R Sosis
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4284 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | R Sosis |
| NOMBRES | R |
| APELLIDO | Sosis |
| FIRMA | SOSIS R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6838-881X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 211 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Religious systems evolving
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The answer this question is an emphatic "yes."Additional informationFundingPurzycki acknowledges support from the Aarhus University Research Foundation and a Culture in Schooling Grant [Issachar Fund grant number TIF0206]. Sosis thanks the James Barnett Endowment
Religion’s Hilbert problems, ten years later
Religious women receive more allomaternal support from non-partner kin in two low-fertility countries
Cost structures and socioecological conditions impact the fitness outcomes of human alloparental care in agent-based model simulations
Religious Involvement Is Associated With Higher Fertility and Lower Maternal Investment, but More Alloparental Support Among Gambian Mothers
OBJECTIVES: Human childrearing is cooperative, with women often able to achieve relatively high fertility through help from many individuals. Previous work has documented tremendous socioecological variation in who supports women in childrearing, but less is known about the intracultural correlates of variation in allomaternal support. In the highly religious, high-fertility setting of The Gambia, we studied whether religious mothers have more ch…
Replacing the irreplaceable
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Religion, Brain & Behavior adopts stricter transparency standards
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Rituals, Propaganda, and Social Regulation
Recent scholarship on mass mobilization and totalism has approached propaganda as a solution to political cooperation, whereby inflammatory speeches, mis-or dis-information, and rumors function not to persuade audiences but rather to coordinate coalitions. Propaganda, it has been argued, aligns the attention of individuals already disposed to conflict. However, propaganda does not operate in a vacuum. Here we argue that movements and regimes that…
Introducing a special issue on phase two of the Evolution of Religion and Morality project
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A changing of the guard
Disentangling the relationships between religion and fertility
In this issue of Religion, Brain & Behavior, scholars from multiple disciplines offer comments on Jenkins ' Fertility and Faith (Jenkins, 2020).The debate, and Jenkins' response to the commentaries, contribute to moving scholarship forward in an often-neglected area in the scientific study of religion.The book tackles an extensive literature, synthesizing work on several topics: drivers of secularization, drivers of fertility decline, the relatio…
Post-Pandemic Religion
Some countries are emerging from COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and restrictions. Others are moving more slowly, either because vaccines are difficult to find, or there are high levels of vaccine hesi
Causal inference in regression
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Celebrating the uninvited
Most researchers know the frustration of having accepted too many invitations to contribute. Perhaps you just finished an essay for an anthology that you promised a colleague, or a proceeding from
Announcing a new type of manuscript submission
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Farewell, old syllabus
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Religion and the Covid-19 pandemic
What does a virus have to do with religion? Well, more than you might think, and we are not referring to the transmission of religious ideas, which some have described using epidemiological models
Reflections on the scientific study of religion after the first decade of Religion, Brain & Behavior
A decade ago, Religion, Brain & Behavior (RBB) was still a dream in the minds of its founding editors, neuroscientist Patrick McNamara, anthropologist Richard Sosis, and philosopher of religion Wes
Four advantages of a systemic approach to the study of religion
There has been increasing interest in the evolutionary study of religion, but perfunctory fractionalization has limited our ability to explain how and why religion evolved, evaluate religion’s current adaptive value, and assess its role in contemporary decision-making. To move beyond piecemeal analyses of religion, I have recently offered an integrative evolutionary framework that approaches religions as adaptive systems. I argue that religions a…
Content, cost, and context
Humans frequently perform extravagant and seemingly costly behaviors, such as widely sharing hunted resources, erecting conspicuous monumental structures, and performing dramatic acts of religious devotion. Evolutionary anthropologists and archeologists have used signaling theory to explain the function of such displays, drawing inspiration from behavioral ecology, economics, and the social sciences. While signaling theory is broadly aimed at exp…
Is the Open Access movement about to get real
If you are too young to remember the old days of browsing library shelves for journals hoping that what you are planning as a researcher has not already been done, ask an older research colleague
Vikings, virtual reality, and supernatural agents in predictive minds
In praise of descriptive research
The fish that got away? Human behavioral ecology and the study of religion
Cooperation and Commune Longevity
The costly signaling theory of religion posits that religious rituals and taboos can promote intragroup cooperation, which is argued to be the primary adaptive benefit of religion. To test this theory, the authors collected historical data on the constraints and ritual requirements that eighty-three 19th-century U.S. communes imposed on their members. All communes must solve the collective action problem of cooperative labor to survive; thus, the…
