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2017

DNA is Not Destiny (April 2017) – Steven Heine

2016

Purzycki, B. G., and McNamara, R. A. (2016). An Ecological Theory of Gods’ Minds. In De Cruz, Helen and Nichols, Ryan (eds.). Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy. New York: Continuum, pp. 143-167.

2015

The Secret of Our Success  (October 2015) – Joseph Henrich

Big Gods (2015) – Ara Norenzayan

Cultural Psychology, 3rd Edition (August 2015) – Steve Heine

Purzycki, B. G., Kiper, J., Shaver, J., Finkel, D. N., and Sosis, R. (2015). Religion. In Scott, Robert A., and Kosslyn, Stephen M. (eds.). Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. New York: Wiley, pp. 1-16.

2014

Experimenting with Social Norms (January 2014) – edited by Jean Ensminger & Joseph Henrich

Trying Not to Try (March 2014) – Edward Slingerland

Mental Culture (March 2014) – edited by Dimitris Xygalatas & William McCorkle

Purzycki, B. G., Haque, O., and Sosis, R. (2014). Extending Evolutionary Accounts of Religion beyond the Mind: Religions as Adaptive Systems. In Watts, Fraser, and Turner, Léon (eds.). Evolution, Religion, and Cognitive Science:  Critical and Constructive Essays. Oxford:  Oxford University Press, pp. 74-91.

Shariff, A., Purzycki, B. G., and Sosis, R. (2014). Religions as Cultural Solutions to Social Living. In A.B. Cohen (ed.). Culture Reexamined:  Broadening Our Understanding of Social and Evolutionary Influences. Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association, pp. 217-238.

Henrich, J. and J. Ensminger (2014) Theoretical Foundations—The Coevolution of Social Norms, Intrinsic Motivation, Markets, and the Institutions of Complex Societies. In Experimenting with Social Norms: Fairness and Punishment in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Edited by J. Ensminger and J. Henrich.

Ensminger, J. and J. Henrich (2014) Cross-Cultural Experimental Methods, Sites, and Variables. In Experimenting with Social Norms: Fairness and Punishment in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Edited by J. Ensminger and J. Henrich.

Henrich, J. and J. Ensminger (2014) Empirical Results—Markets, Community Size, Religion and the Nature of Human Sociality, In Experimenting with Social Norms: Fairness and Punishment in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Edited by J. Henrich and J. Ensminger.

Henrich, J. and N. Henrich (2014) Fairness without Punishment: Behavioral Experiments in the Yasawa Islands, Fiji. In Experimenting with Social Norms: Fairness and Punishment in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Edited by J. Ensminger and J. Henrich.

2013

Cultural Evolution (October 2013) – edited by Peter J. Richerson & Morten H. Christiansen

Slingerland, E., Henrich, J., & A. Norenzayan (2013) The evolution of prosocial religions. In Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language and Religion. Edited by P. J. Richerson and M. H. Christiansen. MIT Press.

Norenzayan, A., Henrich, J, & E. Slingerland (2013) Religious Prosociality: A Synthesis. In Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language and Religion. Edited by P. J. Richerson and M. H. Christiansen. MIT Press.

2011

Creating Consilience: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities (December 2011) – edited by Edward Slingerland & Mark Collard

Norenzayan, A., & Gervais, W. (2011). The cultural evolution of religion. In E. Slingerland & M.Collard (Eds.) Creating Consilience: Integrating science and the humanities. (pp. 243-265). Oxford: Oxford University Press.[PDF]

2008

What Science Offers the Humanities (February 2008) – Edward Slingerland

2007

Why Humans Cooperate (June 2007) – Natalie Henrich & Joseph Henrich