Richard Sosis

Publications

Books:

2023Sosis, Richard. The Ping Pong Player and the Professor: An Anthropologist Explores Fatherhood and Meaning in an Extraordinary Sport. Wildhouse Publications.
2022Alcorta, Candace and Richard Sosis. Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion and Violence. Cambridge Elements Series. Cambridge University Press. 
2022Purzycki, Benjamin Grant  and Richard Sosis. Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and Ecological Dynamics. Equinox Publishers.
2008Bulbulia, J., R. Sosis, C. Genet, R. Genet, E. Harris, K. Wyman, eds. The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques. Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

In PressHassan, Anushe, Laure Spake, John H. Shaver, Mary K. Shenk, Richard Sosis, and Rebecca Sear. Nuclearization of mothers’ social support networks and childcare provision in the UK and the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Sciences and Humanities Open.
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In PressSpake, Laure, Susan Schaffnit, Abigail Page, Anushe Hassan, Robert Lynch, Joseph Watts, Richard Sosis, Rebecca Sear, Mary K. Shenk, and John H. Shaver. Religious women receive more allomaternal support from non-partner kin in two low-fertility countries. Evolution and Human Behavior.
In PressPurzycki, Benjamin G., and Richard Sosis. Religious Systems Evolving. Religion Brain & Behavior.
2024Spake, L., Hassan, A., Schaffnit, S. B., Alam, N., Amoah, A. S., Badjie, J., Cerami, C., Crampin, A., Dube, A., Kaye, M.P., Kitch, R., Liew, F., McLean, E., Munthali-Mkandawire, S., Mwalwanda, L., Petersen, AC., Prentice, A.M., Zohora, F.T., Watts, J., Sear, R., Shenk, M.K., Sosis, R., and Shaver, J.H. A practical guide to cross-cultural data collection in the biological and behavioural sciences. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 291: 20231422.
2023Schaffnit, S.B., R. Lynch, L. Spake, R. Sear, R. Sosis, J. Shaver, N. Alam, M. Towner, and M. Shenk. The impact of market integration on arranged marriages in Matlab, Bangladesh. Evolutionary Human Sciences 5, e5: 1-19.
2023Sosis, Richard. The ABC’s of Evolutionary Signaling Theory and Religion, in The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion, eds. Yair Lior and Justin Lane, pp. 209-226. London: Routledge Press.
2022Lynch, R., S. Schaffnit, R. Sear, R. Sosis, J. Shaver, N. Alam, T. Blumenfield, S. Mattison, and M. Shenk. Religiosity is associated with greater size, kin density, and geographic dispersal of women’s social networks in Bangladesh. Scientific Reports 12: 18780.
2022Sosis, Richard, and Jordan Kiper. Sport as a meaning-making system: insights from the study of religion. Religions 13, 915, 1-17.
2022Purzycki, Benjamin, Theiss Bendixen, Aaron Lightner, and Richard Sosis. Gods, Games, and the Socioecological Landscape. Current Research in Ecology and Social Psychology 3: 100057
2022Kiper, Jordan and Richard Sosis. Propaganda, Rituals, and Social Coercion: Totalism as a Quasi-Religious System. Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnography) 70(2): 273–296.
2022Sosis, Richard, John Shaver, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, and Jordan Kiper. Soul Mates? Conflicts and Complementarities in the Evolutionary and Cognitive Sciences of Religion, in Oxford Handbook for the Cognitive Science of Religion, ed. Justin Barrett, pp. 349-374. Oxford University Press.
2022Sosis, Richard. The Man Who Receives Too Many Emails: Exploring the Construction of Wildman’s Institutional Reality, in Religion in Multidisciplinary Perspective: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Approaches to Wesley J. Wildman, eds. F. LeRon Shults and Robert C. Neville, pp. 273-287. New York:SUNY Press.
2021Purzycki, Benjamin and Richard Sosis. Traditional Societies [Resistance, Subversion, and the Absence of Religion in Traditional Societies], in The Cambridge History of Atheism, eds. Michael Ruse and Stephen Bullivant, Cambridge University Press.
2021Spake, Laure, Susan Schaffnit, Rebecca Sear, Mary Shenk, Richard Sosis, and John Shaver. Mother’s partnership status and allomothering networks in the United Kingdom and United States. Social Sciences. 10: 182. doi.org/10.3390/socsci10050182
2021Shenk, Mary, Siobhan Mattison, Rebecca Sear, Nural Alam, Rubhana Raqib, Anjan Kumar, Farjana Haque, Tami Blumenfield, John, Shaver, Richard Sosis, and Katherine Wander. Social support, nutrition and health among women in rural Bangladesh: complex tradeoffs in allocare, kin proximity and support network size. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 376: 20200027.
