Harvey Whitehouse

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Harvey Whitehouse

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#37

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According to Wikipedia, Harvey Whitehouse is chair of social anthropology and professorial fellow of Magdalen College at the University of Oxford. Education and early career Whitehouse received his B.A. degree in social anthropology from the London School of Economics in 1985. He completed his PhD in anthropology at the University of Cambridge in 1990.

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Harvey Whitehouse's Published Works

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When group membership gets personal: a theory of identity fusion. (2012) (518)
Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission (2004) (512)
The Ties That Bind Us (2014) (279)
Religion and Morality (2014) (261)
Arguments and Icons: Divergent Modes of Religiosity (2000) (259)
Happy to help? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of performing acts of kindness on the well-being of the actor (2018) (232)
Brothers in arms: Libyan revolutionaries bond like family (2014) (206)
Inside the Cult: Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea (1995) (206)
Is It Good to Cooperate? (2019) (199)
The cultural morphospace of ritual form ☆: Examining modes of religiosity cross-culturally (2011) (196)
Stick to the script: The effect of witnessing multiple actors on children’s imitation (2013) (194)
Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history (2019) (193)
Rites of terror : Emotion, metaphor and memory in Melanesian initiation cults (1996) (177)
Wrath of God: religious primes and punishment (2011) (165)
Imitative flexibility and the development of cultural learning (2015) (145)
Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization (2017) (141)
Task-specific effects of ostracism on imitative fidelity in early childhood☆ (2014) (140)
The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences (2017) (138)
In-Group Ostracism Increases High-Fidelity Imitation in Early Childhood (2016) (126)
Seshat: The Global History Databank (2015) (120)
Modes of religiosity: towards a cognitive explanation of the sociopolitical dynamics of religion (2002) (118)
Shared Negative Experiences Lead to Identity Fusion via Personal Reflection (2015) (102)
Memorable Religions: Transmission, Codification and Change in Divergent Melanesian Contexts (1992) (102)
Collective synchrony increases prosociality towards non-performers and outgroup members. (2016) (101)
Dying for the group: Towards a general theory of extreme self-sacrifice (2018) (88)
Cultural evolution of religion (2013) (85)
The debated mind : evolutionary psychology versus ethnography (2001) (81)
Mind and religion : psychological and cognitive foundations of religiosity (2005) (73)
Ritual and Memory Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion (2004) (72)
When Terror Hits Home: Identity Fused Americans Who Saw Boston Bombing Victims as “Family” Provided Aid (2015) (67)
Intergroup Conflict (2018) (64)
Positive experiences of high arousal martial arts rituals are linked to identity fusion and costly pro‐group actions (2018) (60)
The Coexistence Problem in Psychology, Anthropology, and Evolutionary Theory (2011) (60)
Transmissive Frequency, Ritual, and Exegesis (2001) (59)
Modes of religiosity at Çatalhöyük (2010) (58)
Synchrony and Physiological Arousal Increase Cohesion and Cooperation in Large Naturalistic Groups (2018) (54)
Cognitive Evolution and Religion: Cognition and Religious Evolution (2008) (53)
The role of writing and recordkeeping in the cultural evolution of human cooperation (2013) (53)
Explaining Lifelong Loyalty: The Role of Identity Fusion and Self-Shaping Group Events (2016) (52)
Religious reflexivity and transmissive frequency (2002) (50)
How Moments Become Movements: Shared Outrage, Group Cohesion, and the Lion That Went Viral (2018) (48)
The Dynamic Identity Fusion Index (2016) (46)
Brazil's football warriors: Social bonding and inter-group violence (2018) (44)
The Dynamic Identity Fusion Index : A New Continuous Measure of Identity Fusion for Web-Based Questionnaires (2015) (43)
Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: a test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank (2019) (42)
