Research interests

Cultural evolution
Cross-cultural psychological and behavioral variation
Social norms
Institutions
Cooperation

Biography

Cameron is an interdisciplinary social scientist studying cultural evolution. Broadly, her research investigates how cultural traits evolve and how they shape human social psychology and behavior. Her recent work examines how social norms and institutions sustain cooperation in indigenous communities of Oaxaca, Mexico, where she does fieldwork. She leverages methods from anthropology, psychology, and economics, including qualitative and quantitative ethnography, psychological surveys, behavior economics games, and work with secondary data. She received her PhD in Human Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University.