2021Kiper, Jordan and Richard Sosis. The Roots of Intergroup Conflict and the Co-option of the Religious System: An Evolutionary Perspective on Religious Terrorism, in Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion, eds. J. Liddle and T. Shackelford, pp. 265-281. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2020Sosis, Richard. Four Advantages of a Systemic Approach to Religion. Archive for the Psychology of Religion 42: 142-157.
2020Kiper, Jordan and Richard Sosis. The Sytemics of Violent Religious Nationalism: A Case Study of the Yugoslav Wars. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture 14: 45-70.
2020Sosis, Richard. The Last Talmudic Demon? The Role of Ritual in Cultural Transmission. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375: 20190425.
2020Ruffle, Bradley and Richard Sosis. Do religious contexts elicit more trust and altruism? Evidence from decision-making scenario experiments. Journal of Religion in Economics and Management 1: 2050002.
2020Shaver, John, Eleanor Power, Benjamin Purzycki, Joseph Watts, Rebecca Sear, Mary Shenk Richard Sosis, Joseph Bulbulia. Church attendance and alloparenting: an analysis of fertility, social support, and child development among English mothers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375: 20190428.
2020Alcorta, Candace and Richard Sosis. Adolescent religious rites of passage: an anthropological perspective. Encyclopedia of Adolescent Development: History, Theory, and Culture, vol. 1, eds. Stephen Hupp and Jeremy D. Jewell. New York: John Wiley & Sons Publishers.
2019Wood, Connor and Richard Sosis. Simulating Religions as Adaptive Systems, in Human Simulation: Perspectives, Insights, and Applications, ed. Saikou Diallo, Wesley J. Wildman, F. LeRon Shults, Andrea Tolk, pp. 209-232. New York: Springer.
2019Sosis, Richard. The Building Blocks of Religious Systems: Approaching Religion as a Complex Adaptive System, in Evolution, Development & Complexity: Multiscale Models of Complex Adaptive Systems, eds. G.Y. Georgiev, J.M. Smart, C.L. Flores Martinez, and M. Price, pp. 421-449. New York: Springer.
2019Barker, Jessica, Eleanor Power, Stephen Heap, Mikael Puurtinen, and Richard Sosis. Content, Cost, and Context: A Framework for Understanding Human Signaling Systems. Evolutionary Anthropology 28: 86-99.
2019Shaver, John, Chris Sibley, Richard Sosis, Dean Galbraith, and Joseph Bulbulia. Alloparenting and Religious Fertility: A Test of the Religious Alloparenting Hypothesis. Evolution and Human Behavior 40: 315-324.
2019Sosis, Richard. Can Rituals Reduce Stress During War? The Magic of Psalms, in The Cognitive Science of Religion: A Methodological Introduction to Key Empirical Studies, eds. Jason Slone and William McCorkle, pp. 193-202. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press.
2019Sosis, Richard. Do Religions Promote Cooperation? Testing Signaling Theories of Religion, in The Cognitive Science of Religion: A Methodological Introduction to Key Empirical Studies, eds. Jason Slone and William McCorkle, pp 155-162. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press
2019Purzycki, Benjamin and Richard Sosis. What do People Think Omniscient Agents Know?, in The Cognitive Science of Religion: A Methodological Introduction to Key Empirical Studies, eds. Jason Slone and William McCorkle, pp. 25-32. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press.
2019Sosis, Richard. Why cultural evolution models need a systemic approach, in Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis, eds. A. Klostergaard Petersen, I.S. Gilhus, L.H. Martin, J. Sinding Jensen, and J. Sorensen, pp. 45-61. Boston: Brill.
2018Dunbar, Robin and Richard Sosis. Optimizing Human Community Size. Evolution and Human Behavior 39: 106–11.
2018Shaver, John and Richard Sosis. Costly signaling in human cultures, in International Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Evolutionary and Biosocial Perspectives in Anthropology, ed. H. Callan, pp 205-207. London: Wiley-Blackwell.
2018Sosis, Richard and Jordan Kiper. Sacred versus Secular Values: Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion and Religious Freedom, in Homo Religiosus?: Exploring the Roots of Religion and Religious Freedom in Human Experience, eds. T.S. Shah and J. Friedman, pp. 89–119. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2018Shaver, John, Susie Divietro, Martin Lang, and Richard Sosis. Costs do not explain trust among secular groups. Journal of Cognition and Culture 18; 180–204.
