Justin L. Barrett

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.

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Justin L. Barrett's Published Works

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Published Papers

Exploring the natural foundations of religion (2000) (596)
Why Would Anyone Believe in God (2004) (593)
Conceptualizing a Nonnatural Entity: Anthropomorphism in God Concepts (1996) (578)
God's beliefs versus mother's: the development of nonhuman agent concepts. (2001) (200)
Spreading Non-natural Concepts: The Role of Intuitive Conceptual Structures in Memory and Transmission of Cultural Materials ¤ (2001) (192)
Theological Correctness: Cognitive Constraint and the Study of Religion (1999) (180)
Cognitive Constraints on Hindu Concepts of the Divine (1998) (164)
Cognitive Science of Religion: What Is It and Why Is It? (2007) (114)
Coding and Quantifying Counterintuitiveness in Religious Concepts: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections (2008) (105)
The science of religious beliefs (2008) (95)
Ritual Intuitions: Cognitive Contributions to Judgments of Ritual Efficacy (2001) (93)
Anthropomorphism or Preparedness? Exploring Children's God Concepts (2003) (92)
Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology (2009) (82)
Children's attributions of beliefs to humans and God: cross-cultural evidence (2004) (78)
Reformed epistemology and the cognitive science of religion (2010) (72)
Reidian Religious Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of Religion (2011) (69)
Born Believers: The Science of Children's Religious Belief (2012) (69)
The Role of Control in Attributing Intentional Agency to Inanimate Objects (2003) (67)
Why Santa Claus is Not a God (2008) (66)
When Minds Migrate: Conceptualizing Spirit Possession (2008) (60)
Cognitive Science of Religion: Looking Back, Looking Forward (2011) (57)
Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology: From Human Minds to Divine Minds (2011) (52)
How Ordinary Cognition Informs Petitionary Prayer (2001) (51)
Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Person-Body Reasoning: Experimental Evidence From the United Kingdom and Brazilian Amazon (2011) (48)
Primed analytic thought and religiosity: The importance of individual characteristics. (2016) (47)
Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology (2009) (47)
RESEARCH: Do You See What I See? Young Children's Assumptions About God's Perceptual Abilities (2005) (44)
Counterintuitiveness in Folktales: Finding the Cognitive Optimum (2009) (43)
Conceptualizing Spirit Possession: Ethnographic and Experimental Evidence (2008) (43)
Intellectual humility (2017) (41)
Is the spell really broken? Bio-psychological explanations of religion and theistic belief (2007) (41)
Implicit theories of intellectual virtues and vices: A focus on intellectual humility (2015) (39)
The effects of image-use in worship on God concepts. (1996) (33)
Epistemology and Counterintuitiveness: Role and Relationship in Epidemiology of Cultural Representations (2009) (31)
Longitudinal study of religious and spiritual transformation in adolescents attending young life summer camp: Assessing the epistemic, intrapsychic, and moral sociability functions of conversion. (2014) (31)
The relative unnaturalness of atheism: On why Geertz and Markússon are both right and wrong (2010) (30)
Can ritual form be predicted from religious belief? A test of the Lawson-McCauley hypotheses (2003) (30)
Should CSR Give Atheists Epistemic Assurance? on Beer-Goggles, BFFs , and Skepticism Regarding Religious Beliefs (2013) (29)
“I Just Don'T Get it”: Perceived Artists' Intentions Affect Art Evaluations (2014) (27)
When Seeing Is Not Believing: Children's Understanding of Humans' and Non-Humans' Use of Background Knowledge in Interpreting Visual Displays (2003) (22)
Psychological and Theological Reflections on Grace and Its Relevance for Science and Practice (2017) (21)
Smart Gods, Dumb Gods, and the Role of Social Cognition in Structuring Ritual Intuitions (2002) (21)
Anthropomorphism, intentional agents, and conceptualizing God. (1997) (20)
Counterfactuality in counterintuitive religious concepts (2004) (18)
Attachment Predicts Adolescent Conversions at Young Life Religious Summer Camps (2012) (18)
Refining and Testing “Counterintuitiveness” in Virtual Reality: Cross-Cultural Evidence for Recall of Counterintuitive Representations (2013) (16)
Cognitive Constraints on the Visual Arts: An Empirical Study of the Role of Perceived Intentions in Appreciation Judgements (2011) (15)
Religion in Mind: Do children experience God as adults do? (2001) (15)
The Nature of God - Evolution and Religion (2011) (11)
Mind the gap: evolutionary psychological perspectives on human thriving (2018) (11)
Virtue development following spiritual transformation in adolescents attending evangelistic summer camp (2014) (9)
Could we advance the science of religion (better) without the concept “religion”? (2017) (8)
Cognition, evolution, and religion. (2013) (8)
Epidemiological and Nativist Accounts in the Cognitive Study of Culture: A Commentary on Pyysiäinen's Innate Fear of Bering's Ghosts (2003) (8)
Bringing Data to Mind: Empirical Claims of Lawson and McCauley’s Theory of Religious Ritual (2004) (8)
The Roots of Religion: Exploring the Cognitive Science of Religion (2016) (6)
In search of 'folk anthropology': The cognitive anthropology of the person (2011) (6)
