Religion Brain & Behavior

Article	Citations
Building better models: a cultural immunology approach	70
Mystical dynamics: renewal, luminous light, and ego disintegration as key features associated with mystical oneness—a psychometric analysis using the PES100 in controlled psychedelic studies	61
Are the religious make-believing, or are they making themselves believe?	28
Scripture’s systemic imagination	27
Beyond the border: advancing the study of Catholic identities and orthopraxic religion in Southern and Northern Ireland	24
The interaction between forgiveness and resentment on mental health outcomes: two sides of the same coin?	24
How do culture and religion interact worldwide? A cultural match approach to understanding religiosity and well-being in the Many Analysts Religion Project	12
Missing level of analysis?	10
The emergence of MSP vs. the spread of transcendentalist religion	8
An integrative neurocognitive model of human relations with supernatural agents, commentary to Balch, Grafman and McNamara	8
Local concerns aren’t always local: a broader view of local social ecologies provides greater explanatory power	8
Introducing a special issue on the role of moralizing gods in the evolution of socio-political complexity	7
Pierre Liénard (1968–2023)	7
Religion endures, but does it thrive?	7
Commentary to MARP: how to increase the robustness of survey studies	7
Rational atheism revisited: a comment on Disbelief by Will Gervais	7
Where we go one we go all: CSR in the digital age	6
How to understand a research question—a challenging first step in setting up a statistical model	6
Frontal asymmetry and physiological responses in religious and spiritual problems with and without conversion	6
Are cultures immune systems or blueprints of a systemic design?	6
From multiverse analysis to multiverse operationalisations: 262,143 ways of measuring well-being	6
Religious people view both science and religion as less epistemically valuable than non-religious people view science	6
Kin selection favors religious traditions: ancestor worship as a cultural descendant-leaving strategy	5
Cultural dissonance and consonance in mystical-type experiences: commentary on “Finding consonance: an integrative neurocognitive model of human relationships with supernatural agents”	5
Multiple origins for the evolution of collective rituals	5

Conscious evolution of the noösphere: hubris or necessity?	5
Coding, causality, and statistical craft: the emergence and evolutionary drivers of moralistic supernatural punishment remain unresolved	5
Mapping the minds of participants: relationality and cultural schemas	5
Toward a cultural immunology of religious systems	5
Some questions on the utility of transmission biases in ethnographic research	5
Assessing religion and spirituality in a cross-cultural sample: development of religion and spirituality items for the Global Flourishing Study	5
Response: Secularization with Irish characteristics	5
A need to better understand the evolutionary process of beliefs about gods’ concerns	5
Prayer as collaborative problem solving	4
Rethinking the roots of human collective ritual	4
Formalized rituals may have preceded the emergence of religions	4
The varieties of nonreligious experience: meaning in life among believers, non-believers, and the spiritual but not religious	4
The economic – and anthropological? – view of supernatural institutions	4
Religion, Brain & Behavior adopts stricter transparency standards	3
Toward an embodied cognitive science of religion: enaction, evolution, emergence	3
Comparing the three states of Dhikr, meditation, and thinking about God: an fMRI study	3
Social interaction spheres, the self, and the meanings of “prediction”	3
The evolution of religiosity by kin selection	3
“I once was blind”: experimental manipulation of religious attitudes via choice blindness	3
Predictive processing all the way down	3
The role of religion in adolescent mental health: faith as a moderator of the relationship between distrust and depression	3
Where does CSR go from here?	3
The promises and pitfalls of facilitated spiritual experiences for the study of religion	3
God, witchcraft, and beliefs about illness in Mauritius	3
A systematic review of the association between religiousness and children’s prosociality	3
Extraordinary-high rank expectation as a cognitive predisposition forming religion	3
Cultural evolution of gods’ minds: response to commentators	3
The poverty of contentless culture	2
Broadening the scope and refining the precision of theistic relational spirituality	2
The evolution of human ritual behavior as a cooperative signaling platform	2
What defines a person?	2
From drowning to debunking: the cognitive science of religion's role in unraveling religious beliefs	2
