Daniel Sznycer

Dr. Sznycer is a social psychologist. He uses theories of selection pressures and data from ancestral and modern humans to produce computation-level descriptions of our social psychology. His research focus is on emotion, value, and morality and institutions. He has multiple lines of cross-cultural evidence on shame, pride, compassion, and envy, and their roles in altruism, cooperation, social exclusion, and conflict. The methods he uses include experimental economic games, decision-making tasks, cross-cultural and ethnographic data collection, large-scale representative surveys, and anthropometry.

Research Interests:

emotion, value, morality, institutions