Religion Brain & Behavior

Article	Citations
Big comparison	59
Building better models: a cultural immunology approach	51
How do culture and religion interact worldwide? A cultural match approach to understanding religiosity and well-being in the Many Analysts Religion Project	22
The interaction between forgiveness and resentment on mental health outcomes: two sides of the same coin?	22
Scripture’s systemic imagination	21
Missing level of analysis?	20
Beyond the border: advancing the study of Catholic identities and orthopraxic religion in Southern and Northern Ireland	20
Local concerns aren’t always local: a broader view of local social ecologies provides greater explanatory power	16
How to understand a research question—a challenging first step in setting up a statistical model	14
The emergence of MSP vs. the spread of transcendentalist religion	12
An integrative neurocognitive model of human relations with supernatural agents, commentary to Balch, Grafman and McNamara	12
Commentary to MARP: how to increase the robustness of survey studies	11
Pierre Liénard (1968–2023)	9
Introducing a special issue on the role of moralizing gods in the evolution of socio-political complexity	9
Rational atheism revisited: a comment on Disbelief by Will Gervais	8
Religion endures, but does it thrive?	7
Religious people view both science and religion as less epistemically valuable than non-religious people view science	7
Are cultures immune systems or blueprints of a systemic design?	7
Where we go one we go all: CSR in the digital age	6
Frontal asymmetry and physiological responses in religious and spiritual problems with and without conversion	6
Do religious and market-based institutions promote cooperation in Hadza hunter-gatherers?	6
Assessing religion and spirituality in a cross-cultural sample: development of religion and spirituality items for the Global Flourishing Study	5
Conscious evolution of the noösphere: hubris or necessity?	5
Kin selection favors religious traditions: ancestor worship as a cultural descendant-leaving strategy	5
Some questions on the utility of transmission biases in ethnographic research	5

Multiple origins for the evolution of collective rituals	5
Henrich’s Weberian project	5
From multiverse analysis to multiverse operationalisations: 262,143 ways of measuring well-being	5
Toward a cultural immunology of religious systems	5
Coding, causality, and statistical craft: the emergence and evolutionary drivers of moralistic supernatural punishment remain unresolved	5
Cultural dissonance and consonance in mystical-type experiences: commentary on “Finding consonance: an integrative neurocognitive model of human relationships with supernatural agents”	5
Response: Secularization with Irish characteristics	5
A need to better understand the evolutionary process of beliefs about gods’ concerns	5
God, witchcraft, and beliefs about illness in Mauritius	4
Mapping the minds of participants: relationality and cultural schemas	4
Faith and fertility in evolutionary perspective	4
Rethinking the roots of human collective ritual	4
Formalized rituals may have preceded the emergence of religions	3
Predictive processing all the way down	3
Religion, Brain & Behavior adopts stricter transparency standards	3
A systematic review of the association between religiousness and children’s prosociality	3
The economic – and anthropological? – view of supernatural institutions	3
Perceptions of moralizing agents and cooperative behavior in Northeastern Brazil	3
The varieties of nonreligious experience: meaning in life among believers, non-believers, and the spiritual but not religious	3
The moralization bias of gods’ minds: a cross-cultural test	3
The campaign against COVID-19 in Nigeria: exploring church leaders’ role perception and action	3
“I once was blind”: experimental manipulation of religious attitudes via choice blindness	3
Prayer as collaborative problem solving	3
The role of religion in adolescent mental health: faith as a moderator of the relationship between distrust and depression	3
Toward an embodied cognitive science of religion: enaction, evolution, emergence	3
Depth vs. breadth: lessons from the Evolution of Religion and Morality project	2
Extraordinary-high rank expectation as a cognitive predisposition forming religion	2
The promises and pitfalls of facilitated spiritual experiences for the study of religion	2
Moving forward from “Fertility and Faith”	2
Less egocentric and a bit more allocentric—the path to greater well-being?	2
What defines a person?	2
Linking ritual transmission with the psychology of norm acquisition	2
Identifying and validating the “varieties” of spiritual experience	2
The success story of the west, perceptual art, and the challenges of the Global East	2
Diverse evolutionary strategies for explaining features of religions	2
Comparing the three states of Dhikr, meditation, and thinking about God: an fMRI study	2
Fertility and faith: insights from human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and life history theory	2
