Religion Brain & Behavior

Article	Citations
Beliefs, evolution, and psychiatric symptoms	49
The interaction between forgiveness and resentment on mental health outcomes: two sides of the same coin?	31
Beyond the border: advancing the study of Catholic identities and orthopraxic religion in Southern and Northern Ireland	19
Big comparison	16
Scripture’s systemic imagination	15
How do culture and religion interact worldwide? A cultural match approach to understanding religiosity and well-being in the Many Analysts Religion Project	15
Pierre Liénard (1968–2023)	15
Introducing a special issue on the role of moralizing gods in the evolution of socio-political complexity	14
Missing level of analysis?	12
The emergence of MSP vs. the spread of transcendentalist religion	11
Local concerns aren’t always local: a broader view of local social ecologies provides greater explanatory power	11
Commentary to MARP: how to increase the robustness of survey studies	10
Religious people view both science and religion as less epistemically valuable than non-religious people view science	9
An integrative neurocognitive model of human relations with supernatural agents, commentary to Balch, Grafman and McNamara	8
How to understand a research question—a challenging first step in setting up a statistical model	8
Coding, causality, and statistical craft: the emergence and evolutionary drivers of moralistic supernatural punishment remain unresolved	7
From multiverse analysis to multiverse operationalisations: 262,143 ways of measuring well-being	7
Religion endures, but does it thrive?	7
Commentary on Hearing voices and other matters of mind: What mental abnormalities teach us about religions by Robert McCauley and George Graham	6
Do religious and market-based institutions promote cooperation in Hadza hunter-gatherers?	6
Assessing religion and spirituality in a cross-cultural sample: development of religion and spirituality items for the Global Flourishing Study	6
Frontal asymmetry and physiological responses in religious and spiritual problems with and without conversion	6
Multiple origins for the evolution of collective rituals	6
Henrich’s Weberian project	5
Conscious evolution of the noösphere: hubris or necessity?	5

Cultural dissonance and consonance in mystical-type experiences: commentary on “Finding consonance: an integrative neurocognitive model of human relationships with supernatural agents”	4
Response: Secularization with Irish characteristics	4
Mapping the minds of participants: relationality and cultural schemas	4
A need to better understand the evolutionary process of beliefs about gods’ concerns	4
Some questions on the utility of transmission biases in ethnographic research	4
Kin selection favors religious traditions: ancestor worship as a cultural descendant-leaving strategy	4
Diverse evolutionary strategies for explaining features of religions	3
The economic – and anthropological? – view of supernatural institutions	3
Perceptions of moralizing agents and cooperative behavior in Northeastern Brazil	3
The campaign against COVID-19 in Nigeria: exploring church leaders’ role perception and action	3
Causal inference in regression: advice to authors	3
Depth vs. breadth: lessons from the Evolution of Religion and Morality project	3
The role of religion in adolescent mental health: faith as a moderator of the relationship between distrust and depression	3
Prayer as collaborative problem solving	3
God, witchcraft, and beliefs about illness in Mauritius	3
Toward an embodied cognitive science of religion: enaction, evolution, emergence	3
A systematic review of the association between religiousness and children’s prosociality	3
Religion, Brain & Behavior adopts stricter transparency standards	3
The success story of the west, perceptual art, and the challenges of the Global East	3
Faith and fertility in evolutionary perspective	3
Rethinking the roots of human collective ritual	3
Formalized rituals may have preceded the emergence of religions	3
Comparing the three states of Dhikr, meditation, and thinking about God: an fMRI study	3
The moralization bias of gods’ minds: a cross-cultural test	3
The promises and pitfalls of facilitated spiritual experiences for the study of religion	2
Less egocentric and a bit more allocentric—the path to greater well-being?	2
Reintroducing the direction of evolution	2
Keep the black box open: a case for complex and continuous representationalism	2
The poverty of contentless culture	2
Reflections on Patrick McNamara, religion, neuroscience, and the self: a new personalism	2
A contemporary interpretation of Teilhard’s law of complexity-consciousness	2
Broadening the scope and refining the precision of theistic relational spirituality	2
Where does CSR go from here?	2
Cultural evolution of gods’ minds: response to commentators	2
