Religion Brain & Behavior

Article	Citations
Religion and the COVID-19 pandemic	78
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being	24
The moralization bias of gods’ minds: a cross-cultural test	13
Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: a test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank	13
Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data: a review and “retake”	11
The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies	9
A cross-cultural study of the elementary forms of religious life: shamanistic healers, priests, and witches	9
Introducing the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales (FPTETS): a study among church leaders and church members	9
A cognitive account of manipulative sympathetic magic	9
The sense of presence: lessons from virtual reality	9
Do religious and market-based institutions promote cooperation in Hadza hunter-gatherers?	8
Cigarettes for the dead: effects of sorcery beliefs on parochial prosociality in Mauritius	7
Religion, paranormal beliefs, and meaning in life	7
Complementing preregistered confirmatory analyses with rigorous, reproducible exploration using machine learning	6
Causal inference in regression: advice to authors	6
The Evolution of Religion and Morality project: reflections and looking ahead	5
The awe-prosociality relationship: evidence for the role of context	5
Mapping the scientific study of rituals: a bibliometric analysis of research published 2000–2020	5
Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities: a cross-cultural investigation	5
Individual-level changes in religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviors over three decades in the parental generation of the ALSPAC cohort, UK	4
Supernatural agents and prosociality in historical China: micro-modeling the cultural evolution of gods and morality in textual corpora	4
The evolution of religiosity by kin selection	4
The campaign against COVID-19 in Nigeria: exploring church leaders’ role perception and action	4
How is analytical thinking related to religious belief? A test of three theoretical models	3
A computational perspective on faith: religious reasoning and Bayesian decision	3

The interdependence of ancestors and their descendants	3
Coding, causality, and statistical craft: the emergence and evolutionary drivers of moralistic supernatural punishment remain unresolved	3
Linking the fertility and secular transitions	3
An explicit religious label impacts visual adaptation to Christian and Muslim faces	3
Big Gods and big science: further reflections on theory, data, and analysis	3
Religion and well-being in Indonesia: exploring the role of religion in a society where being atheist is not an option	3
Many analysts and few incentives	3
A workflow for causal inference in cross-cultural psychology	3
Moralizing gods, local gods, and complexity in Hindu god concepts: evidence from South India	3
From multiverse analysis to multiverse operationalisations: 262,143 ways of measuring well-being	3
When god is watching: dictator game results from the Sursurunga of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea	2
Affluence, agricultural productivity, and the rise of moralizing religion in the ancient Mediterranean	2
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
Being specific about generalisability	2
From supernatural punishment to big gods to puritanical religions: clarifying explanatory targets in the rise of moralizing religions	2
Appealing to the minds of gods: religious beliefs and appeals correspond to features of local social ecologies	2
Prosociality and Pentecostalism in the D.R. Congo	2
Many-analysts religion project: reflection and conclusion	2
Mapping the minds of spectators during an extreme ritual: a network perspective	2
Perceptions of moralizing agents and cooperative behavior in Northeastern Brazil	2
Post-Pandemic Religion	2
God is up and devil is down: mortality salience increases implicit spatial-religious associations	2
The evolution of human ritual behavior as a cooperative signaling platform	2
How to understand a research question—a challenging first step in setting up a statistical model	2
How do culture and religion interact worldwide? A cultural match approach to understanding religiosity and well-being in the Many Analysts Religion Project	2
The role of absorption in making God real	2
Measurement issues in the many analysts religion project	2
Moralistic and local god beliefs and the extent of prosocial preferences on Tanna Island, Vanuatu	2
Church attendance buffers against longer-term mental distress	2
The agency of women in secularization	2
The intertwined cultural evolution of ascetic spiritualities and puritanical religions as technologies of self-discipline	2
Fertility and faith: insights from human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and life history theory	2
Announcing a new type of manuscript submission: the “retake”	2
Reintroducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science	2
Caring about you: the motivational component of mentalizing, not the mental state attribution component, predicts religious belief in Japan	2
The role of religion in adolescent mental health: faith as a moderator of the relationship between distrust and depression	2
Advantages of using multilevel modeling approaches for the many analysts religion project	1
Kiwi Diwali: a longitudinal investigation of perceived social connection following a civic religious ritual	1
The impact (or lack thereof) of analysis choice on conclusions with Likert data from the Many Analysts Religion Project	1
Different facets, different results: the importance of considering the multidimensionality of constructs	1
WEIRD people and the Western Church: who made whom?	1
The notion of dyadic morality explains the logic of Zande witchcraft	1
Cultural evolution of gods’ minds: response to commentators	1
Gauging oneiromancy—the cognition of dream content and cultural transmission of (supernatural) divination	1
Mimesis and the origins of religion	1