2017Sosis, Richard. The road not taken: possible paths for the cognitive science of religion, in Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after 25 years, eds. L. Martin and D. Wiebe, pp. 155–167. London: Bloomsbury Press.
2017Sosis, Richard. On human nature: anthropological and Jewish musings, in Verbs, Bones, and Brains: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Nature, eds. Agustin Fuentes and Aku Visala, pp. 96–103. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.
2017Kiper, Jordan and Richard Sosis. The Logic and Location of Strong Reciprocity: Anthropological and Philosophical Considerations, in Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Fairness, Equity, and Justice, eds. M. Li and D. Tracer, pp. 107–128. New York: Springer.
2016Kiper, Jordan and Richard Sosis. The Roots of Intergroup Conflict and the Co-option of the Religious System: An Evolutionary Perspective on Religious Terrorism, in Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion, eds. J. Liddle and T. Shackelford. Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2016Shaver, John, Benjamin Purzycki, and Richard Sosis. Evolutionary Theory and the Study of Religion, in The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion, eds. M. Stausberg and S. Engler, pp. 124–136. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2016Sosis, Richard Religions as complex adaptive systems. MacMillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks on Religion. Mental Religion: The Brain, Cognition, and Culture, ed. N. Clements, pp. 219–236. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan.
2016McCullough, Michael, Paul Swartwout, John Shaver, Evan Carter, and Richard Sosis. Christian Religious Badges Instill Trust in Christian and Non-Christian Perceivers. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 8: 149–163.
2016Kiper, Jordan and Richard Sosis. Shaking the tyrant’s bloody robe: An evolutionary perspective on ethnoreligious violence. Politics and the Life Sciences 35: 27–47.
2016Kiper, Jordan and Richard Sosis. Why terrorism terrifies us, in Evolutionary Psychology and Terrorism: New Perspectives on Political Violence, ed. M. Taylor, pp. 102–123. New York: Routledge.
2015Purzycki, Benjamin G., Jordan Kiper, John Shaver, Daniel Finkel, and Richard Sosis. Religion, in Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, eds. R.A. Scott and S.M. Kosslyn, pp. 1–16. New York: Wiley.
2015Bulbulia, Joseph, John Shaver, Laura Greaves, Richard Sosis, Christopher Sibley. Religion and parental cooperation: an empirical test of Slone’s sexual signaling model, in The Attraction of Religion: A New Evolutionary Psychology of Religion, eds. J. Slone and J. Van Slyke, pp. 29–62. London: Bloomsbury Press.
2014Kiper, Jordan and Richard Sosis. Moral intuitions and the religious system: an adaptationist account. Philosophy, Theology, and Science 1:172–199.
2014Scott, I.M., S.C. Josephson, A. Boyette, A.P. Clark, R. Fried, M. Gibson, B. Hewlett, M. Jamieson, W. Jankowiak, P.L. Honey, Z. Huang, M.A. Liebert, B.G. Purzycki, J. Shaver, J.J. Snodgrass, R. Sosis, L.S. Sugiyama, V. Swami, D.W. Yu, Y. Zhao, & I.S. Penton-Voak. Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111(40):14388–14393
2014Shaver, John and Richard Sosis. How does male ritual behavior vary across the lifespan? An examination of Fijian kava ceremonies. Human Nature 25: 136–160.
2014Sosis, Richard and Jordan Kiper. Religion is more than belief: What evolutionary theories of religion tell us about religious commitment, in Challenges to Religion and Morality: Disagreements and Evolution, eds. M. Bergmann and P. Kain, pp. 256–276. New York: Oxford University Press.
2014Shariff, Azim, Benjamin Purzycki, and Richard Sosis. Religions as Cultural Solutions to Social Living, in Culture Reexamined: Broadening Our Understanding of Social and Evolutionary Influences, ed. A.B. Cohen, pp. 217–238. Washington, DC: APA Books.
2014Purzycki, Benjamin, Omar Haque, and Richard Sosis Extending Evolutionary Accounts of Religion beyond the Mind: Religions as Adaptive Systems, in Evolution, Religion, and Cognitive Science: Criticaland Constructive Essays, eds. F. Watts and L. Turner, pp. 74–91. New York: Oxford University Press.
2013Purzycki, Benjamin and Richard Sosis. The extended religious phenotype and the adaptive coupling of ritual and belief. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 59:99–108.
