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Richard Sosis - Publications

Affiliations: 
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States 
Area:
Cultural Anthropology, General Religion, Clinical Psychology
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2020 Sosis R. The last Talmudic demon? The role of ritual in cultural transmission. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 375: 20190425. PMID 32594876 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2019.0425  0.36
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  0.686
2020 Sosis R. Four advantages of a systemic approach to the study of religion Archive For the Psychology of Religion. 42: 142-157. DOI: 10.1177/0084672420905019  0.369
2019 Barker JL, Power EA, Heap S, Puurtinen M, Sosis R. Content, cost, and context: A framework for understanding human signaling systems. Evolutionary Anthropology. PMID 30869833 DOI: 10.1002/Evan.21768  0.347
2019 Shaver JH, Sibley CG, Sosis R, Galbraith D, Bulbulia J. Alloparenting and religious fertility: A test of the religious alloparenting hypothesis Evolution and Human Behavior. 40: 315-324. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2019.01.004  0.333
2018 Dunbar RIM, Sosis R. Optimising human community sizes. Evolution and Human Behavior : Official Journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. 39: 106-111. PMID 29333060 DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2017.11.001  0.325
2018 Sosis R, Bulbulia J, Wildman WJ, Schjoedt U. The fish that got away? Human behavioral ecology and the study of religion Religion, Brain and Behavior. 8: 351-353. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2018.1523608  0.307
2016 Kiper J, Sosis R. Shaking the tyrant's bloody robe. Politics and the Life Sciences : the Journal of the Association For Politics and the Life Sciences. 35: 27-47. PMID 27378021 DOI: 10.1017/Pls.2016.7  0.353
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, ... ... Sosis R, 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  0.671
2014 Sosis R, Kiper J. Why religion is better conceived as a complex system than a norm-enforcing institution. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 37: 275-6. PMID 24970422 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X13003038  0.319
2014 Shaver JH, Sosis R. How does male ritual behavior vary across the lifespan? An examination of Fijian kava ceremonies. Human Nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.). 25: 136-60. PMID 24522974 DOI: 10.1007/S12110-014-9191-6  0.331
2013 Sosis R, Wildman WJ, McNamara P. On the Naturalness of Religion Religion, Brain and Behavior. 3: 89-90. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2013.804234  0.305
2013 Wildman WJ, Sosis R, McNamara P. Bio-Cultural approaches to social forms Religion, Brain and Behavior. 3: 1-2. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2012.747257  0.32
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  0.711
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  0.685
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  0.657
2011 Sosis R. Why Sacred Lands Are Not Indivisible: The Cognitive Foundations of Sacralising Land Journal of Terrorism Research. 2. DOI: 10.15664/Jtr.172  0.308
2011 Sosis R, Bulbulia J. The behavioral ecology of religion: the benefits and costs of one evolutionary approach Religion. 41: 341-362. DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2011.604514  0.355
2011 Bulbulia J, Sosis R. Signalling theory and the evolution of religious cooperation Religion. 41: 363-388. DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2011.604508  0.357
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  0.698
2009 Sosis R. The Adaptationist-Byproduct Debate on the Evolution of Religion: Five Misunderstandings of the Adaptationist Program Journal of Cognition and Culture. 9: 315-332. DOI: 10.1163/156770909X12518536414411  0.396
2009 Bulbulia J, Sosis R. Ideology as cooperative affordance Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 32: 515-516. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X09991403  0.383
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  0.637
2008 Alcorta CS, Sosis R, Finkel D. Ritual harmony: Toward an evolutionary theory of music Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 31: 576-577. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X08005311  0.739
2008 Sosis R, Swartwout P. Demonstrating group selection: A comment on Janet Landa’s ‘The bioeconomics of homogenous middleman groups as adaptive units’ Journal of Bioeconomics. 10: 297-301. DOI: 10.1007/S10818-008-9046-5  0.306
2007 Ruffle BJ, Sosis R. Does It Pay To Pray? Costly Ritual and Cooperation The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. 7. DOI: 10.2202/1935-1682.1629  0.349
2007 Sosis R. Psalms for Safety Current Anthropology. 48: 903-911. DOI: 10.1086/523015  0.31
2006 Alcorta CS, Sosis R. Why ritual works: A rejection of the by-product hypothesis Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 29: 613-614. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X06009344  0.73
2006 Ruffle BJ, Sosis R. Cooperation and the in-group-out-group bias: A field test on Israeli kibbutz members and city residents Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 60: 147-163. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jebo.2004.07.007  0.347
2005 Alcorta CS, Sosis R. Ritual, emotion, and sacred symbols : The evolution of religion as an adaptive complex. Human Nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.). 16: 323-59. PMID 26189836 DOI: 10.1007/S12110-005-1014-3  0.742
2004 Sosis R, Alcorta C. Is religion adaptive? Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 27: 749-750. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X04420172  0.745
2004 Sosis R. Preaching morality and metaphysics Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 19: 566-567. DOI: 10.1016/J.Tree.2004.08.008  0.371
2003 Sosis R. Why aren't we all hutterites? : Costly signaling theory and religious behavior. Human Nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.). 14: 91-127. PMID 26190055 DOI: 10.1007/S12110-003-1000-6  0.335
2003 Sosis R, Bressler ER. Cooperation and Commune Longevity: A Test of the Costly Signaling Theory of Religion Cross-Cultural Research. 37: 211-239. DOI: 10.1177/1069397103037002003  0.303
2003 Sosis R, Alcorta C. Signaling, solidarity, and the sacred: The evolution of religious behavior Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews. 12: 264-274. DOI: 10.1002/Evan.10120  0.739
2000 Sosis R. Religion and Intragroup Cooperation: Preliminary Results of a Comparative Analysis of Utopian Communities Cross-Cultural Research. 34: 70-87. DOI: 10.1177/106939710003400105  0.313
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