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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A systematic review of the association between religiousness and children’s prosociality	47
Event cognition (not ecumenical naturalism) integrates individual and cultural differences	16
Big comparison	15
The Evolution of Religion and Morality project: some modest reservations	14
Global fertility and the future of religion: addressing empirical and theoretical challenges	13
The interaction between forgiveness and resentment on mental health outcomes: two sides of the same coin?	12
Reply to commentators of “Re-introducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science”	12
Beyond the border: advancing the study of Catholic identities and orthopraxic religion in Southern and Northern Ireland	11
Comparing the three states of Dhikr, meditation, and thinking about God: an fMRI study	10
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.”	9
Prosociality and Pentecostalism in the D.R. Congo	9
Beliefs, evolution, and psychiatric symptoms	9
Spiritual but not religious (SBNRs) and theists encounter spirit tech	9
Scripture’s systemic imagination	8
Religious coalitions and competition among complex adaptive systems	7
Does moderation by perceived normativeness of religion occur at the individual level or the country level?	7
How do culture and religion interact worldwide? A cultural match approach to understanding religiosity and well-being in the Many Analysts Religion Project	7
Causal inference in regression: advice to authors	7
Mimesis and the origins of religion	6
Collective action in wild chimpanzees provides further insight into the evolution of cooperative ritual behavior	6
The HADDs and the HADD-nots: mystical experiences and religion in evolution	6
Integrating culture into the cognitive science of religion	6
The role of absorption in making God real	6
Religion, Brain & Behavior adopts stricter transparency standards	5
A half-Irish exit	5

Caring about you: the motivational component of mentalizing, not the mental state attribution component, predicts religious belief in Japan	4
Reinterpreting the archaeological evidence: rituals as practical and specialized interventions	4
Two kinds of presence (at least): a commentary on T.M. Luhrmann’s “How God Becomes Real”	4
Dataset of Integrated Measures of Religion (DIM-R). Harmonization of religiosity data from selected international multiwave surveys	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 awe-prosociality relationship: evidence for the role of context	3
Adaptive signaling in a lineage explanation, needs to be adaptive	3
(Non)automaticity of ritualized behavior	3
The moralization bias of gods’ minds: a cross-cultural test	3
Two questions for the cultural evolutionary science of religion	3
Reintroducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science	3
Religion: the WEIRDest concept in the world?	3
God’s plan? The role of emotional repression in forming and sustaining religious beliefs	3
In defense of thin descriptions: reflections on some methodological themes in Harvey Whitehouse’s The Ritual Animal	3
Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities: a cross-cultural investigation	3
A workflow for causal inference in cross-cultural psychology	3
Missing level of analysis?	2
On the benefits and ambiguities of “religious systems”	2
On obscene and civil forms of nonreligion	2
Challenges in modeling local manifestations of a global template	2
Moving forward from “Fertility and Faith”	2
The success story of the west, perceptual art, and the challenges of the Global East	2
A typology for understanding the usage and intentions of Spirit Tech consumers	2
Introducing a special issue on the role of moralizing gods in the evolution of socio-political complexity	2
When evaluating gods, US Prolific workers prioritize efficacy rather than perfection	2
On breaking the cognitive science of religion and putting it back together again	2
Science and religion around the world: compatibility between belief systems predicts increased well-being	2
Pierre Liénard (1968–2023)	2
Religious people view both science and religion as less epistemically valuable than non-religious people view science	2
Depth vs. breadth: lessons from the Evolution of Religion and Morality project	2
The Evolution of Religion and Morality project: reflections and looking ahead	2
The emergence of MSP vs. the spread of transcendentalist religion	2
The evolution of religiosity by kin selection	2
Celebrating the uninvited	2
Commentary to MARP: how to increase the robustness of survey studies	2
Diverse evolutionary strategies for explaining features of religions	2
The roles of anthropomorphism, spirituality, and gratitude in pro-environmental attitudes	2