Religion Brain & Behavior

Article	Citations
A systematic review of the association between religiousness and children’s prosociality	40
(Non)automaticity of ritualized behavior	15
Event cognition (not ecumenical naturalism) integrates individual and cultural differences	14
The Evolution of Religion and Morality project: some modest reservations	13
Big comparison	13
Global fertility and the future of religion: addressing empirical and theoretical challenges	12
Caring about you: the motivational component of mentalizing, not the mental state attribution component, predicts religious belief in Japan	11
A workflow for causal inference in cross-cultural psychology	10
Beyond the border: advancing the study of Catholic identities and orthopraxic religion in Southern and Northern Ireland	9
Dataset of Integrated Measures of Religion (DIM-R). Harmonization of religiosity data from selected international multiwave surveys	9
Comparing the three states of Dhikr, meditation, and thinking about God: an fMRI study	8
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.”	7
Spiritual but not religious (SBNRs) and theists encounter spirit tech	7
Prosociality and Pentecostalism in the D.R. Congo	7
Beliefs, evolution, and psychiatric symptoms	7
Two kinds of presence (at least): a commentary on T.M. Luhrmann’s “How God Becomes Real”	7
Reply to commentators of “Re-introducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science”	6
The interaction between forgiveness and resentment on mental health outcomes: two sides of the same coin?	6
Religious coalitions and competition among complex adaptive systems	6
Scripture’s systemic imagination	6
How do culture and religion interact worldwide? A cultural match approach to understanding religiosity and well-being in the Many Analysts Religion Project	6
Causal inference in regression: advice to authors	5
Does moderation by perceived normativeness of religion occur at the individual level or the country level?	5
The awe-prosociality relationship: evidence for the role of context	4
Mimesis and the origins of religion	4

The role of absorption in making God real	4
The HADDs and the HADD-nots: mystical experiences and religion in evolution	4
God’s plan? The role of emotional repression in forming and sustaining religious beliefs	4
Adaptive signaling in a lineage explanation, needs to be adaptive	3
Religion, Brain & Behavior adopts stricter transparency standards	3
Religion: the WEIRDest concept in the world?	3
Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities: a cross-cultural investigation	3
In defense of thin descriptions: reflections on some methodological themes in Harvey Whitehouse’s The Ritual Animal	3
A half-Irish exit	3
Integrating culture into the cognitive science of religion	3
Appealing to the minds of gods: religious beliefs and appeals correspond to features of local social ecologies	3
Are religious rituals always causally opaque?	3
The moralization bias of gods’ minds: a cross-cultural test	3
Collective action in wild chimpanzees provides further insight into the evolution of cooperative ritual behavior	3
Reinterpreting the archaeological evidence: rituals as practical and specialized interventions	3
Reintroducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science	3
Two questions for the cultural evolutionary science of religion	3
On obscene and civil forms of nonreligion	3
The role of experience in making Gods and spirits real	2
Diverse evolutionary strategies for explaining features of religions	2
On breaking the cognitive science of religion and putting it back together again	2
Missing level of analysis?	2
On the benefits and ambiguities of “religious systems”	2
The emergence of MSP vs. the spread of transcendentalist religion	2
Commentary to MARP: how to increase the robustness of survey studies	2
A typology for understanding the usage and intentions of Spirit Tech consumers	2
Pierre Liénard (1968–2023)	2
The Evolution of Religion and Morality project: reflections and looking ahead	2
Introducing a special issue on the role of moralizing gods in the evolution of socio-political complexity	2
From supernatural punishment to big gods to puritanical religions: clarifying explanatory targets in the rise of moralizing religions	2
An explicit religious label impacts visual adaptation to Christian and Muslim faces	2
Depth vs. breadth: lessons from the Evolution of Religion and Morality project	2
The success story of the west, perceptual art, and the challenges of the Global East	2
Moving forward from “Fertility and Faith”	2
How is analytical thinking related to religious belief? A test of three theoretical models	2
Celebrating the uninvited	2
Challenges in modeling local manifestations of a global template	2
Science and religion around the world: compatibility between belief systems predicts increased well-being	2
Spirit Tech and the Nones	2
Multiple origins for the evolution of collective rituals	1
