Joshua Conrad Jackson

Joshua Conrad Jackson’s research focuses on the intersection of cultural evolution and psychology. He studies how people’s psychologies change as societies become larger, more diverse, more economically developed, and more connected to each other. He has applied this lens to many different societal changes—from early state formation to the modern rise of robotics and social media—and many different psychological processes—from moral psychology, to emotion, to religious and secular belief systems. Underlying all these studies is a deeper interest in how our minds adapt to a rapidly changing world. 

Professor Jackson has published papers in Science, Nature, Nature Human Behavior, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He has written for the Huffington Post, LA Times, and Scientific American. He has won the Early Career Award from the International Association for Conflict Management, the Sage Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Dissertation Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. Before joining Harvard, Professor Jackson was a Neubauer Assistant Professor at the Booth School of Business at University of Chicago.