differ from Each Other
Efferson Charles, Vogt Sonja, von Flüe Lukas, 2023/10/23. The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution. Peer-reviewed.
[URN][DOI][serval:BIB_ED525A6BFA91]
 
Isolating a Culture of Son Preference Among Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri Parents in Soviet-Era Russia
Schief Matthias, Vogt Sonja, Churilova Elena, Efferson Charles, 2023/06/27. CESifo Working Paper Series.
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How Culture Shapes Choices Related to Fertility and Mortality: Causal Evidence at the Swiss Language Border
Faessler Lisa, Lalive Rafael, Efferson Charles, 2023. CESifo Working Paper Series.
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2022
 
Super-additive cooperation
Efferson Charles, Bernhard Helen, Fischbacher Urs, Fehr Ernst, 2022/12/15. CESifo Working Paper Series.
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Group identities can undermine social tipping after intervention
Ehret Sönke, Constantino Sara M., Weber Elke U., Efferson Charles, Vogt Sonja, 2022/09/22. Nature Human Behaviour. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][Pmid][serval:BIB_1565BF044E89]
 
Group identities make fragile tipping points
Ehret Sönke, Constantino Sara, Weber Elke, Efferson Charles, Vogt Sonja, 2022/05/03. CESifo Working Paper Series.
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What is the extent of a frequency-dependent social learning strategy space?
Bellamy Aysha, McKay Ryan, Vogt Sonja, Efferson Charles, 2022/04/13. Evolutionary Human Sciences pp. 1-30. Peer-reviewed.
[URN][DOI][serval:BIB_96A80FA765BF]
Pre-existing fairness concerns restrict the cultural evolution and generalization of inequitable norms in children
Berger Joël, Vogt Sonja, Efferson Charles, 2022/01. Evolution and Human Behavior, 43 (1) pp. 1-15. Peer-reviewed.
[URN][DOI][WoS][serval:BIB_02769E2A8F92]
2021
Tipping pro-environmental norm diffusion at scale: opportunities and limitations
Berger Joël, Efferson Charles, Vogt Sonja, 2021/12/02. Behavioural Public Policy pp. 1-26. Peer-reviewed.
[URN][DOI][serval:BIB_7DCEC534634F]
Collectively jumping to conclusions: Social information amplifies the tendency to gather insufficient data.
Sulik J., Efferson C., McKay R., 2021/11. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 150 (11) pp. 2309-2320. Peer-reviewed.
[URN][DOI][WoS][Pmid][serval:BIB_15394A55D55F]
Promotion of behavioural change for health in a heterogeneous population
Schimmelpfennig Robin, Vogt Sonja, Ehret Sönke, Efferson Charles, 2021/11/01. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 99 (11) pp. 819-827. Peer-reviewed.
[URN][DOI][WoS][Pmid][serval:BIB_321A2050C0AE]
Investigating the Structure of Son Bias in Armenia With Novel Measures of Individual Preferences
Schief Matthias, Vogt Sonja, Efferson Charles, 2021/10/01. Demography, 58 (5) pp. 1737-1764. Peer-reviewed.
[URN][DOI][WoS][Pmid][serval:BIB_DBDA2F378DAA]
Policy to activate cultural change to amplify policy
Efferson Charles, 2021/06/08. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (23).
[URN][DOI][WoS][Pmid][serval:BIB_B437404C5493]
 
Leading with the (Recently) Successful? Performance Visibility and the Evolution of Risk Taking
Ehret Sönke, Vogt Sonja, Hefti Andreas M., Efferson Charles, 2021/04/23. SSRN Electronic Journal.
[DOI][serval:BIB_20A750F30072]
2020
The evolution of distorted beliefs vs. mistaken choices under asymmetric error costs
Efferson Charles, McKay Ryan, Fehr Ernst, 2020. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2. Peer-reviewed.
[URN][DOI][WoS][serval:BIB_1171942B607E]
The promise and the peril of using social influence to reverse harmful traditions.
Efferson C., Vogt S., Fehr E., 2020/01. Nature Human Behaviour, 4 (1) pp. 55-68. Peer-reviewed.
[URN][DOI][WoS][Pmid][serval:BIB_9D39F1D50ED1]
2019
 
The Structure of Son Bias in Armenia: From Implicit Associations to Explicit Behavior
Schief Matthias, Vogt Sonja, Efferson Charles, 2019/10/14. SSRN Electronic Journal.
[DOI][serval:BIB_7EB16C4A4FC9]
 
