M E Price
Biographic Data
| ID | 4597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M E Price |
| GIVEN NAMES | M E |
| FAMILY NAME | Price |
| SIGNATURE | PRICE M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brunel University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2572-4326 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Uncoordinated, contradictory, yet cumulatively effective
How are science and religion getting along? An evolutionary perspective
Science and religion around the world
Previous research, conducted mainly in Western societies, indicates that religious/spiritual (R/S) and pro-science belief systems each relate positively to believer well-being, but are perceived as being highly incompatible with each other. This perception would presumably undermine one's ability to benefit fully from both systems, leading to the research questions examined here: does the perceived incompatibility between religion and science var…
Religion’s Hilbert problems, ten years later
Replacing the irreplaceable
International audience
Religion, Brain & Behavior adopts stricter transparency standards
International audience
Teilhard’s teleology
A moral obligation to promote future human evolution
There is much to admire in the target article, and the book on which it is based (Cliquet & Avramov, 2018). I certainly endorse using evolutionary science to understand the biology, psychology, cul
Increased Wellbeing from Social Interaction in a Secular Congregation
Religiosity appears to benefit wellbeing, potentially due to social support offered by religious communities. However, rising secularism implies that fewer people have access to these benefits. To address this problem, we investigated whether these benefits could also be obtained from membership in a secular, quasi-religious community. We conducted a longitudinal study among 92 members of the Sunday Assembly (SA), an international organization of…
Is sociopolitical egalitarianism related to bodily and facial formidability in men?
Social bargaining models predict that men should calibrate their egalitarian attitudes to their formidability and/or attractiveness. A simple social bargaining model predicts a direct negative association between formidability/attractiveness and egalitarianism, whereas a more complex model predicts an association moderated by wealth. Our study tested both models with 171 men, using two sociopolitical egalitarianism measures: social dominance orie…
Service-for-Prestige Theory of Leader-Follower Relations
Applied Evolutionary Anthropology
Female Economic Dependence and the Morality of Promiscuity
In environments in which female economic dependence on a male mate is higher, male parental investment is more essential. In such environments, therefore, both sexes should value paternity certainty more and thus object more to promiscuity (because promiscuity undermines paternity certainty). We tested this theory of anti-promiscuity morality in two studies (N = 656 and N = 4,626) using U.S. samples. In both, we examined whether opposition to pro…
Anthropometric correlates of human anger
The Resurrection of Group Selection as a Theory of Human Cooperation
Mind and religion
Cognitive adaptations for n ‐person exchange
Organizations are composed of stable, predominantly cooperative interactions or n ‐person exchanges. Humans have been engaging in n ‐person exchanges for a great enough period of evolutionary time that we appear to have evolved a distinct constellation of species‐typical mechanisms specialized to solve the adaptive problems posed by this form of social interaction. These mechanisms appear to have been evolutionarily elaborated out of the cognitiv…
Monitoring, reputation, and ‘greenbeard’ reciprocity in a Shuar work team
A collective action (CA), i.e., a group of individuals jointly producing a resource to be shared equally among themselves, is a common interaction in organizational contexts. Ancestral humans who were predisposed to cooperate in CAs would have risked being disadvantaged compared to free riders, but could have overcome this disadvantage through ‘greenbeard’ reciprocity, that is, by assessing the extent to which co‐interactants were also predispose…
Do human parents face a quantity‐quality tradeoff
A number of evolutionary theories of human life history assume a quantity‐quality tradeoff for offspring production: parents with fewer offspring can have higher biological fitness than those with more. Direct evidence for such a tradeoff, however, is mixed. We tested this assumption in a community of Ecuadorian Shuar hunter‐horticulturalists, using child anthropometry as a proxy for fitness. We measured the impact of household consumer/producer …
Punitive sentiment among the Shuar and in industrialized societies
Sport, Sexuality, and the Gender Order
This paper presents findings from an ethnographic study of a UK-based amateur rugby union club for gay and bisexual men. Positioning the club at the centre of the research, heterosexist definitions of sport are analysed with regard to their effect on the lives of players and the continued existence of the club itself. The standpoint of team members in relation to dominant hegemonic forces in sport is explored through an examination of the sexual …
Pro-community altruism and social status in a Shuar village
Punitive sentiment as an anti-free rider psychological device
Parental Investment and Child Health in a Yanomamö Village Suffering Short-Term Food Stress
The 1998 El Niño significantly reduced garden productivity in the Upper Orinoco region in Venezuela. Consequently, parents were forced to allocate food carefully to their children. Nutrition data collected from village children combined with genealogical data allowed the determination of which children suffered most, and whether the patterns of food distribution accorded with predictions from parental investment theory. For boys, three social var…
Stories with a Moral
Sport, Sexuality, and the Gender Order
This paper presents findings from an ethnographic study of a UK-based amateur rugby union club for gay and bisexual men. Positioning the club at the centre of the research, heterosexist definitions of sport are analysed with regard to their effect on the lives of players and the continued existence of the club itself. The standpoint of team members in relation to dominant hegemonic forces in sport is explored through an examination of the sexual …
Do human parents face a quantity‐quality tradeoff
A number of evolutionary theories of human life history assume a quantity‐quality tradeoff for offspring production: parents with fewer offspring can have higher biological fitness than those with more. Direct evidence for such a tradeoff, however, is mixed. We tested this assumption in a community of Ecuadorian Shuar hunter‐horticulturalists, using child anthropometry as a proxy for fitness. We measured the impact of household consumer/producer …