The evolution of human ritual behavior as a cooperative signaling platform	2
God is up and devil is down: mortality salience increases implicit spatial-religious associations	2
The puzzles that remain	2
Linking ritual transmission with the psychology of norm acquisition	2
The evolution of religiosity by kin selection	2
Moving forward from “Fertility and Faith”	2
Identifying and validating the “varieties” of spiritual experience	2
Cigarettes for the dead: effects of sorcery beliefs on parochial prosociality in Mauritius	2
The agency of women in secularization	2
What defines a person?	2
Fertility and faith: insights from human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and life history theory	2
Collective action in wild chimpanzees provides further insight into the evolution of cooperative ritual behavior	1
Gradualist change or sudden collapse? Religious decline and residual religiosity in Ireland	1
Mapping the minds of spectators during an extreme ritual: a network perspective	1
Moralistic and local god beliefs and the extent of prosocial preferences on Tanna Island, Vanuatu	1
Did we all go together when we went? Considering the adaptive importance of risky joint action	1

Editorial note	1
Moralizing gods, local gods, and complexity in Hindu god concepts: evidence from South India	1
Why do great and little traditions coexist in the world’s doctrinal religions?	1
On breaking NOMA, and the dangers of technologically-enhanced flower chains: a commentary on Spirit Tech	1
When evaluating gods, US Prolific workers prioritize efficacy rather than perfection	1
Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: a test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank	1
On the benefits and ambiguities of “religious systems”	1
It’s WEIRD how much Joseph Henrich needs computational simulation	1
Predictive processing v. 4e cognition (for those who care)	1
Representation without representationalism	1
The Evolution of Religion and Morality project: some modest reservations	1
Measurement issues in the many analysts religion project	1
Harnessing the power of rituals: suggestions for future work	1
Possession trance covaries with measures of social rigidity in the Ethnographic Atlas	1
Impact of religiosity and supernatural belief on individuals’ visitation to religious healers	1
Post-Pandemic Religion	1
Interpreting the rapidly changing landscape of spirit tech	1
Instrumentality, empiricism, and rationality in Nuosu divination	1
Six good reasons why understanding religion requires a multidisciplinary approach: response to commentators	1
Religion’s Hilbert problems, ten years later: progress, pitfalls, and new horizons	1
Enacting the religious mind: a multi-level process	1
Ritual, community, and conflict: reflections on the science of the social and its practical implications	1
Declining Catholicism and the ambiguity of Irish religiosity: what Hugh Turpin’s Unholy Catholic Ireland tells US about irreligion and morality in contemporary Ireland	1
Challenges in modeling local manifestations of a global template	1
Galton's problem and the limits of functionalism	1
Two questions for the cultural evolutionary science of religion	1
Shamanic and doctrinal: Dunbar and the spiritual turn in contemporary religion	1
Computation of identity and social volatility in the ritual animal	1
Big Gods and big science: further reflections on theory, data, and analysis	1
“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	1
The sense of presence: lessons from virtual reality	1
War, “the Father of All”—including moralizing religions?	1
Maternal religiosity and social support to mothers: helpers’ religious identity matters	1
Autonomous neural network activation during religious worship experiences using heart rate variability measurements	1
Steps towards a more holistic, dynamic and integrative approach to the evolution of religious systems	1
Finding consonance	1
First steps on a path to scientific maturity	1
Religion without scare quotes: cognitive science of religion and the humanities	1
Invisible humans and their gods	0
Replacing the irreplaceable	0
Guiding the evolution of the evolutionary sciences of religion: a discussion	0
Gauging oneiromancy—the cognition of dream content and cultural transmission of (supernatural) divination	0
Teilhard’s scientific holism: a reply to David Sloan Wilson	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
Sensing ghosts and other dangerous beings: uncertainty, sensory deprivation, and the feeling of presence	0
Testing the religion/spirituality-mental health curvilinear hypothesis using data from many-analysts religion project	0
On obscene and civil forms of nonreligion	0
Adaptive signaling in a lineage explanation, needs to be adaptive	0
Quantifying religiosity: a comparison of approaches based on categorical self-identification and multidimensional measures of religious activity	0