A Market for Integrity - An Experiment on Corruption in the Education Sector
Soraperra Ivan, Köbis Nils, Efferson Charles, Shalvi Shaul, Vogt Sonja, Offerman Theo, 2019/06/18. SSRN Electronic Journal.
[DOI][serval:BIB_AB73EEE6FF1E]
2018
 
Economic Psychology
Efferson Charles, 2018/09/05. dans Callan Hillary (eds.) International Encycopedia of Anthropology, Wiley.
[DOI][serval:BIB_4DCC66C40DD4]
 
The error of God, revisited
McKay Ryan, Ross Robert M., O'Lone Katherine, Efferson Charles, 2018/07/03. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 8 (3) pp. 306-310. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][serval:BIB_5C4900019A71]
 
Behavioural homogenization with spillovers in a normative domain
Efferson Charles, Vogt Sonja, 2018/05/30. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285 (1879) p. 20180492. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][Pmid][serval:BIB_814BC91CF2B9]
 
Simple moral code supports cooperation
Efferson Charles, Fehr Ernst, 2018/03/08. Nature, 555 (7695) pp. 169-170.
[DOI][Pmid][serval:BIB_1D1238ABBE98]
 
Redefine statistical significance
Benjamin Daniel J., Berger James O., Johannesson Magnus, Nosek Brian A., Wagenmakers E.-J., Berk Richard, Bollen Kenneth A., Brembs Björn, Brown Lawrence, Camerer Colin et al., 2018/01. Nature Human Behaviour, 2 (1) pp. 6-10. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][serval:BIB_20559D60C1A4]
2017
 
The risk of female genital cutting in Europe: Comparing immigrant attitudes toward uncut girls with attitudes in a practicing country
Vogt Sonja, Efferson Charles, Fehr Ernst, 2017/12. SSM - Population Health, 3 pp. 283-293. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][Pmid][serval:BIB_C1E3D77B6FC8]
 
One-shot reciprocity under error management is unbiased and fragile
Zimmermann Jarid, Efferson Charles, 2017/01. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38 (1) pp. 39-47. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][serval:BIB_6E5A8C6012E8]
2016
The Evolution of Facultative Conformity Based on Similarity
Efferson C., Lalive R., Cacault M.P., Kistler D., 2016/12/21. PLOS ONE, 11 (12) pp. e0168551. Peer-reviewed.
[URN][DOI][WoS][serval:BIB_2504D5FBAC47]
 
Changing cultural attitudes towards female genital cutting
Vogt Sonja, Mohmmed Zaid Nadia Ahmed, El Fadil Ahmed Hilal, Fehr Ernst, Efferson Charles, 2016/10. Nature, 538 (7626) pp. 506-509. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][Pmid][serval:BIB_6E39C294827F]
 
Sustained cooperation by running away from bad behavior
Efferson Charles, Roca Carlos P., Vogt Sonja, Helbing Dirk, 2016/01. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37 (1) pp. 1-9. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][Pmid][serval:BIB_F01ED7BA9813]
2015
 
Female genital cutting is not a social coordination norm
Efferson C., Vogt S., Elhadi A., Ahmed H. E. F., Fehr E., 2015/09/25. Science, 349 (6255) pp. 1446-1447. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][Pmid][serval:BIB_61C3082E86BB]
 
Eye spots do not increase altruism in children
Vogt S., Efferson C., Berger J., Fehr E., 2015/05. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36 (3) pp. 224-231. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][serval:BIB_E96AE316D30C]
2014
 
Impartial Institutions, Pathogen Stress and the Expanding Social Network
Hruschka D., Efferson C., Jiang T., Falletta-Cowden A., Sigurdsson S., McNamara R., Sands M., Munira S., Slingerland E., Henrich J., 2014/12. Human Nature, 25 (4) pp. 567-579. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][Pmid][serval:BIB_65D220E38E24]
2013
 
Viewing men's faces does not lead to accurate predictions of trustworthiness
Efferson C., Vogt S., 2013/12. Scientific Reports, 3 (1). Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][Pmid][serval:BIB_8CA88CC5F789]
 
Can we see inside? Predicting strategic behavior given limited information
Vogt S., Efferson C., Fehr E., 2013/07. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34 (4) pp. 258-264. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][serval:BIB_C3ABBF1CF131]
2012
 
Book Review Feature: Two Book Reviews of A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and its Evolution
Efferson Charles, 2012/08/01. The Economic Journal, 122 (562) pp. F253-F264.
[DOI][WoS][serval:BIB_849FDC8D8C63]
2011
 
