This is a list of my current and forthcoming publications. For more information about my academic activities, please refer to my CV.

 

Books

Jong, J., & Halberstadt, J. (2016). Death anxiety and religious belief: an existential psychology of religion. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.

Jong, J., & Halberstadt, J. (2016). Death anxiety and religious belief: an existential psychology of religion. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.

Jong, J. (2023). Experimenting with religion: the new science of belief. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Book Series

The Cambridge University Press Elements in Psychology of Religion series has just launched: https://www.cambridge.org/core/browse-subjects/psychology/psychology-of-religion

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

My research activities span multiple disciplines, mainly psychology (and related social sciences), theology, and philosophy. This list of publications is divided by discipline, and arranged by year of publication.

Psychology & Related Social Sciences

Hoogeveen, S. […] Jong, J. et al. (2022). A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain, & Behavior. doi:10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070255.

— Krypotos, A-M, Klein, R. A., & Jong, J. (2022). Resolving religious debates through a multiverse approach.

Patel, R., Jong, J., Worthington, E. L., & Lycett, D. (2022). The development of the Religious Health Interventions in Behavioural Science (RHIBS) Taxonomy: a scientific classification of religious practices in health. Translational Behavioral Medicine, 12(10), 987-1003.

Brown, J., van Mulukom, V., Jong, J., & Farias, M. (2022). Exploring the relationship between church worship, social bonding, and moral values. Archive for the Psychology of Religion, 44. doi:10.1177/00846724211070858

Coleman III, T. J., & Jong, J. (2021). Counting the nonreligious: a critical survey of new measures. In A. L. Ai, P. Wink, R. Paloutzian, & K. A. Harris, (eds). Assessing Spirituality and Religion in a Diversified World. Cham, CHE: Springer (pp. 87-116). Book details at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-52140-0

Coleman III, T. J., Silver, C. F., & Jong, J. (2021). Serpent handling: toward a cognitive account. Journal of Cognitive and Culture, 21, 414-430.

Jong, J. (2021). Psychology of religion. In S. Goetz, & C. Taliaferro (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion. Oxford, UK: Wiley.

McPhetres, J., Jong, J., Zuckerman, M. (2021). Religious Americans have less positive attitudes toward science, but this does not extend to other cultures. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12, 528-536.

Jong, J. (2021). Death anxiety and religion. Current Opinion in Psychology. doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.08.004

Meng, X., Nakawake, Y., Hashiya, K., Burdett, E., Jong, J., & Whitehouse, H. (2021). Preverbal infants expect supernatural agents to be socially dominant. Scientific Reports, 11, 10884.

Schweinsberg, M., Feldman, M., Staub, N., van den Akker, O. R., van Aert, R. C. M.…Jong, J….Uhlmann, E. L. (2021). Same data, different conclusions: radical dispersion in empirical results when independent analysts operationalize and test the same hypotheses. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 165, 228-249.

Jong, J. (2020). Death anxiety and religious belief: a critical review. In C. Routledge & K, Vail III (eds.), The science of religion, spirituality, and existentialism. Amsterdam, NL: Elsevier.

Jong, J., Baimel, A., Ross, R., McKay, R., Bluemke, M., & Halberstadt, J. (2020). Traumatic life experiences and religiosity in eight countries. Scientific Data, 7, 140. doi:10.1038/s41597-020-0482-y

Kavanaugh, C., & Jong, J. (2020). Is Japan religious? Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 14, 152-180.

Kavanagh, C., Whitehouse, H., & Jong, J. (2020). Ritual and religion as social technologies of cooperation. In L. J. Kirmayer, S. Kitayama, C. M. Worthman, R. Lemelson, & C. A. Cummings (eds). Culture, mind, brain: emerging concepts, models, applications. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Book details at https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/culture-mind-and-brain/7E0EB4685336D5221593DBF2F42EBA58

McPhetres, J., Jong, J., Zuckerman, M. (2020). Religious Americans have less positive attitudes toward science, but this does not extend to other cultures. SPPS. doi:10.1177/1948550620923239

Newson, M., Shiramizu, V., Buhrmester, M., Hattori, W., Jong, J., Yamamoto, E., Whitehouse, H. (2020). Devoted fans produce more cortisol when watching live soccer matches. Stress and Health, 36, 220-227.

