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Justin L. Barrett

Psychology

#161

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#256

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#113

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Developmental Psychology

#89

World Rank

#96

Historical Rank

#49

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Cognitive Psychology

#564

World Rank

#592

Historical Rank

#133

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Justin L. Barrett's Degrees

PhD Psychology Cornell University
Masters Psychology Cornell University

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According to Wikipedia, Justin L. Barrett is an American experimental psychologist, Founder and President of Blueprint 1543, a nonprofit organization. He formerly was the Director of the Thrive Center for Human Development in Pasadena, California, Thrive Professor of Developmental Science, and Professor of Psychology at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology. He previously was a senior researcher and director of the Centre for Anthropology and Mind at the Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford.

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Justin L. Barrett's Published Works

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Why Would Anyone Believe in God (2004) (625)
Exploring the natural foundations of religion (2000) (624)
Conceptualizing a Nonnatural Entity: Anthropomorphism in God Concepts (1996) (600)
God's beliefs versus mother's: the development of nonhuman agent concepts. (2001) (207)
Spreading Non-natural Concepts: The Role of Intuitive Conceptual Structures in Memory and Transmission of Cultural Materials ¤ (2001) (200)
Theological Correctness: Cognitive Constraint and the Study of Religion (1999) (188)
Cognitive Constraints on Hindu Concepts of the Divine (1998) (169)
Cognitive Science of Religion: What Is It and Why Is It? (2007) (128)
Coding and Quantifying Counterintuitiveness in Religious Concepts: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections (2008) (113)
The science of religious beliefs (2008) (109)
Children's attributions of beliefs to humans and God: cross-cultural evidence (2004) (106)
Anthropomorphism or Preparedness? Exploring Children's God Concepts (2003) (97)
Ritual Intuitions: Cognitive Contributions to Judgments of Ritual Efficacy (2001) (96)
Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology (2009) (79)
Reformed epistemology and the cognitive science of religion (2010) (77)
Born Believers: The Science of Children's Religious Belief (2012) (73)
Reidian Religious Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of Religion (2011) (73)
The Role of Control in Attributing Intentional Agency to Inanimate Objects (2003) (72)
Why Santa Claus is Not a God (2008) (69)
When Minds Migrate: Conceptualizing Spirit Possession (2008) (62)
Cognitive Science of Religion: Looking Back, Looking Forward (2011) (60)
Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology: From Human Minds to Divine Minds (2011) (56)
Intellectual humility (2017) (55)
Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Person-Body Reasoning: Experimental Evidence From the United Kingdom and Brazilian Amazon (2011) (53)
How Ordinary Cognition Informs Petitionary Prayer (2001) (52)
Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology (2009) (51)
Primed analytic thought and religiosity: The importance of individual characteristics. (2016) (50)
Counterintuitiveness in Folktales: Finding the Cognitive Optimum (2009) (47)
Implicit theories of intellectual virtues and vices: A focus on intellectual humility (2015) (46)
Conceptualizing Spirit Possession: Ethnographic and Experimental Evidence (2008) (45)
RESEARCH: Do You See What I See? Young Children's Assumptions About God's Perceptual Abilities (2005) (45)
Is the spell really broken? Bio-psychological explanations of religion and theistic belief (2007) (43)
Longitudinal study of religious and spiritual transformation in adolescents attending young life summer camp: Assessing the epistemic, intrapsychic, and moral sociability functions of conversion. (2014) (37)
The effects of image-use in worship on God concepts. (1996) (35)
Epistemology and Counterintuitiveness: Role and Relationship in Epidemiology of Cultural Representations (2009) (34)
The relative unnaturalness of atheism: On why Geertz and Markússon are both right and wrong (2010) (33)
Should CSR Give Atheists Epistemic Assurance? on Beer-Goggles, BFFs , and Skepticism Regarding Religious Beliefs (2013) (32)
Can ritual form be predicted from religious belief? A test of the Lawson-McCauley hypotheses (2003) (30)
“I Just Don'T Get it”: Perceived Artists' Intentions Affect Art Evaluations (2014) (29)
Psychological and Theological Reflections on Grace and Its Relevance for Science and Practice (2017) (23)
Counterfactuality in counterintuitive religious concepts (2004) (22)
When Seeing Is Not Believing: Children's Understanding of Humans' and Non-Humans' Use of Background Knowledge in Interpreting Visual Displays (2003) (22)
Smart Gods, Dumb Gods, and the Role of Social Cognition in Structuring Ritual Intuitions (2002) (21)
Anthropomorphism, intentional agents, and conceptualizing God. (1997) (20)
Attachment Predicts Adolescent Conversions at Young Life Religious Summer Camps (2012) (20)
Refining and Testing “Counterintuitiveness” in Virtual Reality: Cross-Cultural Evidence for Recall of Counterintuitive Representations (2013) (18)
Religion in Mind: Do children experience God as adults do? (2001) (15)
Cognitive Constraints on the Visual Arts: An Empirical Study of the Role of Perceived Intentions in Appreciation Judgements (2011) (15)
Mind the gap: evolutionary psychological perspectives on human thriving (2018) (14)
Virtue development following spiritual transformation in adolescents attending evangelistic summer camp (2014) (12)
