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.