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Daniel Redhead

Research scientist

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig  

Phone: +49 341 3550 338
E-mail: daniel_redhead@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de

Office: level 1, room u1.33

Research Interests
Curriculum Vitae
Publications

Research Interests

I’m an Anthropologist/Psychologist with a broad interest in social hierarchy and social relationships. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, I assess how perceptions of certain trait profiles and dispositions impact an individual’s position within groups, and the structure of such groups, over time. In an effort to answer questions related to these topics I’ve developed a deep and unholy love for social networks. My research thus far has seen me work with data from the lab, university and school classrooms, Canadian Air Cadets, The UK Household Longitudinal Study, children and young adults in state care in rural Transylvania, and the Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of Bolivia. I am currently helping to develop a longitudinal database among the Mayangna of Nicaragua.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2015-2018PhD Psychology, University of Essex
Thesis Title: The dynamics of social hierarchy.
Supervisors: Dr. Rick O’Gorman and Dr. Tom Foulsham
2014-2015MRes (Masters by Research) in Socio-Cultural & Evolutionary Anthropology, Durham University.
Thesis Title: Social hierarchy and social networks: The effects of prestige and dominance in a developmental context.
Supervisors: Dr. Jamie Tehrani and Dr. Steve Lyon
2011-2014BA (Hons) Anthropology & Archaeology, Durham University.

Awards, Fellowships and Grants

  • ESRC Research Methods Development Grant (Co-Investigator) (2020, Awarded:  £200,000)
  • European Human Behavior and Evolution Association Student Research Award (2017, Awarded: €500)
  • Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) Award for Study Visits (2016, Awarded: £2000)
  • Sir Eric Berthoud Grant (2016, Awarded: £175)
  • ESSEXLab Seedcorn Grant, University of Essex (2016, Awarded: £1520)
  • University of Essex Departmental Research Scholarship (2016, Awarded: ∼ £45,000)
  • St. Mary’s College Society Travel Award (2012, Awarded: £200)

Teaching Experience

July – August 2018Teaching Assistant, Introduction and Advanced Social Network Analysis, Essex Summer School in Social Sciences Data Analysis, University of Essex, UK. 
July – August 2017Teaching Assistant, Introduction and Advanced Social Network Analysis, Essex Summer School in Social Sciences Data Analysis, University of Essex, UK.
October 2017 – August 2018Graduate Teaching Assistant, Research Methods in Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Essex, UK.
October 2016 – August 2017Graduate Teaching Assistant, Statistics for Psychologists, Department of Psychology, University of Essex, UK.
October 2015- August 2016Graduate Laboratory Assistant, Introduction to Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Essex, UK.

Ad-Hoc Reviewing

  • Evolutionary Psychology
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Scientific Reports

Professional Memberships

  • European Human Behavior and Evolution Association
  • Human Behavior and Evolution Association
  • International Society for Human Ethology
  • Society for Personality andSocial Psychology 

Oral Presentations

Redhead, D., Cheng, J., Driver, C., O'Gorman, R. & Foulsham, T. 'The dynamics of social hierarchy: A longitudinal investigation of the rise and fall of prestige, dominance and social rank in naturalistic task groups', Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Amsterdam, 2018.

Redhead, D., von Rueden, C., O'Gorman, R., Gurven, M. & Kaplan, H., 'The dynamics of cooperation and social status in a small-scale society', European Human Behavior and Evolution Association, Pécs, 2018.

Redhead, D., 'An introduction to cross-sectional and longitudinal social network analysis', Methodological Heroes Seminar Series, Department of Government, University of Essex, 2017.

Redhead, D., 'The dynamics of the dual model of social hierarchy', Social, Personality and Industrial Psychology Seminar Series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana- Champaign, 2017.

Redhead, D., Cheng, J., O'Gorman, R. & Foulsham, T., 'Dominance makes for popular peers: The longitudinal relationship between personality processes and friendship network dynamics', Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, San Antonio, 2017.

Redhead, D., Cheng, J. & O'Gorman, R., 'The dynamic effects of prestige and dominance within social networks: A longitudinal study of social status in the classroom', XXXIII Biennial Congress on Human Ethology, ISHE, Stirling, 2016.

Redhead, D. & O'Gorman, R., 'The focal actor exchange game: Measuring the effects of prestige and dominance on network structure and position', Economic and Psychological Perspectives on Social Issues using an Experimental Approach, Eastern ARC, University of Kent.

Poster Presentations

Redhead, D., Cheng, J., O'Gorman, R. & Foulsham, T., 'Dominance makes for popular peers: The longitudinal relationship between prestige, dominance and friendship networks', Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, San Antonio, 2017.

Redhead, D., Tehrani, J. & Lyon, S., 'Which way to the top? The effects of prestige and dominance in a developmental hierarchy', European Human Behavior and Evolution Association, London, 2016.

Redhead, D. 'Speak softly and carry a big stick: The two ways to the top in social networks', Durham University Anthropology Conference, 2015.

 

Publications

*Indicates joint first authorship

In preparation

Hughes, A., Redhead, D., & Roberts, B. (in preparation). Personality and biological aging: The impact of conscientiousness and neuroticism on epigenetic age.

Kwok, N., Redhead, D., & Brown, D. (in preparation). The ties that lead: Leader role identity promotes social integration in advice and friendship networks over time.

