Why Is Justin L. Barrett Influential?
According to Wikipedia , Justin L. Barrett is an American experimental psychologist, Founder and President of Blueprint 1543, a nonprofit organization. He formerly was the Director of the Thrive Center for Human Development in Pasadena, California, Thrive Professor of Developmental Science, and Professor of Psychology at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology. He previously was a senior researcher and director of the Centre for Anthropology and Mind at the Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford.
Justin L. Barrett's Published Works
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2000 2010 2020 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550 600 650 700 Published Papers Exploring the natural foundations of religion (573) Why Would Anyone Believe in God (566) Conceptualizing a Nonnatural Entity: Anthropomorphism in God Concepts (560) God's beliefs versus mother's: the development of nonhuman agent concepts. (195) Spreading Non-natural Concepts: The Role of Intuitive Conceptual Structures in Memory and Transmission of Cultural Materials ¤ (189) Theological Correctness: Cognitive Constraint and the Study of Religion (175) Cognitive Constraints on Hindu Concepts of the Divine (161) Cognitive Science of Religion: What Is It and Why Is It? (107) Coding and Quantifying Counterintuitiveness in Religious Concepts: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections (102) Ritual Intuitions: Cognitive Contributions to Judgments of Ritual Efficacy (90) The science of religious beliefs (89) Anthropomorphism or Preparedness? Exploring Children's God Concepts (86) Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology (85) Reformed epistemology and the cognitive science of religion (73) Reidian Religious Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of Religion (68) Children's attributions of beliefs to humans and God: cross-cultural evidence (66) Why Santa Claus is Not a God (64) The Role of Control in Attributing Intentional Agency to Inanimate Objects (64) When Minds Migrate: Conceptualizing Spirit Possession (59) Cognitive Science of Religion: Looking Back, Looking Forward (58) Born Believers: The Science of Children's Religious Belief (57) How Ordinary Cognition Informs Petitionary Prayer (51) Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Person-Body Reasoning: Experimental Evidence From the United Kingdom and Brazilian Amazon (47) Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology (47) Primed analytic thought and religiosity: The importance of individual characteristics. (47) Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology: From Human Minds to Divine Minds (46) RESEARCH: Do You See What I See? Young Children's Assumptions About God's Perceptual Abilities (44) Conceptualizing Spirit Possession: Ethnographic and Experimental Evidence (43) Is the spell really broken? Bio-psychological explanations of religion and theistic belief (42) Counterintuitiveness in Folktales: Finding the Cognitive Optimum (40) Implicit theories of intellectual virtues and vices: A focus on intellectual humility (36) Children's attributions of beliefs to humans and God: cross-cultural evidence (35) The effects of image-use in worship on God concepts. (33) Intellectual humility (32) The relative unnaturalness of atheism: On why Geertz and Markússon are both right and wrong (30) Longitudinal study of religious and spiritual transformation in adolescents attending young life summer camp: Assessing the epistemic, intrapsychic, and moral sociability functions of conversion. (30) Can ritual form be predicted from religious belief? A test of the Lawson-McCauley hypotheses (28) Epistemology and Counterintuitiveness: Role and Relationship in Epidemiology of Cultural Representations (28) Should CSR Give Atheists Epistemic Assurance? on Beer-Goggles, BFFs , and Skepticism Regarding Religious Beliefs (27) “I Just Don'T Get it”: Perceived Artists' Intentions Affect Art Evaluations (25) When Seeing Is Not Believing: Children's Understanding of Humans' and Non-Humans' Use of Background Knowledge in Interpreting Visual Displays (24) Smart Gods, Dumb Gods, and the Role of Social Cognition in Structuring Ritual Intuitions (20) Attachment Predicts Adolescent Conversions at Young Life Religious Summer Camps (18) Anthropomorphism, intentional agents, and conceptualizing God. (17) Psychological and Theological Reflections on Grace and Its Relevance for Science and Practice (16) Counterfactuality in counterintuitive religious concepts (15) Cognitive Constraints on the Visual Arts: An Empirical Study of the Role of Perceived Intentions in Appreciation Judgements (15) Religion in Mind: Do children experience God as adults do? (15) Refining and Testing “Counterintuitiveness” in Virtual Reality: Cross-Cultural Evidence for Recall of Counterintuitive Representations (14) Mind the gap: evolutionary psychological perspectives on human thriving (11) The Nature of God - Evolution and Religion (10) Virtue development following spiritual transformation in adolescents