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Nicholas Gibson @njsgibson.bsky.social · 8d

If you're a data scientist interested in a full-time or part-time role working with developmental psychologists on cross-cultural data from parents and children, check out this position with the Developing Belief Network. Application review begins October 15, 2025. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Position: Full-Time Data Scientist, Developing Belief Network

Position: Full-Time Data Scientist, Developing Belief Network Description: We are looking for a full-time data scientist to join the Developing Belief Network, a global team of psychologists studying...

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social · 13d

RCC's Lauritz Holm Petersen successfully defended his dissertation, *The Ebb and Flow of Apocalypse: A Systems Theory Approach to Religious Endtime Narratives*! Tillykke Lauritz!

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social · 19d

Congratulations to RCC’s Jesper Sørensen on successfully defending his higher doctoral dissertation today! Skål!

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social · Aug 31

RCC representing at IAHR 2025 in Krakow! @djsmith90.bsky.social @bgpurzycki.bsky.social

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social · Aug 7

Double whammy just out with RCC's @djsmith90.bsky.social Longitudinal projects and causal inference!

Religion and trauma: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Climate change concern and mental health: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Does concern regarding climate change impact subsequent mental health? A longitudinal analysis using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) | Royal Society Open Science

Climate change is having a substantial—and increasingly severe—impact on our planet, affecting people’s health, security and livelihoods. As a consequence, the concept of ‘climate anxiety’ has recentl...

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social · Jul 21

Book symposium for Jesper Sørensen’s *Why Cultures Persist* posted online at Religion, Brain and Behavior. With commentaries from, among others, RCC’s Anders Klostergaard Petersen and @bgpurzycki.bsky.social.

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Latest articles from Religion, Brain & Behavior

Browse the latest articles and research from Religion, Brain & Behavior

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social · Jul 16

RCC’s @bgpurzycki.bsky.social talking about gods on @artefr.bsky.social’s show Stimmt es, dass…?

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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · Jun 20

Philosopher Helen De Cruz has died.

Helen De Cruz (1978-2025) - Daily Nous

Helen De Cruz, professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, has died. Professor De Cruz specialized in philosophy of religion and cognitive science. They were the author of Wonderstruck: How Won...

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social · Jun 11

Free online for the next two weeks: @bgpurzycki.bsky.social‘s *Morality and the Gods*. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Morality and the Gods

Cambridge Core - Applied Psychology - Morality and the Gods

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social · May 15

New from RCC's @djsmith90.bsky.social et al.!

Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social · May 14

📣 New paper by myself @djsmith90.bsky.social and colleagues published today in @royalsociety.org Proc B 📣

Grandmothers are often seen as key carers, but this isn’t always the case.

We explore why in Agta forgers reflecting on the implications of demography for evolution of grandmothering 👵🌍

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Elspeth Ready @elspethready.bsky.social · May 7

Job announcement 🚨: paid fieldwork opportunity with Sanguatsiniq research project! Details in thread ⬇️ Please share!

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Nicholas Gibson @njsgibson.bsky.social · May 1

Post-doc opportunities in religious cognition don't come up too often these days, but here's a good one in the Czech Republic with @martinlangcz.bsky.social www.muni.cz/en/about-us/...

Postdoctoral researcher in social cognition | Masaryk University

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AnthroTools: A Package in R @anthrotools.bsky.social · Apr 30

AnthroTools 2.0 is live! Nine new functions that propagate, plot, and summarize uncertainty around item and cultural salience values. @djsmith90.bsky.social @bgpurzycki.bsky.social @rcc-au.bsky.social

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social · Apr 11

Another offering from RCC's @djsmith90.bsky.social!

Dan Major-Smith @djsmith90.bsky.social · Apr 11

Can religious beliefs shape peoples' attitudes and behaviours regarding climate change?

