Scott Atran - Publications

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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI 
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International Law and Relations, General

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2023 Gómez Á, Vázquez A, Atran S. Transcultural pathways to the will to fight. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120: e2303614120. PMID 37279272 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2303614120  0.301
2020 Vázquez A, López-Rodríguez L, Martínez M, Atran S, Gómez Á. Threat Enhances Aggressive Inclinations Among Devoted Actors Via Increase in Their Relative Physical Formidability. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 146167220907466. PMID 32163015 DOI: 10.1177/0146167220907466  0.34
2019 Hamid N, Pretus C, Atran S, Crockett MJ, Ginges J, Sheikh H, Tobeña A, Carmona S, Gómez A, Davis R, Vilarroya O. Neuroimaging 'will to fight' for sacred values: an empirical case study with supporters of an Al Qaeda associate. Royal Society Open Science. 6: 181585. PMID 31312469 DOI: 10.1098/Rsos.181585  0.345
2018 Atran S, Gómez Á. What motivates devoted actors to extreme sacrifice, identity fusion, or sacred values? Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 41. PMID 31064565 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X18001565  0.353
2018 Pretus C, Hamid N, Sheikh H, Ginges J, Tobeña A, Davis R, Vilarroya O, Atran S. Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Sacred Values and Vulnerability to Violent Extremism. Frontiers in Psychology. 9: 2462. PMID 30627108 DOI: 10.3389/Fpsyg.2018.02462  0.361
2017 Gómez Á, López-Rodríguez L, Sheikh H, Ginges J, Wilson L, Waziri H, Vázquez A, Davis R, Atran S. The devoted actor's will to fight and the spiritual dimension of human conflict. Nature Human Behaviour. 1: 673-679. PMID 31024146 DOI: 10.1038/S41562-017-0193-3  0.407
2016 Atran S. Moralizing religions: Prosocial or a privilege of wealth? The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 39: e2. PMID 26948737 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X15000321  0.344
2016 Ginges J, Sheikh H, Atran S, Argo N. Thinking from God's perspective decreases biased valuation of the life of a nonbeliever. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 113: 316-9. PMID 26711991 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1512120113  0.371
2016 Sheikh H, Gómez Á, Atran S. Empirical evidence for the devoted actor model. Current Anthropology. 57: 204-209. DOI: 10.1086/686221  0.369
2016 Atran S. The Devoted Actor: Unconditional Commitment and Intractable Conflict across Cultures Current Anthropology. 57: 192-203. DOI: 10.1086/685495  0.421
2014 Atran S, Sheikh H, Gomez A. Devoted actors sacrifice for close comrades and sacred cause. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111: 17702-3. PMID 25472844 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1420474111  0.301
2014 Atran S. Martyrdom's would-be myth buster. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 37: 362-3. PMID 25162840 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X13003555  0.362
2013 Sheikh H, Ginges J, Atran S. Sacred values in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: resistance to social influence, temporal discounting, and exit strategies. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1299: 11-24. PMID 25708077 DOI: 10.1111/Nyas.12275  0.392
2013 Atran S. From mutualism to moral transcendence. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 36: 81-2. PMID 23445578 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X12000714  0.405
2013 Le Guen O, Iliev R, Lois X, Atran S, Medin DL. A garden experiment revisited: Inter-generational change in environmental perception and management of the Maya Lowlands, Guatemala Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 19: 771-794. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.12064  0.332
