| 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 | 579 | 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 | 253 | 2014 |
| 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 | 213 | 2019 |
| War increases religiosity J Henrich, M Bauer, A Cassar, J Chytilová, BG Purzycki Nature human behaviour 3 (2), 129-135, 2019 | 171 | 2019 |
| MCI theory: A critical discussion BG Purzycki, AK Willard Religion, Brain & Behavior 6 (3), 207-248, 2016 | 171 | 2016 |
| Navigating cross-cultural research: methodological and ethical considerations T Broesch, AN Crittenden, BA Beheim, AD Blackwell, JA Bunce, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287 (1935), 20201245, 2020 | 168 | 2020 |
| The minds of gods: A comparative study of supernatural agency BG Purzycki Cognition 129 (1), 163-179, 2013 | 146 | 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, ... The Evolution of Religion and Morality, 1-32, 2024 | 141 | 2024 |
| 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 | 133 | 2012 |
| Ritual behavior and trust in the Tyva Republic BG Purzycki, T Arakchaa Current Anthropology 54 (3), 381-388, 2013 | 113 | 2013 |
| AnthroTools: An R package for cross-cultural ethnographic data analysis BG Purzycki, A Jamieson-Lane Cross-Cultural Research 51 (1), 51-74, 2017 | 110 | 2017 |
| Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods B Beheim, QD Atkinson, J Bulbulia, W Gervais, RD Gray, J Henrich, ... Nature 595 (7866), E29-E34, 2021 | 106* | 2021 |
| 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 | 106 | 2018 |
| 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 | 105 | 2009 |
| A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being S Hoogeveen, A Sarafoglou, B Aczel, Y Aditya, AJ Alayan, PJ Allen, ... Religion, Brain & Behavior 13 (3), 237-283, 2023 | 97 | 2023 |
| Preferences and constraints: the value of economic games for studying human behaviour AC Pisor, MM Gervais, BG Purzycki, CT Ross Royal Society open science 7 (6), 192090, 2020 | 87 | 2020 |
| Tyvan cher eezi and the socioecological constraints of supernatural agents' minds BG Purzycki Religion, Brain & Behavior 1 (1), 31-45, 2011 | 76 | 2011 |
| The extended religious phenotype and the adaptive coupling of ritual and belief BG Purzycki, R Sosis Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution 59 (2), 99-108, 2013 | 70 | 2013 |
| An ecological theory of gods’ minds BG Purzycki, RA McNamara Advances in religion, cognitive science, and experimental philosophy, 143-167, 2016 | 68 | 2016 |
| The evolution of gods’ minds in the Tyva Republic BG Purzycki Current Anthropology 57 (S13), S88-S104, 2016 | 65 | 2016 |
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