Ritual, identity fusion, and the inauguration of president Trump: a pseudo-experiment of ritual modes theory (2020) (42)
Grand challenges for the study of cultural evolution (2017) (40)
Theorizing religions past : archaeology, history, and cognition (2004) (38)
Religion, anthropology, and cognitive science (2007) (37)
Agricultural productivity in past societies: Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses (2015) (36)
A Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution (2012) (36)
Religion, Cohesion, and Hostility (2012) (35)
The role for simulations in theory construction for the social sciences: case studies concerning Divergent Modes of Religiosity (2012) (35)
Introduction: New Frontiers in the Cognitive Science of Religion (2005) (34)
Sharing genes fosters identity fusion and altruism (2017) (34)
Rituals Improve Children's Ability to Delay Gratification. (2018) (33)
JUNGLES AND COMPUTERS: NEURONAL GROUP SELECTION AND THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF REPRESENTATIONS (1996) (27)
A Macroscope for Global History: Seshat Global History Databank, a methodological overview (2016) (26)
Rewarding the good and punishing the bad: The role of karma and afterlife beliefs in shaping moral norms (2020) (24)
Ritual and Violence: Divergent modes of religiosity and armed struggle (2011) (20)
Incipient Social Groups: An Analysis via In-Vivo Behavioral Tracking (2016) (20)
A Systematic Assessment of “Axial Age” Proposals Using Global Comparative Historical Evidence (2018) (19)
Catholic guilt? Recall of confession promotes prosocial behavior (2013) (18)
The role of religious fundamentalism and tightness-looseness in promoting collective narcissism and extreme group behavior. (2020) (17)
Winning at any cost: Identity fusion, group essence, and maximizing ingroup advantage (2018) (17)
Not on my team: Medial prefrontal cortex responses to ingroup fusion and unfair monetary divisions (2018) (17)
Response to commentaries 'The Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity: Five predictions and a drum roll' (2015) (17)
Theorizing religions past (2004) (16)
Seeking a Rapprochement Between Anthropology and the Cognitive Sciences: A Problem-Driven Approach (2012) (15)
FROM MISSION TO MOVEMENT: THE IMPACT OF CHRISTIANITY ON PATTERNS OF POLITICAL ASSOCIATION IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA (1998) (15)
The nature of religious diversity: a cultural ecosystem approach (2017) (14)
Interpersonal synchrony affects performers’ sense of agency (2019) (13)
Appropriated and Monolithic Christianity in Melanesia (2006) (13)
Towards an integration of ethnography, history and the cognitive science of religion (2007) (13)
Toward a comparative anthropology of religion (2004) (12)
Three Wishes for the World (with comment) (2013) (12)
Dacura: A new solution to data harvesting and knowledge extraction for the historical sciences (2018) (12)
Modes of Religiosity and the Cognitive Science of Religion (2004) (12)
Cooperative conservation: Seven ways to save the world (2019) (12)
The Ritual Animal (2021) (11)
Religion at Work in a Neolithic Society: Modes of Religiosity and the Evolution of Social Complexity at Çatalhöyük (2014) (11)
Go WILD, Not WEIRD (2020) (11)
Rise of the war machines: Charting the evolution of military technologies from the Neolithic to the Industrial Revolution (2020) (10)
The cognitive foundations of religiosity (2005) (10)
Retraction Note: Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history (2021) (10)
Common Criticisms of the Cognitive Science of Religion--Answered (2008) (10)
Strong Words and Forceful Winds: Religious Experience and Political Process in Melanesia (1994) (10)
Big Gods did not drive the rise of big societies throughout world history (2021) (9)
Groups and Emotional Arousal Mediate Neural Synchrony and Perceived Ritual Efficacy (2018) (9)
Divergent Modes of Religiosity and Armed Struggle (2013) (9)
Examining memory for ritualized gesture in complex causal sequences (2018) (8)
Identity and the developmental origins of fusion: an exploratory approach / La identidad y los orígenes de la fusión en el desarrollo: un enfoque exploratorio (2015) (8)
An integrative approach to estimating productivity in past societies using Seshat: Global History Databank (2019) (8)
