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Overview

Richard Sosis is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the Social Sciences, with a focus on Sociology and Political Science, Health, Gender Studies, Demography, and Social Psychology as key subfields.

Their work spans various topics, including:

  • Religion and Society Interactions
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
  • Religion, Society, and Development
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving

Recent publications by Richard Sosis include:

  • Four advantages of a systemic approach to the study of religion, 2020, Archive for the Psychology of Religion
  • Religion and the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, Religion Brain & Behavior
  • Church attendance and alloparenting: an analysis of fertility, social support and child development among English mothers, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Gods, games, and the socioecological landscape, 2022, Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
  • Social support, nutrition and health among women in rural Bangladesh: complex tradeoffs in allocare, kin proximity and support network size, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Richard Sosis are:

  • John H. Shaver
  • Wesley J. Wildman
  • Rebecca Sear
  • Mary K. Shenk
  • Joseph Bulbulia

Richard Sosis has contributed to multiple publication venues, particularly:

  • Religion Brain & Behavior
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Evolution and Human Behavior
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Their book publications include titles released through notable academic publishers:

  • Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics, 2022, Equinox Publishing Ltd. eBooks
  • Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion and Violence, 2022, Cambridge University Press

Best Publications

  • Signaling, solidarity, and the sacred: The evolution of religious behavior

    Richard Sosis;Candace Alcorta

  • Religious ritual and cooperation: Testing for a relationship on israeli religious and secular kibbutzim

    Richard Sosis;Bradley J. Ruffle

  • Cooperation and Commune Longevity: A Test of the Costly Signaling Theory of Religion

    Richard Sosis;Eric R. Bressler

  • Why aren't we all hutterites? : Costly signaling theory and religious behavior.

    Richard Sosis

  • Ritual, emotion, and sacred symbols : The evolution of religion as an adaptive complex.

    Candace S. Alcorta;Richard Sosis

  • Cooperation and the in-group-out-group bias: A field test on Israeli kibbutz members and city residents.

    Bradley J. Ruffle;Richard Sosis;Richard Sosis

  • Scars for war: evaluating alternative signaling explanations for cross-cultural variance in ritual costs

    Richard Sosis;Richard Sosis;Howard C. Kress;James S. Boster

  • Signalling theory and the evolution of religious cooperation

    Joseph Bulbulia;Richard Sosis

  • Does it pay to pray? Costly ritual and cooperation

    Bradley Ruffle;Richard Sosis

  • Religion and Intragroup Cooperation: Preliminary Results of a Comparative Analysis of Utopian Communities

    Richard Sosis

  • Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel

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

  • The adaptive value of religious ritual

    Richard Sosis

  • The Adaptationist-Byproduct Debate on the Evolution of Religion: Five Misunderstandings of the Adaptationist Program

    Richard Sosis

  • Costly signaling and torch fishing on Ifaluk atoll

    Richard Sosis

  • Does Religion Promote Trust? The Role of Signaling, Reputation, and Punishment

    Richard Sosis

  • Religion and the COVID-19 pandemic

    Wesley J. Wildman;Joseph Bulbulia;Richard Sosis;Uffe Schjoedt

  • IDEOLOGY, RELIGION, AND THE EVOLUTION OF COOPERATION: FIELD EXPERIMENTS ON ISRAELI KIBBUTZIM

    Richard Sosis;Bradley J. Ruffle

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

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

  • The Evolution of Religion Studies, Theories, & Critiques

    J Bulbulia;R Sosis;E Harris;R Genet

  • Our Gods: Variation in Supernatural Minds

    Benjamin G. Purzycki;Richard Sosis

  • Optimising human community sizes

    Robin I.M. Dunbar;Robin I.M. Dunbar;Richard Sosis

  • Religious ritual and cooperation: Testing for a relationship on israeli religious and secular kibbutzim

    Bradley Ruffle;Richard Sosis

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph Bulbulia
Joseph Bulbulia Victoria University of Wellington
Rebecca Sear
Rebecca Sear London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Michael E. McCullough
Michael E. McCullough University of California, San Diego
Scott Atran
Scott Atran University of Oxford
Robin I. M. Dunbar
Robin I. M. Dunbar University of Oxford
Chris G. Sibley
Chris G. Sibley University of Auckland
Viren Swami
Viren Swami Anglia Ruskin University
Ian S. Penton-Voak
Ian S. Penton-Voak University of Bristol
John Tooby
John Tooby University of California, Santa Barbara
A.B. Cohen
A.B. Cohen Arizona State University

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