Publications
Peer-reviewed
Page, A. E., Ringen, E. J., Koster, J., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Kramer, K., Shenk, M. K., ... Moya, C., ... & Sear, R. (2024). Women’s subsistence strategies predict fertility across cultures, but context matters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [LINK]
El-Higzi, F. and Moya, C. (2023) Norm change in intergroup relations requires integrating the social sciences: a reply to commentaries on below. Global Discourse. [LINK]
El-Higzi, F. and Moya, C. (2023) The challenges of encouraging refugee assistance: Lessons learned from reframing the problem as one of within-group collective action and norm change. Global Discourse. [LINK]
Turner, M. A., Moya, C., Smaldino, P. E., & Jones, J. H. (2023). The Form of Uncertainty Affects Selection for Social Learning. Evolutionary Human Sciences. [Preprint] [LINK]
Bendixen, T., Lightner, A. D., Apicella, C., Atkinson, Q., Bolyanatz, A., Cohen, E., Handley, C., Henrich, J., Kundtová Klocová, E., Lesorogol, C., Mathew, S., McNamara, R., Moya, C., Norenzayan, A., Placek, C., Soler, M., Vardy, T., Weigel, J., Willard, A., Xygalatas, D., Lang, M. & Purzycki, B. G. (2023). Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures. Evolutionary Human Sciences. [LINK]
Ross, C., Hooper, P., Smith, J.,... Moya, C. + 100, ....Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2023). Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals. PNAS. [LINK]
Moya, C. (2023). What does it mean for humans to be groupish? Philosophy Compass. [LINK] [PDF]
Vardy, T., Moya, C., Placek, C., Apicella, C., Bolyanatz, A., Cohen, E., Handley, C., Kundtová Klocová, E., Lesorogol, C., Mathew, S., McNamara, R., Purzycki, B., Soler, M., Weigel, J., Willard, A., Xygalatas, D., Norenzayan, A., Henrich, J., Lang, M., Atkinson Q. (2022). The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies. Religion, Brain, & Behavior. [LINK]
Purzycki, B., Willard, A., Kundtová Klocová, E., Apicella, C., Atkinson Q., Bolyanatz, A., Cohen, E., Handley, C., Henrich, J., Lang, M., Lesorogol, C., Mathew, S., McNamara, R., Moya, C., Norenzayan, A., Placek, C., Soler, M., Vardy, T., Weigel, J., Xygalatas, D., Ross, C. (2022).The Moralization Bias of Gods’ Minds: A Cross-Cultural Test. Religion, Brain, & Behavior. [LINK]
Baimel, A., Apicella, C., Atkinson Q., Bolyanatz, A., Cohen, E., Handley, C., Henrich, J., Kundtová Klocová, E., Lang, M., Lesorogol, C., Mathew, S., McNamara, R., Moya, C., Norenzayan, A., Placek, C., Soler, M., Vardy, T., Weigel, J., Willard, A., Xygalatas, D., Purzycki, B. (2022). Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities: A cross-cultural investigation. Religion, Brain, & Behavior. [LINK]
*Hilton, C. B., *Moser, C., Bertolo, M., Lee-Rubin, H., Amir, D., Bainbridge, C. M., Simson, J., Knox, D., Glowacki, L., Alemu, E., Galbarczyk, A., Jasienska, G., Ross, C. T., Neff, M. B., Martin, A., Cirelli, L. K., Trehub, S. E., Song, J., Kim, M., Schachner, A., Vardy, T. A., Atkinson, Q. D., Salenius, A., Andelin, J., Antfolk, J., Madhivanan, P., Siddaiah, A., Placek, C. D., Salali, G. D., Keestra, S., Singh, M., Collins, S. A., Patton, J. Q., Scaff, C., Stieglitz, J., Ccari Cutipa, S., Moya, C., Sagar, R. R., Anyawire, M., Mabulla, A., Wood, B. M., Krasnow, M. M., & Mehr, S. A. (2022). Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures. Nature Human Behaviour. [LINK]
Moya, C., Goodman, A., Koupil, I. & Sear, R. (2021) Historical context affects pathways of parental influence on reproduction: An empirical test from 20th century Sweden. Social Sciences. [LINK]
Broesch, T., Carolan, P. L., Cebioğlu, S., von Rueden, C. , Boyette, A., Moya, C., Hewlett, B. & Kline, M. (2021) Opportunities for Interaction: Natural observations of children’s social behavior in five societies. Human Nature.