Religion endures, but does it thrive?	1
A contemporary interpretation of Teilhard’s law of complexity-consciousness	1
Religious people view both science and religion as less epistemically valuable than non-religious people view science	1
Moving beyond the neuroanatomy of religious experience: a commentary on McNamara’s thoughts on personalism, technology, and the Eschaton	1
Unpackaging religion—the journey continues	1
Where does CSR go from here?	1
How to understand a research question—a challenging first step in setting up a statistical model	1
Predictive processing v. 4e cognition (for those who care)	1
Explaining religion from the inside-out	1
Many analysts and few incentives	1

Human rites: a commentary on The Ritual Animal	1
The mouth of God: the impact of religious training on story recall in Tibetan Buddhists	1
Cultural evolution of gods’ minds: response to commentators	1
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	1
An integrative neurocognitive model of human relations with supernatural agents, commentary to Balch, Grafman and McNamara	1
Experiencing and believing in invisible others: anthropological and neurocognitive perspectives	1
Steps towards a more holistic, dynamic and integrative approach to the evolution of religious systems	1
Dancing devil’s advocates – the next challenges for testing cooperative signaling and collective ritual research	1
Religion evolving: applying system theory to a case of blood libel	1
The evolution of religiosity by kin selection	1
Sex, value change and the erosion of religious adherence	1
Cultural lessons missed and learnt about religion and culture	1
Similarities of experiential features associated with religiosity and mental disorders: exploring cognitive resources	1
The view toward persons: personalism, neuroscience, and the present	1
Local concerns aren’t always local: a broader view of local social ecologies provides greater explanatory power	1
The roles of anthropomorphism, spirituality, and gratitude in pro-environmental attitudes	1
Coding, causality, and statistical craft: the emergence and evolutionary drivers of moralistic supernatural punishment remain unresolved	1
Gauging oneiromancy—the cognition of dream content and cultural transmission of (supernatural) divination	1
Mapping the scientific study of rituals: a bibliometric analysis of research published 2000–2020	1
Complementing preregistered confirmatory analyses with rigorous, reproducible exploration using machine learning	1
Representation without representationalism	1
Why do great and little traditions coexist in the world’s doctrinal religions?	1
Commentary on Hearing voices and other matters of mind: What mental abnormalities teach us about religions by Robert McCauley and George Graham	1
Introducing our new editors	1
The promises and pitfalls of facilitated spiritual experiences for the study of religion	1
What exactly is the “spirit” of enactivism?	1
A welcome intervention, but stops just where things will get interesting	0
Affluence, agricultural productivity, and the rise of moralizing religion in the ancient Mediterranean	0
The evolution of human ritual behavior as a cooperative signaling platform	0
Impact of religiosity and supernatural belief on individuals’ visitation to religious healers	0
Formalized rituals may have preceded the emergence of religions	0
Some questions on the utility of transmission biases in ethnographic research	0
The varieties of pleasure and positive emotions in religious experience	0
It’s WEIRD how much Joseph Henrich needs computational simulation	0
Faith and fertility in evolutionary perspective	0
Moralizing gods, local gods, and complexity in Hindu god concepts: evidence from South India	0
Teilhard’s teleology: his greatest spiritual strength, and greatest scientific weakness	0
Religious delight: a non-functional approach to playful religious experiences	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
Rethinking the roots of human collective ritual	0
Linking ritual transmission with the psychology of norm acquisition	0
The campaign against COVID-19 in Nigeria: exploring church leaders’ role perception and action	0
Cooperative signaling in the sandbox: Future directions for examining collective ritual in child development	0
Do religious and market-based institutions promote cooperation in Hadza hunter-gatherers?	0
The impact (or lack thereof) of analysis choice on conclusions with Likert data from the Many Analysts Religion Project	0
Different facets, different results: the importance of considering the multidimensionality of constructs	0
Mapping the minds of participants: relationality and cultural schemas	0
Signatures of neuroinflammation in the hippocampus and amygdala in individuals with religious or spiritual problem	0
Post-Pandemic Religion	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
How much do models of human cognition matter in the study of religious systems?	0
