Background:

I completed my PhD at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Harvey Whitehouse at the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion (CSSC) and I am now part of the COM2CIV project led by Júlia Palik.

Some of my other interests also include norm psychology, conspiratorial beliefs, polarization, extremism and the evolutionary origins of music, religion and morality.

If you have something to share or propose that broadly falls within these topics then I am interested to hear about it.

GScholar

CV

Key publications:

Jagiello, R., Heyes, C., & Whitehouse, H. (2022). Tradition and invention: The bifocal stance theory of cultural evolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e249. [pdf]

Jagiello, R., Pomper, U., Yoneya, M., Zhao, S., & Chait, M. (2019). Rapid brain responses to familiar vs. unfamiliar music–an EEG and pupillometry study. Scientific reports, 9(1), 15570. [pdf]

Jagiello, R. D., & Hills, T. T. (2018). Bad news has wings: Dread risk mediates social amplification in risk communication. Risk Analysis, 38(10), 2193-2207. [pdf]

Working papers:

Jagiello, R., & Whitehouse, H. (under review). Magic and ritual as affiliative strategies in response to ostracism threat.

Jagiello, R., & Whitehouse, H. (under review). Model similarity cues cultural selection of ritualized actions.