Religion Brain & Behavior

Article	Citations
Big comparison	63
Building better models: a cultural immunology approach	56
How do culture and religion interact worldwide? A cultural match approach to understanding religiosity and well-being in the Many Analysts Religion Project	23
Are the religious make-believing, or are they making themselves believe?	23
Scripture’s systemic imagination	22
The interaction between forgiveness and resentment on mental health outcomes: two sides of the same coin?	21
Beyond the border: advancing the study of Catholic identities and orthopraxic religion in Southern and Northern Ireland	21
Missing level of analysis?	17
Local concerns aren’t always local: a broader view of local social ecologies provides greater explanatory power	15
An integrative neurocognitive model of human relations with supernatural agents, commentary to Balch, Grafman and McNamara	13
Commentary to MARP: how to increase the robustness of survey studies	12
The emergence of MSP vs. the spread of transcendentalist religion	12
Introducing a special issue on the role of moralizing gods in the evolution of socio-political complexity	10
Pierre Liénard (1968–2023)	10
Religious people view both science and religion as less epistemically valuable than non-religious people view science	9
How to understand a research question—a challenging first step in setting up a statistical model	7
Where we go one we go all: CSR in the digital age	7
Religion endures, but does it thrive?	7
Are cultures immune systems or blueprints of a systemic design?	7
Rational atheism revisited: a comment on Disbelief by Will Gervais	7
Do religious and market-based institutions promote cooperation in Hadza hunter-gatherers?	6
Frontal asymmetry and physiological responses in religious and spiritual problems with and without conversion	6
From multiverse analysis to multiverse operationalisations: 262,143 ways of measuring well-being	5
Some questions on the utility of transmission biases in ethnographic research	5
Toward a cultural immunology of religious systems	5

Mapping the minds of participants: relationality and cultural schemas	5
Multiple origins for the evolution of collective rituals	5
Henrich’s Weberian project	5
Assessing religion and spirituality in a cross-cultural sample: development of religion and spirituality items for the Global Flourishing Study	5
A need to better understand the evolutionary process of beliefs about gods’ concerns	5
Response: Secularization with Irish characteristics	5
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
Kin selection favors religious traditions: ancestor worship as a cultural descendant-leaving strategy	5
Conscious evolution of the noösphere: hubris or necessity?	5
“I once was blind”: experimental manipulation of religious attitudes via choice blindness	4
Prayer as collaborative problem solving	4
Rethinking the roots of human collective ritual	4
Formalized rituals may have preceded the emergence of religions	4
Predictive processing all the way down	4
Faith and fertility in evolutionary perspective	4
Toward an embodied cognitive science of religion: enaction, evolution, emergence	4
Perceptions of moralizing agents and cooperative behavior in Northeastern Brazil	4
The economic – and anthropological? – view of supernatural institutions	4
God, witchcraft, and beliefs about illness in Mauritius	3
Religion, Brain & Behavior adopts stricter transparency standards	3
Diverse evolutionary strategies for explaining features of religions	3
Moving forward from “Fertility and Faith”	3
The success story of the west, perceptual art, and the challenges of the Global East	3
The campaign against COVID-19 in Nigeria: exploring church leaders’ role perception and action	3
The moralization bias of gods’ minds: a cross-cultural test	3
Comparing the three states of Dhikr, meditation, and thinking about God: an fMRI study	3
Extraordinary-high rank expectation as a cognitive predisposition forming religion	3
Depth vs. breadth: lessons from the Evolution of Religion and Morality project	3
A systematic review of the association between religiousness and children’s prosociality	3
The role of religion in adolescent mental health: faith as a moderator of the relationship between distrust and depression	3
The varieties of nonreligious experience: meaning in life among believers, non-believers, and the spiritual but not religious	3
Where does CSR go from here?	3
Social interaction spheres, the self, and the meanings of “prediction”	3
The promises and pitfalls of facilitated spiritual experiences for the study of religion	3
Corrected by collegial commentators: my beliefs about beliefs about Disbelief	2
The puzzles that remain	2
The agency of women in secularization	2
The poverty of contentless culture	2
