McNamara, Rita Anne

The cultural evolution of prosocial religions

Norenzayan, A., Shariff, A. F., Gervais, W. M., Willard, A. K., McNamara, R. A., Slingerland, E., & Henrich, J. (2016) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationEvolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

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Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality

Purzycki, B. G., Apicella, C., Atkinson, Q. D., Cohen, E., McNamara, R. A., Willard, A. K., Xygalatas, D., Norenzayan, A., & Henrich, J. (2016) · Nature

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationExperimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Cited by 494

Do Minds Switch Bodies? Dualist interpretations across ages and societies_postprint

Chudek, M., McNamara, R. A., Birch, S., Bloom, P., & Henrich, J. (2018) · Religion Brain & Behavior

Child and Animal Learning DevelopmentPhilosophy and Theoretical Science

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Do minds switch bodies? Dualist interpretations across ages and societies

Chudek, M., McNamara, R. A., Birch, S., Bloom, P., & Henrich, J. (2018) · Religion, Brain & Behavior

Child and Animal Learning DevelopmentPhilosophy and Theoretical Science

Cited by 133

Impartial Institutions, Pathogen Stress and the Expanding Social Network

Hruschka, D., Efferson, C., Jiang, T., Falletta-Cowden, A., Sigurdsson, S., McNamara, R., Sands, M., Munira, S., Slingerland, E., & Henrich, J. (2014) · Human Nature

Experimental Behavioral Economics StudiesEvolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation

Cited by 123

Supernatural punishment, in-group biases, and material insecurity: experiments and ethnography from Yasawa, Fiji

McNamara, R. A., Norenzayan, A., & Henrich, J. (2016) · Religion, Brain & Behavior

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationExperimental Behavioral Economics Studies

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Parochial prosocial religions: Historical and contemporary evidence for a cultural evolutionary process

Norenzayan, A., Shariff, A. F., Gervais, W. M., Willard, A. K., McNamara, R. A., Slingerland, E., & Henrich, J. (2016) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationEvolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Cited by 58

Kin and kinship psychology both influence cooperative coordination in Yasawa, Fiji

McNamara, R. A., & Henrich, J. (2017) · Evolution and Human Behavior

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationExperimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Cited by 42

God's mind on morality

McNamara, R. A., Senanayake, R., Willard, A. K., & Henrich, J. (2021) · Evolutionary Human Sciences

Psychology of Moral and Emotional JudgmentCultural Differences and Values

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Cultural Evolution of Religion, Spirituality and Ritual: Impacts On Human Cooperation

McNamara, R. A. (2024) · KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationEvolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

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Weathering the Storm: Supernatural Belief and Cooperation in an Insecure World

McNamara, R. A. (2020) · Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationExperimental Behavioral Economics Studies

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