Harvey Whitehouse

Professor Whitehouse holds a Chair in Social Anthropology and is a Professorial Fellow of Magdalen College at the University of Oxford. In the School of Anthropology he is Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology.

Academic publications:

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep44292

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0160427

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0145611

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/548f2ae8e4b068057bfcc7de/t/54c9155be4b033b04cd82739/1422464347707/when-terror-hits-home.pdf

http://www.pnas.org/content/111/50/17783

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/678698?journalCode=ca

Popular publications:

https://psmag.com/what-motivates-extreme-self-sacrifice-f02f1bad7bbd

http://theconversation.com/libyan-bands-of-brothers-show-how-deeply-humans-bond-in-adversity-34105

In the news:

http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-03-16-researchers-test-what-lies-behind-extreme-self-sacrifice-fighters

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4312414/Band-brothers-drive-self-sacrificial-behaviour.html

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23230950-600-the-database-that-is-rewriting-history-to-predict-the-future/