Rohan Kapitány, PhD

Kapitány, R., Francis, K. B., Wilks, M., Kavanagh, K., & Whitehouse, H. — Children’s Belief in Santa Claus and Moral Behavior: A two-wave longitudinal study of children’s prosocial behavior during Christmas.

Revach, D., Kavanagh, C., Muzzulini, B., Putra, I. E., Erikha, F., Swandi, N. L. I. D., Kapitány, R., & Whitehouse, H. — The tragedies that bind us: Shared memories, identity fusion, and moral concern among Balinese Hindus following the 2002 Bali bombings.

Kapitány, R., & Kavanagh, C. — Best practices and ethical considerations for crowd-sourced data in the behavioral sciences.

Makazhu, I., Kapitány, R., Locke, A., & Monroy, C. — Global tales: exploring cultural variances in parent–child interactions within narrative settings.

Holmes, J., Zhang, J., Francis, K. B., & Kapitány, R. — Identity Fusion between Imaginary Characters and Oneself during Moral Dilemmas: An examination of cognitive quarantine during adult pretend play.

Asatsa, S., Lew-Levy, S., Kapitány, R., Ringen, E., Ngaari, S. M., & Makunda, J. — Mourning Ritual Participation, Subjective Well-Being, and Prosocial Behaviour among the Luhya People of Kenya.

Asatsa, S., Lew-Levy, S., Gichimu, E., Makunda, J., Mwende, S., & Kapitány, R. — Cultural Transmission During Luhya Mourning Rituals.

Gander, P., Kapitány, R., van Mulukom, V., Semeijn, M., & Szita, K. — Engaging With the Unreal: Introduction to the Special Issue.

Borg, J., Kapitány, R., Buskell, A., Powers, S., Reindl, & Tennie, C. — Evolved Open-Endedness in Cultural Evolution: A New Dimension in Open-Ended Evolution Research.

Kapitány, R., Hampejs, T., & Goldstein, T. — Pretensive Shared Reality: From childhood pretense to adult imaginative play.

Davis, J. T., Robertson, E., Lew-Levy, S., Neldner, K., Kapitány, R., Nielsen, M., & Hines, M. — Cultural Components of Sex Differences in Color Preference.

Muzzulini, B., van Mulukom, V., Kapitány, R., & Whitehouse, H. — Shared Flashbulb Memories lead to Identity Fusion: Recalling the Defeat in the Brexit Referendum Produces Strong Psychological Bonds among Remain Campaigners.

Kapitány, R., Kavanagh, C., & Whitehouse, H. — Ritual Morphospace Revisited: The form, function, and factor structure of ritual practice.

Kapitány, R., Nelsen, N., Burdett, E., & Goldstein, T. — The Child’s Pantheon: An exploration of reality status attributions in Children and Adults.

Kavanagh, C. M., Kapitány, R., Putra, I. E., & Whitehouse, H. — Exploring the pathways between transformative group experiences and identity fusion.

Nielsen, M., Langley, M., Shipton, C., & Kapitány, R. — Homo neanderthalensis and the evolutionary origins of ritual in Homo sapiens.

Kavanagh, C., & Kapitány, R. — Promoting the Benefits and Clarifying Misconceptions about Preregistration, Preprints, and Open Science for the Cognitive Study of Religion (CSR).

Kapitány, R., Kavanagh, C., Buhrmester, M., Newson, M., & Whitehouse, H. — Ritual, Identity Fusion, and the Inauguration of President Trump: A natural pseudo-experiment of Ritual Modes theory.

Kapitány, R., & Nielsen, M. — Ritualized Objects: How We Perceive and Respond to Causally Opaque and Goal Demoted Action.

Kapitány, R., & Kavanagh, C. — A ritual by any other name (Commentary).

Kapitány, R., Kavanagh, C., Whitehouse, H., & Nielsen, M. — Examining memory for ritualized gesture in complex causal sequences.

Kapitány, R., Davis, J. T., Legare, C., & Nielsen, M. — An experimental examination of object-directed ritualized action in children across two cultures.

Nielsen, M., Tomaselli, K., & Kapitány, R. — The Influence of Goal Demotion on Children’s Reproduction of Ritual Behavior.

Kapitány, R., & Nielsen, M. — Are yawns really contagious? A critique and quantification of yawn contagion.

Kapitány, R., & Nielsen, M. — The ritual stance and the precaution system: the role of goal demotion and opacity in ritual and everyday actions.

Wilks, M., Kapitány, R., & Nielsen, M. — Preschool children’s learning proclivities: When the ritual stance trumps the instrumental stance.

Kapitány, R., & Nielsen, M. — Adopting the ritual stance: The role of opacity and context in ritual and everyday actions.

Nielsen, M., Kapitány, R., & Elkins, R. — The perpetuation of ritualistic actions as revealed by young children’s transmission of normative behavior.

Kapitány, R., Reindl, E., & Nielsen, M. — ‘The Friendly Professor’: Does supernatural oversight influence ritualistic actions and moral behavior in children?

Kavanagh, C., Wibisono, S., Kapitány, R., Yustisi, W., Eka Putra, I., Rufaidah, A., & Whitehouse, H. — Group identification better predicts parochial attitudes than identity fusion amongst Indonesian Islamists.

Cultural Evolution Online — Discord community hosting a weekly virtual journal club and themed research discussion, founded March 2019

The Mind Games Podcast — 8-part series interviewing scholars on tabletop role-playing games and research

Believing in Santa Claus doesn’t make children act nicer at Christmas

Believing in Santa Claus does NOT make children act nicer at Christmas — but a surprising festive tradition does

Belief in Santa Claus doesn’t guarantee kids a spot on the “nice” list

The Conspiracy — interview with Sasha Sagan, “Strange Rituals” podcast

From Dinosaurs to Disney, Children Take Cues from Adults on Real vs. Make-Believe

Ho Ho Hokum

Why children really believe in Santa — the surprising psychology behind tradition

The Entire Literature on Contagious Yawning Could Be Bogus