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Ara Norenzayan, Ph.D. - Publications

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University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada 

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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, 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  0.773
2023 Pasek MH, Kelly JM, Shackleford C, White CJM, Vishkin A, Smith JM, Norenzayan A, Shariff A, Ginges J. Thinking About God Encourages Prosociality Toward Religious Outgroups: A Cross-Cultural Investigation. Psychological Science. 9567976231158576. PMID 37071698 DOI: 10.1177/09567976231158576  0.707
2021 White CJM, Muthukrishna M, Norenzayan A. Cultural similarity among coreligionists within and between countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118. PMID 34493675 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2109650118  0.375
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  0.735
2021 White CJM, Willard AK, Baimel A, Norenzayan A. Cognitive Pathways to Belief in Karma and Belief in God. Cognitive Science. 45: e12935. PMID 33448015 DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12935  0.676
2020 White CJM, Norenzayan A, Schaller M. How strongly do moral character inferences predict forecasts of the future? Testing the moderating roles of transgressor age, implicit personality theories, and belief in karma. Plos One. 15: e0244144. PMID 33347513 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244144  0.528
2020 White CJ, Baimel A, Norenzayan A. How cultural learning and cognitive biases shape religious beliefs. Current Opinion in Psychology. 40: 34-39. PMID 32896727 DOI: 10.1016/J.Copsyc.2020.07.033  0.507
2020 Apicella C, Norenzayan A, Henrich J. Beyond WEIRD: A review of the last decade and a look ahead to the global laboratory of the future Evolution and Human Behavior. 41: 319-329. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2020.07.015  0.52
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, ... ... Norenzayan A, et al. Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 286: 20190202. PMID 30836871 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2019.0202  0.759
2019 Willard AK, Cingl L, Norenzayan A. Cognitive Biases and Religious Belief: A Path Model Replication in the Czech Republic and Slovakia With a Focus on Anthropomorphism Social Psychological and Personality Science. 11: 97-106. DOI: 10.1177/1948550619841629  0.708
2019 White CJ, Kelly JM, Shariff AF, Norenzayan A. Supernatural norm enforcement: Thinking about karma and God reduces selfishness among believers Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 84: 103797. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2019.03.008  0.72
2018 Gervais WM, Norenzayan A. Analytic atheism revisited. Nature Human Behaviour. 2: 609. PMID 31346274 DOI: 10.1038/S41562-018-0426-0  0.633
2018 White CJM, Norenzayan A, Schaller M. The Content and Correlates of Belief in Karma Across Cultures. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 146167218808502. PMID 30554555 DOI: 10.1177/0146167218808502  0.682
2018 McNamara RA, Willard AK, Norenzayan A, Henrich J. Weighing outcome vs. intent across societies: How cultural models of mind shape moral reasoning. Cognition. 182: 95-108. PMID 30227333 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2018.09.008  0.749
2018 Buchtel EE, Ng LCY, Norenzayan A, Heine SJ, Biesanz JC, Chen SX, Bond MH, Peng Q, Su Y. A Sense of Obligation: Cultural Differences in the Experience of Obligation. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 146167218769610. PMID 29742994 DOI: 10.1177/0146167218769610  0.813
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  0.726
2018 Norenzayan A. Some Reflections on the Many Labs 2 Replication of Norenzayan, Smith, Kim, and Nisbett’s (2002) Study 2: Cultural Preferences for Formal Versus Intuitive Reasoning Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 1: 499-500. DOI: 10.1177/2515245918817284  0.333
2018 Baimel A, Birch SA, Norenzayan A. Coordinating bodies and minds: Behavioral synchrony fosters mentalizing Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 74: 281-290. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jesp.2017.10.008  0.401
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  0.768
2017 Willard AK, Norenzayan A. "Spiritual but not religious": Cognition, schizotypy, and conversion in alternative beliefs. Cognition. 165: 137-146. PMID 28544975 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2017.05.018  0.681
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  0.745
2017 White C, Baimel A, Norenzayan A. What are the causes and consequences of belief in karma? Religion, Brain & Behavior. 7: 339-342. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2016.1249921  0.47
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  0.751
