"Modeling Uncertainty around Free-list Cultural Salience Scores" by @rcc-au.bsky.social's @djsmith90.bsky.social and @bgpurzycki.bsky.social OnlineFirst up now at Field Methods journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #AnthroTools #quantethnography

If you're a data scientist interested in a full-time or part-time role working with developmental psychologists on cross-cultural data from parents and children, check out this position with the Developing Belief Network. Application review begins October 15, 2025. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

RCC's Lauritz Holm Petersen successfully defended his dissertation, *The Ebb and Flow of Apocalypse: A Systems Theory Approach to Religious Endtime Narratives*! Tillykke Lauritz!

Congratulations to RCC’s Jesper Sørensen on successfully defending his higher doctoral dissertation today! Skål!

RCC representing at IAHR 2025 in Krakow! @djsmith90.bsky.social @bgpurzycki.bsky.social

Double whammy just out with RCC's @djsmith90.bsky.social Longitudinal projects and causal inference! Religion and trauma: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Climate change concern and mental health: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Book symposium for Jesper Sørensen’s *Why Cultures Persist* posted online at Religion, Brain and Behavior. With commentaries from, among others, RCC’s Anders Klostergaard Petersen and @bgpurzycki.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...

RCC’s @bgpurzycki.bsky.social talking about gods on @artefr.bsky.social’s show Stimmt es, dass…? www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

Philosopher Helen De Cruz has died.

Free online for the next two weeks: @bgpurzycki.bsky.social‘s *Morality and the Gods*. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

New from RCC's @djsmith90.bsky.social et al.!

Job announcement 🚨: paid fieldwork opportunity with Sanguatsiniq research project! Details in thread ⬇️ Please share!

Post-doc opportunities in religious cognition don't come up too often these days, but here's a good one in the Czech Republic with @martinlangcz.bsky.social www.muni.cz/en/about-us/...

AnthroTools 2.0 is live! Nine new functions that propagate, plot, and summarize uncertainty around item and cultural salience values. @djsmith90.bsky.social @bgpurzycki.bsky.social @rcc-au.bsky.social

Another offering from RCC's @djsmith90.bsky.social!

Warm preprint from RCC's @djsmith90.bsky.social and @bgpurzycki.bsky.social! Embracing uncertainty in quantitative ethnography!

No clear co-causal evidence of religion and mental health! Hot off the digital press from RCC's @djsmith90.bsky.social! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Having a monk in the family is associated with lower mortality in older Tibetans: a seven-year prospective cohort study Liqiong Zhou @erhaoworld.bsky.social et al |Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Where do moralizing religions come from? Useless cognitive by-products?Cultural group selection for complex societies? Our Psych Review paper argues: neither. Let’s rethink their cognitive & evolutionary origins🧵 w/ @manvir.bsky.social @nbaumard @jbaptistandre.bsky.social doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

Apply for a fellowship to join us for 2 years at Oxford Brookes Uni! Deadline is 18 March. (<7 years of active full time postdoctoral experience at the time of application)

Postdoc position available in our team! We are testing a computational model explaining the decision-making process during in normative/moral situations while incorporating the formative role of culture in this process. www.muni.cz/en/about-us/... #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky #cogpsyc

Interested in examining culture, cultural models, and what people think, know, and believe? New book from RCC’s @bgpurzycki.bsky.social coming soon as part of Sage’s “Little Green Book” series! collegepublishing.sagepub.com/products/eth...

From the desk of RCC's @bgpurzycki.bsky.social: "Does cultural variance lie more between or within groups? The AnthroTools R package now includes a cultural FST calculator for two or more groups." anthrotools.wordpress.com

Jana Nenadalová and RCC's Armin Geertz engage in a spirited debate about the "neuroscience of religion" out now in the Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Pre-print *Morality and the Gods* from RCC's @bgpurzycki.bsky.social www.academia.edu/126919815/Mo...

In-browser app for coding qualitative data. Something to check out.

