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

https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197689783.003.0003
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

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

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

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

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

Cognitive Science of Religion
2014
Dimitris Xygalatas
Research Type: Book Chapter

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
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

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

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

Bridging the gap between laboratory and field
2016
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
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

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

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
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

Are religious people more moral?
2017
Dimitrios Xygalatas
Research Type: Digital and Electronic Media, Social Media, Blog, Podcast, Magazine/Trade Publication

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
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2007
D. Dennett
Research Type: Other Scholarly Work