Psychology has traditionally seen itself as the science of universal human cognition, but it
has only recently begun seriously grappling with cross-cultural variation. Here we argue that …

The intensifying pace of research based on cross-cultural studies in the social sciences
necessitates a discussion of the unique challenges of multi-sited research. Given an …

Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly
on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care …

Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan builds readers'
knowledge of and confidence in statistical modeling. Reflecting the need for even minor …

One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the
predictive algorithms of AI–and, if so, what this will mean for our behaviour, for our …

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 …

In recent decades, a new scientific approach to understand, explain, and predict many
features of religion has emerged. The cognitive science of religion (CSR) has amassed …

Folklore is the collection of traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community passed
through the generations by word of mouth. We introduce to economics a unique catalog of …

Historians make research queries on Google, ProQuest, and the HathiTrust. They garner
information from keyword searches, carried out across millions of documents, their research …

In this article, we review the conceptions of Collective Effervescence (CE)–a state of intense
shared emotional activation and sense of unison that emerges during instances of collective …