Victimhood drives morality and politics. Morality evolved to protect from victimization, and
today morality still revolves around concerns about victimhood and harm. Unfortunately …

Although research in cultural psychology has established that virtually all human behaviors
and cognitions are in some ways shaped by culture, culture has been surprisingly absent …

Humans have two features rare in mammals: our locomotor muscles are dominated by
fatigue-resistant fibres and we effectively dissipate through sweating the metabolic heat …

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 …

Witchcraft beliefs are historically and geographically widespread, but little is known about
the cultural inheritance processes that may explain their variation between populations. A …

We analyze a new ethnographic and ethnohistoric database of quantitative cases (n= 139)
and qualitative information on a neglected form of forager subsistence—communal drive …

Religion is a widespread feature of human life. Religions typically include both distinctive
varieties of experience, and also a set of foundational beliefs. An additional, but often …

Why do humans believe in moralizing gods? Leading accounts argue that these beliefs
evolved because they help societies grow and promote group cooperation. Yet recent …

Many people in many cultures have a spiritual connection with nature. Research is
beginning to reveal the implications of this “ecospiritual” orientation for two great challenges …

Many cognitive and evolutionary theories of religion argue that supernatural explanations
are byproducts of our cognitive adaptations. An influential argument states that our …