Religious terrorism: an evolutionary explanation
Connor Wood Interest in the scientific study of religion has surged over the past decade. While this development is positive in many ways, it comes largely for an unfortunate reason – global terrorism,...
View ArticleReligion-science reporting: We need to do better
A new research study from the Bay Area has been misreported throughout the Internet, falsely suggesting that the religious are less compassionate than the nonreligious. Here, researcher Connor Wood...
View ArticleMy employer: The Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion
The Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion, also known as IBCSR, is an independent research institution. IBCSR researchers make use of a staggering variety of different research tools and...
View ArticleSpirit possession: everyone’s doing it
Anti-religion writers and cognitive scientists of religion alike tend to consider religion as if it were mostly sets abstract, linguistically representable propositions, like “God exists” or “Jesus...
View ArticleHilbert problems in the study of religion
Journal editors at Religion, Brain & Behavior are calling for experts and researchers across religious studies and the cognitive, behavioral, and evolutionary sciences to offer their suggestions...
View ArticleCool new research in religion
If you ever want to get seriously frustrated, I suggest getting advanced graduate training in religious studies. Why’s it frustrating? Because everyone thinks they understand religion already....
View ArticleSupernatural punishment and the evolution of cooperation
Scientist Dominic Johnson thinks belief in supernatural punishment drove the evolution of cooperation. A new paper and simulation tested this hypothesis.
View ArticleNew Project: Synthesizing Empirical Findings and Theory in the Scientific...
There are a lot of fields of study in the modern university. You could major in biology or German literature. You could study philosophy, chemistry, or neuroscience, or delve into Slavic languages. But...
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