We explored this using data from a large-scale UK cohort study (ALSPAC)

In short: Perhaps, but it's complicated. Answer depends on generation, religiosity measure and climate question

doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Associations between religiosity and climate change beliefs and behaviours in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)

Individual actions are crucial to mitigating the impact of anthropogenic climate change. Understanding the factors shaping individuals’ climate beliefs and behaviours is therefore essential to help en...

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social · Apr 9

Warm preprint from RCC's @djsmith90.bsky.social and @bgpurzycki.bsky.social! Embracing uncertainty in quantitative ethnography!

Dan Major-Smith @djsmith90.bsky.social · Apr 9

Are you into free-list methods and want to incorporate uncertainty into your group-level estimates (eg Smith's S)?

Of course you do!

Then @bgpurzycki.bsky.social and I have a new preprint for your delectation!

doi.org/10.31219/osf...

OSF

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social · Mar 19

No clear co-causal evidence of religion and mental health! Hot off the digital press from RCC's @djsmith90.bsky.social!

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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · Feb 17

Having a monk in the family is associated with lower mortality in older Tibetans: a seven-year prospective cohort study Liqiong Zhou @erhaoworld.bsky.social et al |Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Having a monk in the family and all-cause mortality: a seven-year prospective cohort study | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

Having a monk in the family and all-cause mortality: a seven-year prospective cohort study - Volume 7

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Léo Fitouchi @lfitouchi.bsky.social · Feb 11

Where do moralizing religions come from? Useless cognitive by-products?Cultural group selection for complex societies?

Our Psych Review paper argues: neither. Let’s rethink their cognitive & evolutionary origins🧵
w/ @manvir.bsky.social @nbaumard @jbaptistandre.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · Feb 9

Apply for a fellowship to join us for 2 years at Oxford Brookes Uni!

Deadline is 18 March.

(<7 years of active full time postdoctoral experience at the time of application)

Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · Feb 8

If you're an early career researcher - perhaps based in a fledgling authoritarian state - and want an out, @britishacademy.bsky.social offer 2-year fellowships to come to a UK university (including relocation costs and research funds).

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

International Fellowships 2025

The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

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Martin Lang @martinlangcz.bsky.social · Feb 6

Postdoc position available in our team!

We are testing a computational model explaining the decision-making process during in normative/moral situations while incorporating the formative role of culture in this process.

www.muni.cz/en/about-us/...

#socialpsyc
#PsychSciSky
#cogpsyc

Postdoctoral researcher in social cognition | Masaryk University

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social · Feb 1

Interested in examining culture, cultural models, and what people think, know, and believe? New book from RCC’s @bgpurzycki.bsky.social coming soon as part of Sage’s “Little Green Book” series!

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social · Jan 17

From the desk of RCC's @bgpurzycki.bsky.social: "Does cultural variance lie more between or within groups? The AnthroTools R package now includes a cultural FST calculator for two or more groups."

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social · Jan 15

Jana Nenadalová and RCC's Armin Geertz engage in a spirited debate about the "neuroscience of religion" out now in the Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion www.researchgate.net/publication/...

On Methodological Agnosticism and Neurotheology: A Reply to David B. Yaden | Request PDF

Request PDF | On Nov 5, 2024, Jana Nenadalová and others published On Methodological Agnosticism and Neurotheology: A Reply to David B. Yaden | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Researc...

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social · Jan 10

Pre-print *Morality and the Gods* from RCC's @bgpurzycki.bsky.social

www.academia.edu/126919815/Mo...

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social · Jan 7

In-browser app for coding qualitative data. Something to check out.

William Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · Jan 6

Announcing a side-project that I have been working on for the past few months – introducing quokka, a free-to-use, in-browser app for qualitative coding. My goal was to make an app that was fairly intuitive and flexible so that it could fit most workflows. An app demo here: youtu.be/9jJK70W0hAI?...

quokka – an in-browser qualitative analysis app

YouTube video by Dr William Ngiam

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