Publications
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
| Forthcoming | Purzycki, Benjamin and Richard Sosis On Supernatural Minds, Their Attributed Contents, and Cross-Cultural Patterns of Variation, in Essential Building Blocks of Human Nature, ed. Ulrich Frey, Springer. |
| Forthcoming | Purzycki, Benjamin and Richard Sosis Religious Concepts as Necessary Components of the Adaptive Religious System: Bridging the Cognitive and Behavioral Gap with an Evolutionary Socioecology, in Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Philosophy: Evolution and Religion, ed. Ulrich Frey. |
| Forthcoming | Alcorta, Candace and Richard Sosis Signals and Rituals of Humans and Animals, in Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare, ed. Marc Bekoff, Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishers. |
| Forthcoming | Sosis, Richard Ifaluk Atoll: An Ethnographic Account In Culture Conservancy, edited by Carol Ember. |
| 2009 | Sosis, Richard The Adaptationist-Byproduct Debate on the Evolution of Religion: Five Misunderstandings of the Adaptationist Program. Journal of Cognition and Culture 9: 315-332. |
| 2009 | Purzycki, Benjamin and Richard Sosis The Religious System as Adaptive: Cognitive Flexibility, Public Displays, and Acceptance, in The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior, eds. Eckart Voland and Wulf Schiefenhovel, pp. 243-256, New York: Springer-Verlag Publishers. |
| 2009 | Sosis, Richard and Ulrich Schnabel The Adjusted Belief: What makes a religion successful? in The Pope in the Crossfire: Extrapolate back to Pius or the Council? (in German), ed. Til Galrev, pp. 165-167, Berlin: LIT Verlag. |
| 2009 | Daniel Finkel, Paul Swartwout, and Richard Sosis The Socio-Religious Brain: A Developmental Model, Eds. R. Dunbar, C. Gamble, J. Gowlett. Proceedings of the British Academy 158: 287-312. |
| 2009 | Sosis, Richard Why are Synagogue Services so Long? An Evolutionary Examination of Jewish Ritual Signals, in Judaism in Biological Perspective: Biblical Lore and Judaic Practices, ed. Rick Goldberg, pp. 199-233, Boulder: Paradigm Publishers. |
| 2008 | Sosis, Richard and Joseph Bulbulia Religion in Eden, In: The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques, eds. J. Bulbulia, R. Sosis, E. Harris, C. Genet, R. Genet, K. Wyman, pp. 15-19, Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press. |
| 2008 | Sosis, Richard Pigeons, Foxholes, and the Book of Psalms: Evolved Superstitious Responses to Cope with Stress and Uncertainty. In: The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques, eds. J. Bulbulia, R. Sosis, E. Harris, C. Genet, R. Genet, K. Wyman, pp. 103-9, Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press. |
| 2008 | Sosis, Richard and Candace Alcorta Militants and Martyrs: Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion and Terrorism , In Natural Security: A Darwinian Approach to a Dangerous World, eds. R. Sagarin and T. Taylor, pp. 105-24, Berkeley: University of California Press. |
| 2007 | Sosis, Richard Psalms for Safety: Magico-Religious Responses to Threats of Terror. Current Anthropology 48:903-911. |
| 2007 | Alcorta, Candace and Richard Sosis Rituals of Humans and Animals, In: Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships, vol. 2, ed. Marc Bekoff, pp. 599-605, Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishers. |
| 2007 | Sosis, Richard, Howard Kress, and James Boster Scars for War: Evaluating Alternative Signaling Explanations for Cross-Cultural Variance in Ritual Costs. Evolution and Human Behavior 28:234-247. |
| 2007 | Ruffle, Bradley and Richard Sosis Does it Pay to Pray? Costly Ritual and Cooperation. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 7:1-35 (Article 18). |
| 2006 | Sosis, Richard Religious Behaviors, Badges, and Bans: Signaling Theory and the Evolution of Religion. In: Where God and Science Meet: How Brain and Evolutionary Studies Alter Our Understanding of Religion, Volume 1: Evolution, Genes, and the Religious Brain, ed. Patrick McNamara, pp. 61-86, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. |
| 2006 | Ruffle, Bradley and Richard Sosis Cooperation and the In-Group-Out-Group Bias: A Field Test on Israeli Kibbutz Members and City Residents. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 60:147-163. |
| 2005 | Alcorta, Candace and Richard Sosis Ritual, Emotion, and Sacred Symbols: The Evolution of Religion as an Adaptive Complex Human Nature 16:323-359. |
| 2005 | Sosis, Richard Does Religion Promote Trust? The Role of Signaling, Reputation, and Punishment. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 1:1-30 (Article 7). |
| 2004 | Sosis, Richard and Bradley Ruffle Ideology, Religion, and the Evolution of Cooperation: Field Tests on Israeli Kibbutzim Research in Economic Anthropology 23:89-117. |
