Dimitris Xygalatas
Assistant Professor
Dimitris Xygalatas
Assistant Professor
- School of Culture and Society - Culture, Cognition and Computation, Department for
Email: xygalatas@cas.au.dk
Publications
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being
Hoogeveen, S., Sarafoglou, A., Aczel, B., Aditya, Y., Alayan, A. J., Allen, P. J., Altay, S., Alzahawi, S., Amir, Y., Anthony, F-V., Appiah, O. K., Atkinson, Q. D., Baimel, A., Balkaya-Ince, M., Balsamo, M., Banker, S., Bartos, F., Becerra, M., Beffara, B., Beitner, J., Bendixen, T., Berkessel, J. B., Berniunas, R., Billet, M., Billingsley, J., Bortolini, T., Breitsohl, H., Bret, A., Brown, F. L., Brown, J., Brumbaugh, C. C., Buczny, J., Bulbulia, J., Caballero, S., Carlucci, L., Carmichael, C. L., Cattaneo, M. E. G., Charles, S. J., Claessens, S., Panagopoulos, M. C., Costa, A. B., Crone, D. L., Czoschke, S., Czymara, C., D'Urso, E. D., Dahlstrom, O., Dalla Rosa, A., Danielsson, H., De Ron, J., de Vries, Y. A., Dean, K. K., Dik, B. J., Disabato, D. J., Doherty, J. K., Draws, T., Drouhot, L., Dujmovic, M., Dunham, Y., Ebert, T., Edelsbrunner, P. A., Eerland, A., Elbaek, C. T., Farahmand, S., Farahmand, H., Farias, M., Feliccia, A. A., Fischer, K., Fischer, R., Fisher-Thompson, D., Francis, Z., Frick, S., Frisch, L. K., Geraldes, D., Gerdin, E., Geven, L., Ghasemi, O., Gielens, E., Gligoric, V., Hagel, K., Hajdu, N., Hamilton, H. R., Hamzah, I., Hanel, P. H. P., Hawk, C. E., Himawan, K. K., Holding, B. C., Homman, L. E., Ingendahl, M., Inkila, H., Inman, M. L., Islam, C-G., Isler, O., Izydorczyk, D., Jaeger, B., Johnson, K. A., Jong, J., Karl, J. A., Kaszubowski, E., Katz, B. A., Keefer, L. A., Kelchtermans, S., Kelly, J. M., Klein, R. A., Kleinberg, B., Knowles, M. L., Kolczynska, M., Koller, D., Krasko, J., Kritzler, S., Krypotos, A-M., Kyritsis, T., Landes, T. L., Laukenmann, R., Forsyth, G. A. L., Lazar, A., Lehman, B. J., Levy, N., Lo, R. F., Lodder, P., Lorenz, J., Lowicki, P., Ly, A. L., Maassen, E., Magyar-Russell, G. M., Maier, M., Marsh, D. R., Martinez, N., Martinie, M., Martoyo, I., Mason, S. E., Mauritsen, A. L., McAleer, P., McCauley, T., McCullough, M., McKay, R., McMahon, C. M., McNamara, A. A., Means, K. K., Mercier, B., Mitkidis, P., Monin, B., Moon, J. W., Moreau, D., Morgan, J., Murphy, J., Muscatt, G., Nagel, C., Nagy, T., Nalborczyk, L., Nilsonne, G., Noack, P., Norenzayan, A., Nuijten, M. B., Olsson-Collentine, A., Oviedo, L., Pavlov, Y. G., Pawelski, J. O., Pearson, H., Pedder, H., Peetz, H. K., Pinus, M., Pirutinsky, S., Polito, V., Porubanova, M., Poulin, M. J., Prenoveau, J. M., Prince, M. A., Protzko, J., Pryor, C., Purzycki, B. G., Qiu, L., Putter, J. Q., Rabelo, A., Radell, M. L., Ramsay, J. E., Reid, G., Roberts, A. J., Luna, L. M. R., Ross, R. M., Roszak, P., Roy, N., Saarelainen, S-M. K., Sasaki, J. Y., Schaumans, C., Schivinski, B., Schmitt, M. C., Schnitker, S. A., Schnuerch, M., Schreiner, M. R., Schuttengruber, V., Sebben, S., Segerstrom, S. C., Seryczynska, B., Shjoedt, U., Simsek, M., Sleegers, W. W. A., Smith, E. R., Sowden, W. J., Spath, M., Sporlein, C., Stedden, W., Stoevenbelt, A. H., Stuber, S., Sulik, J., Suwartono, C., Syropoulos, S., Szaszi, B., Szecsi, P., Tappin, B. M., Tay, L., Thibault, R. T., Thompson, B., Thurn, C. M., Torralba, J., Tuthill, S. D., Ullein, A-M., Van Aert, R. C. M., van Assen, M. A. L. M., Van Cappellen, P., van den Akker, O. R., Van