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Quentin D. Atkinson

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University of Auckland

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Quentin D. Atkinson is an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His research interests encompass political psychology, prosocial behavior, and the interplay between music and culture. He has recently published articles exploring themes such as political views influenced by prosocial traits, the independence of musical diversity from linguistic and genetic histories, and the complex factors shaping political belief systems.

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Understanding the historical drivers and possible futures of global cultural and linguistic diversity

Open Date: 2024-01-01

Close Date: 2027-01-01

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Deep cultural ancestry and the fortunes of nation states

Open Date: 2021-01-01

Close Date: 2024-01-01

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Next generation models for inferring evolutionary history: Gene trees, species trees, word trees and language trees

Open Date: 2019-01-01

Close Date: 2022-01-01

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Political gaming: using economic games to explore the foundations of political ideology

Open Date: 2018-01-01

Close Date: 2021-01-01

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Tongues, trees and Bayesian inference: towards a global language phylogeny

Open Date: 2014-01-01

Close Date: 2017-01-01

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University College London

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Articles (18)

Individual differences in motives for costly punishment

Prosocial Phenotype Predicts Political Views on Hierarchy and Redistribution 18 Months Later

State formation across cultures and the role of grain, intensive agriculture, taxation and writing

Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses

Global musical diversity is largely independent of linguistic and genetic histories

A Brief History of Political Instability in Vanuatu

Appealing to the minds of gods: religious beliefs and appeals correspond to features of local social ecologies

Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures

Universal interpretations of vocal music

Cross-national analyses require additional controls to account for the non-independence of nations

Dual Evolutionary Foundations of Political Ideology Predict Divergent Responses to COVID-19

It’s More Complicated Than That—Alliances Are One of Many Factors Shaping Political Belief Systems

Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities

Valence-dependent mutation in lexical evolution

Moralistic and local god beliefs and the extent of prosocial preferences on Tanna Island, Vanuatu

Coevolution of religious and political authority in Austronesian societies

Being specific about generalisability

Challenging the Idea That Humans Are Not Designed to Solve Climate Change

Collaborators (19)

Nichola Raihani

Joseph Watts

Lidya Yurdum

Rita McNamara

Emma Cohen

Sam Passmore

Chiara Barbieri

Patrick Savage

Theiss Bendixen

Christopher Opie

Dimitris Xygalatas

Manvir Singh

Samuel A. Mehr

Scott Claessens

Carolyn Lesorogol

Benjamin Purzycki

Chris Sibley

Aaron Lightner

Simon Greenhill

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