Joseph Bulbulia

8.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
129 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Joseph Bulbulia is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Health and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph Bulbulia has authored 129 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 44 papers in Health and 42 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Joseph Bulbulia's work include Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (43 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (35 papers) and Religion and Society Interactions (33 papers). Joseph Bulbulia is often cited by papers focused on Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (43 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (35 papers) and Religion and Society Interactions (33 papers). Joseph Bulbulia collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United States and Germany. Joseph Bulbulia's co-authors include Ronald Fischer, Chris G. Sibley, Paul Reddish, Dimitris Xygalatas, Richard Sosis, Andreas Roepstorff, Danny Osborne, Marc Wilson, Ivana Konvalinka and Russell D. Gray and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Joseph Bulbulia

116 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide lockdown on trust, attitudes toward government, and well-being.

2020 574 citations Chris G. Sibley, Lara M. Greaves et al. American Psychologist profile →
To be in synchrony or not? A meta-analysis of synchrony's effects on behavior, perception, cognition and affect

2017 257 citations Ronald Fischer, Joseph Bulbulia et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joseph Bulbulia New Zealand	33	2.2k	2.0k	986	929	644	129	4.5k
Harvey Whitehouse United Kingdom	38	3.1k 1.4×	2.3k 1.2×	664 0.7×	767 0.8×	484 0.8×	150	5.3k
Pascal Boyer United States	36	2.3k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	853 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	592 0.9×	135	5.3k
Roland Imhoff Germany	31	3.5k 1.6×	1.1k 0.6×	678 0.7×	1.5k 1.6×	926 1.4×	124	4.7k
Will M. Gervais United States	27	1.9k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	964 1.0×	239 0.4×	45	3.3k
Robbie M. Sutton United Kingdom	40	4.9k 2.2×	1.3k 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	1.7k 1.9×	547 0.8×	97	6.2k
Joshua Correll United States	29	3.1k 1.4×	1.8k 0.9×	405 0.4×	1.8k 1.9×	617 1.0×	63	5.4k
Ullrich K. H. Ecker Australia	39	6.1k 2.7×	1.0k 0.5×	748 0.8×	2.3k 2.4×	268 0.4×	131	8.7k
Stefan Stieger Austria	34	2.2k 1.0×	943 0.5×	366 0.4×	758 0.8×	1.3k 2.0×	135	4.3k
Ryan McKay United Kingdom	38	1.6k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	1.5k 1.5×	1.5k 1.6×	1.5k 2.3×	120	5.5k
Dimitris Xygalatas United States	28	1.4k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	561 0.6×	621 0.7×	229 0.4×	75	2.6k

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Bulbulia, Joseph. (2024). Methods in causal inference. Part 4: confounding in experiments. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 6. e43–e43.

Bulbulia, Joseph. (2024). Methods in causal inference. Part 2: Interaction, mediation, and time-varying treatments. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 6. e41–e41. 3 indexed citations

Bulbulia, Joseph. (2024). Methods in causal inference. Part 1: causal diagrams and confounding. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 6. e40–e40. 7 indexed citations

Bulbulia, Joseph, et al.. (2023). Long-term causal effects of far-right terrorism in New Zealand. PNAS Nexus. 2(8). pgad242–pgad242. 2 indexed citations

Cristofori, Irène, Suzanne Hoogeveen, David Rohr, et al.. (2023). Introducing our new editors. Religion Brain & Behavior. 13(1). 1–4.

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

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

Hammond, Matthew D., et al.. (2021). Individuals’ number of children is associated with benevolent sexism. PLoS ONE. 16(5). e0252194–e0252194. 3 indexed citations

Sibley, Chris G., Lara M. Greaves, Nicole Satherley, et al.. (2020). Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide lockdown on trust, attitudes toward government, and well-being.. American Psychologist. 75(5). 618–630. 574 indexed citations breakdown →

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Greaves, Lara M., Stephanie D’Souza, Nichola Shackleton, et al.. (2020). Comparative study of attitudes to religious groups in New Zealand reveals Muslim‐specific prejudice. Kōtuitui New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online. 15(2). 260–279. 20 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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Grafman, Jordan, et al.. (2020). The Neural Basis of Religious Cognition. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 29(2). 126–133. 25 indexed citations

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Hawi, Diala R., Danny Osborne, Joseph Bulbulia, & Chris G. Sibley. (2019). Terrorism Anxiety and Attitudes toward Muslims. New Zealand journal of psychology. 48(1). 80. 7 indexed citations

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Gervais, Will M., Michiel van Elk, Dimitris Xygalatas, et al.. (2018). Analytic atheism: A cross-culturally weak and fickle phenomenon?. Judgment and Decision Making. 13(3). 268–274. 57 indexed citations

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Watts, Joseph, Oliver Sheehan, Quentin D. Atkinson, Joseph Bulbulia, & Russell D. Gray. (2016). Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies. Nature. 532(7598). 228–231. 92 indexed citations

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Bulbulia, Joseph. (2016). AN EVOLUTIONARY EXPLORATION1.

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Greaves, Lara M., Gloria Fraser, Yanshu Huang, et al.. (2015). Regional Differences and Similarities in the Personality of New Zealanders. New Zealand journal of psychology. 44(1). 4–16. 8 indexed citations

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Watts, Joseph, Simon J. Greenhill, Quentin D. Atkinson, et al.. (2015). Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1804). 20142556–20142556. 129 indexed citations

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Bulbulia, Joseph, et al.. (2015). To burn or to save? The opposing functions of reading scripture on environmental intentions. Religion Brain & Behavior. 6(4). 278–289. 9 indexed citations

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Bulbulia, Joseph. (2011). Spreading order: religion, cooperative niche construction, and risky coordination problems. Biology & Philosophy. 27(1). 1–27. 52 indexed citations

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