David Harnden-Warwick
Harnden-Warwick, D. (1997) Psychological Realism, Morality, and Chimpanzees. Zygon 32, 29-40.
Publications
Dominic Johnson
Journal Articles (see citation metrics)
King, A. J., Johnson, D. D. P. & Van Vugt, M. (2009) The origins and evolution of leadership. Current Biology, 19, 1591-1682.
Johnson, D. D. P. & Bering, J. M. (2006) Hand of God, mind of man: punishment and cognition in the evolution of cooperation. Evolutionary Psychology 4: 219–233.
Johnson, D. D. P. (2005) God's punishment and public goods: A test of the supernatural punishment hypothesis in 186 world cultures. Human Nature 16, 410-446.
Bering, J. M. & Johnson, D. D. P. (2005) 'Oh Lord, you hear my thoughts from afar': Recursiveness in the cognitive evolution of supernatural agency. Journal of Cognition and Culture 5, 118-142.
Burnham, T. & Johnson, D. D. P. (2005) The biological and evolutionary logic of human cooperation. Analyse & Kritik 27, 113-135.
Johnson, D. D. P. & Kruger, O. (2004) The Good of Wrath: Supernatural Punishment and the Evolution of Cooperation. Political Theology 5.2, 159-176.
Johnson, D. D. P., Stopka, P. & Knights, S. (2003) The puzzle of human cooperation. Nature 421, 911-912.
Johnson, D. D. P., Stopka, P. & Bell, J. (2002) Individual variation evades the Prisoner's Dilemma. Biomedical Central Evolutionary Biology 2.
Book Chapters
Johnson, D. D. P. (2009) The Error of God: Error Management Theory, Religion, and the Evolution of Cooperation. In Games, Groups, and the Global Good (ed. S. A. Levin), pp. 169-180. Berlin: Springer.
Johnson, D. D. P. (2008) Gods of War: The Adaptive Logic of Religious Conflict. In The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques (ed. J. Bulbulia, R. Sosis, C. Genet, R. Genet, E. Harris & K. Wyman), pp. 111-117. Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.
Commentaries
Johnson, D. D. P. (2009) Beyond belief - A review of "The Supernatural and Natural Selection: Religion and Evolutionary Success" by Lyle Steadman and Craig Palmer. Evolution and Human Behavior 30, 225 - 228.
Johnson, D. D. P. & van Vugt, M. (In Press) "A history of war: The role of inter-group conflict in sex differences in aggression", commentary on John Archer, Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Jeff Schloss
Edited Books
Schloss, J. P. & Murray, M. (ed.) (2009) The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives on the Origin of Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Book Chapters
Schloss, J. P. (2009) Evolutionary Theories of Religion: Science Set Free or Naturalism Run Wild? In The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives on the Origin of Religion (ed. J. P. Schloss & M. Murray). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Murphy, N. & Schloss, J. P. 2008. Biology and Religion. In Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Biology (ed. Michael Ruse), Oxford: Oxford University Press. 545-569.
Schloss, J. P. (2008) He Who Laughs Best: Religious Affect as a Solution to Recursive Cooperative Defection. In The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques (ed. J. Bulbulia, R. Sosis, C. Genet, R. Genet, E. Harris & K. Wyman), pp. 205-215. Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.
Schloss, J. P. (2005) Hath Darwin Suffered a Prophet's Scorn? Evolutionary Theory and the Scandal of Unconditional Love. In Spiritual Information (ed. C. Harper), pp. 291-299: Templeton Press.
Schloss, J. P. (2004) Evolutionary ethics and Christian morality: surveying the issues. In Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective(ed. P. Clayton & J. Schloss), pp. 1-24. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans.
Schloss, J. P. (2002) "Love Creation's Final Law?": Emerging Evolutionary Accounts of Altruism. In Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy, and Religion in Dialogue (ed. S. Post, L. Underwood, J. Schloss & W. Hurlbut), pp. 212-242. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Jesse Bering
Books
Bering, J. (forthcoming, spring 2010) Under God’s Skin: The Hidden Psychology of Souls, Destiny and the Meaning of Life. New York: W.W. Norton.
