Aiyana K. Willard

Sociology and Political Science · 2011–2017

A researcher in the Science corpus: 3 papers; trusts 7 researchers and is trusted by 0 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• Sociology and Political Science — 49 citations into it
• Social Psychology — 20 citations into it
• Cognitive Neuroscience — 18 citations into it
• Demography — 12 citations into it
• Health — 11 citations into it
• Philosophy — 8 citations into it
• Cultural Studies — 6 citations into it

Whom Aiyana K. Willard trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. Joseph Henrich
2. Pascal Boyer
3. P. Bloom
4. Daniel M. Hungerman
5. Scott Atran
6. Ara Norenzayan
7. W. Gervais

Papers from Aiyana K. Willard's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers Aiyana K. Willard trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
2. The evolution of cultural evolution
3. Cognitive templates for religious concepts: cross-cultural evidence for recall of counter-intuitive representations (Cognitive Sciences)
4. The evolution of prestige: freely conferred deference as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission. (Evolution and human behavior)
5. Altruistic punishment in humans (Nature)
6. The Intentional Stance
7. Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?
8. The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism
9. The evolution of cooperation
10. Between the Lines: The God delusion

Their papers

• THE CULTURAL TRANSMISSION OF FAITH Why innate intuitions are necessary, but insufficient, to explain religious belief (2011) — 152 citations
• The evolution of religion and morality: a synthesis of ethnographic and experimental evidence from eight societies (2017) — 91 citations
• Testing theories of secularization and religious belief in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (2017) — 130 citations