Religion Brain & Behavior

Papers
(The median citation count of Religion Brain & Behavior is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being40
Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: a test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank14
The moralization bias of gods’ minds: a cross-cultural test14
Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data: a review and “retake”13
The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies13
Cigarettes for the dead: effects of sorcery beliefs on parochial prosociality in Mauritius12
Introducing the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales (FPTETS): a study among church leaders and church members11
The sense of presence: lessons from virtual reality10
A cognitive account of manipulative sympathetic magic9
Do religious and market-based institutions promote cooperation in Hadza hunter-gatherers?9
The Evolution of Religion and Morality project: reflections and looking ahead7
Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities: a cross-cultural investigation7
Complementing preregistered confirmatory analyses with rigorous, reproducible exploration using machine learning7
Causal inference in regression: advice to authors7
The campaign against COVID-19 in Nigeria: exploring church leaders’ role perception and action6
Mapping the scientific study of rituals: a bibliometric analysis of research published 2000–20206
The evolution of human ritual behavior as a cooperative signaling platform6
The awe-prosociality relationship: evidence for the role of context6
Many-analysts religion project: reflection and conclusion6
From multiverse analysis to multiverse operationalisations: 262,143 ways of measuring well-being6
Many analysts and few incentives5
Individual-level changes in religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviors over three decades in the parental generation of the ALSPAC cohort, UK5
The end justifies all means: questionable conversion of different effect sizes to a common effect size measure4
An explicit religious label impacts visual adaptation to Christian and Muslim faces4
Assessing religion and spirituality in a cross-cultural sample: development of religion and spirituality items for the Global Flourishing Study4
A workflow for causal inference in cross-cultural psychology4
Big Gods and big science: further reflections on theory, data, and analysis4
The evolution of religiosity by kin selection4
The role of religion in adolescent mental health: faith as a moderator of the relationship between distrust and depression3
Measurement issues in the many analysts religion project3
Different facets, different results: the importance of considering the multidimensionality of constructs3
Religion and well-being in Indonesia: exploring the role of religion in a society where being atheist is not an option3
How is analytical thinking related to religious belief? A test of three theoretical models3
Reintroducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science3
Mapping the minds of spectators during an extreme ritual: a network perspective3
Church attendance buffers against longer-term mental distress3
Coding, causality, and statistical craft: the emergence and evolutionary drivers of moralistic supernatural punishment remain unresolved3
Linking the fertility and secular transitions3
Announcing a new type of manuscript submission: the “retake”3
How do culture and religion interact worldwide? A cultural match approach to understanding religiosity and well-being in the Many Analysts Religion Project3
The interdependence of ancestors and their descendants3
The impact (or lack thereof) of analysis choice on conclusions with Likert data from the Many Analysts Religion Project3
Being specific about generalisability3
How to understand a research question—a challenging first step in setting up a statistical model3
From supernatural punishment to big gods to puritanical religions: clarifying explanatory targets in the rise of moralizing religions3
Gauging oneiromancy—the cognition of dream content and cultural transmission of (supernatural) divination2
The role of absorption in making God real2
Moralistic and local god beliefs and the extent of prosocial preferences on Tanna Island, Vanuatu2
The economic – and anthropological? – view of supernatural institutions2
Quantifying religiosity: a comparison of approaches based on categorical self-identification and multidimensional measures of religious activity2
The agency of women in secularization2
Shamanism: psychopathology and psychotherapy2
Why do great and little traditions coexist in the world’s doctrinal religions?2
Prosociality and Pentecostalism in the D.R. Congo2
Affluence, agricultural productivity, and the rise of moralizing religion in the ancient Mediterranean2
