Dr Oliver Scott Curry

  • University of Oxford
  • Lecturer, Anthropology
  • United Kingdom

My co-authors include

Michael Bang Petersen

My Publications

Seven moral rules found all around the world

  • Current Anthropology
  • February 2019
  • What is morality? And to what extent does it vary around the world? The theory of “morality-as-cooperation” argues that morality consists of a collection of biological and cultural solutions to the...

Introducing a new moral values questionnaire

  • Journal of Research in Personality
  • February 2019

Helping makes you happy

  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • May 2018

Excavating the Foundations: Cognitive Adaptations for Multiple Moral Domains

  • Evolutionary Psychological Science
  • April 2018

A range of kindness activities boost happiness

  • The Journal of Social Psychology
  • April 2018

Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • February 2017

Morality as Cooperation: A Problem-Centred Approach

  • January 2016

The Complexity of Jokes Is Limited by Cognitive Constraints on Mentalizing

  • Human Nature
  • November 2015

Constituents of political cognition: Race, party politics, and the alliance detection s...

  • Cognition
  • July 2015

Social Welfare and the Psychology of Food Sharing: Short-Term Hunger Increases Support ...

  • Political Psychology
  • August 2013

Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together?

  • Human Nature
  • July 2013

Sharing a joke: The effects of a similar sense of humor on affiliation and altruism

  • Evolution and Human Behavior
  • March 2013

Altruism in social networks: Evidence for a ‘kinship premium’

  • British Journal of Psychology
  • May 2012

Social Welfare and the Psychology of Food Sharing: Short-Term Hunger Increases Support ...

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • January 2012

‘Putting Ourselves in the Other Fellow’ s Shoes’ : The Role of ‘Theory of Mind’ in Solv...

  • Journal of Cognition and Culture
  • January 2012

The psychopath’s dilemma: The effects of psychopathic personality traits in one-shot games

  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • April 2011

Altruism in networks: the effect of connections

  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • March 2011

Darwinism's fantastic voyage

  • The Lancet
  • December 2008

Patience is a virtue: Cooperative people have lower discount rates

  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • February 2008

The integrative framework for the behavioural sciences has already been discovered, and...

  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • February 2007

One good deed

  • Nature
  • December 2006

A change of mind?

  • May 2005

Altruistically Inclined?: The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origin...

  • The Quarterly Review of Biology
  • March 2003

Get Real: Evolution as Metaphor and Mechanism

  • The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
  • February 2003

The Darwinian heritage and sociobiology

  • Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
  • January 2001