Devoted fans release more cortisol when watching live soccer matches. (2020) (8)
An Introduction to Seshat (2019) (8)
Mood, expertise, analogy, and ritual: an experiment using the five-disk Tower of Hanoi (2016) (7)
Band of mothers: Childbirth as a female bonding experience (2020) (7)
The Development of Identity Fusion (2021) (7)
The Cognitive Science of Religion (2009) (7)
Reply to Beheim et al.: Reanalyses confirm robustness of original analyses (2019) (7)
Task-speci fi c effects of ostracism on imitative fi delity in early childhood ☆ (2014) (7)
Tradition and invention: The bifocal stance theory of cultural evolution (2022) (7)
Exploring the Pathways Between Transformative Group Experiences and Identity Fusion (2020) (6)
An introduction to Seshat: Global History Databank (2019) (6)
Four things we need to know about extreme self-sacrifice (2018) (6)
Material Correlates Analysis (MCA) (2018) (6)
Emotion, Memory and Religious Rituals: An Assessment of Two Theories (2020) (6)
Ritual morphospace revisited: the form, function and factor structure of ritual practice (2020) (6)
Building the Seshat Ontology for a Global History Databank (2016) (6)
United in defeat: shared suffering and group bonding among football fans (2021) (5)
Towards a More Natural Governance of Earth's Biodiversity and Resources (2019) (5)
Religion promotes a love for thy neighbour: But how big is the neighbourhood? (2016) (5)
Developing the Field Site Concept for the Study of Cultural Evolution (2017) (5)
Why Do We Need Cognitive Theories of Religion (2004) (5)
Rethinking Proximate Causation and Development in Religious Evolution (2013) (5)
Being in a crowd bonds people via physiological synchrony (2022) (5)
The Equinox2020 Seshat Data Release (2020) (5)
Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data: a review and “retake” (2022) (5)
Material Correlates Analysis (MCA): An Innovative way of Examining Questions in Archaeology Using Ethnographic Data – ERRATUM (2018) (5)
Three Wishes for the World (2013) (4)
Crop Productivity Estimates for Past Societies in the World Sample-30 of Seshat: Global History Databank (2019) (4)
Disentangling the evolutionary drivers of social complexity: A comprehensive test of hypotheses (2022) (4)
Ritual, fusion, and conflict: The roots of agro-pastoral violence in rural Cameroon (2020) (4)
Reasoning about dead agents: A cross-cultural perspective (2006) (4)
Memory and Social Transmission (1995) (4)
A Life-Cycle Model of Human Social Groups Produces a U-Shaped Distribution in Group Size (2015) (4)
Pathways to prejudice and outgroup hostility: Group alignment and intergroup conflict among football fans (2021) (4)
New Era in the Study of Global History Is Born but It Needs to Be Nurtured (2019) (4)
Leaders and logics, persons and polities (1992) (4)
Ritual and Social Evolution: Understanding Social Complexity Through Data (2016) (3)
New Frontiers in the Cognitive Science of Religion by (2006) (3)
Reply to Tosh et al.: Quantitative analyses of cultural evolution require engagement with historical and archaeological research (2018) (3)
Disentangling the Evolutionary Drivers of Social Complexity in Human History: a Comprehensive Test of Hypotheses (2021) (3)
Preverbal infants expect agents exhibiting counterintuitive capacities to gain access to contested resources (2021) (3)
Fusion and Reform (2020) (3)
Cognitive evolution and religion (2008) (3)
Outgroup threat and the emergence of cohesive groups: A cross-cultural examination (2021) (2)
Ritual and acquiescence to authoritative discourse (2013) (2)
Exploring the role of identity fusion and group identification in predicting parochialism amongst Indonesian Islamic groups (2019) (2)
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history (2019) (2)
Recall of ‘counterintuitive’ concepts: the effect of pre-training, presentation, and normality of concepts (2009) (2)
Structural rhythms and moral tones among the Mali Baining (1990) (2)
The Twinning Project: how football, the beautiful game, can be used to reduce reoffending (2020) (2)
Does loving a group mean hating its rivals? Exploring the relationship between ingroup cohesion and outgroup hostility among soccer fans (2022) (2)
From the imaginary to the real: the back and forth between reality and simulation (2012) (2)
