Dr Justin Barrett
Books
2009 |
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Cognitive Science, Religion and Theology. (forthcoming), 2009, Templeton Press.
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2004 |
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Why would anyone believe in God?, 2004, AltaMira Press.
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Edited books
2010 |
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Psychology of Religion, 2010, Routledge.
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2009 |
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Cognitive Science, Religion and Theology. In J.Schloss & M. Murrary (eds) The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives on the Evolution of Religion pp. 76-99 Oxford University Press., 2009.
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Religion and Personality. (in press). In R. Robins, O.John, & L.Pervin (eds) Handbook of Personality (3rd Ed) New York: The Guildford Press, 2009.
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The psychology of religion (in press) In D. Matsumoto (ed).Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology. New York: Cambridge Press, 2009.
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2007 |
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Keeping Science in Cognitive Science of Religion: Needs of the Field. In J. Bulbulia, R. Sosis, R. Genet, E. Harris, K. Wyman, C. Genet (eds) The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques., 2007, Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.
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On Psychology and Evolution of Religion: Five Types of Contribution Needed From Psychologists. In Bulbulia, J.R. Sosis, R. Genet, E. Harris, K. Wyman, C. Genet (eds) the Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques. Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press, 2007.
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Theological Implications of cognitive Science of Religion. In J. Bulbulia, R. Sosis, R. Genet, E. Harris, K. Wyman, C. Genet (eds) The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques., 2007, Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.
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Gods. In H. Whitehouse & J. Laidlaw (eds), Religion, Anthropology, and Cognitive Science, pp. 179-207. Carolina Academic Press, 2007, University of North Carolina Press.
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2006 |
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The child's god and cognitive development. The Encyclopaedia of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence., 2006, Sage Publishing.: Thousand Oaks, CA.
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2005 |
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In the Empirical Mode: Evidence needed for the Modes of Religiosity Theory. In H. Whitehouse & R.N. McCauley (eds)Mind and Religion, 2005, AltaMira Press.
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2004 |
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The Naturalness of Religious Concepts: An Emerging Cognitive Science of Religion. In P. Antes, A. Geertz and R.R. Warne (eds), New Approaches to the Study of Religion. Volume 2: Textual, Comparative, Sociological, and Cognitive Approaches., 2004, Walter de Gruyter: Berlin.
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Bringing Data to Mind: Empirical claims of Lawson and McCauley's theory of religious ritual. In B.C. Wilson & T. Light (eds) Religion As a Human Capacity: A Festschrift in Honor of E. Thomas Lawson., 2004, Brill: Leiden.
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2002 |
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Dumb gods, petitionary prayer, and the cognitive science of religion in I. Pyysiainen and V. Anttonen (eds) Current Approaches in theCognitive Study of Religion, 2002, Continuum: London.
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2001 |
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Do children experience God like adults? Retracing the development of god concepts., 2001, Cambridge: Cambridge.
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Articles
2010 |
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‘Mostly Right: A quantitative analysis of the Planet Narnia thesis. VII: An Anglo-American Literary Review, 27, on-line supplement.’
, 2010.
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‘Empirical Progress in the Cognitive Science of Religion’, The Psychologist
, 2010, In Press.
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‘Looking Past vs. Overlooking Cognitive Evolutionary Accounts of Religion: A Response to N Barrett’, Journal of the American Academy of Religion.
, 2010, In Press.
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2009 |
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‘(in press) Reformed epistemology and the cognitive science of religion.’, Faith & Philosophy
, 2009.
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‘Coding and Quantifying Counterintuitiveness in Religious Concepts: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections.’, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion
20
, 2009, pp. 308-338.
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‘Different Styles Reach Different Kids: An empirical enquiry into Young Life Camping Outreach Programmes in the USA and Europe.’, Journal of Youth and Theology
, 2009.
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‘The effects of image use in worship on Gods concepts.’, Journal of Psychology and Christianity
15
(1), 2009, pp. 38-45.
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‘Epistemology and Counterintuitiveness: Role and Relationship in Epidemiology of Cultural Representations’, Journal of Cognition & Culture
, 2009.
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‘Why Santa Claus Is Not a God’, Journal of Cognition and Culture
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(1-2), 2009, pp. 149-161.
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2008 |
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‘Why Santa claus Is Not a God’, Journal of Cognition and Culture
8
(1-2), 2008, pp. 149-161.
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‘The Science of Religious Beliefs’, Religion
38 pp
, 2008, pp. 109-124.