Looking Past vs. Overlooking Cognitive–Evolutionary Accounts of Religion: A Response to Nathaniel Barrett (2010) (5)
Early Trauma as a Predictor of Burnout and Social Network Structure in Mission Workers (2017) (5)
The circle of life: A cross-cultural comparison of children's attribution of life-cycle traits. (2016) (5)
A Cognitive Typology of Religious Actions (2007) (5)
Toward a Cognitive Science of Christianity (2012) (5)
Chapter 11. Metarepresentation, Homo religiosus , and Homo symbolicus (2011) (4)
Where the Gods Dwell: a Research Report (2019) (4)
In What Senses Might Religion Be Natural (2018) (4)
Partnerships in practice. (1997) (4)
Examining Special Patient Rituals in a Chinese Cultural Context: A Research Report (2015) (3)
Cognitive Science of Religion (2021) (3)
Virtual reality as a 'spiritual experience': a perspective from the cognitive science of religion (2008) (3)
High goal conflict and low goal meaning are associated with an increased likelihood of subsequent religious transformation in adolescents (2019) (3)
Can Religious Belief Be Explained Away?: Reasons and Causes of Religious Belief (2010) (3)
Exploring counterintuitiveness: template- and schema-level effects (2014) (3)
Some common misunderstandings about cognitive approaches to the study of religion: a reply to Sterelny (2017) (3)
Religion Is Kid’s Stuff: Minimally Counterintuitive Concepts Are Better Remembered by Young People (2017) (3)
Social Networks among Ministry Relationships: Relational Capacity, Burnout, & Ministry Effectiveness (2017) (2)
Why land application looks easy in Madison, Wisconsin (1996) (2)
Evil Intuitions? The Problem of Evil, Experimental Philosophy, and the Need for Psychological Research (2020) (2)
On Naturalness, Innateness, and God-beliefs: A Reply to Shook (2017) (2)
The God issue: We are all born believers (2012) (2)
Ethnographic and Experimental Evidence (2008) (2)
Stonehenge, land, sky and the seasons (1997) (1)
Different Styles Reach Different Kids: An empirical enquiry into Young Life Camping Outreach Programs in the USA and Europe (2009) (1)
The Argument from Positive Epistemic Status (2018) (1)
Ritual Imbalance in Contemporary China: A Ritual Form Theory Analysis (2017) (1)
Theology and Thriving: Teleological Considerations Based on the Doctrines of Christology and Soteriology (2016) (1)
The (modest) utility of MCI theory (2016) (1)
Cognitive and Evolutionary Studies of Religion (2016) (1)
On the Naturalness of Religion and Religious Freedom (2018) (1)
Cognitive Science of Religion and the Rationality of Classical Theism (2016) (1)
Religious Cognition in China (2017) (1)
Dogs, Santa Claus, and Sun Wukong: Children’s Understanding of Nonhuman Minds (2017) (1)
Good Gods Almighty (2019) (1)
The Role of Retail Markets in Impoverished Neighborhoods (2005) (0)
Commentaries (2006) (0)
The Trouble with “Evolution of Religion” (2018) (0)
Big Gods can get in your head (2015) (0)
The minds of God, mortals, and in-betweens: Children’s developing understanding of extraordinary and ordinary minds across four countries. (2019) (0)
Intuitive and Reflective Cognition (2018) (0)
Explaining religion and spirituality (2010) (0)
Barrett, Justin L. (2020) (0)
Experimental Methods (2021) (0)
Special Issue: New Trends in the Cognitive Science of Religion (2013) (0)
When minds migrate : conceptualising spirit possession (2007) (0)
Psychological practice and general issues (2010) (0)
Is Religious Belief Natural? The Relevance of Cognitive Science to Faith (2015) (0)
The “Constitutive Relevance of Models” (CRoM) Test: A Tool for Transferring Constructs and Virtues between Psychological and Anthropological Theories of Ritual (2021) (0)
Books in brief (2012) (0)
Counterintuitiveness in Folktales Counterintuitiveness in Folktales: Finding the Cognitive Optimum (2020) (0)
Personal Strivings Measures (2020) (0)
Cognitive developmental foundations of cultural acquisition: children's understanding of other minds (2013) (0)
rational” and “practiced,” a distinction that he traces back to Vygotsky’s way of distinguishing between the cultural and the natural lines (2013) (0)
Introduction: Homo Religiosus and the Dragon (2017) (0)
Cognitive Science of Religion and Christian Faith: How May They Be Brought Together? (2017) (0)
When Minds Migrate : Conceptualizing Spirit Possession 1 (2008) (0)
Thriving with Stone Age Minds: Evolutionary Psychology, Christian Faith, and the Quest for Human Flourishing (2022) (0)
Ritual Forms and Ritual Stuff: Implications of Lawson and McCauley's Ritual Form Hypothesis for Material Culture (2020) (0)
The Frog Who Croaked Blue: Synesthesia and the mixing of the senses (2009) (0)
Experimental Method (2018) (0)
WHAT DO WE THINK ABOUT GOD WHEN WE AREN’T CAREFUL? (2019) (0)
The Context of Suffering (2021) (0)
Cognition-Lite Studies of Human Belief (2020) (0)
Evolutionary Developmental Psychology of Children’s Religious Beliefs (2016) (0)
AND SKEPTICISM REGARDING RELIGIOUS BELIEFS (2013) (0)
Revelation and Cognitive Science (2021) (0)
Consequences of religion (2010) (0)
From theory of mind to divine minds (2011) (0)
Children’s Developing Understanding of the Cognitive Abilities of Supernatural and Natural Minds: Evidence from Three Cultures (2020) (0)

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Why Would Anyone Believe in God?

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