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- PhD Psychology University of Auckland
- Masters Cognitive Science Victoria University of Wellington
- Bachelors Psychology University of Auckland
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joseph A. Bulbulia is a Professor of Psychology in the Faculty of Science at Victoria University of Wellington . He was the Maclaurin Goodfellow Chair in the School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts at University of Auckland . He previously served as a Professor in the School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies at Victoria University of Wellington . Bulbulia is regarded as one of the founders of the contemporary evolutionary religious studies . He is a past president of the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion and is currently co-editor of Religion, Brain & Behavior. Bulbulia is one of four on the Senior Management Team of the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study, a 20-year longitudinal study tracking over 15,000 New Zealanders each year. He is an associate investigator for Pulotu, a database of 116 Pacific cultures purpose-built to investigate the evolutionary dynamics of religion. In 2016 Bulbulia won a Research Excellence Award at Victoria University.
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Published Works
- Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide lockdown on trust, attitudes toward government, and well-being. (2020) (462)
- Synchronized arousal between performers and related spectators in a fire-walking ritual (2011) (429)
- Let’s Dance Together: Synchrony, Shared Intentionality and Cooperation (2013) (391)
- Extreme Rituals Promote Prosociality (2013) (303)
- To be in synchrony or not? A meta-analysis of synchrony's effects on behavior, perception, cognition and affect (2017) (230)
- Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia (2015) (224)
- Signalling theory and the evolution of religious cooperation (2011) (181)
- The cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion (2004) (169)
- The ecology of religious beliefs (2014) (154)
- Does synchrony promote generalized prosociality? (2014) (141)
- Faith after an Earthquake: A Longitudinal Study of Religion and Perceived Health before and after the 2011 Christchurch New Zealand Earthquake (2012) (139)
- How Do Rituals Affect Cooperation? (2013) (135)
- Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists (2017) (127)
- Religious Costs as Adaptations that Signal Altruistic Intention (2004) (126)
- Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies (2016) (112)
- The Fire-Walker’s High: Affect and Physiological Responses in an Extreme Collective Ritual (2014) (107)
- Quantifying collective effervescence: Heart-rate dynamics at a fire-walking ritual (2011) (107)
- Cognitive resource depletion in religious interactions (2013) (101)
- Cultural evolution of religion (2013) (85)
- Religion and the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) (85)
- The Evolution of Religion Studies, Theories, & Critiques (2008) (83)
- Demographic and Psychological Predictors of Panel Attrition: Evidence from the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study (2015) (75)
- Spreading order: religion, cooperative niche construction, and risky coordination problems (2011) (62)
- Analytic atheism: A cross-culturally weak and fickle phenomenon? (2018) (59)
- Autobiographical Memory in a Fire-Walking Ritual (2013) (54)
- Meme Infection or Religious Niche Construction? An Adaptationist Alternative to The Cultural Maladaptationist Hypothesis (2008) (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)
- Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Nationwide Lockdown on Trust, Attitudes towards Government, and Wellbeing (2020) (51)
- News exposure predicts anti-Muslim prejudice (2017) (50)
- Religious Solidarity: The Hand Grenade Experiment (2008) (48)
- Neural correlates of mystical experience (2016) (47)
- The Diversity and Prevalence of Sexual Orientation Self-Labels in a New Zealand National Sample (2017) (47)
- The evolution of religion (2007) (46)
- Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation Predict Different Moral Signatures (2014) (43)
- Religion and the Unmaking of Prejudice toward Muslims: Evidence from a Large National Sample (2016) (42)