2024

Jang, H., Ross, C. T., Boyette, A. H., Janmaat, K. R., Kandza, V., & Redhead, D. (2024). Women's subsistence networks scaffold cultural transmission among BaYaka foragers in the Congo Basin. Science Advances, 10(2): eadj2543.
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2023

Ross, C., McElreath, R., & Redhead, D. (2023). Modelling human and non-human animal network data in R using STRAND (advance online). Journal of Animal Ecology.
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Redhead, D., Dalla Ragione, A., & Ross, C. T. (2023). Friendship and partner choice in rural Colombia. Evolution and Human Behavior, 44(5), 430-441.
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De Bacco, C., Contisciani, M., Cardoso-Silva, J., Safdari, H., Baptista, D., Lima Borges, G., Sweet, T., Young, J.-G., Koster, J., Ross, C. T., McElreath, R., Redhead, D., & Power, E. A. (2023). Latent network models to account for noisy, multiply-reported social network data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series A: Statistics in Society, 186(3): qnac004, pp. 355-375.
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Redhead, D., Maliti, E., Andrews, J. B., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2023). The interdependence of relational and material wealth inequality in Pemba, Zanzibar. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378(1883): 20220288.
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Gettler, L. T., Redhead, D., Dzabatou, A., & Lew‐Levy, S. (2023). BaYaka forager food sharing networks in the Congo Basin: The roles of gender homophily and kin sharing. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 181(1), 59-69.
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Ross, C., & Redhead, D. (2023). Automatic entry and coding of social networks and dyadic peer ratings. Methodological Innovations, 16(2), 138-148.
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Redhead, D., McElreath, R., & Ross, C. T. (2023). Reliable network inference from unreliable data: A tutorial on latent network modeling using STRAND (advance online). Psychological Methods.
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Ross, C., Hooper, P. L., Smith, J. E., Jaeggi, A. V., Smith, E. A., Gavrilets, S., Zohora, F. t., Ziker, J., Xygalatas, D., Wroblewski, E. E., Wood, B. M., Winterhalder, B., Willführ, K. P., Willard, A. K., Walker, K., von Rueden, C., Voland, E., Valeggia, C., Vaitla, B., Urlacher, S., Towner, M., Sum, C.-Y., Sugiyama, L. S., Strier, K. B., Starkweather, K., Major-Smith, D., Shenk, M., Sear, R., Seabright, E., Schacht, R., Scelza, B., Scaggs, S., Salerno, J., Revilla-Minaya, C., Redhead, D., Pusey, A., Purzycki, B. G., Power, E. A., Pisor, A. C., Pettay, J., Perry, S., Page, A. E., Pacheco-Cobos, L., Oths, K., Oh, S.-Y., Nolin, D., Nettle, D., Moya, C., Migliano, A. B., Mertens, K. J., McNamara, R. A., McElreath, R., Mattison, S., Massengill, E., Marlowe, F., Madimenos, F., Macfarlan, S., Lummaa, V., Lizarralde, R., Liu, R., Liebert, M. A., Lew-Levy, S., Leslie, P., Lanning, J., Kramer, K., Koster, J., Kaplan, H. S., Jamsranjav, B., Hurtado, A. M., Hill, K., Hewlett, B., Helle, S., Headland, T., Headland, J., Gurven, M., Grimalda, G., Greaves, R., Golden, C. D., Godoy, I., Gibson, M., Mouden, C. E., Dyble, M., Draper, P., Downey, S., DeMarco, A. L., Davis, H. E., Crabtree, S., Cortez, C., Colleran, H., Cohen, E., Clark, G., Clark, J., Caudell, M. A., Carminito, C. E., Bunce, J. A., Boyette, A. H., Bowles, S., Blumenfield, T., Beheim, B. A., Beckerman, S., Atkinson, Q., Apicella, C., Alam, N., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2023). Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(22): 2220124120.
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2022

Redhead, D., Minocher, R., & Deffner, D. (2022). Towards a computational network theory of social groups. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45: e120, pp. 46-48.
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Ross, C. T., & Redhead, D. (2022). DieTryin: An R package for data collection, automated data entry, and post-processing of network-structured economic games, social networks, and other roster-based dyadic data. Behavior Research Methods, (54), 611-631.
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Davis, C. A., Redhead, D., & Macfarlan, S. J. (2022). Political alliance Formation and cooperation networks in the Utah state legislature. Human Nature, 33, 1-21.
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Redhead, D., & Power, E. A. (2022). Social hierarchies and social networks in humans. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377(1845): 20200440.
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2021

Redhead, D., & von Rueden, C. R. (2021). Coalitions and conflict: A longitudinal analysis of men's politics. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1-28.
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Redhead, D., Dhaliwal, N., & Cheng, J. T. (2021). Taking charge and stepping in: Individuals who punish are rewarded with prestige and dominance. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 15(2): e12581.
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2019

Rueden, C. R. v., Redhead, D., O'Gorman, R., Kaplan, H., & Gurven, M. (2019). The dynamics of men's cooperation and social status in a small-scale society. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1908): 20191367.
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Redhead, D., Cheng, J. T., Driver, C., Foulsham, T., & O'Gorman, R. (2019). On the dynamics of social hierarchy: A longitudinal investigation of the rise and fall of prestige, dominance, and social rank in naturalistic task groups. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40(2), 222-234.
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2018

Redhead, D., Cheng, J., & O'Gorman, R. (2018). Higher status in group. In T. K. Shackelford, & V. A. Weekes-Shakelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (Living Edition). Cham: Springer.
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Redhead, D., Cheng, J., & O'Gorman, R. (2018). Individuals that impose costs. In T. K. Shackelford, & V. A. Weekes-Shakelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (Living Edition). Cham: Springer.
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2017

Redhead, D., Cheng, J., & O'Gorman, R. (2017). Status competition and peer relationships in childhood. In T. K. Shackelford, & V. A. Weekes-Shakelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (Living Edition). Cham: Springer.
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2016

Redhead, D. (2016). Rank differentiation among adolescent hierarchies in Romanian state care. Anthropology of East Europe Review, 33(2), 26-45.
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