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Joseph Watts

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University of Canterbury

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Joseph Watts is a Lecturer at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research interests encompass the intersection of religion, culture, and behavioral sciences, as reflected in his recent articles addressing topics such as the coevolution of religious and political authority and cross-cultural data collection. He is also actively engaged in exploring societal perspectives on supernatural explanations and the influence of WEIRD societies on religious practices.

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Cross-cultural Patterns in Theory of Mind: Using text analytics to identify structure and variation in mental state attributions in the Pacific

Open Date: 2020-01-01

Close Date: 2023-01-01

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Eleanor A Power

External Faculty

Santa Fe Institute

UNITED STATES

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Joseph Bulbulia

Professor

Victoria University of Wellington

NEW ZEALAND

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Wesley J. Wildman

Professor

Boston University

UNITED STATES

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Richard Sosis

University of Connecticut

UNITED STATES

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Andrew M Prentice

Head/ Professor of International Nutrition @ LSHTM

MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM

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Ryan McKay

Professor of Psychology

Royal Holloway, University of London

UNITED KINGDOM

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Sam Passmore

The Australian National University

AUSTRALIA

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Quentin D. Atkinson

Professor

University of Auckland

NEW ZEALAND

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Laure Spake

Assistant Professor

Binghamton University

UNITED STATES

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Carlos A. Botero

Associate Professor

University of Texas System

UNITED STATES

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Kurt Gray

Weary Foundation Endowed Chair in Social Psychology

Ohio State University

UNITED STATES

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Brock Bastian

University of Melbourne

AUSTRALIA

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Robert Ross

Macquarie University

AUSTRALIA

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John Shaver

Associate Professor

University of Otago

NEW ZEALAND

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Making sense of the cognitive and evolutionary science of religion as an intensively multidisciplinary field

Uncoordinated, contradictory, yet cumulatively effective: how four critiques of the humanities study of religion inflict collateral damage on the scientific study of religion

Religion’s Hilbert problems, ten years later: progress, pitfalls, and new horizons

Replacing the irreplaceable

Religion, Brain & Behavior adopts stricter transparency standards

A practical guide to cross-cultural and multi-sited data collection in the biological and behavioural sciences

Religious women receive more allomaternal support from non-partner kin in two low-fertility countries

Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena

Food storage facilitates professional religious specialization in hunter–gatherer societies

Valence-dependent mutation in lexical evolution

WEIRD people and the Western Church: who made whom?

WEIRD people and the Western Church: who made whom?

From Text to Thought: How Analyzing Language Can Advance Psychological Science

Coevolution of religious and political authority in Austronesian societies

The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution

Church attendance and alloparenting: an analysis of fertility, social support and child development among English mothers

Text analysis shows conceptual overlap as well as domain-specific differences in Christian and secular worldviews

Collaborators (14)

Eleanor A Power

Joseph Bulbulia

Wesley J. Wildman

Richard Sosis

Andrew M Prentice

Ryan McKay

Sam Passmore

Quentin D. Atkinson

Laure Spake

Carlos A. Botero

Kurt Gray

Brock Bastian

Robert Ross

John Shaver

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