Joseph Watts

ResearcherID ORCID

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2015-2023
Publications (10 Years): 8

Top Venues

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Nature human behaviour

Evolutionary human sciences

Science (New York, N.Y.)

University of Otago

This page only lists publications with an associated author ORCID identifier.

Affiliation History

University of Otago Oct 14 2019

New Zealand

Research Fellow :: Religion Programme

University of Oxford May 01 2017 - Oct 31 2019

United Kingdom

Postdoctoral Research Fellow :: Department of Experimental Psychology

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Sep 01 2016 - Oct 13 2019

Germany

Postdoc :: Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution

Publications

Joshua Conrad Jackson, Danica Dillion, Brock Bastian, Joseph Watts, William Buckner, Nicholas DiMaggio, Kurt Gray
Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena. Nature human behaviour (2023)
Joseph Watts, Elise M Hamerslag, Cassie Sprules, John H Shaver, Robin I M Dunbar
Food storage facilitates professional religious specialization in hunter-gatherer societies. Evolutionary human sciences 4 (2022)
Joshua Conrad Jackson, Kristen A Lindquist, Ryan Drabble, Quentin D Atkinson, Joseph Watts
Valence-dependent mutation in lexical evolution. Nature human behaviour (2022)
Joshua Conrad Jackson, Joseph Watts, Johann-Mattis List, Curtis Puryear, Ryan Drabble, Kristen A Lindquist
From Text to Thought: How Analyzing Language Can Advance Psychological Science. Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science (2021)
Joshua Conrad Jackson, Joseph Watts, Teague R Henry, Johann-Mattis List, Robert Forkel, Peter J Mucha, Simon J Greenhill, Russell D Gray, Kristen A Lindquist
Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure. Science (New York, N.Y.) 366 (6472) (2020)
Oliver Sheehan, Joseph Watts, Russell D Gray, Quentin D Atkinson
Coevolution of landesque capital intensive agriculture and sociopolitical hierarchy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 (14) (2018)
Russell D Gray, Joseph Watts
Cultural macroevolution matters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 (30) (2017)
Joseph Watts, Simon J Greenhill, Quentin D Atkinson, Thomas E Currie, Joseph Bulbulia, Russell D Gray
Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia. Proceedings. Biological sciences 282 (1804) (2015)

Joseph Watts.css-eqlu8i{font-size:small;padding-left:4px;}

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Top Topics

Top Venues

Joseph Watts