What’s hidden in my filedrawer and what’s in yours? Disclosing non-published findings in the cognitive science of religion	1
WEIRD Indeed, but there is more to the story: anthropological reflections on Henrich’s “The Weirdest people in the world”	1
Disentangling the relationships between religion and fertility	1
War, “the Father of All”—including moralizing religions?	1

Assessing religion and spirituality in a cross-cultural sample: development of religion and spirituality items for the Global Flourishing Study	1
Commentary to MARP: how to increase the robustness of survey studies	1
Evolution science and ethics in the Third Millennium: Challenges and choices for humankind	1
Moving forward from “Fertility and Faith”	1
Global fertility and the future of religion: addressing empirical and theoretical challenges	1
Shamanic and doctrinal: Dunbar and the spiritual turn in contemporary religion	1
Fertility and faith: The danger of a grand narrative	1
Faith and fertility in evolutionary perspective	1
Interpreting the rapidly changing landscape of spirit tech	1
Introducing a special issue on phase two of the Evolution of Religion and Morality project	1
The end justifies all means: questionable conversion of different effect sizes to a common effect size measure	1
Why do great and little traditions coexist in the world’s doctrinal religions?	1
A moral obligation to promote future human evolution?	1
The interaction between forgiveness and resentment on mental health outcomes: two sides of the same coin?	1
Celebrating the uninvited	0
Walking the walk of religion and nonreligion: notes on Turpin’s Unholy Catholic Ireland: Religious hypocrisy, secular morality, and Irish irreligion	0
Moving beyond the neuroanatomy of religious experience: a commentary on McNamara’s thoughts on personalism, technology, and the Eschaton	0
Beyond the border: advancing the study of Catholic identities and orthopraxic religion in Southern and Northern Ireland	0
San trance dance: embodied experience and neurological mechanisms	0
Commentary on Hearing voices and other matters of mind: What mental abnormalities teach us about religions by Robert McCauley and George Graham	0
Religious coalitions and competition among complex adaptive systems	0
Gradualist change or sudden collapse? Religious decline and residual religiosity in Ireland	0
On breaking NOMA, and the dangers of technologically-enhanced flower chains: a commentary on Spirit Tech	0
Impact of religiosity and supernatural belief on individuals’ visitation to religious healers	0
Challenges in modeling local manifestations of a global template	0
Teilhard’s teleology: his greatest spiritual strength, and greatest scientific weakness	0
Needed: an ethics and ideology for spaceship Earth	0
Harnessing the power of rituals: suggestions for future work	0
Steps towards a more holistic, dynamic and integrative approach to the evolution of religious systems	0
Adaptive signaling in a lineage explanation, needs to be adaptive	0
Invisible humans and their gods	0
A need to better understand the evolutionary process of beliefs about gods’ concerns	0
Some questions on the utility of transmission biases in ethnographic research	0
An integrative neurocognitive model of human relations with supernatural agents, commentary to Balch, Grafman and McNamara	0
In defense of thin descriptions: reflections on some methodological themes in Harvey Whitehouse’s The Ritual Animal	0
Comment on evolution science and Ethics in the Third Millennium	0
Cooperative signaling in the sandbox: Future directions for examining collective ritual in child development	0
Cultural dissonance and consonance in mystical-type experiences: commentary on “Finding consonance: an integrative neurocognitive model of human relationships with supernatural agents”	0
The role of experience in making Gods and spirits real	0
Religion: the WEIRDest concept in the world?	0
Shamanism: psychopathology and psychotherapy	0
Why researchers should not ignore measurement error and skewness in questionnaire item scores	0
Cultural lessons missed and learnt about religion and culture	0
Comparing the three states of Dhikr, meditation, and thinking about God: an fMRI study	0
Continuity and credibility in the Cognitive Science of Religion	0
Frontal asymmetry and physiological responses in religious and spiritual problems with and without conversion	0
The ritual animal speaks again: a scientific study	0
Reflections on the scientific study of religion after the first decade of Religion, Brain & Behavior	0
The Evolution of Religion and Morality project: some modest reservations	0
Bridging the two cultures or re-rectifying incommensurability? A commentary on Ariel Gluklich’s The Joy of Religion	0
Broadening the scope and refining the precision of theistic relational spirituality	0
Reintroducing the direction of evolution	0
Depth vs. breadth: lessons from the Evolution of Religion and Morality project	0
God’s plan? The role of emotional repression in forming and sustaining religious beliefs	0
Rethinking the roots of human collective ritual	0
What kind of joy is religious joy?	0
Missing level of analysis?	0
(Non)automaticity of ritualized behavior	0
Toward an evolutionary-science based metaethics	0
Linking ritual transmission with the psychology of norm acquisition	0
The emergence of MSP vs. the spread of transcendentalist religion	0
Ritual, community, and conflict: reflections on the science of the social and its practical implications	0
Evolutionary ethics and adaptive atheism	0
On the benefits of philosophy and the scientific utility of “religious” disorders	0
Sex, value change and the erosion of religious adherence	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
Finding consonance	0
A systematic review of the association between religiousness and children’s prosociality	0
Modes Theory does not subsume previous ritual typologies	0
Religion as (Culturally) extended phenotype	0
Religion evolving: applying system theory to a case of blood libel	0
Scripture’s systemic imagination	0
Appeasing the (minds of) gods	0