Less egocentric and a bit more allocentric—the path to greater well-being?	0
God, witchcraft, and beliefs about illness in Mauritius	0
A need to better understand the evolutionary process of beliefs about gods’ concerns	0
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being	0
What can we learn about pleasure from the study of religion?	0
Response: Secularization with Irish characteristics	0
San trance dance: embodied experience and neurological mechanisms	0
What kind of joy is religious joy?	0
WEIRD people and the Western Church: who made whom?	0
Galton's problem and the limits of functionalism	0
Law-abiding citizens in the age of social distancing: religion and COVID-19 in South Korea	0
On breaking NOMA, and the dangers of technologically-enhanced flower chains: a commentary on Spirit Tech	0
Introducing the Many-Analysts Religion Project	0
Religion and well-being in Indonesia: exploring the role of religion in a society where being atheist is not an option	0
A neuropsychological perspective on spiritual growth	0
Teilhard’s scientific holism: a reply to David Sloan Wilson	0
Finding consonance: an integrative neurocognitive model of human relationships with supernatural agents	0
Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: a test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank	0
Computation of identity and social volatility in the ritual animal	0
Ritual, community, and conflict: reflections on the science of the social and its practical implications	0
Replacing the irreplaceable	0
Invisible humans and their gods	0
Fertility and faith: insights from human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and life history theory	0
The economic – and anthropological? – view of supernatural institutions	0
American mental models of scientific versus theological prestige: a freelist analysis	0
Keep the black box open: a case for complex and continuous representationalism	0
The Database of Religious History (DRH): ontology, coding strategies and the future of cultural evolutionary analyses	0
Frontal asymmetry and physiological responses in religious and spiritual problems with and without conversion	0

Disentangling the relationships between religion and fertility	0
Toward a neuroscience of divine bonding	0
Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data: a review and “retake”	0
The Joy of Religion: author response to commentaries	0
Identifying and validating the “varieties” of spiritual experience	0
Editorial note	0
The ritual animal speaks again: a scientific study	0
Did we all go together when we went? Considering the adaptive importance of risky joint action	0
The sense of presence: lessons from virtual reality	0
How does pleasure relate to the rest of experience? A pragmatist response to Glucklich	0
The interdependence of ancestors and their descendants	0
Shamanism: psychopathology and psychotherapy	0
Religious systems evolving	0
Autonomous neural network activation during religious worship experiences using heart rate variability measurements	0
The end justifies all means: questionable conversion of different effect sizes to a common effect size measure	0
Accordance and conflict between religious and scientific precautions against COVID-19 in 27 societies	0
Six good reasons why understanding religion requires a multidisciplinary approach: response to commentators	0
Why researchers should not ignore measurement error and skewness in questionnaire item scores	0
Laying foundations for eCSR: a few remarks on the coupling of bodies, the experiential origin of concepts, and treating phenomenology seriously	0
Individual-level changes in religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviors over three decades in the parental generation of the ALSPAC cohort, UK	0
Kiwi Diwali: a longitudinal investigation of perceived social connection following a civic religious ritual	0
War, “the Father of All”—including moralizing religions?	0
What defines a person?	0
The role of religion in adolescent mental health: faith as a moderator of the relationship between distrust and depression	0
Commentary On the varieties of spiritual experience: Jimmy or James? Act III cannot have two directors	0
Responding to a Variety of Comments on The Varieties	0
Reintroducing the direction of evolution	0
Finding consonance	0
When god is watching: dictator game results from the Sursurunga of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea	0
Quantifying potential selection bias in observational research: simulations and Analyses exploring religion and depression using a prospective UK cohort study (ALSPAC)	0
God is up and devil is down: mortality salience increases implicit spatial-religious associations	0
A changing of the guard	0
Testing the religion/spirituality-mental health curvilinear hypothesis using data from many-analysts religion project	0
