Dr Will Gervais
Reader in Psychology
Quad North 126
- Email: will.gervais@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267808
Schimmelpfennig, R., Spicer, R., White, CJM., Gervais, W., Norenzayan, A., Heine, S., et al. (2024) 'The Moderating Role of Culture in the Generalizability of Psychological Phenomena'. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 7 (1). pp. 1 - 6. ISSN: 2515-2459 Open Access Link
McKay, RT., Gervais, W. and Davis, CJ. (2023) '‘So Help Me God’? Does oath swearing in courtroom scenarios impact trial outcomes?'. British Journal of Psychology, 0 (ahead-of-print). pp. 1 - 24. ISSN: 0007-1269 Open Access Link
Hoogeveen, S., Haaf, JM., Bulbulia, JA., Ross, RM., McKay, R., Altay, S., et al. (2022) 'The Einstein effect provides global evidence for scientific source credibility effects and the influence of religiosity'. Nature Human Behaviour, 6 (4). pp. 523 - 535. ISSN: 2397-3374 Open Access Link
Vohs, KD., Schmeichel, BJ., Lohmann, S., Gronau, QF., Finley, AJ., Ainsworth, SE., et al. (2021) 'A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect'. Psychological Science, 32 (10). pp. 1566 - 1581. ISSN: 0956-7976 Open Access Link
Beheim, B., Atkinson, Q., Bulbulia, J., Gervais, W., Gray, RD., Henrich, J., et al. (2021) 'Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods'. Nature, 595 (7866). pp. E29 - E34. ISSN: 0028-0836 Open Access Link
Gervais, W. (2021) 'Mickey, Yahweh, & Zeus: Why cultural learning is essential for the evolutionary study of religion', inThe Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Religion. Oxford University Press, USA. pp. 18 - 33. ISBN 10: 0199397740. ISBN 13: 9780199397747.
Gervais, W., Najle, M. and Caluori, N. (2021) 'The origins of religious disbelief: A dual inheritance approach'. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12 (7). pp. 1369 - 1379. ISSN: 1948-5506 Open Access Link
McCarthy, R., Gervais, W., Aczel, B., Al-Kire, RL., Aveyard, M., Baraldo, SM., et al. (2021) 'A multi-site collaborative study of the hostile priming effect'. Collabra: Psychology, 7 (1). pp. 1 - 16. ISSN: 2474-7394 Open Access Link
Gervais, WM. (2021) 'Practical Methodological Reform Needs Good Theory'. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16 (4). pp. 827 - 843. ISSN: 1745-6916 Open Access Link
Brown-Iannuzzi, JL., Golding, JM., Gervais, WM., Lynch, KR., Wasarhaley, NE. and Bainter, S. (2021) 'Will jurors believe nonbelievers? Perceptions of atheist rape victims in the courtroom.'. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 13 (1). pp. 119 - 126. ISSN: 1941-1022
Ross, RM., Brown-Iannuzzi, JL., Gervais, WM., Jong, J., Lanman, JA., McKay, R. and et al. (2020) 'Measuring supernatural belief implicitly using the Affect Misattribution Procedure'. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 10 (4). pp. 393 - 406. ISSN: 2153-599X
Gervais, WM., McKee, SE. and Malik, S. (2020) 'Do Religious Primes Increase Risk Taking? Evidence Against “Anticipating Divine Protection” in Two Preregistered Direct Replications of Kupor, Laurin, and Levav (2015)'. Psychological Science, 31 (7). pp. 858 - 864. ISSN: 0956-7976
Carter, EC., Schönbrodt, FD., Gervais, WM. and Hilgard, J. (2019) 'Correcting for Bias in Psychology: A Comparison of Meta-Analytic Methods'. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2 (2). pp. 115 - 144. ISSN: 2515-2459
Brown-Iannuzzi, JL., Najle, MB. and Gervais, WM. (2019) 'The Illusion of Political Tolerance: Social Desirability and Self-Reported Voting Preferences'. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10 (3). pp. 364 - 373. ISSN: 1948-5506
Murray, DR., Kerry, N. and Gervais, WM. (2019) 'On Disease and Deontology: Multiple Tests of the Influence of Disease Threat on Moral Vigilance'. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10 (1). pp. 44 - 52. ISSN: 1948-5506
Gervais, W. and Ng, B. (2018) 'Religion and prejudice', inThe Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Prejudice Concise Student Edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 10: 110842600X. ISBN 13: 9781108426008.
