Joseph Bulbulia Explained

Joseph Bulbulia

Joseph A. Bulbulia is a Professor of Psychology in the Faculty of Science at Victoria University of Wellington (2020-present). He was the Maclaurin Goodfellow Chair in the School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts at University of Auckland (2018-2020). He previously served as a Professor in the School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies at Victoria University of Wellington (2000– 2017).[1] [2] Bulbulia is regarded as one of the founders of the contemporary evolutionary religious studies . He is a past president of the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion[3] and is currently co-editor of Religion, Brain & Behavior.[4] Bulbulia is one of four on the Senior Management Team of the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study,[5] a national longitudinal study started in 2009 that has repeatedly sampled over 45,000 New Zealanders. He is an associate investigator for Pulotu,[6] a database of 116 Pacific cultures purpose-built to investigate the evolutionary dynamics of religion. In 2016 Bulbulia won a Research Excellence Award at Victoria University.[7]

Career

Bulbulia's early work explained how features of religious beliefs and emotions make people more predictably cooperative with members of their group, and uncooperative with people regarded to be social threats. Later work quantified the effects of religion on social responses to test functional theories of religion.

Life

Bulbulia was born in Buffalo, New York. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2001.

Awards and achievements

-This international award is presented once every four years for outstanding contributions to the psychology of religion. The award, established by Andre Godin through the IAPR, recognises research of exceptional quality or authors who have significantly contributed to the progress of the Psychology of Religion as a scientific endeavour.

Peer-reviewed publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Joseph Bulbulia. Joseph Bulbulia. 2016-06-22.
  2. Web site: Joseph Bulbulia. Studies. Victoria University of Wellington. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. School of Art History, Classics and Religious. www.victoria.ac.nz. 2016-06-22.
  3. Web site: Executive Committee – International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion. www.iacsr.com. 2016-06-22.
  4. Web site: Religion, Brain & Behavior. www.tandfonline.com. 2016-06-22.
  5. Web site: The New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study - The University of Auckland. www.nzvalues.org. 2016-06-22.
  6. Web site: Pulotu. Ng. Simon J. Greenhill, Stef. www.abodeofthegods.org. 2016-06-22.
  7. Web site: News. Sciences. Victoria University of Wellington. Faculty of Humanities and Social. www.victoria.ac.nz. 2016-06-22.
  8. Web site: 2023 honours and awards | Centre for Applied Cross-cultural Research .
  9. Web site: Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. www.zygonjournal.org. 2016-06-22.
  10. Web site: Editorial Team. journals.equinoxpub.com. 2016-06-22.
  11. Web site: The Adaptive Logic of Religious Belief and Behavior The John Templeton Foundation. www.templeton.org. 2016-06-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20160817004935/https://www.templeton.org/what-we-fund/grants/the-adaptive-logic-of-religious-belief-and-behavior. 2016-08-17. dead.
  12. Web site: Distinguished fellows. 2016-04-01. rcc.au.dk. en. 2016-06-22.