Ingram, G. P. D., & Bering, J. M. (2010). Children’s tattling: The reporting of everyday norm violations in preschool settings. Child Development, 81, 945-957.
Piazza, J. R., & Bering, J. M. (2009). Evolutionary cyber-psychology: Applying an evolutionary framework to Internet behavior. Computers in Human Behavior, 25, 1258-1269.
Bering, J. M. (2009). Invited commentary on C. Popp Weingarten and J. S. Chisholm, Attachment and cooperation in religious groups. Current Anthropology, 50, 772.
Piazza, J. R. & Bering, J. M. (2008). The effects of perceived anonymity on altruistic punishment. Evolutionary Psychology, 6, 487-501.
Piazza, J. R., & Bering, J. M. (2008). Concerns about reputation via gossip promote generous allocations in an economic game. Evolution & Human Behavior, 29,172-178.
Bering, J. M. (2008). Why hell is other people: Distinctively human psychological suffering. Review of General Psychology, 12, 1-8.
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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