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University of Otago: Dunedin, NZ

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John Shaver

Baylor University: Waco, US

Associate Professor (Anthropology)
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Self-treatment with psychedelic substances for health and wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand: an exploratory descriptive study

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online
2025-03-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/1177083X.2025.2467035
Contributors: Chris Arnison; Richard Egan; John H. Shaver
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Religion’s Hilbert problems, ten years later: progress, pitfalls, and new horizons

Religion, Brain & Behavior
2025-01-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2025.2464354
Contributors: John H. Shaver; Richard Sosis; Robert M. Ross; Joseph Watts; Michael Price; Wesley J. Wildman; Suzanne Hoogeveen; Ryan T. McKay; Irene Cristofori
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Religious Involvement Is Associated With Higher Fertility and Lower Maternal Investment, but More Alloparental Support Among Gambian Mothers

American Journal of Human Biology
2024-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.24144
Contributors: John H. Shaver; Radim Chvaja; Laure Spake; Anushé Hassan; Jainaba Badjie; Andrew M. Prentice; Carla Cerami; Rebecca Sear; Mary K. Shenk; Richard Sosis
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Religion, Brain & Behavior adopts stricter transparency standards

Religion, Brain & Behavior
2024-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2024.2424031
Contributors: Wesley J. Wildman; Robert M. Ross; Ryan T. McKay; Joseph Watts; Suzanne Hoogeveen; Richard Sosis; Irene Cristofori; Michael E. Price; John Shaver
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Replacing the irreplaceable

Religion, Brain & Behavior
2024-04-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2024.2356389
Contributors: Ryan McKay; Michael Price; Robert M. Ross; Joseph Watts; Irene Cristofori; Suzanne Hoogeveen; John Shaver; Richard Sosis; Wesley Wildman
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The impact of market integration on arranged marriages in Matlab, Bangladesh

Evolutionary Human Sciences
2023 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2022.54
Contributors: S.B. Schaffnit; A. E. Page; R. Lynch; L. Spake; R. Sear; R. Sosis; J. Shaver; N. Alam; M.C. Towner; M. K. Shenk
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Nuclearization of maternal support networks in the UK and the US during the COVID-19 pandemic: impact on women’s financial and emotional wellbeing

2023-09-12 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/ne2kv
Contributors: Anushé Hassan; Laure Spake; John Shaver; Mary K Shenk; Richard Sosis; Rebecca Sear
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A practical guide to cross-cultural and multi-sited data collection in the biological and behavioural sciences

2023-06-23 | Preprint
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/z7rkp
Contributors: Laure Spake; Anushé Hassan; Susan Barris Schaffnit; Joseph Watts, Dr.; Rebecca Sear; Mary K Shenk; Richard Sosis; John Shaver
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Introducing our new editors

Religion, Brain & Behavior
2023-01-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2023.2173715
Contributors: Irene Cristofori; Suzanne Hoogeveen; David Rohr; Joseph Bulbulia; John Shaver; Richard Sosis; Wesley J. Wildman
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Food storage facilitates professional religious specialization in hunter–gatherer societies

Evolutionary Human Sciences
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2022.17
Contributors: Joseph Watts; Elise M. Hamerslag; Cassie Sprules; John H. Shaver; Robin I. M. Dunbar
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Disentangling the relationships between religion and fertility

Religion, Brain & Behavior
2022-10-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2022.2127212
Contributors: Laure Spake; Anushé Hassan; Rebecca Sear; Mary K. Shenk; Richard Sosis; John H. Shaver
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Faith and fertility in evolutionary perspective

Religion, Brain & Behavior
2022-10-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2021.2023618
Contributors: John H. Shaver; Laure Spake; Robert Lynch; Mary K. Shenk
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Fertility and faith: insights from human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and life history theory

Religion, Brain & Behavior
2022-10-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2021.2023617
Contributors: Robert Lynch; Mary K. Shenk; John H. Shaver; Laure Spake
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Kiwi Diwali: a longitudinal investigation of perceived social connection following a civic religious ritual

Religion, Brain & Behavior
2022-07-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006288
Contributors: Sofia D. Piven; Ronald Fischer; John H. Shaver; Reneeta Mogan; Johannes A. Karl; Rebekka Kesberg; Amanda Richardson; Purnima Singh; Shruti Tewari; Joseph Bulbulia
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A comparison of self-report, systematic observation and third-party judgments of church attendance in a rural Fijian Village

PLOS ONE
2021-10-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0257160
Contributors: John H. Shaver; Jonathan Jong; Thomas A. J. White; Patrick Vakaoti; Martin Lang
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Social support, nutrition and health among women in rural Bangladesh: complex tradeoffs in allocare, kin proximity and support network size

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2021-06-21 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0027
Contributors: Mary K. Shenk; Anne Morse; Siobhán M. Mattison; Rebecca Sear; Nurul Alam; Rubhana Raqib; Anjan Kumar; Farjana Haque; Tami Blumenfield; John Shaver et al.
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Mother’s Partnership Status and Allomothering Networks in the United Kingdom and United States

Social Sciences
2021-05-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/socsci10050182
Contributors: Laure Spake; Susan B. Schaffnit; Rebecca Sear; Mary K. Shenk; Richard Sosis; John H. Shaver
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Longitudinal Mediators of Early Pandemic Distress