2012 Atran S, Ginges J. Religious and sacred imperatives in human conflict. Science (New York, N.Y.). 336: 855-7. PMID 22605762 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1216902  0.38
2012 Atran S. Parasite stress is not so critical to the history of religions or major modern group formations. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 35: 79-80. PMID 22289276 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X11001361  0.336
2012 Berns GS, Bell E, Capra CM, Prietula MJ, Moore S, Anderson B, Ginges J, Atran S. The price of your soul: neural evidence for the non-utilitarian representation of sacred values. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 367: 754-62. PMID 22271790 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2011.0262  0.328
2012 Berns GS, Atran S. The biology of cultural conflict. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 367: 633-9. PMID 22271779 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2011.0307  0.416
2011 Ginges J, Atran S, Sachdeva S, Medin D. Psychology out of the laboratory: the challenge of violent extremism. The American Psychologist. 66: 507-19. PMID 21823773 DOI: 10.1037/A0024715  0.373
2011 Ginges J, Atran S. War as a moral imperative (not just practical politics by other means). Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 278: 2930-8. PMID 21325334 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2010.2384  0.385
2010 Atran S. A Question of Honour: Why the Taliban Fight and What to Do About It Asian Journal of Social Science. 38: 341-361. DOI: 10.1163/156853110X499918  0.309
2010 Atran S, Henrich J. The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate Deep Commitments to Prosocial Religions Biological Theory. 5: 18-30. DOI: 10.1162/Biot_A_00018  0.419
2010 Atran S. Who Becomes a Terrorist Today Perspectives On Terrorism. 2: 45-58. DOI: 10.1057/9781137001931_5  0.316
2009 Ginges J, Atran S. What motivates participation in violent political action: selective incentives or parochial altruism? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1167: 115-23. PMID 19580558 DOI: 10.1111/J.1749-6632.2009.04543.X  0.359
2009 Ginges J, Atran S. Chapter 6 Noninstrumental Reasoning over Sacred Values: An Indonesian Case Study Psychology of Learning and Motivation. 50: 193-206. DOI: 10.1016/S0079-7421(08)00406-4  0.344
2008 Fischhoff B, Atran S, Sageman M. Mutually assured support: A security doctrine for terrorist nuclear weapon threats Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 618: 160-167. DOI: 10.1177/0002716208317247  0.313
2008 Ginges J, Atran S. Humiliation and the inertia effect: Implications for understanding violence and compromise in intractable intergroup conflicts Journal of Cognition and Culture. 8: 281-294. DOI: 10.1163/156853708X358182  0.347
2008 Atran S, Axelrod R. Reframing sacred values: In theory Negotiation Journal. 24: 221-246. DOI: 10.1111/J.1571-9979.2008.00182.X  0.378
2007 Atran S, Axelrod R, Davis R. Social science. Sacred barriers to conflict resolution. Science (New York, N.Y.). 317: 1039-40. PMID 17717171 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1144241  0.329
2007 Bang M, Medin DL, Atran S. Cultural mosaics and mental models of nature. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104: 13868-74. PMID 17715299 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0706627104  0.419
2007 Ginges J, Atran S, Medin D, Shikaki K. Sacred bounds on rational resolution of violent political conflict Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104: 7357-7360. PMID 17460042 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0701768104  0.379
2007 Atran S. The Nature of Belief Science. 317: 456-456. DOI: 10.1126/Science.1142653  0.375
2007 Fischhoff B, Atran S, Fischhoff N. Counting casualties: A framework for respectful, useful records Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 34: 1-19. DOI: 10.1007/S11166-006-9001-6  0.351
2007 Medin D, Ross N, Cox D, Atran S. Why folkbiology matters: Resource conflict despite shared goals and knowledge Human Ecology. 35: 315-329. DOI: 10.1007/S10745-006-9054-9  0.358