Wrath of God: religious primes and punishment
McKay R., Efferson C., Whitehouse H., Fehr E., 2011/06/22. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278 (1713) pp. 1858-1863. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][Pmid][serval:BIB_6F669138070F]
 
Are religious individuals more generous, trusting, and cooperative? An experimental test of the effect of religion on prosociality
Paciotti B., Richerson P.J., Baum B., Lubell M., Waring T., McElreath R., Efferson C., Edsten E., 2011/01/01. pp. 267--305 dans The economics of religion: Anthropological approaches, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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2010
 
The subtleties of error management
McKay Ryan, Efferson Charles, 2010/09. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31 (5) pp. 309-319. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][serval:BIB_0EC9E3C95D1F]
2008
 
Beyond existence and aiming outside the laboratory: estimating frequency-dependent and pay-off-biased social learning strategies
McElreath Richard, Bell Adrian V, Efferson Charles, Lubell Mark, Richerson Peter J, Waring Timothy, 2008/11/12. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363 (1509) pp. 3515-3528. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][Pmid][serval:BIB_DBEBE93B9555]
The coevolution of cultural groups and ingroup favoritism
Efferson C., Lalive R., Fehr E., 2008/09. Science, 321 (5897) pp. 1844-1849. Peer-reviewed.
[URN][DOI][WoS][serval:BIB_3349730A2242]
Conformists and Mavericks: The Empirics of Frequency-Dependent Cultural Transmission
Efferson Ch., Lalive R., Richerson P. J., McElrath R., Lubell M., 2008. Evolution and Human Behavior, 29 (1) pp. 56-64. Peer-reviewed.
[URN][DOI][WoS][serval:BIB_1F1DCCB6FC93]
 
Prey-producing predators: the ecology of human intensification.
Efferson C., 2008/01. Nonlinear dynamics, psychology, and life sciences, 12 (1) pp. 55-74. Peer-reviewed.
[Pmid][serval:BIB_031FC2B533C3]
2007
 
Other-regarding preferences in a non-human primate: Common marmosets provision food altruistically
Burkart J. M., Fehr E., Efferson C., van Schaik C. P., 2007/12/11. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104 (50) pp. 19762-19766. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][Pmid][serval:BIB_1DC7DC2B50B3]
 
New Methods in Quantitative Ethnography : Economic Experiments and Variation in the Price of Equality
Efferson Charles, Takezawa Masanori, McElreath Richard, 2007/12. Current Anthropology, 48 (6) pp. 912-919. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][serval:BIB_0D4140D11366]
 
A prolegomenon to nonlinear empiricism in the human behavioral sciences
Efferson Charles, Richerson Peter J., 2007/03/16. Biology & Philosophy, 22 (1) pp. 1-33. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][serval:BIB_916E028C8699]
 
Learning, productivity, and noise: an experimental study of cultural transmission on the Bolivian Altiplano
Efferson Charles, Richerson Peter J., McElreath Richard, Lubell Mark, Edsten Ed, Waring Timothy M., Paciotti Brian, Baum William, 2007/01. Evolution and Human Behavior, 28 (1) pp. 11-17. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][serval:BIB_9397377EF0C7]
2006
 
Evidence for local specialization in a generalist mammalian herbivore, Neotoma fuscipes
McEachern M.B., Eagles-Smith C.A., Efferson C.M., van Vuren D.H., 2006/06/07. Oikos, 113 (3) pp. 440-448. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][serval:BIB_38DE52E50F46]
 
Models and Anti-Models: The Structure of Payoff-Dependent Social Learning
Efferson Charles, Lalive Rafael, Richerson Peter, McElreath Richard, Lubell Mark, 2006/05/31. SSRN Electronic Journal.
[DOI][serval:BIB_524DF45F77B7]
2005
 
Applying evolutionary models to the laboratory study of social learning
McElreath Richard, Lubell Mark, Richerson Peter J., Waring Timothy M., Baum William, Edsten Edward, Efferson Charles, Paciotti Brian, 2005/11. Evolution and Human Behavior, 26 (6) pp. 483-508. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][serval:BIB_40C332FE0BBC]
2004
 
Cultural evolution in laboratory microsocieties including traditions of rule giving and rule following
Baum William M., Richerson Peter J., Efferson Charles M., Paciotti Brian M., 2004/09. Evolution and Human Behavior, 25 (5) pp. 305-326. Peer-reviewed.
[DOI][WoS][serval:BIB_3EE5436F93C5]
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