Keep the black box open: a case for complex and continuous representationalism	2
A contemporary interpretation of Teilhard’s law of complexity-consciousness	2
Less egocentric and a bit more allocentric—the path to greater well-being?	2
The puzzles that remain	2
Instrumentality, empiricism, and rationality in Nuosu divination	2
Reintroducing the direction of evolution	2
Reflections on Patrick McNamara, religion, neuroscience, and the self: a new personalism	2
Linking ritual transmission with the psychology of norm acquisition	2
Identifying and validating the “varieties” of spiritual experience	2
Corrected by collegial commentators: my beliefs about beliefs about Disbelief	2
Editorial note	1
Computation of identity and social volatility in the ritual animal	1
On the benefits and ambiguities of “religious systems”	1
War, “the Father of All”—including moralizing religions?	1
Uncoordinated, contradictory, yet cumulatively effective: how four critiques of the humanities study of religion inflict collateral damage on the scientific study of religion	1
Six good reasons why understanding religion requires a multidisciplinary approach: response to commentators	1
Predictive processing v. 4e cognition (for those who care)	1
Steps towards a more holistic, dynamic and integrative approach to the evolution of religious systems	1

Shamanic and doctrinal: Dunbar and the spiritual turn in contemporary religion	1
On evidential vulnerability and compartmentalization	1
Military sociality may recreate the nurture sphere at higher social strata	1
Gradualist change or sudden collapse? Religious decline and residual religiosity in Ireland	1
Big Gods and big science: further reflections on theory, data, and analysis	1
Costly ritualized actions induce trust in young children	1
Challenges in modeling local manifestations of a global template	1
Engaging, authoritative, but also evidential	1
Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: a test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank	1
First steps on a path to scientific maturity	1
Representation without representationalism	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
Religion’s Hilbert problems, ten years later: progress, pitfalls, and new horizons	1
Collective action in wild chimpanzees provides further insight into the evolution of cooperative ritual behavior	1
Galton's problem and the limits of functionalism	1
Mapping the minds of spectators during an extreme ritual: a network perspective	1
Shifting themes in the cognitive and evolutionary sciences of religion	1
Possession trance covaries with measures of social rigidity in the Ethnographic Atlas	1
Impact of faith maturity on mental health and wellbeing	1
On breaking NOMA, and the dangers of technologically-enhanced flower chains: a commentary on Spirit Tech	1
Enacting the religious mind: a multi-level process	1
Religion without scare quotes: cognitive science of religion and the humanities	1
Finding consonance	1
When evaluating gods, US Prolific workers prioritize efficacy rather than perfection	1
Atheism studies lives up to its own hype: marginal notes on Gervais's Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species	1
Maternal religiosity and social support to mothers: helpers’ religious identity matters	1
Harnessing the power of rituals: suggestions for future work	1
Measurement issues in the many analysts religion project	1
Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data: a review and “retake”	0
Appeasing the (minds of) gods	0
Responding to a Variety of Comments on The Varieties	0
Affluence, agricultural productivity, and the rise of moralizing religion in the ancient Mediterranean	0
Toward a neuroscience of divine bonding	0
The mouth of God: the impact of religious training on story recall in Tibetan Buddhists	0
Law-abiding citizens in the age of social distancing: religion and COVID-19 in South Korea	0
Introducing the Many-Analysts Religion Project	0
Religious systems evolving	0
Adaptive signaling in a lineage explanation, needs to be adaptive	0
Reflections on a CSR manifesto from a CSR-adjacent point of view	0
Testing the enactive model of agency detection—a commentary on Teehan	0
Explaining religion from the inside-out	0
A neuropsychological perspective on spiritual growth	0
Mimesis and the origins of religion	0
Reply to commentators of “Re-introducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science”	0
Double coding and the plurality of “belief”: a response to commentaries	0
How are science and religion getting along? An evolutionary perspective	0
Dataset of Integrated Measures of Religion (DIM-R). Harmonization of religiosity data from selected international multiwave surveys	0
