Scarth, B., Bering, J. M., Marsh, I., Santiago-Irizarry, V., & Andriessen, K. (2021). Strategies to stay alive: Adaptive toolboxes for living well with suicidal behavior. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(15), 8013.
Stojanov, A., Halberstadt, J., Bering, J. M., & Kenig, N. (2021). Examining a domain-specific link between perceived control and conspiracy beliefs: A brief report in the context of COVID-19. Current Psychology, 1-10.
Harcourt, E., Bering, J., & Gullam, J. (2021). Opposition to abortion related to inaccurate beliefs about fetal pain perception in utero. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 61(4), 599-603.
Luna, D. S., Bering, J. M., & Halberstadt, J. B. (2021). Public faith in science in the United States through the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public Health in Practice, 2, 100103.
Silva Luna, D. & Bering, J. M. (2021). The construction of awe in the communication of science. Public Understanding of Science, 30, 2-15.
Stojanov, A., Halberstadt, J. B., & Bering, J. M. (2020). Does perceived lack of control lead to conspiracy theory beliefs? PLOS ONE, 15(8), e0237771
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.
