2024
Jackson, J. C. (in press). How to bridge cognitive and cultural models of religious evolution. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion.
Jackson, J. C., Jasko, K., Abrams, S. Atkinson, T., Balkcom, E., Kruglanski, A., Gray, K., Halberstadt, J. (in press). Religious people view both science and religion as less epistemically valuable than non-religious people view science. Religion, Brain, & Behavior.
Jackson, J. C. (2024). How to lead when business is global but cultures are diverging. Harvard Business Review.
Jackson, J. C., Medvedev, D. (2024). Worldwide divergence of values. Nature Communications, 15, 2650.
2023
Jackson, J. C., Halberstadt, J., Takezawa, M., Liew, K., Smith, K., Apicella, C., Gray, K. (in press). Generalized morality culturally evolves as an adaptive heuristic in large social networks. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Jackson, J. C., Dunstone, J. (in press). Perspectives on cultural evolution from pioneers of the field. Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution.
Jackson, J. C., Yam, K. C., Tang, P., Sibley, C., Waytz, A. (in press). Exposure to automation explains religious declines. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Brady, W. J., Jackson, J. C., Lindström, B., Crockett, M. J. (in press). Algorithm-mediated social learning in online social networks. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Jackson, J. C., Yam, K. C., Tang, P., Liu, T., Shariff, A. (in press). Exposure to robot preachers undermines religious commitment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Yam, K. C., Jackson, J. C., Hoon, T., Gray, K., Shariff, A. (in press). Cultural differences in people’s reactions and applications of robots, algorithms, and artificial intelligence. Management and Organization Review.
Jackson, J. C., Wilbanks, D., Bastian, B., Watts, J., DiMaggio, N., Gray, K. (2023). Supernatural explanations across the globe are more common for natural than social phenomena. Nature Human Behavior.
Yam, K. C., Tang, P., Jackson, J. C., Su, R., Gray, K. (2023). The rise of robots increases job insecurity and maladaptive workplace behaviors. Journal of Applied Psychology.
Jackson, J. C., Gray, K. (in press). United States and Canada: The Psychology of Religion up to 2020. In Ladd, K., Basu, J., DeMarinis, V., Ok, U., Zanagari, W. (Eds.) Cambridge International Handbook of the Psychology of Religion.
Jackson, J. C., Gray, K. (in press). The divine projector: How human motivations and biases give shape to gods’ minds. In Purzycki, B., & Bendixen, T. (Eds) The Minds of Gods. Bloomsbury.
2022
Jackson, J. C., Lindquist, K., Drabble, R., Atkinson, Q., Watts, J. (2022). Valence-dependent mutation in lexical evolution. Nature Human Behavior.
Berger, J., Jackson, J. C., Kolsarici, C. (2022). Catalyzing cultural change: Does concentration encourage action? Plos One, 17(12): e0277934.
Lindquist, K., Jackson, J. C., Leshin, J., Satpute, A., Gendron, M. (2022). The cultural evolution of emotion. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1, 669-681.
Jackson, J. C., Watts, J., List, M., Puryear, C., Drabble, R., Lindquist, K. (2022). From text to thought: How analyzing language can advance psychological science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17(3), 805-826.
Jackson, J. C. (2022). Two questions for the cultural evolutionary science of religion. Religion, Brain, & Behavior, 12(1-2), 216-219.
Liu, S., Zhu, J., Liu, Y., Wilbanks, D., Jackson, J. C., Mu, Y. (2022). Perception of strong social norms during the COVID-19 pandemic is linked to positive psychological outcomes. BMC Public Health, 22: 1403.
Gelfand, M., Li, R., Stamkou, E., Denison, E., Fernandez, J., Choi, V., Chatman, J., Jackson, J. C., Pieper, D., Dimant, E. (2022). Persuading conservatives and liberals to comply with mask-wearing: An intervention tournament. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 101, 1014299.
2021
Watts, J., Jackson, J. C., Hamerslag, E. M., Shaver, J., Purzycki, B. (in press). Building quantitative cross-cultural databases from ethnographic records: promise, problems, and principles. Cross-Cultural Research, 56(1), 62-94.