Post-Pandemic Religion2
Moralizing gods, local gods, and complexity in Hindu god concepts: evidence from South India2
The intertwined cultural evolution of ascetic spiritualities and puritanical religions as technologies of self-discipline2
Fertility and faith: insights from human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and life history theory2
Appealing to the minds of gods: religious beliefs and appeals correspond to features of local social ecologies2
Caring about you: the motivational component of mentalizing, not the mental state attribution component, predicts religious belief in Japan2
When god is watching: dictator game results from the Sursurunga of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea2
Perceptions of moralizing agents and cooperative behavior in Northeastern Brazil2
Guiding the evolution of the evolutionary sciences of religion: a discussion 2
The places of agency detection and predictive processing in the ontogenesis of religious belief; and “Who put the ‘H’ in the HADD?”2
God is up and devil is down: mortality salience increases implicit spatial-religious associations2
Religious systems evolving1
It’s WEIRD how much Joseph Henrich needs computational simulation1
A changing of the guard1
Introducing our new editors1
Two questions for the cultural evolutionary science of religion1
God’s plan? The role of emotional repression in forming and sustaining religious beliefs1
Global fertility and the future of religion: addressing empirical and theoretical challenges1
Shamanic and doctrinal: Dunbar and the spiritual turn in contemporary religion1
Fertility and faith: The danger of a grand narrative1
Resolving religious debates through a multiverse approach1
Autonomous neural network activation during religious worship experiences using heart rate variability measurements1
Disentangling the relationships between religion and fertility1
Introducing a special issue on phase two of the Evolution of Religion and Morality project1
Sensing ghosts and other dangerous beings: uncertainty, sensory deprivation, and the feeling of presence1
The trajectory of psychedelic, spiritual, and psychotic experiences: implications for cognitive scientific perspectives on religion1
Cultural lessons missed and learnt about religion and culture1
Moving forward from “Fertility and Faith”1
A half-Irish exit1
Does moderation by perceived normativeness of religion occur at the individual level or the country level?1
A systematic review of the association between religiousness and children’s prosociality1
Advantages of using multilevel modeling approaches for the many analysts religion project1
Continuity and credibility in the Cognitive Science of Religion1
WEIRD Indeed, but there is more to the story: anthropological reflections on Henrich’s “The Weirdest people in the world”1
Why researchers should not ignore measurement error and skewness in questionnaire item scores1
Faith and fertility in evolutionary perspective1
Signatures of neuroinflammation in the hippocampus and amygdala in individuals with religious or spiritual problem1
WEIRD people and the Western Church: who made whom?1
Interpreting the rapidly changing landscape of spirit tech1
Cultural evolution of gods’ minds: response to commentators1
Commentary to MARP: how to increase the robustness of survey studies1
Mimesis and the origins of religion1
The interaction between forgiveness and resentment on mental health outcomes: two sides of the same coin?1
Galton's problem and the limits of functionalism1
Finding consonance: an integrative neurocognitive model of human relationships with supernatural agents1
San trance dance: embodied experience and neurological mechanisms1
Kiwi Diwali: a longitudinal investigation of perceived social connection following a civic religious ritual1
War, “the Father of All”—including moralizing religions?1
Commentary on Hearing voices and other matters of mind: What mental abnormalities teach us about religions by Robert McCauley and George Graham0
“Hearing voices and other matters of mind” raises important issues in the cognitive science of religion, but also in the psychology and philosophy of religion0
Are religious rituals always causally opaque?0
Reflections on Patrick McNamara, religion, neuroscience, and the self: a new personalism0
Modes Theory does not subsume previous ritual typologies0
Similarities of experiential features associated with religiosity and mental disorders: exploring cognitive resources0
Editorial note0
Reply to commentators of “Re-introducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science”0
A neuropsychological perspective on spiritual growth0
Religious people view both science and religion as less epistemically valuable than non-religious people view science0
Religion as (Culturally) extended phenotype0
