Nichols, R. Forthcoming in Evolutionary Psychological Science
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Rethinking Human Development and the Shared Intentionality Hypothesis (PDF)→
/Moll, H., Nichols, R., & Mackey, J. L. (2020). Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 1-12. DOI: 10.1007/s13164-020-00489-3
Read MoreSupernatural Agents and Prosociality in Historical China: Micro-Modeling the Cultural Evolution of Gods and Morality in Textual Corpora (PDF)→
/Nichols, R., Slingerland, E., Nielbo, K. L., Kirby, P., & Logan, C. (2020). Religion, Brain & Behavior, 1-19. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2020.1742778
Read MoreRethinking Cultural Evolutionary Psychology (PDF)→
/Nichols, R., Moll, H., & Mackey, J. L. (2019). Journal of Cognition and Culture, 19(5), 477-492. DOI: 10.1163/15685373-12340070
Read MoreModeling the Contested Relationship between Analects, Mencius, and Xunzi: Preliminary Evidence from a Machine-Learning Approach (PDF)→
/Nichols, R., Slingerland, E., Nielbo, K., Bergeton, U., Logan, C., & Kleinman, S. (2018). The Journal of Asian Studies, 77(1), 19-57. DOI: 10.1017/S0021911817000973
Read MoreMining the Past – Data-Intensive Knowledge Discovery in the Study of Historical Textual Traditions (PDF)→
/Nielbo, K. L., Nichols, R., & Slingerland, E. (2017). Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 3(1-2), 93-118. DOI: 10.1558/jch.31662
Read MoreThe Distant Reading of Religious Texts: A “Big Data” Approach to Mind-Body Concepts in Early China (PDF)→
/Slingerland, E., Nichols, R., Neilbo, K., & Logan, C. (2017). Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 85(4), 985-1016. DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfw090
Read MoreA Sense of Shame Among the Virtues (PDF)→
/Nichols, R. (2016). Journal of Moral Education, 45(2), 166-178. DOI: 10.1080/03057240.2016.1174677
Read MoreEarly Confucianism Is a System for Social-Functional Influence and Probably Does Not Represent a Normative Ethical Theory (PDF)→
/Nichols, R. (2015). Dao 14: 499-520. DOI: 10.1007/s11712-015-9464-8
Read MoreCivilizing Humans with Shame: How Early Confucians Altered Inherited Evolutionary Norms through Cultural Programming to Increase Social Harmony (PDF)→
/Nichols, R. (2015). Journal of Cognition and Culture, 15(3-4), 254–284. DOI: 10.1163/15685373-12342150
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/Nichols, Ryan and Yaffe, Gideon (2015). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Summer 2015 Edition, Edward N. Zalta (ed.).
Read MoreRe-evaluating the Effects of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake on Eighteenth-Century Minds: How Cognitive Science of Religion Improves Intellectual History with Hypothesis Testing Methods (PDF)→
/Nichols, R. (2014). Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 82(4), 970–1009. DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfu033
Read MoreToward a Science of Science Fiction: Applying Quantitative Methods to Genre Individuation (PDF)→
/Nichols, R., Lynn, J., & Purzycki, B.G. (2014). Scientific Study of Literature, 4(1), 25–45. DOI: 10.1075/ssol.4.1.02nic
Read More孝道——一种自然主义的解释 (PDF)→
/Nichols, R. (2014). Studies in Philosophy of Science and Technology 31 (5): 98-106.
Read MoreThe Social Cost of Atheism: How Perceived Religiosity Influences Moral Appraisal (PDF)→
/Wright, J., & Nichols, R. (2014). Journal of Cognition and Culture, 14, 115–137. DOI: 10.1163/15685373-12342112
Read MoreThe Origins and Effects of Filial Piety (Xiao 孝): How Culture Solves an Evolutionary Problem for Parents (PDF)→
/Nichols, R. (2013). Journal of Cognition and Culture, 13(3-4), 201–230. DOI: 10.1163/15685373-12342092
Read MoreDiagnosing Bias in Philosophy of Religion (PDF)→
/Draper, P., & Nichols, R. (2013). Monist, 96(3), 420–446. DOI: 10.5840/monist201396319
Read MoreA Genealogy of Early Confucian Moral Psychology (PDF)→
/Nichols, R. (2011). Philosophy East and West, 61(4), 609–629. DOI: 10.1353/pew.2011.0057
Read MoreThomas Reid on Reidian Religious Belief Forming Faculties (PDF)→
/Nichols, R. and Callergård, R. (2011). The Modern Schoolman, 88(3/4), Theological Themes in Modern Philosophy, 317–335. DOI: 10.5840/schoolman2011883/418
Read More孝心的人类学起源 (PDF)→
/Nichols, R. (2009). In On Happiness (Xing Fu De Ao Mi) 《幸福的奥秘》(2009) (1-15). Kelly James Clark, ed. Zheng Zhiyong (郑志勇), trans. Shi Jie Zhi Shi Chu Ban She: Beijing.
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Nichols, R. (2015). Dao 14: 499-520. DOI: 10.1007/s11712-015-9464-8