magazine issue 5 2012 / Issue 15

Becker, E. (1971). The lost science of man. New York, NY: George Brazilier.

 

Becker, E. (1973). The denial of death. New York, NY: Free Press.

 

Becker, E. (1975). Escape from evil. New York, NY: Free Press.

 

Bering, J. M. (2002). Intuitive conceptions of dead agents’ minds: the natural foundations of afterlife beliefs as phenomenological boundary. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2, 263–308.

 

Bering, J. M. (2010). Atheism is only skin deep: Geertz and Markússon rely mistakenly on sociodemographic data as meaningful indicators of underlying cognition. Religion, 40, 166-168.

 

Bering, J. (2011). The God instinct: the psychology of souls, destiny, and the meaning of life. London, UK: Nicholas Brealey Publishing.

 

Bulbulia, J. (2004). The cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion. Biology and Philosophy, 19, 655-686.

 

Burling, J. W. (1993). Death concerns and symbolic aspects of the self: the effects of mortality salience on status concern and religiosity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 19, 100-105.

 

Chen, S., & Chaiken, S. (1999). The heuristic-systematic model in its broader context. In S. Chaiken & Y. Trope (Eds.), Dual-process theories in social and cognitive psychology (pp. 73-96). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

 

Cohen, A. B., Pierce, J. D., Chambers, J., Meade, R., Gorvine, B. J., & Koenig, H. G. (2005). Intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity, belief in the afterlife, death anxiety, and life satisfaction in young Catholics and Protestants. Journal of Research in Personality, 39, 307–324.

 

Dechesne, M., Pyszczynski, T., Arndt, J., Ransom, S., Sheldon, K. M, van Knippenberg, A., & Janssen, J. (2003). Literal and symbolic immortality: The effect of evidence of literal immortality on self-esteem striving in response to mortality salience.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 722-737.

 

Dezutter, J., Luyckx, K., & Hutsebaut, D. (2009). “Are you afraid to die?” Religion and death attitudes in an adolescent sample. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 37, 163-173.

 

Dalley, S. (1998). Myths from Mesopotamia: creation, the flood, Gilgamesh, and others. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

 

Dijksterhuis, A., & Nordgren, L. (2006). A theory of unconscious thought. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1, 95-109.

 

Dolnick, J. L. (1987). Fear, acceptance and denial of death: their relationship to afterlife beliefs, exposure to death and connectedness to religious orientation, Dissertation Abstracts International, 48 (2B), 554.

 

Donovan, J. M. (1994). Defining religion: death and anxiety in an Afro-Brazilian cult. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Tulane University, New Orleans.

 

Downey, A. M. (1984). Relationship of religiosity to death anxiety of middle-aged males. Psychological Reports, 54, 811-822.

 

Durkheim, E. (1967). The elementary forms of the religious life. (J. W. Swain, Trans.). New York, NY: Free Press. (Original work published 1915).

 

Fazio, R. H., & Olson, M. A. (2003). Implicit measures in social cognition research: their meaning and uses. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 297-327.

 

Feuerbach, L. (1967). Lectures on the essence of religion. (R. Manheim, Trans.). New York: NY: Harper & Row, Publishers. (Original work published 1851).

 

Freud, S. (1961). The future of an illusion. (J. Strachey, Trans., Ed.). New York, NY: W. W. Norton. (Original work published 1927).

 

Greenberg, J., Landau, M.J., Solomon, S., & Pyszczynski, T. (in press). The case for terror management as the primary psychological function of religion. In D. Wulff (Ed.). Handbook of the psychology of religion. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

 

Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, T., & Solomon, S. (1986). The causes and consequences of a need for self-esteem: a terror management theory. In R. F. Baumeister (Ed.), Public self and private self (pp. 189-212). New York, NY: Springer-Verlag.

 

Greenwald, A. G., McGhee, D. E., & Schwartz, J. L. K. (1998). Measuring individual differences in implicit cognition: the implicit association test. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1464-1480.

 

Haidt, J., Björklund, F., & Murphy, S.