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CHARLES EFFERSON Department of Economics phone: +41 44 634 3665 Laboratory for the Study of Social and Neural Systems fax: +41 44 634 4907 University of Zurich Bl¨umlisalpstrasse10 8006 Zurich, Switzerland http://www.econ.uzh.ch/faculty/efferson.html CURRENT EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Zurich. PAST EMPLOYMENT Post-doctoral researcher, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich, December, 2006 - August, 2008. Post-doctoral fellow, Santa Fe Institute, August, 2006 - August, 2008. EDUCATION Ph.D., Ecology, University of California, Davis, August, 2006. Dissertation: The Struc- ture of Social Learning: Integrating Theory and Empiricism. Primary Advisor: Dr. Peter J. Richerson. M.A., English, University of California, Davis, June, 1999. B.A., English, Loyola University, New Orleans, December, 1993. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Most of my research in the past few years has focused on the theoretical and experimen- tal study of prosocial behavior, social learning, and cultural evolution. I have conducted a variety of behavioral experiments in rural Bolivia and among student populations at several universities in Switzerland, the United States, and Germany. In addition, a number of colleagues and I are currently implementing two large-scale field experiments to study the cultural evolution of social norms. One of these field experiments is in collaboration with the energy provider in Zurich, and the focus is on identifying social CHARLES EFFERSON Page 2 processes that reduce household energy consumption. The other field experiment is in collaboration with the UNICEF offices in Zurich and Khartoum, and the intention in this case is to identify programs that encourage the abandonment of female circum- cision in Sudan. Finally, I am currently working on a number of projects related to human population dynamics and the evolution of prosocial behavior. From the moder- ately distant past I also have experience with ecological and evolutionary fieldwork of a traditional sort. PUBLICATIONS Hruschka, D., Efferson, C., Jiang, T., Falletta-Cowden, A., Sigurdsson, S., McNamara, R., Sands, M., Munira, S., Slingerland, E., and Henrich, J. (In press). Impartial institutions, pathogen stress, and the expanding social network. Human Nature. Vogt, S., Efferson, C., and Fehr, E. (2013). Can we see inside? Predicting strategic behavior given limited information. Evolution and Human Behavior. 34: 258-264. Efferson, C. and Vogt, S. (2013). Viewing men's faces does not lead to accurate predictions of trustworthiness. Scientific Reports. 3: 1-7. DOI: 10.1038/srep01047. Efferson, C. (2012). A review of A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis. The Economic Journal. 122: F253-F269. Paciotti, B., Richerson, P. J., Lubell, M., Waring, T., McElreath, R., Efferson, C., and Edsten, E. (2011). Are religious individuals more generous, trusting, and cooperative? An experimental test of the effect of religion on prosociality. Research in Economic Anthropology. 31: 267-305. McKay, R., Efferson, C., Whitehouse, H., and Fehr, E. (2011). Wrath of God: religious primes and punishment. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 278: 1858-1863. McKay, R. and Efferson, C. (2010). The subtleties of error management. Evolution and Human Behavior. 31: 309-319. Efferson, C., Lalive, R., and Fehr, E. (2008). The coevolution of cultural groups and ingroup favoritism. Science. 321: 1844-1849. McElreath, R., Bell, A. V., Efferson, C., Lubell, M., Richerson, P. J., and Waring, T. (2008). Beyond existence and aiming outside the laboratory: estimating frequency- dependent and payoff-biased-social learning strategies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 363: 3515-3528. Efferson, C. (2008). Prey-producing predators: the ecology of human intensification. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences. 12: 55-74. Efferson, C., Lalive, R., Richerson, P. J., McElreath, R., and Lubell, M. (2008). Con- formists and mavericks: the empirics of frequency-dependent cultural transmission. Evolution and Human Behavior. 29: 56-64. CHARLES EFFERSON Page 3 Burkart, J. M., Fehr, E., Efferson, C., and van Schaik, C. P. (2007). Other-regarding preferences in a nonhuman primate: common marmosets provision food altruisti- cally. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104: 19762-19766. Efferson, C., Takezawa, M., and McElreath, R. (2007). New methods in quantitative ethnography: economic experiments and variation in the price of equality. Current Anthropology. 48: 912-919. Efferson, C., Richerson, P. J. (2007). A prolegomenon to nonlinear empiricism in the human behavioral sciences. Biology and Philosophy. 