attending evangelistic summer camp (9) Cognition, evolution, and religion. (8) Epidemiological and Nativist Accounts in the Cognitive Study of Culture: A Commentary on Pyysiäinen's Innate Fear of Bering's Ghosts (8) Bringing Data to Mind: Empirical Claims of Lawson and McCauley’s Theory of Religious Ritual (8) Could we advance the science of religion (better) without the concept “religion”? (7) In search of 'folk anthropology': The cognitive anthropology of the person (6) The Roots of Religion: Exploring the Cognitive Science of Religion (6) A Cognitive Typology of Religious Actions (5) Early Trauma as a Predictor of Burnout and Social Network Structure in Mission Workers (5) The circle of life: A cross-cultural comparison of children's attribution of life-cycle traits. (5) Looking Past vs. Overlooking Cognitive–Evolutionary Accounts of Religion: A Response to Nathaniel Barrett (5) Toward a Cognitive Science of Christianity (4) Partnerships in practice. (4) Chapter 11. Metarepresentation, Homo religiosus , and Homo symbolicus (4) Exploring counterintuitiveness: template- and schema-level effects (3) Examining Special Patient Rituals in a Chinese Cultural Context: A Research Report (3) In What Senses Might Religion Be Natural (3) Where the Gods Dwell: a Research Report (3) Religion Is Kid’s Stuff: Minimally Counterintuitive Concepts Are Better Remembered by Young People (3) Some common misunderstandings about cognitive approaches to the study of religion: a reply to Sterelny (3) High goal conflict and low goal meaning are associated with an increased likelihood of subsequent religious transformation in adolescents (3) Can Religious Belief Be Explained Away?: Reasons and Causes of Religious Belief (3) Cognitive science of religion (3) Ethnographic and Experimental Evidence (2) Social Networks among Ministry Relationships: Relational Capacity, Burnout, & Ministry Effectiveness (2) Evil Intuitions? The Problem of Evil, Experimental Philosophy, and the Need for Psychological Research (2) Virtual reality as a 'spiritual experience': a perspective from the cognitive science of religion (2) On Naturalness, Innateness, and God-beliefs: A Reply to Shook (2) The God issue: We are all born believers (2) Cognitive Science of Religion and the Rationality of Classical Theism (1) Religious Cognition in China (1) On the Naturalness of Religion and Religious Freedom (1) The (modest) utility of MCI theory (1) The Argument from Positive Epistemic Status (1) Cognitive and Evolutionary Studies of Religion (1) Theology and Thriving: Teleological Considerations Based on the Doctrines of Christology and Soteriology (1) Different Styles Reach Different Kids: An empirical enquiry into Young Life Camping Outreach Programs in the USA and Europe (1) Good Gods Almighty (1) Ritual Imbalance in Contemporary China: A Ritual Form Theory Analysis (1) Stonehenge, land, sky and the seasons (1) Children’s Developing Understanding of the Cognitive Abilities of Supernatural and Natural Minds: Evidence from Three Cultures (0) Evolutionary Developmental Psychology of Children’s Religious Beliefs (0) The “Constitutive Relevance of Models” (CRoM) Test: A Tool for Transferring Constructs and Virtues between Psychological and Anthropological Theories of Ritual (0) The Trouble with “Evolution of Religion” (0) Explaining religion and spirituality (0) Cognitive developmental foundations of cultural acquisition: children's understanding of other minds (0) Cognitive Science of Religion and Christian Faith: How May They Be Brought Together? (0) AND SKEPTICISM REGARDING RELIGIOUS BELIEFS (0) Experimental Methods (0) The Frog Who Croaked Blue: Synesthesia and the mixing of the senses (0) Revelation and Cognitive Science (0) The Context of Suffering (0) Experimental Method (0) The minds of God, mortals, and in-betweens: Children’s developing understanding of extraordinary and ordinary minds across four countries. (0) Introduction: Homo Religiosus and the Dragon (0) Personal Strivings Measures (0) Cognition-Lite Studies of Human Belief (0) When Minds Migrate : Conceptualizing Spirit Possession 1 (0) Routledge Handbook of Humility (0) Intuitive and Reflective Cognition (0) Ritual Forms and Ritual Stuff: Implications of Lawson and McCauley's Ritual Form Hypothesis for Material Culture (0) Big Gods can get in your head (0) Special Issue: New Trends in the Cognitive Science of Religion (0) Why land application looks easy in Madison, Wisconsin (0) Psychological practice and general issues (0) Dogs, Santa Claus, and Sun Wukong: Children’s Understanding of Nonhuman Minds (0) From theory of mind to divine minds (0) Is Religious Belief Natural? The Relevance of Cognitive Science to Faith (0) WHAT DO WE THINK ABOUT GOD WHEN WE AREN’T CAREFUL? (0) Barrett, Justin L. (0) Consequences of religion (0) The Role of Retail Markets in Impoverished Neighborhoods (0) When minds migrate : conceptualising spirit possession (0) Commentaries (0) Cognitive Science of Religion (0) Books in brief (0) More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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