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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Ara Norenzayan is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily spans the social sciences and psychology, with a focus on sociology and political science, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their work explores several main topics, including:

  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Religion and Society Interactions
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions

Ara Norenzayan has frequently published in venues such as:

  • Religion Brain & Behavior
  • Collabra Psychology
  • Evolution and Human Behavior
  • Nature
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Recent papers include:

  • "Beyond WEIRD: A review of the last decade and a look ahead to the global laboratory of the future" (2020), Evolution and Human Behavior
  • "Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods" (2021), Nature
  • "The moralization bias of gods' minds: a cross-cultural test" (2022), Religion Brain & Behavior
  • "Cultural similarity among coreligionists within and between countries" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Cognitive Pathways to Belief in Karma and Belief in God" (2021), Cognitive Science

Norenzayan has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including:

  • Joseph Henrich
  • Cindel White
  • Benjamin Grant Purzycki
  • Aiyana K. Willard
  • Adam Baimel

In 2020, they were awarded the status of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada by the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • The WEIRDest People in the World

    Joseph Henrich;Steven J. Heine;Ara Norenzayan

  • Culture and systems of thought: holistic versus analytic cognition.

    Richard E. Nisbett;Kaiping Peng;Incheol Choi;Ara Norenzayan

  • Most people are not WEIRD

    Joseph Henrich;Steven J. Heine;Ara Norenzayan

  • God Is Watching You Priming God Concepts Increases Prosocial Behavior in an Anonymous Economic Game

    Azim F. Shariff;Ara Norenzayan

  • Causal attribution across cultures: Variation and universality.

    Incheol Choi;Richard E. Nisbett;Ara Norenzayan

  • The Origin and Evolution of Religious Prosociality

    Ara Norenzayan;Azim F. Shariff

  • Religion's evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion

    Scott Atran;Ara Norenzayan

  • The cultural evolution of prosocial religions.

    Ara Norenzayan;Azim F. Shariff;Will M. Gervais;Aiyana K. Willard

  • Psychological universals: what are they and how can we know?

    Ara Norenzayan;Steven J. Heine

  • Cultural preferences for formal versus intuitive reasoning

    Ara Norenzayan;Edward E. Smith;Beom Jun Kim;Richard E. Nisbett

  • The Pace of Life in 31 Countries

    Robert V. Levine;Ara Norenzayan

  • Analytic thinking promotes religious disbelief.

    Will M. Gervais;Ara Norenzayan

  • Beyond WEIRD: Towards a broad-based behavioral science

    Joseph Henrich;Steven J. Heine;Ara Norenzayan

  • Religion and Support for Suicide Attacks

    Jeremy Ginges;Ian Hansen;Ara Norenzayan

  • Do you believe in atheists? Distrust is central to anti-atheist prejudice.

    Will M. Gervais;Azim F. Shariff;Ara Norenzayan

  • Belief in Supernatural Agents in the Face of Death

    Ara Norenzayan;Ian G. Hansen

  • Religious Priming A Meta-Analysis With a Focus on Prosociality

    Azim F. Shariff;Aiyana K. Willard;Teresa Andersen;Ara Norenzayan

  • Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality

    Benjamin Grant Purzycki;Coren Apicella;Quentin D. Atkinson;Quentin D. Atkinson;Emma Cohen

  • Memory and Mystery: The Cultural Selection of Minimally Counterintuitive Narratives.

    Ara Norenzayan;Scott Atran;Jason Faulkner;Mark Schaller

  • Mean Gods Make Good People: Different Views of God Predict Cheating Behavior

    Azim F. Shariff;Ara Norenzayan

  • Culture and Cognition

    Richard E. Nisbett;Ara Norenzayan

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven J. Heine
Steven J. Heine University of British Columbia
Mark Schaller
Mark Schaller University of British Columbia
Tatsuya Kameda
Tatsuya Kameda Meiji Gakuin University
Toshio Yamagishi
Toshio Yamagishi Hitotsubashi University
Richard E. Nisbett
Richard E. Nisbett University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Incheol Choi
Incheol Choi Seoul National University
Coren L. Apicella
Coren L. Apicella University of Pennsylvania
Kaiping Peng
Kaiping Peng Tsinghua University
Scott Atran
Scott Atran University of Oxford
Michael Bond
Michael Bond Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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