Ross, R. M., Brown-Iannuzzi, J. L., Gervais, W. M., Jong, J., Lanman, J. A., McKay, R., & Pennycook, G. (2020). Measuring supernatural belief implicitly using the Affect Misattribution Procedure. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 10, 393-406.

Willard, A. K., Baimel, A., Turpin, H., Jong, J., & Whitehouse, H. (2020). Rewarding the good and punishing the bad: the role of karma and nextlife beliefs in shaping moral norms. Evolution and Human Behavior, 41, 385-396.

Reddish, P., Tong, E. M. W., Jong, J., & Whitehouse, H. (2019). Interpersonal synchrony affects performers’ sense of agency. Self & Identity, 19, 389-411.

Bering, J., Curtin, E., & Jong, J. (2019). Knowledge of deaths in hotel rooms diminishes perceived value and elicits strong guest aversion. OMEGA—Journal of Death and Dying, 79, 286-312.

Coleman, T. J. III, Arrowood, R. B., Sevinç, K., Hood, R. W. Jr., & Jong, J. (2019). An atheist perspective on self-esteem and meaning making while under death awareness. Secular Studies, 1. doi:10.1163/25892525-00102002 

Jong, J., Halberstadt, J., Bluemke, M., Kavanagh,, C., Jackson, C. (2019). Death anxiety, exposure to death, mortuary preferences, and religiosity in five countries. Nature Scientific Data, 154. doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0163-x

Morris Trainor, Z., Jong, J., Bluemke, M., & Halberstadt, J. (2019). Death salience moderates the effect of trauma on religiosity. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. doi:10.1037/tra0000430

Reddish, P., Tong, E. M. W., Jong, J., & Whitehouse, H. (2019). Interpersonal synchrony affects performers’ sense of agency. Self & Identity. doi:10.1080/15298868.2019.1604427

Ross, R. M., Brown-Iannuzzi, J. L., Gervais, W. M., Jong, J., Lanman, J. A., McKay, R., & Pennycook, G. (2019). Measuring supernatural belief implicitly using the affect misattribution procedure. Religion, Brain, & Behavior. doi:10.1080/2153599X.2019.1619620

Stanford, M., & Jong, J. (2019). Beyond Buddhism and animism: A psychometric test of the structure of Burmese Theravada Buddhism. PLoS ONE, 14, e0226414. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0226414

Jong, J., & Halberstadt, J. (2018). Death anxiety and religious belief: responses to commentaries. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 9, 207-218.

 Kavanagh, C., Jong, J., McKay, R., & Whitehouse, H. (2018). Positive experiences of high arousal martial arts rituals are linked to identity fusion and costly progroup actions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 461-481.

Arrowood, R. B., Jong, J., Vail III., K. E., & Hood, R. W. (eds). (2018). Special issue: Terror management theory. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 8, 1-100.

— Arrowood, R. B., Jong, J., Vail III., K. E., & Hood, R. W. (2018). Guest editors' foreword: On the importance of integrating terror management and psychology of religion. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 8, 1-3.

— Jackson, J., Jong, J., Bluemke, M., Poulter, P., Morgenroth, L. & Halberstadt, J. (2018).  Testing the causal relationship between religiosity and death anxiety. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 8, 57-68.

— Jong, J., Ross, R., Philip, T., Chang, S. H., Simons, N., & Halberstadt, J. (2018). The religious correlates of death anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 8, 4-20.

Cho, P. S., Escoffier, N., Mao, Y., Ching, A., Green, C., Jong, J., & Whitehouse, H. (2018). Groups and emotional arousal mediate neural synchrony and perceived ritual efficacy. Frontiers in Psychology. doi:0.3389/fpsyg.2018.02071

Jackson, C. M., Jackson, J. C., Bilkey, D., Jong, J., Halberstadt, J. H. (2018). The dynamic emergence of minimal groups. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. doi:10.1177/1368430218802636

Jackson, J. C., Jong, J., Bilkey, D., Whitehouse, H., Zollman, S., McNaughton, C., & Halberstadt, J. (2018). Synchrony and arousal increase cohesion and cooperation in large naturalistic groups. Scientific Reports, 18, 127. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-18023-4. 

