All Stories

  1. Institutions, natural selection(s), and religion

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Benjamin Grant Purzycki

  2. Extending Evolutionary Accounts of Religion beyond the Mind: Religions as Adaptive Systems

    Article • March 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Benjamin Grant Purzycki

  3. Religions as cultural solutions to social living.

    Article • January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Benjamin Grant Purzycki

  4. The minds of gods: A comparative study of supernatural agency

    Article • Cognition, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin Grant Purzycki

  5. Ritual Behavior and Trust in the Tyva Republic

    Article • Current Anthropology, June 2013, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Benjamin Grant Purzycki

  6. The extended religious phenotype and the adaptive coupling of ritual and belief

    Article • Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, May 2013, Brill

    Dr Benjamin Grant Purzycki

  7. Toward a Cognitive Ecology of Religious Concepts: Evidence from the Tyva Republic

    Article • Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, August 2012, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Benjamin Grant Purzycki

  8. What Does God Know? Supernatural Agents’ Access to Socially Strategic and Non‐Strategic Information

    Article • Cognitive Science, March 2012, Wiley

    Dr Benjamin Grant Purzycki

  9. Tyvancher eeziand the socioecological constraints of supernatural agents' minds

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, February 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Benjamin Grant Purzycki

  10. Our Gods: Variation in Supernatural Minds

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Grant Purzycki

  11. Humor as Violation and Deprecation: A Cognitive Anthropological Account

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

    Dr Benjamin Grant Purzycki

  12. Spirit Masters, Ritual Cairns, and the Adaptive Religious System in Tyva

    Article • Sibirica, January 2010, Berghahn Journals

    Dr Benjamin Grant Purzycki

  13. Cognitive Architecture, Humor and Counterintuitiveness: Retention and Recall of MCIs

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Culture, January 2010, Brill

    Dr Benjamin Grant Purzycki

  14. The Religious System as Adaptive: Cognitive Flexibility, Public Displays, and Acceptance

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin Grant Purzycki