- The behavioral ecology of religion: the benefits and costs of one evolutionary approach (2011) (42)
- Pulotu: Database of Austronesian Supernatural Beliefs and Practices (2015) (35)
- Are There Any Religions? An Evolutionary Exploration (2005) (31)
- Biological and cognitive underpinnings of religious fundamentalism (2017) (31)
- Differences and similarities in religious and paranormal beliefs: a typology of distinct faith signatures (2014) (30)
- Nature’s medicine: religiosity as an adaptation for health and cooperation (2006) (29)
- Religious residue: Cross-cultural evidence that religious psychology and behavior persist following deidentification. (2020) (27)
- Moral Foundations Predict Religious Orientations in New Zealand (2013) (27)
- Coding culture: challenges and recommendations for comparative cultural databases (2020) (26)
- Social Media Use Is (Weakly) Related to Psychological Distress (2019) (23)
- Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods (2021) (22)
- Religious Studies as a Life Science (2012) (22)
- Religiosity as Mental Time-travel (2009) (21)
- Alloparenting and religious fertility: A test of the religious alloparenting hypothesis (2019) (20)
- New Zealand Pet Owners’ Demographic Characteristics, Personality, and Health and Wellbeing: More Than Just a Fluff Piece (2020) (20)
- Introductory essay: Evolutionary science and the study of religion (2011) (19)
- Bias and tracking accuracy in voting projections using the New Zealand attitudes and values study (2016) (18)
- The Neural Basis of Religious Cognition (2020) (17)
- Church attendance and alloparenting: an analysis of fertility, social support and child development among English mothers (2020) (17)
- Coding Responses to an Open-ended Gender Measure in a New Zealand National Sample (2019) (17)
- Images from a jointly-arousing collective ritual reveal affective polarization (2013) (17)
- Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies (2018) (15)
- The Evolution of Charismatic Cultures (2010) (15)
- Free love: Religious solidarity on the cheap (2008) (14)
- Healing Those Who Need Healing: How Religious Practice Interacts with Personality to Affect Social Belonging (2012) (13)
- Forecasting religious change: a Bayesian model predicting proportional Christian change in New Zealand (2015) (13)
- Time investments in rituals are associated with social bonding, affect and subjective health: a longitudinal study of Diwali in two Indian communities (2020) (12)
- Autobiographical Memory in a FireWalking Ritual (2013) (12)
- The resource model and the principle of predictive coding: a framework for analyzing proximate effects of ritual (2013) (11)
- Joint Action Enhances Cohesion and Positive Affect, but Suppresses Aspects of Creativity When Combined With Shared Goals (2019) (11)
- Comparative study of attitudes to religious groups in New Zealand reveals Muslim-specific prejudice (2020) (11)
- Religious Culture and Cooperative Prediction under Risk: Perspectives from Social Neuroscience (2010) (10)
- Bayes and the evolution of religious belief (2013) (9)
- How Do Religious Identities and Basic Value Orientations Affect Each Other Over Time? (2014) (9)
- Religion and the Development of Character: Personality Changes Before and After Religious Conversion and Deconversion (2020) (9)
- To burn or to save? The opposing functions of reading scripture on environmental intentions (2016) (8)
- Charity explains differences in life satisfaction between religious and secular New Zealanders (2015) (8)
- The neural basis of religion. (2013) (8)
- Why “costly signalling” models of religion require cognitive psychology (2014) (8)
- Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods (2019) (7)
- Charismatic Signaling: How religion stabilizes cooperation and entrenches inequality (2017) (7)
- Only children in the 21st century: Personality differences between adults with and without siblings are very, very small (2019) (7)
- Prejudice toward Muslims in New Zealand: insights from the New Zealand attitudes and values study (2020) (7)
- Regional Differences and Similarities in the Personality of New Zealanders (2015) (7)
- Does poverty predict religion? (2013) (6)
- Regional Differences in the Psychological Recovery of Christchurch Residents Following the 2010/2011 Earthquakes: A Longitudinal Study (2015) (6)
- The Arts Transform The Cognitive Science of Religion (2014) (6)
- Signaling Theory and Religion (2016) (6)