2006 Norenzayan A, Atran S, Faulkner J, Schaller M. Memory and mystery: the cultural selection of minimally counterintuitive narratives. Cognitive Science. 30: 531-53. PMID 21702824 DOI: 10.1207/S15516709Cog0000_68  0.315
2006 Medin DL, Ross NO, Atran S, Cox D, Coley J, Proffitt JB, Blok S. Folkbiology of freshwater fish. Cognition. 99: 237-73. PMID 16055109 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2003.12.005  0.377
2005 Atran S, Medin DL, Ross NO. The cultural mind: environmental decision making and cultural modeling within and across populations. Psychological Review. 112: 744-76. PMID 16262467 DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.112.4.744  0.403
2005 Atran S, Stern J. Small groups find fatal purpose through the web. Nature. 437: 620. PMID 16193022 DOI: 10.1038/437620A  0.375
2005 Atran S. Adaptationism for Human Cognition: Strong, Spurious or Weak? Mind & Language. 20: 39-67. DOI: 10.1111/J.0268-1064.2005.00277.X  0.367
2004 Atran S, Norenzayan A. Religion's evolutionary landscape: counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 27: 713-30; discussion 7. PMID 16035401 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X04000172  0.409
2004 Medin DL, Atran S. The native mind: biological categorization and reasoning in development and across cultures. Psychological Review. 111: 960-83. PMID 15482069 DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.111.4.960  0.394
2004 Knight N, Sousa P, Barrett JL, Atran S. Children's attributions of beliefs to humans and God: Cross-cultural evidence Cognitive Science. 28: 117-126. DOI: 10.1207/S15516709Cog2801_6  0.352
2004 Atran S, Medin D, Ross N. Evolution and devolution of knowledge: A tale of two biologies Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 10: 395-420. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9655.2004.00195.X  0.421
2004 Atran S, Norenzayan A. Why minds create gods: Devotion, deception, death, and arational decision making Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 27: 754-770. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X04470174  0.397
2003 Ross N, Medin D, Coley JD, Atran S. Cultural and experiential differences in the development of folkbiological induction Cognitive Development. 18: 25-47. DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2014(02)00142-9  0.312
2002 Bailenson JN, Shum MS, Atran S, Medin DL, Coley JD. A bird's eye view: biological categorization and reasoning within and across cultures. Cognition. 84: 1-53. PMID 12062146 DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(02)00011-2  0.41
2002 Sousa P, Atran S, Medin D. Essentialism and folkbiology: Evidence from Brazil Journal of Cognition and Culture. 2: 195-223. DOI: 10.1163/15685370260225099  0.356
2002 Atran S, Medin D, Ross N, Lynch E, Vapnarsky V, Ek’ E, Coley J, Timura C, Baran M. Folkecology, Cultural Epidemiology, and the Spirit of the Commons Current Anthropology. 43: 421-450. DOI: 10.1086/339528  0.427
2002 Atran S. Modest Adaptationism: Muddling Through Cognition and Language Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 25: 0-0. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X02220099  0.301
2002 Medin DL, Ross N, Atran S, Burnett RC, Blok SV. Categorization and reasoning in relation to culture and expertise Psychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory. 41: 1-41. DOI: 10.1016/S0079-7421(02)80003-2  0.404
2002 Atran S, Medin DI, Ross N. Thinking about biology. Modular constraints on categorization and reasoning in the everyday life of Americans, Maya, and scientists Mind & Society. 3: 31-63. DOI: 10.1007/Bf02513147  0.42
2001 Atran S. The trouble with memes : Inference versus imitation in cultural creation. Human Nature. 12: 351-381. PMID 26192412 DOI: 10.1007/S12110-001-1003-0  0.348
2001 Atran S, Medin D, Lynch E, Vapnarsky V, Ucan Ek' E, Sousa P. Folkbiology doesn't come from folkpsychology: Evidence from Yukatek Maya in cross-cultural perspective Journal of Cognition and Culture. 1: 3-42. DOI: 10.1163/156853701300063561  0.374