Journal Articles
Piazza, J. & Bering, J. M. (2008) Concerns about reputation via gossip promote generous allocations in an economic game. Evolution and Human Behavior, 29, 172-178
Bering, J. M. (2008). Why hell is other people: Distinctively human psychological suffering. Review of General Psychology, 12, 1-8.
Bering, J. M. (2006). The folk psychology of souls. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 29, 453-498.
Bering, J. M. & Parker, B. D. (2006). Children’s attributions of intentions to an invisible agent. Developmental Psychology, 42, 253-262.
Bering, J. M., McLeod, K. A., & Shackelford, T. K. (2005). Reasoning about dead agents reveals possible adaptive trends. Human Nature, 16, 360-381.
Bering, J. M., Hernández-Blasi, C., Bjorklund, D. F. (2005). The development of ‘afterlife’ beliefs in secularly and religiously schooled children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 23, 587-607.
Bering, J. M. & Johnson, D. D. P. (2005) 'Oh Lord, you hear my thoughts from afar': Recursiveness in the cognitive evolution of supernatural agency. Journal of Cognition and Culture 5, 118-142.
Bering, J. M., & Shackelford, T. K. (2004). The causal role of consciousness: A conceptual addendum to human evolutionary psychology. Review of General Psychology, 8, 227-248.
Bering, J. M., & Bjorklund, D.F. (2004). The natural emergence of reasoning about the afterlife as a developmental regularity. Developmental Psychology, 40, 217-233.
Bering, J. M. (2003). Towards a cognitive theory of existential meaning. New Ideas in Psychology, 21, 101-120.
Bering, J. M. (2002). Intuitive conceptions of dead agents’ minds: The natural foundations of afterlife beliefs as phenomenological boundary. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2, 263-308.
Bering, J. M. (2002). The existential theory of mind. Review of General Psychology, 6, 3-24.
Bering, J. M. (2001). Theistic percepts in other species: Can chimpanzees represent the minds of non-natural agents? Journal of Cognition and Culture, 1, 107-137.
Book chapters
Bering, J. M. (2008). How Sartre inadvertently presaged a proper evolutionary science of religion. In J. Bulbulia, R. Sosis, C. Genet, R. Genet, E. Harris, & K. Wyman (Eds.), The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques. Santa Margarita, CA: The Collins Foundations Press.
Bering, J. M. (2007). Science will never silence God. In J. Brockman (ed.), What is Your Dangerous Idea? Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (pp. 169-179). New York: Harper Collins.
Bering, J.M. (2006). Untitled. In J. Brockman (ed.), What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty (pp. 32-35). New York: Harper Collins.
Bering, J. M. (2005). The evolutionary history of an illusion: Religious causal beliefs in children and adults. In B. Ellis & D. Bjorklund (Eds.), Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development (pp. 411-437). New York: Guilford Press.
Commentaries
Bering, J. M., & Shackelford, T. K. (2004). Supernatural agents may have provided adaptive social information: Comment on Atran and Norenzayan. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 732-733.
Bering, J. M. (2003). Religious concepts are probably epiphenomena: A reply to Pyysiäinen, Boyer, and Barrett. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 3, 244-254.
Bering, J. M. (2001). God is not in the mirror: A reply to Gallup and Maser. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 1, 207-211.
Richard Sosis
Journal Articles
Sosis, R., Kress, H. & Boster, J. (2007) Scars for war: evaluating alternative signaling explanations for cross-cultural variance in ritual costs. Evolution and Human Behavior 28, 234-247.
Sosis, R. (2007) Psalms for safety: Magico-religious responses to threats of terror. Current Anthropology 48, 903-911.
Ruffle, B. & Sosis., R. (2007) Does it pay to pray? Costly ritual and cooperation. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 7, 1-35.
Sosis, R. (2005) Does Religion Promote Trust? The Role of Signaling, Reputation, and Punishment. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 1, 1-30 (article 7).