Shared Flashbulb Memories lead to Identity Fusion: Recalling the Defeat in the Brexit Referendum Produces Strong Psychological Bonds among Remain Supporters (2021) (2)
Cultural diversity really is like biological diversity: reply to comments on The Nature of Religious Diversity: A Cultural Ecosystem Approach (2017) (1)
The Epidemiology of Representations: Biological and Cognitive Perspectives on the Transmission of Culture (1998) (1)
Afterword: Ritual, Emotion and Power (2017) (1)
Big Gods and big science: further reflections on theory, data, and analysis (2022) (1)
Whence and Whither Sociocultural Anthropology (2011) (1)
Ritual and Religion as Social Technologies of Cooperation (2020) (1)
Cognition, Evolution and the Future of Social Anthropology (2012) (1)
A Cyclical Model of Structural Transformation Among the Mali Banning (1990) (1)
A new era in the study of global history is born but it needs to be nurtured (2019) (1)
The evolution of literacy: a cross-cultural account of literacy’s emergence, spread, and relationship with human cooperation (2014) (0)
Karma and afterlife beliefs in Singapore (2018) (0)
Developmental trajectory of understanding plants, animals, humanoids, supernatural agents, and invisibility (2010) (0)
Challenges for Society (2021) (0)
A secular mind: towards a cognitive anthropology of atheism (2010) (0)
Exploring the pathways between transformative group experiences and identity fusion. (2020) (0)
Why do great and little traditions coexist in the world’s doctrinal religions? (2021) (0)
Locating the causes of religious commitment (2004) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
Ritual Frequency, Emotionality, and Modes of Religiosity (2021) (0)
Is There a Language of Terrorists? A Comparative Manifesto Analysis (2022) (0)
Ritual’s Evolutionary Landscapes (2021) (0)
2 Religion , Cohesion , and Hostility (2012) (0)
Cognition et religion (2006) (0)
Doctrinal Ritual, Identification, and Social Complexity (2021) (0)
From Possession to Apotheosis: Transformation and Disguise in the Leadership of a Cargo Movement (2021) (0)
Early ontogeny of religiosity and social dominance (2018) (0)
Imagistic Ritual, Fusion, and Self-Sacrifice (2021) (0)
Data for: Brazil’s football warriors: Social bonding and inter-group violence (2018) (0)
Conclusion: Towards a Reconciliation (2020) (0)
Combining historical and archaeological data with crop models to estimate agricultural productivity in past societies (2020) (0)
The effects of mood on game learning and analogical transfer in a disguised Tower of Hanoi task (2009) (0)
Zoey Reeve and Dominic Johnson. Identity (con)fusion: Social Groups and the Stickiness of Social Glue. A Commentary on (2013) (0)
Semantic network analysis of religious pamphlets (2010) (0)
Bifocal stance theory: An effort to broaden, extend, and clarify (2022) (0)
Why is a Science of the Sociocultural so Difficult (2018) (0)
Four things we need to know about extreme self-sacrifice—CORRIGENDUM (2019) (0)
Synchrony and Physiological Arousal Increase Cohesion and Cooperation in Large Naturalistic Groups (2018) (0)
Introducing a special issue on the role of moralizing gods in the evolution of socio-political complexity (2023) (0)
The Potential for Identity Fusion to Reduce Recidivism and Improve Reintegration (2020) (0)
Has religion been good or bad for humanity? (2019) (0)
The Cognitive Parsing Model : Nuclear and Global Psychological Systems in the Transmission of Culture (2005) (0)
The memory pathway to Identity Fusion (2018) (0)
Retraction Note: Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history (2021) (0)
Four things we need to know about extreme self-sacrifice—CORRIGENDUM (2021) (0)
Dynamic Identity Fusion Index (2017) (0)
Flattening the Curve: Learning the lessons of world history to mitigate societal crises (2022) (0)
Explaining Recurrent Features of Religion (2009) (0)
Explaining Recurrent Features of Religion (2009) (0)
Épilogue (2020) (0)
of Theoretical and Mathematical History UC Riverside (2013) (0)
Reflections on Axiality Evolutionary Legacy or Historical Consciousness? (2019) (0)
Overimitation and the Ritual Stance (2021) (0)
Challenges for Science (2021) (0)
Cognitive Foundations of Cultural Learning (2013) (0)
Erratum (2020) (0)
Being in a crowd bonds people via physiological synchrony (2022) (0)
Cognitive Historiography: When Science Meets Art (2016) (0)

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