| Ethnoscientific expertise and knowledge specialisation in 55 traditional cultures AD Lightner, C Heckelsmiller, EH Hagen Evolutionary Human Sciences 3, e37, 2021 | 31 | 2021 |
| Radical framing effects in the ultimatum game: the impact of explicit culturally transmitted frames on economic decision-making AD Lightner, P Barclay, EH Hagen Royal Society open science 4 (12), 170543, 2017 | 22 | 2017 |
| The cultural evolution of religion and cooperation T Bendixen, AD Lightner, BG Purzycki | 19 | 2023 |
| Ethnomedical specialists and their supernatural theories of disease AD Lightner, C Heckelsmiller, EH Hagen Review of Philosophy and Psychology 14 (2), 611-646, 2023 | 13 | 2023 |
| Gods, games, and the socioecological landscape BG Purzycki, T Bendixen, AD Lightner, R Sosis Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology 3, 100057, 2022 | 13 | 2022 |
| Moralistic supernatural punishment is probably not associated with social complexity AD Lightner, T Bendixen, BG Purzycki Evolution and Human Behavior 44 (6), 555-565, 2023 | 12 | 2023 |
| Coding, causality, and statistical craft: The emergence and evolutionary drivers of moralistic supernatural punishment remain unresolved BG Purzycki, T Bendixen, AD Lightner Religion, Brain & Behavior 13 (2), 207-214, 2023 | 10 | 2023 |
| Game theoretical aspects of the minds of gods AD Lightner, BG Purzycki, T Bendixen The minds of gods: New horizons in the naturalistic study of religion, 133-147, 2023 | 9 | 2023 |
| Acculturation and market integration are associated with greater trust among Tanzanian Maasai pastoralists AD Lightner, EH Hagen Evolutionary Human Sciences 3, e15, 2021 | 9 | 2021 |
| Homo medicus: The transition to meat eating increased pathogen pressure and the use of pharmacological plants in Homo EH Hagen, AD Blackwell, AD Lightner, RJ Sullivan American Journal of Biological Anthropology 180 (4), 589-617, 2023 | 6 | 2023 |
| All models are wrong, and some are religious: Supernatural explanations as abstract and useful falsehoods about complex realities AD Lightner, EH Hagen Human Nature 33 (4), 425-462, 2022 | 5 | 2022 |
| Moralizing gods, local gods, and complexity in Hindu god concepts: Evidence from South India CD Placek, A Lightner The Evolution of Religion and Morality, 97-115, 2023 | 4 | 2023 |
| In need-based sharing, sharing is more important than need AD Lightner, AC Pisor, EH Hagen Evolution and Human Behavior 44 (5), 474-484, 2023 | 3 | 2023 |
| Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures T Bendixen, AD Lightner, C Apicella, Q Atkinson, A Bolyanatz, E Cohen, ... Evolutionary Human Sciences 5, e18, 2023 | 3 | 2023 |
| Homo medicus: The transition to meat eating, increased pathogen pressure, and the constitutive and inducible use of pharmacological plants in Homo E Hagen, A Blackwell, A Lightner, R Sullivan OSF, 2021 | 3 | 2021 |
| Religion: the WEIRDest concept in the world? AD Lightner, ZH Garfield, EH Hagen Religion, Brain & Behavior 12 (3), 290-298, 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
| Middle-earth wasn't built in a day: How do we explain the costs of creating a world? AD Lightner, C Heckelsmiller, EH Hagen Behavioral & Brain Sciences 45, 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cross-cultural datasets systematically underestimate the presence of moralizing gods in small-scale societies A Lightner, T Bendixen, BG Purzycki OSF, 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mapping the terra incognita of economic cognition will require an experimental paradigm that incorporates context AD Lightner, EH Hagen Behavioral and Brain Sciences 41, 2018 | 1 | 2018 |
| Reinterpreting the archaeological evidence: rituals as practical and specialized interventions AD Lightner Religion, Brain & Behavior, 1-4, 2023 | | 2023 |