| 2004 | Sosis, Richard The Adaptive Value of Religious Ritual American Scientist 92:166-172. |
| 2003 | Sosis, Richard and Candace Alcorta Signaling, Solidarity, and the Sacred: The Evolution of Religious Behavior Evolutionary Anthropology 12:264-274 |
| 2003 | Sosis, Richard. and Bradley Ruffle Religious Ritual and Cooperation: Testing for a Relationship on Israeli Religious and Secular Kibbutzim Current Anthropology 44:713-722 |
| 2003 | Sosis, Richard Why aren't we all Hutterites? Costly signaling theoy and religious behavior Human Nature 14:91-127. |
| 2003 | Sosis, Richard and Eric Bressler. Cooperation and commune longevity: A test of the costly signaling theory of religion. Cross-Cultural Research 37:211-239 |
| 2002 | Sosis, Richard Patch Choice Decisions on Ifaluk Atoll American Anthropologist 104:583-598. |
| 2001 | Sosis, Richard Sharing, consumption, and patch choice on Ifaluk Atoll Human Nature 12:221-245. |
| 2000 | Sosis, Richard Costly signaling and torch fishing on Ifaluk Atoll Evolution and Human Behavior 21:223-244. |
| 2000 | Sosis, Richard Religion and intra-group cooperation: preliminary results of a comparative analysis of utopian communities Cross-Cultural Research 34:70-87. |
| 2000 | Sosis, Richard The emergence and stability of cooperative fishing on Ifaluk Atoll In: Human Behavior and Adaptation: an Anthropological Perspective, eds. L. Cronk, N. Chagnon, and B. Irons, pp. 437-472, New York: Aldine de Gruyter. |
| 1998 | Sosis, Richard, Sharon Feldstein, and Kim Hill Bargaining theory and cooperative fishing participation on Ifaluk Atoll Human Nature 9:163-203. |
Edited Volumes:
| 2008 | Bulbulia, J., R. Sosis, C. Genet, R. Genet, E. Harris, K. Wyman, eds. The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques. Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press. |
| 2005 | Sosis, Richard and Candace Alcorta, eds. Special issue of Human Nature on Evolution of Religion |
Commentaries:
| Forthcoming | Bulbulia, Joseph and Richard Sosis Ideology as Affordance. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. |
| 2009 | Sosis, Richard and John Shaver Comment for Attachment and Cooperation in Religious Groups: An Example of a Mechanism for Cultural Group Selection. Current Anthropology 50:775-776. |
| 2008 | Sosis, Richard and Paul Swartwout Demonstrating Group Selection: A Comment on Landa's "The Bioeconomics of Homogeneous Middleman Groups as Adaptive Units." Journal of Bioeconomics 10:297-301. |
| 2008 | Alcorta, Candace, Richard Sosis, and Daniel Finkel Ritual Harmony: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Music. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31:576-577. |
| 2006 | Alcorta, Candace and Richard Sosis Why Ritual Works: A Rejection of the By-Product Hypothesis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29:613-614. |
| 2005 | Sosis, Richard Methods do Matter: Variation in Experimental Methodologies and Results. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28:834-835. |
| 2004 | Sosis, Richard and Candace Alcorta Is Religion Adaptive? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27:749-750. |
| 2004 | Sosis, Richard Insights from Ifaluk: Food Sharing Among Cooperative Fishers Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27:568-569. |
| 2004 | Sosis, Richard and Bradley Ruffle On Ritual and Cooperation Current Anthropology 45:529-531. |
| 2002 | Sosis, Richard Comment for Rousseau's whale hunt? Coordination among big-game hunters. Current Anthropology: 43:553-554. |
| 1997 | Sosis, Richard and Kim Hill Comment for Delayed reciprocity and tolerated theft: the behavioral ecology of food-sharing strategies Current Anthropology 38:73-74. |
| 1997 | Sosis, Richard and Kim Hill Comment for Consumption and production: sharing and the social construction of use-value Current Anthropology 38:42-43. |
Book Reviews:
| 2008 | Purzycki, Benjamin, Paul Swartwout, and Richard Sosis Searching for Darwin: Metaphor, Collusion, and Natural Selection: Review of 'The Supernatural and Natural Selection' by Lyle Steadman and Craig Palmer. Evolutionary Psychology 6: 628-636. |
| 2007 | Sosis, Richard Breaking the Wrong Spell: Review of "Breaking the Spell" by Daniel Dennett. Free Inquiry 27:59-60. |
| 2004 | Sosis, Richard Preaching Morality and Metaphysics: Review of The Evolution of Morality and Religion by Donald M. Broom Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19:566-567. |
| 2003 | Sosis, Richard Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society by David Sloan Wilson Evolution and Human Behavior 24:137-143. |
| 2000 | Sosis, Richard Review of Ever Since Adam and Eve: the Evolution of Human Sexuality by Malcolm Potts and Roger Short Evolution and Human Behavior 21:291-294. |
