From Australia to the Arctic, human groups engage in synchronous behaviour during
communal rituals. Because ritualistic synchrony is widespread, many argue that it is …

This article reviews research on religion and well-being, focusing primarily on Western,
traditional religions. We provide some nuance, caveats, and future directions for further …

Prior work has established that analytic thinking is associated with disbelief in God, whereas
religious and spiritual beliefs have been positively linked to social and emotional cognition …

Context: Results of meta-analyses show weak associations between religiosity and well-
being, but are based on divergent definitions of religiosity. Objective: The aim of this meta …

Religion shapes the nature of intergroup conflict, but conflict may also shape religion. Here,
we report four multimethod studies that reveal the impact of conflict on religious belief: The …

This research examines the effects of religious belief and religious priming on negative word-
of-mouth (NWOM) behavior. Drawing on social exchange and norm paradigms, the authors …

This study has two goals. The first is to assess whether a benevolent image of God is
associated with better physical health. The second goal is to examine the aspects of …

One of the most profound questions in the scientific study of religion is whether or not
religion evolved because of its ability to stimulate cooperation, in the sense of in-group …

People's large-scale cooperation with genetically unrelated people is widely assumed to lie
beyond the scope of standard evolutionary mechanisms like kin selection and reciprocal …

How might religion influence consumer behavior in the marketplace? The present research
proposes that failure and subsequent firm recovery efforts represent a domain that may be …