The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate Deep Commitments to Prosocial Religions

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Don’t stop believing: Rituals improve performance by decreasing anxiety (2016, background): “Previous research has identified both functional and dysfunctional consequences of group rituals (e.g., Atran & Henrich, 2010; Blake, 2014; Collins, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2016.07.004 0749-5978/Ó 2016 Elsevier Inc.”
When consequence size predicts belief in conspiracy theories: The moderating role of perspective taking (2014, background): “Moreover, it has been noted that theory of mind is closely associated with agency detection, which in turn predicts a variety of belief systems, including supernatural beliefs and religion (e.g., Atran & Henrich, 2010; Bering, 2011).”
The Varieties of Self-Transcendent Experience (2017, background): “However, whether the group-level process (if it occurred at all) involved exclusively cultural group selection (Atran & Henrich, 2010) or cultural group selection that had some effect on genes as well (Haidt, 2012) cannot be known at present.”