Bering, J. M. (2002). ‘Ratcheting’ up the scalae naturae? Review of The cultural origins of human cognition by M. Tomasello. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 1, 353-358.
Bjorklund, D. F., Yunger, J. L., Bering, J. M., & Ragan, P. (2002). The generalization of deferred imitation in enculturated chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Animal Cognition, 5, 49-58.
Bering, J. M. (2002). The existential theory of mind. Review of General Psychology, 6, 3-24.
Bering, J. M. (2001). Are chimpanzees ‘mere’ existentialists? A phylogenetic approach to religious origins. Evolution and Cognition, 7, 126-133.
Bering, J. M. (2001). God is not in the mirror: A reply to Gallup and Maser. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 1, 207-211.
Bjorklund, D. F., & Bering, J. M. (2000). The evolved child: Applying evolutionary developmental psychology to modern schooling. Learning and Individual Differences, 12, 347-373.
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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