- The Einstein effect provides global evidence for scientific source credibility effects and the influence of religiosity (2022) (6)
- Religion as superorganism: On David Sloan Wilson, Darwin’s cathedral (2002) (2009) (5)
- Clarity and causality needed in claims about Big Gods (2016) (5)
- The Hypnotic Stag Hunt (2011) (4)
- Prefrontal Brain Lesions Reveal Magical Ideation Arises From Enhanced Religious Experiences (2018) (4)
- Can honest signaling theory clarify religion’s role in the evolution of social inequality? (2017) (4)
- The proportion of religious residents predicts the values of nonreligious neighbors: evidence from a national sample (2013) (4)
- Strength of religion and the future of the churches (2014) (4)
- Neural underpinning of a personal relationship with God and sense of control: A lesion-mapping study (2020) (4)
- National longitudinal evidence for growth in subjective well-being from spiritual beliefs (2021) (4)
- Ideology as cooperative affordance (2009) (4)
- Comments: Attachment and Cooperation in Religious Groups: An Example of a Mechanism for Cultural Group Selection (2009) (3)
- Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists (2017) (3)
- What are “The Hilbert Problems” in the Study of Religion? (2015) (3)
- Brain networks involved in the influence of religion on empathy in male Vietnam War veterans (2021) (3)
- Toward an evolutionary social neuroscience of religion (2011) (3)
- Evolutionary Science and the Study of Religion (2011) (3)
- Why do religious cultures evolve slowly? The cultural evolution of cooperative calling and the historical study of religions (2013) (3)
- Hilbert Problems in the scientific study of religion (2017) (3)
- The Big Six Personality Traits and Mental Distress: Dynamic Modeling in a Population Panel Study Reveals Bidirectional Relationships Involving Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Conscientiousness (2020) (3)
- The Einstein effect: Global evidence for scientific source credibility effects and the influence of religiosity (2020) (3)
- Aspects of psychopathic personality relate to lower subjective and objective professional success (2022) (2)
- Announcing a new type of manuscript submission: the “retake” (2021) (2)
- National Longitudinal Mediators of Psychological Distress During Stringent COVID-19 Lockdown (2020) (2)
- Causal inference in regression: advice to authors (2021) (2)
- Religion and Emotion (2016) (2)
- Hate Begets Warmth? The Impact of an Anti-Muslim Terrorist Attack on Public Attitudes toward Muslims (2021) (2)
- The peer reviewer dilemma: how to appreciate the underappreciated (2016) (2)
- The need to believe in conflicting propositions (2011) (2)
- Religion, SCAN, and developing standards of inquiry (2015) (2)
- A national-scale typology of orientations to religion poses new challenges for the cultural evolutionary study of religious groups (2020) (2)
- Wilson’s 15-year-old cathedral (2017) (1)
- The awe-prosociality relationship: evidence for the role of context (2021) (1)
- Is the Open Access movement about to get real? (2019) (1)
- Psychological impact of far-right terrorism against Muslim minorities on national distress, community, and wellbeing (2022) (1)
- What happened to People in New Zealand During Covid-19 Home Lockdown? Institutional Trust, Attitudes to Government, Mental Health and Subjective Wellbeing (2020) (1)
- Thin and Thinner: Hypothesis-driven Research and the Study of Humans1 (2014) (1)
- Church attendance buffers against longer-term mental distress (2020) (1)
- Standards for Publishing in Religion, Brain & Behavior (2016) (1)
- Trust, Attitudes Toward Government, and Well-being During COVID-19 Pandemic Measure (2020) (1)
- Reflections on the scientific study of religion after the first decade of Religion, Brain & Behavior (2020) (1)
- DID RITUALIZED HUMAN SACRIFICE HELP BUILD AND SUSTAIN SOCIAL INEQUALITY? (2019) (1)
- Ritual and Cooperation (2018) (1)
- The Emerging Psychology of Religion (2015) (1)
- In praise of descriptive research (2019) (1)
- First shots fired for the phylogenetic revolution in religious studies: a commentary on David Sloan Wilson (2014) (1)
- Individuals’ number of children is associated with benevolent sexism (2021) (1)
- Mind, Morality and Magic (2013) (1)
- The fish that got away? Human behavioral ecology and the study of religion (2018) (1)
- Religion, Brain & Behavior’s seventh year (2017) (1)