der Cruyssen, I., Van der Noll, J., van Dongen, N. N. N., Van Lissa, C. J., van Mulukom, V., van Ravenzwaaij, D., van Zyl, C. J. J., Vaughn, L. A., Verschuere, B., Vianello, M., Vilanova, F., Vishkin, A., Vogel, V., Vogelsmeier, L. V. D. E., Watanabe, S., White, C. J. M., Wiebels, K., Wiechert, S., Willett, Z. Z., Witkowiak, M., Witvliet, C. V. O., Wiwad, D., Wuyts, R., Xygalatas, D., Yang, X., Yeo, D. J., Yilmaz, O., Zarzeczna, N., Zhao, Y., Zijlmans, J., van Elk, M. & Wagenmakers, E-J., 2 Jul 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Religion, Brain, and Behavior. 47 p.Appealing to the minds of gods: Religious beliefs and appeals correspond to features of local social ecologies
Bendixen, T., Apicella, C. L., Atkinson, Q., Cohen, E., Henrich, J., McNamara, R. A., Norenzayan, A., Willard, A. K., Xygalatas, D. & Purzycki, B. G., May 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Religion, Brain & Behavior.Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities: a cross-cultural investigation
Baimel, A., Apicella, C., Atkinson, Q., Bolyanatz, A., Cohen, E., Handley, C., Henrich, J., Kundtová Klocová, E., Lang, M., Lesogorol, C., Mathew, S., McNamara, R., Moya, C., Norenzayan, A., Placek, C. D., Soler, M., Vardy, T., Weigel, J., Willard, A., Xygalatas, D. & Purzycki, B., Apr 2022, In: Religion, Brain and Behavior. 12, 1-2, p. 4-17The Einstein effect provides global evidence for scientific source credibility effects and the influence of religiosity
Hoogeveen, S., Haaf, J. M., Bulbulia, J. A., Ross, R. M., McKay, R., Altay, S., Bendixen, T., Berniūnas, R., Cheshin, A., Gentili, C., Georgescu, R., Gervais, W. M., Hagel, K., Kavanagh, C., Levy, N., Neely, A., Qiu, L., Rabelo, A., Ramsay, J. E., Rutjens, B. T., Turpin, H., Uzarevic, F., Wuyts, R., Xygalatas, D. & van Elk, M., Apr 2022, In: Nature Human Behaviour. 6, 4, p. 523-535 13 p.The moralization bias of gods’ minds: A cross-cultural test
Purzycki, B. G., Willard, A. K., Klocová, E. K., Apicella, C. L., Atkinson, Q., Bolyanatz, A., Cohen, E., Handley, C., Henrich, J., Lang, M., Lesorogol, C., Mathew, S., McNamara, R. A., Moya, C., Norenzayan, A., Placek, C. D., Soler, M., Vardy, T., Weigel, J. L., Xygalatas, D. & Ross, C., Apr 2022, In: Religion, Brain and Behavior. 12, 1-2, p. 38-60The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies
Vardy, T., Moya, C., Placek, C. D., Apicella, C. L., Bolyanatz, A., Cohen, E., Handley, C., Kundtová Klocová, E., Lesorogol, C., Mathew, S., McNamara, S. A., Purzycki, B. G., Soler, M., Weigel, J. L., Willard, A. K., Xygalatas, D., Norenzayan, A., Henrich, J., Lang, M. & Atkinson, Q. D., Apr 2022, In: Religion, Brain and Behavior. 12, 1-2, p. 18-37 20 p.Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies
Lang, M., Purzycki, B. G., Apicella, C. L., Atkinson, Q. D., Bolyanatz, A., Cohen, E., Handley, C., Klocova, E. K., Lesorogol, C., Mathew, S., McNamara, R. A., Moya, C., Placek, C. D., Soler, M., Vardy, T., Weigel, J. L., Willard, A. K., Xygalatas, D., Norenzayan, A. & Henrich, J., 6 Mar 2019, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286, 1898, 10 p., 20190202.Big Gods in small places: the Random Allocation Game in Mauritius
Xygalatas, D., Kotherova, S., Mano, P., Kundt, R., Cigan, J., Klocová, E. K. & Martin, L., 3 Apr 2018, In: Religion, Brain, and Behavior. 8, 2, p. 243-261 19 p.The evolution of religion and morality: a synthesis of ethnographic and experimental evidence from eight societies
