Articles

Religion, Brain, and Behavior Issues

Religion, Brain & Behavior

Authors featured in the journal | About the journal

Note: Individual articles in the list below link to the publisher's web site. IBCSR members who are logged in will see the full-text version of each article. Non-members will see the abstract of each article. For information about IBCSR membership, click here.

Issues of the Journal

2012 Volume 2 Issue 1 (pages 1-99)

2011 Volume 1 Issue 3 (pages 169-255)

2011 Volume 1 Issue 2 (pages 101-167)

2011 Volume 1 Issue 1 (pages 1-99)

Volume 2 Issue 1 2012 (pages 1-99)

Editorial: "The scientific study of atheism" by Wesley J. Wildman, Richard Sosis & Patrick McNamara (1-3)

Target Article: "Understanding atheism/non-belief as an expected individual-differences variable" by Catherine L. Caldwell-Harris (4-23)

Target Article Commentary: "Atheism and social cognition" by William Sims Bainbridge (23-25)

Target Article Commentary: "Studying atheism and the psychology of religiosity" by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi (25-27)

Target Article Commentary: "The explanation of atheism as an individual-differences variable: an appreciative response" by Ralph W. Hood Jr (27-29)

Target Article Commentary: "What should we believe about atheists?" by Dominic Johnson (30-32)

Target Article Commentary: "Explaining universality and individual differences in terms of 'human nature'" by Lee A. Kirkpatrick (32-35)

Target Article Commentary: "Viewing atheism as an individual-difference variable: suggestions for advancing research" by Crystal L. Park (35-38)

Target Article Commentary: "Atheists are rejecting today's culturally evolved religions, not a 'first' natural religion" by John R. Shook (38-40)

Target Article Response: "What theoretical frameworks do scholars need? What type of society do we all want?" by Catherine L. Caldwell-Harris (40-47)

Target Article: "What are atheists for? Hypotheses on the functions of non-belief in the evolution of religion" by Dominic Johnson (48-70)

Target Article Commentary: "Atheism: by-product of cognitive styles of independent learning and systemizing" by Catherine L. Caldwell-Harris (70-73)

Target Article Commentary: "Why should atheists be 'for' anything? On the collective idiosyncrasies and illusions of cognitive scientists of religion" by Armin W. Geertz (73-75)

Target Article Commentary: "On the non-evolution of atheism and the importance of definitions and data" by Jonathan Lanman (76-78)

Target Article Commentary: "The sleep of reason: do atheists improve the stock?" by Ryan McKay & Daniel Dennett (78-80)

Target Article Commentary: "Ritually faking belief" by Matt J. Rossano (81-83)

Target Article Commentary: "On affirmations of the realities of religion and atheism" by Benson Saler & Charles A. Ziegler (83-85)

Target Article Commentary: "Whence atheists: outliers or outlaws?" by Jeffrey P. Schloss (86-89)

Target Article Commentary: "Religious belief and atheism are not mutually exclusive" by Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford & Todd K. Shackelford (89-91)

Target Article Response: "Atheists: accidents of nature?" by Dominic Johnson (91-99)

Volume 1 Issue 3 2011 (pages 169-255)

Editorial: "Reductionism in the scientific study of religion" by Wesley J. Wildman, Richard Sosis & Patrick McNamara (169-172)

Article: "Glossolalia is associated with differences in biomarkers of stress and arousal among Apostolic Pentecostals" by Christopher Dana Lynn, Jason J. Paris, Cheryl Anne Frye & Lawrence M. Schell (173-191)

Target Article: "The need to believe: a neuroscience account of religion as a motivated process" by Michael Inzlicht, Alexa M. Tullett & Marie Good (192-212)

Target Article Commentary: "Religion, health, and the social signaling model of religion" by Candace S. Alcorta (213-216)

Target Article Commentary: "Believing, belonging, meaning, and religious coping" by Roy F. Baumeister & Michael MacKenzie (216-219)

Target Article Commentary: "Toward an evolutionary social neuroscience of religion" by Joseph Bulbulia & Uffe Schjoedt (220-222)

