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.
Bering, J. M. (2008). How Sartre inadvertently presaged a proper evolutionary science of religion. In J. Bulbulia, R. Sosis, C. Genet, R. Genet, E. Harris, & K. Wyman (Eds.), The evolution of religion: Studies, theories, and critiques. The Collins Foundations Press.
Bering, J. M., & Bjorklund, D. F. (2007). The serpent’s gift: Evolutionary psychology and consciousness. In P. D. Zelazo, M. Moscovitch and E. Thompson (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of consciousness, pp. 597-630. Cambridge University Press.
Bering, J. M. (2006). The cognitive psychology of supernatural belief [As reprinted from American Scientist]. In P. McNamara (Ed.). Where God and science meet: How brain and evolutionary studies alter our understanding of religion (pp. 123-134). Praeger/Greenwood.
Bering, J. M. (2005). The evolutionary history of an illusion: Religious causal beliefs in children and adults. In B. Ellis & D. Bjorklund (Eds.), Origins of the social mind: Evolutionary psychology and child development (pp. 411-437). Guilford Press.
Bering, J. M., & Povinelli, D. J. (2003). Comparing cognitive development. In D. Maestripieri (Ed.), Primate psychology: Bridging the gap between the mind and behavior of human and nonhuman primates (pp. 205-233). Harvard University Press.
Bjorklund, D. F. & Bering, J. M. (2003). Big brains, slow development, and social complexity: The developmental and evolutionary origins of social cognition. In M. Brüne (Ed.), The social brain – evolutionary aspects of development and pathology (pp. 113-151). Wiley.
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Jesse is Head of the Department of Science Communication at the University of Otago.
