Swan, T., Bering, J. M., Hughes, R., & Halberstadt, J. B. (in press). Burying objects with the dead is motivated by intuitive afterlife reasoning. Cognitive Science.
Waggoner, B., Bering, J. M., & Halberstadt, J. B. (in press). The desire to be remembered: A review and analysis of legacy motivations and behaviors. New Ideas in Psychology.
Silva Luna, D. & Bering, J. M. (2022). The varieties of awe in science communication. Science Communication, 44, 347-374.
Silva Luna, D., Bering, J. M., & Halberstadt, J. B. (2022). The value and distinctiveness of awe in science communication: Comparing the incidence and content of ‘awesome’ representations in science and non-science picture books. International Journal of Science Education, Part B, 12, 143-156.
Bering, J. M., Smith, S., Stojanov, A., Halberstadt, J. B., & Hughes, R. J. (2021). The “ghost” in the lab: Believers’ and non-believers’ implicit responses to an alleged apparition. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 32, 214-231.
Gilbert, A. W., Bering, J. M., & Anderson, L. C. (2021). Addressing head injury risk in youthfootball: are heading guidelines the answer? Science and Medicine in Football, 1-7.
Alogna, V., Balkcom, E., Halberstadt, J., Bering, J. M., & Swan, T. (in press). What “implicit belief” can tell us about the nature and ubiquity of not believing. In L. Lee, J. Lanman, M. Farias, and S. Bullivant (Eds.), Cultures of unbelief. Oxford University Press.
Bering, J. M. (2019). Why do we see ‘supernatural’ signs in natural events? In J. Slone and L. McCorkle (Eds.), Empirical studies in the cognitive science of religion (pp. 1-18). Bloomsbury Academic.
Harnden-Warwick, D., & Bering, J. M. (2012). Ecce pan: Primate theory of mind and the notion of awe. In The Routledge companion to religion and science (pp. 487-496). Routledge.
Holbrook-Hahn, J., Holbrook, C., & Bering, J. M. (2010). Snakes, spiders, strangers: How the evolved fear of strangers may misdirect efforts to protect children from harm. In J. Lampinen and K. Sexton-Radek (Eds.), Protecting children from violence: Evidence based interventions (pp. 263-287). Psychology Press.
Johnson, D. D. P., & Bering, J. M. (2009). Hand of God, mind of man: Punishment and cognition in the evolution of cooperation. In J. Schloss and M. Murray (Eds.), The believing primate: Scientific, philosophical, and theological reflections on the origin of religion (pp. 26-43). Oxford University Press.
Ingram, G. P. D., Piazza, J., & Bering, J. M. (2009). The adaptive problem of absent third-party punishment. In H. Høgh-Olesen, L. Hansen and P. Bertelsen (Eds.), Human characteristics: Evolutionary perspectives on human mind and kind (pp. 205-229). Cambridge Scholars.
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Jesse is Head of the Department of Science Communication at the University of Otago.
