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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit

@rcc-au.bsky.social

Aarhus University

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Danica Dillion@danicajdillion.bsky.social · 3w ago

Major thanks to my co-first author Shiyun Cao and to the rest of our fantastic team @joshcjackson.bsky.social, @josephwatts.bsky.social, and Aaron Lightner. . The full paper is available here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Moralistic supernatural explanations were widespread and attributed to many different supernatural agents in historical societies

Many people explain disease and calamity as supernatural punishment for immoral behavior, and health and prosperity as supernatural reward for moral b…

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IACESR Society@iacesr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Kicking off the first parallel session, Ben Purzycki introduced the Gods, Games, and Socio-Ecological Landscapes project. The team is testing a functionalist hypothesis: do differences in ecological threat create different trust problems, and does religion (or religious cognition) help solve them?

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Theiss Bendixen@theissbendixen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Imagine a short book (~200 p.) introducing Bayesian statistics in the context of clinical trials and drug development. Scope would be introductory -- sort of "your first short course on Bayes". But practical enough to be applied out of the box. What would you like to see covered in such a text? 👇

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit@rcc-au.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Just published open access at Field Methods! Uncertainty and ethnographic methods! @djsmith90.bsky.social @bgpurzycki.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.....

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AnthroTools: A Package in R@anthrotools.bsky.social · 10mo ago

"Modeling Uncertainty around Free-list Cultural Salience Scores" by @rcc-au.bsky.social's @djsmith90.bsky.social and @bgpurzycki.bsky.social OnlineFirst up now at Field Methods journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #AnthroTools #quantethnography

Nicholas Gibson@njsgibson.bsky.social · 11mo ago

If you're a data scientist interested in a full-time or part-time role working with developmental psychologists on cross-cultural data from parents and children, check out this position with the Developing Belief Network. Application review begins October 15, 2025. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Position: Full-Time Data Scientist, Developing Belief Network

Position: Full-Time Data Scientist, Developing Belief Network Description: We are looking for a full-time data scientist to join the Developing Belief Network, a global team of psychologists studying...

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit@rcc-au.bsky.social · last yr.

Double whammy just out with RCC's @djsmith90.bsky.social Longitudinal projects and causal inference! Religion and trauma: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Climate change concern and mental health: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Does concern regarding climate change impact subsequent mental health? A longitudinal analysis using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) | Royal Society Open Science

Climate change is having a substantial—and increasingly severe—impact on our planet, affecting people’s health, security and livelihoods. As a consequence, the concept of ‘climate anxiety’ has recentl...

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit@rcc-au.bsky.social · last yr.

Warm preprint from RCC's @djsmith90.bsky.social and @bgpurzycki.bsky.social! Embracing uncertainty in quantitative ethnography!

Dan Major-Smith@djsmith90.bsky.social · last yr.

Are you into free-list methods and want to incorporate uncertainty into your group-level estimates (eg Smith's S)? Of course you do! Then @bgpurzycki.bsky.social and I have a new preprint for your delectation! doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Ruth Mace@ruthmace.bsky.social · last yr.

Having a monk in the family is associated with lower mortality in older Tibetans: a seven-year prospective cohort study Liqiong Zhou @erhaoworld.bsky.social et al |Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Having a monk in the family and all-cause mortality: a seven-year prospective cohort study | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

Having a monk in the family and all-cause mortality: a seven-year prospective cohort study - Volume 7

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