1999 Atran S, Medin D, Ross N, Lynch E, Coley J, Ek' EU, Vapnarsky V. Folkecology and commons management in the Maya lowlands Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 96: 7598-7603. PMID 10377461 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.96.13.7598  0.389
1998 Atran S. Folk biology and the anthropology of science: Cognitive universals and cultural particulars Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 21: 547-609. PMID 10097021 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X98001277  0.395
1997 Medin DL, Lynch EB, Coley JD, Atran S. Categorization and reasoning among tree experts: do all roads lead to Rome? Cognitive Psychology. 32: 49-96. PMID 9038245 DOI: 10.1006/Cogp.1997.0645  0.316
1997 López A, Atran S, Coley JD, Medin DL, Smith EE. The tree of life: Universal and cultural features of folkbiological taxonomies and inductions Cognitive Psychology. 32: 251-295. DOI: 10.1006/Cogp.1997.0651  0.368
1993 Atran S. Folk Biological Cognition Current Anthropology. 34: 195-198. DOI: 10.1086/204162  0.405
1990 Atran S. Stones against the Iron Fist, Terror within the Nation: Alternating Structures of Violence and Cultural Identity in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Politics & Society. 18: 481-526. DOI: 10.1177/003232929001800404  0.333
1989 Atran S. The Surrogate Colonization Of Palestine, 1917-1939 American Ethnologist. 16: 719-744. DOI: 10.1525/Ae.1989.16.4.02A00070  0.39
1987 Atran S. The Essence of Folkbiology: A Reply to Randall and Hunn American Anthropologist. 89: 149-151. DOI: 10.1525/Aa.1987.89.1.02A00120  0.361
1985 Atran S. The Nature of Folk‐Botanical Life Forms American Anthropologist. 87: 298-315. DOI: 10.1525/Aa.1985.87.2.02A00040  0.385
1982 Atran S. Constraints on a Theory of Hominid Tool-Making Behavior L'Homme. 22: 35-68. DOI: 10.3406/Hom.1982.368279  0.349
1982 Hirschfeld LA, Atran S, Yengoyan A. Theories of knowledge and culture Social Science Information. 21: 161-198. DOI: 10.1177/053901882021002001  0.302
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2019 Pretus C, Hamid N, Sheikh H, Gómez Á, Ginges J, Tobeña A, Davis R, Vilarroya O, Atran S. Ventromedial and dorsolateral prefrontal interactions underlie will to fight and die for a cause. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. PMID 31058987 DOI: 10.1093/Scan/Nsz034  0.299
2006 Atran S. A Failure of Imagination (Intelligence, WMDs, and "Virtual Jihad") Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. 29: 285-300. DOI: 10.1080/10576100600564166  0.299
2008 Magouirk J, Atran S, Sageman M. Connecting Terrorist Networks Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. 31: 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/10576100701759988  0.298
2001 Ahn WK, Kalish C, Gelman SA, Medin DL, Luhmann C, Atran S, Coley JD, Shafto P. Why essences are essential in the psychology of concepts. Cognition. 82: 59-69. PMID 11672705 DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(01)00145-7  0.295
2017 Atran S, Axelrod R, Davis R, Fischhoff B. Challenges in researching terrorism from the field. Science (New York, N.Y.). 355: 352-354. PMID 28126773 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Aaj2037  0.288
1985 Atran S. Démembrement social et remembrement agraire dans un village palestinien L'Homme. 25: 111-135. DOI: 10.3406/Hom.1985.368625  0.284
2009 Atran S, Navarro A, Ochsner K, Tobeña A, Vilarroya O. Foreword: Values, empathy, and fairness across social barriers Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1167: 1-4. PMID 19580546 DOI: 10.1111/J.1749-6632.2009.04879.X  0.283
2006 Atran S. The Moral Logic and Growth of Suicide Terrorism Washington Quarterly. 29: 127-147. DOI: 10.1162/Wash.2006.29.2.127  0.278
2002 Atran S. A metamodule for conceptual integration: Language or theory of mind? Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 25: 674-675. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X02220129  0.271
2003 Atran S. Théorie cognitive de la culture. Une alternative évolutionniste à la sociobiologie et à la sélection collective L'Homme. 166: 107-144. DOI: 10.4000/Lhomme.220  0.27