22: 1-33. Efferson, C., Richerson, P. J., McElreath, R., Lubell, M., Edsten, E., Waring, T. M., Paciotti, B., and Baum, W. (2007). Learning, productivity, and noise: an experimental study of cultural transmission on the Bolivian Altiplano. Evolution and Human Behavior. 28: 11-17. Efferson, C., Lalive, R., Richerson, P. J., McElreath, R., and Lubell, M. (2006). Models and anti-models: the structure of payoff-dependent social learning. IEW Working Paper Nr. 290. McEachern, M. B., Eagle-Smith, C. A., Efferson, C. M., Van Vuren, D. H. (2006). Evidence for local specialization in a generalist mammalian herbivore, Neotoma fuscipes. Oikos. 113: 440-448. McElreath, R., Lubell, M., Richerson, P. J., Waring, T. M., Baum, W., Edsten, E., Ef- ferson, C., and Paciotti, B. (2005). Applying evolutionary models to the laboratory study of social learning. Evolution and Human Behavior. 26: 483-508. Baum, W. M., Richerson, P. J., Efferson, C. M., Paciotti, B. M. (2004). Cultural evolution in laboratory microsocieties including traditions of rule giving and rule following. Evolution and Human Behavior. 25: 305-326. INVITED TALKS February, 2014. Super-additive altruism. Economics Department, University of Kon- stanz. January, 2014. Super-additive altruism. Workshop on the \Proximate and Ultimate Causes of Cooperation," sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Tro- gen, Switzerland. October, 2013. Evaluating methods to encourage the abandonment of female circum- cision in Sudan. UNICEF, Zurich, Switzerland. July, 2013. Do children respond to cues that they are being watched? International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. June, 2013. Do children respond to cues that they are being watched? Annual meeting of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists, Stockholm. CHARLES EFFERSON Page 4 May, 2013. The Ultimate Origins of Human Altruism: Experimental Measures of Psy- chology from the Past. Keynote Lecture, Interdisciplinary Project on Interaction Modeling, University of Fribourg. March 2013. Intergroup conflict and reciprocity are mutually reinforcing: an empirical study of the ultimate origins of human altruism. Institute for Advanced Study, University of Toulouse. March 2013. Evaluating methods to encourage the abandonment of female circumcision in Sudan. International conference on Social Norms and Human Development, University of Zurich. November, 2012. Intergroup conflict and reciprocity are mutually reinforcing: an em- pirical study of the ultimate origins of human altruism. School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford University. July, 2012. Intergroup conflict and reciprocity are mutually reinforcing: an empirical study of the ultimate origins of human altruism. Santa Fe Institute. June, 2012. Intergroup conflict and reciprocity are mutually reinforcing: an empirical study of the ultimate origins of human altruism. Annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, University of New Mexico. March, 2012. The evolution of shared delusions. The School of Psychology, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. February, 2012. The ultimate origins of human prosocial behavior: an empirical test of competing theories. Sociology Department, Utrecht University. November, 2011. The evolution of shared delusions. School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London. November, 2011. Can we see inside? Predicting strategic behaviors given limited information. Economics Department, Royal Holloway, University of London. October, 2011. The evolution of shared delusions. Quantitative Sociology Colloquium, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. October, 2011. The evolution of shared delusions. Anthropology Department, Univer- sity College, London. June, 2011. An empirical analysis of FGM/C programs based on the theory of coor- dination games: the relative effects of targeting beliefs versus values. UNICEF, Khartoum, Sudan. March, 2011. The ultimate origins of human prosocial behavior: an empirical test of competing theories. Institute for Environmental Decisions, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. October, 2010. Testing evolutionary theories of human social behavior. University of Zurich Research Priority Program on the Foundations of Human Social Behavior. CHARLES EFFERSON Page 5 April, 2010. The biological evolution of prosocial behavior. Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern. March, 2010. Shared delusions. Annual research forum held by the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva. January, 2010. Conformity and endogenous preferences. Annual retreat for the Uni- versity of Zurich Research Priority Program on the Foundations of Human Social Behavior, K¨ussnacht am Rigi, Switzerland. January, 2010. Manufacturing shared delusions. The Max Planck Institute for Eco- nomics. Jena, Germany.