Media/events: 

• "Why so many more names for girls?" Time Magazine, 10 May 2016.
• A history of sugar - the food nobody needs, but everybody craves. The Conversation, 30 Oct 2015.
• "On the Tipping Point," panel discussion, ICAEW, London, June 2015.
• Culture Conference 2015, University of Birmingham, May 2015.
• Social Mood Conference, Atlanta, April 2015.
• BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival - "Watching us watching them watching each other" Nov 2014.
• The controversial case for buying ‘fake’ social media followers - The Guardian, Sept 2014.
• "How Sugar Changed the World." IAS interdisciplinary workshop, Bristol, June 2014.
• "Study of books finds economic link" - New York Times, Jan 2014.
• NPR's "All Things Considered", April 2013.
• As a guest on "The Forum", BBC World Service, January 2013.
•  "The buzzwords of the crowd" - New York Times, Dec 2012.
• "Occupy the Neolithic" - Science Now May 2012.
• “Inherited wealth may date back to dawn of agriculture” - The Guardian, May 2012.

Recent publications:

Bentley, R.A., W.A. Brock, C.C.S. Caiado and M.J. O’Brien (2016). Evaluating reproductive decisions as discrete choices under social influence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371: 20150154.

Caiado, C.C.S., W.A Brock, R.A. Bentley and M.J O'Brien (2016). Fitness landscapes among many options under social influence. Journal of Theoretical Biology, in press.

Bentley, R.A. & M.J. O’Brien (2015) Collective behaviour, uncertainty and environmental change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, in press.

Bentley, R.A., M.J. O’Brien, K. Manning & S. Shennan (2015) On the relevance of the European Neolithic. Antiquity 89: 1203-1210.

Brock, W.A., M.J. O’Brien &  R.A. Bentley (2015) Validating niche-construction theory through path analysis. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 7 in press.

King, C.L., N. Tayles, C. Higham, U. Strand-Viđarsdóttir, R.A. Bentley, C. G. Macpherson, & G.M. Nowell (2015) Using isotopic evidence to assess the impact of migration and the two-layer hypothesis in prehistoric northeast Thailand. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 158(1): 141–150.

O’Brien, M.J. & R.A. Bentley (2015) The role of food storage in human niche construction: An example from Neolithic Europe. Environmental Archaeology 20:364–378.

Bentley, R.A., C.C.S. Caiado and P. Ormerod (2015) Complexity in spatial dynamics. In Tipping Points: Modelling Social Problems and Health (J. Bissell et al., eds., Wiley): 130–145.

Book:
Alex Bentley, Mark Earls and Michael O’Brien (2011). I’ll Have What She’s Having: Mapping Social Behavior. MIT Press.

Garnett, P., S. Mollan & R.A. Bentley (2015) Complexity in history: modelling the organizational demography of the British banking sector. Business History 57: 181–201. 

Bentley, R.A., M.J. O'Brien & W.A. Brock (2014). Mapping collective behavior in the big-data era. Behavioral & Brain Sciences 37: 63-119.

Brock, W.A., R.A. Bentley, M.J. O'Brien & C.C. S. Caiado (2014) Estimating a path through a map of decision making. PLoS ONE 9(11): e111022.

Bentley, R.A. et al. (2014). Social tipping points and Earth systems dynamics. Frontiers in Environmental Science 2:35.

Bentley, R.A., A. Acerbi, V. Lampos, P. Ormerod (2014). Books average previous decade of economic misery.  PLoS ONE 9(1): e83147. 

Bentley, R.A., C. Caiado & P. Ormerod (2014). Effects of memory on spatial heterogeneity in neutrally transmitted culture. Evolution & Human Behavior 35: 257-263.

Acerbi, A. & R.A. Bentley (2014) Biases in cultural transmission shape the turnover of popular traits. Evolution & Human Behavior 35: 228 - 236.

King, C.L. R.A. Bentley, C.F.W. Higham, N. Tayles, U. Strand Viðarsdóttir, R.L. Layton, G. G. Macpherson & G. Nowell (2014) Economic change after the agricultural revolution in Southeast Asia? Antiquity 88: 112--125.

Acerbi, A., V. Lampos, P. Garnett & R.A. Bentley (2013) The expression of emotions in 20th century books. PLoS ONE 8(3): e59030.

Bentley, R.A. (2013). Mobility and the diversity of Early Neolithic lives: isotopic evidence from skeletons. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 32: 303-312.

Bentley, R.A. & M.J. O’Brien (2012). Cultural evolutionary tipping points in the storage and transmission of information. Frontiers in Psychology 3: article 569.