Christopher Kavanagh

1.6k total citations
28 papers, 437 citations indexed

About

Christopher Kavanagh is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Kavanagh has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 437 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 14 papers in Social Psychology and 6 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Christopher Kavanagh's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (10 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (9 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (6 papers). Christopher Kavanagh is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (10 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (9 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (6 papers). Christopher Kavanagh collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Japan and United States. Christopher Kavanagh's co-authors include Harvey Whitehouse, Jonathan Jong, Ryan McKay, Justin E. Lane, Michael D. Buhrmester, Martha Newson, Rohan Kapitány, Sergey Gavrilets, Miriam Matthews and Brock Bastian and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Kavanagh

24 papers receiving 418 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher Kavanagh United Kingdom 11 279 207 50 50 49 28 437
Rosa Cabecinhas Portugal 14 329 1.2× 244 1.2× 30 0.6× 20 0.4× 31 0.6× 107 618
Irini Kadianaki Cyprus 12 176 0.6× 163 0.8× 9 0.2× 78 1.6× 30 0.6× 30 378
John Lycett United Kingdom 7 188 0.7× 191 0.9× 15 0.3× 45 0.9× 67 1.4× 13 488
Kate Rigby Australia 15 195 0.7× 179 0.9× 33 0.7× 181 3.6× 18 0.4× 59 716
Craig Allen United States 12 171 0.6× 51 0.2× 116 2.3× 70 1.4× 16 0.3× 35 523
Maurizio Meloni Australia 17 199 0.7× 68 0.3× 33 0.7× 85 1.7× 122 2.5× 51 1.1k
Jessica E. Black United States 13 160 0.6× 191 0.9× 19 0.4× 69 1.4× 151 3.1× 28 586
Martha Kenney United States 14 109 0.4× 51 0.2× 19 0.4× 31 0.6× 40 0.8× 24 378
Joseph Leman United States 10 139 0.5× 143 0.7× 74 1.5× 73 1.5× 28 0.6× 16 313
Geoff Ward United States 16 551 2.0× 97 0.5× 87 1.7× 172 3.4× 47 1.0× 47 803

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Kavanagh

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Kavanagh

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Misiak, Michał, et al.. (2025). Bonding through adversity: Effects of Brexit and COVID ‐19 lockdown on identity fusion and pro‐group behavior. Political Psychology. 46(6). 2024–2043.
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Bastian, Brock, et al.. (2025). Identity fusion can foster intergroup trust and willingness to cooperate. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 124–124.
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Kavanagh, Christopher, et al.. (2024). Dance for the dead: The role of top-down beliefs for social cohesion and anxiety management in naturally occurring collective rituals. PLoS ONE. 19(3). e0291655–e0291655. 3 indexed citations
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Lang, Martin, Dimitris Xygalatas, Christopher Kavanagh, et al.. (2021). Outgroup threat and the emergence of cohesive groups: A cross-cultural examination. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. 25(7). 1739–1759. 7 indexed citations
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Mashuri, Ali, et al.. (2021). The socio-psychological predictors of support for post-truth collective action. The Journal of Social Psychology. 162(4). 504–522. 7 indexed citations
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Santos, Rolando O., Ryan J. Rezek, W. Ryan James, et al.. (2021). Bottom-up conservation: using translational ecology to inform conservation priorities for a recreational fishery. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 79(1). 47–62. 13 indexed citations
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Lang, Martin, Christopher Kavanagh, Radek Kundt, et al.. (2020). Replicating and extending the effects of auditory religious cues on dishonest behavior. PLoS ONE. 15(8). e0237007–e0237007. 7 indexed citations
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Kavanagh, Christopher, Rohan Kapitány, Idhamsyah Eka Putra, & Harvey Whitehouse. (2020). Exploring the Pathways Between Transformative Group Experiences and Identity Fusion. Frontiers in Psychology. 11. 1172–1172. 15 indexed citations
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Kavanagh, Christopher & Rohan Kapitány. (2020). Promoting the Benefits and Clarifying Misconceptions about Preregistration, Preprints, and Open Science for the Cognitive Science of Religion. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 6(1-2). 1 indexed citations
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Kapitány, Rohan, Christopher Kavanagh, & Harvey Whitehouse. (2020). Ritual morphospace revisited: the form, function and factor structure of ritual practice. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1805). 20190436–20190436. 8 indexed citations
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Kavanagh, Christopher, Matthias Bluemke, Jonathan Jong, & Jamin Halberstadt. (2019). International Death Survey. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Jong, Jonathan, Jamin Halberstadt, Matthias Bluemke, Christopher Kavanagh, & Christopher Jackson. (2019). Death anxiety, exposure to death, mortuary preferences, and religiosity in five countries. Scientific Data. 6(1). 154–154. 10 indexed citations
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Putra, Idhamsyah Eka, et al.. (2019). The role of religious fundamentalism and tightness-looseness in promoting collective narcissism and extreme group behavior.. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. 12(2). 231–240. 31 indexed citations
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Kapitány, Rohan, Christopher Kavanagh, Harvey Whitehouse, & Mark Nielsen. (2018). Examining memory for ritualized gesture in complex causal sequences. Cognition. 181. 46–57. 14 indexed citations
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Kavanagh, Christopher, Jonathan Jong, Ryan McKay, & Harvey Whitehouse. (2018). Positive experiences of high arousal martial arts rituals are linked to identity fusion and costly pro‐group actions. European Journal of Social Psychology. 49(3). 461–481. 42 indexed citations
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Kavanagh, Christopher. (2018). Too Much, Too Little, or the Wrong Kind of ‘Theory’ in the Study of Religions?. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. 30(4-5). 463–471.
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Whitehouse, Harvey, Jonathan Jong, Michael D. Buhrmester, et al.. (2017). The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 44292–44292. 120 indexed citations
18.
Kavanagh, Christopher & Masaki Yuki. (2017). Culture and Group Processes. ScholarWorks - GVSU (Grand Valley State University). 5(4). 11 indexed citations
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Jong, Jonathan, Harvey Whitehouse, Christopher Kavanagh, & Justin E. Lane. (2015). Shared Negative Experiences Lead to Identity Fusion via Personal Reflection. PLoS ONE. 10(12). e0145611–e0145611. 81 indexed citations
20.
Kavanagh, Christopher. (2015). On the necessity of “minimal” methodological standards and religious “butterfly” collecting. Religion Brain & Behavior. 6(3). 259–261.

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