McKay, R. M., Jong, J., O'Lone, K. (2018). Idolizing the indexical: commentary on Van Leeuwen and van Elk. [Commentary] Religion, Brain & Behavior. doi:10.1080/2153599X.2018.1453533

Segal, K., Jong, J., & Halberstadt, J. (2018). The fusing power of natural disasters: An experimental study. Self & Identity, 17, 574-586.

Thomson, R., Yuki, M., Talhelm, T., Kito, M., Schug, J., Becker, J.,...Jong, J.,...Visserman, M. (2018). Relational mobility predicts social behaviors in 39 countries and is tied to historical farming and threat. PNAS. doi:10.1073/pnas.1713191115

Willard, A. K., Nakawake, Y., & Jong, J. (2018). The evolution of the shaman's cultural toolkit. [Commentary] Behavioral and Brain Sciences, e89.

Rybanska, V., McKay, R., Jong, J., Whitehouse, H. (2017). Rituals improve children’s ability to delay gratification. Child Development. doi:10.1111/cdev.1276

Bering, J., Curtin, E., & Jong, J. (2017). Knowledge of deaths in hotel rooms diminishes perceived value and elicits strong guest aversion. OMEGA—Journal of Death and Dying. doi:10.1177/0030222817709694

Buric, I., Farias, M., Jong, J., Mee, C., & Brazil, I. (2017).  What is the molecular signature of mind-body interventions? A systematic review of gene expression changes induced by meditation and related practices. Frontiers in Immunology. doi:10.3389/fimmu.2017.00670

Jackson, J. C., Bilkey, D., Jong, J., Rossignac-Milon, M., Halberstadt, J. (2017). Strangers in a stadium: studying group dynamics with in-vivo behavioral tracking. Social Psychological and Personality Science. doi:10.1177/1948550617709112

Jong, J. (2017). "Belief in spiritual beings": E. B. Tylor's (primitive) cognitive theory of religion. In P-F Tremlett, G. Harvey, & L. T. Sutherland (eds.), Edward Burnett Tylor, Religion and Culture. London, UK: Bloomsbury. Book details at https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/edward-burnett-tylor-religion-and-culture-9781350003415/

Jong, J., & Halberstadt, J. (2017). What is the causal relationship between death anxiety and religious belief? Religion, Brain & Behavior, 7, 296-298.

Whitehouse, H., Jong, J., Buhrmester, M. D., Gómez, Á., Bastian, B., Kavanagh, C. M., Newson, M., Matthews, M., Lanman, J. A., & Gavrilets, S. (2017). The evolution of identity fusion and extreme cooperation. Scientific Reports, 7, 44292.

Jong, J., Zahl, B. P., & Sharp, C. (2017). Indirect and implicit measures of religiosity. In R. Finke & C. Bader (eds.), Faithful Measures: New Methods in the Measurement of Religion. New York, NY: New York University Press. Book details at https://nyupress.org/books/9781479877102/

Bluemke, M., Jong, J., Grevenstein, D., Mikloušić, I., & Halberstadt, J. (2016). Measuring cross-cultural supernatural beliefs with self and peer reports. PLOS One. doi:dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164291

Halberstadt, J., Jackson, J. C., Bilkey, D., Jong, J., Whitehouse, H., McNaughton, C., & Zollman, S. (2016). Incipient social groups: an analysis via in-vivo behavioral tracking. PLOS One. doi:dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0149880

Reddish, P., Tong, E. M. W., Jong, J., Lanman, J. A., & Whitehouse, H. (2016). Collective synchrony reduces in-group bias. British Journal of Social Psychology.

Jong, J., Whitehouse, H., Kavanagh, C., & Lane, J. (2015). Shared negative experiences lead to identity fusion via personal reflection. PLOS One. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0145611

Jackson, J., Halberstadt, J., Jong, J., & Felman, H. (2015). Perceived openness to experience accounts for religious homogamy. Social Psychological and Personality Science. DOI: 10.1177/1948550615574302

Jong, J. (2015). On (not) defining (non)religion. Science, Religion and Culture, 2, 15-24 .doi:10.1111/bjso.12165

Alogna, V. K., Attaya, M. K., Aucoin, P., Bahnik, S., Birch, S., Birt, A. R., … Jong, J., et al. (2014). Registered replication report: Schooler and Engstler-Schooler (1990). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9, 556—578.