Assessing religion and spirituality in a cross-cultural sample: development of religion and spirituality items for the Global Flourishing Study	0
Jingle-jangle? Spiritual voices, absorption, and proneness to hallucinations in Tanya Luhrmann’s “How God Becomes Real”	0
Advantages of using multilevel modeling approaches for the many analysts religion project	0
Sensing ghosts and other dangerous beings: uncertainty, sensory deprivation, and the feeling of presence	0
Shamanic and doctrinal: Dunbar and the spiritual turn in contemporary religion	0
Possession trance covaries with measures of social rigidity in the Ethnographic Atlas	0
Reflections on Patrick McNamara, religion, neuroscience, and the self: a new personalism	0
Moralistic and local god beliefs and the extent of prosocial preferences on Tanna Island, Vanuatu	0
Linking the fertility and secular transitions	0
Correction	0
The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies	0
The poverty of contentless culture	0
Gradualist change or sudden collapse? Religious decline and residual religiosity in Ireland	0
Enacting the religious mind: a multi-level process	0
Big Gods and big science: further reflections on theory, data, and analysis	0
Resolving religious debates through a multiverse approach	0
Interpreting the rapidly changing landscape of spirit tech	0
Appeasing the (minds of) gods	0
On the benefits of philosophy and the scientific utility of “religious” disorders	0
Eschatological personalism: a theological response	0
Instrumentality, empiricism, and rationality in Nuosu divination	0
Bridging the two cultures or re-rectifying incommensurability? A commentary on Ariel Gluklich’s The Joy of Religion	0
The incompleteness of the evolutionary psychology description of religion	0
Toward an embodied cognitive science of religion: enaction, evolution, emergence	0
Fertility and faith: The danger of a grand narrative	0
Introducing a special issue on phase two of the Evolution of Religion and Morality project	0
Religion as (Culturally) extended phenotype	0
Kin selection favors religious traditions: ancestor worship as a cultural descendant-leaving strategy	0
Cognitive bugs, alternative models, and new data	0
Cigarettes for the dead: effects of sorcery beliefs on parochial prosociality in Mauritius	0
The trajectory of psychedelic, spiritual, and psychotic experiences: implications for cognitive scientific perspectives on religion	0
Quantifying religiosity: a comparison of approaches based on categorical self-identification and multidimensional measures of religious activity	0
Being specific about generalisability	0
Guiding the evolution of the evolutionary sciences of religion: a discussion	0
Cultural dissonance and consonance in mystical-type experiences: commentary on “Finding consonance: an integrative neurocognitive model of human relationships with supernatural agents”	0
There and back again: the ritual animal and social anthropology	0
Testing the enactive model of agency detection—a commentary on Teehan	0
Religion without scare quotes: cognitive science of religion and the humanities	0
Walking the walk of religion and nonreligion: notes on Turpin’s Unholy Catholic Ireland: Religious hypocrisy, secular morality, and Irish irreligion	0
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s enduring relevance	0
Henrich’s Weberian project	0
Communicating cooperative intentions drove the selection of collective ritual in hominins	0
Correction	0
WEIRD Indeed, but there is more to the story: anthropological reflections on Henrich’s “The Weirdest people in the world”	0
Conscious evolution of the noösphere: hubris or necessity?	0
Broadening the scope and refining the precision of theistic relational spirituality	0
Modes Theory does not subsume previous ritual typologies	0
Introducing the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales (FPTETS): a study among church leaders and church members	0
The puzzles that remain	0
Prayer as collaborative problem solving	0
First steps on a path to scientific maturity	0
Mapping the minds of spectators during an extreme ritual: a network perspective	0
Cross-cultural COVID-19 conspiracy thinking and religious, spiritual, and supernatural variables: a systematic review	0
William James on overbeliefs: the relation with self-deception, placebo-effects, and make-believe	0
From multiverse analysis to multiverse operationalisations: 262,143 ways of measuring well-being	0
Many-analysts religion project: reflection and conclusion	0
Harnessing the power of rituals: suggestions for future work	0
The places of agency detection and predictive processing in the ontogenesis of religious belief; and “Who put the ‘H’ in the HADD?”	0
Measurement issues in the many analysts religion project	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
Continuity and credibility in the Cognitive Science of Religion	0
Perceptions of moralizing agents and cooperative behavior in Northeastern Brazil	0