About

I am an assistant professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. My research focuses on the intersection of cultural evolution and psychology, examining how people’s psychologies change as societies become larger, more diverse, more economically developed, and more connected. This includes studying societal changes like early state formation and the modern rise of robotics and social media, as well as psychological processes such as moral psychology, emotion, and belief systems.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Law
• Visual arts
• Art history
• Epistemology
• Philosophy
• Art
• Mathematics
• Media studies
• Mathematical analysis

Selected publications

• The Empty Platter

  Routledge eBooks · 2023

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  • Computer Science
  • Computer Science

  I had never seen many of the dishes that were served that night and I’ve never laid eyes on them again. The banquet was held at the back of the inn where customers were normally forbidden to enter. The private chamber was intimately candlelit. The town fathers insisted I take the seat at the head of the glass table. I was their guest of honor, so to speak.

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• Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in its Place. By Robert B. Talisse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 216p. $29.95 cloth.

  Perspectives on Politics · 2021

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  • Political Science
  • Sociology
  • Political Science

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• The morality of fighting inequality: Nietzschean philosophy and the pursuit of progress

  Constellations · 2020

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  • Sociology
  • Political Science
  • Art history
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• The Democratic Individual

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2018-10-02

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• Educating Democratic Individuals

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2018-10-02

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• The Pursuit of Democratic Political Institutions

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2018-10-02

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• Introduction

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2018-10-02

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• Index

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2018-10-02

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• Conclusion

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2018-10-02

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• Agonism, Communitarianism, and Cosmopolitanism

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2018-10-02

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Frequent coauthors

• Paige Jones

  1 shared

• Brook Chick

  1 shared

• W. Donald McTaggart

  Arizona State University

  1 shared

• Iain Buchanan

  1 shared

• T. G. McGee

  1 shared

• Bibb Latané

  1 shared

• M. McCarthy W.D.B. Hiller

  1 shared

Labs

• Chicago Culture LabPI

Education

• Ph.D.

  University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business

Awards & honors

• Sage Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Personality…
• Dissertation Award from the Society for Experimental Social…
• Society for Cross-Cultural Research’s John and Beatrice Whit…