Sheina Lew-Levy

@durham.ac.uk

Assistant Professor Psychology
Durham University



              

https://researchid.co/sheinalew

Using methods from anthropology and psychology, I conduct research in hunter-gatherer societies to understand the cultural diversity in, and evolution of, social learning in childhood.

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Durham University (U.K.).

EDUCATION

2019 PhD, Psychology, University of Cambridge
2015 MPhil, Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge (Distinction)
2013 BA, Anthropology, McGill University (First Class Honours)

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Multidisciplinary, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Anthropology

1242

Scholar Citations

17

Scholar h-index

30

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Mobility, site maintenance and archaeological formation processes: An ethnoarchaeological perspective
    DE Friesem, N Lavi, S Lew-Levy, AH Boyette
    Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 74, 101588 2024

  • Dyadic inter-group cooperation in shotgun hunting activities in a Congo Basin village (advance online)
    VH Kandza, H Jang, FK Ntamboudila, S Lew-Levy, AH Boyette
    Evolutionary Human Sciences 2024

  • Child and adolescent foraging: New directions in evolutionary research
    I Pretelli, AN Crittenden, E Dounias, S Friant, J Koster, KL Kramer, ...
    Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 33 (2), e22020 2024

  • Women’s subsistence strategies predict fertility across cultures, but context matters
    AE Page, EJ Ringen, J Koster, M Borgerhoff Mulder, K Kramer, MK Shenk, ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (9), e2318181121 2024

  • Energetic Value Estimates of Wild and Domesticated Food Items Consumed by Congolese BaYaka Foragers
    L Benoit, S Lew-Levy, YR Ouamba, AN Crittenden
    Journal of Ecological Anthropology 24 (1), 1 2024

  • Woman the Hunter? Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real
    VV Venkataraman, J Hoffman, RB Hames, DNE Stibbard-Hawkes, ...
    bioRxiv, 2024.02. 23.581721 2024

  • BaYaka mothers balance childcare and subsistence tasks during collaborative foraging in Congo Basin
    AES Visine, AH Boyette, YR Ouamba, S Lew-Levy, M Sarma, H Jang
    bioRxiv, 2024.01. 22.576450 2024

  • A game of raids: Expanding on a game theoretical approach utilising the prisoner's dilemma and ethnography in situ
    EML Jeffries, SE Wright, S Lew-Levy
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 47, e14 2024

  • Evidence for an emotional adaptive function of dreams: a cross-cultural study
    DR Samson, A Clerget, N Abbas, J Senese, MS Sarma, S Lew-Levy, ...
    Scientific reports 13 (1), 16530 2023

  • A dataset of energetic value estimates of wild and domesticated food items consumed by Congolese BaYaka foragers
    L Benoit, S Lew-Levy, YR Ouamba, AN Crittenden
    Journal of Ecological Anthropology 2023

  • Hormone physiology and sleep dynamics among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin: Gendered associations between nighttime activity, testosterone, and cortisol
    LT Gettler, DR Samson, E Kilius, MS Sarma, V Miegakanda, S Lew-Levy, ...
    Hormones and Behavior 155, 105422 2023

  • Quantifying quality: The impact of measures of school quality on children's academic achievement across diverse societies
    BS Rawlings, HE Davis, A Anum, O Burger, L Chen, JCC Morales, ...
    Developmental Science, e13434 2023

  • Intergroup cooperation in shotgun hunting among BaYaka foragers and Yambe farmers from the Republic of the Congo
    VH Kandza, H Jang, FK Ntamboudila, S Lew-Levy, AH Boyette
    Human Nature 34 (2), 153-176 2023

  • Peer learning and cultural evolution
    S Lew‐Levy, W van den Bos, K Corriveau, N Dutra, E Flynn, E O'Sullivan, ...
    Child Development Perspectives 17 (2), 97-105 2023

  • Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals
    CT Ross, PL Hooper, JE Smith, AV Jaeggi, EA Smith, S Gavrilets, ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (22), e2220124120 2023

  • BaYaka forager food sharing networks in the Congo Basin: The roles of gender homophily and kin sharing
    LT Gettler, D Redhead, A Dzabatou, S Lew‐Levy
    American Journal of Biological Anthropology 181 (1), 59-69 2023

  • Suggested searches
    AE Page, EJ Ringen, J Koster, MB Mulder, K Kramer, MK Shenk, ...
    Perspective 2023

  • Associations between men's reputations for fathering and their reproductive success among BaYaka foragers in the Congo Basin
    AH Boyette, S Lew-Levy, M Valchy, LT Gettler
    Evolution and Human Behavior 44 (2), 110-119 2023

  • Toys as teachers: a cross-cultural analysis of object use and enskillment in hunter–gatherer societies
    F Riede, S Lew-Levy, NN Johannsen, N Lavi, MM Andersen
    Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 30 (1), 32-63 2023

  • BaYaka education: From the forest to the ORA (Observer, Rflechir, Agir) classroom
    D Bombjakov, S Lew-Levy, R Duda, G Loubelo, J Lewis
    Hunter Gatherer Research, 87-114 2023

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • How Do Hunter-Gatherer Children Learn Subsistence Skills? A meta-ethnographic review
    S Lew-Levy, R Reckin, N Lavi, J Cristbal-Azkarate, K Ellis-Davies
    Human Nature 28 (4), 367-394 2017
    Citations: 199