2013Alcorta, Candace S. and Richard Sosis. Ritual, Religion, and Violence: an Evolutionary Perspective. Handbook of Religion and Violence, eds. M. Juergensmeyer, M. Kitts, M. Jerryson, pp. 571–596. New York: Oxford University Press.
2012Sosis, Richard, Erika J. Phillips, Candace S. Alcorta. Sacrifice and Sacred Values: Evolutionary Perspectives on Religious Terrorism, in Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence, Homicide, and War, eds. T. Shackelford & V. Weeks-Schackelford, pp. 233–253. New York: Oxford University Press.
2012Purzycki, Benjamin, Daniel Finkel, John Shaver, Nathan Wales, Adam B. Cohen, and Richard Sosis. What does God Know? Supernatural Agents’ Perceived Access to Socially Strategic and Nonstrategic Information. Cognitive Science 36:846–869.
2012Blumstein, D.T, S. Atran, S. Field, M.E. Hochberg, D.P.P. Johnson, R. Sagarin, R. Sosis, and B. Thayer. The Peacock’s Tail: Lessons from Evolution for Effective Signaling in International Politics. Cliodynamics 3:191–214.
2011Bulbulia, Joseph and Richard Sosis. Signalling Theory and the Evolution of Religious Cooperation. Religion, 41:3, 363–388.
2011Sosis, Richard and Joseph Bulbulia. The Behavioral Ecology of Religion: The Benefits and Costs of One Evolutionary Approach. Religion 41:3, 341–362.
2011Wildman, Wesley J. and Richard Sosis. Stability of Groups with Costly Beliefs and Practices.  Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 14 (3) 6.
2011Purzycki, Benjamin and Richard Sosis. Our Gods: Variation in Supernatural Minds, in Essential Building Blocks of Human Nature, eds. Ulrich Frey, C. Stormer, K.P. Willfuhr, pp. 77–93, New York: Springer.
2011Sosis, Richard. Why Sacred Lands are not Indivisible: The Cognitive Foundations of Sacralizing Land. Journal of Terrorism Research 2:17–44.
2011Sosis, Richard and W. Penn Handwerker. Psalms and Coping with Uncertainty: Israeli Women’s Responses to the 2006 Lebanon War. American Anthropologist 113:40–55.
2010Ruffle, Bradley and Richard Sosis. Do Religious Contexts Elicit More Trust and Altruism? An Experiment on Facebook. Social Science Research Network Electronic Journal.
2010Bulled, Nicola and Richard Sosis. Examining the influence of life expectancy on reproductive timing, total fertility, and educational attainment. Human Nature 21:269–289.
2010Saragin, R., C. Alcorta, S. Atran, D. Blumstein, G. Dietl, M. Hochberg, D. Johnson, S. Levin, E. Medin, J. Medin, E. Prescott, R. Sosis, T. Taylor, J. Tooby, G. Vermeij. Decentralize, Adapt and Cooperate. Nature 465: 292–293.
2010Alcorta, Candace and Richard Sosis. Signals and Rituals of Humans and Animals, in Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare, ed. Marc Bekoff, pp. 519–523, Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishers.
2010Finkel, Daniel, Paul Swartwout, and Richard Sosis. The Socio-Religious Brain: A Developmental Model, Eds. R. Dunbar, C. Gamble, J. Gowlett. Proceedings of the British Academy 158: 287–312.
2010Purzycki, Benjamin and Richard Sosis. Religious Concepts as Necessary Components of the Adaptive Religious System, in Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Philosophy: Evolution and Religion, ed. Ulrich Frey, pp. 37–59, Marburg, Germany: Tectum Verlag.
2009Sosis, Richard. The Adaptationist-Byproduct Debate on the Evolution of Religion: Five Misunderstandings of the Adaptationist Program. Journal of Cognition and Culture 9: 315–332.
2009Purzycki, Benjamin and Richard Sosis. The Religious System as Adaptive: Cognitive Flexibility, Public Displays, and Acceptance, in The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior, eds. Eckart Voland and Wulf Schiefenhovel, pp. 243–256, New York: Springer-Verlag Publishers.
2009Sosis, Richard and Ulrich Schnabel The Adjusted Belief: What makes a religion successful? in The Pope in the Crossfire: Extrapolate back to Pius or the Council? (in German), ed. Til Galrev, pp. 165–167, Berlin: LIT Verlag.
