Religion Brain & Behavior

Article	Citations
Beliefs, evolution, and psychiatric symptoms	54
Big comparison	40
Beyond the border: advancing the study of Catholic identities and orthopraxic religion in Southern and Northern Ireland	21
The interaction between forgiveness and resentment on mental health outcomes: two sides of the same coin?	20
How do culture and religion interact worldwide? A cultural match approach to understanding religiosity and well-being in the Many Analysts Religion Project	19
Scripture’s systemic imagination	18
Missing level of analysis?	16
Local concerns aren’t always local: a broader view of local social ecologies provides greater explanatory power	15
Religious people view both science and religion as less epistemically valuable than non-religious people view science	14
Religion endures, but does it thrive?	11
An integrative neurocognitive model of human relations with supernatural agents, commentary to Balch, Grafman and McNamara	10
How to understand a research question—a challenging first step in setting up a statistical model	10
The emergence of MSP vs. the spread of transcendentalist religion	9
Pierre Liénard (1968–2023)	8
Commentary to MARP: how to increase the robustness of survey studies	8
Introducing a special issue on the role of moralizing gods in the evolution of socio-political complexity	8
Commentary on Hearing voices and other matters of mind: What mental abnormalities teach us about religions by Robert McCauley and George Graham	7
Do religious and market-based institutions promote cooperation in Hadza hunter-gatherers?	6
Frontal asymmetry and physiological responses in religious and spiritual problems with and without conversion	6
Multiple origins for the evolution of collective rituals	6
Assessing religion and spirituality in a cross-cultural sample: development of religion and spirituality items for the Global Flourishing Study	6
From multiverse analysis to multiverse operationalisations: 262,143 ways of measuring well-being	6
Where we go one we go all: CSR in the digital age	6
Conscious evolution of the noösphere: hubris or necessity?	5
Mapping the minds of participants: relationality and cultural schemas	5

Coding, causality, and statistical craft: the emergence and evolutionary drivers of moralistic supernatural punishment remain unresolved	5
Some questions on the utility of transmission biases in ethnographic research	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
Henrich’s Weberian project	5
Kin selection favors religious traditions: ancestor worship as a cultural descendant-leaving strategy	4
A need to better understand the evolutionary process of beliefs about gods’ concerns	4
God, witchcraft, and beliefs about illness in Mauritius	4
The economic – and anthropological? – view of supernatural institutions	4
Prayer as collaborative problem solving	4
Faith and fertility in evolutionary perspective	4
The promises and pitfalls of facilitated spiritual experiences for the study of religion	3
The role of religion in adolescent mental health: faith as a moderator of the relationship between distrust and depression	3
Perceptions of moralizing agents and cooperative behavior in Northeastern Brazil	3
Causal inference in regression: advice to authors	3
The moralization bias of gods’ minds: a cross-cultural test	3
Where does CSR go from here?	3
The campaign against COVID-19 in Nigeria: exploring church leaders’ role perception and action	3
Formalized rituals may have preceded the emergence of religions	3
A systematic review of the association between religiousness and children’s prosociality	3
Diverse evolutionary strategies for explaining features of religions	3
Religion, Brain & Behavior adopts stricter transparency standards	3
Toward an embodied cognitive science of religion: enaction, evolution, emergence	3
Rethinking the roots of human collective ritual	3
Comparing the three states of Dhikr, meditation, and thinking about God: an fMRI study	3
A contemporary interpretation of Teilhard’s law of complexity-consciousness	2
Cultural evolution of gods’ minds: response to commentators	2
The evolution of religiosity by kin selection	2
The success story of the west, perceptual art, and the challenges of the Global East	2
Linking ritual transmission with the psychology of norm acquisition	2
What defines a person?	2
God is up and devil is down: mortality salience increases implicit spatial-religious associations	2
Fertility and faith: insights from human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and life history theory	2
Depth vs. breadth: lessons from the Evolution of Religion and Morality project	2
Moving forward from “Fertility and Faith”	2
Identifying and validating the “varieties” of spiritual experience	2
The evolution of human ritual behavior as a cooperative signaling platform	2
