| Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality BG Purzycki, C Apicella, QD Atkinson, E Cohen, RA McNamara, ... Nature 530 (7590), 327-330, 2016 | 302 | 2016 |
| Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel IM Scott, AP Clark, SC Josephson, AH Boyette, IC Cuthill, RL Fried, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (40), 14388-14393, 2014 | 164 | 2014 |
| What does God know? Supernatural agents’ access to socially strategic and non‐strategic information BG Purzycki, DN Finkel, J Shaver, N Wales, AB Cohen, R Sosis Cognitive Science 36 (5), 846-869, 2012 | 91 | 2012 |
| The religious system as adaptive: Cognitive flexibility, public displays, and acceptance BG Purzycki, R Sosis The biological evolution of religious mind and behavior, 243-256, 2009 | 82 | 2009 |
| MCI theory: A critical discussion BG Purzycki, AK Willard Religion, Brain & Behavior 6 (3), 207-248, 2016 | 81 | 2016 |
| Cooperation in context: Public goods games and post-Soviet collectives in Kamchatka, Russia D Gerkey, A Barr, N Baumard, JCC Campo, C Heintz, BG Purzycki, ... Current Anthropology 54 (2), 000-000, 2013 | 72 | 2013 |
| The minds of gods: A comparative study of supernatural agency BG Purzycki Cognition 129 (1), 163-179, 2013 | 71 | 2013 |
| Ritual behavior and trust in the Tyva Republic BG Purzycki, T Arakchaa Current Anthropology 54 (3), 381-388, 2013 | 55 | 2013 |
| The evolution of religion and morality: a synthesis of ethnographic and experimental evidence from eight societies BG Purzycki, J Henrich, C Apicella, QD Atkinson, A Baimel, E Cohen, ... Religion, Brain & Behavior 8 (2), 101-132, 2018 | 54 | 2018 |
| The extended religious phenotype and the adaptive coupling of ritual and belief BG Purzycki, R Sosis Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 59 (2), 99-108, 2013 | 42 | 2013 |
| Our gods: Variation in supernatural minds BG Purzycki, R Sosis Essential building blocks of human nature, 77-93, 2011 | 42 | 2011 |
| Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies M Lang, BG Purzycki, CL Apicella, QD Atkinson, A Bolyanatz, E Cohen, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286 (1898), 20190202, 2019 | 36 | 2019 |
| The cognitive and cultural foundations of moral behavior BG Purzycki, AC Pisor, C Apicella, Q Atkinson, E Cohen, J Henrich, ... Evolution and Human Behavior 39 (5), 490-501, 2018 | 33 | 2018 |
| Extending evolutionary accounts of religion beyond the mind: Religions as adaptive systems BG Purzycki, O Haque, R Sosis Evolution, religion, and cognitive science: Critical and constructive essays …, 2014 | 33 | 2014 |
| Tyvan cher eezi and the socioecological constraints of supernatural agents' minds BG Purzycki Religion, Brain & Behavior 1 (1), 31-45, 2011 | 33 | 2011 |
| The evolution of gods’ minds in the Tyva Republic BG Purzycki Current Anthropology 57 (S13), S88-S104, 2016 | 32 | 2016 |
| Religious concepts as necessary components of the adaptive religious system BG Purzycki, R Sosis The nature of god: Evolution and religion, 37-59, 2010 | 30 | 2010 |
| War increases religiosity J Henrich, M Bauer, A Cassar, J Chytilová, BG Purzycki Nature human behaviour 3 (2), 129-135, 2019 | 29 | 2019 |
| Spirit masters, ritual cairns, and the adaptive religious system in Tyva BG Purzycki Sibirica 9 (2), 21-47, 2010 | 27 | 2010 |
| Cognitive architecture, humor and counterintuitiveness: Retention and recall of MCIs BG Purzycki Journal of Cognition and Culture 10 (1-2), 189-204, 2010 | 26 | 2010 |
Aiyana K. WillardLecturer, Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University LondonVerified email at brunel.ac.uk
