Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (0)341 3550 - 315
fax: +49 (0)341 3550 - 333
e-mail: cissewski@eva.mpg.de
Kristin Hagel

Postdoctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Phone: +49 341 3550 326
E-mail: kristin_hagel@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Office: level 1, room u1.43
Research interests
My research interests include the question of whether religious belief and ritual behavior have an adaptive significance in a social and ecological context. In order to tackle this question, I am currently examining whether variance in cross-cultural data concerning various aspects of religious belief can be explained by environmental constraints. By considering coordination problems I am additionally exploring ecological models of territoriality, landmark use and conservation practices. As part of my doctoral research I studied underlying theories of cooperation in social dilemmas and conducted economic games with human subjects. I am also interested in conservation and have research experience associated with non-human primates, rainforest ecology and community based forest management.
Publications
2020
Broesch, T., Crittenden, A. N., Beheim, B. A., Blackwell, A. D., Bunce, J. A., Colleran, H., Hagel, K., Kline, M., McElreath, R., Nelson, R. G., Pisor, A. C., Prall, S., Pretelli, I., Purzycki, B., Quinn, E. A., Ross, C., Scelza, B., Starkweather, K. E., Stieglitz, J., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2020). Navigating cross-cultural research: Methodological and ethical considerations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B,287: 20201245. ![]() |
Hagel, Kristin, Manfred Milinski, and Jochem Marotzke. "The level of climate-change mitigation depends on how humans assess the risk arising from missing the 2 C target." Palgrave Communications 3 (2017): 17027.
Hagel, Kristin, et al. "Which risk scenarios can drive the emergence of costly cooperation?." Scientific reports 6 (2016): 19269.
Hilbe, Christian, Kristin Hagel, and Manfred Milinski. "Asymmetric power boosts extortion in an economic experiment." PloS one 11.10 (2016): e0163867.
Jacquet, Jennifer, et al. "Intra-and intergenerational discounting in the climate game." Nature climate change 3.12 (2013): 1025.