Parochial prosocial religions: Historical and contemporary evidence for a cultural evolutionary process.

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Published in Behav Brain Sci on January 01, 2016

Authors

Ara Norenzayan1, Azim F Shariff2, Will M Gervais3, Aiyana K Willard4, Rita A McNamara5, Edward Slingerland6, Joseph Henrich7

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 Canada. ara@psych.ubc.ca http://www.psych.ubc.ca/~ara/
2: Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene,OR 97403. shariff@uoregon.edu http://sharifflab.com/
3: Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506. will.gervais@uky.edu http://willgervais.com
4: Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712. aiyana@psych.ubc.ca http://www.aiyanawillard.com
5: Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 Canada. ramcnama@psych.ubc.ca
6: Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2Canada. edward.slingerland@gmail.com http://eslingerland.arts.ubc.ca
7: Departments of Psychology & Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4Canada. joseph.henrich@gmail.com http://www.psych.ubc.ca/~henrich/

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