List of works - Joseph Bulbulia

A workflow for causal inference in cross-cultural psychology

scientific article published in 2022

Affording cooperative populations

Anthropology: Tradition's hidden economy

article by Joseph Bulbulia published 6 March 2017 in Nature Human Behaviour

Are There Any Religions? An Evolutionary Exploration

Autobiographical Memory in a Fire-Walking Ritual ⬇️

scientific article published on January 2013

Bias and tracking accuracy in voting projections using the New Zealand attitudes and values study ⬇️

scientific article published on 2 January 2017

Biological and cognitive underpinnings of religious fundamentalism

scientific article published on 6 April 2017

Brain networks involved in the influence of religion on empathy in male Vietnam War veterans

scientific article published on 26 May 2021

Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia

scientific article

Can honest signaling theory clarify religion’s role in the evolution of social inequality?

Changing Minds: Religion And Cognition Through The Ages, edited by Istvan Czachesz and Tamas Biro. Groningen Studies in Cultural Change 42. Peeters, 2012. 260pp., pb. €48.00. ISBN-13: 9789042925533.

scientific article published in 2014

Charismatic Signalling

scholarly article

Charity explains differences in life satisfaction between religious and secular New Zealanders

article

Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies

scientific article published on 23 July 2018

Clarity and causality needed in claims about Big Gods

scientific article

Coding Responses to an Open-ended Gender Measure in a New Zealand National Sample

scientific article published on 15 November 2019

Cognitive resource depletion in religious interactions

Corrigendum to: The Diversity and Prevalence of Sexual Orientation Self-Labels in a New Zealand National Sample (Greaves et al., 2017).

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Critical Self-Correction

Demographic and psychological predictors of panel attrition: evidence from the New Zealand attitudes and values study

scientific article

Differences and similarities in religious and paranormal beliefs: a typology of distinct faith signatures

Does poverty predict religion?

article

Does synchrony promote generalized prosociality?

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Nationwide Lockdown on Trust, Attitudes towards Government, and Wellbeing ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide lockdown on trust, attitudes toward government, and well-being

scientific article published on 04 June 2020

Extreme rituals promote prosociality

scientific article

Faith after an earthquake: a longitudinal study of religion and perceived health before and after the 2011 Christchurch New Zealand Earthquake

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Forecasting religious change: a Bayesian model predicting proportional Christian change in New Zealand

article

Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists

Healing Those Who Need Healing: How Religious Practice Interacts with Personality to Affect Social Belonging

Hilbert Problems in the scientific study of religion

How do rituals affect cooperation? An experimental field study comparing nine ritual types.

scientific article published in June 2013

Ideology as cooperative affordance

Images from a jointly-arousing collective ritual reveal affective polarization

scientific article published on 24 December 2013

Introductory essay: Evolutionary science and the study of religion

Joint Action Enhances Cohesion and Positive Affect, but Suppresses Aspects of Creativity When Combined With Shared Goals

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

Let's dance together: synchrony, shared intentionality and cooperation

scientific article

Mechanisms of COVID-19 Mental Health Burden ⬇️

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Meme Infection or Religious Niche Construction? An Adaptationist Alternative to The Cultural Maladaptationist Hypothesis

Methods in Causal Inference Part 1: Causal Diagrams and Confounding

scientific article published in 2024

Methods in Causal Inference Part 2: Interaction, Mediation, and Time-Varying Treatments

scientific article published in 2024

Methods in Causal Inference Part 3: Measurement Error and External Validity Threats

scientific article published in 2024

Methods in Causal Inference Part 4: Confounding in Experiments

scientific article published in 2024

Models, simulations, abstractions, and insights

Moral foundations predict religious orientations in New Zealand

scientific article

National Longitudinal Mediators of Psychological Distress During Stringent COVID-19 Lockdown

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

Neural correlates of mystical experience

scientific article published on 26 November 2015

Neural underpinning of a personal relationship with God and sense of control: A lesion-mapping study

scientific article published on 25 April 2020

News exposure predicts anti-Muslim prejudice

scientific article

Prefrontal brain lesions reveal magical ideation arises from enhanced religious experiences

