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Karthik Panchanathan

Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Missouri State University
Colombia

Biography

PhD Anthropology, UCLA, 2010. MA Anthropology, UCLA, 2001. BS Biology, BA Anthropology, UCLA, 1997.

Research Interest

Psychology, Bridging developmental systems

Publications

  • Karthik Panchanathan and Robert Boyd. "Human cooperation: Second-order free riding problem solved? (reply)." Nature 437 (2005): E8-E9.

  • Willem E. Frankenhuis and Karthik Panchanathan. "Balancing sampling and specialization: An adaptationist model of incremental development." Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278 (2011): 3558-3565.

  • Willem E. Frankenhuis and Karthik Panchanathan. "Individual differences in developmental plasticity may result from stochastic sampling." Perspectives on Psychological Science 6 (2011): 336-347.

  • Daniel Nettle, Karthik Panchanathan, Tage Rai, and Alan Page Fiske. "The evolution of giving, sharing, and lotteries." Current Anthropology 52 (2011): 747-756.

  • Karthik Panchanathan, Willem E. Frankenhuis, and Joan B. Silk. "The bystander effect in an N-person dictator game." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 120 (2013): 285-297.

  • Willem E. Frankenhuis, Karthik Panchanathan, and H. Clark Barrett. "Bridging developmental systems theory and evolutionary psychology using dynamic optimization." Developmental Science 16 (2013): 584-598.

  • Karthik Panchanathan, Sarah Mathew, and Charles Perreault. "Explaining group-level traits requires distinguishing process from product." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (2014): 269-270.

  • Willem E. Frankenhuis, Karthik Panchanathan, and Jay Belsky. "A Mathematical Model of the Evolution of Individual Differences in Developmental Plasticity Arising through Parental Bet-hedging." Developmental Science (2015). doi: 10.1111/desc.12309

  • Karthik Panchanathan. "Game Theory." Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Eds. Jon R. McGee and Richard L. Warms (in press).

  • Willem E. Frankenhuis, Karthik Panchanathan, and Daniel Nettle. "Cognition in harsh environments: The case of self-control." Current Opinion in Psychology 7 (2015): 76-80.

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