Keep the black box open: a case for complex and continuous representationalism	2
Reintroducing the direction of evolution	2
Broadening the scope and refining the precision of theistic relational spirituality	2
Extraordinary-high rank expectation as a cognitive predisposition forming religion	2
Less egocentric and a bit more allocentric—the path to greater well-being?	2
The puzzles that remain	2
Reflections on Patrick McNamara, religion, neuroscience, and the self: a new personalism	2
The poverty of contentless culture	2
Cigarettes for the dead: effects of sorcery beliefs on parochial prosociality in Mauritius	2
Measurement issues in the many analysts religion project	1
Gradualist change or sudden collapse? Religious decline and residual religiosity in Ireland	1
Moralistic and local god beliefs and the extent of prosocial preferences on Tanna Island, Vanuatu	1
Autonomous neural network activation during religious worship experiences using heart rate variability measurements	1

From drowning to debunking: the cognitive science of religion's role in unraveling religious beliefs	1
Interpreting the rapidly changing landscape of spirit tech	1
Big Gods and big science: further reflections on theory, data, and analysis	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
Editorial note	1
Finding consonance	1
Religion’s Hilbert problems, ten years later: progress, pitfalls, and new horizons	1
Challenges in modeling local manifestations of a global template	1
Predictive processing v. 4e cognition (for those who care)	1
Representation without representationalism	1
Computation of identity and social volatility in the ritual animal	1
Instrumentality, empiricism, and rationality in Nuosu divination	1
Two questions for the cultural evolutionary science of religion	1
On breaking NOMA, and the dangers of technologically-enhanced flower chains: a commentary on Spirit Tech	1
Maternal religiosity and social support to mothers: helpers’ religious identity matters	1
Six good reasons why understanding religion requires a multidisciplinary approach: response to commentators	1
Possession trance covaries with measures of social rigidity in the Ethnographic Atlas	1
Religion without scare quotes: cognitive science of religion and the humanities	1
The agency of women in secularization	1
It’s WEIRD how much Joseph Henrich needs computational simulation	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
Enacting the religious mind: a multi-level process	1
Galton's problem and the limits of functionalism	1
Collective action in wild chimpanzees provides further insight into the evolution of cooperative ritual behavior	1
Shamanic and doctrinal: Dunbar and the spiritual turn in contemporary religion	1
War, “the Father of All”—including moralizing religions?	1
Shifting themes in the cognitive and evolutionary sciences of religion	1
Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: a test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank	1
Harnessing the power of rituals: suggestions for future work	1
Moralizing gods, local gods, and complexity in Hindu god concepts: evidence from South India	1
Mapping the minds of spectators during an extreme ritual: a network perspective	1
First steps on a path to scientific maturity	1
On the benefits and ambiguities of “religious systems”	1
When evaluating gods, US Prolific workers prioritize efficacy rather than perfection	1
Similarities of experiential features associated with religiosity and mental disorders: exploring cognitive resources	0
A neuropsychological perspective on spiritual growth	0
Reply to commentators of “Re-introducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science”	0
Moving beyond the neuroanatomy of religious experience: a commentary on McNamara’s thoughts on personalism, technology, and the Eschaton	0
Religion evolving: applying system theory to a case of blood libel	0
Fertility and faith: The danger of a grand narrative	0
Developmental insights into the cognitive science of religion*	0
Whence and Whither CSR: expanding the conversation	0
In defense of thin descriptions: reflections on some methodological themes in Harvey Whitehouse’s The Ritual Animal	0
Prosociality and Pentecostalism in the D.R. Congo	0
Gauging oneiromancy—the cognition of dream content and cultural transmission of (supernatural) divination	0
Many-analysts religion project: reflection and conclusion	0
Appeasing the (minds of) gods	0
Explaining religion from the inside-out	0
Correction	0
The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies	0
Disentangling the relationships between religion and fertility	0
Finding consonance: an integrative neurocognitive model of human relationships with supernatural agents	0
The ritual animal speaks again: a scientific study	0