Alcorta, C. S. & Sosis, R. (2005) Ritual, Emotion, and Sacred Symbols: The Evolution of Religion as an Adaptive Complex. Human Nature 16, 323-359.
Sosis, R. (2004) The adaptive value of religious ritual. American Scientist 92, 166-172.
Sosis, R. & Ruffle, B. (2004) On Ritual and Cooperation. Current Anthropology 45, 529-531.
Sosis, R. & Ruffle, B. (2004) Ideology, Religion, and the Evolution of Cooperation: Field Tests on Israeli Kibbutzim. Research in Economic Anthropology 23, 89-117.
Sosis, R. (2003) Why aren't we all Hutterites? Costly signaling theory and religious behavior. Human Nature 14, 91-127.
Sosis, R. & Alcorta, C. (2003) Signaling, Solidarity, and the Sacred: The Evolution of Religious Behavior. Evolutionary Anthropology 12, 264-274.
Sosis, R. & Bressler, E. R. (2003) Cooperation and commune longevity: A test of the costly signaling theory of religion. Cross-Cultural Research 37, 211-239.
Sosis, R. (2000) Religion and Intragroup Cooperation: Preliminary results of a comparative analysis of utopian communities. Cross-Cultural Research 34, 71-88.
Edited Books and Special Issues
Bulbulia, J., Sosis, R., Genet, C., Genet, R., Harris, E. & Wyman, K. (ed.) (2008) The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques. Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.
Sosis, R. & Alcorta, C. (ed.) (2005) Special issue of Human Nature on the evolution of religion.
Book Chapters
Purzycki, B. & Sosis, R. (Forthcoming) The Religious System as Adaptive: Cognitive Flexibility, Public Displays, and Acceptance. In New York: Springer Publishers. (ed. E. V. a. W. Schiefenhцvel).
Finkel, D., Swartwout, P. & Sosis, R. (Forthcoming) The Socio-Religious Brain: A Developmental Model. In Proceedings of the British Academy (ed. R. Dunbar).
Sosis, R. (2009) Why are Synagogue Services so Long? An Evolutionary Examination of Jewish Ritual Signals. In Judaism in Biological Perspective: Biblical Lore and Judaic Practices (ed. R. Goldberg), pp. 199-233. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.
Sosis, R. & Alcorta, C. (2008) Militants and martyrs: Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion and Terrorism. In Natural Security: A Darwinian Approach to a Dangerous World (ed. R. Sagarin & T. Taylor), pp. 105-124. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.
Sosis, R. (2008) Pigeons, Foxholes, and the Book of Psalms: Evolved Superstitious Responses to Cope with Stress and Uncertainty. In The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques (ed. J. Bulbulia, R. Sosis, C. Genet, R. Genet, E. Harris & K. Wyman), pp. 15-19. Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.
Sosis, R. & Bulbulia, J. (2008) Religion in Eden. In The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques (ed. J. Bulbulia, R. Sosis, C. Genet, R. Genet, E. Harris & K. Wyman), pp. 15-19. Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.
Alcorta, C. & Sosis, R. (2007) Rituals of Humans and Animals. In Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships, vol. 2 (ed. M. Bekoff), pp. 599-605. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishers.
Sosis, R. (2006) Religious Behaviors, Badges, and Bans: Signaling Theory and the Evolution of Religion. In Where God and Science Meet: How Brain and Evolutionary Studies Alter our Understanding of Religion, vol. 1: Evolution, Genes, and the Religious Brain (ed. P. McNamara), pp. 61-86. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
Book Reviews
Purzycki, B., Swartwout, P. & Sosis, R. (2008) Searching for Darwin: Metaphor, Collusion, and Natural Selection: Review of "The Supernatural and Natural Selection" by Lyle Steadman and Craig Palmer. Evolutionary Psychology 6, 628-636.
Sosis, R. (2007) Breaking the Wrong Spell: Review of "Breaking the Spell" by Daniel Dennett. Free Inquiry 27, 59-60.
Sosis, R. (2004) Preaching Morality and Metaphysics: Review of "The Evolution of Morality and Religion" by Donald M. Broom. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19, 566-567.
