Selected publications
Efferson, C., McKay, R., and Fehr, E. (2020). The evolution of distorted beliefs versus mistaken choices under asymmetric error costs. Evolutionary Human Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.25
Efferson, C., Vogt, S., and Fehr, E. The promise and the peril of using social influence to reverse harmful traditions. Nature Human Behaviour 4, 55–68 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0768-2
Efferson, C. and Vogt, S. Behavioural homogenization with spillovers in a normative domain. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 285, 20180492 (2018). https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2018.0492
Vogt, S., Efferson, C., and Fehr, E. The risk of female genital cutting in Europe: Comparing immigrant attitudes toward uncut girls with attitudes in a practicing country. SSM – Population Health 3, 283-293 (2017). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827317300319
Vogt, S., Mohmmed Zaid, N., El Fadil Ahmed, H., Fehr, E., and Efferson, C. Changing cultural attitudes towards female genital cutting. Nature 538, 506–509 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20100
Efferson, C., Lalive, R., Cacault, M.P., and Kistler, D. The evolution of facultative conformity based on similarity. PLoS ONE, 11, e0168551 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168551
Efferson,C., Vogt, S., Elhadi, A., El Fadil Ahmed, H., and Fehr, E. Female genital cutting is not a social coordination norm. Science, 349, 1446-1447 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa7978
Efferson, C., Lalive, R., and Fehr, E. The coevolution of cultural groups and ingroup favoritism. Science, 321, 1844-1849 (2008). https://science.sciencemag.org/content/321/5897/1844
Selected working papers
Schief, M., Vogt, S., and Efferson, C. The structure of son bias in Armenia: From implicit associations to explicit behavior. (2019). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3469644
Soraperra, I., Köbis, N., Efferson, C., Shalvi, S., Vogt, S., Offerman, T. A market for integrity – An experiment on corruption in the education sector. (2019). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3409962