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‘Conceptualizing spirit possession: Ethnographic and experimental evidence’, Ethos
36
(2), 2008, pp. 245-266.
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‘When minds migrate: Conceptualizing spirit possession’, Journal of Cognition and Culture
8
, 2008, pp. 23-48.
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2007 |
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‘Cognitive Science of Religion: What is it and why is it?’, Religious Compass
1
(6), 2007, pp. 768-786.
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‘Is the Spell Really Broken? Biopsychological Explanations of Religion and Theistic Belief.’, Theology and Science
5
(1), 2007, pp. 57-72.
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‘A cognitive typology of religious actions’, Journal of Cognition and Culture
7(3-4)
, 2007, pp. 201-211.
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2005 |
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‘Do you see what I see? Young children's assumptions about God's perceptual abilities’, International Journal for the Psychology of Religion
15
, 2005, pp. 283-295.
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2004 |
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‘Counterfactuality in counterintuitive religious concepts.’, Brain & Behavioral Sciences
27
(6), 2004, pp. 731-732.
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‘Children's attributions of beliefs to humans and God: Cross-cultural evidence’, Cognitive Science
28
, 2004, pp. 117-126.
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2003 |
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‘Reseach Note: The role of control in attributing intentional agency to inanimate objects.’, Journal of Cognition & Culture
3
(3), 2003, pp. 208-217.
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‘When seeing does not lead to believing: Children's understanding of the importance of background knowledge for interpreting visual displays.’, Journal of Cognition & Culture
3
(1), 2003, pp. 91-108.
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‘Does Myth Inform Ritual? A Test of the Lawson-McCauley Hypothesis’, Journal of Ritual Studies
17
(2), 2003, pp. 01.01.14.
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‘Anthropomorphism or Preparedness? Exploring Children's God Concepts’, Review of Religious Research
44
, 2003, pp. 300-312.
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2002 |
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‘Smart Gods, Dumb Gods, and the role of social cognition in structuring ritual intuitions’, Journal of Cognition and Culture
2
(4), 2002, pp. 183-194.
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2001 |
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‘How ordinary cognition informs petitionary prayer.’, Journal of Cognition & Culture
1
(3), 2001, pp. 259-69.
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‘Ritual Intuitions: Cognitive contributions to judgments of ritual efficacy.’, Journal of Cognition & Culture
1
(2), 2001, pp. 183-201.
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‘Spreading non-natural concepts: The role of intuitive conceptual structures in memory and transmission of cultural materials’, Journal of Cognition and Culture
1
(1), 2001, pp. 69-100.
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‘God's beliefs versus Mom's: The development of natural and non-natural agent concepts’, Child Development
72
(1), 2001, pp. 50-65.
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2000 |
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‘Exploring the natural foundations of religion.’, Trendws in cognitive Sciences
(4), 2000, pp. 29-34.
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1999 |
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‘Theological Correctness: Cognitive constraint and the study of religion.’, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion
(11), 1999, pp. 325-339.
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1998 |
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‘Cognitive constraints on Hindu concepts of the divine.’, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
(37), 1998, pp. 608-619.
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1996 |
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‘Anthropomorphism and God concepts: Conceptualizing a non-natural entity.’, Cognitive Psychology
(31), 1996, pp. 219-247.
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‘The Effects of Image-Use in Worship on God Concepts’, Journal of Psychology and Christianity
15
(1), 1996, pp. 38-45.
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1993 |
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‘The Na, K-ATPose hypothesis for bipolar disorder: Implications of normal development.’, Journal of child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology
3
(1), 1993, pp. 37-52.
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Conferences
2009 |
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‘The Naturalness of Childhood Theism’
Lecture for the Faraday Institute Conference 15: Religion and the Neurosciences, Westminster College, Cambridge, July 2009. |
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‘From Homo erectus to Homo religious: Cognitive evolution and religion. Invited lecture in the 'Darwin Reconsidered' series of the Oxford Centre for Christianity ad Culture’
Regent's Park College, Oxford, February 2009. |
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‘On Experiences Impacting Cogntion. Prepared reply to John Dunne for the "New Approaches in the Scientifice Study of Religious Experience" experimental video conference sponsored by the American Academy of Religion’
, May 2009. |
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‘The Evolution of Religious Brains’
Lecture for the Faraday Institute Course 15: Religion and the Neurosciences, Westminster College, Cambridge, July 2009. |
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‘The Naturalness of the Supernatural: The Cognitive Science of Religion.’
The Pascal Society annual lecture, Westmont College, Santa Barbara CA, April 2009. |
