Humans have been using language for millennia but have only just begun to scratch the
surface of what natural language can reveal about the mind. Here we propose that language …

The global decline of religiosity represents one of the most significant societal shifts in recent
history. After millennia of near-universal religious identification, the world is experiencing a …

Humans have believed in gods and spirits since the earliest days of the Holocene, and
many people still believe in them today. Although the existence of religious belief has been …

The COVID-19 pandemic allowed for a naturalistic, longitudinal investigation of the
relationship between faith and science mindsets and concern about COVID-19. Our goal …

An award-winning cognitive scientist offers a counterintuitive guide to cultivating
imagination. Imagination is commonly thought to be the special province of youth—the …

Endorsement of science is often associated with non-religiosity and lack of supernatural
belief. However, the relevance of science for worldviews might also relate to the cultural …

People often rely on two distinct worldviews, religion and science, to make sense of the
world, and the degree to which they rely on each holds profound implications for their lives …

In an editorial we published two years ago (Sosis et al., 2022), we announced that Religion,
Brain & Behavior (RBB) would begin a transition process in which our long-time editors …

Meaning-making systems underlie perceptions of the efficacy of threat-mitigating behaviors.
Religion and science both offer threat mitigation, yet these meaning-making systems are …

Many religious people deny any conflict between religion and science, but nevertheless
report less trust in science than non-religious people. We address this puzzle using insights …