Gervais, WM. and Norenzayan, A. (2018) 'Analytic atheism revisited'. Nature Human Behaviour, 2 (9). pp. 609. ISSN: 2397-3374
Gervais, WM., Xygalatas, D., McKay, RT., Van Elk, M., Buchtel, EE., Aveyard, M., et al. (2018) 'Author Correction: Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists (Nature Human Behaviour (2017) DOI: 10.1038/s41562-017-0151)'. Nature Human Behaviour, 2 (6). pp. 425. ISSN: 2397-3374
Gervais, W. (2018) 'Analytic atheism: A cross-culturally weak and fickle phenomenon?'. Judgment and Decision Making, 13 (3). pp. 268 - 274. ISSN: 1930-2975
Brown-Iannuzzi, JL., McKee, S. and Gervais, WM. (2018) 'Atheist horns and religious halos: Mental representations of atheists and theists'. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147 (2). pp. 292 - 297. ISSN: 0096-3445
Gervais, WM. and Najle, MB. (2018) 'How Many Atheists Are There?'. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9 (1). pp. 3 - 10. ISSN: 1948-5506
Schiavone, SR. and Gervais, WM. (2017) 'Atheists'. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 11 (12). ISSN: 1751-9004
Maij, DLR., Van Harreveld, F., Gervais, W., Schrag, Y., Mohr, C. and Van Elk, M. (2017) 'Mentalizing skills do not differentiate believers from non-believers, but credibility enhancing displays do'. PLoS ONE, 12 (8). pp. e0182764 - e0182764. ISSN: 1932-6203
Gervais, WM., Xygalatas, D., McKay, RT., Van Elk, M., Buchtel, EE., Aveyard, M., et al. (2017) 'Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists'. Nature Human Behaviour, 1 (8). ISSN: 2397-3374
Gervais, W. and Najle, M. (2017) 'The nonreligious in religious societies', inThe Oxford Handbook of Secularism. Oxford University Press. ISBN 10: 0199988455. ISBN 13: 9780199988457.
Ross, RM., Pennycook, G., McKay, R., Gervais, WM., Langdon, R. and Coltheart, M. (2016) 'Analytic cognitive style, not delusional ideation, predicts data gathering in a large beads task study'. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 21 (4). pp. 300 - 314. ISSN: 1354-6805
Norenzayan, A., Shariff, AF., Gervais, WM., Willard, AK., McNamara, RA., Slingerland, E. and et al. (2016) 'The cultural evolution of prosocial religions'. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39. pp. 1 - 19. ISSN: 0140-525X
Gervais, WM. and Najle, MB. (2015) 'Learned faith: The influences of evolved cultural learning mechanisms on belief in gods'. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 7 (4). pp. 327 - 335. ISSN: 1941-1022
Mudd, TL., Najle, MB., Ng, BKL. and Gervais, W. (2015) 'The Roots of Right and Wrong: Do Concepts of Innate Morality Reduce Intuitive Associations of Immorality With Atheism?'. Secularism and Nonreligion, 4. ISSN: 2053-6712
Gervais, WM., Jewell, JA., Najle, MB. and Ng, BKL. (2015) 'A Powerful Nudge? Presenting Calculable Consequences of Underpowered Research Shifts Incentives Toward Adequately Powered Designs'. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6 (7). pp. 847 - 854. ISSN: 1948-5506
Gervais, WM. (2015) 'Override the controversy: Analytic thinking predicts endorsement of evolution'. Cognition, 142. pp. 312 - 321. ISSN: 0010-0277
Norenzayan, A. and Gervais, WM. (2015) 'Secular rule of law erodes believers’ political intolerance of atheists'. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 5 (1). pp. 3 - 14. ISSN: 2153-599X
Norenzayan, A., Shariff, AF., Gervais, WM., Willard, AK., McNamara, RA., Slingerland, E. and et al. (2014) 'Parochial prosocial religions: Historical and contemporary evidence for a cultural evolutionary process'. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39. pp. 43 - 65. ISSN: 0140-525X
Gervais, WM. (2014) 'Everything is permitted? People intuitively judge immorality as representative of atheists'. PLoS ONE, 9 (4). pp. e92302 - e92302. ISSN: 1932-6203
Gervais, WM. (2014) 'Good for god? Religious motivation reduces perceived responsibility for and morality of good deeds'. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143 (4). pp. 1616 - 1626. ISSN: 0096-3445
Gervais, W. (2013) 'Religious cognitions', in Saroglou, V. (ed.) Religion, Personality, and Social Behavior. Psychology Press. pp. 71 - 95. ISBN 10: 1136449841. ISBN 13: 9781136449840.