The Nature of God - Evolution and Religion (2011) (11)
Epidemiological and Nativist Accounts in the Cognitive Study of Culture: A Commentary on Pyysiäinen's Innate Fear of Bering's Ghosts (2003) (9)
Cognition, evolution, and religion. (2013) (9)
Could we advance the science of religion (better) without the concept “religion”? (2017) (8)
Bringing Data to Mind: Empirical Claims of Lawson and McCauley’s Theory of Religious Ritual (2004) (8)
In search of 'folk anthropology': The cognitive anthropology of the person (2011) (6)
Toward a Cognitive Science of Christianity (2012) (6)
A Cognitive Typology of Religious Actions (2007) (6)
Where the Gods Dwell: a Research Report (2019) (6)
The Roots of Religion: Exploring the Cognitive Science of Religion (2016) (6)
The circle of life: A cross-cultural comparison of children's attribution of life-cycle traits. (2016) (5)
Looking Past vs. Overlooking Cognitive–Evolutionary Accounts of Religion: A Response to Nathaniel Barrett (2010) (5)
Early Trauma as a Predictor of Burnout and Social Network Structure in Mission Workers (2017) (5)
Partnerships in practice. (1997) (4)
Chapter 11. Metarepresentation, Homo religiosus , and Homo symbolicus (2011) (4)
Religion Is Kid’s Stuff: Minimally Counterintuitive Concepts Are Better Remembered by Young People (2017) (4)
Evil Intuitions? The Problem of Evil, Experimental Philosophy, and the Need for Psychological Research (2020) (4)
In What Senses Might Religion Be Natural (2018) (4)
Can Religious Belief Be Explained Away?: Reasons and Causes of Religious Belief (2010) (3)
Virtual reality as a 'spiritual experience': a perspective from the cognitive science of religion (2008) (3)
Exploring counterintuitiveness: template- and schema-level effects (2014) (3)
Cognitive Science of Religion and the Rationality of Classical Theism (2016) (3)
Examining Special Patient Rituals in a Chinese Cultural Context: A Research Report (2015) (3)
High goal conflict and low goal meaning are associated with an increased likelihood of subsequent religious transformation in adolescents (2019) (3)
Some common misunderstandings about cognitive approaches to the study of religion: a reply to Sterelny (2017) (3)
The God issue: We are all born believers (2012) (2)
On Naturalness, Innateness, and God-beliefs: A Reply to Shook (2017) (2)
Why land application looks easy in Madison, Wisconsin (1996) (2)
Social Networks among Ministry Relationships: Relational Capacity, Burnout, & Ministry Effectiveness (2017) (2)
Cognitive Science of Religion (2021) (2)
Children’s Developing Understanding of the Cognitive Abilities of Supernatural and Natural Minds: Evidence from Three Cultures (2020) (2)
Ethnographic and Experimental Evidence (2008) (2)
The Argument from Positive Epistemic Status (2018) (1)
Cognitive and Evolutionary Studies of Religion (2016) (1)
The (modest) utility of MCI theory (2016) (1)
On the Naturalness of Religion and Religious Freedom (2018) (1)
Stonehenge, land, sky and the seasons (1997) (1)
Good Gods Almighty (2019) (1)
Religious Cognition in China (2017) (1)
Ritual Imbalance in Contemporary China: A Ritual Form Theory Analysis (2017) (1)
Dogs, Santa Claus, and Sun Wukong: Children’s Understanding of Nonhuman Minds (2017) (1)
Theology and Thriving: Teleological Considerations Based on the Doctrines of Christology and Soteriology (2016) (1)
Different Styles Reach Different Kids: An empirical enquiry into Young Life Camping Outreach Programs in the USA and Europe (2009) (1)
Thriving with Stone Age Minds: Evolutionary Psychology, Christian Faith, and the Quest for Human Flourishing (2022) (0)
Cognition-Lite Studies of Human Belief (2020) (0)
When Minds Migrate : Conceptualizing Spirit Possession 1 (2008) (0)
Books in brief (2012) (0)
Cognitive Science of Religion and Christian Faith: How May They Be Brought Together? (2017) (0)
Experimental Methods (2021) (0)
WHAT DO WE THINK ABOUT GOD WHEN WE AREN’T CAREFUL? (2019) (0)
Experimental Method (2018) (0)
Special Issue: New Trends in the Cognitive Science of Religion (2013) (0)
The “Constitutive Relevance of Models” (CRoM) Test: A Tool for Transferring Constructs and Virtues between Psychological and Anthropological Theories of Ritual (2021) (0)
The Role of Retail Markets in Impoverished Neighborhoods (2005) (0)
Big Gods can get in your head (2015) (0)
Evolutionary Developmental Psychology of Children’s Religious Beliefs (2016) (0)
Is Religious Belief Natural? The Relevance of Cognitive Science to Faith (2015) (0)
The Context of Suffering (2021) (0)
AND SKEPTICISM REGARDING RELIGIOUS BELIEFS (2013) (0)
rational” and “practiced,” a distinction that he traces back to Vygotsky’s way of distinguishing between the cultural and the natural lines (2013) (0)
Counterintuitiveness in Folktales Counterintuitiveness in Folktales: Finding the Cognitive Optimum (2020) (0)
Cognitive developmental foundations of cultural acquisition: children's understanding of other minds (2013) (0)
The minds of God, mortals, and in-betweens: Children’s developing understanding of extraordinary and ordinary minds across four countries. (2019) (0)
When minds migrate : conceptualising spirit possession (2007) (0)
Consequences of religion (2010) (0)
Explaining religion and spirituality (2010) (0)
Barrett, Justin L. (2020) (0)
Intuitive and Reflective Cognition (2018) (0)
Commentaries (2006) (0)
Introduction: Homo Religiosus and the Dragon (2017) (0)
The Trouble with “Evolution of Religion” (2018) (0)
Ritual Forms and Ritual Stuff: Implications of Lawson and McCauley's Ritual Form Hypothesis for Material Culture (2020) (0)
Personal Strivings Measures (2020) (0)
Psychological practice and general issues (2010) (0)
Revelation and Cognitive Science (2021) (0)
From theory of mind to divine minds (2011) (0)
The Frog Who Croaked Blue: Synesthesia and the mixing of the senses (2009) (0)

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Why Would Anyone Believe in God?