Why aren't we all hutterites
Ritual, emotion, and sacred symbols
Religion and Intragroup Cooperation
Several authors have argued that religious beliefs are a way of communicating commitment and loyalty to other group members. The advantage of commitment signals is that they can promote intragroup cooperation by overcoming the free-rider problems that plague most cooperative pursuits. In this article, the author tests this idea using a database on 19th century utopian communes. The economic success and survival of utopian communes is dependent up…
Bargaining theory and cooperative fishing participation on ifaluk atoll
Examining the Relationship between Life Expectancy, Reproduction, and Educational Attainment
How Does Male Ritual Behavior Vary Across the Lifespan
Shaking the tyrant’s bloody robe
Group violence, despite much study, remains enigmatic. Its forms are numerous, its proximate causes myriad, and the interrelation of its forms and proximate causes poorly understood. We review its evolution, including preadaptations and selected propensities, and its putative environmental and psychological triggers. We then reconsider one of its forms, ethnoreligious violence, in light of recent discoveries in the behavioral and brain sciences. …
Sharing, consumption, and patch choice on Ifaluk atoll
Bargaining theory and cooperative fishing participation on ifaluk atoll
Religion and Intragroup Cooperation
Several authors have argued that religious beliefs are a way of communicating commitment and loyalty to other group members. The advantage of commitment signals is that they can promote intragroup cooperation by overcoming the free-rider problems that plague most cooperative pursuits. In this article, the author tests this idea using a database on 19th century utopian communes. The economic success and survival of utopian communes is dependent up…
Sharing, consumption, and patch choice on Ifaluk atoll
Signaling, solidarity, and the sacred
Anthropologists have repeatedly noted that there has been little theoretical progress in the anthropology of religion over the past fifty years. 1–7 By the 1960s, Geertz 2 had pronounced the field dead. Recently, however, evolutionary researchers have turned their attention toward understanding the selective pressures that have shaped the human capacity for religious thoughts and behaviors, and appear to be resurrecting this long‐dormant but impo…
Cooperation and Commune Longevity
The costly signaling theory of religion posits that religious rituals and taboos can promote intragroup cooperation, which is argued to be the primary adaptive benefit of religion. To test this theory, the authors collected historical data on the constraints and ritual requirements that eighty-three 19th-century U.S. communes imposed on their members. All communes must solve the collective action problem of cooperative labor to survive; thus, the…
Why aren't we all hutterites
Ritual, emotion, and sacred symbols
Scars for war
Examining the Relationship between Life Expectancy, Reproduction, and Educational Attainment
Reductionism in the scientific study of religion
Reductionism is a complicated idea with several meanings and usages. It also carries a variety of implications, often more hinted at than clearly stated. When academic discourse crosses disciplines
The scientific study of religion and the humanities
The tremendous growth in the scientific study of religion during the last two decades has meant that scientists have finally begun to engage seriously with works on religion produced by humanities
Announcing a new journal
Religions have been venues for philosophical, theological, moral, and literary reflection for millennia. On occasion in the Medieval West, and decisively since the Renaissance, the cultural idea of
Stability of Groups with Costly Beliefs and Practices
Costly signaling theory has been employed to explain the persistence of costly displays in a wide array of species, including humans. Henrich (2009) builds on earlier signaling models to develop a cultural evolutionary model of costly displays. Significantly, Henrich's model shows that there can be a stable equilibrium for an entire population committed to costly displays, persisting alongside a no-cost stable equilibrium for the entire populatio…
The politics of field names
The scientific study of atheism
A New Format
The Scientific Study of Religion
Bio-Cultural Approaches to Social Forms
On the Naturalness of Religion
Some scholars of religion argue that human cognitive systems inevitably yield religious beliefs and commitments. This view, known as the naturalness of religion thesis, is based on recent advances
Ethnography and Experiments in the Scientific Study of Religion
Social scientists and religious studies scholars have long recognized religion's ability to strengthen bonds between adherents and create a sense of cohesiveness, or communitas, as Turner notably d
Theoretical Neuroscience
How Does Male Ritual Behavior Vary Across the Lifespan
At the Beginning of Year Five
Religion, Brain & Behavior begins its fifth year of publication with several significant changes.First, we regretfully bid farewell to Patrick McNamara as a co-editor. Patrick is one of the co-foun
The Emerging Psychology of Religion
This issue of Religion, Brain & Behavior features a book symposium on the new edition of the Handbook of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. Edited by Ray Paloutzian and Crystal Park, the
What are “The Hilbert Problems” in the Study of Religion
David Hilbert lived from 1862–1943 and is regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the late 19th/early 20th century. Among his pioneering contributions was the concept of a Hilbert Space
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