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
Causal pathways for the anxiolytic effects of ritual. Commentary on J.G. Snodgrass et al., “Religious Ritual Is Good Medicine for Indigenous Indian Conservation Refugees”
2017
Dimitris Xygalatas
Research Type: Journal Article

Cigarettes for the dead: effects of sorcery beliefs on parochial prosociality in Mauritius
2022
R. Kundt, M. Lang, D. Xygalatas, E. Kundtová Klocová, P. Maňo
Research Type: Journal Article

https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006286
Cognitive Science of Religion
2014
Dimitris Xygalatas
Research Type: Book Chapter

Cognitive resource depletion in religious interactions
2013
Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo, Jesper Sorensen, Uffe Schjodt, Joseph Bulbulia, Dimitris Xygalatas, Panayotis Mitkidis
Research Type: Journal Article

Collected Essays on the Study of Religion
2004
Dimitrios Xygalatas, Panayotis Pachis
Research Type: Book

Contextualizing ritual: From the lab to the field and back
2016
Dimitrios Xygalatas
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Cross-cultural dataset for the evolution of religion and morality project
2016
Quentin D Atkinson, Aiyana K Willard, Dimitrios Xygalatas, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Ara Norenzayan, Coren Apicella, Emma Cohen, Joseph Henrich, Rita Anne McNamara
Research Type: Journal Article

Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame
2018
Kristina I Ananyeva, Carola Flores, Elizabeth Agey, Dimitris Xygalatas, Xiao-Fen An, Quentin D Atkinson, Thomas J Conte, Daniel Sznycer, Sarah Alami, Bernardo R Broitman
Research Type: Journal Article

Culture, Cognition, and Ritual
2024
Dimitris Xygalatas
Research Type: Book Chapter

https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197689783.003.0003
Current Approaches to Religious Cognition
2015
Dimitrios Xygalatas
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Current and future directions in the psychology of religion
2016
Dimitrios Xygalatas
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Divination and Decision-Making
2015
Dimitrios Xygalatas, John McGraw, Ronald Fischer
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Do rituals promote social cohesion?
2019
Dimitris Xygalatas
Research Type: Book Chapter

Does she still love and feel hungry? Afterlife beliefs, mind-body dualism, and religion across 24 countries
2023
Kristin Hagel, Arik Cheshin, Suzanne Hoogeveen, Theiss Bendixen, Julia M Haaf, Sacha Altay, Renatas Berni\=unas, others, Raluca Georgescu, Claudio Gentili, Joseph A Bulbulia
Research Type: Journal Article

Does the Conservativeness of Religious Veiling Signal Trust and In‑Group Commitment?
2025
Alan Kingstone, Dimitris Xygalatas, Farid Pazhoohi
Research Type: Journal Article

Dynamics of fan’s experience during basketball games
2017
Vitor Profeta, Peter Mano, Gabriela Baranowski Pinto, Dimitrios Xygalatas
Research Type: Poster/Presentation

Editorial: Religion and Sociality
2014
Dimitris Xygalatas
Research Type: Journal Article

Effects of Anxiety on Spontaneous Ritualized Behavior
2015
Jan Kratky, Martin Lang, Dimitrios Xygalatas, John Shaver, Danijela Jerotijević
Research Type: Journal Article

Effects of extreme ritual practices on psychophysiological well-being
2019
Dimitris Xygalatas, Jan Kratky, Sammyh Khan, John Shaver, Radek Kundt, Eva Kundtova-Klocova, Martin Lang
Research Type: Journal Article

Effects of predictable behavioral patterns on anxiety dynamics
2022
Dimitris Xygalatas, Martin Lang, Jan Krátký
Research Type: Journal Article

https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23885-4