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List of works by Dimitris Xygalatas

Announcing the Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion

Autobiographical Memory in a Fire-Walking Ritual

scientific article published on January 2013

Cognitive resource depletion in religious interactions

Cross-cultural dataset for the evolution of religion and morality project

scientific article

Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Effects of Anxiety on Spontaneous Ritualized Behavior

scientific article published on 18 June 2015

Ethnography, Historiography, and the Making of History in the Tradition of the Anastenaria

scholarly article by Dimitris Xygalatas published March 2011 in History and Anthropology

Extreme Rituals as Social Technologies

article published in 2014

Extreme rituals promote prosociality

scientific article

Images from a jointly-arousing collective ritual reveal affective polarization

scientific article published on 24 December 2013

Invariances in the architecture of pride across small-scale societies

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

It Depends Who Is Watching You: 3-D Agent Cues Increase Fairness

scientific article published on 9 February 2016

Location, Location, Location: Effects of Cross-Religious Primes on Prosocial Behavior

article published in 2015

Lost in the Rhythm: Effects of Rhythm on Subsequent Interpersonal Coordination.

scientific article

Memory for expectation-violating concepts: the effects of agents and cultural familiarity

scientific article

Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality

scientific article

Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Music As a Sacred Cue? Effects of Religious Music on Moral Behavior

scientific article

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

scientific article (publication date: November 2011)

Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals

scientific article published on 30 May 2023

Sync to link: Endorphin-mediated synchrony effects on cooperation

scientific article published on 5 June 2017

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

scientific article

The evolution of religion and morality: a synthesis of ethnographic and experimental evidence from eight societies

scholarly article by Benjamin Grant Purzycki et al published 23 March 2017 in Religion, brain & behavior

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

scientific article

The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies

scientific article published in 2022

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

What fuses sports fans?

scientific article published on 01 January 2018