Search Results - "Hruschka, J"

Institutions, parasites and the persistence of in-group preferences by Hruschka, Daniel J, Henrich, Joseph

“…Much research has established reliable cross-population differences in motivations to invest in one's in-group. We compare two current historical-evolutionary…”
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Pressing questions in the study of psychological and behavioral diversity by Hruschka, Daniel J., Medin, Douglas L., Rogoff, Barbara, Henrich, Joseph

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Learning about informal fallacies and the detection of fake news: An experimental intervention by Hruschka, Timon M J, Appel, Markus

“…The philosophical concept of informal fallacies-arguments that fail to provide sufficient support for a claim-is introduced and connected to the topic of fake…”
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Detecting Regular Sound Changes in Linguistics as Events of Concerted Evolution by Hruschka, Daniel J., Branford, Simon, Smith, Eric D., Wilkins, Jon, Meade, Andrew, Pagel, Mark, Bhattacharya, Tanmoy

“…Concerted evolution is normally used to describe parallel changes at different sites in a genome, but it is also observed in languages where a specific phoneme…”
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Estimating the absolute wealth of households by Hruschka, Daniel J, Gerkey, Drew, Hadley, Craig

“…To estimate the absolute wealth of households using data from demographic and health surveys. We developed a new metric, the absolute wealth estimate, based on…”
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Material wealth in 3D: Mapping multiple paths to prosperity in low- and middle- income countries by Hruschka, Daniel J, Hadley, Craig, Hackman, Joseph

“…Material wealth is a key factor shaping human development and well-being. Every year, hundreds of studies in social science and policy fields assess material…”
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How does variance in fertility change over the demographic transition? by Hruschka, Daniel J., Burger, Oskar

“…Most work on the human fertility transition has focused on declines in mean fertility. However, understanding changes in the variance of reproductive outcomes…”
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Nepali Concepts of Psychological Trauma: The Role of Idioms of Distress, Ethnopsychology and Ethnophysiology in Alleviating Suffering and Preventing Stigma by Kohrt, Brandon A., Hruschka, Daniel J.

“…In the aftermath of a decade-long Maoist civil war in Nepal and the recent relocation of thousands of Bhutanese refugees from Nepal to Western countries, there…”
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Do economic constraints on food choice make people fat? A critical review of two hypotheses for the poverty-obesity paradox by Hruschka, Daniel J.

“…In low income countries worldwide, rising standards of living have spurred an unprecedented rise in obesity. However, in numerous wealthy countries the trend…”
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Disentangling basal and accumulated body mass for cross-population comparisons by Hruschka, Daniel J., Hadley, Craig, Brewis, Alexandra

“…Measures of human body mass confound 1) well‐established population differences in body form and 2) exposure to obesogenic environments, posing challenges for…”
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Comparing hemoglobin distributions between population-based surveys matched by country and time by Hruschka, Daniel J, Williams, Anne M, Mei, Zuguo, Leidman, Eva, Suchdev, Parminder S, Young, Melissa F, Namaste, Sorrel

“…Valid measurement of hemoglobin is important for tracking and targeting interventions. This study compares hemoglobin distributions between surveys matched by…”
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Testing ecological and universal models of body shape and child health using a global sample of infants and young children by Hadley, Craig, Hruschka, Daniel J.

“…Aim: To test whether a risk of child illness is best predicted by deviations from a population-specific growth distribution or a universal growth distribution…”
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Political violence and mental health in Nepal: prospective study by Kohrt, Brandon A, Hruschka, Daniel J, Worthman, Carol M, Kunz, Richard D, Baldwin, Jennifer L, Upadhaya, Nawaraj, Acharya, Nanda Raj, Koirala, Suraj, Thapa, Suraj B, Tol, Wietse A, Jordans, Mark J D, Robkin, Navit, Sharma, Vidya Dev, Nepal, Mahendra K

“…Post-conflict mental health studies in low-income countries have lacked pre-conflict data to evaluate changes in psychiatric morbidity resulting from political…”
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Economic and evolutionary hypotheses for cross-population variation in parochialism by Hruschka, Daniel J, Henrich, Joseph

“…Human populations differ reliably in the degree to which people favor family, friends, and community members over strangers and outsiders. In the last decade,…”
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Friendship, cliquishness, and the emergence of cooperation by Hruschka, Daniel J., Henrich, Joseph

“…The evolution of cooperation is a central problem in biology and the social sciences. While theoretical work using the iterated prisoner's dilemma (IPD) has…”
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Genetic population structure accounts for contemporary ecogeographic patterns in tropic and subtropic-dwelling humans by Hruschka, Daniel J, Hadley, Craig, Brewis, Alexandra A, Stojanowski, Christopher M

“…Contemporary human populations conform to ecogeographic predictions that animals will become more compact in cooler climates and less compact in warmer ones…”
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Vulnerability to fat-stigma in women’s everyday relationships by Brewis, Alexandra A., Hruschka, Daniel J., Wutich, Amber

“…Obesity is understood as a major medical and public health challenge, but the stigma attached to it also creates extraordinary suffering. The pervasiveness of…”
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Population differences in the relationship between height, weight, and adiposity: An application of burton's model by Hruschka, Daniel J., Rush, Elaine C., Brewis, Alexandra A.

“…ABSTRACT The study of human variation in adiposity and lean mass is important for understanding core processes in human evolution, and is increasingly a public…”
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Estimating between- and within-individual variation in cortisol levels using multilevel models by Hruschka, Daniel J., Kohrt, Brandon A., Worthman, Carol M.

“…Cortisol measures often are used to examine variation in hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis (HPA) activity as well as broader patterns of differential health…”
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A glossary of culture in epidemiology by Hruschka, D J, Hadley, C

“…Culture frequently is used to explain population differences in health. This glossary defines key concepts and terms relevant to the concept of culture and…”
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