  • Universal norm psychology leads to societal diversity in prosocial behaviour and development
    BR House, P Kanngiesser, HC Barrett, T Broesch, S Cebioglu, ...
    Nature Human Behaviour 4 (1), 36-44 2020
    Citations: 181

  • How do hunter-gatherer children learn social and gender norms? A meta-ethnographic review
    S Lew-Levy, N Lavi, R Reckin, J Cristbal-Azkarate, K Ellis-Davies
    Cross-Cultural Research 52 (2), 213-255 2018
    Citations: 102

  • Who teaches children to forage? Exploring the primacy of child-to-child teaching among Hadza and BaYaka Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania and Congo
    S Lew-Levy, SM Kissler, AH Boyette, AN Crittenden, IA Mabulla, ...
    Evolution and Human Behavior 40 (1), 12-22 2020
    Citations: 93

  • Gender-typed and gender-segregated play among Tanzanian Hadza and Congolese BaYaka hunter-gatherer children and adolescents
    S Lew-Levy, AH Boyette, AN Crittenden, BS Hewlett, M Lamb
    Child Development 91 (4), 1284-1301 2020
    Citations: 61

  • Inter-and intra-cultural variation in learning-through-participation among Hadza and BaYaka forager children and adolescents from Tanzania and Congo
    S Lew-Levy, AN Crittenden, AH Boyette, IA Mabulla, BS Hewlett, ...
    Journal of Psychology in Africa 29 (4), 309-318 2019
    Citations: 46

  • Evidence for the adaptive learning function of work and work-themed play among Aka forager and Ngandu farmer Children from the Congo Basin
    S Lew-Levy, AH Boyette
    Human Nature 29 (2), 157-185 2018
    Citations: 45

  • Physical activity and time budgets of Hadza forager children: Implications for self‐provisioning and the ontogeny of the sexual division of labor
    AW Froehle, GK Wells, TR Pollom, AZP Mabulla, S Lew‐Levy, ...
    American Journal of Human Biology 31 (1), e23209 2019
    Citations: 38

  • Fatherhood, egalitarianism, and child health in two small‐scale societies in the Republic of the Congo
    AH Boyette, S Lew‐Levy, MS Sarma, V Miegakanda, LT Gettler
    American Journal of Human Biology 32, e23342 2020
    Citations: 30

  • Where innovations flourish: an ethnographic and archaeological overview of hunter–gatherer learning contexts
    S Lew-Levy, A Milks, N Lavi, SM Pope, DE Friesem
    Evolutionary Human Sciences 2 (e31), 1-23 2020
    Citations: 27

  • How small-scale societies achieve large-scale cooperation
    L Glowacki, S Lew-Levy
    Current Opinion in Psychology 44, 44-48 2022
    Citations: 26

  • Dimensions of fatherhood in a Congo Basin village: A multimethod analysis of intracultural variation in men’s parenting and its relevance for child health
    AH Boyette, S Lew-Levy, LT Gettler
    Current Anthropology 59 (6), 839-847 2018
    Citations: 26

  • Socioecology shapes child and adolescent time allocation in twelve hunter-gatherer and mixed-subsistence forager societies
    S Lew-Levy, R Reckin, SM Kissler, I Pretelli, AH Boyette, AN Crittenden, ...
    Scientific Reports 12 (1), 8054 2022
    Citations: 22

  • The life history of learning subsistence skills among Hadza and BaYaka foragers from Tanzania and the Republic of Congo
    S Lew-Levy, EJ Ringen, AN Crittenden, IA Mabulla, T Broesch, MA Kline
    Human Nature 32, 16-47 2021
    Citations: 22

  • Sex differences in daily activity intensity and energy expenditure and their relationship to cortisol among BaYaka foragers from the Congo Basin
    MS Sarma, AH Boyette, S Lew‐Levy, V Miegakanda, E Kilius, DR Samson, ...
    American Journal of Physical Anthropology 172 (3), 423-437 2020
    Citations: 21

  • Testosterone, fathers as providers and caregivers, and child health: Evidence from fisher-farmers in the Republic of the Congo
    AH Boyette, S Lew-Levy, MS Sarma, LT Gettler
    Hormones and behavior 107, 35-45 2019
    Citations: 21

  • Social ties in the Congo Basin: insights into tropical forest adaptation from BaYaka and their neighbours
    AH Boyette, S Lew-Levy, H Jang, V Kandza
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 377 (1849), 20200490 2022
    Citations: 17

  • Sharing and caring: Testosterone, fathering, and generosity among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin
    LT Gettler, S Lew-Levy, MS Sarma, V Miegakanda, AH Boyette
    Scientific Reports 10 (1), 15422 2020
    Citations: 17

  • Epigenetic aging in children from a small‐scale farming society in The Congo Basin: associations with child growth and family conflict
    LT Gettler, DTS Lin, V Miegakanda, S Lew‐Levy, GN Eick, JJ Snodgrass, ...
    Developmental Psychobiology 62 (2), 138-153 2020
    Citations: 17

  • Out of the empirical box: A mixed-methods study of tool innovation among Congolese BaYaka forager and Bondongo fisher–farmer children
    S Lew-Levy, SM Pope, DBM Haun, MA Kline, T Broesch
    Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 211, 105223 2021
    Citations: 15