Project Data

The AHRC Culture and the Mind project has conducted a range of cross-cultural experiments in connection of with the three main themes of the project.

As these experiments are published, we will also publish the data files of the project on this webpage. 


Daniel M. T. Fessler , Colin Holbrook, Martin Kanovsky, H. Clark Barrett, Alexander H. Bolyanatz, Mathew M. Gervais, Michael Gurven, Joseph Henrich, Geoff Kushnick, Anne C. Pisor, Stephen Stich, Christopher von Rueden, and Stephen Laurence (2016). Moral parochialism misunderstood: A reply to Piazza and Sousa. Proceedings of the Royal Society; B (Biological Sciences), 283, 2015262. [with electronic supplementary materials (pp. 1-9)]. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2628

Data file for Barrett et al. (2016) (PDF, 863KB)


Daniel M. T. Fessler , H. Clark Barrett, Martin Kanovsky, Stephen Stich, Colin Holbrook, Joseph Henrich, Alexander H. Bolyanatz, Mathew M. Gervais, Michael Gurven, Geoff Kushnick, Anne C. Pisor, Christopher von Rueden, and Stephen Laurence (2015). Moral parochialism and contextual contingency across seven societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society; B (Biological Sciences). [with electronic supplementary materials (pp. 1-65)]. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0907

Data file for Fessler et al. (2015) (PDF, 425KB)


Bailey R. House , Joan B. Silk, Joseph Henrich, H. Clark Barrett, Brooke A. Scelza, Adam H. Boyette, Barry S. Hewlett, Richard McElreath, and Stephen Laurence (2013). Ontogeny of prosocial behavior across diverse societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110.36, pp. 14586-14591. [with supplementary information (pp. 1-32)]. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1221217110

Data file for House et al. (2013) (PDF, 129KB)


H. Clark Barrett, Tanya Broesch, Rose M. Scott, Zijing He, Renée Baillargeon, Di Wu, Matthias Bolz, Joseph Henrich, Peipei Setoh, Jianxin Wang, and Stephen Laurence (2013). Early false-belief understanding in traditional non-western societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B (Biological Sciences), vol. 280, no. 1755. [with electronic supplementary materials (pp. 1-29)]. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2654

Data file for Experiment 1 (SAV, 7KB)

Data file for Experiment 2 (SAV, 2KB)

Data file for Experiment 3 (SAV, 3KB)