Publications of Joseph Watts
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Journal Article (15)
2023
Journal Article
2023, s41562-023-01558-0 (2023)
Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena. Nature Human Behaviour 2022
Journal Article
17 (3), 17456916211004899, pp. 805 - 826 (2022)
From text to thought: how analyzing language can advance Psychological Science. Perspectives on Psychological Science
Journal Article
4, e17 (2022)
Food storage facilitates professional religious specialization in hunter–gatherer societies. Evolutionary Human Sciences 2021
Journal Article
8 (1), 113 (2021)
The Austronesian Game Taxonomy: A cross-cultural dataset of historical games. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 2020
Journal Article
375 (1805), 20190428 (2020)
Church attendance and alloparenting: an analysis of fertility, social support and child development among English mothers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences
Journal Article
201, 104290, pp. 1 - 5 (2020)
Text analysis shows conceptual overlap as well as domain-specific differences in Christian and secular worldviews. Cognition 2019
Journal Article
366, pp. 1517 - 1522 (2019)
Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure. Science 2018
Journal Article
2, pp. 559 - 564 (2018)
Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies. Nature Human Behaviour
Journal Article
115 (14), pp. 3628 - 3633 (2018)
Coevolution of landesque capital intensive agriculture and sociopolitical hierarchy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2017
Journal Article
114 (30), pp. 7846 - 7852 (2017)
Cultural macroevolution matters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Journal Article
7 (4), pp. 285 - 288 (2017)
Can honest signaling theory clarify religion’s role in the evolution of social inequality? Religion, Brain and Behavior 2016
Journal Article
532 (7598), 17159, pp. 228 - 231 (2016)
Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies. Nature
Journal Article
39 (January), e27 (2016)
Clarity and causality needed in claims about Big Gods. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2015
Journal Article
10 (9), e0136783 (2015)
Pulotu: Database of Austronesian supernatural beliefs and practices. PLoS One
Journal Article
282 (1804), 20142556 (2015)
Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Book Chapter (1)
2019
Book Chapter
Did ritualized human sacrifice help build and sustain social inequality? In: The cognitive science of religion: A methodological introduction to key empirical studies, pp. 239 - 248 (Eds. Slone, J.; McCorkle Jr., W.). Bloomsbury, London (2019)
Working Paper (1)
2020
Working Paper
Religious rituals increase social bonding and pain threshold. PsyArXiv Preprints, my4hs (2020)
Other (1)
2022
Other
WEIRD people and The Western Church: who made who?, Religion, Brain & Behavior, (2022)