Sosis, R. (2003) "Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society" by David Sloan Wilson (book review). Evolution and Human Behaviour 24, 137-143.
Commentaries
Sosis, R. & Swartwout, P. (2008) Demonstrating Group Selection: A Comment on Landa's "The Bioeconomics of Homogeneous Middleman Groups as Adaptive Units.Journal of Bioeconomics 10, 297-301.
Alcorta, C., Sosis, R. & Finkel, D. (2008) Ritual Harmony: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Music. Behavioural and Brain Sciences 31, 576-577.
Alcorta, C. & Sosis, R. (2006) Why Ritual Works: A Rejection of the By-Product Hypothesis. Behavioural and Brain Sciences 29, 613-614.
Sosis, R. & Alcorta, C. (2004) Is Religion Adaptive? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27, 749-750.
Robert Trivers
Books
Burt, A. & Trivers, R. (2006) Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press.
Trivers, R. (2002) Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers. Evolution and cognition. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.
Trivers, R. (1985) Social Evolution. Menlo Park, Calif.: Benjamin/Cummings.
Journal Articles
Zaatari, D., Palestis, B. G. & Trivers, R. (In Press) Fluctuating asymmetry of responders affects offers in the Ultimatum Game oppositely according to attractiveness or need as perceived by proposors. Ethology.
Zaatari, D. & Trivers, R. (2007) Fluctuating asymmetry and behavior in the ultimatum game in Jamaica. Evolution and Human Behavior 28, 223-227.
Palestis, B. G., Burt, A., Jones, R. N. & Trivers, R. (2004) B chromosomes are more frequent in mammals with acrocentric karyotypes: support for the theory of centromeric drive. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) Supplement 271, S22-S24.
Penton-Voak, I. S., Jacobson, A. & Trivers, R. (2004) Population differences in attractiveness judgments of faces: comparing a British and Jamaican sample. Evolution and Human Behavior 25, 355-370.
Manning, J. T., Trivers, R., Thornhill, R. & Singh, D. (2000) The 2nd:4th digit ratio and hand preference in Jamaican children. Laterality 5, 121-132.
Trivers, R. L. (2000) The elements of a scientific theory of self-deception. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 907, 114-131.
Trivers, R., Manning, J., Thornhill, R., Singh, D. & McGuire, M. (1999) The Jamaican symmetry project: a long-term study of fluctuating asymmetry in rural Jamaican children. Human Biology 71, 419-432.
Seger, J. & Trivers, R. (1986) Asymmetry in the evolution of female mating preferences. Nature 319, 771-773.
Book Chapters
Trivers, R. (2005) Reciprocal altruism: 30 years later. In Cooperation in Primates and Humans: Mechanisms and Evolution (ed. C. P. v. Schaik & P. M. Kappeler), pp. 67-83. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Commentaries
Trivers, R. (2004) Mutual Benefits at All Levels of Life. Science 304, 964-965.
Terry Burnham
Books
Burnham, T. & Phelan, J. (2001) Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food, Taming Our Primal Instincts (Penguin, N.Y.).
Burnham, T. (2005) Mean Markets and Lizard Brains: How to Profit from the New Science of Irrationality (Wiley, N.Y.).
Journal Articles
Burnham, T., Cesarini, D., Lichtenstein, P., Johannesson, M. & Wallace, B. (In Press) Higher cognitive ability is associated with lower entries in a p-Beauty Contest. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Burnham, T. (2007) High-testosterone men reject low ultimatum game offers. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) 274, 2327-2330.
Burnham, T. & Hare, B. (2007) Engineering Human Cooperation: Does Involuntary Neural Activation Increase Public Goods Contributions? Human Nature, 18, 88-108.
Burnham, T. & Johnson, D. D. P. (2005) The biological and evolutionary logic of human cooperation. Analyse & Kritik 27, 113-135.
Burnham, T. (2003) Engineering altruism: a theoretical and experimental investigation of anonymity and gift giving. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 50, 133-144.