OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Religion Brain & Behavior is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Religion and the COVID-19 pandemic	79
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being	26
Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: a test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank	13
The moralization bias of gods’ minds: a cross-cultural test	13
Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data: a review and “retake”	12
Introducing the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales (FPTETS): a study among church leaders and church members	10
A cognitive account of manipulative sympathetic magic	9
A cross-cultural study of the elementary forms of religious life: shamanistic healers, priests, and witches	9
The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies	9
The sense of presence: lessons from virtual reality	9
Do religious and market-based institutions promote cooperation in Hadza hunter-gatherers?	8
Religion, paranormal beliefs, and meaning in life	7
Cigarettes for the dead: effects of sorcery beliefs on parochial prosociality in Mauritius	7
Mapping the scientific study of rituals: a bibliometric analysis of research published 2000–2020	6
Causal inference in regression: advice to authors	6
Complementing preregistered confirmatory analyses with rigorous, reproducible exploration using machine learning	6
Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities: a cross-cultural investigation	6
The Evolution of Religion and Morality project: reflections and looking ahead	5
The awe-prosociality relationship: evidence for the role of context	5
Individual-level changes in religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviors over three decades in the parental generation of the ALSPAC cohort, UK	4
The evolution of religiosity by kin selection	4
The campaign against COVID-19 in Nigeria: exploring church leaders’ role perception and action	4
A workflow for causal inference in cross-cultural psychology	4
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
Announcing a new type of manuscript submission: the “retake”	3
The interdependence of ancestors and their descendants	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
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
Many-analysts religion project: reflection and conclusion	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
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
When god is watching: dictator game results from the Sursurunga of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea	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
Gauging oneiromancy—the cognition of dream content and cultural transmission of (supernatural) divination	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
Mapping the minds of spectators during an extreme ritual: a network perspective	2
Affluence, agricultural productivity, and the rise of moralizing religion in the ancient Mediterranean	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
Being specific about generalisability	2
From supernatural punishment to big gods to puritanical religions: clarifying explanatory targets in the rise of moralizing religions	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
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
The end justifies all means: questionable conversion of different effect sizes to a common effect size measure	2
Fertility and faith: insights from human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and life history theory	2
How to understand a research question—a challenging first step in setting up a statistical model	2
Reintroducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science	2