Selected Publications

Curry, O. S., Alfano, M., Brandt, M. J., & Pelican, C. (2021). Moral Molecules: Morality as a Combinatorial System. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. [Link] [PDF] [OSF]

Curry, O. S., Mullins, D. A., & Whitehouse, H. (2019). Is it good to cooperate? Testing the theory of morality-as-cooperation in 60 societies. Current Anthropology, 60, 47-69. [Link] [PDF] [OSF] [Press]

Curry, O. S., Jones Chesters, M., & Van Lissa, C. J. (2019). Mapping morality with a compass: Testing the theory of ‘morality-as-cooperation’ with a new questionnaire. Journal of Research in Personality, 78, 106-124. [Link] [PDF] [OSF]

Curry, O. S., Rowland, L. A., Van Lissa, C. J., Zlotowitz, S., McAlaney, J., & Whitehouse, H. (2018). Happy to help? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of performing acts of kindness on the well-being of the actor. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 76, 320-329. [Link] [PDF] [OSF] [Press]

papers under review

  1. Wilkinson, J., Curry, O. S., Mitchell, B. L., Wright, M. J., & Bates, T. C. (2023). Modular Morals? Mapping the organisation of the moral brain. [Link]

  2. Malik, M., Sungbin, Y., Hopp, F. R., Curry, O. S., Cheong, M., Alfano, M., & Weber, R. (2023). The Extended Morality as Cooperation Dictionary (eMACD): A Crowd-Sourced Approach via the Moral Narrative Analyzer Platform. [OSF]

  3. Zakharin, M., Curry, O. S., Lewis, G., & Bates, T. C. (2023, July 5). Modular Morals: The Genetic Architecture of Morality as Cooperation. [Link]

  4. Curry, O. S., San Miguel, C., Wilkinson, J., & Tunç, M. N. (2024). The costs and benefits of kindness. [OSF]

  5. Curry, O. S., San Miguel, C., & Tunç, M. N. (2024). The costs and benefits of kindness for kids. [OSF]

  6. Curry, O. S., San Miguel, C., Wilkinson, J., & Tunc, M. N. (2024). Consistent Kindness: Money allocation and kind act decisions are regulated by a ‘welfare trade-off ratio’. [OSF]

  7. Tunç, M. N., San Miguel, C., Reed, R., Lindsey, J., Peterson, M., & Curry, O. S. (2024). Learn Kind: A cluster randomized controlled trial. [OSF]

  8. Misiak, M., Sobol, M., Stefańczyk, M. M., Rokosz, M., Sakowski, Ł., Idziak, P., & Curry, O. S. (2023). The Morality of Food Wasting Behavior: A Theory-Driven Approach. [OSF]

Peer Reviewed Publications

  1. Alfano, M., Cheong, M., & Curry, O. S. (2024). Moral universals: A machine-reading analysis of 256 societies. Heliyon, 10(6). [Link] [OSF]

  2. van Leeuwen, F., van Lissa, C. J., Papakonstantinou, T., Petersen, M. B., & Curry, O. S. (2024). Morality as Cooperation, Politics as Conflict. Social Psychological Bulletin, 19, 1-22. [Link] [PDF]

  3. Misiak, M., Curry, O. S., & Tureček, P. (2023). Moral Messaging: Testing a Framing Technique during a Pandemic. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 1-11. [Link]

  4. Curry, O. S., & Sznycer, D. (2023). A broader theory of cooperation can better explain “purity”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e300 [PDF] [Link] [OSF]

  5. Curry, O. S., Alfano, M., Brandt, M. J., & Pelican, C. (2021). Moral Molecules: Morality as a Combinatorial System. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. [PDF] [Link] [OSF]

  6. Sanyal, M., McAuliffe, W. H. B., & Curry, O. S. (2021). Gross values: Investigating the role of disgust in bioethics. Current Psychology. [Link] 

  7. Gellner, D. N., Curry, O. S., Cook, J., Alfano, M., & Venkatesan, S. (2020). Morality is fundamentally an evolved solution to problems of social co-operation. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 26(2), 415-427. [Link] [PDF]

  8. Curry, O. S., Mullins, D. A., & Whitehouse, H. (2019). Is it good to cooperate? Testing the theory of morality-as-cooperation in 60 societies. Current Anthropology, 60, 47-69. [Link] [PDF] [OSF] [Press]

