# Richard Sosis - **Website:** - **Primary alias:** `richardsosis.com` ## Description Richard Sosis is an anthropologist and professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. His academic work examines human sociality and cooperation, with an interdisciplinary focus informed by anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, economics, and sociology. He is affiliated with the UConn Humanities Institute, the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, and the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention and Policy, and is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Mind and Culture. This website presents Sosis’s publications, research, teaching, and professional activities. Its research topics include cooperation among Israeli kibbutzim, religion and cognition, religious signaling, trust, violence, family size, and cooperative foraging and food sharing. His fieldwork includes research with cooperative fishers in Micronesia and communities in Israel, alongside ethnohistorical research and economic experiments. Sosis co-founded the journal Religion, Brain & Behavior and serves as its co-editor, as well as Religion Editor for the online magazine This View of Life. ## Industries - 🧪 Science and Education - 🧪 Universities and Colleges _(under Science and Education)_ - 🧪 Social Sciences _(under Science and Education)_ ## Logos & icons - logo _(primary)_ — PNG — [download](https://cdn.brandfetch.io/idHkIv-5Sg/w/500/h/500/theme/dark/logo.png?c=1bxid64Mup7aczewSAYMX&t=1793088938163) ## Colors | Name | Hex | Theme | | --- | --- | --- | | Contessa | #c1846f | accent | | Downriver | #08254e | dark | | Picton Blue | #459fe3 | light | --- _Source: _ _See [/llms.txt](/llms.txt) for a full list of agent-readable pages, and [/auth.md](/auth.md) for how agents authenticate._