John H. Shaver

1.5k total citations
45 papers, 718 citations indexed

About

John H. Shaver is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Health and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, John H. Shaver has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 718 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 14 papers in Health and 11 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in John H. Shaver's work include Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (14 papers), Religion and Society Interactions (13 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (12 papers). John H. Shaver is often cited by papers focused on Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (14 papers), Religion and Society Interactions (13 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (12 papers). John H. Shaver collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United States and United Kingdom. John H. Shaver's co-authors include Martin Lang, Richard Sosis, Dimitris Xygalatas, Joseph Bulbulia, Jan Krátký, Chris G. Sibley, Paul Reddish, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Radek Kundt and Danny Osborne and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

John H. Shaver

40 papers receiving 686 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John H. Shaver New Zealand 17 389 270 154 149 109 45 718
Martin Lang Czechia 16 408 1.0× 374 1.4× 200 1.3× 129 0.9× 141 1.3× 58 806
Jonathan A. Lanman United Kingdom 9 562 1.4× 414 1.5× 74 0.5× 198 1.3× 161 1.5× 22 825
Pierre Liénard United States 11 308 0.8× 252 0.9× 160 1.0× 102 0.7× 193 1.8× 32 708
Candace S. Alcorta United States 7 462 1.2× 220 0.8× 132 0.9× 219 1.5× 111 1.0× 19 674
Ian Hansen Canada 9 499 1.3× 480 1.8× 65 0.4× 338 2.3× 116 1.1× 14 828
Alexa M. Tullett United States 15 240 0.6× 304 1.1× 105 0.7× 97 0.7× 205 1.9× 26 614
April L. Bleske United States 8 317 0.8× 207 0.8× 378 2.5× 60 0.4× 109 1.0× 11 716
Tapani Riekki Finland 15 252 0.6× 319 1.2× 68 0.4× 184 1.2× 240 2.2× 23 669
Jeffrey A. Gibbons United States 13 238 0.6× 238 0.9× 198 1.3× 59 0.4× 154 1.4× 35 676
Jason Faulkner Canada 6 550 1.4× 472 1.7× 236 1.5× 105 0.7× 538 4.9× 6 983

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Fields of papers citing papers by John H. Shaver

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John H. Shaver

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Shenk, Mary K., et al.. (2025). Maternal religiosity and social support to mothers: helpers’ religious identity matters. Religion Brain & Behavior. 16(1). 24–45.
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Schaffnit, Susan B., Abigail E. Page, Robert Lynch, et al.. (2024). Religious women receive more allomaternal support from non-partner kin in two low-fertility countries. Evolution and Human Behavior. 45(3). 268–280. 2 indexed citations
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Schaffnit, Susan B., Robert Lynch, Rebecca Sear, et al.. (2024). Cost structures and socioecological conditions impact the fitness outcomes of human alloparental care in agent-based model simulations. Evolution and Human Behavior. 45(5). 106613–106613.
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Wildman, Wesley J., Robert M. Ross, Ryan McKay, et al.. (2024). Religion, Brain & Behavior adopts stricter transparency standards. Religion Brain & Behavior. 14(4). 341–344.
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Cristofori, Irène, Suzanne Hoogeveen, David Rohr, et al.. (2023). Introducing our new editors. Religion Brain & Behavior. 13(1). 1–4.
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Sear, Rebecca, et al.. (2022). Disentangling the relationships between religion and fertility. Religion Brain & Behavior. 12(4). 343–346. 1 indexed citations
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Fischer, Ronald, John H. Shaver, Johannes Alfons Karl, et al.. (2022). Kiwi Diwali: a longitudinal investigation of perceived social connection following a civic religious ritual. Religion Brain & Behavior. 12(3). 235–253. 1 indexed citations
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Watts, Joseph, et al.. (2022). Food storage facilitates professional religious specialization in hunter–gatherer societies. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 4. e17–e17. 3 indexed citations
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Schaffnit, Susan B., Abigail E. Page, Robert Lynch, et al.. (2022). The impact of market integration on arranged marriages in Matlab, Bangladesh. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 5. e5–e5. 5 indexed citations
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Sosis, Richard, Joseph Bulbulia, Wesley J. Wildman, Uffe Schjoedt, & John H. Shaver. (2022). Introducing a special issue on phase two of the Evolution of Religion and Morality project. Religion Brain & Behavior. 12(1-2). 1–3. 2 indexed citations
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Shenk, Mary K., Siobhán M. Mattison, Rebecca Sear, et al.. (2021). Social support, nutrition and health among women in rural Bangladesh: complex tradeoffs in allocare, kin proximity and support network size. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1827). 20200027–20200027. 12 indexed citations
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Shaver, John H., et al.. (2021). A comparison of self-report, systematic observation and third-party judgments of church attendance in a rural Fijian Village. PLoS ONE. 16(10). e0257160–e0257160. 5 indexed citations
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Shaver, John H., Eleanor A. Power, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, et al.. (2020). Church attendance and alloparenting: an analysis of fertility, social support and child development among English mothers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1805). 20190428–20190428. 31 indexed citations
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Lang, Martin, et al.. (2017). Sync to link: Endorphin-mediated synchrony effects on cooperation. Biological Psychology. 127. 191–197. 75 indexed citations
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Shaver, John H., Chris G. Sibley, Danny Osborne, & Joseph Bulbulia. (2017). News exposure predicts anti-Muslim prejudice. PLoS ONE. 12(3). e0174606–e0174606. 42 indexed citations
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Shaver, John H., et al.. (2016). Religion and the Unmaking of Prejudice toward Muslims: Evidence from a Large National Sample. PLoS ONE. 11(3). e0150209–e0150209. 39 indexed citations
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Krátký, Jan, et al.. (2016). Anxiety and ritualization: Can attention discriminate compulsion from routine?. Communicative & Integrative Biology. 9(3). e1174799–e1174799. 18 indexed citations
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Lang, Martin, et al.. (2015). Effects of Anxiety on Spontaneous Ritualized Behavior. Current Biology. 25(14). 1892–1897. 89 indexed citations
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Shaver, John H. & Richard Sosis. (2014). How Does Male Ritual Behavior Vary Across the Lifespan?. Human Nature. 25(1). 136–160. 27 indexed citations
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Purzycki, Benjamin Grant, et al.. (2012). What Does God Know? Supernatural Agents’ Access to Socially Strategic and Non‐Strategic Information. Cognitive Science. 36(5). 846–869. 47 indexed citations

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