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You’re on this hidden part of my website because you’ve participated in one of my talks or sessions. Please find below a selection of the books and papers that I’ve used in my talks. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me!
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Ashkan Fardost
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BOOKS
MEDIA & COMMUNICATION THEORY
Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
Preface to Plato by Eric A. Havelock
Orality and Literacy by Walter J. Ong
The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan
Interfaces of The Word by Walter J. Ong
Laws of Media by Eric & Marshall McLuhan
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY & COGNITIVE SCIENCE
The Geography of Thought by Richard Nisbett
The Mimetic Brain by Jean-Michel Oughourlian
Women, Fire & Dangerous Things by George Lakoff
The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
Handbook of Cultural Psychology by Shinou Kitayama & Dov Cohen
Madness & Modernism by Louis Sass
The Mind’s Eye by Oliver Sacks
ANTHROPOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim
Cosmos & History: The Myth of The Eternal Return by Mircea Eliade
Reason and Revolution by Herbert Marcuse
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
HISTORY
Ultra Society by Peter Turchin
The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley
Empire and Communications by Harold Innis
Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond
Brand Luther by Andrew Pettegree
TECHNOLOGY & DATA SCIENCE
Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
PAPERS
A cross-linguistic evaluation of script-specific effects on fMRI lateralization in late second language readers (Koyama et al., Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014)
Native language differences in the structural connectome of the human brain (Wei et al., NeuroImage, 2023)
Occupational Neuroplasticity in the Human Brain: A Critical Review and Meta-Analysis of Neuroimaging Studies (Wu et al., Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2020)
Effects of Literacy in Early Visual and Occipitotemporal Areas of Chinese and French Readers (Szwed et al., Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2014)
Culture Wires the Brain: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective (Park & Huang, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2010)
Superior Underwater Vision in a Human Population of Sea Gypsies (Gislén et al., Current Biology, 2003)
Cross-cultural effect on the brain revisited: Universal structures plus writing system variation (Bolger et al., Human Brain Mapping, 2005)
Culture and Neuroplasticity (Kitayama et al., Handbook of Advances in Culture and Psychology, Vol 5, pp 38-100, 2015)
Agriculture as a major evolutionary transition to human ultrasociality (Gowdy J., Krall, L., Journal of Bioeconomics, 2014)
Eusociality: Origin and consequences (Wilson, E. O., Hölldobler, B., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2005)
Human Identity and the Evolution of Societies (Moffett, M. W., Human Nature, 2013)
The ultrasocial origin of the Anthropocene (Gowdy, J., Krall, L., Ecological Economics, 2013)
Hunter-Gatherers and the Origins of Religion (Peoples, H. C., Duda, P., et al., Human Nature, 2016)
Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality (Purzycki, B. G., Apicella, C., et al., Nature, 2016)
Religious and Sacred Imperatives in Human Conflict (Atran, S., Ginges, J., Science, 2012)
Ritual, emotion, and sacred symbols: The evolution of religion as an adaptive complex (Alcorta, C. S., Sosis, R., Human Nature, 2005)
Subsistence and the Evolution of Religion (Peoples, H. C., Marlowe, F. W., Human Nature, 2012)
The cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion (Bulbulia, J., Biology & Philosophy, 2004)
The ecology of religious beliefs (Botero, C. A., Gardner, B., et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014)
The Origin and Evolution of Religious Prosociality (Norenzayan, A., Shariff, A. F., Science, 2008)
The Universality of Ancestor Worship (Steadman, L. B., Palmer, C. T., et al., Ethnology, 1996)
The Recognition Signal Hypothesis for the Adaptive Evolution of Religion: A Phylogenetic Test with Christian Denominations (Matthews, L. J., Human Nature, 2012)