Toward an Evolutionary Psychology of Religion and Personality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5830292 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lee A Kirkpatrick (William & Mary, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 921-952 |
| Publication date | 1999-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3506 • E-ISSN: 1467-6494 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-6494.00078 |
| OpenAlex | W2031415309 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 56 |
| References cited | 46 |
Evolutionary psychology is an emerging paradigm for the social sciences that offers a powerful metatheoretical framework for personality psychology and, as I attempt to demonstrate in this article, for the psychology of religion as well. I argue that religion is not an evolved adaptation; rather, the diverse range of beliefs, behavior, and experience that we collectively refer to as religion emerge as byproducts of numerous, domain-specific psychological mechanisms that evolved to solve other (mundane) adaptive problems. These include mechanisms for reasoning about the natural world (naive physics and biology), about other people' minds (naive psychology), and about specific kinds of interpersonal relationships (attachment, kinship, social exchange, coalitions, status hierarchies
Evolutionary psychology · Personality psychology · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
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Da Psicologia do Attachment à visão neurocientífica proposta por Lee A. Kirkpatrick sobre a religiosidade humana
Religion
Rituals
Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion and Violence
The Neuroscience of Religious Experience
Genes, Evolution, and Personality
The cultural evolution of shamanism
Authoritarianism
Evolutionary Psychology as Computational Theory in the Cognitive Sciences
The Pleistocene Mind
Back to the basics in attachment to God
Christianity and Evolutionary Psychology
Gender and religiosity
Environmental contingency in life history strategies
Darwin's Cathedral
Self-Rating of religiosity (SRR) in Iran
Abrahamic Religiosity Scale
Who are We? Where Did We Come From? How Religious Identity Divides and Damns Us All
Gender and Religious Orientation
Attachment transfer among Swedish and German adolescents
Signaling, solidarity, and the sacred
Dissonance and distress
The need to believe
Existential neuroscience
From “…of religion” to “Psychology of…”
On breaking the cognitive science of religion and putting it back together again
The evolution of religion and morality
Fundamental social motives and the varieties of religious experience
Modes of knowing
Motivational and neural systems of religion
An evolutionary argument for unconscious personal death unawareness
New religious movements and quasi-religion
Religion, multiple identities, and acculturation
The Relationship between Attachment to God, Prosociality, and Image of God
Beyond logic
Is Spirituality an Intelligence? Motivation, Cognition, and the Psychology of Ultimate Concern
Do Empathetic People Have Strong Religious Beliefs? Survey Studies with Large Japanese Samples
Invited Essay
Attachment Theory and the Evolutionary Psychology of Religion
Sex Differences in Religiosity
Objections to evolutionary psychology
Religious Studies as a Life Science
Mating competitors increase religious beliefs
Etnografía del budismo zen argentino
The Psychology of Religion
A new Big Five
Ritual, emotion, and sacred symbols
The role of evolutionary psychology within an interdisciplinary science of religion
The Cultural Transmission of Faith Why Innate Intuitions Are Necessary, but Insufficient, to Explain Religious Belief
La psychologie de la religion
Le modèle chamanique soutient-il l'hypothèse adaptative de l'origine de la religion
Identities, Values, and Religion
"In Search of "Religion Proper
Do Genetic Factors Influence Religious Life? Findings from a Behavior Genetic Analysis of Twin Siblings
Prosocial Behavior and Religion
Religion and the individual
Religion, the social context
The social psychology of religion
Psychology of religion
Creation of the Sacred
Essentialist beliefs in children
Is the acquisition of social categories based on domain-specific competence or on knowledge transfer?
An Attachment-Theoretical Approach to Romantic Love and Religious Belief
Evolutionary Personality Psychology
An Experimental Study of Apparent Behavior
ToMM, ToBY, and Agency
God as a Substitute Attachment Figure
The Psychological Foundations of Culture
Origins of domain specificity
Evolutionary Psychology
The Causes and Consequences of a Need for Self-Esteem
The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism
Human groups and social categories
Explaining culture
Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange
Parental Investment and Sexual Selection
Public Self and Private Self
Toward a Biologically Informed Psychology of Personality
Adaptive Individual Differences
On the Universality of Human Nature and the Uniqueness of the Individual
What Do We Know When We Know a Person
On the conflicts between biological and social evolution and between psychology and moral tradition
Religion and Prejudice
Mapping the Mind
Sociobiology and the role of religion in promoting prosocial behavior
Exaptation
In-group bias in the minimal intergroup situation
Some correlates of beliefs in the malevolence and benevolence of supernatural beings
The Universality of Ancestor Worship
Shamanic Healing, Human Evolution, and the Origin of Religion
A Longitudinal Study of Changes in Religious Belief and Behavior as a Function of Individual Differences in Adult Attachment Style
Attachment Theory and Religion
Gender Differences in Images of God
God and the Just World
God Image as a Function of Self-Esteem and Locus of Control
The Naturalness of Religious Ideas
Varieties of 'Fundamentalism
| Unique citing works | 56 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,15 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2025 (26) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 54 |