Halberstadt, J., & Jong, J. (2014). Scaring the bejesus into people: the role of religious belief in managing implicit and explicit anxiety. In J. Forgas and E. Harmon-Jones (Eds.), Motivation and its regulation: the control within (pp. 331—350). New York, NY: Psychology Press.

Jong, J. (2013). Implicit measures in the experimental psychology of religion. In G. Dawes, & J. Maclaurin. A new science of religion (pp. 65—78). New York, NY: Routledge.

Jong, J. (2013). On faith and the fear of fatality: a review of recent research on death and deities. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 1, 193—214.

Jong, J., Bluemke, M., & Halberstadt, J. (2013). Fear of death and supernatural beliefs: developing a new Supernatural Belief Scale to test the relationship. European Journal of Personality, 27, 495—506.

Jong, J. Halberstadt, J., & Bluemke, M. (2012). Foxhole atheism, revisited: The effects of mortality salience on explicit and implicit religious belief. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 983—989.

Theology & Philosophy

Jong J. (2022). Love in new creation: an invitation to baptism. In J. Strawbridge, J. Mercer, and P. Groves (eds), Love Makes Things Happen: An Invitation to Christian Living. London, UK: SCM Press.

Jong J. (2022). Love in self-gift: an invitation to justice and reconciliation. In J. Strawbridge, J. Mercer, and P. Groves (eds), Love Makes Things Happen: An Invitation to Christian Living. London, UK: SCM Press.

Jong, J. (2021). A scientist’s perspective on science-engaged theology. Modern Theology, 37, 243-563.

Jong, J. (2020). Catechesis and the cultivation of virtue. In J. Mercer (ed.), Catechesis: an invitation to living faith. London, UK: SCM Press.

Jong, J. (2019). Love overflowing — the doctrine of creation. In J. Strawbridge, J. Mercer, & P. Groves (eds.), Love makes no sense: an invitation to Christian theology. London, UK: SCM Press.

Jong, J., & Groves, P. (2019). Love negated— sin and suffering. In J. Strawbridge, J. Mercer, & P. Groves (eds.), Love makes no sense: an invitation to Christian theology. London, UK: SCM Press.

Coleman III, T. J., Jong, J., & van Mulukom, V. (eds.). (2018). Special issue: What are religious beliefs?  Contemporary Pragmatism, 15, 279-406.

—Coleman III, T. J., Jong, J., & van Mulukom, V. (2018). Introduction to the special issue: What are religious beliefs?  Contemporary Pragmatism, 15, 279-283.

—Jong, J. (2018). Beliefs are object-attribute associations of varying strength. Contemporary Pragmatism, 15, 284-301.

Jong, J. (2018). On biotechnology, theology, and the human sciences. Theology and Science, 16, 343-352. 

Jong, J. (2017). What are human beings (that you are mindful of them)?: Notes from neo-Darwinism and neo-Aristotelianism. In M. Fuller, D. Evers, A. Runehov, & K.-W. Sæther, (eds.), Issues in Science and Theology: Are We Special? (Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology). Cham, CH: Springer. Book details at https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319621234

Jong, J., Kavanagh, C., & Visala, A. (2015). Born idolaters: The limits of the philosophical implications of the cognitive science of religion. Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, 57, 244-266.  

Jong, J. (2014). Ernest Becker’s psychology of religion: a view from social cognitive psychology. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 49, 875—889.

Jong, J., & Visala, A. (2014). Three quests for human nature: some philosophical reflections. Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences, 1, 146—171.

Jong, J., & Visala, A. (2014). Evolutionary debunking arguments against theism, reconsidered. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 76, 243—258. 

Jong, J. (2013). Explaining religion (away?): theism and the cognitive science of religion. Sophia, 52, 521—533. 

Dawes, G., & Jong, J. (2012). Defeating the Christian’s claim to warrant. Philo, 15, 127—144.