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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 culturesHuman 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 agencyJournal of Cognition and Culture 5, 118-142.

Burnham, T. & Johnson, D. D. P. (2005) The biological and evolutionary logic of human cooperationAnalyse & Kritik 27, 113-135.

Johnson, D. D. P. & Kruger, O. (2004) The Good of Wrath: Supernatural Punishment and the Evolution of CooperationPolitical Theology 5.2, 159-176.

Johnson, D. D. P., Stopka, P. & Knights, S. (2003) The puzzle of human cooperationNature 421, 911-912.

Johnson, D. D. P., Stopka, P. & Bell, J. (2002) Individual variation evades the Prisoner's DilemmaBiomedical 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.