Max Krasnow is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department and the director of the Evolutionary Psychology Lab at Harvard University. He studies the design of the cognitive mechanisms that underlie human sociality and how they evolved, using a combination of analytic modeling techniques and standard behavioral experiments to triangulate on answers to these questions. He is interested in advancing the basic science understanding of human social nature, and also in better characterizing the ‘levers’ on that nature that can help tailor public policy to produce better effects.
Max Krasnow is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department and the director of the Evolutionary Psychology Lab at Harvard University. He studies the design of the cognitive mechanisms that underlie human sociality and how they evolved, using a combination of analytic modeling techniques and standard behavioral experiments to triangulate on answers to these questions. He is interested in advancing the basic science understanding of human social nature, and also in better characterizing the ‘levers’ on that nature that can help tailor public policy to produce better effects.
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PsychArxiv
Welfare tradeoff psychology is present in children and adults -
Moral Psychology: A Multidisciplinary Guide
An evolutionarily informed study of moral psychology -
Evolution & Human Behavior
The psychology of deterrence explains why group membership matters for third-party punishment
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Frontiers in Psychology
Are humans too generous and too punitive? Using psychological principles to further debates about human social evolution -
PLoS One
Group cooperation without group selection: Modest punishment can recruit much cooperation -
Evolution and Human Behavior
An independent replication that the evolution of direct reciprocity under uncertainty explains one-shot cooperation: commentary on Zefferman -
