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Affiliation

Email

zehong@um.edu.mo

Tel

+853 8822 8314

Office

Rm.3025, Humanities and Social Sciences Building (E21)
Department of Sociology, University of Macau
Taipa, Macau SAR, China

Consultation Hours

by appointment

Personal Website

Ze HONG 洪澤

Assistant Professor

Academic Qualifications

Ph.D., Human Evolutionary Biology,Harvard university, 03/2022
M.A., Human evolutionary Biology, Harvard university, 05/2018
M.A., Evolutionary Biology, University of Pennsylvania, 08/2016
B.A. (with honors), Biology , Grinnell college , 05/2014

Research Interests

Cultural Evolution
Evolutionary and Cognitive Psychology
Evolutionary and Cognitive Anthropology
The Cognitive Science of Religion
Theoretical and Simulation Models of Information Transmission Biases
Magic and Divination in Small-scale Societies
Quantitative Analysis of Historical Data

Publications

  1. Hong, Z., Slingerland, E., & Henrich, J. Magic and Empiricism in Early Chinese Rainmaking – a Cultural Evolutionary analysis. Current Anthropology, forthcoming.
  2. Hong, Z. & Henrich, J. The Cultural Evolution of Payoff Currencies and the Construction of Causal Theories. American Anthropologist, forthcoming.
  3. Hong, Z. The Cognitive Origin and Cultural Evolution of Taboos in Human Societies. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, forthcoming.
  4. Hong, Z. Divination. Encyclopedia of Religious Psychology and Behavior. In T. Shackelford, (eds). Springer, forthcoming.
  5. Hong, Z. & Zinin, S. The Psychology and Social Dynamics of Fetal Sex Prognostication in China: Evidence from Historical Data. American Anthropologist, in press.
  6. Hong, Z. The Evolution of Inclusive Folk Biological Labels and the Cultural Maintenance of Meaning. Human Nature, in press.
  7. Hong, Z. (2023) A Need to Better Understand the Evolutionary Process of Beliefs about Gods’ Concerns. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 1-3. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2023.2178490. (Commentary)
  8. Hong, Z. The Value of Sociogenomics in Understanding Genetic Evolution in Contemporary Human Populations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, forthcoming. (Commentary)
  9. Hong, Z. (2023). The Cultural Evolution of Medical Technologies: A Model of Sequential Treatment in the Medical Setting. Human Nature, 34, 64–87. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-023-09441-7
  10. Hong, Z. (2022). Ghost, Divination, and Magic among the Nuosu: An Ethnographic Examination from Cognitive and Cultural Evolutionary Perspectives. Human Nature, 33, 349-379.
  11. Hong, Z. (2022). Combining Conformist and Payoff Bias in Cultural Evolution: An Integrated Model for Human Decision Making. Human Nature, 33, 463-484.
  12. Hong, Z. (2022). The Ritual Stance does not Apply to Magic in general. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E258. doi:10.1017/S0140525X2200139X. (Commentary)
  13. Hong, Z. (2022). A Cognitive Account of Manipulative Sympathetic Magic. Religion, Brain & Behavior, DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006294
  14. Hong, Z. (2022). Dream Interpretation from a Cognitive and Cultural Evolutionary Perspective: The Case of Oneiromancy in Traditional China. Cognitive Science, 46: e13088. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13088
  15. Xiao, E., Jin, J., Hong, Z., & Zhang, J. (2022). The Relationship Between Children and Their Maternal Uncles: A Unique Parenting Mode in Mosuo Culture. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 873137-873137.
  16. Henrich, J., Blasi, D., Curtin, C., Davis, H., Hong, Z., Kelly, D., & Kroupin, I. (2022). A Cultural Species and its Cognitive Phenotypes. Review of Philosophy and Psychology.
  17. Hong, Z. & Henrich, J. (2021). The Cultural Evolution of Epistemic Practices – the Case of Divination. Human Nature, 32, 622-651. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-021-09408-6
  18. Hong, Z. (2021). The Population Dynamics of the Placebo Effect and Its Role in the Evolution of Medical Technology. Human Ecology, 1-12.
  19. Hong, Z. (2020). Modelling the On-going Natural Selection of Educational Attainment in Contemporary Societies. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 493, 110210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2020.110210
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