The relationship between religion and morality has long been hotly debated. Does religion
make us more moral? Is it necessary for morality? Do moral inclinations emerge …

Most people believe in a god of some sort. Nonetheless, there are hundreds of millions of
atheists in the world, and they face considerable discrimination and prejudice. This is a …

We develop a cultural evolutionary theory of the origins of prosocial religions and apply it to
resolve two puzzles in human psychology and cultural history:(1) the rise of large-scale …

Drawing on state-of-the-art personality and developmental research, this book presents a
new and broadly integrative theory of how people come to be who they are over the life …

The number of nonreligious people has increased dramatically over the past several
decades, yet scholarship on the nonreligious is severely lacking. In response to this critical …

The current research tested the hypothesis that the abilities for understanding other people's
minds give rise to the cognitive biases that underlie supernatural beliefs. We used structural …

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 …

Despite overwhelming scientific consensus, popular opinions regarding evolution are starkly
divided. In the USA, for example, nearly one in three adults espouse a literal and recent …

For centuries, humans have contemplated the minds of gods. Research on religious
cognition is spread across sub‐disciplines, making it difficult to gain a complete …

Religiosity has been linked to low levels of antisocial personality traits. In the present study
(N= 661), we examined the relationship between various aspects of religious beliefs …