2020-09-18 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/2020.09.15.20194829
Contributors: Joseph A Bulbulia; Sofia D Piven; Fiona Kate Barlow; Don E. Davis; Lara M Greaves; Benjamin Highland; Carla A Houkamau; Taciano L Milfont; Danny Osborne; John H Shaver et al.
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Church attendance and alloparenting: an analysis of fertility, social support and child development among English mothers

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2020-08-17 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0428
Contributors: John H. Shaver; Eleanor A. Power; Benjamin G. Purzycki; Joseph Watts; Rebecca Sear; Mary K. Shenk; Richard Sosis; Joseph A. Bulbulia
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The Bittersweet Dynamics of Psychological Distress and Relief During New Zealand’s COVID-19 Lockdown Clarify Avoidable Mental Health Burdens

2020-06-26 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/2m7re
Contributors: Joseph Bulbulia; Fiona Barlow; Don E. Davis; Lara Greaves; Benjamin Highland; Carla Houkamau; Taciano L Milfont; Danny Osborne; Sofia Piven; John Shaver et al.
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Mechanisms of COVID-19 Mental Health Burden

2020-06-23 | Other
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/cswde
Contributors: Joseph Bulbulia; Sofia Piven; Fiona Barlow; Don E. Davis; Lara Greaves; Benjamin Highland; Carla Houkamau; Taciano L Milfont; Danny Osborne; John Shaver et al.
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Alloparenting and religious fertility: A test of the religious alloparenting hypothesis

Evolution and Human Behavior
2019-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.01.004
Contributors: John H. Shaver; Chris G. Sibley; Richard Sosis; Deane Galbraith; Joseph Bulbulia
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The Boundaries of Trust: Cross-Religious and Cross-Ethnic Field Experiments in Mauritius

Evolutionary Psychology
2018-10-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/1474704918817644
Contributors: John H. Shaver; Martin Lang; Jan Krátký; Eva Kundtová Klocová; Radek Kundt; Dimitris Xygalatas
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News exposure predicts anti-Muslim prejudice

PLOS ONE
2017-03-31 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174606
Contributors: John H. Shaver; Michiel van Elk; Chris G. Sibley; Danny Osborne; Joseph Bulbulia
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Christian religious badges instill trust in Christian and non-Christian perceivers.

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1037/rel0000045
Contributors: Michael E. McCullough; Paul Swartwout; John H. Shaver; Evan C. Carter; Richard Sosis
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Anxiety and ritualization: Can attention discriminate compulsion from routine?

Communicative & Integrative Biology
2016-05-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/19420889.2016.1174799
Contributors: Jan Krátký; Martin Lang; John H. Shaver; Danijela Jerotijević; Dimitris Xygalatas
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Religion and the Unmaking of Prejudice toward Muslims: Evidence from a Large National Sample

PLoS ONE
2016-03-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150209
Contributors: John H. Shaver; Geoffrey Troughton; Chris G. Sibley; Joseph A. Bulbulia; Michiel van Elk
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Neural correlates of mystical experience

Neuropsychologia
2016-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.11.021
Contributors: Irene Cristofori; Joseph Bulbulia; John H. Shaver; Marc Wilson; Frank Krueger; Jordan Grafman
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How Rituals Elicit Shared Sacred Values

Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie
2015 | Other
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-10978-3_9
Contributors: Richard Sosis; John H. Shaver
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Effects of Anxiety on Spontaneous Ritualized Behavior

Current Biology
2015-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.05.049
Contributors: Martin Lang; Jan Krátký; John H. Shaver; Danijela Jerotijević; Dimitris Xygalatas
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Religion

Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
2015-05 | Other
DOI: 10.1002/9781118900772.etrds0280
Contributors: Benjamin Grant Purzycki; Jordan Kiper; John Shaver; Daniel N. Finkel; Richard Sosis
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Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel

Proc Natl Acad Sci USA
2014-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1409643111
Contributors: Isabel M. Scott; Andrew P. Clark; Steven C. Josephson; Adam H. Boyette; Innes C. Cuthill; Ruby L. Fried; Mhairi A. Gibson; Barry S. Hewlett; Mark Jamieson; William Jankowiak et al.
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Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict, by Ara Norenzayan. Princeton University Press, 2013. 264pp., 10 halftones, Hb. $29.95/£19.95. ISBN-13: 9780691151212.

JCSR
2014-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1558/jcsr.v1i2.246
Contributors: John H. Shaver
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The evolution of stratification in Fijian ritual participation

Religion, Brain & Behavior
2014-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/2153599x.2014.893253
Contributors: John H. Shaver
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How Does Male Ritual Behavior Vary Across the Lifespan?

Hum Nat
2014-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-014-9191-6
Contributors: John H. Shaver; Richard Sosis
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What Does God Know? Supernatural Agents’ Access to Socially Strategic and Non-Strategic Information

Cognitive Science
2012-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2012.01242.x
Contributors: Benjamin G. Purzycki; Daniel N. Finkel; John Shaver; Nathan Wales; Adam B. Cohen; Richard Sosis
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Selective Reading and Selectionist Thinking: Why Violence Has Been, and Should Be, Important to the Cognitive Science of Religion

Conversations and Controversies in the Scientific Study of Religion
Other
DOI: 10.1163/9789004310452_021
Contributors: John H. Shaver; Richard Sosis
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The stability of cultural goal configurations in individuals over time and their impact on subjective well-being

PsycEXTRA Dataset
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DOI: 10.1037/e619482011-035
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