Religion Brain & Behavior

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
Reply to commentators of “Re-introducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science”	12
The interaction between forgiveness and resentment on mental health outcomes: two sides of the same coin?	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
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
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
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
Sex, value change and the erosion of religious adherence	1
Religion endures, but does it thrive?	1
Religion evolving: applying system theory to a case of blood libel	1
The promises and pitfalls of facilitated spiritual experiences for the study of religion	1
Steps towards a more holistic, dynamic and integrative approach to the evolution of religious systems	1
Introducing our new editors	1
Local concerns aren’t always local: a broader view of local social ecologies provides greater explanatory power	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
Individual-level changes in religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviors over three decades in the parental generation of the ALSPAC cohort, UK	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
Mapping the scientific study of rituals: a bibliometric analysis of research published 2000–2020	1

What exactly is the “spirit” of enactivism?	1
Commentary on Hearing voices and other matters of mind: What mental abnormalities teach us about religions by Robert McCauley and George Graham	1
From supernatural punishment to big gods to puritanical religions: clarifying explanatory targets in the rise of moralizing religions	1
Unpackaging religion—the journey continues	1
An integrative neurocognitive model of human relations with supernatural agents, commentary to Balch, Grafman and McNamara	1
Why do great and little traditions coexist in the world’s doctrinal religions?	1
Explaining religion from the inside-out	1
Spirit Tech and the Nones	1
Predictive processing v. 4e cognition (for those who care)	1
Multiple origins for the evolution of collective rituals	1
The view toward persons: personalism, neuroscience, and the present	1
Moving beyond the neuroanatomy of religious experience: a commentary on McNamara’s thoughts on personalism, technology, and the Eschaton	1
Where does CSR go from here?	1
Representation without representationalism	1
Cultural evolution of gods’ minds: response to commentators	1
How to understand a research question—a challenging first step in setting up a statistical model	1
Gauging oneiromancy—the cognition of dream content and cultural transmission of (supernatural) divination	1
Many analysts and few incentives	1
The role of experience in making Gods and spirits real	1
Complementing preregistered confirmatory analyses with rigorous, reproducible exploration using machine learning	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
A contemporary interpretation of Teilhard’s law of complexity-consciousness	1
Experiencing and believing in invisible others: anthropological and neurocognitive perspectives	1
Dancing devil’s advocates – the next challenges for testing cooperative signaling and collective ritual research	1
The agency of women in secularization	0
Resolving religious debates through a multiverse approach	0
On the benefits of philosophy and the scientific utility of “religious” disorders	0
Gradualist change or sudden collapse? Religious decline and residual religiosity in Ireland	0
WEIRD Indeed, but there is more to the story: anthropological reflections on Henrich’s “The Weirdest people in the world”	0
War, “the Father of All”—including moralizing religions?	0
Coding, causality, and statistical craft: the emergence and evolutionary drivers of moralistic supernatural punishment remain unresolved	0
Advantages of using multilevel modeling approaches for the many analysts religion project	0
Disentangling the relationships between religion and fertility	0
Teilhard’s scientific holism: a reply to David Sloan Wilson	0
The evolution of human ritual behavior as a cooperative signaling platform	0
Fertility and faith: The danger of a grand narrative	0
Correction	0
Finding consonance	0
Quantifying potential selection bias in observational research: simulations and Analyses exploring religion and depression using a prospective UK cohort study (ALSPAC)	0
The campaign against COVID-19 in Nigeria: exploring church leaders’ role perception and action	0
Mapping the minds of participants: relationality and cultural schemas	0
Linking ritual transmission with the psychology of norm acquisition	0
The Database of Religious History (DRH): ontology, coding strategies and the future of cultural evolutionary analyses	0
The impact (or lack thereof) of analysis choice on conclusions with Likert data from the Many Analysts Religion Project	0
