Benjamin Grant Purzycki

Benjamin Grant Purzycki publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Benjamin Grant Purzycki D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Best Publications

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

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

  530
  Citations

• Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel

  Isabel M. Scott;Andrew P. Clark;Steven C. Josephson;Adam H. Boyette

  252
  Citations

• Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies.

  Martin Lang;Martin Lang;Benjamin Grant Purzycki;Coren L. Apicella;Quentin Douglas Atkinson

  200
  Citations

• War increases religiosity.

  Joseph Henrich;Joseph Henrich;Michal Bauer;Michal Bauer;Alessandra Cassar;Julie Chytilová;Julie Chytilová

  158
  Citations

• Navigating cross-cultural research: methodological and ethical considerations

  Tanya Broesch;Alyssa Crittenden;Bret A. Beheim;Aaron D. Blackwell

  149
  Citations

• Navigating cross-cultural research: methodological and ethical considerations

  Tanya Broesch;Alyssa N. Crittenden;Bret A. Beheim;Aaron D. Blackwell

  146
  Citations

• MCI theory: a critical discussion

  Benjamin Grant Purzycki;Aiyana K. Willard

  144
  Citations

• The minds of gods: A comparative study of supernatural agency

  Benjamin Grant Purzycki

  137
  Citations

• What does God know? Supernatural agents' access to socially strategic and non-strategic information.

  Benjamin G. Purzycki;Daniel N. Finkel;John Shaver;Nathan Wales

  132
  Citations

• The evolution of religion and morality: a synthesis of ethnographic and experimental evidence from eight societies

  Benjamin Grant Purzycki;Joseph Henrich;Coren Apicella;Quentin D. Atkinson

  122
  Citations

• The cognitive and cultural foundations of moral behavior

  Benjamin Grant Purzycki;Anne C. Pisor;Coren Apicella;Quentin Douglas Atkinson

  118
  Citations

• Ritual Behavior and Trust in the Tyva Republic

  Benjamin Grant Purzycki;Tayana Arakchaa

  108
  Citations

• The Religious System as Adaptive: Cognitive Flexibility, Public Displays, and Acceptance

  Benjamin Grant Purzycki;Richard Sosis

  101
  Citations

• Our Gods: Variation in Supernatural Minds

  Benjamin G. Purzycki;Richard Sosis

  88
  Citations

• Tyvan cher eezi and the socioecological constraints of supernatural agents' minds

  Benjamin Grant Purzycki

  86
  Citations

• Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods.

  Bret Alexander Beheim;Quentin D. Atkinson;Joseph Bulbulia;Will Gervais

  83
  Citations

• Buddha as a God: An Empirical Assessment

  Benjamin Grant Purzycki;Edward C. Holland

  82
  Citations

• The extended religious phenotype and the adaptive coupling of ritual and belief

  Benjamin G. Purzycki;Richard Sosis

  75
  Citations

• AnthroTools: An R package for cross-cultural ethnographic data analysis

  Benjamin Grant Purzycki;Alastair Jamieson-Lane

  74
  Citations

• Cross-cultural dataset for the evolution of religion and morality project

  Benjamin Grant Purzycki;Coren Apicella;Quentin Douglas Atkinson;Emma Cohen

  54
  Citations