Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion
The Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion (CSSC) is Harvey Whitehouse's lab group at the University of Oxford. Researchers at CSSC study cognition and culture within a broadly evolutionary framework.
First established in 2006, CSSC now comprises two major research clusters: AnthroLab—coordinated by experimental psychologist Jonathan Jong—focusing on the proximate mechanisms responsible for building ingroup cohesion and inter-group competition; and the Cultural Evolution Lab—coordinated by historian Pieter François—focusing on the evolution of social complexity using cross-cultural and longitudinal datasets.