Female Economic Dependence and the Morality of Promiscuity
In environments in which female economic dependence on a male mate is higher, male parental investment is more essential. In such environments, therefore, both sexes should value paternity certainty more and thus object more to promiscuity (because promiscuity undermines paternity certainty). We tested this theory of anti-promiscuity morality in two studies (N = 656 and N = 4,626) using U.S. samples. In both, we examined whether opposition to pro…
Pro-community altruism and social status in a Shuar village
The Resurrection of Group Selection as a Theory of Human Cooperation
Monitoring, reputation, and ‘greenbeard’ reciprocity in a Shuar work team
A collective action (CA), i.e., a group of individuals jointly producing a resource to be shared equally among themselves, is a common interaction in organizational contexts. Ancestral humans who were predisposed to cooperate in CAs would have risked being disadvantaged compared to free riders, but could have overcome this disadvantage through ‘greenbeard’ reciprocity, that is, by assessing the extent to which co‐interactants were also predispose…
Parental Investment and Child Health in a Yanomamö Village Suffering Short-Term Food Stress
The 1998 El Niño significantly reduced garden productivity in the Upper Orinoco region in Venezuela. Consequently, parents were forced to allocate food carefully to their children. Nutrition data collected from village children combined with genealogical data allowed the determination of which children suffered most, and whether the patterns of food distribution accorded with predictions from parental investment theory. For boys, three social var…
Stories with a Moral
Punitive sentiment as an anti-free rider psychological device
Sport, Sexuality, and the Gender Order
This paper presents findings from an ethnographic study of a UK-based amateur rugby union club for gay and bisexual men. Positioning the club at the centre of the research, heterosexist definitions of sport are analysed with regard to their effect on the lives of players and the continued existence of the club itself. The standpoint of team members in relation to dominant hegemonic forces in sport is explored through an examination of the sexual …
Pro-community altruism and social status in a Shuar village
Punitive sentiment among the Shuar and in industrialized societies
Cognitive adaptations for n ‐person exchange
Organizations are composed of stable, predominantly cooperative interactions or n ‐person exchanges. Humans have been engaging in n ‐person exchanges for a great enough period of evolutionary time that we appear to have evolved a distinct constellation of species‐typical mechanisms specialized to solve the adaptive problems posed by this form of social interaction. These mechanisms appear to have been evolutionarily elaborated out of the cognitiv…
Monitoring, reputation, and ‘greenbeard’ reciprocity in a Shuar work team
A collective action (CA), i.e., a group of individuals jointly producing a resource to be shared equally among themselves, is a common interaction in organizational contexts. Ancestral humans who were predisposed to cooperate in CAs would have risked being disadvantaged compared to free riders, but could have overcome this disadvantage through ‘greenbeard’ reciprocity, that is, by assessing the extent to which co‐interactants were also predispose…
Do human parents face a quantity‐quality tradeoff
A number of evolutionary theories of human life history assume a quantity‐quality tradeoff for offspring production: parents with fewer offspring can have higher biological fitness than those with more. Direct evidence for such a tradeoff, however, is mixed. We tested this assumption in a community of Ecuadorian Shuar hunter‐horticulturalists, using child anthropometry as a proxy for fitness. We measured the impact of household consumer/producer …
Mind and religion
The Resurrection of Group Selection as a Theory of Human Cooperation
Anthropometric correlates of human anger
Female Economic Dependence and the Morality of Promiscuity
In environments in which female economic dependence on a male mate is higher, male parental investment is more essential. In such environments, therefore, both sexes should value paternity certainty more and thus object more to promiscuity (because promiscuity undermines paternity certainty). We tested this theory of anti-promiscuity morality in two studies (N = 656 and N = 4,626) using U.S. samples. In both, we examined whether opposition to pro…
Applied Evolutionary Anthropology
Service-for-Prestige Theory of Leader-Follower Relations
Is sociopolitical egalitarianism related to bodily and facial formidability in men?
Social bargaining models predict that men should calibrate their egalitarian attitudes to their formidability and/or attractiveness. A simple social bargaining model predicts a direct negative association between formidability/attractiveness and egalitarianism, whereas a more complex model predicts an association moderated by wealth. Our study tested both models with 171 men, using two sociopolitical egalitarianism measures: social dominance orie…
Increased Wellbeing from Social Interaction in a Secular Congregation
Religiosity appears to benefit wellbeing, potentially due to social support offered by religious communities. However, rising secularism implies that fewer people have access to these benefits. To address this problem, we investigated whether these benefits could also be obtained from membership in a secular, quasi-religious community. We conducted a longitudinal study among 92 members of the Sunday Assembly (SA), an international organization of…
A moral obligation to promote future human evolution
There is much to admire in the target article, and the book on which it is based (Cliquet & Avramov, 2018). I certainly endorse using evolutionary science to understand the biology, psychology, cul
Teilhard’s teleology
Replacing the irreplaceable
International audience
Religion, Brain & Behavior adopts stricter transparency standards
International audience
How are science and religion getting along? An evolutionary perspective
Science and religion around the world
Previous research, conducted mainly in Western societies, indicates that religious/spiritual (R/S) and pro-science belief systems each relate positively to believer well-being, but are perceived as being highly incompatible with each other. This perception would presumably undermine one's ability to benefit fully from both systems, leading to the research questions examined here: does the perceived incompatibility between religion and science var…
Religion’s Hilbert problems, ten years later
Uncoordinated, contradictory, yet cumulatively effective
Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (9 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works)