Benjamin G. Purzycki, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
2012 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States 
Area:
Cultural Anthropology, General Religion

31 high-probability publications. We are testing a new system for linking publications to authors. You can help! If you notice any inaccuracies, please sign in and mark papers as correct or incorrect matches. If you identify any major omissions or other inaccuracies in the publication list, please let us know.

Year Citation  Score
2023 Bendixen T, Lightner AD, Apicella C, Atkinson Q, Bolyanatz A, Cohen E, Handley C, Henrich J, Klocová EK, Lesorogol C, Mathew S, McNamara RA, Moya C, Norenzayan A, Placek C, ... ... Purzycki BG, et al. Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 5: e18. PMID 37587943 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2023.15  0.315
2023 Ross CT, Hooper PL, Smith JE, Jaeggi AV, Smith EA, Gavrilets S, Zohora FT, Ziker J, Xygalatas D, Wroblewski EE, Wood B, Winterhalder B, Willführ KP, Willard AK, Walker K, ... ... Purzycki BG, et al. Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120: e2220124120. PMID 37216525 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2220124120  0.624
2020 Pisor AC, Gervais MM, Purzycki BG, Ross CT. Preferences and constraints: the value of economic games for studying human behaviour. Royal Society Open Science. 7: 192090. PMID 32742683 DOI: 10.1098/Rsos.192090  0.331
2020 Shaver JH, Power EA, Purzycki BG, Watts J, Sear R, Shenk MK, Sosis R, Bulbulia JA. Church attendance and alloparenting: an analysis of fertility, social support and child development among English mothers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 375: 20190428. PMID 32594868 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2019.0428  0.601
2019 Henrich J, Bauer M, Cassar A, Chytilová J, Purzycki BG. War increases religiosity. Nature Human Behaviour. 3: 129-135. PMID 30944450 DOI: 10.1038/S41562-018-0512-3  0.382
2019 Lang M, Purzycki BG, Apicella CL, Atkinson QD, Bolyanatz A, Cohen E, Handley C, Kundtová Klocová E, Lesorogol C, Mathew S, McNamara RA, Moya C, Placek CD, Soler M, Vardy T, et al. Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 286: 20190202. PMID 30836871 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2019.0202  0.42
2019 Purzycki BG, Lang M. Identity fusion, outgroup relations, and sacrifice: A cross-cultural test. Cognition. 186: 1-6. PMID 30711768 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2019.01.015  0.337
2019 Purzycki BG. Blanes, Ruy Llera, and Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic (eds.): Being Godless. Ethnographies of Atheism and Non-Religion. New York: Berghahn Books, 2017. 147 pp. ISBN 978-1-78533-628-7. (Studies in Social Analysis, 1) Price: $ 95.00 Anthropos. 114: 232-234. DOI: 10.5771/0257-9774-2019-1-232  0.346
2019 Purzycki BG, Holland EC. Buddha as a God: An Empirical Assessment Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. 31: 347-375. DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341453  0.403
2018 Purzycki BG, Ross CT, Apicella C, Atkinson QD, Cohen E, McNamara RA, Willard AK, Xygalatas D, Norenzayan A, Henrich J. Material security, life history, and moralistic religions: A cross-cultural examination. Plos One. 13: e0193856. PMID 29513766 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0193856  0.314
2018 Purzycki BG, Pisor AC, Apicella C, Atkinson Q, Cohen E, Henrich J, McElreath R, McNamara RA, Norenzayan A, Willard AK, Xygalatas D. The cognitive and cultural foundations of moral behavior Evolution and Human Behavior. 39: 490-501. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2018.04.004  0.371
2017 Purzycki BG. Some Comments on the Alleged Innateness of Religion Method and Theory in the Study of Religion. 29: 411-421. DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341403  0.337
