Dr Aiyana Willard
Reader in Psychology
Quad North 126
- Email: aiyana.willard@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265151
Summary
Aiyana Willard is a Lecturer (psychology) in the Centre for Culture and Evolution at Brunel University London and a research associate at the Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford. Her research interests are in the cultural evolution of religion, karma, witchcraft and other supernatural beliefs.
Academic career:
- Lecturer in Psychology, Brunel University London, 2018-current.
- Postdoctoral researcher, Oxford, 2017-2018
- Postdoctoral researcher, University of Texas at Austin, 2015-2017
- PhD in Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2015
- MA in Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2011
Newest selected publications
White, CJM. and Willard, AK. (2024) 'Victim blaming and belief in karma'. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 14. ISSN: 1367-2223 Open Access Link
Willard, AK., Rosun, N. and de Barra, M. (2024) 'God, witchcraft, and beliefs about illness in Mauritius'. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 21. ISSN: 2153-599X Open Access Link
Turpin, H., Willard, AK. and Whitehouse, H. (2024) 'American mental models of scientific versus theological prestige: a freelist analysis'. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 12. ISSN: 2153-599X Open Access Link
Bendixen, T., Lightner, AD., Apicella, C., Atkinson, Q., Bolyanatz, A., Cohen, E., et al. (2024) 'Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures'. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 5. pp. 1 - 15. ISSN: 2513-843X Open Access Link
Willard, AK. (2023) 'On breaking the cognitive science of religion and putting it back together again'. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 5. ISSN: 2153-599X Open Access Link