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Pascal Boyer - Publications

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Psychology Washington University, Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO 
Area:
Cognitive Psychology
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2020 Boyer P, Liénard P. Ingredients of 'rituals' and their cognitive underpinnings. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 375: 20190439. PMID 32594867 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2019.0439  0.37
2018 Boyer P. Missing links: The psychology and epidemiology of shamanistic beliefs. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 41: e71. PMID 31064451 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X17002023  0.346
2017 Boyer P, Petersen MB. Folk-Economic Beliefs: An Evolutionary Cognitive Model. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1-51. PMID 29022516 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X17001960  0.376
2015 Baumard N, Hyafil A, Boyer P. What changed during the axial age: Cognitive styles or reward systems? Communicative & Integrative Biology. 8: e1046657. PMID 27066164 DOI: 10.1080/19420889.2015.1046657  0.303
2015 Baumard N, Hyafil A, Morris I, Boyer P. Increased affluence explains the emergence of ascetic wisdoms and moralizing religions. Current Biology : Cb. 25: 10-15. PMID 25496963 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2014.10.063  0.325
2015 Boyer P. Religion, Evolution, and Cognition Current Anthropology. DOI: 10.1086/420914  0.306
2013 Baumard N, Boyer P. Explaining moral religions Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 17: 272-280. PMID 23664451 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tics.2013.04.003  0.375
2013 Baumard N, Boyer P. Religious Beliefs as Reflective Elaborations on Intuitions: A Modified Dual-Process Model Current Directions in Psychological Science. 22: 295-300. DOI: 10.1177/0963721413478610  0.384
2013 Boyer P, Petersen MB. Studying institutions in the context of natural selection: Limits or opportunities? Journal of Institutional Economics. 9: 187-198. DOI: 10.1017/S1744137412000203  0.314
2012 Boyer P, Petersen MB. The naturalness of (many) social institutions: evolved cognition as their foundation Journal of Institutional Economics. 8: 1-25. DOI: 10.1017/S1744137411000300  0.377
2011 Boyer P, Bergstrom B. Threat-detection in child development: an evolutionary perspective. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 35: 1034-41. PMID 20832423 DOI: 10.1016/J.Neubiorev.2010.08.010  0.309
2011 Boyer P. Intuitive expectations and the detection of mental disorder: A cognitive background to folk-psychiatries Philosophical Psychology. 24: 95-118. DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2010.529049  0.337
2008 Boyer P. Being human: Religion: bound to believe? Nature. 455: 1038-9. PMID 18948934 DOI: 10.1038/4551038A  0.328
2008 Boyer P. Evolutionary economics of mental time travel? Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 12: 219-24. PMID 18468941 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tics.2008.03.003  0.306
2008 Boyer P, Liénard P. Ritual Behavior in Obsessive and Normal Individuals: Moderating Anxiety and Reorganizing the Flow of Action Current Directions in Psychological Science. 17: 291-294. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8721.2008.00592.X  0.307
2006 Boyer P, Liénard P. Why ritualized behavior? Precaution Systems and action parsing in developmental, pathological and cultural rituals. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 29: 595-613; discussion . PMID 17918647 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X06009332  0.349
2006 Bergstrom B, Moehlmann B, Boyer P. Extending the testimony problem: evaluating the truth, scope, and source of cultural information. Child Development. 77: 531-8. PMID 16686786 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8624.2006.00888.X  0.319
2006 Liénard P, Boyer P. Whence collective rituals? A cultural selection model of ritualized behavior American Anthropologist. 108: 814-827. DOI: 10.1525/Aa.2006.108.4.814  0.328
2006 Boyer P, Liénard P. Precaution systems and ritualized behavior Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 29: 635-641. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X06009575  0.314
2003 Boyer P. Religious thought and behaviour as by-products of brain function. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 7: 119-124. PMID 12639693 DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(03)00031-7  0.349
2003 Boyer P. Science, erudition and relevant connections Journal of Cognition and Culture. 3: 344-358. DOI: 10.1163/156853703771818109  0.302
2001 Boyer P, Ramble C. Cognitive templates for religious concepts: Cross-cultural evidence for recall of counter-intuitive representations. Cognitive Science. 25: 535-564. DOI: 10.1016/S0364-0213(01)00045-3  0.364
2000 Boyer P. Evolutionary psychology and cultural transmission American Behavioral Scientist. 987-1000. DOI: 10.1177/00027640021955711  0.363
2000 Boyer P. Functional origins of religious concepts: Ontological and strategic selection in evolved minds Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 6: 195-214. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.00012  0.372
2000 Boyer P. Natural epistemology or evolved metaphysics? Developmental evidence for early-developed, intuitive, category-specific, incomplete, and stubborn metaphysical presumptions Philosophical Psychology. 13: 1-297. DOI: 10.1080/09515080050128123  0.357
1998 Boyer P. Cognitive tracks of cultural inheritance: How evolved intuitive ontology governs cultural transmission American Anthropologist. 100: 876-889. DOI: 10.1525/Aa.1998.100.4.876  0.374
1998 Boyer P. Creation of the Sacred: A cognitivist view Method and Theory in the Study of Religion. 10: 88-92. DOI: 10.1163/157006898X00367  0.311
1998 Boyer P. Cultural transmission with an evolved intuitive ontology: Domain-specific cognitive tracks of inheritance Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 21: 570-571. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X9823127X  0.336
1996 Boyer P. What makes anthropomorphism natural: Intuitive ontology and cultural representations Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 2: 83-97. DOI: 10.2307/3034634  0.363
1995 Gardner D, Boyer P. The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 1: 418. DOI: 10.2307/3034712  0.321
1992 Boyer P. Causal Thinking and Its Anthropological Misrepresentation Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 22: 187-213. DOI: 10.1177/004839319202200202  0.379
1992 Boyer P. Explaining Religious Ideas: Elements of a Cognitive Approach Numen. 39: 27-57. DOI: 10.1163/156852792X00159  0.365
1991 Lawson ET, Boyer P, Penner H. Dispatches from the Methodological Wars@@@Tradition as Truth and Communication: A Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse@@@Impasse and Resolution: A Critique of the Study of Religion Numen. 38: 261. DOI: 10.2307/3269836  0.31
1991 Boyer P. Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture. E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley American Anthropologist. 93: 984-985. DOI: 10.1525/Aa.1991.93.4.02A00470  0.311
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