RCC’s Berniūnas, Geertz, Schjødt, Sørensen, and @bgpurzycki.bsky.social represent the “Aarhus School” in a batch of commentaries on John Teehan’s RBB target article “Toward an embodied cognitive science of religion: enaction, evolution, emergence” www.tandfonline.com/toc/rrbb20/0/0

📢 The final CCE seminar of 2024 is coming up soon with @djsmith90.bsky.social leading us into the 🎄 festive 🎄season with a presentation on *Religion and mental health: a causal Christmas carol* 🎅 📆 18th Dec 2024 - 12:45 in person start with food, 13:00 online talk start 🔓Open to all

Evolution of twinning! Cog. and evo. of religion folks take note!

ATTN: folks in Portugal!

How to link theory and data in cultural evolution (and beyond)? We propose a computational workflow that starts from generative models of empirical phenomena and logically connects statistical estimates to both theory and real-world explanatory goals. Out now in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Informal survey on the global ubiquity of using monsters to scare naughty children. thetoyzone.com/nightmare-fu...

New blog post I cobbled together for the Bristol Reproducibility Network Ethical Academic Publishing: How to Make Academic Publishing Fairer, More Open and Less Wasteful openresearchbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/09/23/e...

RCC is happy to welcome @djsmith90.bsky.social to Aarhus! We're all looking forward to working with Dan over the next few years and excited to have him here!

We all know that – alongside global warming, Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin and other evils – selection bias is one of the largest threats to humanity* But how bad exactly is selection bias? This is what we aimed to explore in our recent paper: doi.org/10.1080/2153... *Perhaps a slight exaggeration…

AnthroTools for R now has a triad test builder and analysis function. More on the way! anthrotools.wordpress.com #cognitiveanthropology #likertscalesareboring

"The baboon as a statistician: Can non-human primates perform linear regression on a graph?" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Minds of Gods out in PB form Aug-22! Cracking good edited volume if we may say so ourselves!

First RCC meet of the academic year with Dr. Renato Matoso from PUC-RIO presenting on the religious landscape of Brazil

Here's a short blog post I wrote on 'Using Synthetic Datasets to Promote Research Reproducibility and Transparency' for the Bristol Reprpducibility Network openresearchbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/05/10/u... TL;DR: Share your data! (But if you can't, share synthetic data) 😀

RCC alum Theiss Bendixen et al. root out the pressures that led to cephalopod brain size in this pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We (w/ Josh Jackson) are very excited to announce the Special Issue “Historical Psychology” to be published at CRESP. Send your papers our way! Deadline: 9/1/24

Paper with @martinlangcz.bsky.social and RCC's @bgpurzycki.bsky.social on the role of costly signals in conflict is out in EHB! Experiments show that only extreme cooperators opt for highly costly signals, creating ultra-cooperative groups tinyurl.com/costlysigs

RCC representing on podcasts today! Jesper Sørensen DR's LYD about his recent book (in Danish: shorturl.at/pzLP7) and BG Purzycki on @daviddesteno.bsky.social's How God Works (in English: shorturl.at/eOQY0)

After over a decade of labor, twins! @rcc-au.bsky.social 's @bgpurzycki.bsky.social @martinlangcz.bsky.social @aiyanakoka.bsky.social and many, many others on this book version of two special issues from Religion, Brain and Behavior

Open call to apply for field research support (3 years) as part of RCC's BG Purzycki's cross-cultural project on small-scale/indigenous/non-world religions, cooperation, and context. See call for field researchers in link. Deadline 15-Mar. pure.au.dk/portal/en/pr...

Paper w/ R.Chvaja&@bgpurzycki.bsky.social on the role of costly signals in conflict is out. In PGG experimental setup, only extreme cooperators chose to use highly costly signals. But those that did created ultra-cooperative groups that harmed other groups through sacrifice. tinyurl.com/costlysigs

Postdoctoral fellowship (3 years) call to work with RCC's BG Purzycki on a project about religion and cooperation. Quant. skills a must. Deadline 25-Feb. Please distribute widely! international.au.dk/about/profil... Call for field research support coming soon!

Big project with RCC's @bgpurzycki.bsky.social gearing up. More details and calls forthcoming! In the meantime, see: bgpurzycki.wordpress.com/gods-games-a...

RCC's @bgpurzycki.bsky.social and Theiss Bendixen causally and cross-culturally assess the material insecurity hypothesis of religiosity. Out now in Evolutionary Human Sciences.