The explanatory value of a metaphor. An appraisal of Jesper Sørensen's Why Cultures Persist. Toward a Cultural Immunology	0
Dancing devil’s advocates – the next challenges for testing cooperative signaling and collective ritual research	0
Science and religion around the world: compatibility between belief systems predicts increased well-being	0
A welcome intervention, but stops just where things will get interesting	0
Epistemic norm differences matter	0
Developmental insights into the cognitive science of religion*	0
Sex, value change and the erosion of religious adherence	0
A half-Irish exit	0
Reintroducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science	0
A changing of the guard	0
Gauging oneiromancy—the cognition of dream content and cultural transmission of (supernatural) divination	0
Strategy and experience required: Social learning cannot explain the varieties of supernatural belief	0
Experiencing and believing in invisible others: anthropological and neurocognitive perspectives	0
Signatures of neuroinflammation in the hippocampus and amygdala in individuals with religious or spiritual problem	0
Commentary On the varieties of spiritual experience: Jimmy or James? Act III cannot have two directors	0
Population-level effects of education and material conditions on religious change in Chiapas, Mexico	0
Jingle-jangle? Spiritual voices, absorption, and proneness to hallucinations in Tanya Luhrmann’s “How God Becomes Real”	0
Data-testing competing hypotheses for beginners: how can we ordinary mortals wade through the mathematics of religion?	0
A systems theory of religion	0
Ritual, community, and conflict: reflections on the science of the social and its practical implications	0
Why researchers should not ignore measurement error and skewness in questionnaire item scores	0
Belief as explanation: a motivation-based theory of agency and anthropomorphism in religious belief	0
Teilhard’s scientific holism: a reply to David Sloan Wilson	0
Quantifying potential selection bias in observational research: simulations and Analyses exploring religion and depression using a prospective UK cohort study (ALSPAC)	0
There and back again: the ritual animal and social anthropology	0
Disentangling the relationships between religion and fertility	0
Correction	0
Eschatological personalism: a theological response	0
Between the representationalist rock and the dispositionalist hard place?	0
San trance dance: embodied experience and neurological mechanisms	0
Testing the religion/spirituality-mental health curvilinear hypothesis using data from many-analysts religion project	0
Accordance and conflict between religious and scientific precautions against COVID-19 in 27 societies	0
Worldview education as model alignment	0

A workflow for causal inference in cross-cultural psychology	0
Finding consonance: an integrative neurocognitive model of human relationships with supernatural agents	0
Introducing the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales (FPTETS): a study among church leaders and church members	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
Advantages of using multilevel modeling approaches for the many analysts religion project	0
Can psychedelic experiences induce religious credences?	0
Laying foundations for eCSR: a few remarks on the coupling of bodies, the experiential origin of concepts, and treating phenomenology seriously	0
Appealing to the minds of gods: religious beliefs and appeals correspond to features of local social ecologies	0
Human rites: a commentary on The Ritual Animal	0
Why it matters that religious credence is (mostly) weaker than matter-of-facts beliefs	0
Integrating culture into the cognitive science of religion	0
The Database of Religious History (DRH): ontology, coding strategies and the future of cultural evolutionary analyses	0
Spirit Tech and the Nones	0
Religious coalitions and competition among complex adaptive systems	0
Unpackaging religion—the journey continues	0
Many analysts and few incentives	0
Modes Theory does not subsume previous ritual typologies	0
The role of experience in making Gods and spirits real	0
Individual-level changes in religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviors over three decades in the parental generation of the ALSPAC cohort, UK	0
Being specific about generalisability	0
Is religion just make-believe, or only for some WEIRD people?: A call for more evidence and caution	0
From supernatural punishment to big gods to puritanical religions: clarifying explanatory targets in the rise of moralizing religions	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