Cigarettes for the dead: effects of sorcery beliefs on parochial prosociality in Mauritius	2
Identifying and validating the “varieties” of spiritual experience	2
Fertility and faith: insights from human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and life history theory	2
Less egocentric and a bit more allocentric—the path to greater well-being?	2
Keep the black box open: a case for complex and continuous representationalism	2
Instrumentality, empiricism, and rationality in Nuosu divination	2
Editorial note	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
The evolution of religiosity by kin selection	2
Cultural evolution of gods’ minds: response to commentators	2

What defines a person?	2
Possession trance covaries with measures of social rigidity in the Ethnographic Atlas	2
From drowning to debunking: the cognitive science of religion's role in unraveling religious beliefs	2
Reintroducing the direction of evolution	2
Linking ritual transmission with the psychology of norm acquisition	2
A contemporary interpretation of Teilhard’s law of complexity-consciousness	2
Broadening the scope and refining the precision of theistic relational spirituality	2
Reflections on Patrick McNamara, religion, neuroscience, and the self: a new personalism	2
Shifting themes in the cognitive and evolutionary sciences of religion	1
Galton's problem and the limits of functionalism	1
Costly ritualized actions induce trust in young children	1
Moralizing gods, local gods, and complexity in Hindu god concepts: evidence from South India	1
Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: a test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank	1
Predictive processing v. 4e cognition (for those who care)	1
Engaging, authoritative, but also evidential	1
Finding consonance	1
Religion’s Hilbert problems, ten years later: progress, pitfalls, and new horizons	1
Challenges in modeling local manifestations of a global template	1
On evidential vulnerability and compartmentalization	1
Mapping the minds of spectators during an extreme ritual: a network perspective	1
Computation of identity and social volatility in the ritual animal	1
Measurement issues in the many analysts religion project	1
Impact of faith maturity on mental health and wellbeing	1
When evaluating gods, US Prolific workers prioritize efficacy rather than perfection	1
Representation without representationalism	1
Interpreting the rapidly changing landscape of spirit tech	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
Steps towards a more holistic, dynamic and integrative approach to the evolution of religious systems	1
It’s WEIRD how much Joseph Henrich needs computational simulation	1
Military sociality may recreate the nurture sphere at higher social strata	1
Religion without scare quotes: cognitive science of religion and the humanities	1
Two questions for the cultural evolutionary science of religion	1
Shamanic and doctrinal: Dunbar and the spiritual turn in contemporary religion	1
Moralistic and local god beliefs and the extent of prosocial preferences on Tanna Island, Vanuatu	1
Maternal religiosity and social support to mothers: helpers’ religious identity matters	1
Harnessing the power of rituals: suggestions for future work	1
Atheism studies lives up to its own hype: marginal notes on Gervais's Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species	1
War, “the Father of All”—including moralizing religions?	1
Six good reasons why understanding religion requires a multidisciplinary approach: response to commentators	1
Enacting the religious mind: a multi-level process	1
First steps on a path to scientific maturity	1
On the benefits and ambiguities of “religious systems”	1
The Evolution of Religion and Morality project: some modest reservations	1
Collective action in wild chimpanzees provides further insight into the evolution of cooperative ritual behavior	1
Big Gods and big science: further reflections on theory, data, and analysis	1
Gradualist change or sudden collapse? Religious decline and residual religiosity in Ireland	1
Law-abiding citizens in the age of social distancing: religion and COVID-19 in South Korea	0
Autonomous neural network activation during religious worship experiences using heart rate variability measurements	0
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s enduring relevance	0
William James on overbeliefs: the relation with self-deception, placebo-effects, and make-believe	0
Epistemic norm differences matter	0
Reflections on a CSR manifesto from a CSR-adjacent point of view	0
On breaking NOMA, and the dangers of technologically-enhanced flower chains: a commentary on Spirit Tech	0
The view toward persons: personalism, neuroscience, and the present	0
