Charles Efferson

University of Lausanne — Switzerland

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(35), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies(33), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior(14), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies(12), Language and cultural evolution(9)

Publications89 total

Redefine statistical significance
UNC Libraries·2025· 21 citedOpen Access
Using Successful Leaders as Examples of How to Behave and How Not to Behave
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
The cover of randomness: validating implicit methods for the study of sensitive topics
Evolutionary Human Sciences·2025Open Access
Super-additive cooperation
Nature·2024· 27 citedOpen Access
When norm change hurts
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2024· 10 citedOpen Access
How culture shapes choices related to fertility and mortality: Causal evidence at the Swiss language border
Evolutionary Human Sciences·2024Open Access
Isolating a culture of son preference among Armenian, Georgian and Azeri Parents in Soviet-era Russia
Evolutionary Human Sciences·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Identifying culture as cause: Challenges and opportunities
Evolutionary Human Sciences·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Agentic processes in cultural evolution: relevance to Anthropocene sustainability
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2023· 12 citedOpen Access
Our fragile future under the cumulative cultural evolution of two technologies
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2023· 12 citedOpen Access
Green preferences sustain greenwashing: challenges in the cultural transition to a sustainable future
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2023· 17 citedOpen Access
Activating Cultural Evolution for Good When People Differ from Each Other
Oxford University Press eBooks·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
A market for integrity. The use of competition to reduce bribery in education
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Code for simulation model from When norm change hurts
Figshare·2023Open Access
Code for analytical model from When norm change hurts
Figshare·2023Open Access
Isolating a Culture of Son Preference Among Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri Parents in Soviet-Era Russia
SSRN Electronic Journal·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Supplementary materials, code for simulations, etc from Our fragile future under the cumulative cultural evolution of two technologies
Figshare·2023Open Access
How Culture Shapes Choices Related to Fertility and Mortality: Causal Evidence at the Swiss Language Border
SSRN Electronic Journal·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Group identities can undermine social tipping after intervention
Nature Human Behaviour·2022· 43 citedOpen Access
Leading with the (Recently) Successful? Performance Visibility and the Evolution of Risk Taking
Academy of Management Proceedings·2022
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Frequent Co-authors

Sonja Vogt(18), Ernst Fehr(16), Peter J. Richerson(9), Richard McElreath(6), Ryan McKay(6), Daniel J. Hruschka(5), Mark Lubell(5), Daniel J. Benjamin(4), Magnus Johannesson(4), Brian A. Nosek(4), Eric‐Jan Wagenmakers(4), Richard A. Berk(4), Kenneth A. Bollen(4), Björn Brembs(4), Lawrence Brown(4), Colin F. Camerer(4), David Cesarini(4), Chris Chambers(4), Paul De Boeck(4), Zoltán Dienes(4)