Keep the black box open: a case for complex and continuous representationalism	2
Reflections on Patrick McNamara, religion, neuroscience, and the self: a new personalism	2
Cigarettes for the dead: effects of sorcery beliefs on parochial prosociality in Mauritius	2
Cultural evolution of gods’ minds: response to commentators	2
Social interaction spheres, the self, and the meanings of “prediction”	2
Where does CSR go from here?	2
The evolution of religiosity by kin selection	2
The evolution of human ritual behavior as a cooperative signaling platform	2
Broadening the scope and refining the precision of theistic relational spirituality	2
The puzzles that remain	2
A contemporary interpretation of Teilhard’s law of complexity-consciousness	2
Predictive processing v. 4e cognition (for those who care)	1
Mapping the minds of spectators during an extreme ritual: a network perspective	1

Challenges in modeling local manifestations of a global template	1
War, “the Father of All”—including moralizing religions?	1
Religion’s Hilbert problems, ten years later: progress, pitfalls, and new horizons	1
Six good reasons why understanding religion requires a multidisciplinary approach: response to commentators	1
Military sociality may recreate the nurture sphere at higher social strata	1
Computation of identity and social volatility in the ritual animal	1
Maternal religiosity and social support to mothers: helpers’ religious identity matters	1
Possession trance covaries with measures of social rigidity in the Ethnographic Atlas	1
The agency of women in secularization	1
Declining Catholicism and the ambiguity of Irish religiosity: what Hugh Turpin’s Unholy Catholic Ireland tells US about irreligion and morality in contemporary Ireland	1
Reintroducing the direction of evolution	1
Interpreting the rapidly changing landscape of spirit tech	1
Harnessing the power of rituals: suggestions for future work	1
Steps towards a more holistic, dynamic and integrative approach to the evolution of religious systems	1
The Evolution of Religion and Morality project: some modest reservations	1
Representation without representationalism	1
Moralizing gods, local gods, and complexity in Hindu god concepts: evidence from South India	1
First steps on a path to scientific maturity	1
Measurement issues in the many analysts religion project	1
Shamanic and doctrinal: Dunbar and the spiritual turn in contemporary religion	1
Moralistic and local god beliefs and the extent of prosocial preferences on Tanna Island, Vanuatu	1
Big Gods and big science: further reflections on theory, data, and analysis	1
Editorial note	1
Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: a test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank	1
God is up and devil is down: mortality salience increases implicit spatial-religious associations	1
Enacting the religious mind: a multi-level process	1
Collective action in wild chimpanzees provides further insight into the evolution of cooperative ritual behavior	1
Finding consonance	1
Two questions for the cultural evolutionary science of religion	1
On the benefits and ambiguities of “religious systems”	1
Atheism studies lives up to its own hype: marginal notes on Gervais's Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species	1
When evaluating gods, US Prolific workers prioritize efficacy rather than perfection	1
Engaging, authoritative, but also evidential	1
Shifting themes in the cognitive and evolutionary sciences of religion	1
Galton's problem and the limits of functionalism	1
Gradualist change or sudden collapse? Religious decline and residual religiosity in Ireland	1
Instrumentality, empiricism, and rationality in Nuosu divination	1
From drowning to debunking: the cognitive science of religion's role in unraveling religious beliefs	1
Religion without scare quotes: cognitive science of religion and the humanities	1
Corrected by collegial commentators: my beliefs about beliefs about Disbelief	1
It’s WEIRD how much Joseph Henrich needs computational simulation	1
The poverty of contentless culture	1
Reply to commentators of “Re-introducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science”	0
Explaining religion from the inside-out	0
A neuropsychological perspective on spiritual growth	0
The interaction between neuroscience and theology is producing a new personalism: a response to commentators on my book “Religion, neuroscience and the self: a new personalism.”	0
(Non)automaticity of ritualized behavior	0
Spiritual but not religious (SBNRs) and theists encounter spirit tech	0
Fertility and faith: The danger of a grand narrative	0
Religion evolving: applying system theory to a case of blood libel	0
Childhood experiences and personal traits as predictors of reliance on science and on religion to make sense of the world: results of a national US study	0
Guiding the evolution of the evolutionary sciences of religion: a discussion	0
Resolving religious debates through a multiverse approach	0