Pulotu: Database of Austronesian Supernatural Beliefs and Practices

scientific article published on 23 September 2015

Quantifying collective effervescence: Heart-rate dynamics at a fire-walking ritual

scientific article (publication date: November 2011)

Regional differences in the psychological recovery of Christchurch residents following the 2010/2011 earthquakes: a longitudinal study

scientific article published on May 2015

Religion and Emotion

article published in 2016

Religion and the Unmaking of Prejudice toward Muslims: Evidence from a Large National Sample.

scientific article

Religion, Brain & Behavior’s seventh year

Religion, SCAN, and developing standards of inquiry

Religiosity as Mental Time-travel

article published in 2009

Religious Culture and Cooperative Prediction under Risk: Perspectives from Social Neuroscience

article

Religious Solidarity: The Hand Grenade Experiment

article by Joseph Bulbulia & Andrew Mahoney published 1 August 2008 in Journal of Cognition and Culture

Religious Studies as a Life Science

Religious residue: Cross-cultural evidence that religious psychology and behavior persist following deidentification

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation Predict Different Moral Signatures

Ritual Studies and Ritual Theories: A Guide for the Perplexed

article published in 2008

Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies

scientific article published on 4 April 2016

Scales for Sense of Belonging and Support

Signalling theory and the evolution of religious cooperation

article

Social Media Use Is (Weakly) Related to Psychological Distress

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Spreading order: religion, cooperative niche construction, and risky coordination problems

scientific article published on 25 October 2011

Standards for Publishing in Religion, Brain & Behavior

Synchronized arousal between performers and related spectators in a fire-walking ritual

scientific article

The Arts Transform The Cognitive Science of Religion

The Big Six Personality Traits and Mental Distress: Dynamic Modeling in a Population Panel Study Reveals Bidirectional Relationships Involving Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Conscientiousness

scientific article published on 28 January 2020

The Cultural Evolution of Religion

The Diversity and Prevalence of Sexual Orientation Self-Labels in a New Zealand National Sample.

scientific article published on 29 September 2016

The Emerging Psychology of Religion

The Evolution of Charismatic Cultures

article

The Hypnotic Stag Hunt

The behavioral ecology of religion: the benefits and costs of one evolutionary approach

article

The cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion

The ecology of religious beliefs

scientific article

The fire-walker's high: affect and physiological responses in an extreme collective ritual

scientific article

The need to believe in conflicting propositions

article by Uffe Schjødt & Joseph Bulbulia published October 2011 in Religion, brain & behavior

The neural underpinning of religious beliefs: Evidence from brain lesions

scientific article published in 2022

The peer reviewer dilemma: how to appreciate the underappreciated

The proportion of religious residents predicts the values of nonreligious neighbors: evidence from a national sample

article

The resource model and the principle of predictive coding: a framework for analyzing proximate effects of ritual

Thin and Thinner: Hypothesis-driven Research and the Study of Humans1

Time investments in rituals are associated with social bonding, affect and subjective health: a longitudinal study of Diwali in two Indian communities

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

To burn or to save? The opposing functions of reading scripture on environmental intentions

article published in 2015

Toward an evolutionary social neuroscience of religion

scholarly article by Joseph Bulbulia & Uffe Schjødt published October 2011 in Religion, brain & behavior

List of works by Joseph Bulbulia

A workflow for causal inference in cross-cultural psychology

Affording cooperative populations

Anthropology: Tradition's hidden economy

Are There Any Religions? An Evolutionary Exploration

Autobiographical Memory in a Fire-Walking Ritual ⬇️

Bias and tracking accuracy in voting projections using the New Zealand attitudes and values study ⬇️

Biological and cognitive underpinnings of religious fundamentalism

Brain networks involved in the influence of religion on empathy in male Vietnam War veterans

Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia

Can honest signaling theory clarify religion’s role in the evolution of social inequality?

Changing Minds: Religion And Cognition Through The Ages, edited by Istvan Czachesz and Tamas Biro. Groningen Studies in Cultural Change 42. Peeters, 2012. 260pp., pb. €48.00. ISBN-13: 9789042925533.

