The folk psychology of souls JM Bering Behavioral and brain sciences 29 (5), 453-462, 2006 | 881 | 2006 |
The natural emergence of reasoning about the afterlife as a developmental regularity. JM Bering, DF Bjorklund Developmental psychology 40 (2), 217, 2004 | 549 | 2004 |
Hand of God, mind of man: Punishment and cognition in the evolution of cooperation D Johnson, J Bering Evolutionary psychology 4 (1), 147470490600400119, 2006 | 516 | 2006 |
The belief instinct: The psychology of souls, destiny, and the meaning of life J Bering WW Norton & Company, 2012 | 435 | 2012 |
Intuitive conceptions of dead agents' minds: The natural foundations of afterlife beliefs as phenomenological boundary J Bering Journal of Cognition and Culture 2 (4), 263-308, 2002 | 417 | 2002 |
Toward a science of other minds: Escaping the argument by analogy DJ Povinelli, JM Bering, S Giambrone Cognitive science 24 (3), 509-541, 2000 | 402 | 2000 |
The existential theory of mind JM Bering Review of general psychology 6 (1), 3-24, 2002 | 393 | 2002 |
Reasoning about dead agents reveals possible adaptive trends JM Bering, K McLeod, TK Shackelford Human Nature 16, 360-381, 2005 | 341 | 2005 |
The development of afterlife beliefs in religiously and secularly schooled children JM Bering, CH Blasi, DF Bjorklund British Journal of Developmental Psychology 23 (4), 587-607, 2005 | 275 | 2005 |
Concerns about reputation via gossip promote generous allocations in an economic game J Piazza, JM Bering Evolution and Human Behavior 29 (3), 172-178, 2008 | 265 | 2008 |
" O Lord… You perceive my thoughts from afar": Recursiveness and the evolution of supernatural agency J Bering, D Johnson Journal of Cognition and Culture 5 (1-2), 118-142, 2005 | 253 | 2005 |
“Princess Alice is watching you”: Children’s belief in an invisible person inhibits cheating J Piazza, JM Bering, G Ingram Journal of experimental child psychology 109 (3), 311-320, 2011 | 252 | 2011 |
The mentality of apes revisited DJ Povinelli, JM Bering Current Directions in Psychological Science 11 (4), 115-119, 2002 | 233 | 2002 |
The God instinct: The psychology of souls, destiny and the meaning of life J Bering Hachette UK, 2013 | 199 | 2013 |
Children's attributions of intentions to an invisible agent. JM Bering, BD Parker Developmental Psychology 42 (2), 253, 2006 | 161 | 2006 |
Children’s tattling: The reporting of everyday norm violations in preschool settings GPD Ingram, JM Bering Child development 81 (3), 945-957, 2010 | 148 | 2010 |
Evolutionary cyber-psychology: Applying an evolutionary framework to Internet behavior J Piazza, JM Bering Computers in Human Behavior 25 (6), 1258-1269, 2009 | 141 | 2009 |
The Cognitive Psychology of Belief in the Supernatural: Belief in a deity or an afterlife could be an evolutionarily advantageous by-product of people's ability to reason about … JM Bering American scientist 94 (2), 142-149, 2006 | 131 | 2006 |
Towards a cognitive theory of existential meaning JM Bering New Ideas in Psychology 21 (2), 101-120, 2003 | 124 | 2003 |
Chimpanzees’“pointing”: Another error of the argument by analogy? DJ Povinelli, JM Bering, S Giambrone Pointing, 43-76, 2003 | 116 | 2003 |