Hansen, I. G., & Norenzayan, A. (2006 draft). When how you believe matters more than what you believe: Religiosity and religious intolerance among Christians and Buddhists.

Hansen, I. G. & Norenzayan, A. (2007 draft). Does religious belief promote religious scapegoating?

In Press:

Buchtel, E. E. & Norenzayan, A. (in press). Thinking across cultures: Implications for dual processes. In J. Evans & K. Frankish, (Eds.), In two minds: Dual processes and beyond. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [PDF]

Buchtel, E.E. & Norenzayan, A. (in press). Which should you use, Intuition or Logic? Cultural Differences in Injunctive Norms about Reasoning. Asian Journal of Social Psychology. [PDF]

Shariff, A.F. (in press). One Species under God?  Sorting through the pieces of religion and cooperation. In (eds. C.Genet, R.Genet, J.Bulbulia, R. Sosis, E. Harris, and K. Wyman) Proceedings of The Hawaii Conference on the Evolution of Religion. Collins Press. [PDF] 

Selected other publications:

Heine, S.J., Buchtel, E.E., & Norenzayan, A. (2008). What Do Cross-National Comparisons of Personality Traits Tell Us? The Case of Conscientiousness. Psychological Science, 19:4. [PDF]

Shariff, A.F., and Norenzayan, A. (2007). God is watching you: Supernatural agent concepts increase prosocial behavior in an anonymous economic game. Psychological Science, 18, 803-809.[PDF]
*Science Editors' Choice, (2007), 317, p.1473[PDF]

Norenzayan, A., & Hansen, I. G. (2006). Belief in supernatural agents in the face of death. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 174-187. [PDF]

Hansen, I. G., & Norenzayan, A. (2006). Between yang and yin and heaven and hell: Untangling the complex relationship between religion and intolerance. In P. McNamara (Ed.), Where God and Man Meet: How the Brain and Evolutionary Sciences are Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Religion and Spirituality (pp. 198-222). Greenwood Press: Praeger Publishers. [PDF]

Norenzayan, A., Atran, S., Faulkner, J., & Schaller, M. (2006). Memory and mystery: The cultural selection of minimally counterintuitive narratives. Cognitive Science, 30(3), 531-553. [PDF]

Heine, S. J. & Norenzayan, A. (2006). Towards a Psychological Science for a Cultural Species. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1(3), 251-269. [PDF]

Norenzayan, A., & Heine, S. J. (2005). Psychological universals: What are they and how can we know? Psychological Bulletin, 135, 763-784. [PDF]

Atran, S., & Norenzayan, A. (2004). Religion's evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion [target article]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 713-770. [PDF]

Atran, S., & Norenzayan, A. (2004). Why minds create gods: Devotion, deception, death, and arational decision making [reply to commentators]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 713-770. [PDF]