2009Sosis, Richard Why are Synagogue Services so Long? An Evolutionary Examination of Jewish Ritual Signals, in Judaism in Biological Perspective: Biblical Lore and Judaic Practices, ed. Rick Goldberg, pp. 199–233, Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.
2008Sosis, Richard and Joseph Bulbulia. Religion in Eden, In: The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques, eds. J. Bulbulia, R. Sosis, E. Harris, C. Genet, R. Genet, K. Wyman, pp. 15–19, Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.
2008Sosis, Richard Pigeons, Foxholes, and the Book of Psalms: Evolved Superstitious Responses to Cope with Stress and Uncertainty, in The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques, eds. J. Bulbulia, R. Sosis, E. Harris, C. Genet, R. Genet, K. Wyman, pp. 103–9, Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press.
2008Sosis, Richard and Candace Alcorta. Militants and Martyrs: Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion and Terrorism, in Natural Security: A Darwinian Approach to a Dangerous World, eds. R. Sagarin and T. Taylor, pp. 105–24, Berkeley: University of California Press.
2007Sosis, Richard. Psalms for Safety: Magico-Religious Responses to Threats of Terror. Current Anthropology 48:903–911.
2007Alcorta, Candace and Richard Sosis. Rituals of Humans and Animals, in Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships, vol. 2, ed. Marc Bekoff, pp. 599–605, Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishers.
2007Sosis, Richard, Howard Kress, and James Boster. Scars for War: Evaluating Alternative Signaling Explanations for Cross-Cultural Variance in Ritual Costs. Evolution and Human Behavior 28:234–247.
2007Ruffle, Bradley and Richard Sosis. Does it Pay to Pray? Costly Ritual and Cooperation. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 7:1–35 (Article 18).
2006Sosis, Richard. Religious Behaviors, Badges, and Bans: Signaling Theory and the Evolution of Religion, in Where God and Science Meet: How Brain and Evolutionary Studies Alter Our Understanding of Religion, Volume 1: Evolution, Genes, and the Religious Brain, ed. Patrick McNamara, pp. 61–86, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
2006Ruffle, Bradley and Richard Sosis. Cooperation and the In-Group-Out-Group Bias: A Field Test on Israeli Kibbutz Members and City Residents. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 60:147–163.
2005Sosis, Richard. Ifaluk Atoll: An Ethnographic Account, in eHRAF World Cultures, ed. Carol Ember. New Haven, CT: HRAF.
2005Alcorta, Candace and Richard Sosis. Ritual, Emotion, and Sacred Symbols: The Evolution of Religion as an Adaptive Complex. Human Nature 16:323–359.
2005Sosis, Richard. Does Religion Promote Trust? The Role of Signaling, Reputation, and Punishment. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 1:1–30 (Article 7).
2004Sosis, Richard and Bradley Ruffle. Ideology, Religion, and the Evolution of Cooperation: Field Tests on Israeli Kibbutzim. Research in Economic Anthropology 23:89–117.
2004Sosis, Richard. The Adaptive Value of Religious Ritual. American Scientist 92:166–172.
2003Sosis, Richard and Candace Alcorta. Signaling, Solidarity, and the Sacred: The Evolution of Religious Behavior. Evolutionary Anthropology 12:264–274.
2003Sosis, Richard and Bradley Ruffle. Religious Ritual and Cooperation: Testing for a Relationship on Israeli Religious and Secular Kibbutzim. Current Anthropology 44:713–722.
2003Sosis, Richard. Why aren’t we all Hutterites? Costly signaling theory and religious behavior. Human Nature 14:91–127.
2003Sosis, Richard and Eric Bressler. Cooperation and commune longevity: A test of the costly signaling theory of religion. Cross-Cultural Research 37:211–239
2002Sosis, Richard. Patch Choice Decisions on Ifaluk Atoll. American Anthropologist 104:583–598.
2001Sosis, Richard. Sharing, consumption, and patch choice on Ifaluk Atoll. Human Nature 12:221–245.
2000Sosis, Richard. Costly signaling and torch fishing on Ifaluk Atoll. Evolution and Human Behavior 21:223–244.
2000Sosis, Richard. Religion and intra-group cooperation: preliminary results of a comparative analysis of utopian communities. Cross-Cultural Research 34:70–87.
2000Sosis, Richard. The emergence and stability of cooperative fishing on Ifaluk Atoll, in Human Behavior and Adaptation: an Anthropological Perspective, eds. L. Cronk, N. Chagnon, and B. Irons, pp. 437–472, New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
1998Sosis, Richard, Sharon Feldstein, and Kim Hill. Bargaining theory and cooperative fishing participation on Ifaluk Atoll. Human Nature 9:163–203.

