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Published Works
- The weirdest people in the world? (2010) (3669)
- Culture and systems of thought: holistic versus analytic cognition. (2001) (3523)
- Most people are not WEIRD (2010) (1931)
- Culture and Cognition (2002) (1435)
- Causal attribution across cultures: Variation and universality. (1999) (975)
- God Is Watching You (2007) (814)
- The Origin and Evolution of Religious Prosociality (2008) (788)
- Religion's evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion (2004) (663)
- Psychological universals: what are they and how can we know? (2005) (652)
- The cultural evolution of prosocial religions (2014) (591)
- The Pace of Life in 31 Countries (1999) (465)
- Cultural preferences for formal versus intuitive reasoning (2002) (452)
- Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict (2015) (436)
- Analytic Thinking Promotes Religious Disbelief (2012) (428)
- Belief in Supernatural Agents in the Face of Death (2006) (400)
- Running Head: CULTURE AND THOUGHT Culture and Systems of Thought: Holistic vs. Analytic Cognition (2001) (395)
- Beyond WEIRD: Towards a broad-based behavioral science (2010) (381)
- Do you believe in atheists? Distrust is central to anti-atheist prejudice. (2011) (380)
- Religion and Support for Suicide Attacks (2009) (364)
- Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality (2016) (330)
- Religious Priming (2016) (307)
- Memory and Mystery: The Cultural Selection of Minimally Counterintuitive Narratives (2006) (281)
- Mean Gods Make Good People: Different Views of God Predict Cheating Behavior (2011) (254)
- Cultural Similarities and Differences in Social Inference: Evidence from Behavioral Predictions and Lay Theories of Behavior (2002) (249)
- Like a camera in the sky? Thinking about God increases public self-awareness and socially desirable responding (2012) (240)
- The origins of religious disbelief (2013) (238)
- Cross-Cultural Differences in Helping Strangers (2001) (209)
- Mentalizing Deficits Constrain Belief in a Personal God (2012) (204)
- Culture and Causal Cognition (2000) (200)
- Cognitive biases explain religious belief, paranormal belief, and belief in life’s purpose (2013) (193)
- What Do Cross-National Comparisons of Personality Traits Tell Us? (2008) (183)
- Toward a Psychological Science for a Cultural Species (2006) (165)
- Perception and cognition. (2007) (146)
- THE CULTURAL TRANSMISSION OF FAITH Why innate intuitions are necessary, but insufficient, to explain religious belief (2011) (141)
- It was meant to happen: explaining cultural variations in fate attributions. (2010) (107)
- Mortality salience and religion: divergent effects on the defense of cultural worldviews for the religious and the non-religious (2009) (101)
- Evolution, culture, and the human mind (2010) (89)
- Telling what they want to know: participants tailor causal attributions to researchers' interests (1999) (89)
- The cognitive and cultural foundations of moral behavior (2018) (87)
- Cultural evolution of religion (2013) (85)
- Which should you use, intuition or logic? Cultural differences in injunctive norms about reasoning (2008) (82)
- Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies (2019) (80)
- The evolution of religion and morality: a synthesis of ethnographic and experimental evidence from eight societies (2017) (71)
- Cognitive and Emotional Processes in the Cultural Transmission of Natural and Nonnatural Beliefs (2003) (70)
- Reminders of Secular Authority Reduce Believers’ Distrust of Atheists (2012) (69)
- Weighing outcome vs. intent across societies: How cultural models of mind shape moral reasoning (2019) (69)
- “Spiritual but not religious”: Cognition, schizotypy, and conversion in alternative beliefs (2017) (66)
- Supernatural punishment, in-group biases, and material insecurity: experiments and ethnography from Yasawa, Fiji (2016) (65)
- Does religion make people moral (2014) (65)
- Memory and Belief in the Transmission of Counterintuitive Content (2016) (65)
- Eastern and Western perceptions of causality for social behavior: Lay theories about personalities and situations. (1999) (58)
- Beyond WEIRD: A review of the last decade and a look ahead to the global laboratory of the future (2020) (57)
- Cross-cultural dataset for the evolution of religion and morality project (2016) (54)
- The Birth of High Gods: How the Cultural Evolution of Supernatural Policing Inuenced the Emergence of Complex, Cooperative Human Societies, Paving the Way for Civilization (2011) (53)
- Infectious Diseases and the Evolution of Cross-Cultural Differences (2011) (51)
- Corrected analyses show that moralizing gods precede complex societies but serious data concerns remain : In reply to "Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history" (2019) (51)
- The devil's advocate: Secular arguments diminish both implicit and explicit religious belief (2008) (48)
- Coordinating bodies and minds: Behavioral synchrony fosters mentalizing (2018) (43)
- Religion and Support for Suicide (2009) (42)
- Culture and Decisions (2008) (38)
- The Content and Correlates of Belief in Karma Across Cultures (2018) (38)
- The Evolution of Prosocial Religions (2013) (36)
- AN ANGRY VOLCANO? REMINDERS OF DEATH AND ANTHROPOMORPHIZING NATURE (2008) (36)
- Religious priming as a research tool for studying religion: evidentiary value, current issues, and future directions (2016) (34)
- Supernatural norm enforcement: Thinking about karma and God reduces selfishness among believers (2018) (33)
- A Sense of Obligation: Cultural Differences in the Experience of Obligation (2018) (27)
- Why We Believe: Religion as a Human Universal (2010) (27)
- Cultural Inertia, Economic Incentives, and the Persistence of “Southern Violence” (2011) (26)
