Publications

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

Forthcoming Sosis, Richard Why are Synagogue Services so Long? An Evolutionary Examination of Jewish Ritual Signals. In Judaism and Bio-Psychology, edited by Rick Goldberg.
Forthcoming Sosis, Richard Ifaluk Atoll: An Ethnographic Account In Culture Conservancy, edited by Carol Ember.
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:

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:

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.


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