Edited Special Issues:

2005Sosis, Richard and Candace Alcorta, eds. Special issue of Human Nature on Evolution of Religion.

Commentaries:

2024Kiper, Jordan and Richard Sosis. The Role of Religion in the Evolution of Peace. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
2023Cristofori, Irene, Suzanne Hoogeveen, David Rohr, Joseph Bulbulia, John Shaver, Richard Sosis, and Wesley Wildman. Introducing Our New Editors Religion, Brain & Behavior 13: 1-4.
2022Spake, L., A. Hassan, R. Sear, M. Shenk, R. Sosis, and J. Shaver. Disentangling the Relationships between Religion and Fertility. Religion, Brain & Behavior 12: 343-346.
2022Sosis, Richard, Wesley Wildman, Joseph Bulbulia, and John Shaver. A Changing of the Guard. Religion, Brain & Behavior 12: 233-234.
2022Sosis, Richard, Joseph Bulbulia, Wesley Wildman, Uffe Schjoedt, and John Shaver. Introducing a Special Issue on Phase 2 of the Evolution of Religion and Morality Project. Religion, Brain & Behavior 12: 1-3.
2021Bulbulia, Joseph, Uffe Schjoedt, John Shaver, Richard Sosis, and Wesley Wildman. Causal Inference in Regression: Advice to Authors. Religion, Brain & Behavior 11: 353-360.
2021Wildman, Wesley and Richard Sosis. Post-Pandemic Religion. Religion, Brain & Behavior 11: 237-238.
2021Acquaro, Pamela and Richard Sosis. Willpower Through Cultural Tools: An Example from Alcoholics Anonymous.Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44: 16-17.
2021Sosis, Richard. Ritual, Cooperation, and Signaling. Introducing Anthropology: What Makes Us Human? 2nd edition, eds., Laura Pountney and Tomislav Maric, pp. 263-264. Boston: Polity Press
2021Schjoedt, Uffe, Wesley Wildman, Richard Sosis, and Joseph Bulbulia. Celebrating the Uninvited. Religion, Brain & Behavior 11: 121-122.
2021Bublulia, Joseph, Wesley Wildman, Richard Sosis, and Uffe Schjoedt. Announcing a New Type of Manuscript Submission: “The Retake”. Religion, Brain & Behavior 11: 1-4.
2020Rohr, David, Wesley Wildman, Richard Sosis, Joseph Bulbulia, Uffe Schjoedt, Joel Daniels, and Christopher Kavanagh. Reflections on the Scientific Study of Religion after the First Decade of Religion, Brain & Behavior. Religion, Brain & Behavior 10: 359-364.
2020Wildman, Wesley, Joseph Bulbulia, Richard Sosis, and Uffe Schjoedt. Religion and the Covid-19 Pandemic. Religion, Brain & Behavior 10: 115-117.
2020Sosis, Richard, Wesley Wildman, Joseph Bulbulia, and Uffe Schjoedt. Farewell, Old Syllabus! Religion, Brain & Behavior 10: 1-5.
2020Sosis, Richard. Why Religious Extremism is Maladaptive. This View of Life.
2019Sosis, Richard and Eugene Rogers. Continuing the Conversation. Fresh Thinking.
2019Joseph Bulbulia, Wesley Wildman, Uffe Schjoedt, and Richard Sosis. In Praise of Descriptive Research. Religion, Brain & Behavior 9: 219-220.
2019Wesley Wildman, Joseph Bulbulia, Richard Sosis, and Uffe Schjoedt. Is the Open Access Movement About to Get Real? Religion, Brain & Behavior 9: 105-107.
2019Uffe Shjoedt, Wesley Wildman, Richard Sosis, and Joseph Bulbulia. Vikings, Virtual Reality, and Supernatural Agents in Predictive Minds. Religion, Brain & Behavior 9: 1.
2018Kiper, Jordan and Richard Sosis. Toward a more comprehensive theory of self-sacrificial violence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 41: 26-27.
2018Sosis, Richard, Joseph Bulbulia, Wesley Wildman, and Uffe Schjoedt. The Fish That Got Away? Human Behavioral Ecology and the Study of Religion. Religion, Brain & Behavior 8: 351-353.
2018Wildman, Wesley, Uffe Schjoedt, Richard Sosis, and Joseph Bulbulia. “God is Watching You”… and might be influencing your brain, too. Religion, Brain & Behavior 8: 263—264.
