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Joseph HenrichHarvard UniversityVerified email at fas.harvard.edu
Ara NorenzayanUniversity of British ColumbiaVerified email at psych.ubc.ca
Aiyana K. WillardSenior Lecturer, Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University LondonVerified email at brunel.ac.uk
Benjamin Grant PurzyckiAarhus UniversityVerified email at cas.au.dk
Quentin AtkinsonUniversity of AucklandVerified email at auckland.ac.nz
Dimitris XygalatasUniversity of ConnecticutVerified email at uconn.edu
Coren ApicellaUniversity of PennsylvaniaVerified email at psych.upenn.edu
Edward SlingerlandUniversity of British ColumbiaVerified email at ubc.ca
Will M GervaisCentre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University LondonVerified email at brunel.ac.uk
Azim ShariffProfessor; University of British ColumbiaVerified email at psych.ubc.ca
Paul BloomBrooks and Suzanne Ragen Profesor of Psychology, Yale UniversityVerified email at yale.edu
Susan BirchUniversity of British ColumbiaVerified email at psych.ubc.ca
Charles EffersonProfessor, Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC), University of LausanneVerified email at unil.ch
Daniel HruschkaProfessor of Anthropology and Global Health, Arizona State UniversityVerified email at asu.edu
Adam BaimelOxford Brookes UniversityVerified email at brookes.ac.uk
Cody T. RossMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary AnthropologyVerified email at eva.mpg.de
Richard McElreathDirector, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary AnthropologyVerified email at eva.mpg.de
Anne PisorDepartment of Anthropology, Washington State UniversityVerified email at wsu.edu

Rita Anne McNamara

Sr Lecturer in Cross-Cultural Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ

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Religion Cooperation Morality Theory of Mind Cultural Evolution


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The cultural evolution of prosocial religions A Norenzayan, AF Shariff, WM Gervais, AK Willard, RA McNamara, ... Behavioral and brain sciences 39, e1, 2016	1062	2016
Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality BG Purzycki, C Apicella, QD Atkinson, E Cohen, RA McNamara, ... Nature 530 (7590), 327-330, 2016	521	2016
Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies M Lang, BG Purzycki, CL Apicella, QD Atkinson, A Bolyanatz, E Cohen, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286 (1898), 20190202, 2019	168	2019
Do minds switch bodies? Dualist interpretations across ages and societies M Chudek, RA McNamara, S Birch, P Bloom, J Henrich Religion, Brain & Behavior 8 (4), 354-368, 2018	144*	2018
Weighing outcome vs. intent across societies: How cultural models of mind shape moral reasoning RA McNamara, AK Willard, A Norenzayan, J Henrich Cognition 182, 95-108, 2019	138	2019
Impartial institutions, pathogen stress and the expanding social network D Hruschka, C Efferson, T Jiang, A Falletta-Cowden, S Sigurdsson, ... Human Nature 25, 567-579, 2014	137	2014
The evolution of religion and morality: a synthesis of ethnographic and experimental evidence from eight societies BG Purzycki, J Henrich, C Apicella, QD Atkinson, A Baimel, E Cohen, ... Religion, Brain & Behavior 8 (2), 101-132, 2018	124	2018
The cognitive and cultural foundations of moral behavior BG Purzycki, AC Pisor, C Apicella, Q Atkinson, E Cohen, J Henrich, ... Evolution and Human Behavior 39 (5), 490-501, 2018	98	2018
Supernatural punishment, in-group biases, and material insecurity: experiments and ethnography from Yasawa, Fiji RA McNamara, A Norenzayan, J Henrich Religion, Brain & Behavior 6 (1), 34-55, 2016	92	2016
Kin and kinship psychology both influence cooperative coordination in Yasawa, Fiji RA McNamara, J Henrich Evolution and Human Behavior 38 (2), 197-207, 2017	82	2017
An ecological theory of gods’ minds BG Purzycki, RA McNamara Advances in religion, cognitive science, and experimental philosophy, 143-167, 2016	57	2016
Jesus vs. the ancestors: How specific religious beliefs shape prosociality on Yasawa Island, Fiji RA McNamara, J Henrich Religion, Brain & Behavior 8 (2), 185-204, 2018	45	2018
Decolonizing community psychology by supporting indigenous knowledge, projects, and students: Lessons from Aotearoa New Zealand and Canada RA McNamara, S Naepi American Journal of Community Psychology 62 (3-4), 340-349, 2018	42	2018
The minds of god (s) and humans: Differences in mind perception in Fiji and North America AK Willard, RA McNamara Cognitive science 43 (1), e12703, 2019	40	2019
The moralization bias of gods’ minds: A cross-cultural test BG Purzycki, AK Willard, EK Klocová, C Apicella, Q Atkinson, A Bolyanatz, ... Religion, Brain & Behavior 12 (1-2), 38-60, 2022	33	2022
Material security, life history, and moralistic religions: A cross-cultural examination BG Purzycki, CT Ross, C Apicella, QD Atkinson, E Cohen, RA McNamara, ... PloS one 13 (3), e0193856, 2018	33	2018
Cross-cultural dataset for the evolution of religion and morality project BG Purzycki, C Apicella, QD Atkinson, E Cohen, RA McNamara, ... Scientific Data 3 (1), 1-12, 2016	25	2016
Minds of gods and human cognitive constraints: Socio-ecological context shapes belief RA McNamara, BG Purzycki Religion, Brain & Behavior 10 (3), 223-238, 2020	24	2020
God's mind on morality RA McNamara, R Senanayake, AK Willard, J Henrich Evolutionary Human Sciences 3, e6, 2021	16	2021
God’s mind on morality: A knowing God is a punishing God RA McNamara, A Willard, A Norenzayan, J Henrich Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality …, 2014	14	2014

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