Jesse Bering

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Jesse Bering is affiliated with the following schools: Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University at Kingston, University of New Zealand, Florida Atlantic University, University of Arkansas

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Evolutionary Psychology

#36

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#38

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#15

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Cognitive Psychology

#628

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#660

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#159

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According to Wikipedia, Jesse Michael Bering is an American psychologist, writer, and academic. He is a professor in Science Communication at the University of Otago , as well as a frequent contributor to Scientific American, Slate, and Das Magazin . His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Guardian, and The New Republic, and has been featured on NPR, the BBC, Playboy Radio and elsewhere.

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Published Works

The folk psychology of souls (2006) (394)
The natural emergence of reasoning about the afterlife as a developmental regularity. (2004) (267)
Hand of God, Mind of Man: Punishment and Cognition in the Evolution of Cooperation* (2006) (258)
The Existential Theory of Mind (2002) (200)
Intuitive Conceptions of Dead Agents' Minds: The Natural Foundations of Afterlife Beliefs as Phenomenological Boundary (2002) (182)
Reasoning about dead agents reveals possible adaptive trends (2005) (174)
"Princess Alice is watching you": children's belief in an invisible person inhibits cheating. (2011) (168)
Toward a science of other minds: escaping the argument by analogy (2000) (160)
Concerns about reputation via gossip promote generous allocations in an economic game (2008) (156)
The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life (2010) (141)
"O Lord… You Perceive my Thoughts from Afar": Recursiveness and the Evolution of Supernatural Agency (2005) (123)
The Mentality of Apes Revisited (2002) (121)
The development of afterlife beliefs in religiously and secularly schooled children. (2005) (102)
“Meant to be”: how religious beliefs and cultural religiosity affect the implicit bias to think teleologically (2014) (89)
Children's Tattling: the reporting of everyday norm violations in preschool settings. (2010) (79)
Evolutionary cyber-psychology: Applying an evolutionary framework to Internet behavior (2009) (71)
Children's attributions of intentions to an invisible agent. (2006) (70)
A critical review of the “enculturation hypothesis”: the effects of human rearing on great ape social cognition (2004) (69)
Towards a cognitive theory of existential meaning (2003) (61)
The generalization of deferred imitation in enculturated chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) (2002) (61)
The cognitive psychology of belief in the supernatural (2006) (57)
Deferred imitation of object-related actions in human-reared juvenile chimpanzees and orangutans. (2000) (55)
Chimpanzees’ “Pointing”: Another Error of the Argument by Analogy? (2003) (55)
The Effects of Perceived Anonymity on Altruistic Punishment (2008) (52)
The evolved child (2002) (45)
Atheism is only skin deep: Geertz and Markusson rely mistakenly on sociodemographic data as meaningful indicators of underlying cognition (2010) (44)
The Causal Role of Consciousness: A Conceptual Addendum to Human Evolutionary Psychology (2004) (42)
The Evolutionary History of an Illusion: Religious Causal Beliefs in Children and Adults. (2005) (35)
A two-year longitudinal study of deferred imitation of object manipulation in a juvenile chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). (2000) (29)
That's Disgusting (2013) (26)
A note on the development of deferred imitation in enculturated juvenile chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) (2003) (24)
Big Brains, Slow Development and Social Complexity: The Developmental and Evolutionary Origins of Social Cognition (2003) (19)
Snakes, Spiders, Strangers: How the Evolved Fear of Strangers May Misdirect Efforts to Protect Children from Harm (2010) (16)
Does Perceived Lack of Control Lead to Conspiracy Theory Beliefs? Findings from an online MTurk sample (2020) (16)
Theistic Percepts in Other Species: Can Chimpanzees Represent the Minds of Non-Natural Agents? (2001) (15)
The evolved child 2 Applying evolutionary developmental psychology 3 to modern schooling (2002) (13)
The cognitive science of souls: Clarifications and extensions of the evolutionary model (2006) (13)
The adaptive problem of absent third-party punishment (2009) (12)
The Third Gender (2010) (11)
The Coevolution of Secrecy and Stigmatization (2010) (11)
Hand of God, mind of man (2009) (11)
The serpent's gift: Evolutionary psychology and consciousness (2007) (11)
Evolutionary Religious Studies (ERS): A Beginner's Guide (2007) (7)
The Rat that Laughed (2012) (7)
Public faith in science in the United States through the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic (2021) (7)
The Cognitive Science of Religion (2009) (7)
Examining a domain-specific link between perceived control and conspiracy beliefs: a brief report in the context of COVID-19 (2021) (6)
Why Hell is other People: Distinctively Human Psychological Suffering (2008) (6)
Religious Concepts are Probably Epiphenomena: A Reply to Pyysiäinen, Boyer, and Barrett (2003) (4)
Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves (2020) (4)
Aversion to organs donated by suicide victims: The role of psychological essentialism (2019) (4)
Evolutionary psychology and false confession. (2005) (4)
The construction of awe in science communication (2020) (3)
The rat that laughed: Do animals other than humans have a sense of humor? Maybe so. (2012) (3)
Knowledge of Deaths in Hotel Rooms Diminishes Perceived Value and Elicits Guest Aversion (2019) (3)
Strategies to Stay Alive: Adaptive Toolboxes for Living Well with Suicidal Behavior (2021) (3)
How to Know You’ve Survived Death (2018) (2)
The Coevolution of Secrecy and Stigmatization Evidence from the Content of Distressing Secrets (2010) (2)
Supernatural agents may have provided adaptive social information (2004) (2)
Mental Representation and Natural Selection: The Special Case of Human Social Evolution (2006) (2)
Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us (2013) (2)
Addressing head injury risk in youth football: are heading guidelines the answer? (2021) (1)
Opposition to abortion related to inaccurate beliefs about fetal pain perception in utero (2021) (1)
Religious Intuitions and the Nature of “Belief” (2019) (1)
The value and distinctiveness of awe in science communication: comparing the incidence and content of ‘awesome’ representations in science and non-science picture books (2022) (1)
Varieties of Awe in Science Communication: Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Practitioners’ Experiences and Uses of This Emotion (2022) (1)
The “Ghost” in the Lab: Believers’ and Non-Believers’ Implicit Responses to an Alleged Apparition (2021) (1)
Unbidden confession as an evolved pre-emptive strategy against punishment: A preliminary investigation with prisoners (2014) (0)
Consciousness was a trouble-maker : On the general maladaptiveness of unsupported mental representation (2004) (0)
8. Comparing Cognitive Development (2005) (0)
WHY DO WE SEE SUPERNATURAL SIGNS IN NATURAL EVENTS? (2019) (0)
Is Your Child Gay (2012) (0)
The Role of Implicit and Explicit Beliefs in Grave-Good Practices: Evidence for Intuitive Afterlife Reasoning (2023) (0)
A Review of "Fuckology: Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts" (2015) (0)
'Ratcheting' up the scalae naturae ? (2001) (0)
The desire to be remembered: A review and analysis of legacy motivations and behaviors (2023) (0)
God is not in the Mirror (2001) (0)

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