2020 Atran S. Psychology of Transnational Terrorism and Extreme Political Conflict. Annual Review of Psychology. 72: 471-501. PMID 32898462 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-010419-050800  0.267
1982 Atran S, Eickelman DF. Thick Interpretation in The Middle East Current Anthropology. 23: 705-709. DOI: 10.1086/202922  0.266
2003 Atran S. Genesis of suicide terrorism. Science (New York, N.Y.). 299: 1534-9. PMID 12624256 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1078854  0.265
1993 Atran S, Chase AF, Fedick SL, Knapp G, McKillop H, Marcus J, Schwartz NB, Webb MC. Itza Maya Tropical Agro-Forestry [and Comments and Replies] Current Anthropology. 34: 633-700. DOI: 10.1086/204212  0.26
2008 Magouirk J, Atran S. Jemaah Islamiyah's radical madrassah networks Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict. 1: 25-41. DOI: 10.1080/17467580802016130  0.255
2020 Atran S. Measures of devotion to ISIS and other fighting and radicalized groups. Current Opinion in Psychology. 35: 103-107. PMID 32485651 DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.02.012  0.252
2010 Sagarin RD, Alcorta CS, Atran S, Blumstein DT, Dietl GP, Hochberg ME, Johnson DD, Levin S, Madin EM, Madin JS, Prescott EM, Sosis R, Taylor T, Tooby J, Vermeij GJ. Decentralize, adapt and cooperate. Nature. 465: 292-3. PMID 20485417 DOI: 10.1038/465292A  0.25
2022 Tossell CC, Gómez A, de Visser EJ, Vázquez A, Donadio BT, Metcalfe A, Rogan C, Davis R, Atran S. Spiritual over physical formidability determines willingness to fight and sacrifice through loyalty in cross-cultural populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119. PMID 35131848 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2113076119  0.248
1997 Coley JD, Medin DL, Atran S. Does rank have its privilege? Inductive inferences within folkbiological taxonomies. Cognition. 64: 73-112. PMID 9342932 DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(97)00017-6  0.243
1987 Atran S. Ordinary Constraints on the Semantics of Living Kinds: A Commonsense Alternative to Recent Treatments of Natural‐Object Terms* Mind & Language. 2: 27-63. DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-0017.1987.Tb00107.X  0.235
1990 Atran S. Des pierres contre la Main de Fer: l'alternance des structures de violence dans le conflit israélo-palestinien (1939-1989) Social Science Information. 29: 107-165. DOI: 10.1177/053901890029001005  0.227
1989 Atran S. 1. Basic Conceptual Domains Mind & Language. 4: 7-16. DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-0017.1989.Tb00234.X  0.222
2019 Atran S. What motivated the Industrial Revolution: England's libertarian culture or affluence ? The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 42: e193. PMID 31744587 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X19000281  0.22
2021 Atran S. The will to fight. Science (New York, N.Y.). 373: 1063. PMID 34516866 DOI: 10.1126/science.abl9949  0.209
1998 Atran S. Taxonomic ranks, generic species, and core memes Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 21: 593-604. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X98481275  0.206
2022 Gómez A, Atran S, Chinchilla J, Vázquez A, López-Rodríguez L, Paredes B, Martínez M, Blanco L, Alba B, Bautista H, Fernández S, Pozuelo-Rubio F, González-Álvarez JL, Chiclana S, Valladares-Narganes H, et al. Willingness to sacrifice among convicted Islamist terrorists versus violent gang members and other criminals. Scientific Reports. 12: 2596. PMID 35173239 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-06590-0  0.205
1985 Atran S. Managing Arab kinship and marriage Social Science Information. 24: 659-696. DOI: 10.1177/053901885024004001  0.193
1993 Atran S. The Bio-Itza Anthropology News. 34: 37-37. DOI: 10.1111/An.1993.34.7.37.3  0.189
1991 Atran S. L'ethnoscience aujourd'hui: Social Science Information. 30: 595-662. DOI: 10.1177/053901891030004001  0.179
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