Abstract English is the dominant language in the study of human cognition and behavior: the
individuals studied by cognitive scientists, as well as most of the scientists themselves, are …

Psychology has traditionally seen itself as the science of universal human cognition, but it
has only recently begun seriously grappling with cross-cultural variation. Here we argue that …

A growing body of evidence suggests that many aspects of psychology have evolved
culturally over historical time. A combination of approaches, including experimental data …

Imaginary worlds are extremely successful. The most popular fictions produced in the last
few decades contain such a fictional world. They can be found in all fictional media, from …

Modern phylogenetic methods are increasingly being used to address questions about
macro-level patterns in cultural evolution. These methods can illuminate the unobservable …

Cognitive and evolutionary research has focused on the powerful deities of large-scale
societies, yet little work has examined the smaller gods of animist traditions. In a study of the …

Quantitative cross-cultural databases can help uncover structure and diversity across human
populations. These databases have been constructed using a variety of methodologies and …

Standardized cross-cultural databases of the arts are critical to a balanced scientific
understanding of the performing arts, and their role in other domains of human society. This …

Humans have believed in gods and spirits since the earliest days of the Holocene, and
many people still believe in them today. Although the existence of religious belief has been …

Despite remarkable progress in digital linguistics, extensive databases of geographical
language distributions are missing. This hampers both studies on language spatiality and …