Religion, Brain & Behavior

• Religion’s Hilbert problems, ten years later: progress, pitfalls, and new horizons
  Religion, Brain & Behavior31 March 2025By John H. Shaver Richard Sosis Robert M. Ross Joseph Watts Michael Price Wesley J. Wildman Suzanne Hoogeveen Ryan T. McKay Irene Cristofori
• When evaluating gods, US Prolific workers prioritize efficacy rather than perfection
  Religion, Brain & Behavior10 March 2025By Megan R. Mulhinch Michael E. McCullough University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
• Maternal religiosity and social support to mothers: helpers’ religious identity matters
  Religion, Brain & Behavior20 February 2025By Radim Chvaja Laure Spake Anushé Hassan Mary K. Shenk Richard Sosis Rebecca Sear John H. Shaver a Religion Programme, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealandb European Research University, Ostrava, Czech Republicc Anthropology Department, Binghamton University, New York, USAd Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UKe Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, USAf Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USAg Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University, London, UKh Department of Anthropology, Baylor University, Waco, USA
• Religion, Brain & Behavior adopts stricter transparency standards
  Religion, Brain & Behavior23 December 2024By Wesley J. Wildman Robert M. Ross Ryan T. McKay Joseph Watts Suzanne Hoogeveen Richard Sosis Irene Cristofori Michael E. Price John Shaver
• Representation without representationalism
  Religion, Brain & Behavior20 December 2024By Jesper Sørensen Department of the Study of Religion, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
• Testing the enactive model of agency detection—a commentary on Teehan
  Religion, Brain & Behavior20 December 2024By Piotr Szymanek Michiel van Elk a Doctoral School in the Social Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Polandb Mathematical Cognition and Learning Lab, Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Polandc Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
• Enacting the religious mind: a multi-level process
  Religion, Brain & Behavior20 December 2024By John Teehan Department of Religion; Cognitive Science Program, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA
• Toward an embodied cognitive science of religion: enaction, evolution, emergence
  Religion, Brain & Behavior20 December 2024By John Teehan Department of Religion; Cognitive Science Program, Hofstra University, New York, NY, USA
• Where does CSR go from here?
  Religion, Brain & Behavior20 December 2024By Nathaniel F. Barrett Institute for Culture and Society
• The poverty of contentless culture
  Religion, Brain & Behavior20 December 2024By Renatas Berniūnas Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
• Laying foundations for eCSR: a few remarks on the coupling of bodies, the experiential origin of concepts, and treating phenomenology seriously
  Religion, Brain & Behavior20 December 2024By Matylda Ciołkosz Institute of Religious Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Kraków, Poland
• What exactly is the “spirit” of enactivism?
  Religion, Brain & Behavior20 December 2024By Armin W. Geertz Religion, Cognition and Culture Research Unit (RCC), Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark
• A welcome intervention, but stops just where things will get interesting
  Religion, Brain & Behavior20 December 2024By Gabriel Levy Religious Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
• Keep the black box open: a case for complex and continuous representationalism
  Religion, Brain & Behavior20 December 2024By Jonathan Morgan Psychology, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
• How much do models of human cognition matter in the study of religious systems?
  Religion, Brain & Behavior20 December 2024By Benjamin Grant Purzycki Department of the Study of Religion, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Danmark
• Integrating culture into the cognitive science of religion
  Religion, Brain & Behavior20 December 2024By Hannah I. Pearson Joni Y. Sasaki Department of Psychology, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
• Predictive processing v. 4e cognition (for those who care)
  Religion, Brain & Behavior20 December 2024By Uffe Schjoedt Department of the Study of Religion, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
• Less egocentric and a bit more allocentric—the path to greater well-being?
  Religion, Brain & Behavior25 October 2024By Bruce Hood University of Bristol
• Commentary On the varieties of spiritual experience: Jimmy or James? Act III cannot have two directors
  Religion, Brain & Behavior25 October 2024By Ralph W. Hood Jonathan Dinsmore Department of Psychology, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, USA
• Identifying and validating the “varieties” of spiritual experience
  Religion, Brain & Behavior25 October 2024By Ann Taves Elliott Ihm Religious Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
• William James on overbeliefs: the relation with self-deception, placebo-effects, and make-believe
  Religion, Brain & Behavior25 October 2024By Michiel van Elk Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, AK Leiden, the Netherlands
• Responding to a Variety of Comments on The Varieties
  Religion, Brain & Behavior25 October 2024By David B. Yaden Andrew B. Newberg a Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USAb Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences, Jefferson University Hospitals, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
• Quantifying potential selection bias in observational research: simulations and Analyses exploring religion and depression using a prospective UK cohort study (ALSPAC)
  Religion, Brain & Behavior19 September 2024By Jimmy Morgan Daniel Major-Smith Centre for Academic Child Health, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
• Accordance and conflict between religious and scientific precautions against COVID-19 in 27 societies
  Religion, Brain & Behavior05 September 2024By Theodore Samore Daniel M.T. Fessler Adam Maxwell Sparks Colin Holbrook Lene Aarøe Carmen Gloria Baeza María Teresa Barbato Pat Barclay Renatas Berniūnas Jorge Contreras-Garduño Bernardo Costa-Neves Maria del Pilar Grazioso Pınar Elmas Peter Fedor Ana Maria Fernandez Regina Fernández-Morales Leonel Garcia-Marques Paulina Giraldo-Perez Pelin Gul Fanny Habacht Youssef Hasan Earl John Hernandez Tomasz Jarmakowski Shanmukh Kamble Tatsuya Kameda Bia Kim Tom R. Kupfer Maho Kurita Norman P. Li Junsong Lu Francesca R. Luberti María Andrée Maegli Marinés Mejia Coby Morvinski Aoi Naito Alice Ng’ang’a Angélica Nascimento de Oliveira Daniel N. Posner Pavol Prokop Yaniv Shani Walter Omar Paniagua Solorzano Stefan Stieger Angela Oktavia Suryani Lynn K.L. Tan Joshua M. Tybur Hugo Viciana Amandine Visine Jin Wang Xiao-Tian Wang a Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USAb Bedari Kindness Institute, Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USAc Independent scholard Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences, University of California, Merced, CA, USAe Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmarkf Laboratorio de Evolución y Relaciones Interpersonales, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chileg Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canadah Institute of Psychology, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuaniai Escuela Nacional de Estudio Superiores, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Michoacán, Mexicoj Lisbon