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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Big comparison	59
Building better models: a cultural immunology approach	51
The interaction between forgiveness and resentment on mental health outcomes: two sides of the same coin?	22
How do culture and religion interact worldwide? A cultural match approach to understanding religiosity and well-being in the Many Analysts Religion Project	22
Scripture’s systemic imagination	21
Beyond the border: advancing the study of Catholic identities and orthopraxic religion in Southern and Northern Ireland	20
Missing level of analysis?	20
Local concerns aren’t always local: a broader view of local social ecologies provides greater explanatory power	16
How to understand a research question—a challenging first step in setting up a statistical model	14
The emergence of MSP vs. the spread of transcendentalist religion	12
An integrative neurocognitive model of human relations with supernatural agents, commentary to Balch, Grafman and McNamara	12
Commentary to MARP: how to increase the robustness of survey studies	11
Pierre Liénard (1968–2023)	9
Introducing a special issue on the role of moralizing gods in the evolution of socio-political complexity	9
Rational atheism revisited: a comment on Disbelief by Will Gervais	8
Religion endures, but does it thrive?	7
Religious people view both science and religion as less epistemically valuable than non-religious people view science	7
Are cultures immune systems or blueprints of a systemic design?	7
Do religious and market-based institutions promote cooperation in Hadza hunter-gatherers?	6
Where we go one we go all: CSR in the digital age	6
Frontal asymmetry and physiological responses in religious and spiritual problems with and without conversion	6
Coding, causality, and statistical craft: the emergence and evolutionary drivers of moralistic supernatural punishment remain unresolved	5
Cultural dissonance and consonance in mystical-type experiences: commentary on “Finding consonance: an integrative neurocognitive model of human relationships with supernatural agents”	5
Response: Secularization with Irish characteristics	5
A need to better understand the evolutionary process of beliefs about gods’ concerns	5

Assessing religion and spirituality in a cross-cultural sample: development of religion and spirituality items for the Global Flourishing Study	5
Conscious evolution of the noösphere: hubris or necessity?	5
Kin selection favors religious traditions: ancestor worship as a cultural descendant-leaving strategy	5
Some questions on the utility of transmission biases in ethnographic research	5
Multiple origins for the evolution of collective rituals	5
Henrich’s Weberian project	5
From multiverse analysis to multiverse operationalisations: 262,143 ways of measuring well-being	5
Toward a cultural immunology of religious systems	5
Rethinking the roots of human collective ritual	4
God, witchcraft, and beliefs about illness in Mauritius	4
Mapping the minds of participants: relationality and cultural schemas	4
Faith and fertility in evolutionary perspective	4
The role of religion in adolescent mental health: faith as a moderator of the relationship between distrust and depression	3
Toward an embodied cognitive science of religion: enaction, evolution, emergence	3
Formalized rituals may have preceded the emergence of religions	3
Predictive processing all the way down	3
Religion, Brain & Behavior adopts stricter transparency standards	3
A systematic review of the association between religiousness and children’s prosociality	3
The economic – and anthropological? – view of supernatural institutions	3
Perceptions of moralizing agents and cooperative behavior in Northeastern Brazil	3
The varieties of nonreligious experience: meaning in life among believers, non-believers, and the spiritual but not religious	3
The moralization bias of gods’ minds: a cross-cultural test	3
The campaign against COVID-19 in Nigeria: exploring church leaders’ role perception and action	3
“I once was blind”: experimental manipulation of religious attitudes via choice blindness	3
Prayer as collaborative problem solving	3
Cultural evolution of gods’ minds: response to commentators	2
Social interaction spheres, the self, and the meanings of “prediction”	2
Where does CSR go from here?	2
The evolution of religiosity by kin selection	2
The evolution of human ritual behavior as a cooperative signaling platform	2
Broadening the scope and refining the precision of theistic relational spirituality	2
The puzzles that remain	2
A contemporary interpretation of Teilhard’s law of complexity-consciousness	2
Depth vs. breadth: lessons from the Evolution of Religion and Morality project	2
Extraordinary-high rank expectation as a cognitive predisposition forming religion	2
The promises and pitfalls of facilitated spiritual experiences for the study of religion	2
Moving forward from “Fertility and Faith”	2
Less egocentric and a bit more allocentric—the path to greater well-being?	2
What defines a person?	2
Linking ritual transmission with the psychology of norm acquisition	2
Identifying and validating the “varieties” of spiritual experience	2
The success story of the west, perceptual art, and the challenges of the Global East	2
Diverse evolutionary strategies for explaining features of religions	2
Comparing the three states of Dhikr, meditation, and thinking about God: an fMRI study	2
Fertility and faith: insights from human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and life history theory	2
Keep the black box open: a case for complex and continuous representationalism	2
Reflections on Patrick McNamara, religion, neuroscience, and the self: a new personalism	2
Cigarettes for the dead: effects of sorcery beliefs on parochial prosociality in Mauritius	2