Hernández-Blasi, C., Bering, J. M., & Bjorklund, D. F. (2003). Evolutionary developmental psychology: Viewing human ontogeny through the eyes of evolutionary theory (Psicología Evolucionista del Desarrollo: Contemplando la ontogénesis humana desde los ojos del evolucionismo). Infancia y Aprendizaje, 26, 267-285.
Bering, J. M. (2003). Religious concepts are probably epiphenomena: A reply to Pyysiäinen, Boyer, and Barrett. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 3, 244-254.
Bering, J. M. (2003). Towards a cognitive theory of existential meaning. New Ideas in Psychology, 21, 101-120.
Bjorklund, D. F., & Bering, J. M. (2003). A note on the development of deferred imitation in enculturated juvenile chimpanzees. Developmental Review, 23, 389-412.
Bering, J. M. (2002). Intuitive conceptions of dead agents’ minds: The natural foundations of afterlife beliefs as phenomenological boundary. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2, 263-308.
Povinelli, D. J., & Bering, J. M. (2002). The mentality of apes revisited. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 115-119.
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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