Jingle-jangle? Spiritual voices, absorption, and proneness to hallucinations in Tanya Luhrmann’s “How God Becomes Real”	0
Eschatological personalism: a theological response	0
On breaking the cognitive science of religion and putting it back together again	0
Galton's problem and the limits of functionalism	0
Reflections on Patrick McNamara, religion, neuroscience, and the self: a new personalism	0
The economic – and anthropological? – view of supernatural institutions	0
Human rites: a commentary on The Ritual Animal	0

Collective action in wild chimpanzees provides further insight into the evolution of cooperative ritual behavior	0
A neuropsychological perspective on spiritual growth	0
The incompleteness of the evolutionary psychology description of religion	0
Autonomous neural network activation during religious worship experiences using heart rate variability measurements	0
Explaining religion from the inside-out	0
Beliefs, evolution, and psychiatric symptoms	0
Mapping the minds of participants: relationality and cultural schemas	0
Cross-cultural COVID-19 conspiracy thinking and religious, spiritual, and supernatural variables: a systematic review	0
Spirit Tech and the Nones	0
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 analyses	0
Sensing ghosts and other dangerous beings: uncertainty, sensory deprivation, and the feeling of presence	0
A systems theory of religion	0
The success story of the west, perceptual art, and the challenges of the Global East	0
Does moderation by perceived normativeness of religion occur at the individual level or the country level?	0
The varieties of pleasure and positive emotions in religious experience	0
Declining Catholicism and the ambiguity of Irish religiosity: what Hugh Turpin’s Unholy Catholic Ireland tells US about irreligion and morality in contemporary Ireland	0
Data-testing competing hypotheses for beginners: how can we ordinary mortals wade through the mathematics of religion?	0
Pierre Liénard (1968–2023)	0
Big comparison	0
What can we learn about pleasure from the study of religion?	0
Religion without scare quotes: cognitive science of religion and the humanities	0
Teilhard’s scientific holism: a reply to David Sloan Wilson	0
Similarities of experiential features associated with religiosity and mental disorders: exploring cognitive resources	0
Event cognition (not ecumenical naturalism) integrates individual and cultural differences	0
Did we all go together when we went? Considering the adaptive importance of risky joint action	0
Response: Secularization with Irish characteristics	0
Introducing a special issue on the role of moralizing gods in the evolution of socio-political complexity	0
Editorial note	0
Experiencing and believing in invisible others: anthropological and neurocognitive perspectives	0
Dancing devil’s advocates – the next challenges for testing cooperative signaling and collective ritual research	0
Formalized rituals may have preceded the emergence of religions	0
The view toward persons: personalism, neuroscience, and the present	0
On obscene and civil forms of nonreligion	0
Correction	0
It’s WEIRD how much Joseph Henrich needs computational simulation	0
Reply to commentators of “Re-introducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science”	0
Introducing the Many-Analysts Religion Project	0
The puzzles that remain	0
Resolving religious debates through a multiverse approach	0
On the benefits and ambiguities of “religious systems”	0
Reinterpreting the archaeological evidence: rituals as practical and specialized interventions	0
Cognitive bugs, alternative models, and new data	0
Henrich’s Weberian project	0
How does pleasure relate to the rest of experience? A pragmatist response to Glucklich	0
Introducing our new editors	0
Finding consonance: an integrative neurocognitive model of human relationships with supernatural agents	0
What defines a person?	0
Toward a neuroscience of divine bonding	0
Religion endures, but does it thrive?	0
Are religious rituals always causally opaque?	0
Computation of identity and social volatility in the ritual animal	0
Religious delight: a non-functional approach to playful religious experiences	0
Six good reasons why understanding religion requires a multidisciplinary approach: response to commentators	0
The promises and pitfalls of facilitated spiritual experiences for the study of religion	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
Correction	0
Quantifying religiosity: a comparison of approaches based on categorical self-identification and multidimensional measures of religious activity	0
A typology for understanding the usage and intentions of Spirit Tech consumers	0
Spiritual but not religious (SBNRs) and theists encounter spirit tech	0
Communicating cooperative intentions drove the selection of collective ritual in hominins	0
A contemporary interpretation of Teilhard’s law of complexity-consciousness	0
There and back again: the ritual animal and social anthropology	0
Diverse evolutionary strategies for explaining features of religions	0
Reflections on the strengths and shortcomings of our book	0
The Joy of Religion: author response to commentaries	0
First steps on a path to scientific maturity	0
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s enduring relevance	0
Unpackaging religion—the journey continues	0
Two questions for the cultural evolutionary science of religion	0
Religious systems evolving	0
Multiple origins for the evolution of collective rituals	0
Conscious evolution of the noösphere: hubris or necessity?	0
Local concerns aren’t always local: a broader view of local social ecologies provides greater explanatory power	0
The HADDs and the HADD-nots: mystical experiences and religion in evolution	0
Law-abiding citizens in the age of social distancing: religion and COVID-19 in South Korea	0
Religion and its evolution: signals, norms, and secret histories	0
Possession trance covaries with measures of social rigidity in the Ethnographic Atlas	0
A changing of the guard	0
Kin selection favors religious traditions: ancestor worship as a cultural descendant-leaving strategy	0