  9. Curry, O. S., Jones Chesters, M., & Van Lissa, C. J. (2019). Mapping morality with a compass: Testing the theory of ‘morality-as-cooperation’ with a new questionnaire. Journal of Research in Personality, 78, 106-124. [Link] [PDF] [OSF]

  10. Curry, O. S., Hare, D., Hepburn, C., Johnson, D. D. P., Buhrmester, M. D., Whitehouse, H., et al. (2019). Cooperative conservation: Seven ways to save the world. Conservation Science and Practice, n/a, e123. [Link]

  11. Rowland, L., & Curry, O. S. (2019). A range of kindness activities boost happiness. The Journal of Social Psychology, 159. [Link] [OSF]

  12. Curry, O. S., Rowland, L. A., Van Lissa, C. J., Zlotowitz, S., McAlaney, J., & Whitehouse, H. (2018). Happy to help? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of performing acts of kindness on the well-being of the actor. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 76, 320-329. [Link] [PDF] [OSF]

  13. Sivan, J., Curry, O. S., & Van Lissa, C. J. (2018). Excavating the Foundations: Cognitive Adaptations for Multiple Moral Domains. Evolutionary Psychological Science. [Link]

  14. Aktipis, A., Cronk, L., Alcock, J., Ayers, J. D., Baciu, C., Balliet, D., et al. (2018). Understanding cooperation through fitness interdependence. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, 429-431.

  15. Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Curry, O. S., De Smet, D., Ermer, E., et al. (2017). Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 1874. [Link]

  16. Dunbar, R. I. M., Launay, J., & Curry, O. S. (2016). The Complexity of Jokes Is Limited by Cognitive Constraints on Mentalizing. Human Nature, 27, 130-140.

  17. Pietraszewski, D., Curry, O. S., Petersen, M. B., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2015). Constituents of political cognition: Race, party politics, and the alliance detection system. Cognition, 140, 24-39.

  18. Petersen, M. B., Aarøe, L., Jensen, N. H., & Curry, O. S. (2014). Social Welfare and the Psychology of Food Sharing: Short-Term Hunger Increases Support for Social Welfare. Political Psychology, 35, 757-773.

  19. Curry, O. S., Roberts, S. G. B., & Dunbar, R. I. M. (2013). Altruism in social networks: Evidence for a ‘kinship premium’. British Journal of Psychology, 104, 283-295.

  20. Curry, O. S., & Dunbar, R. I. M. (2013). Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Human Nature, 24, 336-347.

  21. Curry, O. S., & Dunbar, R. I. M. (2013). Sharing a joke: The effects of a similar sense of humor on affiliation and altruism. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34, 125-129.

  22. Curry, O. S., & Jones Chesters, M. (2012). 'Put yourself in the other fellow's shoes': The role of 'theory of mind' in solving coordination problems. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 12, 147–159.

  23. Curry, O. S., Jones Chesters, M., & Viding, E. (2011). The Psychopath's Dilemma: The effects of psychopathic personality traits in one-shot games. Personality & Individual Differences, 50, 804-809.

  24. Curry, O. S., & Dunbar, R. I. M. (2011). Altruism in networks: the effect of connections. Biology Letters, 7, 651-653.

  25. Curry, O. S., Price, M. E., & Price, J. G. (2008). Patience is a virtue: cooperative people have lower discount rates. Personality and Individual Differences, 44, 778-783.

  26. Price, M. E., Brown, W. M., & Curry, O. S. (2007). The integrative framework for the behavioural sciences. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 39-40.

  27. Curry, O. S. (2006). Who's afraid of the naturalistic fallacy? Evolutionary Psychology, 4, 234-247. [Link]

  28. Curry, O. S. (2003). Evolutionary psychology: "fashionable ideology" or "new foundation"? Human Nature Review, 3, 81-92. [PDF]

  29. Curry, O. S. (2003). Get real: Evolution as metaphor and mechanism. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 5, 112-117.

