Dimitris Xygalatas
Associate Professor & Director/Anthropology

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

Witchcraft, Envy, and Norm Enforcement in Mauritius
2025
Dimitris Xygalatas, Kirsten Lesage, Jan Horsky, Nachita Rosun, Aiyana Willard
Research Type: Journal Article

Shared suffering predicts prosocial commitment among Turkish earthquake survivors
2025
Harvey Whitehouse, Sevgi Demiroglu, Danielle Morales, Andrew Ainsworth, Claire White, Dimitris Xygalatas
Research Type: Journal Article

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
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
How shared suffering bonded Britons witnessing the Queen’s funeral
2024
Danielle Morales, Nisa Bayindir, Brooke Robinson, Claire White, Anna Mathiassen, Mathilde Hernu, Dimitris Xygalatas, Andrew Ainsworth, Harvey Whitehouse, Meara Geraty
Research Type: Journal Article

https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-66537-5
The Ritual Spectrum: Definitions, Frameworks, and Implications: Response to Commentators
2024
Research Type: Journal Article

Emotional contagion in a collective ritual
2024
Peter Maňo, Ronald Fischer, Dimitris Xygalatas, Martin Lang, Jan Krátký
Research Type: Journal Article

https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.24111
Socioeconomic Variation in Motivations for Ritual Practice
2024
Research Type: Journal Article

https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel15121562
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
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

Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures
2023
Carla Handley, Ara Norenzayan, Carolyn Lesorogol, Martin Lang, Dimitris Xygalatas, Emma Cohen, Benjamin Purzycki, Rita McNamara, Quentin Atkinson, Tom Vardy, Cristina Moya, Caitlyn Placek, Jonathan Weigel, Aaron Lightner, Coren Apicella, Joseph Henrich, Aiyana Willard, Theiss Bendixen, Sarah Mathew, Alexander Bolyanatz, Eva Klocová, Montserrat Soler
Research Type: Journal Article

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2023.15
On the varieties of religious studies
2023
D. Xygalatas
Research Type: Journal Article

Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals
2023
Paul Hooper, Sergey Gavrilets, Fatema tuz Zohora, Dimitris Xygalatas, Emily Wroblewski, Brian Wood, Bruce Winterhalder, Aiyana Willard, Lawrence Sugiyama, Ryan Schacht, Jonathan Salerno, Anne Pisor, Susan Perry, David Nolin, Karen Kramer, Thomas Headland, Christopher Golden, Helen Davis, Samuel Bowles, Quentin Atkinson, Karen Strier, Adrian Jaeggi, Richard McElreath, A. Hurtado, Coren Apicella, Kim Hill, Mark Dyble, Heidi Colleran, John Bunce, Adam Boyette, Daniel Nettle, Benjamin Purzycki, Daniel Redhead, Caissa Revilla-Minaya, Tami Blumenfield, Gregory Clark, Janet Headland, Jeremy Koster, Shane Macfarlan, Andrea Migliano, Mary Towner, Kathrine Starkweather, Rebecca Sear, Barry Hewlett, Brooke Scelza, Claudia Valeggia, Bret Beheim, Samuel Urlacher, Stephen Beckerman, Bapu Vaitla, Julia Clark, Samuli Helle, Felicia Madimenos, Kai Willführ, Roberto Lizarralde, Monique Mulder, Chelsea Carminito, Carmen Cortez, Mhairi Gibson, Russell Greaves, Paul Leslie, Melissa Liebert, Jenni Pettay, Frank Marlowe, Chun Sum, Abigail Page, Eleanor Power, Luis Pacheco-Cobos, Kathryn Oths, Seung Oh, Karl Mertens, Sheina Lew-Levy, Claire El Mouden, Patricia Draper, Angelina DeMarco, Stefani Crabtree, Edmond Seabright, Mary Shenk, Eckart Voland, Irene Godoy, Rita McNamara, Virpi Lummaa, Ruizhe Liu, Bayarsaikhan Jamsranjav, Christopher von Rueden, Cody Ross, Kara Walker, Michael Gurven, Gianluca Grimalda, Eric Smith, John Ziker, Nurul Alam, Jennifer Smith, Joseph Lanning, Mark Caudell, Emma Cohen, Sean Downey, Hillard Kaplan, Eric Massengill, Siobhan Mattison, Cristina Moya, Anne Pusey, Shane Scaggs, Daniel Major-Smith
Research Type: Journal Article

https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/PNAS.2220124120
Ritual exegesis among Mauritian Hindus
2022
Research Type: Journal Article

https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2022.2042418
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
The Real Magic of Rituals
2022
Research Type: Journal Article

What cargo cult rituals reveal about human nature
2022
D Xygalatas
Research Type: Journal Article

The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies
2022
Emma Cohen, Carla Handley, Ara Norenzayan, Martin Lang, Caitlyn Placek, Alexander Bolyanatz, Joseph Henrich, Eva Kundtová Klocová, Jonathan Weigel, Quentin Atkinson, Aiyana Willard, Sarah Mathew, Coren Apicella, Dimitris Xygalatas, Carolyn Lesorogol, Sarah McNamara, Cristina Moya, Tom Vardy, Benjamin Purzycki, Montserrat Soler
Research Type: Journal Article

https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006292
Outgroup threat and the emergence of cohesive groups: A cross-cultural examination
2022
Natalia Craciun Boccardi, Dimitris Xygalatas, Eddie Tong, Paul Reddish, Jamin Halberstadt, Martin Lang, Chris Jackson, Masaki Yuki, Maria Yamamoto, Christopher Kavanagh, Harvey Whitehouse, Angel Gomez, Alexandra Vázquez, Mercedes Martínez
Research Type: Journal Article

https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13684302211016961