Gervais, WM. (2013) 'Perceiving Minds and Gods: How Mind Perception Enables, Constrains, and Is Triggered by Belief in Gods'. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8 (4). pp. 380 - 394. ISSN: 1745-6916
Gervais, WM. (2013) 'In Godlessness We Distrust: Using Social Psychology to Solve the Puzzle of Anti-atheist Prejudice'. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7 (6). pp. 366 - 377. ISSN: 1751-9004
Norenzayan, A. and Gervais, W. (2013) 'Religion and the origins of anti-atheist prejudice.', inReligion, Intolerance, and Conflict A Scientific and Conceptual Investigation. Oxford University Press. ISBN 10: 0199640912. ISBN 13: 9780199640911.
Norenzayan, A. and Gervais, WM. (2013) 'The origins of religious disbelief'. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17 (1). pp. 20 - 25. ISSN: 1364-6613
Norenzayan, A., Gervais, WM. and Trzesniewski, KH. (2012) 'Mentalizing deficits constrain belief in a personal god'. PLoS ONE, 7 (5). pp. e36880 - e36880. ISSN: 1932-6203
Gervais, WM. and Norenzayan, A. (2012) 'Analytic thinking promotes religious disbelief'. Science, 336 (6080). pp. 493 - 496. ISSN: 0036-8075
Gervais, W. and Norenzayan, A. (2012) 'The cultural evolution of religion', inCreating Consilience Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities. OUP USA. pp. 243 - 265. ISBN 10: 0199794391. ISBN 13: 9780199794393.
Gervais, WM. and Norenzayan, A. (2012) 'Reminders of Secular Authority Reduce Believers' Distrust of Atheists'. Psychological Science, 23 (5). pp. 483 - 491. ISSN: 0956-7976
Gervais, WM. and Norenzayan, A. (2012) 'Like a camera in the sky? Thinking about God increases public self-awareness and socially desirable responding'. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48 (1). pp. 298 - 302. ISSN: 0022-1031
Gervais, WM., Shariff, AF. and Norenzayan, A. (2011) 'Do you believe in atheists? Distrust is central to anti-atheist prejudice'. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101 (6). pp. 1189 - 1206. ISSN: 0022-3514
Gervais, WM., Willard, AK., Norenzayan, A. and Henrich, J. (2011) 'The Cultural Transmission Of Faith: Why innate intuitions are necessary, but insufficient, to explain religious belief'. Religion, 41 (3). pp. 389 - 410. ISSN: 0048-721X Open Access Link
Gervais, WM. (2011) 'Finding the faithless: Perceived atheist prevalence reduces anti-atheist prejudice'. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37 (4). pp. 543 - 556. ISSN: 0146-1672
Gervais, WM. and Henrich, J. (2010) 'The Zeus problem: Why representational content biases cannot explain faith in gods'. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 10 (3-4). pp. 383 - 389. ISSN: 1567-7095
Gervais, WM., Reed, CL., Beall, PM. and Roberts, RJ. (2010) 'Implied body action directs spatial attention'. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 72 (6). pp. 1437 - 1443. ISSN: 1943-3921