Purzycki, B. G., Henrich, J., Apicella, C., Atkinson, Q., Baimel, A., Cohen, E., McNamara, R. A., Willard, A., Xygalatas, D. & Norenzayan, A., 2018, In: Religion, Brain, and Behavior. 8, 2, p. 101-132 32 p.Sync to link: Endorphin-mediated synchrony effects on cooperation
Lang, M., Bahna, V., Shaver, J. H., Reddish, P. & Xygalatas, D., Jul 2017, In: Biological Psychology. 127, p. 191-197 7 p.Cognitive Science of Religion
Xygalatas, D., 2017, Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion (third edition). Leeming, D. (ed.). 3 ed. online: Springer, 5 p.Religious Veiling as a Mate-Guarding Strategy: Effects of Environmental Pressures on Cultural Practices
Pazhoohi, F., Martin, L., Xygalatas, D. & Grammer, K., 2017, In: Evolutionary Psychological Science. 3, 2, p. 118–124 7 p.The Perennial Power of Ritual
Xygalatas, D., 30 Sept 2016The psychology of ritualized suffering
Xygalatas, D., 25 Jul 2016Anxiety and ritualization: Can attention discriminate compulsion from routine?
Krátký, J., Martin, L., Shaver, J., Jerotijević, D. & Xygalatas, D., 2016, In: Communicative & Integrative Biology. 9, 3, 3 p., e1174799.CERC Dataset (Full Hadza Data)
Purzycki, B., Apicella, C., Atkinson, Q., Cohen, E., Henrich, J., McNamara, R., Norenzayan, A., Willard, A. & Xygalatas, D., 2016Cross-cultural dataset for the evolution of religion and morality project
Purzycki, B. G., Apicella, C., Atkinson, Q. D., Cohen, E., McNamara, R. A., Willard, A. K., Xygalatas, D., Norenzayan, A. & Henrich, J., 2016, In: Scientific Data. 3, p. 160099IACSR Year in Review: 2015: General Secretary's report, International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion
Xygalatas, D., 2016, International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion (IACSR). 7 p.It Depends Who Is Watching You: 3-D Agent Cues Increase Fairness
Krátký, J., McGraw, J. J., Xygalatas, D., Mitkidis, P. & Reddish, P., 2016, In: P L o S One. 11, 2, p. 1-11 11 p., e0148845.Location, Location, Location: Effects of Cross-Religious Primes on Prosocial Behaviour
Xygalatas, D., Klocova, E., Cigan, J., Kundt, R., Mano, P., Kotherova, S., Mitkidis, P., Wallot, S. & Kanovsky, M., 2016, In: The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. 26, 4, p. 304-319 15 p.Moralizing gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality
Purzycki, B., Apicella, C., Atkinson, Q., Cohen, E., McNamara, R., Willard, A., Xygalatas, D., Norenzayan, A. & Henrich, J., 2016, In: Nature. 530, p. 327–330 4 p.Music as a sacred cue? Effects of religious music on moral behavior
Lang, M., Mitkidis, P., Kundt, R., Nichols, A., Krajčíková, L. & Xygalatas, D., 2016, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 7, p. 1-13 13 p., 814.Prosociality and Religion
Xygalatas, D. & Martin, L., 2016, Mental Religion. Kasumi Clements, N. (ed.). Macmillan Reference USA, p. 119-133 15 p. (Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks).Effects of Anxiety on Spontaneous Ritualized Behavior
Martin, L., Kratky, J., Shaver, J., Jerotijević, D. & Xygalatas, D., Jun 2015, In: Current Biology. 25, 14, p. Side 1892 - 1897 5 p.Lost in the Rhythm: Effects of Rhythm on Subsequent Interpersonal Coordination
Martin, L., Shaw, D., Reddish, P., Wallot, S., Mitkidis, P. & Xygalatas, D., 2015, In: Cognitive Science. p. 1-19 19 p.The Impact of Authority on Cooperation: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Systemic Trust