Religion facilitates cooperation in health care sharing ministries	0
A cognitive account of manipulative sympathetic magic	0
The cognitive science of religion: past, present, and possible futures	0
Reintroducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science	0
Testing the enactive model of agency detection—a commentary on Teehan	0
The HADDs and the HADD-nots: mystical experiences and religion in evolution	0
Cooperative signaling in the sandbox: Future directions for examining collective ritual in child development	0
Shamanism: psychopathology and psychotherapy	0
The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies	0
Kiwi Diwali: a longitudinal investigation of perceived social connection following a civic religious ritual	0
A welcome intervention, but stops just where things will get interesting	0
Sensing ghosts and other dangerous beings: uncertainty, sensory deprivation, and the feeling of presence	0
Cultural immunology: an inspiring but unsatisfying metaphor	0
Teilhard’s scientific holism: a reply to David Sloan Wilson	0
A thank you note	0
Introducing our new editors	0
Does moderation by perceived normativeness of religion occur at the individual level or the country level?	0
Cross-cultural COVID-19 conspiracy thinking and religious, spiritual, and supernatural variables: a systematic review	0
Quantifying potential selection bias in observational research: simulations and Analyses exploring religion and depression using a prospective UK cohort study (ALSPAC)	0
Signatures of neuroinflammation in the hippocampus and amygdala in individuals with religious or spiritual problem	0
Mimesis and the origins of religion	0
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being	0
The role of absorption in making God real	0
Toward a neuroscience of divine bonding	0
Two kinds of presence (at least): a commentary on T.M. Luhrmann’s “How God Becomes Real”	0
A workflow for causal inference in cross-cultural psychology	0
Appealing to the minds of gods: religious beliefs and appeals correspond to features of local social ecologies	0

On breaking the cognitive science of religion and putting it back together again	0
Modes Theory does not subsume previous ritual typologies	0
Spirit Tech and the Nones	0
The trajectory of psychedelic, spiritual, and psychotic experiences: implications for cognitive scientific perspectives on religion	0
Are religious rituals always causally opaque?	0
The role of experience in making Gods and spirits real	0
Teilhard’s teleology: his greatest spiritual strength, and greatest scientific weakness	0
Moving beyond the neuroanatomy of religious experience: a commentary on McNamara’s thoughts on personalism, technology, and the Eschaton	0
The Database of Religious History (DRH): ontology, coding strategies and the future of cultural evolutionary analyses	0
Human rites: a commentary on The Ritual Animal	0
How much do models of human cognition matter in the study of religious systems?	0
Correction	0
The explanatory value of a metaphor. An appraisal of Jesper Sørensen's Why Cultures Persist. Toward a Cultural Immunology	0
Linking the fertility and secular transitions	0
William James on overbeliefs: the relation with self-deception, placebo-effects, and make-believe	0
Testing the religion/spirituality-mental health curvilinear hypothesis using data from many-analysts religion project	0
There and back again: the ritual animal and social anthropology	0
Adaptive signaling in a lineage explanation, needs to be adaptive	0
A typology for understanding the usage and intentions of Spirit Tech consumers	0
Introducing the Many-Analysts Religion Project	0
Many-analysts religion project: reflection and conclusion	0
The places of agency detection and predictive processing in the ontogenesis of religious belief; and “Who put the ‘H’ in the HADD?”	0
The impact (or lack thereof) of analysis choice on conclusions with Likert data from the Many Analysts Religion Project	0
A half-Irish exit	0
Why researchers should not ignore measurement error and skewness in questionnaire item scores	0
The mouth of God: the impact of religious training on story recall in Tibetan Buddhists	0
Responding to a Variety of Comments on The Varieties	0
Did we all go together when we went? Considering the adaptive importance of risky joint action	0
Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data: a review and “retake”	0
The view toward persons: personalism, neuroscience, and the present	0
Commentary On the varieties of spiritual experience: Jimmy or James? Act III cannot have two directors	0
San trance dance: embodied experience and neurological mechanisms	0
Autonomous neural network activation during religious worship experiences using heart rate variability measurements	0
Unpackaging religion—the journey continues	0
Global fertility and the future of religion: addressing empirical and theoretical challenges	0
A systems theory of religion	0
Science and religion around the world: compatibility between belief systems predicts increased well-being	0
