This meta-analysis explores the long-standing and heavily debated question of whether
religiosity is associated with prosocial and antisocial behavior at the individual level. In an …

The emergence of large-scale cooperation during the Holocene remains a central problem
in the evolutionary literature. One hypothesis points to culturally evolved beliefs in …

Around the world, people engage in practices that involve self-inflicted pain and apparently
wasted resources. Researchers theorized that these practices help stabilize within-group …

Social psychologists have frequently used priming methodologies to explore how religion
can impact behaviour. Despite this, no consensus currently exists on whether religious …

We introduce several new variants of the dice experiment by Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi
(Journal of the European Economic Association 11 (3): 525–547, 2013) to investigate …

The relationship between religion and social behavior has been the subject of longstanding
debates. Recent evolutionary models of religious morality propose that particular types of …

The explanatory gap between the life sciences and the humanities that is present in the
study of human phenomena impedes productive interdisciplinary examination that such a …

Research testing evolutionary models of religious morality shows that supernatural beliefs in
moralizing gods positively affect prosociality. However, the effects of beliefs related to local …

Several prominent evolutionary theories contend that religion was critical to the emergence
of large-scale societies and encourages cooperation in contemporary complex groups …

The present article is an elaborated and upgraded version of the Early Career Award talk
that I delivered at the IAPR 2019 conference in Gdańsk, Poland. In line with the conference's …