Law-abiding citizens in the age of social distancing: religion and COVID-19 in South Korea	0
Data-testing competing hypotheses for beginners: how can we ordinary mortals wade through the mathematics of religion?	0
Testing the enactive model of agency detection—a commentary on Teehan	0
Why researchers should not ignore measurement error and skewness in questionnaire item scores	0
Commentary On the varieties of spiritual experience: Jimmy or James? Act III cannot have two directors	0
Quantifying potential selection bias in observational research: simulations and Analyses exploring religion and depression using a prospective UK cohort study (ALSPAC)	0
The view toward persons: personalism, neuroscience, and the present	0
The impact (or lack thereof) of analysis choice on conclusions with Likert data from the Many Analysts Religion Project	0
The places of agency detection and predictive processing in the ontogenesis of religious belief; and “Who put the ‘H’ in the HADD?”	0
Did we all go together when we went? Considering the adaptive importance of risky joint action	0
Introducing our new editors	0
Replacing the irreplaceable	0
God’s plan? The role of emotional repression in forming and sustaining religious beliefs	0
Impact of religiosity and supernatural belief on individuals’ visitation to religious healers	0
Mapping the scientific study of rituals: a bibliometric analysis of research published 2000–2020	0
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being	0
Does moderation by perceived normativeness of religion occur at the individual level or the country level?	0
A half-Irish exit	0
Toward a neuroscience of divine bonding	0
Modes Theory does not subsume previous ritual typologies	0
Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities: a cross-cultural investigation	0
Self-deprivation and cognition in Ramadan: could fasting practice improve inhibitory control?	0
Introducing the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales (FPTETS): a study among church leaders and church members	0
Laying foundations for eCSR: a few remarks on the coupling of bodies, the experiential origin of concepts, and treating phenomenology seriously	0
The roles of anthropomorphism, spirituality, and gratitude in pro-environmental attitudes	0
Spirit Tech and the Nones	0

Cognitive bugs, alternative models, and new data	0
Reintroducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science	0
The Evolution of Religion and Morality project: reflections and looking ahead	0
How much do models of human cognition matter in the study of religious systems?	0
Event cognition (not ecumenical naturalism) integrates individual and cultural differences	0
Individual-level changes in religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviors over three decades in the parental generation of the ALSPAC cohort, UK	0
Science and religion around the world: compatibility between belief systems predicts increased well-being	0
William James on overbeliefs: the relation with self-deception, placebo-effects, and make-believe	0
A cognitive account of manipulative sympathetic magic	0
Integrating culture into the cognitive science of religion	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
Religion and well-being in Indonesia: exploring the role of religion in a society where being atheist is not an option	0
Jingle-jangle? Spiritual voices, absorption, and proneness to hallucinations in Tanya Luhrmann’s “How God Becomes Real”	0
The Database of Religious History (DRH): ontology, coding strategies and the future of cultural evolutionary analyses	0
Guiding the evolution of the evolutionary sciences of religion: a discussion	0
When god is watching: dictator game results from the Sursurunga of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea	0
Cooperative signaling in the sandbox: Future directions for examining collective ritual in child development	0
Quantifying religiosity: a comparison of approaches based on categorical self-identification and multidimensional measures of religious activity	0
San trance dance: embodied experience and neurological mechanisms	0
Two kinds of presence (at least): a commentary on T.M. Luhrmann’s “How God Becomes Real”	0
Affluence, agricultural productivity, and the rise of moralizing religion in the ancient Mediterranean	0
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s enduring relevance	0
American mental models of scientific versus theological prestige: a freelist analysis	0
On the benefits of philosophy and the scientific utility of “religious” disorders	0
The role of absorption in making God real	0
Linking the fertility and secular transitions	0
Shamanism: psychopathology and psychotherapy	0
Ritual, community, and conflict: reflections on the science of the social and its practical implications	0
On obscene and civil forms of nonreligion	0
