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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 J. Wildman and Doctoral Fellow David Rohr Chapter in Renewing Philosophy of Religion: Exploratory Essays 2017 Book Description: This book is animated by a shared conviction that philosophy of religion needs to change: thirteen new essays suggest why…
Collaborating Specialist Carlos Lemos 2018 Book Description: This Brief revisits and extends Epstein’s classical agent-based model of civil violence by considering important mechanisms suggested by social conflict theories. Among them are: relative deprivation as generator of hardship, generalized vanishing of the…
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…
Research Director Catherine Caldwell-Harris, Post-Doctoral Fellow Connor Wood and Doctoral Fellow Jonathan Morgan Chapter in The New Reflectionism in Cognitive Psychology: Why Reason Matters December 2017 Abstract: Analytical thinking predicts irreligiosity across paradigms and contexts. Explanations for this association have included…
Research Associates Jose Padilla, Ross Gore and Saikou Diallo, Collaborating Specialist Christopher Lynch Simulation October 24, 2017 Abstract: This paper reports on a survey capturing modelers’ perspectives of Modeling and Simulation (M&S). The survey was completed by a total of 283…
Post-Doctoral Fellow Justin Lane Chapter in Religion Explained?: The Cognitive Science of Religion After Twenty-Five Years September 21, 2017 Book Summary: With contributions from founders of the field, including Justin Barrett, E. Thomas Lawson, Robert N. McCauley, Paschal Boyer, Armin Geertz and…
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…
Research Associate Ross Gore, Collaborating Specialist Christopher Lynch and Co-Authors Conference Paper at Swarmfest 2017: 21st Annual Meeting on Agent Based Modeling and Simulation August 2017 Abstract: Verification and validation (V&V) techniques commonly require modelers to collect and statistically analyze large…
Post-Doctoral Fellow Justin Lane Religion, Brain and Behavior June 29, 2017 Introduction: God is Watching You presents a comprehensive overview of the supernatural punishment hypothesis (SPH). In brief, the SPH posits that human behavior is influenced by the fear of punishment…
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…
Post-Doctoral Fellow Justin Lane Religion, Brain and Behavior March 13, 2017 Abstract: Given events such as 11 September, the 2013 Boston Bombing, and the 2015 Paris attacks it is becoming increasingly apparent that religious extremism has great potential to negatively…
Research Associate LeRon Shults Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Religion September 22, 2016 Book Description: This volume brings together some of the leading voices in the field of Deleuze studies to explore – and practice – a variety of approaches to…
Post-Doctoral Fellow Justin Lane and Co-Author Chapter in Religion: Mental Religion August 12, 2016 Book Summary: Religion: Mental Religion is part of the Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks series dedicated to the study of religion. Composed of twenty-two thematic chapters, this volume highlights religion,…
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…
Doctoral Fellow Jonathan Morgan, Founding Director Dr. Patrick McNamara and Co-Authors Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine Volume 13.3 July 5, 2016 Abstract: We present the case of a 78-year-old male who, 16 years ago, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD)…
Founding Director Patrick McNamara, Post-Doctoral Fellow Erica Harris and Co-Author Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition May 4, 2016 Abstract: Possible selves can be used to self-regulate and guide behavior towards what is desired to be achieved or avoided in life. Previous work…
Research Associate LeRon Shults Religion, Brain & Behavior Book Symposium on A Natural History of Natural Theology February 18, 2016 Read the Article
Research Associate LeRon Shults Religions June 17, 2015 Abstract: Why is it so easy to ignore the ecological and economic crises of the Anthropocene? This article unveils some of the religious biases whose covert operation facilitates the repression or rejection…
Research Associate LeRon Shults Syndicate: A New Forum of Theology Response to a Symposium on Theology after the Birth of God May 11, 2015 Intro: Many readers of Syndicate will know that I was a (more or less) progressive Christian theologian…