2018Sosis, Richard. On Morals, Rituals, and Obligations. This View of Life.
2017Sosis, Richard, Wesley Wildman, Joseph Bulbulia, and Uffe Schjoedt. Hilbert Problems in the Scientific Study of Religion. Religion, Brain & Behavior 7:277-278.
2017Wildman, Wesley, Joseph Bulbulia, Richard Sosis, and Uffe Schjoedt. Models, simulations, abstractions, and insights. Religion, Brain & Behavior 7:175-177.
2017Sosis, Richard, Uffe Schjoedt, Joseph Bulbulia, and Wesley Wildman. Wilson’s 15-year-old cathedral. Religion, Brain & Behavior 7: 94-96.
2017Lang, Martin and Richard Sosis. Uncertain Malinowski: The Importance of Pre-Ritual Stress Data. Current Anthropology 58: 276-278.
2017Sosis, Richard. From Ritual to Morality: Where Deeds and Words Meet. Questions for a Resilient Future.
2017Sosis, Richard, Joseph Bulbulia, Wesley Wildman, and Uffe Schjoedt. Religion, Brain & Behavior’s Seventh Year. Religion, Brain & Behavior 7: 1-2.
2016Black, Lloyd and Richard Sosis. Why the evolutionary sociology of religion should build on rather than reinvent biological models. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion 4:37-41.
2016Bulbulia, Joseph, Wesley Wildman, Richard Sosis, and Michael Spezio. Standards for publishing. Religion, Brain & Behavior 6: 275-277.
2016Spezio, Michael, Wesley Wildman, Richard Sosis, and Joseph Bulbulia. Religion and Emotion. Religion, Brain & Behavior 6: 185-187.
2016Wildman, Wesley, Richard Sosis, Joseph Bulbulia, and Michael Spezio. Critical self-correction. Religion, Brain & Behavior 6: 93-94.
2016Sosis, Richard, Michael Spezio, Joseph Bulbulia, Wesley Wildman. The peer reviewer dilemma: How to appreciate the.pdf underappreciated. Religion, Brain & Behavior 6: 1-3.
2015Sosis, Richard and John Shaver. How rituals elicit shared sacred values. Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie 3: 75-81.
2015Sosis, Richard. From building blocks to building bridges. Religion and Society 6: 13-17.
2015Bulbulia, Joseph, Wesley Wildman, Richard Sosis, and Michael Spezio. What are “The Hilbert Problems” in the Scientific Study of Religion. Religion, Brain & Behavior 5: 263-265.
2015Spezio, Michael, Bulbulia, Joseph, Wildman, Wesley, and Richard Sosis. Religion, SCAN, and developing standards of inquiry. Religion, Brain & Behavior 5: 179-181.
2015Wildman, Wesley, Richard Sosis, Michael Spezio, and Joseph Bulbulia. The emerging psychology of religion. Religion, Brain & Behavior 5: 89-90.
2015Sosis, Richard and Wesley Wildman. At the beginning of year five… Religion, Brain & Behavior 5: 1-2.
2014Shaver, John and Richard Sosis. Selective reading and selectionist thinking: why violence has been, and should be, important to the cognitive science of religion. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion 2: 36-41.
2014Wildman, Wesley, Richard Sosis, and Patrick McNamara. Theoretical Neuroscience. Religion, Brain & Behavior 4: 181-182.
2014Sosis, Richard and Jordan Kiper. Why religion is better conceived as a complex system than a norm-enforcing institution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37: 275-276.
2014Wildman, Wesley, Richard Sosis, and Patrick McNamara. Editorial. Religion, Brain & Beahvior 4: 91.
2014Sosis, Richard, Wesley Wildman, and Patrick McNamara. Ethnography and Experiments in the Scientific Study of Religion. Religion, Brain & Behavior 4: 1-2.
2013Wildman, Wesley, Richard Sosis, and Patrick McNamara. The Scientific Study of Religion. Religion, Brain & Behavior 3: 183-4.
2013Sosis, Richard, Wesley Wildman, and Patrick McNamara. On the Naturalness of Religion. Religion, Brain & Behavior 3: 89-90.
2013Purzycki, Benjamin G., and Richard Sosis. Comment for Cooperation in Context: Public goods games and post-Soviet collectives in Kamchatka, Russia. Current Anthropology 54:166-7.
