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Will Gervais, Ph.D. - Publications

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Psychology University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 

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2025 Gervais WM, McKay RT, Brown-Iannuzzi JL, Ross RM, Pennycook G, Jong J, Lanman JA. Belief in belief: Even atheists in secular countries show intuitive preferences favoring religious belief. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 122: e2404720122. PMID 40146854 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2404720122  0.357
2024 Schimmelpfennig R, Spicer R, White CJM, Gervais W, Norenzayan A, Heine S, Henrich J, Muthukrishna M. Methodological concerns underlying a lack of evidence for cultural heterogeneity in the replication of psychological effects. Communications Psychology. 2: 93. PMID 39379734 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-024-00135-z  0.758
2021 Vohs KD, Schmeichel BJ, Lohmann S, Gronau QF, Finley AJ, Ainsworth SE, Alquist JL, Baker MD, Brizi A, Bunyi A, Butschek GJ, Campbell C, Capaldi J, Cau C, Chambers H, ... ... Gervais WM, et al. A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect. Psychological Science. 956797621989733. PMID 34520296 DOI: 10.1177/0956797621989733  0.709
2021 Beheim B, Atkinson QD, Bulbulia J, Gervais W, Gray RD, Henrich J, Lang M, Monroe MW, Muthukrishna M, Norenzayan A, Purzycki BG, Shariff A, Slingerland E, Spicer R, Willard AK. Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods. Nature. 595: E29-E34. PMID 34234331 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03655-4  0.662
2018 Gervais WM, Norenzayan A. Analytic atheism revisited. Nature Human Behaviour. 2: 609. PMID 31346274 DOI: 10.1038/S41562-018-0426-0  0.506
2018 Gervais WM, Xygalatas D, McKay RT, van Elk M, Buchtel EE, Aveyard M, Schiavone SR, Dar-Nimrod I, Svedholm-Häkkinen AM, Riekki T, Klocová EK, Ramsay JE, Bulbulia J. Author Correction: Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists Nature Human Behaviour. 2: 425-425. DOI: 10.1038/S41562-018-0322-7  0.653
2017 Murray DR, Kerry N, Gervais WM. On Disease and Deontology: Multiple Tests of the Influence of Disease Threat on Moral Vigilance Social Psychological and Personality Science. 10: 44-52. DOI: 10.1177/1948550617733518  0.531
2017 Gervais WM, Xygalatas D, McKay RT, van Elk M, Buchtel EE, Aveyard M, Schiavone SR, Dar-Nimrod I, Svedholm-Häkkinen AM, Riekki T, Klocová EK, Ramsay JE, Bulbulia J. Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists Nature Human Behaviour. 1. DOI: 10.1038/S41562-017-0151  0.654
2016 Norenzayan A, Shariff AF, Gervais WM, Willard AK, McNamara RA, Slingerland E, Henrich J. Parochial prosocial religions: Historical and contemporary evidence for a cultural evolutionary process. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 39: e29. PMID 26948747 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X15000655  0.757
2014 Norenzayan A, Shariff AF, Gervais WM, Willard AK, McNamara RA, Slingerland E, Henrich J. The Cultural evolution of Prosocial Religions. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1-86. PMID 26785995 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X14001356  0.76
2014 Gervais WM. Everything is permitted? People intuitively judge immorality as representative of atheists. Plos One. 9: e92302. PMID 24717972 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092302  0.305
2013 Norenzayan A, Gervais WM. The origins of religious disbelief. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 17: 20-5. PMID 23246230 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tics.2012.11.006  0.666
2013 Norenzayan A, Gervais WM. Secular rule of law erodes believers’ political intolerance of atheists Religion, Brain and Behavior. 5: 3-14. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2013.794749  0.604
2012 Norenzayan A, Gervais WM, Trzesniewski KH. Mentalizing deficits constrain belief in a personal God. Plos One. 7: e36880. PMID 22666332 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0036880  0.591
2012 Gervais WM, Norenzayan A. Analytic thinking promotes religious disbelief. Science (New York, N.Y.). 336: 493-6. PMID 22539725 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1215647  0.602
2012 Gervais WM, Norenzayan A. Reminders of secular authority reduce believers' distrust of atheists. Psychological Science. 23: 483-91. PMID 22477103 DOI: 10.1177/0956797611429711  0.606
2012 Norenzayan A, Gervais WM. The Cultural Evolution of Religion Creating Consilience: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794393.003.0014  0.649
2012 Gervais WM, Norenzayan A. Like a camera in the sky? Thinking about God increases public self-awareness and socially desirable responding Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 48: 298-302. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2011.09.006  0.589
2011 Gervais WM, Shariff AF, Norenzayan A. Do you believe in atheists? Distrust is central to anti-atheist prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 101: 1189-206. PMID 22059841 DOI: 10.1037/A0025882  0.734
2011 Gervais WM, Willard AK, Norenzayan A, Henrich J. The Cultural Transmission Of Faith: Why innate intuitions are necessary, but insufficient, to explain religious belief Religion. 41: 389-410. DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2011.604510  0.77
2010 Schaller M, Miller GE, Gervais WM, Yager S, Chen E. Mere visual perception of other people's disease symptoms facilitates a more aggressive immune response. Psychological Science. 21: 649-52. PMID 20483842 DOI: 10.1177/0956797610368064  0.424
2010 Gervais WM, Henrich J. The Zeus problem: Why representational content biases cannot explain faith in gods Journal of Cognition and Culture. 10: 383-389. DOI: 10.1163/156853710X531249  0.604
2009 Norenzayan A, Shariff AF, Gervais WM. The evolution of religious misbelief Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 32: 531-532. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X09991312  0.723
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