2017 Shaver JH, Purzycki BG. The evolution of religious diversity Religion, Brain & Behavior. 8: 444-447. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2017.1323780  0.304
2017 Purzycki BG, Kulundary V. Buddhism, identity, and class: fairness and favoritism in the Tyva Republic Religion, Brain & Behavior. 8: 205-226. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2016.1267031  0.394
2017 Cohen E, Baimel A, Purzycki BG. Religiosity and resource allocation in Marajó, Brazil Religion, Brain & Behavior. 8: 168-184. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2016.1267029  0.375
2017 Purzycki BG, Henrich J, Apicella C, Atkinson QD, Baimel A, Cohen E, McNamara RA, Willard AK, Xygalatas D, Norenzayan A. The evolution of religion and morality: a synthesis of ethnographic and experimental evidence from eight societies Religion, Brain & Behavior. 8: 101-132. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2016.1267027  0.412
2016 Purzycki BG, Apicella C, Atkinson QD, Cohen E, McNamara RA, Willard AK, Xygalatas D, Norenzayan A, Henrich J. Cross-cultural dataset for the evolution of religion and morality project. Scientific Data. 3: 160099. PMID 27824332 DOI: 10.1038/Sdata.2016.99  0.336
2016 Purzycki BG, Apicella C, Atkinson QD, Cohen E, McNamara RA, Willard AK, Xygalatas D, Norenzayan A, Henrich J. Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality. Nature. PMID 26863190 DOI: 10.1038/Nature16980  0.466
2016 Purzycki BG. The Evolution of Gods’ Minds in the Tyva Republic Current Anthropology. 57: S88-S104. DOI: 10.1086/685729  0.421
2015 Purzycki BG, Willard AK. MCI theory: a critical discussion Religion, Brain & Behavior. 6: 207-248. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2015.1024915  0.324
2014 Scott IM, Clark AP, Josephson SC, Boyette AH, Cuthill IC, Fried RL, Gibson MA, Hewlett BS, Jamieson M, Jankowiak W, Honey PL, Huang Z, Liebert MA, Purzycki BG, Shaver JH, et al. Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111: 14388-93. PMID 25246593 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1409643111  0.606
2013 Purzycki BG. The minds of gods: a comparative study of supernatural agency. Cognition. 129: 163-79. PMID 23891826 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2013.06.010  0.368
2013 Purzycki BG, Arakchaa T. Ritual Behavior and Trust in the Tyva Republic Current Anthropology. 54: 381-388. DOI: 10.1086/670526  0.334
2013 Purzycki BG, Sosis R. The extended religious phenotype and the adaptive coupling of ritual and belief Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution. 59: 99-108. DOI: 10.1080/15659801.2013.825433  0.652
2012 Purzycki BG, Finkel DN, Shaver J, Wales N, Cohen AB, Sosis R. What does God know? Supernatural agents' access to socially strategic and non-strategic information. Cognitive Science. 36: 846-69. PMID 22462490 DOI: 10.1111/J.1551-6709.2012.01242.X  0.628
2012 Swartwout P, Purzycki BG, Sosis R. Form and function in religious signaling under pathogen stress. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 35: 92-3. PMID 22289648 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X1100104X  0.576
2012 Purzycki BG. Barnard, Alan: Social Anthropology and Human Origins Anthropos. 107: 233-234. DOI: 10.5771/0257-9774-2012-1-233  0.411
2012 PurzyckI BG. Toward a Cognitive Ecology of Religious Concepts: Evidence from the Tyva Republic Journal For the Cognitive Science of Religion. 1. DOI: 10.1558/Jcsr.V1I1.99  0.36
2011 Purzycki BG. Humor as Violation and Deprecation: A Cognitive Anthropological Account Journal of Cognition and Culture. 11: 217-230. DOI: 10.1163/156853711X568752  0.337
2011 Purzycki BG. Tyvancher eeziand the socioecological constraints of supernatural agents' minds Religion, Brain & Behavior. 1: 31-45. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2010.550723  0.386
2008 Purzycki BG, Swartwout P, Sosis R. Book Review: Searching for Darwin: Metaphor, Collusion, and Natural Selection Evolutionary Psychology. 6: 147470490800600. DOI: 10.1177/147470490800600409  0.546
Show low-probability matches.