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Analytic cognitive style, not delusional ideation, predicts data gathering in a large beads task study

-Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

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PostedAugust 1, 2017
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2015

2015

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PostedDecember 31, 2015
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Learned Faith [PDF]

The influences of evolved cultural learning mechanisms on belief in gods

~ Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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PostedJune 12, 2015
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Override the Controversy [PDF]

Analytic Thinking Predicts Endorsement of Evolution

- Cognition

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PostedMay 12, 2015
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A Powerful Nudge? [PDF]

Presenting Calculable Consequences of Underpowered Research Shifts Incentives Towards Adequately Powered Designs (in press)

- Social Psychological and Personality Science

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PostedApril 14, 2015
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The Cultural Evolution of Prosocial Religions [PDF]

- Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Target Article)

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PostedJanuary 26, 2015
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2014

2014

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PostedJanuary 14, 2015
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No Global Kumbayah Implied [PDF]

Religious Prosociality as an Inherently Parochial Phenomenon (commentary)

-Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion

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PostedJanuary 12, 2015
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Good for God? [PDF]

Religious Motivation Reduces Perceived Responsibility for, and Morality of, Good Deeds. 

- Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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PostedApril 10, 2014
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Everything Is Permitted? (PDF)

People Intuitively Judge Immorality as Representative of Atheists

- PLOS ONE

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PostedMarch 27, 2014
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2013

2013

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PostedJanuary 2, 2014
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Secular Rule of Law Erodes Believers Political Intolerance of Atheists (PDF)

- Religion, Brain & Behavior

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PostedSeptember 12, 2013
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Perceiving Minds and Gods (PDF)

How Mind Perception Enables, Constrains, and Is Triggered by Belief in Gods

- Perspectives on Psychological Science

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PostedJuly 15, 2013
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In Godlessness We Distrust (PDF)

Using Social Psychology to Solve the Puzzle of Anti-Atheist Prejudice

- Social and Personality Psychology Compass

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PostedJuly 15, 2013
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The Origins of Religious Disbelief (PDF)

- Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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PostedJuly 15, 2013
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2012

2012

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Analytic Thinking Promotes Religious Disbelief (PDF)

- Science

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PostedJuly 15, 2013
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Mentalizing Deficits Constrain Belief in a Personal God

- PLOS ONE

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Reminders of Secular Authority Reduce Believers' Distrust of Atheists (PDF)

 - Psychological Science

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Like a Camera in the Sky? (PDF)

Thinking About God Increases Public Self-Awareness and Socially Desirable Responding

- Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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PostedJuly 15, 2013
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“Science faces in ethics and religion its most interesting and possibly humbling challenge.... Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition and in time uncover the bedrock of the moral and religious sentiments.”
— E. O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
“It is high time that we subject religion as a global phenomenon to the most intensive multidisciplinary research we can muster. Why? Because religion is too important for us to remain ignorant about.”
— Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

Recent Articles

How many atheists are there?

— SPPS

Global evidence of extreme moral prejudice against atheists

— Nature Human Behavior

In the News

  • How many atheists are there really?

    — Vox

  • Americans Intuitively Judge Atheists as Immoral

    — Pacific Standard

  • The Serial Killer Test

    — New York Times

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Recommended Sites

  • Epiphenom
  • Science and Religion Today
  • Not Without Salt
  • Serious Eats
  • Adventures in BC Wine
 

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