How much do models of human cognition matter in the study of religious systems?	0
Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities: a cross-cultural investigation	0
(Non)automaticity of ritualized behavior	0
A half-Irish exit	0
Introducing our new editors	0
Teilhard’s teleology: his greatest spiritual strength, and greatest scientific weakness	0
The Database of Religious History (DRH): ontology, coding strategies and the future of cultural evolutionary analyses	0
Religion evolving: applying system theory to a case of blood libel	0
Signatures of neuroinflammation in the hippocampus and amygdala in individuals with religious or spiritual problem	0
WEIRD Indeed, but there is more to the story: anthropological reflections on Henrich’s “The Weirdest people in the world”	0
Is religion just make-believe, or only for some WEIRD people?: A call for more evidence and caution	0
A cognitive account of manipulative sympathetic magic	0
Cultural lessons missed and learnt about religion and culture	0
Cognitive bugs, alternative models, and new data	0
Global fertility and the future of religion: addressing empirical and theoretical challenges	0
Sex, value change and the erosion of religious adherence	0
The HADDs and the HADD-nots: mystical experiences and religion in evolution	0
Integrating culture into the cognitive science of religion	0
Modes Theory does not subsume previous ritual typologies	0
Double coding and the plurality of “belief”: a response to commentaries	0
Introducing a special issue on phase two of the Evolution of Religion and Morality project	0
A changing of the guard	0
A workflow for causal inference in cross-cultural psychology	0
Finding consonance: an integrative neurocognitive model of human relationships with supernatural agents	0
The role of absorption in making God real	0
A systems theory of religion	0

Affluence, agricultural productivity, and the rise of moralizing religion in the ancient Mediterranean	0
Religion facilitates cooperation in health care sharing ministries	0
Eschatological personalism: a theological response	0
Strategy and experience required: Social learning cannot explain the varieties of supernatural belief	0
Thinking elsewhere: designer environments for religion and literature	0
The ritual animal speaks again: a scientific study	0
Why it matters that religious credence is (mostly) weaker than matter-of-facts beliefs	0
Linking the fertility and secular transitions	0
Did we all go together when we went? Considering the adaptive importance of risky joint action	0
Quantifying religiosity: a comparison of approaches based on categorical self-identification and multidimensional measures of religious activity	0
In defense of thin descriptions: reflections on some methodological themes in Harvey Whitehouse’s The Ritual Animal	0
Replacing the irreplaceable	0
Population-level effects of education and material conditions on religious change in Chiapas, Mexico	0
Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data: a review and “retake”	0
Fertility and faith: The danger of a grand narrative	0
Many analysts and few incentives	0
American mental models of scientific versus theological prestige: a freelist analysis	0
Kiwi Diwali: a longitudinal investigation of perceived social connection following a civic religious ritual	0
Gauging oneiromancy—the cognition of dream content and cultural transmission of (supernatural) divination	0
Resolving religious debates through a multiverse approach	0
Two kinds of presence (at least): a commentary on T.M. Luhrmann’s “How God Becomes Real”	0
Reinterpreting the archaeological evidence: rituals as practical and specialized interventions	0
Spiritual but not religious (SBNRs) and theists encounter spirit tech	0
Unpackaging religion—the journey continues	0
Introducing the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales (FPTETS): a study among church leaders and church members	0
Developmental insights into the cognitive science of religion*	0
Human rites: a commentary on The Ritual Animal	0
A typology for understanding the usage and intentions of Spirit Tech consumers	0
Accordance and conflict between religious and scientific precautions against COVID-19 in 27 societies	0
Can psychedelic experiences induce religious credences?	0
The role of experience in making Gods and spirits real	0
Reintroducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science	0
Does moderation by perceived normativeness of religion occur at the individual level or the country level?	0
Communicating cooperative intentions drove the selection of collective ritual in hominins	0
Dancing devil’s advocates – the next challenges for testing cooperative signaling and collective ritual research	0
The impact (or lack thereof) of analysis choice on conclusions with Likert data from the Many Analysts Religion Project	0
