Dimitris Xygalatas
Associate Professor & Director/Anthropology

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Scholarly Contributions

169 Scholarly Contributions

94
Journal Articles
30
Poster/Presentations
22
Book Chapters
13
Other Scholarly Works
6
Books
3
Digital and Electronic Media, Social Media, Blog, Podcast, Magazine/Trade Publications
1
Conference Proceedings
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being
2023
Nandor Hajdu, Leigh Ann Vaughn, Bruno Verschuere, Dimitris Xygalatas, Yitong Zhao, Josjan Zijlmans, Julian Pütter, Ann Ullein, Shelby Tuthill, Ben Tappin, Benjamin Purzycki, Campbell Pryor, Hannah Pearson, Patty Van Cappellen, Merve Balkaya-Ince, Jacek Buczny, Saúl Caballero, Cheryl Carmichael, David Disabato, Ihan Martoyo, Tobias Ebert, Peter Edelsbrunner, Shole Farahmand, Ronald Fischer, Barbara Lehman, Johannes Karl, Imaduddin Hamzah, Francis Anthony, Claudia Brumbaugh, Tim Draws, Noah van Dongen, Josefa Torralba, Linda Geven, Paul Hanel, Burt Thompson, Benjamin Holding, Ozan Isler, Vera Vogel, Christiany Suwartono, Simone Sebben, David Izydorczyk, Megan Knowles, Bruno Schivinski, Jonathan Ramsay, Vince Polito, Steven Pirutinsky, Lluis Oviedo, Anton Olsson-Collentine, Pamina Noack, Brett Mercier, Charlotte Witvliet, Ryan McKay, Kristy Dean, Neil Levy, Stefan Czoschke, Marco Cattaneo, Paul Lodder, Marcellin Martinie, Susan Mason, Berenika Seryczyńska, Michiel van Elk, Dylan Wiwad, Michela Balsamo, Bertrand Beffara, Camilla McMahon, Kristin Hagel, Olmo van den Akker, Lucas Drouhot, Andrea Stoevenbelt, Xin Yang, Lina Homman, Kathryn Johnson, Walter Sowden, Lucas Keefer, Müge Simsek, Marcel Schreiner, Jaclyn Doherty, Marcel Schmitt, Lindsey Luna, Julia Krasko, Esther Maassen, Maximilian Maier, Jason Prenoveau, Bryan Dik, Yuri Pavlov, Scott Claessens, Jennifer Brown, Phil McAleer, Tiago Bortolini, Kira Means, Matthew Billet, Onurcan Yilmaz, Quentin Atkinson, Christopher Hawk, Nirmal Roy, Henrik Danielsson, Hilla Inkilä, Natalia Zarzeczna, Felipe Vilanova, Peter Szecsi, Simon Stuber, Eliot Smith, Willem Sleegers, Sarah Schnitker, Ladislas Nalborczyk, Tamás Nagy, Jonathan Morgan, Benoît Monin, Aryeh Lazar, Karel K. Himawan, Omid Ghasemi, Emily Gerdin, Lisa Frisch, Zoë Francis, Kyle Fischer, Yonathan Aditya, Jana Berkessel, Hooman Farahmand, Angelo Costa, Anna Rosa, Obed Kwame Appiah, Marta Kołczyńska, Vukašin Gligorić, Örjan Dahlström, Renatas Berniūnas, Robin Wuyts, Maciej Witkowiak, Sera Wiechert, Cindel White, Allon Vishkin, Casper van Zyl, Valerie van Mulukom, William Stedden, Martin Schnuerch, Piotr Roszak, Hugo Pedder, Michèle Nuijten, Ara Norenzayan, Gustav Nilsonne, James Murphy, Thomas McCauley, Dylan Marsh, Jennifer Lorenz, Ronda Lo, Guy Forsyth, Ruben Laukenmann, Todd L. Landes, Erikson Kaszubowski, Diogo Geraldes, Susanne Frick, Jill De Ron, E. D'Urso, Christian Czymara, Maxinne Panagopoulos, Faith Brown, Amélie Bret, Theiss Bendixen, Michael Pinus, Lin Qiu, Adam Baimel, Milen Radell, Yulmaida Amir, Shilaan Alzahawi, Uffe Shjoedt, Alexandra Alayan, Alexandra Sarafoglou, Jonathan Jong, Panagiotis Mitkidis, David Moreau, Bastian Jaeger, Chris Islam, Moritz Ingendahl, Donna Fisher-Thompson, Abrey Feliccia, George Muscatt, Anita Eerland, Julia Beitner, Mario Becerra, Barnabas Szaszi, Don van Ravenzwaaij, Ine Van der Cruyssen, Marcel van Assen, Christian Thurn, Louis Tay, Paweł Łowicki, Justin Sulik, Zachary Willett, Balazs Aczel, Shoko Watanabe, Leonie Vogelsmeier, Peter Allen, Sarah Charles, Heiko Breitsohl, Christian Elbaek, Erwin Gielens, Mary Inman, Anne Mauritsen, Amelia McNamara, Joseph Billingsley, Jordan Moon, James Pawelski, Hannah Peetz, Michaela Porubanova, Mark Prince, Sachin Banker, Marin Dujmovic, Christof Nägel, André Rabelo, František Bartoš, Suzanne Hoogeveen, Jolanda Van der Noll, Stylianos Syropoulos, Joni Sasaki, Suvi Saarelainen, Benjamin Katz, Richard Klein, Bennett Kleinberg, Gina Magyar-Russell, Eric Wagenmakers, Victoria Schüttengruber, Darren Yeo, Kristina Wiebels, Michelangelo Vianello, Caspar Van Lissa, Robbie Van Aert, Robert Thibault, Suzanne Segerstrom, Catherine Schaumans, Robert Ross, Andrew J. Roberts, Graham Reid, John Protzko, Michael Poulin, Michael McCullough, Nuria Martinez, Albert Ly, Thanos Kyritsis, Angelos Krypotos, Sarah Kritzler, Dave Koller, John Kelly, Stijn Kelchtermans, Hannah Hamilton, Miguel Farias, Yarrow Dunham, Ymkje de Vries, Sacha Altay, Joseph Bulbulia, Leonardo Carlucci, Damien Crone
Research Type: Journal Article

