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  1. The “Constitutive Relevance of Models” (CRoM) Test: A Tool for Transferring Constructs and Virtues between Psychological and Anthropological Theories of Ritual

    Article • Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, November 2021, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  2. Good Gods Almighty

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, August 2019, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  3. Where the Gods Dwell: a Research Report

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, May 2019, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  4. Some common misunderstandings about cognitive approaches to the study of religion: a reply to Sterelny

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Justin Barrett

  5. Correcting confusions about cognitive science of religion

    Article • Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, May 2017, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  6. Could we advance the science of religion (better) without the concept “religion”?

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Justin Barrett

  7. Barrett, Justin L.

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Justin Barrett

  8. Intellectual humility

    Article • The Journal of Positive Psychology, November 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Justin Barrett

  9. Examining Special Patient Rituals in a Chinese Cultural Context: A Research Report

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, November 2015, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  10. The (modest) utility of MCI theory

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Justin Barrett

  11. How do people think about intellectual humility in contrast to arrogance and wisdom?

    Article • The Journal of Positive Psychology, October 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Peter L. Samuelson, Justin Barrett

  12. Big Gods can get in your head

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Justin Barrett

  13. Cognitive Science Psychology

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Justin Barrett

  14. Cognitive Science of Religion

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Justin Barrett

  15. Special Issue: New Trends in the Cognitive Science of Religion

    Article • International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Justin Barrett

  16. Should CSR Give Atheists Epistemic Assurance? On Beer-Goggles, BFFs, and Skepticism Regarding Religious Beliefs

    Article • The Monist, January 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Justin Barrett

  17. Toward a Cognitive Science of Christianity

    Article • March 2012, Wiley

    Justin Barrett

  18. The God issue: We are all born believers

    Article • The New Scientist, March 2012, Elsevier

    Justin Barrett

  19. Cognitive Science of Religion: Looking Back, Looking Forward

    Article • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, June 2011, Wiley

    Justin Barrett

  20. From theory of mind to divine minds

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, June 2011, Elsevier

    Justin Barrett

  21. Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Person-Body Reasoning: Experimental Evidence From the United Kingdom and Brazilian Amazon

    Article • Cognitive Science, March 2011, Wiley

    Justin Barrett

  22. Chapter 11. Metarepresentation, Homo religiosus, and Homo symbolicus

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Justin Barrett

  23. Cognitive Constraints on the Visual Arts: An Empirical Study of the Role of Perceived Intentions in Appreciation Judgements

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, January 2011, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  24. The relative unnaturalness of atheism: On why Geertz and Markússon are both right and wrong

    Article • Religion, July 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Justin Barrett

  25. Reformed Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of Religion

    Article • Faith and Philosophy, January 2010, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Justin Barrett

  26. Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology

    Article • March 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Justin Barrett

  27. Epistemology and Counterintuitiveness: Role and Relationship in Epidemiology of Cultural Representations

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, January 2009, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  28. Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, January 2009, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  29. The Frog Who Croaked Blue: Synesthesia and the mixing of the senses

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, January 2009, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  30. Counterintuitiveness in Folktales: Finding the Cognitive Optimum

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, January 2009, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  31. The science of religious beliefs

    Article • Religion, June 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Justin Barrett

  32. Conceptualizing Spirit Possession: Ethnographic and Experimental Evidence

    Article • Ethos, June 2008, Wiley

    Justin Barrett

  33. When Minds Migrate: Conceptualizing Spirit Possession

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, January 2008, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  34. Why Santa Claus is Not a God

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, January 2008, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  35. Coding and Quantifying Counterintuitiveness in Religious Concepts: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections

    Article • Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, January 2008, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  36. Is the spell really broken? Bio-psychological explanations of religion and theistic belief

    Article • Theology and Science, March 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Justin Barrett

  37. A Cognitive Typology of Religious Actions

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, January 2007, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  38. Counterfactuality in counterintuitive religious concepts

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, December 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Justin Barrett

  39. Children's attributions of beliefs to humans and God: cross-cultural evidence

    Article • Cognitive Science, January 2004, Wiley

    Justin Barrett

  40. Anthropomorphism or Preparedness? Exploring Children's God Concepts

    Article • Review of Religious Research, March 2003, JSTOR

    Justin Barrett

  41. The Role of Control in Attributing Intentional Agency to Inanimate Objects

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, January 2003, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  42. Epidemiological and Nativist Accounts in the Cognitive Study of Culture: A Commentary on Pyysiäinen's Innate Fear of Bering's Ghosts

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, January 2003, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  43. Smart Gods, Dumb Gods, and the Role of Social Cognition in Structuring Ritual Intuitions

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, January 2002, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  44. How Ordinary Cognition Informs Petitionary Prayer

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, January 2001, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  45. God's Beliefs versus Mother's: The Development of Nonhuman Agent Concepts

    Article • Child Development, January 2001, Wiley

    Justin Barrett

  46. Spreading Non-natural Concepts: The Role of Intuitive Conceptual Structures in Memory and Transmission of Cultural Materials

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, January 2001, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  47. Ritual Intuitions: Cognitive Contributions to Judgments of Ritual Efficacy

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, January 2001, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  48. Exploring the natural foundations of religion

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, January 2000, Elsevier

    Justin Barrett

  49. Theological Correctness: Cognitive Constraint and the Study of Religion

    Article • Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, January 1999, Brill

    Justin Barrett

  50. Cognitive Constraints on Hindu Concepts of the Divine

    Article • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, December 1998, JSTOR

    Justin Barrett

  51. The Psychology of Religion and Coping: Theory Research Practice

    Article • Review of Religious Research, September 1998, JSTOR

    Justin Barrett

  52. Conceptualizing a Nonnatural Entity: Anthropomorphism in God Concepts

    Article • Cognitive Psychology, December 1996, Elsevier

    Justin Barrett

  53. Cult and Ritual Abuse: Its History, Anthropology, and Recent Discovery in Contemporary America

    Article • Review of Religious Research, December 1996, JSTOR

    Justin Barrett

  54. The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion

    Article • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, December 1996, JSTOR

    Justin Barrett

  55. Child's God

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Justin Barrett

  56. Experiments

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Justin Barrett

  57. Do children experience God as adults do?

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Justin Barrett

  58. Validation of the Spiritual Striving Questionnaire in Christian Summer Campers

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Justin Barrett

  59. Attachment Predicts Adolescent Conversions at Young Life Religious Summer Camps

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Justin Barrett

  60. Spiritual transformation and character strength development

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Justin Barrett

  61. Cognition, evolution, and religion.

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Justin Barrett