Li, Z., Wei, A., Palanivel, V., Jackson, J. C. (2022). A data-driven analysis of sociocultural, ecological, and economic correlates of depression across nations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 52(8-9), 822-843.
Gelfand, M. J., Jackson, J. C., Pan, X., Nau, D., Pieper, D., Denison, E., Dagher, M., Van Lange, P., Chiu, C. Y., Wang, M. (2021). The relationship between cultural tightness-looseness and COVID-19 cases and deaths: A global analysis. The Lancet: Planetary Health, 5(3), 135-144.
Jackson, J. C., Caluori, N. C., Abrams, S., Beckman, E., Gelfand, M., Gray, K. (2021). Tight cultures and vengeful gods: How culture shapes religious belief. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(10), 2057-2077.
Jackson, J. C., Caluori, N. C., Gray, K., Gelfand, M. (2021). The new science of religious change. American Psychologist, 76(6), 838-850.
Abrams, S., Jackson, J. C., Gray, K. (2020). The new trinity of religious moral character: the cooperator, the crusader, and the complicit. Current Opinion in Psychology, 40, 99-105.
2020
Jackson, J. C., Payne, K. (2020). Cognitive barriers to reducing income inequality. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(5), 687-696.
Watts, J., Passmore, S., Jackson, J. C., Rymski, C., Dunbar, R. I. (2020). Text analysis shows conceptual overlap as well as domain-specific differences in Christian and secular worldviews. Cognition, 12(5). Advanced online publication.
Yam, K. C., Jackson, J. C., Barnes, C. M., Lau, T. C., Xin, Q., Lee, H. Y. (2020). The rise of COVID-19 cases is associated with support for world leaders. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(41): 25429-25433.
Yam, K. C., Jackson, J. C., Lau, T. C., Xin, Q., Barnes, C. M., Chong, J. K. (2020). High profile football matches in Europe are associated with traffic accidents in Asia. British Medical Journal, 371:m4465.
Jackson, J. C., Gelfand, M. J., Ember, C. (2020). A global analysis of cultural tightness in non-industrialized societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287(1930).
Gelfand, M. J., Caluori, N., Jackson, J. C., Taylor, M. (2020). The cultural evolutionary tradeoff of ritualistic synchrony. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375(1805).
Schein, C., Jackson, J. C., Frasca, T., Gray, K. (2020). Praise-many, blame-fewer: A common (and successful) strategy for attributing responsibility in groups. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(5), 855-869.
Skoggard, I., Ember, C., Pitek, E., Carulus, C., Jackson, J. C. (2020). Resource stress predicts changes in religious belief and increases in sharing behavior. Human Nature, 31(3), 249-271.
Caluori, N., Jackson, J. C., Gray, K., Gelfand, M. (2020). Conflict changes how people view God. Psychological Science, 31(3), 280-292.
Jackson, J. C., Castelo, N., Gray, K. (2020). Could a rising robot workforce make humans less prejudiced? American Psychologist 75(7), 962-982.
Jackson, J. C., Gelfand, M., Ayub, N., Wheeler, J. (2020). Together from afar: Introducing a diary contact technique for improving intergroup relations. Behavioral Science and Policy, 5(1), 16-31.
2019
Jackson, J. C., Watts, J., Henry, T., List, J. M., Forkel, R., Mucha, P., Greenhill, S., Gray, R., Lindquist, K. A. (2019). Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure. Science, 366(6472), 1517-1522.
Jackson, J. C., von Egmond, M., Choi, V., Ember, C., Halberstadt., Balanovic, J., Basker, I., Boehnke, K., Buki, N., Fischer, R., Fulop, M., Fulmer, A., Homan, A., van Kleef, G., Schei, V., Szabo, E., Ward, C., Gelfand, M. (2019). Ecological and cultural factors underlying the global distribution of prejudice. PLOS ONE, 14(9): e0221953.
Jackson, J. C., Gelfand, M. G., De, S., Fox, A. (2019). The loosening of American norms over time is associated with a creativity-order tradeoff. Nature Human Behavior, 3, 244-250. Note: See here for a brief follow-up paper which reproduces our analyses with more up-to-date statistical models.