Medical School, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugalk Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugall Centro Integral de Psicología Aplicada, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemalam Proyecto Aiglé Guatemala, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemalan Department of Psychology, Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Turkeyo Department of Environmental Ecology and Landscape Management, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakiap Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Rafael Landivár, Guatemala City, Guatemalaq Departamento de Psicología, Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala City, Guatemalar CICPsi Research Center for Psychological Science, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugals School of Psychology, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.t The School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealandu Department of Sustainable Health, Campus Fryslân, University of Groningen, Netherlandsv Division of Psychological Methodology, Department of Psychology and Psychodynamics, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Krems an der Donau, Austriaw Psychology Program, Department of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatarx College of Arts and Sciences, Partido State University, Goa Camarines Sur, Philippinesy Institute of Psychology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Toruń, Polandz Department of Psychology, Karnatak University, Dharwad, Indiaaa Department of Social Psychology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japanab Brain Science Institute, Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japanac Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japanad Department of Psychology, Pusan National University, Busan, South Koreaae Department of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdomaf School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singaporeag School of Humanities and Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, People’s Republic of Chinaah Department of Psychology, Nipissing University, North Bay, Canadaai Department of Psychology, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemalaaj Department of Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israelak School of Environment and Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japanal Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japanam Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canadaan Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USAao Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakiaap Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv,, Israelaq Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesiaar Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlandsas Departamento de Filosofía y Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spainat L’Institut Agro Montpellier, Montpellier, France
• Instrumentality, empiricism, and rationality in Nuosu divination
  Religion, Brain & Behavior28 August 2024By Ze Hong Joseph Henrich a Department of Sociology, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, People’s Republic of Chinab Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
• The roles of anthropomorphism, spirituality, and gratitude in pro-environmental attitudes
  Religion, Brain & Behavior28 August 2024By Cindel J. M. White Matthew I. Billet a Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Canadab Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
• 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
  Religion, Brain & Behavior28 August 2024By Crystal L. Park Adam B. David Jeffrey D. Burke Lisa Annunziato Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
• Religious people view both science and religion as less epistemically valuable than non-religious people view science
  Religion, Brain & Behavior28 August 2024By Joshua Conrad Jackson Katarzyna Jasko Samantha Abrams Tyler Atkinson Evan Balkcom Arie Kruglanski Kurt Gray Jamin Halberstadt a Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, USAb Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Polandc Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USAd Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealande Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
• God, witchcraft, and beliefs about illness in Mauritius 
  Religion, Brain & Behavior28 August 2024By Aiyana K. Willard Nachita Rosun Mícheál de Barra Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK
• American mental models of scientific versus theological prestige: a freelist analysis
  Religion, Brain & Behavior19 August 2024By Hugh Turpin Aiyana K. Willard Harvey Whitehouse a Centre for Culture and Evolution, Department of Psychology, Brunel University, London, London, UKb Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
• Science and religion around the world: compatibility between belief systems predicts increased well-being
  Religion, Brain & Behavior09 August 2024By Michael E. Price Dominic D. P. Johnson a Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UKb Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
• Testing the religion/spirituality-mental health curvilinear hypothesis using data from many-analysts religion project
  Religion, Brain & Behavior08 August 2024By Luke Galen David Speed a Department of Psychology, Grand Valley State University Grand Rapids MI USAb Department of Psychology, University of New Brunswick St. John Canada
• The trajectory of psychedelic, spiritual, and psychotic experiences: implications for cognitive scientific perspectives on religion
  Religion, Brain & Behavior11 July 2024By Ari Brouwer Charles L. Raison F. LeRon Shults a Department of Human Development and Family Studies, School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USAb Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USAc Vail Health Behavioral Health Innovation Center, Vail, CO, USAd Center for the Study of Human Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USAe Department of Spiritual Health, Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USAf Institute for Global Development and Planning, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norwayg Center for Modeling Social Systems, NORCE Research Institute, Kristiansand, Norway
• Prayer as collaborative problem solving
  Religion, Brain & Behavior04 July 2024By E. B. Schille-Hudson T. M. Luhrmann D. Landy a Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USAb Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USAc Netflix, Los Gatos, CA, USA
• Replacing the irreplaceable
  Religion, Brain & Behavior20 June 2024By Ryan McKay Michael Price Robert M. Ross Joseph Watts Irene Cristofori Suzanne Hoogeveen John Shaver Richard Sosis Wesley Wildman
• Signatures of neuroinflammation in the hippocampus and amygdala in individuals with religious or spiritual problem
  Religion, Brain & Behavior03 June 2024By Szabolcs Kéri Oguz Kelemen a Sztárai Institute, University of Tokaj, Sárospatak, Hungaryb Department of Physiology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungaryc Department of Behavioral Sciences, Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungaryd Department of Psychiatry, Bács-Kiskunk County Hospital, Kecskemét, Hungary
• The mouth of God: the impact of religious training on story recall in Tibetan Buddhists
  Religion, Brain & Behavior15 May 2024By Heng LiCenter for Linguistic, Literary & Cultural Studies, Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, China

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