When god is watching: dictator game results from the Sursurunga of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea	0
Law-abiding citizens in the age of social distancing: religion and COVID-19 in South Korea	0
God’s plan? The role of emotional repression in forming and sustaining religious beliefs	0
There and back again: the ritual animal and social anthropology	0
Spiritual but not religious (SBNRs) and theists encounter spirit tech	0
Global fertility and the future of religion: addressing empirical and theoretical challenges	0
Eschatological personalism: a theological response	0
The end justifies all means: questionable conversion of different effect sizes to a common effect size measure	0
The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies	0
Mimesis and the origins of religion	0
The trajectory of psychedelic, spiritual, and psychotic experiences: implications for cognitive scientific perspectives on religion	0
Human rites: a commentary on The Ritual Animal	0
Responding to a Variety of Comments on The Varieties	0
The roles of anthropomorphism, spirituality, and gratitude in pro-environmental attitudes	0
Introducing the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales (FPTETS): a study among church leaders and church members	0
Explaining religion from the inside-out	0
Reintroducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science	0
Linking the fertility and secular transitions	0
Cognitive bugs, alternative models, and new data	0
Sex, value change and the erosion of religious adherence	0
A workflow for causal inference in cross-cultural psychology	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
Religion evolving: applying system theory to a case of blood libel	0
Are religious rituals always causally opaque?	0
WEIRD people and the Western Church: who made whom?	0
Individual-level changes in religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviors over three decades in the parental generation of the ALSPAC cohort, UK	0
Dancing devil’s advocates – the next challenges for testing cooperative signaling and collective ritual research	0
Communicating cooperative intentions drove the selection of collective ritual in hominins	0
William James on overbeliefs: the relation with self-deception, placebo-effects, and make-believe	0
Quantifying potential selection bias in observational research: simulations and Analyses exploring religion and depression using a prospective UK cohort study (ALSPAC)	0

A welcome intervention, but stops just where things will get interesting	0
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being	0
On the benefits of philosophy and the scientific utility of “religious” disorders	0
Different facets, different results: the importance of considering the multidimensionality of constructs	0
Disentangling the relationships between religion and fertility	0
The view toward persons: personalism, neuroscience, and the present	0
Testing the enactive model of agency detection—a commentary on Teehan	0
A systems theory of religion	0
Integrating culture into the cognitive science of religion	0
Jingle-jangle? Spiritual voices, absorption, and proneness to hallucinations in Tanya Luhrmann’s “How God Becomes Real”	0
Affluence, agricultural productivity, and the rise of moralizing religion in the ancient Mediterranean	0
American mental models of scientific versus theological prestige: a freelist analysis	0
Caring about you: the motivational component of mentalizing, not the mental state attribution component, predicts religious belief in Japan	0
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s enduring relevance	0
The role of absorption in making God real	0
Shamanism: psychopathology and psychotherapy	0
Why researchers should not ignore measurement error and skewness in questionnaire item scores	0
Appealing to the minds of gods: religious beliefs and appeals correspond to features of local social ecologies	0
Correction	0
The awe-prosociality relationship: evidence for the role of context	0
Unpackaging religion—the journey continues	0
Religious coalitions and competition among complex adaptive systems	0
A cognitive account of manipulative sympathetic magic	0
Religion: the WEIRDest concept in the world?	0
Resolving religious debates through a multiverse approach	0
Spirit Tech and the Nones	0
The Database of Religious History (DRH): ontology, coding strategies and the future of cultural evolutionary analyses	0
On breaking the cognitive science of religion and putting it back together again	0
Religious systems evolving	0
Similarities of experiential features associated with religiosity and mental disorders: exploring cognitive resources	0
(Non)automaticity of ritualized behavior	0
Moving beyond the neuroanatomy of religious experience: a commentary on McNamara’s thoughts on personalism, technology, and the Eschaton	0
