Léo Fitouchi

About Léo Fitouchi

Léo Fitouchi, With an exceptional h-index of 8 and a recent h-index of 8 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at École Normale Supérieure, specializes in the field of morality, social control, religion, evolutionary psychology, cultural evolution.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

The Cognitive Foundations of Fictional Stories

The gene’s-eye view of culture: vehicles, not replicators

Prosocial religions as folk-technologies of mutual policing

A model of endogenous institution formation through limited reputational incentives

Reciprocal contracts—not competitive acquisition—explain the moral psychology of ownership

Punitive justice serves to restore reciprocal cooperation in three small-scale societies

From supernatural punishment to big gods to puritanical religions: Clarifying explanatory targets in the rise of moralizing religions

The puritanical moral contract: Purity, cooperation, and the architecture of the moral mind

Léo Fitouchi Information

University

Position

Institut Jean Nicod Département d’études cognitives EHESS CNRS PSL University Paris

Citations(all)

277

Citations(since 2020)

276

Cited By

1

hIndex(all)

8

hIndex(since 2020)

8

i10Index(all)

7

i10Index(since 2020)

7

Email

University Profile Page

Google Scholar

Léo Fitouchi Skills & Research Interests

morality

social control

religion

evolutionary psychology

cultural evolution

Top articles of Léo Fitouchi

The gene’s-eye view of culture: vehicles, not replicators

2023/11/24

Prosocial religions as folk-technologies of mutual policing

2023/8

Léo Fitouchi
Léo Fitouchi

H-Index: 1

Nicolas Baumard
Nicolas Baumard

H-Index: 25

A model of endogenous institution formation through limited reputational incentives

2023/7/11

Léo Fitouchi
Léo Fitouchi

H-Index: 1

Nicolas Baumard
Nicolas Baumard

H-Index: 25

Reciprocal contracts—not competitive acquisition—explain the moral psychology of ownership

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

2023/7/10

Léo Fitouchi
Léo Fitouchi

H-Index: 1

Nicolas Baumard
Nicolas Baumard

H-Index: 25

Punitive justice serves to restore reciprocal cooperation in three small-scale societies

Evolution and Human Behavior

2023/4/19

Léo Fitouchi
Léo Fitouchi

H-Index: 1

From supernatural punishment to big gods to puritanical religions: Clarifying explanatory targets in the rise of moralizing religions

Religion, Brain & Behavior

2023/4/3

Léo Fitouchi
Léo Fitouchi

H-Index: 1

Nicolas Baumard
Nicolas Baumard

H-Index: 25

The puritanical moral contract: Purity, cooperation, and the architecture of the moral mind

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

2023/3/24

Léo Fitouchi
Léo Fitouchi

H-Index: 1

Nicolas Baumard
Nicolas Baumard

H-Index: 25

Moral disciplining: the cognitive and evolutionary foundations of puritanical morality

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

2023/1

Léo Fitouchi
Léo Fitouchi

H-Index: 1

Nicolas Baumard
Nicolas Baumard

H-Index: 25

Supernatural punishment beliefs as cognitively compelling tools of social control

Current Opinion in Psychology

2022

Léo Fitouchi
Léo Fitouchi

H-Index: 1

An evolutionary contractualist theory of morality

2022/5

Léo Fitouchi
Léo Fitouchi

H-Index: 1

Nicolas Baumard
Nicolas Baumard

H-Index: 25

Harmless bodily pleasures are moralized because they are perceived as reducing self-control and cooperativeness

2022/2/18

When instrumental inference hides behind seemingly arbitrary conventions

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

2022/1

Cultural diversity and wisdom of crowds are mutually beneficial and evolutionarily stable

Scientific Reports

2021/8/16

Benoît De Courson
Benoît De Courson

H-Index: 1

Léo Fitouchi
Léo Fitouchi

H-Index: 1

Are there really so many moral emotions? Carving morality at its functional joints

PsyArxiv

2021

Léo Fitouchi
Léo Fitouchi

H-Index: 1

Nicolas Baumard
Nicolas Baumard

H-Index: 25

The intertwined cultural evolution of ascetic spiritualities and puritanical religions as technologies of self-discipline

Religion, Brain & Behavior

2021

Léo Fitouchi
Léo Fitouchi

H-Index: 1

Nicolas Baumard
Nicolas Baumard

H-Index: 25

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