Religion, Brain & Behavior, Volume 14, Issue 2 (2024)

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Religion, Brain & Behavior, Volume 14, Issue 2 (2024)

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Editorial

Editorial
Replacing the irreplaceable
Ryan McKay, Michael Price, Robert M. Ross, Joseph Watts, Irene Cristofori, Suzanne Hoogeveen, John Shaver, Richard Sosis & Wesley Wildman
Pages: 111-118
Published online: 19 Jun 2024
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Articles

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The places of agency detection and predictive processing in the ontogenesis of religious belief; and “Who put the ‘H’ in the HADD?”
Andrew Ross Atkinson
Pages: 119-130
Published online: 30 Mar 2023
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Review Article
The Database of Religious History (DRH): ontology, coding strategies and the future of cultural evolutionary analyses
Edward Slingerland, M. Willis Monroe & Michael Muthukrishna
Pages: 131-160
Published online: 28 May 2023
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Gauging oneiromancy—the cognition of dream content and cultural transmission of (supernatural) divination
Andreas Nordin
Pages: 161-182
Published online: 10 Mar 2023
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Target Article

Target Article
Appealing to the minds of gods: religious beliefs and appeals correspond to features of local social ecologies
Theiss Bendixen, Coren Apicella, Quentin Atkinson, Emma Cohen, Joseph Henrich, Rita A. McNamara, Ara Norenzayan, Aiyana K. Willard, Dimitris Xygalatas & Benjamin Grant Purzycki
Pages: 183-205
Published online: 04 May 2023
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Commentaries

Article Commentary
Mapping the minds of participants: relationality and cultural schemas
John Balch
Pages: 205-207
Published online: 04 May 2023
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Galton's problem and the limits of functionalism
William Buckner
Pages: 207-209
Published online: 28 Apr 2023
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Local concerns aren’t always local: a broader view of local social ecologies provides greater explanatory power
Yasha Hartberg
Pages: 209-211
Published online: 28 Apr 2023
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A need to better understand the evolutionary process of beliefs about gods’ concerns
Ze Hong
Pages: 211-213
Published online: 28 Apr 2023
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Appeasing the (minds of) gods
Eva Kundtová Klocová
Pages: 214-216
Published online: 28 Apr 2023
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The economic – and anthropological? – view of supernatural institutions
Peter T. Leeson
Pages: 216-218
Published online: 28 Apr 2023
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First steps on a path to scientific maturity
Michael Vlerick
Pages: 218-220
Published online: 28 Apr 2023
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Response

Reply
Cultural evolution of gods’ minds: response to commentators
Theiss Bendixen & Benjamin Grant Purzycki
Pages: 220-229
Published online: 28 Apr 2023
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