Adaptive signaling in a lineage explanation, needs to be adaptive	0
San trance dance: embodied experience and neurological mechanisms	0
Self-deprivation and cognition in Ramadan: could fasting practice improve inhibitory control?	0
Different facets, different results: the importance of considering the multidimensionality of constructs	0
Science and religion around the world: compatibility between belief systems predicts increased well-being	0
Cross-cultural COVID-19 conspiracy thinking and religious, spiritual, and supernatural variables: a systematic review	0
When god is watching: dictator game results from the Sursurunga of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea	0
Spirit Tech and the Nones	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
Testing the enactive model of agency detection—a commentary on Teehan	0
Correction	0
Toward a neuroscience of divine bonding	0
WEIRD people and the Western Church: who made whom?	0
Testing the religion/spirituality-mental health curvilinear hypothesis using data from many-analysts religion project	0
Cooperative signaling in the sandbox: Future directions for examining collective ritual in child development	0
Whence and Whither CSR: expanding the conversation	0
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being	0
Ritual, community, and conflict: reflections on the science of the social and its practical implications	0
A welcome intervention, but stops just where things will get interesting	0
The roles of anthropomorphism, spirituality, and gratitude in pro-environmental attitudes	0
The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies	0
A thank you note	0
Jingle-jangle? Spiritual voices, absorption, and proneness to hallucinations in Tanya Luhrmann’s “How God Becomes Real”	0
Advantages of using multilevel modeling approaches for the many analysts religion project	0
On breaking the cognitive science of religion and putting it back together again	0
Are religious rituals always causally opaque?	0
The Evolution of Religion and Morality project: reflections and looking ahead	0
On obscene and civil forms of nonreligion	0
A neuropsychological perspective on spiritual growth	0
Reply to commentators of “Re-introducing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to modern evolutionary science”	0
What exactly is the “spirit” of enactivism?	0
From supernatural punishment to big gods to puritanical religions: clarifying explanatory targets in the rise of moralizing religions	0
The trajectory of psychedelic, spiritual, and psychotic experiences: implications for cognitive scientific perspectives on religion	0
Dataset of Integrated Measures of Religion (DIM-R). Harmonization of religiosity data from selected international multiwave surveys	0
Many-analysts religion project: reflection and conclusion	0
Explaining religion from the inside-out	0
Religious systems evolving	0
Religion: the WEIRDest concept in the world?	0
Religious coalitions and competition among complex adaptive systems	0
Sensing ghosts and other dangerous beings: uncertainty, sensory deprivation, and the feeling of presence	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
Laying foundations for eCSR: a few remarks on the coupling of bodies, the experiential origin of concepts, and treating phenomenology seriously	0
Appealing to the minds of gods: religious beliefs and appeals correspond to features of local social ecologies	0
Responding to a Variety of Comments on The Varieties	0
Mimesis and the origins of religion	0
The explanatory value of a metaphor. An appraisal of Jesper Sørensen's Why Cultures Persist. Toward a Cultural Immunology	0
Prosociality and Pentecostalism in the D.R. Congo	0
Teilhard’s scientific holism: a reply to David Sloan Wilson	0
Complementing preregistered confirmatory analyses with rigorous, reproducible exploration using machine learning	0
Correction	0
Introducing the Many-Analysts Religion Project	0
Moving beyond the neuroanatomy of religious experience: a commentary on McNamara’s thoughts on personalism, technology, and the Eschaton	0
Individual-level changes in religious/spiritual beliefs and behaviors over three decades in the parental generation of the ALSPAC cohort, UK	0
Invisible humans and their gods	0
There and back again: the ritual animal and social anthropology	0
Being specific about generalisability	0
Religion and well-being in Indonesia: exploring the role of religion in a society where being atheist is not an option	0
Quantifying potential selection bias in observational research: simulations and Analyses exploring religion and depression using a prospective UK cohort study (ALSPAC)	0
Why researchers should not ignore measurement error and skewness in questionnaire item scores	0