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
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.
