The cultural evolution of prosocial religions A Norenzayan, AF Shariff, WM Gervais, AK Willard, RA McNamara, ... Behavioral and brain sciences 39, e1, 2016 | 1130 | 2016 |
Analytic thinking promotes religious disbelief WM Gervais, A Norenzayan Science 336 (6080), 493-496, 2012 | 747 | 2012 |
Do you believe in atheists? Distrust is central to anti-atheist prejudice. WM Gervais, AF Shariff, A Norenzayan Journal of personality and social psychology 101 (6), 1189, 2011 | 623 | 2011 |
Correcting for bias in psychology: A comparison of meta-analytic methods EC Carter, FD Schönbrodt, WM Gervais, J Hilgard Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 2 (2), 115-144, 2019 | 524 | 2019 |
Like a camera in the sky? Thinking about God increases public self-awareness and socially desirable responding WM Gervais, A Norenzayan Journal of experimental social psychology 48 (1), 298-302, 2012 | 367 | 2012 |
Mentalizing Deficits Constrain Belief in a Personal God A Norenzayan, WM Gervais, KH Trzesniewski PloS one 7 (5), e36880, 2012 | 358 | 2012 |
The origins of religious disbelief A Norenzayan, WM Gervais Trends in cognitive sciences 17 (1), 20-25, 2013 | 338 | 2013 |
Mere visual perception of other people’s disease symptoms facilitates a more aggressive immune response M Schaller, GE Miller, WM Gervais, S Yager, E Chen Psychological Science 21 (5), 649-652, 2010 | 318 | 2010 |
THE CULTURAL TRANSMISSION OF FAITH Why innate intuitions are necessary, but insufficient, to explain religious belief WM Gervais, AK Willard, A Norenzayan, J Henrich Religion 41 (3), 389-410, 2011 | 286 | 2011 |
The Zeus problem: Why representational content biases cannot explain faith in gods WM Gervais, J Henrich Journal of Cognition and Culture 10 (3-4), 383-389, 2010 | 197 | 2010 |
Finding the faithless: Perceived atheist prevalence reduces anti-atheist prejudice WM Gervais Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 37 (4), 543-556, 2011 | 186 | 2011 |
Everything is permitted? People intuitively judge immorality as representative of atheists WM Gervais PloS one 9 (4), e92302, 2014 | 184 | 2014 |
Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists WM Gervais, D Xygalatas, RT McKay, M Van Elk, EE Buchtel, M Aveyard, ... Nature Human Behaviour 1 (8), 0151, 2017 | 173 | 2017 |
A multisite preregistered paradigmatic test of the ego-depletion effect KD Vohs, BJ Schmeichel, S Lohmann, QF Gronau, AJ Finley, ... Psychological Science 32 (10), 1566-1581, 2021 | 171 | 2021 |
Perceiving minds and gods: How mind perception enables, constrains, and is triggered by belief in gods WM Gervais Perspectives on Psychological Science 8 (4), 380-394, 2013 | 151 | 2013 |
In godlessness we distrust: Using social psychology to solve the puzzle of anti‐atheist prejudice WM Gervais Social and Personality Psychology Compass 7 (6), 366-377, 2013 | 148 | 2013 |
How many atheists are there? WM Gervais, MB Najle Social Psychological and Personality Science 9 (1), 3-10, 2018 | 139 | 2018 |
Override the controversy: Analytic thinking predicts endorsement of evolution WM Gervais Cognition 142, 312-321, 2015 | 125 | 2015 |
Reminders of secular authority reduce believers’ distrust of atheists WM Gervais, A Norenzayan Psychological science 23 (5), 483-491, 2012 | 106 | 2012 |
Analytic atheism: A cross-culturally weak and fickle phenomenon? WM Gervais, M van Elk, D Xygalatas, RT McKay, M Aveyard, EE Buchtel, ... Judgment and Decision making 13 (3), 268-274, 2018 | 105 | 2018 |