Target Article Commentary: "Differences in cognitive style, emotional processing, and ideology as crucial variables in understanding meaning making" by Omar Sultan Haque, Amitai Shenhav & David Rand (223-225)

Target Article Commentary: "Dissonance and distress" by Eddie Harmon-Jones & Cindy Harmon-Jones (225-227)

Target Article Commentary: "Motivational and neural systems of religion" by Kathryn A. Johnson, B. Hunter Ball, Gene A. Brewer & Adam B. Cohen (227-331)

Target Article Commentary: "Religion is the opiate of the masses (but science is the methadone)" by Jesse Lee Preston (231-233)

Target Article Commentary: "Understanding the role of religion's palliative effects, within and between cultures" by Daniel Randles (234-236)

Target Article Commentary: "The need to believe in conflicting propositions" by Uffe Schjoedt & Joseph Bulbulia (236-239)

Target Article Commentary: "Religions, meaning making, and basic needs" by Ann Taves & Raymond F. Paloutzian (239-241)

Target Article Commentary: "From 'is' to 'ought': the naturalistic fallacy in the psychology of religion" by Kees van den Bos (242-243)

Target Article Response: "Existential neuroscience: a proximate explanation of religion as flexible meaning and palliative" by Michael Inzlicht, Alexa M. Tullett & Marie Good (244-251)

Book Review: Anthony Chemero, Radical embodied cognitive science (MIT, 2009) by Nathaniel F. Barrett (252-255)

Volume 1 Issue 2 2011 (pages 101-167)

Editorial: "The scientific study of religion and the humanities" by Wesley J. Wildman, Richard Sosis & Patrick McNamara (1-4)

Article: "Associations of religious behavior and experiences with extent of regional atrophy in the orbitofrontal cortex during older adulthood" by R. David Hayward, Amy D. Owen, Harold G. Koenig, David C. Steffens & Martha E. Payne (103-118)

Article: "Supernatural punishment and individual social compliance across cultures" by Pierrick Bourrat, Quentin D. Atkinson & Robin I.M. Dunbar (119-134)

Article: "Confucius meets cognition: new answers to old questions" by Rolf Reber & Edward G. Slingerland (134-145)

Article: "The role of testimony in the evaluation of religious expertise" by André L. Souza & Cristine H. Legare (146-153)

Article: "Bearing gods in mind and culture" by F. LeRon Shults (154-167)

Volume 1 Issue 1 2011 (pages 1-99)

Editorial: "Announcing a new journal: Religion, Brain & Behavior" by Patrick McNamara, Richard Sosis & Wesley J. Wildman (1-4)

Article: "Afterlife beliefs: category specificity and sensitivity to biological priming" by Judith Bek & Suzanne Lock (5-17)

Article: "Spontaneous processing of functional and non-functional action sequences" by Kristoffer L. Nielbo & Jesper Sørensen (18-30)

Article: "Tyvan cher eezi and the socioecological constraints of supernatural agents' minds" by Benjamin Grant Purzycki (31-45)

Target Article: "Evolutionary accounts of belief in supernatural punishment: a critical review" by Jeffrey P. Schloss & Michael J. Murray (46-99)

Target Article Commentary: "Affording cooperative populations" by Joseph Bulbulia & Marcus Frean (66-70)

Target Article Commentary: "Broadening the critical perspective on supernatural punishment theories" by Emma Cohen (70-72)

Target Article Commentary: "Stratification and supernatural punishment: cooperation or obedience?" by Rolando de Aguiar & Lee Cronk (73-75)

Target Article Commentary: "Supernatural punishment: what traits are being selected?" by Helen De Cruz & Johan De Smedt (75-77)

Target Article Commentary: "Why God is the best punisher" by Dominic Johnson (77-84)

Target Article Commentary: "Disbelief in the gods and the 'cooperation enhancement' account of supernatural punishment theory" by Ryan Nichols (85-87)

Target Article Commentary: "Imagine there is no religion" by Ilkka Pyysiäinen (87-89)

Target Article Commentary: "Big gods were made for big groups" by Azim F. Shariff (89-93)

Target Article Response: "How might evolution lead to hell?" by Jeffrey P. Schloss & Michael J. Murray (93-99)