Teilhard’s teleology: his greatest spiritual strength, and greatest scientific weakness	0
Complementing preregistered confirmatory analyses with rigorous, reproducible exploration using machine learning	0
Reply to commentators of “Re-introducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science”	0
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	0
How much do models of human cognition matter in the study of religious systems?	0
Science and religion around the world: compatibility between belief systems predicts increased well-being	0
Event cognition (not ecumenical naturalism) integrates individual and cultural differences	0
Commentary On the varieties of spiritual experience: Jimmy or James? Act III cannot have two directors	0
WEIRD Indeed, but there is more to the story: anthropological reflections on Henrich’s “The Weirdest people in the world”	0
Being specific about generalisability	0
Many-analysts religion project: reflection and conclusion	0
The places of agency detection and predictive processing in the ontogenesis of religious belief; and “Who put the ‘H’ in the HADD?”	0
Kiwi Diwali: a longitudinal investigation of perceived social connection following a civic religious ritual	0
Introducing our new editors	0
Walking the walk of religion and nonreligion: notes on Turpin’s Unholy Catholic Ireland: Religious hypocrisy, secular morality, and Irish irreligion	0
Mapping the scientific study of rituals: a bibliometric analysis of research published 2000–2020	0
Cross-cultural COVID-19 conspiracy thinking and religious, spiritual, and supernatural variables: a systematic review	0
Appeasing the (minds of) gods	0
Signatures of neuroinflammation in the hippocampus and amygdala in individuals with religious or spiritual problem	0
Introducing the Many-Analysts Religion Project	0
Introducing a special issue on phase two of the Evolution of Religion and Morality project	0
Two kinds of presence (at least): a commentary on T.M. Luhrmann’s “How God Becomes Real”	0
Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data: a review and “retake”	0
Finding consonance: an integrative neurocognitive model of human relationships with supernatural agents	0
The impact (or lack thereof) of analysis choice on conclusions with Likert data from the Many Analysts Religion Project	0
In defense of thin descriptions: reflections on some methodological themes in Harvey Whitehouse’s The Ritual Animal	0
The ritual animal speaks again: a scientific study	0
A half-Irish exit	0
Dataset of Integrated Measures of Religion (DIM-R). Harmonization of religiosity data from selected international multiwave surveys	0
Cooperative signaling in the sandbox: Future directions for examining collective ritual in child development	0
Prosociality and Pentecostalism in the D.R. Congo	0
San trance dance: embodied experience and neurological mechanisms	0
Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities: a cross-cultural investigation	0
Accordance and conflict between religious and scientific precautions against COVID-19 in 27 societies	0
What exactly is the “spirit” of enactivism?	0
Modes Theory does not subsume previous ritual typologies	0
Many analysts and few incentives	0
Toward a neuroscience of divine bonding	0
The role of experience in making Gods and spirits real	0
Laying foundations for eCSR: a few remarks on the coupling of bodies, the experiential origin of concepts, and treating phenomenology seriously	0
A changing of the guard	0
Fertility and faith: The danger of a grand narrative	0
Cultural lessons missed and learnt about religion and culture	0
Reinterpreting the archaeological evidence: rituals as practical and specialized interventions	0
Correction	0
The interdependence of ancestors and their descendants	0
The Evolution of Religion and Morality project: reflections and looking ahead	0
The HADDs and the HADD-nots: mystical experiences and religion in evolution	0
Does moderation by perceived normativeness of religion occur at the individual level or the country level?	0
Advantages of using multilevel modeling approaches for the many analysts religion project	0
Experiencing and believing in invisible others: anthropological and neurocognitive perspectives	0
Continuity and credibility in the Cognitive Science of Religion	0
The mouth of God: the impact of religious training on story recall in Tibetan Buddhists	0
From supernatural punishment to big gods to puritanical religions: clarifying explanatory targets in the rise of moralizing religions	0
Religion facilitates cooperation in health care sharing ministries	0
A typology for understanding the usage and intentions of Spirit Tech consumers	0
Data-testing competing hypotheses for beginners: how can we ordinary mortals wade through the mathematics of religion?	0