publications & working papers
2012. Schniter, E., Sheremeta, R.M., Sznycer, D. Restoring damaged trust with promises, atonement and apology. (under review)
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1975976
2012. Kaplan, H., Schniter, E., Smith, V., and Wilson, B. Risk and the evolution of human exchange. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2614
2012. Schniter, E., Wilcox, N. Social norms, discrete choices, and false dichotomies. (commentary on B. Tucker: Do risk and time experimental choices represent individual strategies for coping with poverty or conformity to social norms? Evidence from rural southwestern Madagascar) Current Anthropology 53(2):172-173
2012. Schniter, E., Sheremeta, R.M., and Shields, T.W. Conflicted minds: recalibrational emotions following trust based interaction (under review).
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1937822
2012. Rietz, T., Schniter, E., Sheremeta, R.M., and Shields, T.W. Trust, reciprocity, & rules (under review).
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1923831
2010. Gurven, M., Schniter, E. An evolutionary perspective can help unify disparate accounts of grandparental investment. (commentary on D. Coall & R. Hertwig: Grandparental investment: past, present, and future) Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 33:25-26
2010. Gurven, M., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Bowles, S., Hooper, Paul L., Kaplan, H., Quinlan, R., Sear, R., Schniter, E., von Rueden, C., Bowles, S., Hertz, T., and Bell, A. Domestication alone does not lead to inequality. Current Anthropology. 51(1):1-16.
2009. Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Bowles, S., Hertz, T., Bell, A., Beise, J., Clark, G., Fazzio, I., Gurven, M., Hill, K., Hooper, P.L. Irons, W., Kaplan, H., Leonetti, D., Low, B., Marlowe, F., McElreath, R., Naidu, S., Nolin, D., Piraino, P., Quinlan, R., Schniter, E., Sear, R., Shenk, M., Smith, E., von Rueden, C., and Wiessner, P. Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality in small-scale societies. Science. 326:682-688
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2008. Gurven, M., Zanolini, A., Schniter, E. Culture sometimes matters: intra-cultural variation in pro-social behavior among Tsimane Amerindians. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 67:587-607
2008. Schniter, E. “Shuar” in Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, 2nd ed. (pp. 385-386) C. Scribner’s Sons: New York.
dissertation
2009. Why Old Age: Non-material contributions and patterns of aging among older adult Tsimane'. University of California, Santa Barbara
