About the author
Joseph Henrich is an American evolutionary anthropologist whose research examines culture, social learning, institutions, psychology, and how populations become different through long historical processes.
The WEIRDest People in the World argues that Western Christianity's changes to kinship helped produce unusually individualistic psychology and institutions. The causal chain is ambitious and contested; the book is most useful when its comparisons, definitions, and historical evidence are examined separately.
Where to start
Start with The WEIRDest People in the World for Henrich's large comparative thesis about kinship, religion, psychology, and Western institutions.
