Editors; Saikou Y. Diallo, Wesley J. Wildman, F. LeRon Shults, Andreas Tolk About the book: This uniquely inspirational and practical book explores human simulation, which is the application of computational modeling and simulation to research subjects in the humanities disciplines.…
Does religion play a causal role in promoting anxiety between groups? In a recent paper published in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, CMAC researchers collaborated with the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC) to study anxiety…
7th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion August 12 – 15, 2018 It’s been a busy week of CMACer presentations & participation. Here’s a full listing of all that we were up to at…
Research Associate LeRon Shults and Ross Gore, Collaborating Specialist Carlos Lemos and Executive Director Wesley Wildman Psychology of Religion and Spirituality Volume 10 Issue 3 August 2018 Abstract: This article offers an affirmative construal of atheism: the attempt to make sense…
Dear Friends, June 30th, 2018 is the final day of the Modeling Religion Project. I’m writing to thank you for joining me on this amazing journey. At the Center for Mind and Culture (CMAC), and its Institute for the Bio-Cultural…
Research Associate LeRon Shults and Executive Director Wesley Wildman Chapter in Religion, History and Place in the Origin of Settled Life, ed. Ian Hodder July 2018 Book Summary: This volume explores the role of religion and ritual in the origin of settled life…
CMAC’s Executive Director Dr. Wesley J. Wildman wrote the following article for The Conversation, summarizing some of the findings of the Modeling Religion Project. It is reprinted below with permission. This article has also been featured in the San Francisco…
SPIRIT TECH: THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED SPIRITUALITY In 2017, best-selling author Jonathan Robinson explained his, well, let’s say innovative, approach to spirituality: “I like playing mad scientist. You know, you try one thing and see what effect it…
Executive Director Wesley J. Wildman and Research Associate LeRon Shults Emergent Behavior in Complex Systems Engineering: A Modeling and Simulation Approach April 16, 2018 Chapter Summary: This chapter begins with a primer on basic philosophical distinctions pertaining to emergence: weak emergence,…
Research Associates Ross Gore and LeRon Shults, Executive Director Wesley Wildman and Co-Authors Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation January 31, 2018 Abstract: We employ existing data sets and agent-based modeling to forecast changes in religiosity and existential security among…
Executive Director Wesley Wildman, Research Associate LeRon Shults and Co-Author Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference December 2017 Abstract: Human simulation (applying Modeling and Simulation (M&S) to topics in the humanities, the interpretative social sciences, and the arts) is a…
Post-Doctoral Fellow Khatera Alizada & Executive Director Wesley Wildman The Pardee School Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking at Boston University, Boston MA USA October 27, 2017 Workshop Summary: The Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking (FMHT), a research initiative…
Research Associates F. LeRon Shults and Ross Gore, Executive Director Wesley J. Wildman, Post-Doctoral Fellow Justin Lane and Co-Authors 2017 Social Simulation Conference in Dublin, Ireland September 2017 Abstract: Empirical findings from psychology and social science suggest that both individual and…
Exeuctive Director Wesley Wildman and Research Associate LeRon Shults The Institute for American Religious and Political Thought 2017 Annual Conference: Antiblackness, Race and Philosophy June 13, 2017 Conference Summary: We invite proposals that address the relations among antiblackness, race-making, and religious…
Executive Director Wesley Wildman, Research Associates LeRon Shults and Saikou Diallo, Post-Doctoral Fellow Justin Lane and Co-Authors Religion, Brain and Behavior March 16, 2017 Abstract: This article outlines the development – and reports on the experimental findings – of two…
Executive Director Wesley Wildman American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting: Cognitive Science Group and IACSR November 19, 2016 Conference Summary: Join us for the 2016 AAR and SBL Annual Meetings in San Antonio! More than 1,200 events—academic sessions, additional meetings, receptions,…
Doctoral Fellows Jonathan Morgan and Chris Halloran, Founding Director Patrick McNamara, Executive Director Wesley Wildman, Research Assistant April Minsky and Co-Authors Neuropsychologia August 2016 Abstract: The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that religious primes would influence…