Francisco Gil-White

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(11), Language and cultural evolution(7), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies(6), Cultural Differences and Values(6), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies(6)

Publications21 total

Demarcation, and the Structure of Pseudoscientific Evolutions: How Paradigm Rent Seeking Invisibly Turns Kuhnian-Normal Science into Kuhnian-Normal Pseudoscience
SSRN Electronic Journal·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Were the Greeks Any Good? WEIRD Morality, Democracy, and the Semiotic Paradox of Classical Historiography
SSRN Electronic Journal·2020Open Access
WEIRD Politics: Towards a Theory of Cooperative Grammatical Performance
SSRN Electronic Journal·2020· 1 citedOpen Access
Are Weird Politics Normal?: Cheap, Easy-to-Use, Accurate Projectile Weapons, and the Emergence of Egalitarian Cooperative Grammars
SSRN Electronic Journal·2020· 1 citedOpen Access
Reply to van Hoorn: Converging lines of evidence
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2012· 8 citedOpen Access
Culture does account for variation in game behavior
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2012· 41 cited
The study of ethnicity and nationalism needs better categories
2006· 2 cited
Cooperation and Conflict, Large‐Scale Human
Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science·2005· 3 cited
The Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism Needs Better Categories: Clearing up the Confusions that Result from Blurring Analytic and Lay Concepts
Journal of Bioeconomics·2005· 16 cited
Models of decision-making and the coevolution of social preferences
Behavioral and Brain Sciences·2005· 24 cited
“Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies
Behavioral and Brain Sciences·2005· 1.9k citedOpen Access
How Conformism Creates Ethnicity Creates Conformism (and Why this Matters to Lots of Things)
The Monist·2005· 12 cited
Ultimatum Game with Ethnicity Manipulation: Problems Faced Doing Field Economic Experiments and their Solutions
Field Methods·2004· 8 cited
Ultimatum Game with an Ethnicity Manipulation
Oxford University Press eBooks·2004· 22 cited
The Cognition of Ethnicity: Native Category Systems under the Field Experimental Microscope
Field Methods·2002· 19 cited
Economic Man in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Behavioral Experiments in Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics·2001· 26 cited
Are Ethnic Groups Biological “Species” to the Human Brain?
Current Anthropology·2001· 439 cited
A good experiment of choice behavior is a good caricature of a real situation
Behavioral and Brain Sciences·2001· 3 cited
The evolution of prestige: freely conferred deference as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission
Evolution and Human Behavior·2001· 2.4k cited
Sorting is not Categorization: A Critique of the Claim that Brazilians Have Fuzzy Racial Categories
Journal of Cognition and Culture·2001· 48 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Joseph Henrich(6), Robert Boyd(5), Colin F. Camerer(5), Ernst Fehr(5), Herbert Gintis(5), Richard McElreath(5), Michael Alvard(5), Abigail Barr(5), Jean Ensminger(5), Kim Hill(5), Michael Gurven(5), Frank W. Marlowe(5), John Q. Patton(5), David P. Tracer(5), Natalie Henrich(4), Samuel Bowles(3), Peter J. Richerson(3), Alexander Bolyanatz(2), Juan-Camilo Cárdenas(2), Edwins Laban Moogi Gwako(2)