Beliefs about God, the afterlife and morality support the role of supernatural policing in human cooperation

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Evolutionary accounts of belief in supernatural punishment: a critical review (2011, background): “Other authors have also recently distinguished a ‘‘supernatural monitoring hypothesis’’ from SPH (Atkinson & Bourrat, 2011).”
Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists (2017, unknown): “We chose these countries because they: (1) exhibit substantial country-level variability in average religious belief including both highly secular societies (for example, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Finland, China) and highly religious ones (for example, United Arab Emirates, Mauritius, India; Supp”
The evolution of religion and morality: a synthesis of ethnographic and experimental evidence from eight societies (2017, background): “Several experiments (Bering et al., 2005; Piazza et al., 2011) and correlational studies using extant databases (Atkinson & Bourrat, 2011) have shown the prosocial effects of supernatural monitoring.”
What predicts religiosity? A multinational analysis of reproductive and cooperative morals (2013, background): “Recently, Atkinson and Bourrat (2011) used data from the same international database and showed a significant correlation between cooperative morals and religious beliefs.”