Reintroducing the direction of evolution	0
Enacting the religious mind: a multi-level process	0
Testing the enactive model of agency detection—a commentary on Teehan	0
Post-Pandemic Religion	0
Autonomous neural network activation during religious worship experiences using heart rate variability measurements	0
A changing of the guard	0
Modes Theory does not subsume previous ritual typologies	0
Faith and fertility in evolutionary perspective	0
Introducing a special issue on phase two of the Evolution of Religion and Morality project	0
The sense of presence: lessons from virtual reality	0
Galton's problem and the limits of functionalism	0
Responding to a Variety of Comments on The Varieties	0
Kin selection favors religious traditions: ancestor worship as a cultural descendant-leaving strategy	0
Identifying and validating the “varieties” of spiritual experience	0
A neuropsychological perspective on spiritual growth	0
Harnessing the power of rituals: suggestions for future work	0
Keep the black box open: a case for complex and continuous representationalism	0
Correction	0
Shamanism: psychopathology and psychotherapy	0
Measurement issues in the many analysts religion project	0
Introducing the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales (FPTETS): a study among church leaders and church members	0
The ritual animal speaks again: a scientific study	0
Prayer as collaborative problem solving	0
The end justifies all means: questionable conversion of different effect sizes to a common effect size measure	0
William James on overbeliefs: the relation with self-deception, placebo-effects, and make-believe	0
Moralizing gods, local gods, and complexity in Hindu god concepts: evidence from South India	0
The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies	0
A welcome intervention, but stops just where things will get interesting	0
Cognitive bugs, alternative models, and new data	0
Less egocentric and a bit more allocentric—the path to greater well-being?	0
Six good reasons why understanding religion requires a multidisciplinary approach: response to commentators	0
The puzzles that remain	0
Introducing the Many-Analysts Religion Project	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
Why researchers should not ignore measurement error and skewness in questionnaire item scores	0

Fertility and faith: insights from human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and life history theory	0
Invisible humans and their gods	0
Eschatological personalism: a theological response	0
Conscious evolution of the noösphere: hubris or necessity?	0
Broadening the scope and refining the precision of theistic relational spirituality	0
Continuity and credibility in the Cognitive Science of Religion	0
God, witchcraft, and beliefs about illness in Mauritius	0
From multiverse analysis to multiverse operationalisations: 262,143 ways of measuring well-being	0
Moralistic and local god beliefs and the extent of prosocial preferences on Tanna Island, Vanuatu	0
Religious systems evolving	0
Cross-cultural COVID-19 conspiracy thinking and religious, spiritual, and supernatural variables: a systematic review	0
Linking the fertility and secular transitions	0
Mapping the minds of spectators during an extreme ritual: a network perspective	0
Accordance and conflict between religious and scientific precautions against COVID-19 in 27 societies	0
What defines a person?	0
Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: a test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank	0
How much do models of human cognition matter in the study of religious systems?	0
Toward a neuroscience of divine bonding	0
The places of agency detection and predictive processing in the ontogenesis of religious belief; and “Who put the ‘H’ in the HADD?”	0
Sensing ghosts and other dangerous beings: uncertainty, sensory deprivation, and the feeling of presence	0
Computation of identity and social volatility in the ritual animal	0
Formalized rituals may have preceded the emergence of religions	0
Response: Secularization with Irish characteristics	0
The interdependence of ancestors and their descendants	0
San trance dance: embodied experience and neurological mechanisms	0
Quantifying religiosity: a comparison of approaches based on categorical self-identification and multidimensional measures of religious activity	0
Do religious and market-based institutions promote cooperation in Hadza hunter-gatherers?	0
Assessing religion and spirituality in a cross-cultural sample: development of religion and spirituality items for the Global Flourishing Study	0
Shamanic and doctrinal: Dunbar and the spiritual turn in contemporary religion	0
Kiwi Diwali: a longitudinal investigation of perceived social connection following a civic religious ritual	0
Interpreting the rapidly changing landscape of spirit tech	0
