All Stories

  1. Interpersonal synchrony affects performers’ sense of agency

    Article • Self and Identity, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  2. Groups and Emotional Arousal Mediate Neural Synchrony and Perceived Ritual Efficacy

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, October 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  3. What are beliefs?

    Article • Contemporary Pragmatism, August 2018, Brill

    Dr Jonathan Jong, Jonathan Jong

  4. Introduction to the Special Issue: What are Religious Beliefs?

    Article • Contemporary Pragmatism, August 2018, Brill

    Dr Jonathan Jong, Valerie van Mulukom

  5. Positive experiences of high arousal martial arts rituals are linked to identity fusion and costly pro‐group actions

    Article • European Journal of Social Psychology, August 2018, Wiley

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  6. On Biotechnology, Theology, and the Human Sciences

    Article • Theology and Science, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  7. Relational mobility predicts social behaviors in 39 countries and is tied to historical farming and threat

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  8. The fusing power of natural disasters: An experimental study

    Article • Self and Identity, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  9. Idolizing the indexical: commentary on Van Leeuwen and van Elk

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jonathan Jong, Ryan McKay

  10. Death Anxiety and Religious Belief: responses to commentaries

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, February 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  11. Synchrony and Physiological Arousal Increase Cohesion and Cooperation in Large Naturalistic Groups

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  12. Guest editors' foreword: On the importance of integrating terror management and psychology of religion

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, December 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  13. Strangers in a Stadium

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, June 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jonathan Jong, Joshua Jackson

  14. What Is the Molecular Signature of Mind–Body Interventions? A Systematic Review of Gene Expression Changes Induced by Meditation and Related Practices

    Article • Frontiers in Immunology, June 2017, Frontiers

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  15. Knowledge of Deaths in Hotel Rooms Diminishes Perceived Value and Elicits Guest Aversion

    Article • OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, June 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  16. Testing the causal relationship between religious belief and death anxiety

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  17. The religious correlates of death anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  18. The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  19. What is the causal relationship between death anxiety and religious belief?

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  20. Rituals Improve Children's Ability to Delay Gratification

    Article • Child Development, February 2017, Wiley

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  21. Measuring Cross-Cultural Supernatural Beliefs with Self- and Peer-Reports

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2016, PLOS

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  22. Collective synchrony increases prosociality towards non-performers and outgroup members

    Article • British Journal of Social Psychology, September 2016, Wiley

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  23. Incipient Social Groups: An Analysis via In-Vivo Behavioral Tracking

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2016, PLOS

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  24. Shared Negative Experiences Lead to Identity Fusion via Personal Reflection

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2015, PLOS

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  25. How not to define religion and nonreligion

    Article • Science Religion and Culture, July 2015, Smith and Franklin Academic Publishing Corporation, Ltd, UK

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  26. Perceived Openness to Experience Accounts for Religious Homogamy

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, March 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  27. Born idolaters: The limits of the philosophical implications of the cognitive science of religion

    Article • Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  28. ERNEST BECKER'S PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION FORTY YEARS ON: A VIEW FROM SOCIAL COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

    Article • Zygon®, November 2014, Wiley

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  29. Registered Replication Report

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, September 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Simon Chu, Dr Jonathan Jong, Peter Hancock

  30. Three Quests for Human Nature: Some Philosophical Reflections

    Article • Philosophy Theology and the Sciences, June 2014, Mohr Siebeck

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  31. Evolutionary debunking arguments against theism, reconsidered

    Article • International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  32. Motivation and Its Regulation

    Article • April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  33. On Faith and the Fear of Fatality: A review of recent research on deities and death

    Article • Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, October 2013, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  34. Fear of Death and Supernatural Beliefs: Developing a New Supernatural Belief Scale to Test the Relationship

    Article • European Journal of Personality, January 2013, Wiley

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  35. Explaining Religion (Away?)

    Article • Sophia, September 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  36. A New Science of Religion

    Article • September 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  37. Foxhole atheism, revisited: The effects of mortality salience on explicit and implicit religious belief

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, September 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  38. Peter Enns. The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible does and doesn't say about human origins

    Article • Theology and Science, May 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  39. Defeating the Christian’s Claim to Warrant

    Article • Philo, January 2012, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Dr Jonathan Jong

  40. The role of familiarity in the attractiveness of average ingroup, outgroup, and alien faces

    Article • January 2007, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Jonathan Jong