Lee Cronk
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
Rutgers University
Tempe, AZ 85287
USA
Titles
- Professor, Department of Anthropology
Journal Articles
2019
Cronk, L., C. A. Aktipis, S. Gazzillo, D. D. White and A. Y. Wutich. 2019. Common knowledge promotes risk pooling in an experimental economic game. PLoS ONE 14(8):. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220682.
2018
Wutich, A., J. Budds, W. Jepson, L. M. Harris, E. Adams, A. A. Brewis, L. Cronk, C. DeMyers, K. Maes, T. Marley, J. Miller, A. Pearson, A. Y. Rosinger, R. C. Schuster, J. Stoler, C. Staddon, P. Wiessner, C. Workman and S. Young. 2018. Household water sharing: A review of water gifts, exchanges, and transfers across cultures. WIREs Water 5(6):e1309. DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1309. (link )
2016
Aktipis, A., R. de Agular, A. Flaherty, P. Iyer, D. Sonkoi and L. Cronk. 2016. Cooperation in an uncertain world: For the Maasai of East Africa, need-based transfers outperform account-keeping in volatile environments. Human Ecology 44(3):353-364. DOI: 1007/s10745-016-9823-z. (link )
2015
Hao, Y., D. Armbruster, L. Cronk and A. Aktipis. 2015. Need-based transfers on a network: A model of risk-pooling in ecologically volatile environments. Evolution and Human Behavior 36(4):265-273. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.12.003. (link )
2011
Aktipis, A., L. Cronk and R. de Aguilar. 2011. Risk-pooling and herd survival: An agent-based model of a Maasai gift-giving system. Human Ecology 39(2):131-140. DOI: 10.1007/s10745-010-9364-9. (link )
Aktipis, C. A., L. Cronk and R. de Agular. 2011. Risk-pooling and herd survival: An agent-based model of a Maasai gift-giving system. Human Ecology 39(2):131-140. DOI: 10.1007/s10745-010-9364-9. (link )
Books
2012
Cronk, L. and B. L. Leech. 2012. Meeting at Grand Central: Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation. Princeton University Press.
Posters
2011
Mercer, C. L., L. Cronk, B. Sopher, A. Aktipis, D. D. White and A. Y. Wutich. 2011. Can water managers' decision making be influenced by an 'imported' cultural norm?. Poster presented on May 4, 2011 at the Community of Undergraduate/Graduate Research Scholars (COURS) Poster Session, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. (link )
Presentations
2015
Cronk, L. 2015. Generous by nature: Risk, need, and the evolution of human cooperation. Presentation at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference, May 28, 2015, Columbia, MO.
2012
Cronk, L. 2012. Generosity without debt, part 2: Need-Based transfers in a risk-pooling game. Presented November 15, 2012 at the 111th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November 14-18, 2012, San Francisco, CA.
Cronk, L. 2012. Generosity without reciprocity, part 2: Need-based transfers and reciprocity in a risk-pooling game. Presented June 14, 2012 at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
2011
Aktipis, A., L. Cronk, D. D. White and A. Y. Wutich. 2011. Resource management and risk pooling: Exploring the viability of indigenous solutions for modern resource management problems. Presented March 13, 2011 at Resilience 2011–Resilience, Innovation, and Sustainability: Navigating the Complexities of Global Change, Second International Science and Policy Conference, Tempe, AZ.
Cronk, L. 2011. Culture and behavior: Steps toward an understanding. Presented November 15, 2011 at Starting a Conversation on Culture: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Across the UCF Community, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL.
Cronk, L. 2011. Experimental approaches to cultural framing. Presented at the Workshop on Dynamic Models of Cultural Diversity, Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Cronk, L. 2011. Exploring culture’s impact on behavior through the intersocietal transfer of culture traits. Presented February 18, 2011 at the 7th Annual Meeting of Society for Anthropological Sciences, Charleston, SC.
2010
Cronk, L., A. Y. Wutich, A. Aktipis and H. Wasielewski. 2010. The circulation of cultural variants: Exploring the relationship between culture and behavior. Presented November 20, 2010 at the American Anthropological Association 109th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.