Beliefs, evolution, and psychiatric symptoms0
Introducing the Many-Analysts Religion Project0
Unpackaging religion—the journey continues0
Response: Secularization with Irish characteristics0
Two kinds of presence (at least): a commentary on T.M. Luhrmann’s “How God Becomes Real”0
The Database of Religious History (DRH): ontology, coding strategies and the future of cultural evolutionary analyses0
Explaining religion from the inside-out0
The ritual animal speaks again: a scientific study0
Beyond the border: advancing the study of Catholic identities and orthopraxic religion in Southern and Northern Ireland0
Religious delight: a non-functional approach to playful religious experiences0
The varieties of pleasure and positive emotions in religious experience0
Spirit Tech and the Nones0
Some questions on the utility of transmission biases in ethnographic research0
Collective action in wild chimpanzees provides further insight into the evolution of cooperative ritual behavior0
Correction0
Diverse evolutionary strategies for explaining features of religions0
A need to better understand the evolutionary process of beliefs about gods’ concerns0
Event cognition (not ecumenical naturalism) integrates individual and cultural differences0
Less egocentric and a bit more allocentric—the path to greater well-being?0
Teilhard’s teleology: his greatest spiritual strength, and greatest scientific weakness0
Data-testing competing hypotheses for beginners: how can we ordinary mortals wade through the mathematics of religion?0
Finding consonance0
Quantifying potential selection bias in observational research: simulations and Analyses exploring religion and depression using a prospective UK cohort study (ALSPAC)0
Depth vs. breadth: lessons from the Evolution of Religion and Morality project0
Teilhard’s scientific holism: a reply to David Sloan Wilson0
Frontal asymmetry and physiological responses in religious and spiritual problems with and without conversion0
Possession trance covaries with measures of social rigidity in the Ethnographic Atlas0
Missing level of analysis?0
The puzzles that remain0
The mouth of God: the impact of religious training on story recall in Tibetan Buddhists0
Formalized rituals may have preceded the emergence of religions0
Dancing devil’s advocates – the next challenges for testing cooperative signaling and collective ritual research0
A contemporary interpretation of Teilhard’s law of complexity-consciousness0
Did we all go together when we went? Considering the adaptive importance of risky joint action0
On obscene and civil forms of nonreligion0
Henrich’s Weberian project0
Sex, value change and the erosion of religious adherence0
Impact of religiosity and supernatural belief on individuals’ visitation to religious healers0
In defense of thin descriptions: reflections on some methodological themes in Harvey Whitehouse’s The Ritual Animal0
What defines a person?0
Computation of identity and social volatility in the ritual animal0
Local concerns aren’t always local: a broader view of local social ecologies provides greater explanatory power0
Walking the walk of religion and nonreligion: notes on Turpin’s Unholy Catholic Ireland: Religious hypocrisy, secular morality, and Irish irreligion0
Religious coalitions and competition among complex adaptive systems0
Cognitive bugs, alternative models, and new data0
An integrative neurocognitive model of human relations with supernatural agents, commentary to Balch, Grafman and McNamara0
Accordance and conflict between religious and scientific precautions against COVID-19 in 27 societies0
Reinterpreting the archaeological evidence: rituals as practical and specialized interventions0
William James on overbeliefs: the relation with self-deception, placebo-effects, and make-believe0
Religion evolving: applying system theory to a case of blood libel0
A systems theory of religion0
Spiritual but not religious (SBNRs) and theists encounter spirit tech0
Appeasing the (minds of) gods0
The promises and pitfalls of facilitated spiritual experiences for the study of religion0
There and back again: the ritual animal and social anthropology0
Dataset of Integrated Measures of Religion (DIM-R). Harmonization of religiosity data from selected international multiwave surveys0
Cooperative signaling in the sandbox: Future directions for examining collective ritual in child development0
The Joy of Religion: author response to commentaries0
A typology for understanding the usage and intentions of Spirit Tech consumers0
Mapping the minds of participants: relationality and cultural schemas0
The Evolution of Religion and Morality project: some modest reservations0
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 study0
Six good reasons why understanding religion requires a multidisciplinary approach: response to commentators0
