| Wuwei" and flow: Comparative reflections on spirituality, transcendence, and skill in the" Zhuangzi NF Barrett Philosophy East and West, 679-706, 2011 | 97 | 2011 |
| Toward an alternative evolutionary theory of religion: Looking past computational evolutionary psychology to a wider field of possibilities NF Barrett Journal of the American Academy of Religion 78 (3), 583-621, 2010 | 55 | 2010 |
| The normative turn in enactive theory: An examination of its roots and implications NF Barrett Topoi 36 (3), 431-443, 2017 | 54 | 2017 |
| AND ECOLOGY NF Barrett, WR Jordan III The Routledge Companion to Religion and Science, 333, 2012 | 31 | 2012 |
| On the nature and origins of cognition as a form of motivated activity N Barrett Adaptive Behavior 28 (2), 89-103, 2020 | 29 | 2020 |
| Seeing is believing? How reinterpreting perception as dynamic engagement alters the justificatory force of religious experience NF Barrett, WJ Wildman International journal for philosophy of religion 66, 71-86, 2009 | 23 | 2009 |
| A dynamic systems view of habits NF Barrett Frontiers in human neuroscience 8, 682, 2014 | 22 | 2014 |
| A Confucian theory of shame NF Barrett Sophia 54, 143-163, 2015 | 20 | 2015 |
| A neurodynamic perspective on musical enjoyment: The role of emotional granularity NF Barrett, J Schulkin Frontiers in Psychology 8, 2187, 2017 | 19 | 2017 |
| The perception of religious meaning and value: An ecological approach NF Barrett Religion, Brain & Behavior 4 (2), 127-146, 2014 | 17 | 2014 |
| Causation as the self-determination of a singular and freely chosen optimality NF Barrett, J Sánchez-Cañizares The Review of metaphysics 71 (4 (284), 755-788, 2018 | 15 | 2018 |
| Enjoyment as enriched experience: A theory of Affect and its relation to consciousness NF Barrett Springer Nature, 2023 | 12 | 2023 |
| Foundations of conduct: a theory of values and its implications for environmentalism W Jordan III, NF Barrett, K Curtis, L Heneghan, R Honold, T LeVasseur, ... Environmental ethics 34 (3), 291, 2012 | 10 | 2012 |
| Principles of Neurotheology NF Barrett Ars Disputandi 11 (1), 133-136, 2011 | 9 | 2011 |
| Extremal properties and self-preserving behavior N Barrett Adaptive Behavior 28 (2), 113-118, 2020 | 7 | 2020 |
| Dissipative systems and living bodies NF Barrett Adaptive Behavior 28 (1), 47-48, 2020 | 7 | 2020 |
| Deacon's negative approach to realism: a metaphysical glass half empty? NF Barrett Religion, Brain & Behavior 5 (1), 36-41, 2015 | 7 | 2015 |
| Skilful Engagement and the ‘Effort after Value’: an axiological theory of the Origins of Religion” NF Barrett Evolution, religion, and cognitive science: Critical and constructive essays …, 2014 | 7 | 2014 |
| Religious Symbolism and the Experience of Life as Meaningful: Addition, Enhancement, or Both? NF Barrett Religions 14 (1), 88, 2023 | 5 | 2023 |
| Belief-centred religious constructs, modern religious self-understanding, and interreligious relations: challenges for empirical inquiry NF Barrett Journal of Beliefs & Values 38 (3), 318-327, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