- Religious Prosociality A Synthesis (2013) (25)
- Religion and the Origins of Anti-Atheist Prejudice (2013) (25)
- Explaining Human Behavioral Diversity (2011) (23)
- Material security, life history, and moralistic religions: A cross-cultural examination (2018) (23)
- Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods (2021) (22)
- CulTural variaTiON iN THE imPOrTaNCE Of ExPECTEd ENJOymENT fOr dECiSiON maKiNG (2010) (21)
- Big questions about Big Gods: response and discussion (2015) (21)
- Secular rule of law erodes believers' political intolerance of atheists (2015) (21)
- The evolution of religious misbelief (2009) (18)
- Rule-based and experience-based thinking : the cognitive consequences of intellectual traditions (1999) (17)
- Religious Belief, Coalitional Commitment, and Support for Suicide Attacks (2010) (15)
- Belief in karma: How cultural evolution, cognition, and motivations shape belief in supernatural justice (2019) (15)
- What are the causes and consequences of belief in karma? (2017) (14)
- Cognitive Biases and Religious Belief: A Path Model Replication in the Czech Republic and Slovakia With a Focus on Anthropomorphism (2018) (14)
- Parochial prosocial religions: Historical and contemporary evidence for a cultural evolutionary process (2016) (13)
- Why minds create gods: Devotion, deception, death, and arational decision making (2004) (12)
- Evolution and Transmitted Culture (2006) (11)
- Cognitive Pathways to Belief in Karma and Belief in God (2020) (10)
- The moralization bias of gods’ minds: a cross-cultural test (2022) (10)
- How cultural learning and cognitive biases shape religious beliefs. (2020) (9)
- A question of reliability or of boundary conditions? Comment on Gomes and McCullough (2015). (2015) (8)
- Analytic atheism revisited (2018) (8)
- Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods (2019) (7)
- Conversational relevance in the presentation of the self (2006) (6)
- Social Selection and the Origins of Culture (2011) (6)
- Cultural similarity among coreligionists within and between countries (2021) (6)
- The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies (2022) (4)
- Culture and systems of thought: Comparison of holistic and analytic cognition (2011) (4)
- The God issue: Religion is the key to civilisation (2012) (4)
- Are Our Minds Fundamentally Egalitarian? Adaptive Bases of Different Sociocultural Models About Distributive Justice (2011) (4)
- The Shared Fluency Theory of Social Cohesiveness (2018) (4)
- The Origins of Religion (2015) (4)
- Reasoning: Culture and Systems of Thought: Holistic versus Analytic Cognition (2008) (4)
- Karma and God: Convergent and divergent mental representations of supernatural norm enforcement. (2021) (3)
- Current Directions in Psychological Science (2009) (3)
- Towards a Cultural/Evolutionary Psychology: Cooperation and Complementarity (2011) (3)
- Appealing to the minds of gods: religious beliefs and appeals correspond to features of local social ecologies (2023) (3)
- Thinking about Karma and God reduces believers’ selfishness in anonymous dictator games (2018) (3)
- Some Reflections on the Many Labs 2 Replication of Norenzayan, Smith, Kim, and Nisbett’s (2002) Study 2: Cultural Preferences for Formal Versus Intuitive Reasoning (2018) (2)
- Appealing to the minds of gods: A novel cultural evolutionary account of religious appeals and an empirical assessment using ethnographic data from eight diverse societies (2021) (2)
- How is analytical thinking related to religious belief? A test of three theoretical models (2019) (2)
- Worldwide evidence of cultural similarity among co-religionists within and across countries using the World Values Survey (2020) (2)
- How strongly do moral character inferences predict forecasts of the future? Testing the moderating roles of transgressor age, implicit personality theories, and belief in karma (2019) (2)
- The evolution of religion and morality (2018) (2)
- Chapter 4. In Big Gods We Trust (2013) (1)
- DOES GOD MAKE YOU GOOD? (2019) (1)
- The Evolution of Religion and Morality project: reflections and looking ahead (2022) (1)
- Weighing Outcome vs. Intent Across Societies_preprint (2018) (1)
- Memory and Belief in the Transmission of Counterintuitive Content (2016) (1)
- Guiding the evolution of the evolutionary sciences of religion: a discussion (2022) (1)
- Cultural similarity among co-religionists within and between countries (2020) (1)
- Belief in Karma Questionnaire (2019) (0)
- 19 Religious Prosociality A Synthesis (2013) (0)
- Ara Norenzayan Explaining Human Behavioral Diversity (2011) (0)
- Life's Purpose Measure (2018) (0)
- Intuitive Religious Belief Scale (2017) (0)
- The Evolution of Religion and Morality (CERC) (2017) (0)
- Hun 1 an Morality and Sociality Evolutionary and Con ' lparative Perspectives (2010) (0)
- Color in Mind, Culture, and Language (2011) (0)
- Global supernatural beliefs. (2023) (0)
- KARMA 1 Belief in Karma : How cultural evolution , cognition , and motivation s shape belief in supernatural justice (0)
- Exploring the Evolutionary Foundations of Culture: An Adaptationist Framework (2011) (0)
- Chapter 10. Cooperation without God (2013) (0)
- Chapter 7. Big Gods for Big Groups (2013) (0)
- Fate Attribution Measures (2011) (0)
- Karma and God: Convergent and divergent mental representations of supernatural norm enforcement (2019) (0)
- Analytic atheism revisited (2018) (0)
- Ecospirituality: The psychology of moral concern for nature (2023) (0)
- Thinking About God Encourages Prosociality Toward Religious Outgroups: A Cross-Cultural Investigation. (2023) (0)
- Intuitive Belief in God Scale (2014) (0)
- Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities: a cross-cultural investigation (2022) (0)
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