2016 Willard AK, Henrich J, Norenzayan A. Memory and Belief in the Transmission of Counterintuitive Content. Human Nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.). PMID 27100109 DOI: 10.1007/S12110-016-9259-6  0.714
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  0.802
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  0.754
2016 McNamara RA, Norenzayan A, Henrich J. Supernatural punishment, in-group biases, and material insecurity: experiments and ethnography from Yasawa, Fiji Religion, Brain and Behavior. 6: 34-55. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2014.921235  0.611
2016 Willard AK, Shariff AF, Norenzayan A. Religious priming as a research tool for studying religion: evidentiary value, current issues, and future directions Current Opinion in Psychology. 12: 71-75. DOI: 10.1016/J.Copsyc.2016.06.003  0.75
2015 Shariff AF, Norenzayan A. A question of reliability or of boundary conditions? Comment on Gomes and McCullough (2015). Journal of Experimental Psychology. General. 144: e105-6. PMID 26595843 DOI: 10.1037/Xge0000111  0.641
2015 Norenzayan A. Theodiversity. Annual Review of Psychology. PMID 26393871 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-122414-033426  0.418
2015 Shariff AF, Willard AK, Andersen T, Norenzayan A. Religious Priming: A Meta-Analysis With a Focus on Prosociality. Personality and Social Psychology Review : An Official Journal of the Society For Personality and Social Psychology, Inc. PMID 25673322 DOI: 10.1177/1088868314568811  0.785
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  0.816
2014 Norenzayan A. Does religion make people moral? Behaviour. 151: 365-384. DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003139  0.521
2013 Willard AK, Norenzayan A. Cognitive biases explain religious belief, paranormal belief, and belief in life's purpose. Cognition. 129: 379-91. PMID 23974049 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2013.07.016  0.687
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  0.762
2013 Norenzayan A. Cultural variation in reasoning Biological and Cultural Bases of Human Inference. 71-95. DOI: 10.4324/9780203774908  0.302
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  0.717
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  0.72
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  0.717
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  0.729
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  0.717
2012 Buchtel EE, Norenzayan A. Thinking across cultures: Implications for dual processes In Two Minds: Dual Processes and Beyond. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199230167.003.0010  0.302
2012 Norenzayan A. The God issue: Religion is the key to civilisation New Scientist. 213: 42-44. DOI: 10.1016/S0262-4079(12)60705-2  0.312
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  0.711
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  0.811
2011 Norenzayan A. Behavior. Explaining human behavioral diversity. Science (New York, N.Y.). 332: 1041-2. PMID 21617064 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1207050  0.431
2011 Schaller M, Norenzayan A, Heine SJ, Yamagishi T, Kameda T. Evolution, culture, and the human mind Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind. 1-289. DOI: 10.4324/9780203848746  0.696
2011 Shariff AF, Norenzayan A. Mean gods make good people: Different views of god predict cheating behavior International Journal For the Psychology of Religion. 21: 85-96. DOI: 10.1080/10508619.2011.556990  0.706
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  0.822
2011 Nisbett RE, Peng K, Choi I, Norenzayan A, Zhamkochyan MS, Magun VS. Culture and systems of thought: Comparison of holistic and analytic cognition Psikhologicheskii Zhurnal. 32: 55-86.  0.682
2010 Henrich J, Heine SJ, Norenzayan A. Most people are not WEIRD. Nature. 466: 29. PMID 20595995 DOI: 10.1038/466029A  0.721
2010 Henrich J, Heine SJ, Norenzayan A. The weirdest people in the world? The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 33: 61-83; discussion 83. PMID 20550733 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X0999152X  0.73
2010 Norenzayan A, Lee A. It was meant to happen: explaining cultural variations in fate attributions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 98: 702-20. PMID 20438219 DOI: 10.1037/A0019141  0.482
2010 Falk CF, Dunn EW, Norenzayan A. Cultural variation in the importance of expected enjoyment for decision making Social Cognition. 28: 609-629. DOI: 10.1521/Soco.2010.28.5.609  0.407
2010 Henrich J, Heine SJ, Norenzayan A. Beyond WEIRD: Towards a broad-based behavioral science Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 33: 111-135. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X10000725  0.734
