Shackelford, T. S., Liddle, J. R., Bering, J. M., & Shalkoski, G. (2014). Unbidden confession as an evolved pre-emptive strategy against punishment: A preliminary investigation with prisoners. Personality and Individual Differences, 61, 86-90.
Heywood, B. T., & Bering, J. M. (2014). “Meant to be”: How religious beliefs and cultural religiosity affect the implicit bias to think teleologically. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 4, 183-201.
Piazza, J. R., Bering, J. M., & Ingram, G. (2011). “Princess Alice is watching you”: Children’s belief in an invisible person inhibits cheating. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 109, 311-320.
Piazza, J. R. & Bering, J. M. (2010). The coevolution of secrecy and stigmatization. Human Nature, 21, 290-308.
Bering, J. M. (2010). Atheism is only skin deep: Geertz and Markússon rely mistakenly on sociodemographic data as meaningful indicators of underlying cognition. Religion, 40, 166-168.
Bering, J. M. (2010). The nonexistent purpose of people: Have our minds evolved to see human beings as types of artifacts? The Psychologist, 23, 290-293.
Povinelli, D. J., Bering, J. M., & Giambrone, S. (2003). Chimpanzee ‘pointing’: Another error of the argument by analogy? In S. Kita (Ed.), Pointing: Where language, culture, and cognition meet (pp. 35-68). Erlbaum.
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