Jackson, J. C., Gray, K. (2019). When a good god makes bad people: Testing a theory of religion and immorality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117(6), 1203-1230.
Choi, V., Jackson, J. C., Gelfand, M. J. (2019). The role of entitativity in perpetuating cycles of violence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41.
Jackson, J. C., Choi, V., Gelfand, M. J. (2019). Revenge: A multilevel review and synthesis. Annual Review of Psychology, 70, 319-345.
2018
Jackson, J. C., Hester, N., Gray, K. (2018). The faces of God in America: Revealing religious diversity across people and politics. PLOS ONE, 13(6): e0198745.
Jackson, C., Jackson, J. C., Bilkey, D., Halberstadt, J. B. (2019). The dynamic emergence of minimal groups. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 22(7), 921-929.
Jackson, J. C., Jong, J. Bilkey, D., Whitehouse, H., Zollmann, S., McNaughton, C., Halberstadt, J. (2018). Synchrony and physiological arousal increase cohesion and cooperation in large naturalistic groups. Scientific Reports, 8, 127.
Gray, K., Anderson, S., Doyle, C., Hester, N., Vonasch, A., Schmitt, P., Allison, S., Jackson, J. C. (2018). To be immortal, do good or evil. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(6), 868-880.
Jackson, J. C., Jong, J., Morgenroth, L., Poulter, P., Halberstadt, J. B. (2018). Testing the causal relationship between religiosity and implicit death anxiety. Religion, Brain, and Behavior, 1.
2017
Gelfand, M. J., Harrington, J. R., Jackson, J. C. (2017). The strength of social norms across human groups. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12(5), 800-809.
Jackson, J. C., Lemay, E., Halberstadt, J., B., Bilkey, D. (2017). Beyond “birds of a feather”: A social inference approach to attachment-dependent grouping. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 73, 216-221.
Jackson, J. C. Bilkey, D., Jong, J., Rossignac-Milon, M., Halberstadt, J. H. (2017). Strangers in a stadium: Studying group dynamics with in-vivo behavioral tracking. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8(5), 509-518.
Jackson, J. C., Rand, D., Lewis, K., Norton, M. I., Gray, K. (2017). Agent-based modeling: A guide for social psychologists. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8(4), 387-395.
Brewer, J., Gelfand, M., Jackson, J. C., MacDonald, I., Peregrine, P. N., Richerson, P. J., Turchin, P., Whitehouse, H., Wilson, D. S. (2017). Grand challenges for the study of cultural evolution. Nature: Ecology & Evolution, 1(1), 0070.
Jackson, J. C. Gelfand, M. J. (2017). On the evolution of tightness-looseness in cultural ecosystems. Religion, Brain, and Behavior, 22-25.
2016
Gelfand, M. J., Mu. Y., Roos. P., Nau. D., Harrington, J. R., Jackson. J., C. (2016). Societal threat as a major force in cultural group selection, Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 39, 26-27.
Halberstadt, J. B., Jackson, J. C., Bilkey, D., Jong, J., Whitehouse, H., Morgenroth, L., Zolmann, S. (2016). Incipient social groups: An analysis via in-vivo spatial tracking. PLOS ONE, 11(3): e0149880.
Gelfand, M. J., Jackson, J. C. (2016). From one mind to many: The emerging science of cultural norms. Current Opinions in Psychology, 8, 175-181.
2015
Jackson, J. C., Halberstadt, J. B., Jong, J., Felman, H. (2015). Openness to experience accounts for religious homogamy. Social Psychology and Personality Science, 6(6), 630-638.
2014
Alogna, V. K., Attaya, M. K., Aucoin, P., Bahnik, S., Birch, S., Jackson, J. C., ... Zwaan, R. A. (2014). Registered replication report: Schooler & Engstler-Schooler (1990). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9, 556–578.
Baldwin, M. Bagust, J., Docherty, S., Browman, A., Jackson, J. C. (2014). The “rod and fran test”: relationship priming influences cognitive-perceptual performance. The Journal of Social Psychology, 154(5), 441-446.