Gauging oneiromancy—the cognition of dream content and cultural transmission of (supernatural) divination	0
Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities: a cross-cultural investigation	0
Strategy and experience required: Social learning cannot explain the varieties of supernatural belief	0
Prosociality and Pentecostalism in the D.R. Congo	0
Many analysts and few incentives	0
Correction	0
Dancing devil’s advocates – the next challenges for testing cooperative signaling and collective ritual research	0
Religious systems evolving	0
Law-abiding citizens in the age of social distancing: religion and COVID-19 in South Korea	0
The Evolution of Religion and Morality project: reflections and looking ahead	0
WEIRD Indeed, but there is more to the story: anthropological reflections on Henrich’s “The Weirdest people in the world”	0
The roles of anthropomorphism, spirituality, and gratitude in pro-environmental attitudes	0
Reinterpreting the archaeological evidence: rituals as practical and specialized interventions	0
Cultural lessons missed and learnt about religion and culture	0
Cognitive bugs, alternative models, and new data	0
Individual-level changes in religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviors over three decades in the parental generation of the ALSPAC cohort, UK	0
Developmental insights into the cognitive science of religion*	0
Complementing preregistered confirmatory analyses with rigorous, reproducible exploration using machine learning	0
Advantages of using multilevel modeling approaches for the many analysts religion project	0
The end justifies all means: questionable conversion of different effect sizes to a common effect size measure	0
Communicating cooperative intentions drove the selection of collective ritual in hominins	0
Finding consonance: an integrative neurocognitive model of human relationships with supernatural agents	0
Walking the walk of religion and nonreligion: notes on Turpin’s Unholy Catholic Ireland: Religious hypocrisy, secular morality, and Irish irreligion	0
Religion and well-being in Indonesia: exploring the role of religion in a society where being atheist is not an option	0
When god is watching: dictator game results from the Sursurunga of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea	0
The ritual animal speaks again: a scientific study	0
Disentangling the relationships between religion and fertility	0
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s enduring relevance	0
Affluence, agricultural productivity, and the rise of moralizing religion in the ancient Mediterranean	0
Laying foundations for eCSR: a few remarks on the coupling of bodies, the experiential origin of concepts, and treating phenomenology seriously	0
Data-testing competing hypotheses for beginners: how can we ordinary mortals wade through the mathematics of religion?	0
American mental models of scientific versus theological prestige: a freelist analysis	0
Invisible humans and their gods	0
Quantifying religiosity: a comparison of approaches based on categorical self-identification and multidimensional measures of religious activity	0
Experiencing and believing in invisible others: anthropological and neurocognitive perspectives	0
Different facets, different results: the importance of considering the multidimensionality of constructs	0
Ritual, community, and conflict: reflections on the science of the social and its practical implications	0
Jingle-jangle? Spiritual voices, absorption, and proneness to hallucinations in Tanya Luhrmann’s “How God Becomes Real”	0
On obscene and civil forms of nonreligion	0
Integrating culture into the cognitive science of religion	0
Introducing a special issue on phase two of the Evolution of Religion and Morality project	0
On breaking NOMA, and the dangers of technologically-enhanced flower chains: a commentary on Spirit Tech	0
From supernatural punishment to big gods to puritanical religions: clarifying explanatory targets in the rise of moralizing religions	0
Religion: the WEIRDest concept in the world?	0
Being specific about generalisability	0
Religious coalitions and competition among complex adaptive systems	0
Eschatological personalism: a theological response	0
Dataset of Integrated Measures of Religion (DIM-R). Harmonization of religiosity data from selected international multiwave surveys	0
WEIRD people and the Western Church: who made whom?	0
Self-deprivation and cognition in Ramadan: could fasting practice improve inhibitory control?	0
Epistemic norm differences matter	0
Replacing the irreplaceable	0
What exactly is the “spirit” of enactivism?	0
Accordance and conflict between religious and scientific precautions against COVID-19 in 27 societies	0
Reflections on a CSR manifesto from a CSR-adjacent point of view	0
Sex, value change and the erosion of religious adherence	0
Introducing the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales (FPTETS): a study among church leaders and church members	0
A changing of the guard	0