2013Johnson, D., C. Deane-Drummond, A. Fuentes, L. Cronk, H. Lenfesty, J. Schloss, R. Sosis. Darwin Day: Evolving Perspectives on God. Evolution: This View of Life.
2013Cronk, L., C. Cunningham, C. Deane-Drummond, J.O. Henriksen, D. Johnson, E. Rogers, J. Schloss, R. Song, R. Sosis, A. Visala. Religion in Evolutionary Perspective: Adaptive Faith. The Christian Century February 20: 34-39.
2013Wildman, Wesley, Richard Sosis, and Patrick McNamara. Bio-cultural approaches to social forms. Religion, Brain & Behavior 3: 1-2.
2012Sosis, Richard. The Evolution of Religion. Textbox in Lion Handbook on Science and Christianity, edited by R.J. Berry.
2012Sosis, Richard, Wesley Wildman, and Patrick McNamara. A New Format: The Book Symposium. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2: 181.
2012Wildman, Wesley, Richard Sosis, and Patrick McNamara. The Politics of Field Names. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2: 101-104.
2012Wildman, Wesley, Richard Sosis, and Patrick McNamara. The Scientific Study of Atheism. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2: 1-3.
2012Swartwout, Paul, Benjamin G. Purzycki, and Richard Sosis. Form and function in religious signaling under pathogen stress. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 35: 32-33.
2011Wildman, Wesley, Richard Sosis, and Patrick McNamara. Reductionism in the Scientific Study of Religion. Religion, Brain & Behavior 1:3 169-172.
2011McNamara, Patrick, Richard Sosis, and Wesley J. Wildman. The Scientific Study of Religion and the Humanities. Religion, Brain & Behavior 1: 101-102.
2011McNamara, Patrick, Richard Sosis, and Wesley J. Wildman. Announcing a New Journal: Religion, Brain & Behavior. Religion, Brain & Behavior 1: 1-4.
2009Bulbulia, Joseph and Richard Sosis. Ideology as Cooperative Affordance. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32:515-516.
2009Sosis, Richard and John Shaver. Comment for Attachment and Cooperation in Religious Groups: An Example of a Mechanism for Cultural Group Selection. Current Anthropology 50:775-776.
2008Sosis, Richard and Paul Swartwout. Demonstrating Group Selection: A Comment on Landa’s “The Bioeconomics of Homogeneous Middlemam Groups as Adaptive Units.” Journal of Bioeconomics 10:297-301.
2008Alcorta, Candace, Richard Sosis, and Daniel Finkel. Ritual Harmony: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Music. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31:576-577.
2006Alcorta, Candace and Richard Sosis. Why Ritual Works: A Rejection of the By-Product Hypothesis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29:613-614.
2005Sosis, Richard. Methods do Matter: Variation in Experimental Methodologies and Results. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28: 834-835.
2004Sosis, Richard and Candace Alcorta. Is Religion Adaptive? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27:749-750.
2004Sosis, Richard. Insights from Ifaluk: Food Sharing Among Cooperative Fishers Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27:568-569.
2004Sosis, Richard and Bradley Ruffle. On Ritual and Cooperation. Current Anthropology 45:529-531.
2002Sosis, Richard. Comment for Rousseau’s whale hunt? Coordination among big-game hunters. Current Anthropology 43:553-554.
1997Sosis, Richard and Kim Hill. Comment for Delayed reciprocity and tolerated theft: the behavioral ecology of food-sharing strategies. Current Anthropology 38: 73-74.
1997Sosis, Richard and Kim Hill. Comment for Consumption and production: sharing and the social construction of use-value. Current Anthropology 38: 42-43.

Book Reviews

2008Purzycki, Benjamin, Paul Swartwout, and Richard Sosis Searching for Darwin: Metaphor, Collusion, and Natural Selection: Review of ‘The Supernatural and Natural Selection’, by Lyle Steadman and Craig Palmer. Evolutionary Psychology 6: 628-636.
2007Sosis, Richard. Breaking the Wrong Spell: Review of “Breaking the Spell”, by Daniel Dennett. Free Inquiry 27:59-60.
2004Sosis, Richard. Preaching Morality and Metaphysics: Review of The Evolution of Morality and Religion by Donald M. Broom. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19:566-567.
2003Sosis, Richard. Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society by David Sloan Wilson. Evolution and Human Behavior 24:137-143.
2000Sosis, Richard. Review of Ever Since Adam and Eve: the Evolution of Human Sexuality by Malcolm Potts and Roger Short. Evolution and Human Behavior 21:291-294.