Cultural dissonance and consonance in mystical-type experiences: commentary on “Finding consonance: an integrative neurocognitive model of human relationships with supernatural agents”	0
Cigarettes for the dead: effects of sorcery beliefs on parochial prosociality in Mauritius	0
Testing the religion/spirituality-mental health curvilinear hypothesis using data from many-analysts religion project	0
Laying foundations for eCSR: a few remarks on the coupling of bodies, the experiential origin of concepts, and treating phenomenology seriously	0
Ritual, community, and conflict: reflections on the science of the social and its practical implications	0
There and back again: the ritual animal and social anthropology	0
Many-analysts religion project: reflection and conclusion	0
Being specific about generalisability	0
Toward an embodied cognitive science of religion: enaction, evolution, emergence	0
A need to better understand the evolutionary process of beliefs about gods’ concerns	0
Perceptions of moralizing agents and cooperative behavior in Northeastern Brazil	0
Jingle-jangle? Spiritual voices, absorption, and proneness to hallucinations in Tanya Luhrmann’s “How God Becomes Real”	0
When god is watching: dictator game results from the Sursurunga of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea	0
Data-testing competing hypotheses for beginners: how can we ordinary mortals wade through the mathematics of religion?	0
Religion and well-being in Indonesia: exploring the role of religion in a society where being atheist is not an option	0
Appeasing the (minds of) gods	0
Impact of religiosity and supernatural belief on individuals’ visitation to religious healers	0
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s enduring relevance	0
WEIRD people and the Western Church: who made whom?	0
A cognitive account of manipulative sympathetic magic	0
Editorial note	0
God is up and devil is down: mortality salience increases implicit spatial-religious associations	0
First steps on a path to scientific maturity	0
Teilhard’s teleology: his greatest spiritual strength, and greatest scientific weakness	0
American mental models of scientific versus theological prestige: a freelist analysis	0
Frontal asymmetry and physiological responses in religious and spiritual problems with and without conversion	0
Did we all go together when we went? Considering the adaptive importance of risky joint action	0
The trajectory of psychedelic, spiritual, and psychotic experiences: implications for cognitive scientific perspectives on religion	0
Reflections on Patrick McNamara, religion, neuroscience, and the self: a new personalism	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
Some questions on the utility of transmission biases in ethnographic research	0
Guiding the evolution of the evolutionary sciences of religion: a discussion	0
Different facets, different results: the importance of considering the multidimensionality of constructs	0
Henrich’s Weberian project	0
The role of religion in adolescent mental health: faith as a moderator of the relationship between distrust and depression	0
Walking the walk of religion and nonreligion: notes on Turpin’s Unholy Catholic Ireland: Religious hypocrisy, secular morality, and Irish irreligion	0
Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data: a review and “retake”	0
On breaking NOMA, and the dangers of technologically-enhanced flower chains: a commentary on Spirit Tech	0
Communicating cooperative intentions drove the selection of collective ritual in hominins	0
The economic – and anthropological? – view of supernatural institutions	0
A systems theory of religion	0
Maternal religiosity and social support to mothers: helpers’ religious identity matters	0
Big Gods and big science: further reflections on theory, data, and analysis	0
The poverty of contentless culture	0
It’s WEIRD how much Joseph Henrich needs computational simulation	0
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being	0
Affluence, agricultural productivity, and the rise of moralizing religion in the ancient Mediterranean	0
Law-abiding citizens in the age of social distancing: religion and COVID-19 in South Korea	0
Instrumentality, empiricism, and rationality in Nuosu divination	0
Commentary On the varieties of spiritual experience: Jimmy or James? Act III cannot have two directors	0
Signatures of neuroinflammation in the hippocampus and amygdala in individuals with religious or spiritual problem	0
Rethinking the roots of human collective ritual	0
Replacing the irreplaceable	0
Possession trance covaries with measures of social rigidity in the Ethnographic Atlas	0
Cooperative signaling in the sandbox: Future directions for examining collective ritual in child development	0
Finding consonance: an integrative neurocognitive model of human relationships with supernatural agents	0
Religion without scare quotes: cognitive science of religion and the humanities	0