(Non)automaticity of ritualized behavior0
Commentary On the varieties of spiritual experience: Jimmy or James? Act III cannot have two directors0
Responding to a Variety of Comments on The Varieties0
Science and religion around the world: compatibility between belief systems predicts increased well-being0
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s enduring relevance0
Broadening the scope and refining the precision of theistic relational spirituality0
Law-abiding citizens in the age of social distancing: religion and COVID-19 in South Korea0
Challenges in modeling local manifestations of a global template0
Conscious evolution of the noösphere: hubris or necessity?0
Declining Catholicism and the ambiguity of Irish religiosity: what Hugh Turpin’s Unholy Catholic Ireland tells US about irreligion and morality in contemporary Ireland0
Harnessing the power of rituals: suggestions for future work0
Introducing a special issue on the role of moralizing gods in the evolution of socio-political complexity0
On breaking NOMA, and the dangers of technologically-enhanced flower chains: a commentary on Spirit Tech0
Experiencing and believing in invisible others: anthropological and neurocognitive perspectives0
Toward a neuroscience of divine bonding0
On the benefits and ambiguities of “religious systems”0
Moving beyond the neuroanatomy of religious experience: a commentary on McNamara’s thoughts on personalism, technology, and the Eschaton0
God, witchcraft, and beliefs about illness in Mauritius 0
Religion: the WEIRDest concept in the world?0
Cross-cultural COVID-19 conspiracy thinking and religious, spiritual, and supernatural variables: a systematic review0
What can we learn about pleasure from the study of religion?0
Human rites: a commentary on The Ritual Animal0
Eschatological personalism: a theological response0
The HADDs and the HADD-nots: mystical experiences and religion in evolution0
On the benefits of philosophy and the scientific utility of “religious” disorders0
Testing the religion/spirituality-mental health curvilinear hypothesis using data from many-analysts religion project0
The roles of anthropomorphism, spirituality, and gratitude in pro-environmental attitudes0
How does pleasure relate to the rest of experience? A pragmatist response to Glucklich0
Scripture’s systemic imagination0
Gradualist change or sudden collapse? Religious decline and residual religiosity in Ireland0
Religion endures, but does it thrive?0
Prayer as collaborative problem solving0
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
Invisible humans and their gods0
Steps towards a more holistic, dynamic and integrative approach to the evolution of religious systems0
Instrumentality, empiricism, and rationality in Nuosu divination0
Comparing the three states of Dhikr, meditation, and thinking about God: an fMRI study0
The incompleteness of the evolutionary psychology description of religion0
Communicating cooperative intentions drove the selection of collective ritual in hominins0
The role of experience in making Gods and spirits real0
Kin selection favors religious traditions: ancestor worship as a cultural descendant-leaving strategy0
Adaptive signaling in a lineage explanation, needs to be adaptive0
Linking ritual transmission with the psychology of norm acquisition0
The success story of the west, perceptual art, and the challenges of the Global East0
Replacing the irreplaceable0
Big comparison 0
Religion without scare quotes: cognitive science of religion and the humanities0
Bridging the two cultures or re-rectifying incommensurability? A commentary on Ariel Gluklich’s The Joy of Religion0
Cultural dissonance and consonance in mystical-type experiences: commentary on “Finding consonance: an integrative neurocognitive model of human relationships with supernatural agents”0
Identifying and validating the “varieties” of spiritual experience0
Correction0
Pierre Liénard (1968–2023)0
Reintroducing the direction of evolution0
First steps on a path to scientific maturity0
Ritual, community, and conflict: reflections on the science of the social and its practical implications0
On breaking the cognitive science of religion and putting it back together again0
What kind of joy is religious joy?0
Multiple origins for the evolution of collective rituals0
American mental models of scientific versus theological prestige: a freelist analysis0
The emergence of MSP vs. the spread of transcendentalist religion0
Jingle-jangle? Spiritual voices, absorption, and proneness to hallucinations in Tanya Luhrmann’s “How God Becomes Real”0
The view toward persons: personalism, neuroscience, and the present0
Rethinking the roots of human collective ritual0
Celebrating the uninvited0
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