Examining the associations between private religious practices, daily spiritual experiences, and cardiovascular stress reactivity	0
Sensing ghosts and other dangerous beings: uncertainty, sensory deprivation, and the feeling of presence	0
Shamanism: psychopathology and psychotherapy	0
Interpreting the rapidly changing landscape of spirit tech	0
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s enduring relevance	0
The cognitive science of religion: past, present, and possible futures	0
Cross-cultural COVID-19 conspiracy thinking and religious, spiritual, and supernatural variables: a systematic review	0
Did we all go together when we went? Considering the adaptive importance of risky joint action	0
Cooperative signaling in the sandbox: Future directions for examining collective ritual in child development	0
The places of agency detection and predictive processing in the ontogenesis of religious belief; and “Who put the ‘H’ in the HADD?”	0
Different facets, different results: the importance of considering the multidimensionality of constructs	0
Invisible humans and their gods	0
Introducing our new editors	0
Walking the walk of religion and nonreligion: notes on Turpin’s Unholy Catholic Ireland: Religious hypocrisy, secular morality, and Irish irreligion	0
American mental models of scientific versus theological prestige: a freelist analysis	0
Resolving religious debates through a multiverse approach	0
Hominin brain evolution and human culture: a commentary on Why Cultures Persist	0
Replacing the irreplaceable	0
Religion facilitates cooperation in health care sharing ministries	0
The trajectory of psychedelic, spiritual, and psychotic experiences: implications for cognitive scientific perspectives on religion	0
In defense of thin descriptions: reflections on some methodological themes in Harvey Whitehouse’s The Ritual Animal	0
The HADDs and the HADD-nots: mystical experiences and religion in evolution	0
What exactly is the “spirit” of enactivism?	0
Teilhard’s teleology: his greatest spiritual strength, and greatest scientific weakness	0
Does moderation by perceived normativeness of religion occur at the individual level or the country level?	0
Reinterpreting the archaeological evidence: rituals as practical and specialized interventions	0
The role of absorption in making God real	0
Whence and Whither CSR: expanding the conversation	0
Two kinds of presence (at least): a commentary on T.M. Luhrmann’s “How God Becomes Real”	0
Are religious rituals always causally opaque?	0
Self-deprivation and cognition in Ramadan: could fasting practice improve inhibitory control?	0
Complementing preregistered confirmatory analyses with rigorous, reproducible exploration using machine learning	0
William James on overbeliefs: the relation with self-deception, placebo-effects, and make-believe	0
On breaking the cognitive science of religion and putting it back together again	0
Communicating cooperative intentions drove the selection of collective ritual in hominins	0
Religion evolving: applying system theory to a case of blood libel	0
Religion and well-being in Indonesia: exploring the role of religion in a society where being atheist is not an option	0
A conceptual typology of presence experiences and corresponding mechanisms	0
The roles of anthropomorphism, spirituality, and gratitude in pro-environmental attitudes	0
Many-analysts religion project: reflection and conclusion	0
On obscene and civil forms of nonreligion	0
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being	0
Moving beyond the neuroanatomy of religious experience: a commentary on McNamara’s thoughts on personalism, technology, and the Eschaton	0
The view toward persons: personalism, neuroscience, and the present	0
How much do models of human cognition matter in the study of religious systems?	0
A thank you note	0
Correction	0
The end justifies all means: questionable conversion of different effect sizes to a common effect size measure	0
How remote conflict shapes religious engagement: the impact of Russian invasion of Ukraine on religiosity in Europe	0
Autonomous neural network activation during religious worship experiences using heart rate variability measurements	0
Quantifying religiosity: a comparison of approaches based on categorical self-identification and multidimensional measures of religious activity	0
Cultural immunology: an inspiring but unsatisfying metaphor	0
A typology for understanding the usage and intentions of Spirit Tech consumers	0
Thinking elsewhere: designer environments for religion and literature	0
The ritual animal speaks again: a scientific study	0
Making mistakes about our mental states	0
The impact (or lack thereof) of analysis choice on conclusions with Likert data from the Many Analysts Religion Project	0