Charismatic Signalling

Charity explains differences in life satisfaction between religious and secular New Zealanders

Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies

Clarity and causality needed in claims about Big Gods

Coding Responses to an Open-ended Gender Measure in a New Zealand National Sample

Cognitive resource depletion in religious interactions

Corrigendum to: The Diversity and Prevalence of Sexual Orientation Self-Labels in a New Zealand National Sample (Greaves et al., 2017).

Critical Self-Correction

Demographic and psychological predictors of panel attrition: evidence from the New Zealand attitudes and values study

Differences and similarities in religious and paranormal beliefs: a typology of distinct faith signatures

Does poverty predict religion?

Does synchrony promote generalized prosociality?

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Nationwide Lockdown on Trust, Attitudes towards Government, and Wellbeing ⬇️

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide lockdown on trust, attitudes toward government, and well-being

Extreme rituals promote prosociality

Faith after an earthquake: a longitudinal study of religion and perceived health before and after the 2011 Christchurch New Zealand Earthquake

Forecasting religious change: a Bayesian model predicting proportional Christian change in New Zealand

Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists

Healing Those Who Need Healing: How Religious Practice Interacts with Personality to Affect Social Belonging

Hilbert Problems in the scientific study of religion

How do rituals affect cooperation? An experimental field study comparing nine ritual types.

Ideology as cooperative affordance

Images from a jointly-arousing collective ritual reveal affective polarization

Introductory essay: Evolutionary science and the study of religion

Joint Action Enhances Cohesion and Positive Affect, but Suppresses Aspects of Creativity When Combined With Shared Goals

Let's dance together: synchrony, shared intentionality and cooperation

Mechanisms of COVID-19 Mental Health Burden ⬇️

Meme Infection or Religious Niche Construction? An Adaptationist Alternative to The Cultural Maladaptationist Hypothesis

Methods in Causal Inference Part 1: Causal Diagrams and Confounding

Methods in Causal Inference Part 2: Interaction, Mediation, and Time-Varying Treatments

Methods in Causal Inference Part 3: Measurement Error and External Validity Threats

Methods in Causal Inference Part 4: Confounding in Experiments

Models, simulations, abstractions, and insights

Moral foundations predict religious orientations in New Zealand

National Longitudinal Mediators of Psychological Distress During Stringent COVID-19 Lockdown

Neural correlates of mystical experience

Neural underpinning of a personal relationship with God and sense of control: A lesion-mapping study

News exposure predicts anti-Muslim prejudice

Prefrontal brain lesions reveal magical ideation arises from enhanced religious experiences

Pulotu: Database of Austronesian Supernatural Beliefs and Practices

Quantifying collective effervescence: Heart-rate dynamics at a fire-walking ritual

Regional differences in the psychological recovery of Christchurch residents following the 2010/2011 earthquakes: a longitudinal study

Religion and Emotion

Religion and the Unmaking of Prejudice toward Muslims: Evidence from a Large National Sample.

Religion, Brain & Behavior’s seventh year

Religion, SCAN, and developing standards of inquiry

Religiosity as Mental Time-travel

Religious Culture and Cooperative Prediction under Risk: Perspectives from Social Neuroscience

Religious Solidarity: The Hand Grenade Experiment

Religious Studies as a Life Science

Religious residue: Cross-cultural evidence that religious psychology and behavior persist following deidentification

Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation Predict Different Moral Signatures

Ritual Studies and Ritual Theories: A Guide for the Perplexed

Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies

Scales for Sense of Belonging and Support

Signalling theory and the evolution of religious cooperation

Social Media Use Is (Weakly) Related to Psychological Distress

Spreading order: religion, cooperative niche construction, and risky coordination problems

Standards for Publishing in Religion, Brain & Behavior

Synchronized arousal between performers and related spectators in a fire-walking ritual

The Arts Transform The Cognitive Science of Religion

The Big Six Personality Traits and Mental Distress: Dynamic Modeling in a Population Panel Study Reveals Bidirectional Relationships Involving Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Conscientiousness

The Cultural Evolution of Religion

The Diversity and Prevalence of Sexual Orientation Self-Labels in a New Zealand National Sample.

The Emerging Psychology of Religion

The Evolution of Charismatic Cultures

The Hypnotic Stag Hunt

The behavioral ecology of religion: the benefits and costs of one evolutionary approach