https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070255
Aligned bodies, united hearts: embodied emotional dynamics of an Islamic ritual
2024
Dimitris Xygalatas, Mohammadamin Saraei, Alexandra Paxton
Research Type: Journal Article

https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0162
An anthropologist explains why we love holiday rituals and traditions
2017
Dimitrios Xygalatas
Research Type: Digital and Electronic Media, Social Media, Blog, Podcast, Magazine/Trade Publication

An experimental anthropology of ritual
2014
Dimitrios Xygalatas
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Analytic atheism: A cross-culturally weak and fickle phenomenon?
2018
Ryan T Mckay, Michiel van Elk, Emma T Buchtel, Ilan Dar-Nimrod, Dimitris Xygalatas, Mark Aveyard, Jonathan Ramsay, Tapani Riekki
Research Type: Journal Article

Anastenaria
2013
Dimitris Xygalatas
Research Type: Book Chapter

Announcing the Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion
2013
Dimitris Xygalatas, Ryan McKay
Research Type: Journal Article

Anxiety and ritualization: Can attention discriminate compulsion from routine?
2016
Danijela Jerotijevi'c, Dimitris Xygalatas, Jan Kr'atk`y, Martin Lang, John H Shaver
Research Type: Journal Article

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2010
Dimitris Xygalatas, Olympia Panayotidou
Research Type: Book Chapter

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2007
D. Dennett
Research Type: Other Scholarly Work

Appealing to the minds of gods: religious beliefs and appeals correspond to features of local social ecologies
2024
Dimitris Xygalatas, Emma Cohen, Coren Apicella, Quentin Atkinson, Rita McNamara, Joseph Henrich, Theiss Bendixen, Ara Norenzayan, Aiyana Willard, Benjamin Purzycki
Research Type: Journal Article

https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2023.2178487
Are religious people more moral?
2017
Dimitrios Xygalatas
Research Type: Digital and Electronic Media, Social Media, Blog, Podcast, Magazine/Trade Publication

Autobiographical Memory in a Fire-Walking Ritual
2013
U. Schjoedt, A. W. Geertz, D. Xygalatas, P. Reddish, A. Roepstorff, E-M. Jegindo, J. Bulbulia, I. Konvalinka
Research Type: Journal Article

Being in a crowd bonds people via physiological synchrony
2022
H. Whitehouse, V. Profeta, G. Baranowski-Pinto, M. Newson, D. Xygalatas
Research Type: Journal Article

https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04548-2
Big Gods in small places: the Random Allocation Game in Mauritius
2017
Radek Kundt, Jakub Cigán, Silvie Kotherová, Dimitrios Xygalatas, Martin Lang, Eva Kundtová Klocová, Peter Ma≈ào
Research Type: Journal Article

Book review: Connected: The Surprising Power of our Social Networks and How they Shape our Lives, (Nickolas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler). Little, Brown, New York, NY (2009).
2010
Dimitris Xygalatas
Research Type: Journal Article

Bridging the Gap: The Cognitive Science of Religion as an Integrative Approach
2019
Dimitris Xygalatas
Research Type: Book Chapter

https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004385375_017
Bridging the gap between laboratory and field
2016
Dimitris Xygalatas
Research Type: Journal Article

CERC dataset
2016
Quentin Atkinson, Coren Purzycki, Aiyana Willard, Ara Norenzayan, Emma Cohen, Joseph Henrich, Benjamin Purzycki, Rita McNamara, Dimitrios Xygalatas
Research Type: Other Scholarly Work

Can the Study of Religion be Scientific?
2010
Dimitris Xygalatas
Research Type: Book Chapter