Book Chapters

  1. Curry, O. S. (2016). Morality as Cooperation: A Problem-Centred Approach. In T. K. Shackelford & R. D. Hansen (Eds.), The Evolution of Morality (pp. 27-51): Springer International Publishing. [Link] [PDF]

  2. Curry, O. S. (2007). The conflict-resolution theory of virtue. In W. P. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral Psychology (Vol. I, pp. 251-261). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. [PDF]

Book Reviews

  1. Curry, O. S. (2007, 6 April 2007). Animal instincts set us on the moral path. THES.

  2. Curry, O. S. (2006). One good deed. (Review of The altruism equation: Seven scientists search for the origins of goodness.) Nature, 444, 683-683. [Link] [PDF]

  3. Curry, O. S. (2005). A change of mind? (Review of Adapting minds: Evolutionary psychology and the persistent quest for human nature.) Nature, 435, 425-426. [Link]

  4. Curry, O. S. (2003). Review of Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox edited by Gerd Gigerenzer and Reinhard Selten. Human Nature Review, 3, 163-165.

  5. Curry, O. S. (2003). Review of A. J. Field, Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity. Quarterly Review of Biology, 78, 126-127. [PDF]

  6. Curry, O. S. (2001). Review of J. M. G. van der Dennen, David Smillie, and Daniel R. Wilson (Eds.), The Darwinian Heritage and Sociobiology. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 37, 395-396.

  7. Curry, O. S. (1998). Thinking on the past (Review of Evolution in Mind, by Henry Plotkin). New Scientist. [Link]

Other Papers and Publications

  1. Curry, O. S. (2022). Seven Moral Rules Found All Around the World. Living together with Ambiguities: Different cultures and common values? (pp48-60) (Conference organised by Fondazione Intercultura, Florence, Italy, 2-4 September 2021). [PDF]

  2. Curry, O. S., Alfano, M., Brandt, M. J., & Pelican, C. (2021, November 1). ‘Moral molecules’ – a new theory of what goodness is made of. Psyche. [Link]

  3. Curry, O. S. (2019, March 26). What’s Wrong with Moral Foundations Theory, and How to get Moral Psychology Right. Behavioral Scientist. [Link]

  4. Curry, O. S. (2018, May 17). Seven Moral Rules Found All Around the World. This View of Life. [Link]

  5. Curry, O. S. (2017). Fallibilism. The 2017 Edge Question [Link]

  6. Curry, O. S. (2016). Morality is made of meat. The 2016 Edge Question [Link]

  7. Curry, O. S. (2015). Associationism. In J. Brockman (Ed.), This Idea Must Die (pp. 200-204): Harper Perennial. [Link]

  8. Curry, O. S, & Price M. E. (2014, 20 February). Profiles in Evolutionary Moral Psychology: Oliver Scott Curry. Evolution: This View of Life. [Link] [PDF]

  9. Curry, O. S. (2008). Selfish-gene theory. In M. J. Benton (Ed.), The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Natural World (pp. 113-115): Thames & Hudson.

  10. Cronin, H., & Curry, O. S. (2008). Darwinism's fantastic voyage. Lancet, S5-S10.

  11. Curry, O. S. (2005). Morality as Natural History: An adaptationist account of ethics. (PhD), London School of Economics, London. [PDF] [Link]

  12. Curry, O. S. (2004). Rational choice theory in biology and economics. Working Paper Series, Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, University of Indiana.

  13. Cronin, H., & Curry, O. S. (2000). The Evolved Family. In H. Wilkinson (Ed.), Family Business (Vol. 15, pp. 151-157). London: Demos.

  14. Cronin, H., & Curry, O. S. (Eds.). (1998-2001). Darwinism Today: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK), Yale University Press (US).

  15. Curry, O. S., Cronin, H., & Ashworth, J. (Eds.). (1996). Matters of Life and Death: The worldview from evolutionary psychology (Vol. 10). London: Demos. [Link]

  16. Curry, O. S. (1996). Long live society. In O. Curry, H. Cronin & J. Ashworth (Eds.), Matters of Life and Death: The worldview from evolutionary psychology (Vol. 10, pp. 46-47). London: Demos. [Link]

  17. Curry, O. S. (1996). What is evolution? In O. Curry, H. Cronin & J. Ashworth (Eds.), Matters of Life and Death: The worldview from evolutionary psychology (Vol. 10, pp. 4-5). London: Demos. [Link]

interviews

  1. In conversation with John Maynard Smith FRS (1999) [PDF]

  2. In conversation with Steven Pinker (1998) [PDF]

  3. In conversation with Richard Dawkins (1997) [PDF]

  4. In conversation with David Buss (1996) [PDF]

  5. In conversation with George C. Williams (1995) [PDF]


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