Presenting “Structural Characteristics in Historical Networks Reveal Changes in Political Culture: An Example From Northern Song China (960–1127 C.E.)” at 11:30am Paris Time at #CHR2023 with Prof. Song Chen, Yuqi Chen, and Jana Diesner. Full paper ceur-ws.org/Vol-3558/paper…. 1/5

New paper on the cultural evolution of rhetorical strategies in the political setting in traditional China: nature.com/articles/s4159……This one has been a long time coming with Yuqi Chen

We’ll be presenting our paper on historical text analysis in classical Chinese at #EMNLP2024 (the Main Conference). All credit to Yuqi Chen preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2403.00509

🚨New preprint🚨 Prejudice is widespread today. But has it been historically constant, or has prejudice varied with social structure? A cross-cultural study of 90 societies and an analysis of Chinese historical records suggest that prejudice was higher in centralized states.

New paper: Applying computation tools to over 2000 years of textual data in Chinese, we test the hypothesis that the organization of families (kin-based institutions) shapes our psychology. Mohammad Atari Edward Slingerland Kevin Hong Jonathan Schulz

Historical psychology of China. Natural language processing + History + Cultural evolution + Religious studies + Economics + Social psychology.

Thrilled to work with Mohammad Atari, Joe Henrich and all the fantastic coauthors!