- Affording cooperative populations (2011) (0)
- TARGET ARTICLE Cognitive resource depletion in religious interactions (2013) (0)
- The neural basis of religion: Joseph Bulbulia and Uffe Schjoedt (2012) (0)
- Author Correction: Psychological impact of far-right terrorism against Muslim minorities on national distress, community, and wellbeing (2022) (0)
- New Developments in the Cognitive Science of Religion. Hosted by the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion (IACSR) (2011) (0)
- Sequential Hidden Markov Model of Religious Affiliation and Volunteering in New Zealand 2009-2017 (2020) (0)
- Corrigendum to: The Diversity and Prevalence of Sexual Orientation Self-Labels in a New Zealand National Sample (Greaves et al., 2017) (2017) (0)
- Farewell, old syllabus! (2020) (0)
- A changing of the guard (2022) (0)
- Critical Self-Correction (2016) (0)
- The neural underpinning of religious beliefs: Evidence from brain lesions (2022) (0)
- Changing Minds: Religion And Cognition Through The Ages, edited by Istvan Czachesz and Tamas Biro. Groningen Studies in Cultural Change 42. Peeters, 2012. 260pp., pb. €48.00. ISBN-13: 9789042925533. (2014) (0)
- Science as a Value Pump: Review of Nicholas Agar, Life's Intrinsic Value: Science, Ethics, and Nature (2003) (0)
- The New Collaborative Scientific Study of Religious History (2018) (0)
- Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation Predict Different Moral Signatures (2014) (0)
- Collective narratives catalyse cooperation (2022) (0)
- Neutral Evolution as a Route to Large-scale Cooperation in the Stag Hunt Game (2011) (0)
- The evolution of global religions (2019) (0)
- Introducing our new editors (2022) (0)
- First shots fired for the phylogenetic revolution in religious studies (Human cultures are primarily adaptive at the group level) (2013) (0)
- “God Is Watching You” … and might be influencing your brain, too (2018) (0)
- Coevolution of religious and political authority in Austronesian societies (2022) (0)
- Celebrating the uninvited (2021) (0)
- Neural underpinning of a personal relationship with God and sense of control: A lesion-mapping study (2020) (0)
- Models, simulations, abstractions, and insights (2017) (0)
- Religion, Cooperation, Fertility, and Child Outcomes (2017) (0)
- IACSR 2013 Berlin Conference on Social Cognition and Religion (2013) (0)
- Introducing a special issue on phase two of the Evolution of Religion and Morality project (2022) (0)
- Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies (2018) (0)
- Anthropology: Tradition's hidden economy (2017) (0)
- Vikings, virtual reality, and supernatural agents in predictive minds (2019) (0)
- Longitudinal Mediators of Early Pandemic Distress (2020) (0)
- Ritual Studies and Ritual Theories: A Guide for the Perplexed (2008) (0)
- The Bittersweet Dynamics of Psychological Distress and Relief During New Zealand’s COVID-19 Lockdown Clarify Avoidable Mental Health Burdens (2020) (0)
- AN EVOLUTIONARY EXPLORATION1 (2016) (0)
- Religion in Eden: studies, theories & critiques (2008) (0)
- Book reviews (2003) (0)
- Longitudinal Study of Pandemic and Natural Disaster Distress (2020) (0)
- Religion as Evolutionary Cascade (2009) (0)
- Corrigendum to: The Diversity and Prevalence of Sexual Orientation Self-Labels in a New Zealand National Sample (Greaves et al., 2017) (2017) (0)
- Scales for Sense of Belonging and Support (2015) (0)
- New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study Gender Identity Coding Scheme (2021) (0)
- Van Tongeren et al. (2020) JPSP - Religious Residue (2020) (0)
- Collective narratives catalyse cooperation (2020) (0)
- Speciation patterns across five global religions (2017) (0)
- The Diversity and Prevalence of Sexual Orientation Self-Labels in a New Zealand National Sample (2016) (0)
- Mechanisms of COVID-19 Mental Health Burden (2020) (0)
- Author Correction: Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists (2018) (0)
- How Do Rituals Affect Cooperation? (2013) (0)
- Author Correction: Psychological impact of far-right terrorism against Muslim minorities on national distress, community, and wellbeing (2022) (0)
- Spreading order: religion, cooperative niche construction, and risky coordination problems (2011) (0)
- Kiwi Diwali: a longitudinal investigation of perceived social connection following a civic religious ritual (2022) (0)
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