Moya, C., Cruz y Celis Peniche, P., Kline, M., & Smaldino, P. (2020) Dynamics of Behavior Change in the COVID World. American Journal of Human Biology. [PDF] [LINK]
Kline, M. A., Gervais, M. M., Moya, C., & Boyd, R. T. (2019). Irrelevant‐action imitation is short‐term and contextual: Evidence from two under‐studied populations. Developmental Science. [PDF] [LINK]
Lang, M., Purzycki, B. G., Apicella, C., Atkinson, Q., Bolyanatz, A., Cohen, E., Kundtová Klocová, E., Handley, C., Lesorogol, C., Mathew, S., McNamara, R. A., Moya C.,Placek, C., Soler, M., Vardy, T., Weigel, J., Willard, A. K., Xygalatas, D., Norenzayan, A., & Henrich, J. (2019). Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. [PDF] [LINK]
Wertz A. & Moya, C. Pathways to cognitive design (2019) Behavioral Processes. [PDF] [LINK]
Mattison, S.*, Moya, C.*, Reynolds, A., Towner, M. Evolutionary Demography of Age at Last Birth: Synthesizing Approaches from Human Behavioral Ecology and Cultural Evolution (2018) Philosophical Transactions B. [PDF] [LINK]
Moya, C. & Boyd, R. (2016) The evolution and development of inferential reasoning about ethnic markers: Comparisons between urban US and rural highland Peru. Current Anthropology. 57(S13): S131-S144. [PDF] [sup.][LINK]
Moya C.*, Snopkowski, K.* & Sear, R. (2016) What do men want? Can men really benefit from higher fertility than what is optimal for women? Philosophical Transactions B. 371(1692):20150149. [PDF] [sup.][LINK]
Moya, C. & Henrich, J. (2016) Culture-gene co-evolutionary psychology: Cultural learning, language and ethnic psychology. Current Opinion in Psychology. 8:112-118. [PDF][LINK]
Moya, C., Boyd, R. and Henrich, J. (2015) Reasoning about cultural and genetic transmission: Developmental and cross-cultural evidence from Peru, Fiji and the US. Topics in Cognitive Science. 7(4):595-610. [DOC][sup.] [LINK]
Moya, C. and Boyd, R. (2015) Different selection pressures give rise to distinct ethnic phenomena: A functionalist framework with illustrations from the Peruvian Altiplano. Human Nature. 26(1) [PDF] [sup.] [LINK]
Moya, C. & Scelza, B. (2015) The effect of recent ethnogenesis and migration histories on perceptions of ethnic group stability. Journal of Cognition and Culture. 15: 135-177 [PDF][sup.][LINK]
Moya, C. & Sear, R. (2014) Intergenerational conflicts may help explain parental absence effects on reproductive timing: A model of age at first birth in humans. Peer J. 2:e512. [LINK]
Snopkowski, K., Moya, C., and Sear, R. (2014) A test of the intergenerational conflict model in Indonesia shows no evidence of earlier menopause in female-dispersing groups Proceedings of the Royal Society: B. 281: 20140580. [PDF][LINK]
Moya, C. (2013) Evolved priors for ethnolinguistic categorization: A case study from the Quechua-Aymara boundary in the Peruvian Altiplano. Evolution and Human Behavior. 34:265-272. [PDF][sup.][LINK]
Perreault, C., Moya, C. and Boyd, R. (2012) A Bayesian approach to the evolution of social learning. Evolution and Human Behavior. 33:449-459. [PDF] [sup.] [LINK]
Manuscripts
Moya, C., Fessler, D., Henrich, J., Zhao, W., Barrett, C., Bolyanatz, A., Davis, H., Gurven, M., Kanovsky, M., Kushnick, G., Pisor, A., Scelza, B., von Rueden, C., Laurence, S. Norm enforcement in small-scale societies depends on coordinated third party responses and pre-existing relationships [PDF] [sup.]
Moya, C. & Boyd, R. Whence ethnic psychology? An evolutionary functionalist reframing of the debate. [PDF]
Moya, C., Goodman, A., Koupil, I. & Sear, R. A data-driven approach to sensitive developmental periods reveals the timing of susceptibility to parental absences depends on life history outcome and gender. [PDF sup.]
Moya, C. & Sear, R. A theoretical framework for parsing mechanisms of kin influence on reproductive outcomes. [PDF]
Moya, C., Borgerhoff Mulder, M. Colleran, H., Gerkey, D., Gibson, M., Gurven, M., Henrich, J., Hooper, P., Kaplan, H., Kline, M., Koster, J., Kramer, K., Leonetti, D., Mattison, S., Nath, D., Sanders, C., Scelza, B., Shenk, M., Snopkowski, K., Stieglitz, J., Towner, M., von Rueden, C., Ziker, J., Sear, R. Intergenerational conflict may explain why parents delay the onset of their children’s reproduction: a cross-cultural analysis. [PDF] [sup.]
Other
Moya, C., Kline, M., Starkweather, K. (2021) One Step toward Diversifying the Evolutionary Human Sciences. Anthropology News. [LINK]
Moya, C. (2016) Why chimpanzees don't stereotype, we do, and whales might. This View of Life. [LINK]
Fessler, D.M.T. and Moya, C. (2009) Crying. In: The Oxford Companion to the Affective Sciences, Klaus Scherer and David Sander, Eds. [PDF]
Moya, C. (2009) Review of People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru. The Historian. 71: 102-3. [PDF] [LINK]
Reports / Informes
Moya, C. (2017) La Diversidad Lingüistica y la Percepción de Fronteras (Linguistic Diversity and the Perception of Boundaries)
Huatasani District [PDF]
Moya, C. and Tumi Quispe, J. (2019) Tradiciones y Creencias en la Frontera Aymara Quechua (Traditions and Beliefs on the Aymara-Quechua Border)
*authors contributed equally