This paper reviews available cross-disciplinary evidence on how culture affects food
security. We discuss the impact of culture on all four dimensions (availability, access and …

Paranoia is the most common symptom of psychosis but paranoid concerns occur
throughout the general population. Here, we argue for an evolutionary approach to paranoia …

Religious freedom has become an emblematic value in the West. Embedded in constitutions
and championed by politicians and thinkers across the political spectrum, it is to many an …

This paper presents a new global dataset on contemporary witchcraft beliefs and
investigates their correlates. Witchcraft beliefs cut across socio-demographic groups but are …

In nearly every documented society, people believe that some misfortunes are caused by
malicious group mates using magic or supernatural powers. Here I report cross-cultural …

We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human
capital, labor, and technology—together with standard growth models to frame the role of …

This paper studies the links between changes in traditional communities, due to historical
Christian missionary activities, and differences in interpersonal trust between Africans today …

We argue that the great age of European witch trials reflected non‐price competition
between the Catholic and Protestant churches for religious market share in confessionally …

This article provides experimental support for the hypothesis that insurance can be a motive
for religious donations. We randomize enrollment of members of a Pentecostal church in …

This paper examines the effect of political movement on trust formation, in the context of
China's Cultural Revolution (1966–76), an episode that involved conflicts and non …