2009 Ginges J, Hansen I, Norenzayan A. Religion and support for suicide attacks. Psychological Science. 20: 224-30. PMID 19170938 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9280.2009.02270.X  0.376
2009 Harris Bond M, Brislin RW, Chiu CY, Cohen D, Gelfand M, Hong YY, Leung K, Markman AB, Morris MW, Hung Ng S, Norenzayan A, Oishi S, Schwartz SH, Triandis HC. The present and future state of cultural research and theory: A dialogue Understanding Culture: Theory, Research, and Application. 469-506. DOI: 10.4324/9781441605054  0.54
2009 Norenzayan A, Shariff AF, Gervais WM. The evolution of religious misbelief Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 32: 531-532. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X09991312  0.797
2009 Norenzayan A, Dar-Nimrod I, Hansen IG, Proulx T. Mortality salience and religion: Divergent effects on the defense of cultural worldviews for the religious and the non-religious European Journal of Social Psychology. 39: 101-113. DOI: 10.1002/Ejsp.482  0.439
2008 Norenzayan A, Shariff AF. The origin and evolution of religious prosociality. Science (New York, N.Y.). 322: 58-62. PMID 18832637 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1158757  0.729
2008 Heine SJ, Buchtel EE, Norenzayan A. What do cross-national comparisons of personality traits tell us? The case of conscientiousness. Psychological Science. 19: 309-13. PMID 18399880 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9280.2008.02085.X  0.773
2008 Norenzayan A, Hansen IG, Cady J. An angry volcano? Reminders of death and anthropomorphizing nature Social Cognition. 26: 190-197. DOI: 10.1521/Soco.2008.26.2.190  0.37
2008 Shariff AF, Cohen AB, Norenzayan A. The devil's advocate: Secular arguments diminish both implicit and explicit religious belief Journal of Cognition and Culture. 8: 417-423. DOI: 10.1163/156853708X358245  0.664
2008 Buchtel EE, Norenzayan A. Which should you use, intuition or logic? Cultural differences in injunctive norms about reasoning Asian Journal of Social Psychology. 11: 264-273. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-839X.2008.00266.X  0.776
2007 Shariff AF, Norenzayan A. God is watching you: priming God concepts increases prosocial behavior in an anonymous economic game. Psychological Science. 18: 803-9. PMID 17760777 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9280.2007.01983.X  0.685
2006 Heine SJ, Norenzayan A. Toward a Psychological Science for a Cultural Species. Perspectives On Psychological Science : a Journal of the Association For Psychological Science. 1: 251-69. PMID 26151632 DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-6916.2006.00015.X  0.663
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  0.59
2006 Norenzayan A, Hansen IG. Belief in supernatural agents in the face of death. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 32: 174-87. PMID 16382080 DOI: 10.1177/0146167205280251  0.351
2005 Norenzayan A, Heine SJ. Psychological universals: what are they and how can we know? Psychological Bulletin. 131: 763-84. PMID 16187859 DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.131.5.763  0.673
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  0.456
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  0.439
2002 Norenzayan A, Choi I, Nisbett RE. Cultural similarities and differences in social inference: Evidence from behavioral predictions and lay theories of behavior Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 28: 109-120. DOI: 10.1177/0146167202281010  0.647
2002 Norenzayan A, Smith EE, Kim BJ, Nisbett RE. Cultural preferences for formal versus intuitive reasoning Cognitive Science. 26: 653-684. DOI: 10.1016/S0364-0213(02)00082-4  0.674
2001 Nisbett RE, Peng K, Choi I, Norenzayan A. Culture and systems of thought: holistic versus analytic cognition. Psychological Review. 108: 291-310. PMID 11381831 DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.108.2.291  0.717
2001 Levine RV, Norenzayan A, Philbrick K. Cross-cultural differences in helping strangers Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 32: 543-560. DOI: 10.1177/0022022101032005002  0.446
2000 Norenzayan A, Nisbett RE. Culture and causal cognition Current Directions in Psychological Science. 9: 132-135. DOI: 10.1111/1467-8721.00077  0.673
1999 Levine RV, Norenzayan A. The pace of life in 31 countries Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 30: 178-205. DOI: 10.1177/0022022199030002003  0.331
1999 Choi I, Nisbett RE, Norenzayan A. Causal Attribution Across Cultures: Variation and Universality Psychological Bulletin. 125: 47-63. DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.125.1.47  0.719
1999 Norenzayan A, Schwarz N. Telling what they want to know: Participants tailor causal attributions to researchers' interests European Journal of Social Psychology. 29: 1011-1020. DOI: 10.1002/(Sici)1099-0992(199912)29:8<1011::Aid-Ejsp974>3.0.Co;2-A  0.407
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