A typology for understanding the usage and intentions of Spirit Tech consumers	0
Experiencing and believing in invisible others: anthropological and neurocognitive perspectives	0
“Hearing voices and other matters of mind” raises important issues in the cognitive science of religion, but also in the psychology and philosophy of religion	0
Unpackaging religion—the journey continues	0
A systems theory of religion	0
Dataset of Integrated Measures of Religion (DIM-R). Harmonization of religiosity data from selected international multiwave surveys	0
Human rites: a commentary on The Ritual Animal	0
Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data: a review and “retake”	0
WEIRD people and the Western Church: who made whom?	0
Global fertility and the future of religion: addressing empirical and theoretical challenges	0
Religious coalitions and competition among complex adaptive systems	0
The trajectory of psychedelic, spiritual, and psychotic experiences: implications for cognitive scientific perspectives on religion	0
Different facets, different results: the importance of considering the multidimensionality of constructs	0
Many analysts and few incentives	0
Dancing devil’s advocates – the next challenges for testing cooperative signaling and collective ritual research	0
WEIRD Indeed, but there is more to the story: anthropological reflections on Henrich’s “The Weirdest people in the world”	0
Reflections on a CSR manifesto from a CSR-adjacent point of view	0
The role of experience in making Gods and spirits real	0
Teilhard’s teleology: his greatest spiritual strength, and greatest scientific weakness	0
Are religious rituals always causally opaque?	0
A changing of the guard	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
Reinterpreting the archaeological evidence: rituals as practical and specialized interventions	0
Being specific about generalisability	0
Cultural lessons missed and learnt about religion and culture	0
Eschatological personalism: a theological response	0
Communicating cooperative intentions drove the selection of collective ritual in hominins	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
Sex, value change and the erosion of religious adherence	0
Testing the religion/spirituality-mental health curvilinear hypothesis using data from many-analysts religion project	0
A workflow for causal inference in cross-cultural psychology	0
Continuity and credibility in the Cognitive Science of Religion	0
Walking the walk of religion and nonreligion: notes on Turpin’s Unholy Catholic Ireland: Religious hypocrisy, secular morality, and Irish irreligion	0
Religion facilitates cooperation in health care sharing ministries	0
There and back again: the ritual animal and social anthropology	0
Correction	0
The cognitive science of religion: past, present, and possible futures	0
Introducing the Many-Analysts Religion Project	0
A welcome intervention, but stops just where things will get interesting	0
Responding to a Variety of Comments on The Varieties	0
The mouth of God: the impact of religious training on story recall in Tibetan Buddhists	0
Invisible humans and their gods	0
Signatures of neuroinflammation in the hippocampus and amygdala in individuals with religious or spiritual problem	0
The end justifies all means: questionable conversion of different effect sizes to a common effect size measure	0
Kiwi Diwali: a longitudinal investigation of perceived social connection following a civic religious ritual	0
From supernatural punishment to big gods to puritanical religions: clarifying explanatory targets in the rise of moralizing religions	0
Cross-cultural COVID-19 conspiracy thinking and religious, spiritual, and supernatural variables: a systematic review	0
Adaptive signaling in a lineage explanation, needs to be adaptive	0
A thank you note	0
Sensing ghosts and other dangerous beings: uncertainty, sensory deprivation, and the feeling of presence	0
Teilhard’s scientific holism: a reply to David Sloan Wilson	0
Mimesis and the origins of religion	0
Spiritual but not religious (SBNRs) and theists encounter spirit tech	0
Resolving religious debates through a multiverse approach	0
Introducing a special issue on phase two of the Evolution of Religion and Morality project	0
Religion: the WEIRDest concept in the world?	0
Appealing to the minds of gods: religious beliefs and appeals correspond to features of local social ecologies	0
Accordance and conflict between religious and scientific precautions against COVID-19 in 27 societies	0
(Non)automaticity of ritualized behavior	0
On breaking the cognitive science of religion and putting it back together again	0
What exactly is the “spirit” of enactivism?	0
Religious systems evolving	0
The HADDs and the HADD-nots: mystical experiences and religion in evolution	0