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Connair Russell-Wilks (né Russell)

Alumna/Alumnus
LIFE Berlin

External LIFE Fellow from 2018 to 2022, MPI for Human Development, Berlin


Dissertation defended at Freie Universität Berlin in December 2022

Error Management in Learning and Generalisation: The Domain of Food

(Advisor: Annie Wertz)



Selected Publications

Wertz, A. E., & Russell-Wilks, C. (2026). The cognitive foundations of children’s culture [Open Peer Commentary]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 49, Article e254. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X25101908

Willard, A. K., & Russell-Wilks, C. (2025). Belief as explanation: A motivation-based theory of agency and anthropomorphism in religious belief. Religion, Brain & Behavior. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2025.2584792

Russell, C. J. S., & Muthukrishna, M. (2018). Dual inheritance theory. In T. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1381-2

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