Research at CEHP
Global Scholars Driving Psychological Research
CEHP is a distributed network of researchers working across psychology, cultural evolution, computational social science, history, and the humanities. The founding team coordinates the centre’s activities. The advisory panel provides strategic guidance drawn from established scholarship in cross cultural and historical psychological science. A broader network of members contributes to research, talks, and collaborative projects.
Methods we use:
- Large-scale text analysis
- Historical databases
- Cross-cultural survey data
- Formal transmission models
- Computational corpus methods
Research Themes
Psychological variation across time
How have psychological traits, preferences, and patterns of cognition differed across historical periods?
Methods for historical psychological data
How can researchers extract valid psychological measures from sources not designed for psychological research?
Cultural evolution and institutional change
How do norms, values, and cognitive styles shift in response to changes in institutions, ecologies, and social structures?
Temporal comparability
What methodological standards are needed to make claims about psychological change across periods credible?