Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel
- Isabel M. L. Scott, Andrew P Clark, I. Penton-Voak
- PsychologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 22 September 2014
Data on cross-cultural perceptions of facial masculinity and femininity are presented and it is found that in less developed environments, typical “Western” perceptions are attenuated or even reversed, suggesting that Western perceptions may be relatively novel.
Effects of Anxiety on Spontaneous Ritualized Behavior
- M. Lang, J. Krátký, J. Shaver, Danijela Jerotijević, D. Xygalatas
- PsychologyCurrent Biology
- 20 July 2015
Sync to link: Endorphin-mediated synchrony effects on cooperation
- M. Lang, V. Bahna, J. Shaver, P. Reddish, Dimitris Xygalatas
- Psychology, BiologyBiological Psychology
- 1 July 2017
What Does God Know? Supernatural Agents' Access to Socially Strategic and Non-Strategic Information
- B. Purzycki, Daniel N. Finkel, J. Shaver, N. Wales, A. Cohen, R. Sosis
- PsychologyCognitive Sciences
- 1 July 2012
Responses to questions about the knowledge attributed to four different agents--God, Santa Claus, a fictional surveillance government, and omniscient but non-interfering aliens--that vary in their omniscience, moral concern, ability to punish, and how supernatural they are are measured.
News exposure predicts anti-Muslim prejudice
- J. Shaver, C. Sibley, D. Osborne, J. Bulbulia
- PsychologyPLoS ONE
- 31 March 2017
Results show that greater news exposure is associated with both increased anger and reduced warmth toward Muslims, supporting claims that it is widespread representations of Muslims in the news, rather than partisan media biases, that drives anti-Muslim prejudice.
Religion and the Unmaking of Prejudice toward Muslims: Evidence from a Large National Sample
- J. Shaver, G. Troughton, C. Sibley, J. Bulbulia
- PsychologyPLoS ONE
- 9 March 2016
Investigation of anti-Muslim prejudice using a large national sample of non-Muslim New Zealanders and testing predictions derived from the Evolutionary Lag Theory of religious prejudice and tolerance clarify religion’s power to enhance tolerance in peaceful societies that are nevertheless afflicted by prejudice.
The evolution of stratification in Fijian ritual participation
- J. Shaver
- Sociology
- 3 April 2015
Social scientists have long sought to explain the complex relationships between religion and social inequality. Building from a recent theoretical model, I predict that social hierarchies influence…
Neural correlates of mystical experience
- Irene Cristofori, J. Bulbulia, J. Shaver, Marc S. Wilson, F. Krueger, J. Grafman
- Psychology, BiologyNeuropsychologia
- 8 January 2016
Christian religious badges instill trust in Christian and non-Christian perceivers.
- M. McCullough, Paul Swartwout, J. Shaver, Evan C. Carter, R. Sosis
- Psychology
- 1 May 2016
We conducted 4 experiments to examine how people incorporate visual information about strangers’ religious identities—religious badges—into their decisions about how much to trust them. Experiment 1…
Church attendance and alloparenting: an analysis of fertility, social support and child development among English mothers
- J. Shaver, E. Power, J. Bulbulia
- PsychologyPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society…
- 29 June 2020
Mixed support is provided for the premise that ritual, such as church attendance, is part of a strategy that returns high levels of support, fertility and improved child outcomes and some suggestive evidence that support to mothers and aid from co-religionists is positively associated with a child's cognitive ability at later stages of development is found.
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