Ara Norenzayan

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Ara Norenzayan is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, University of British Columbia, University of Michigan, Polytechnic Institute of Paris

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Ara Norenzayan's Published Works

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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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