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