Mitkidis, P., Xygalatas, D., Buttrick, N., Porubanova, M. & Lienard, P., 2015, In: Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. 1, 3, p. 341-357 17 p.3-Dimensional Agent Representations Increase Generosity in a Naturalistic Setting
Krátký, J., McGraw, J. J., Xygalatas, D., Mitkidis, P. & Reddish, P., 21 Jun 2014.The (Fire) Walker’s High: Affect and physiological responses in an extreme collective ritual
Fischer, R., Xygalatas, D., Mitkidis, P., Reddish, P., Tok, P., Konvalinka, I. & Bulbulia, J., 14 Feb 2014, In: P L o S One.Cognitive Science of Religion
Xygalatas, D., 2014, Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion. Leeming, AD. (ed.). 2 ed. Springer, p. 343-347 5 p.Extreme Rituals as Social Technologies
Fischer, R. & Xygalatas, D., 2014, In: Journal of Cognition and Culture. 14, 5, p. 345-355 11 p.Memory for expectation-violating concepts: The effects of agency and cultural familiarity
Porubanova, M., Shaw, D., McKay, R. & Xygalatas, D., 2014, In: P L o S One. 9, 4, e90684.On the Way Towards a Cognitive Historiography: Are We There Yet?
Xygalatas, D., 2014, In: Journal of Cognitive Historiography. 1, 2, p. 193-200 8 p.Other people’s gods are watching too: Effects of cross-religious primes on prosocial behaviour
Kundt, R., Xygalatas, D., Klocova, E., Cigan, J., Mano, P., Kotherová, S., Wallot, S. & Mitkidis, P., 2014.Religion and Sociality
Xygalatas, D., 2014, In: Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion. 2, 1, p. 1-4Ritual and cohesion. What is the place of euphoric arousal?
Xygalatas, D., 2014, In: Current Anthropology. 55, 6Trial by fire: From fire-walking and head-slashing to the ice-bucket challenge, ritual pain and suffering forge intense social bonds
Xygalatas, D., 2014, In: Aeon.Αυτονομία της Θρησκείας
Xygalatas, D., 2014, Μεγάλη Ορθόδοξη Εγκυκλοπαίδεια. Strategikes ekdoseis, Vol. 1.Images From a Jointly-Arousing Collective Ritual Reveal Affective Polarization
Bulbulia, J., Xygalatas, D., Schjødt, U., Fondevila, S., Sibley, C. & Konvalinka, I., 24 Dec 2013, In: Frontiers in Psychology.Homo Experimentalis: The Place of Experimentation in the Scientific Study of Religion
McCorkle, W. & Xygalatas, D., 3 May 2013Anastenaria
Xygalatas, D., 2013, Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions. Runehov, A. & Oviedo, L. (eds.). Dordrecht: Springer, Vol. 1. p. 88-92Announcing the Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion
Xygalatas, D. & McKay, R., 2013, In: Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion. 1, 1, p. 1-4 4 p.Autobiographical Memory in a Fire-Walking Ritual
Xygalatas, D., Schjødt, U., Bulbulia, J., Konvalinka, I., Jegindø, E-M. E., Roepstorff, A., Reddish, P. & Geertz, A. W., 2013, In: Journal of Cognition and Culture. 13, 1-2, p. 1-16 16 p.Cognitive resource depletion in religious interactions
Schjødt, U., Sørensen, J., Nielbo, K. L., Xygalatas, D., Mitkidis, P. & Bulbulia, J., 2013, In: Religion, Brain, and Behavior. 3, 1, p. 39-55 16 p.Editorial: Special Issue on the Experimental Research of Religion
Xygalatas, D., 2013, In: Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion. 1, 2, p. 137-139 3 p.Extreme Rituals Promote Prosociality
Xygalatas, D., Mitkidis, P., Fischer, R., Reddish, P., Skewes, J., Geertz, A. W., Roepstorff, A. & Bulbulia, J., 2013, In: Psychological Science. 24, 8, p. 1602-1605 4 p.Fire-Walking
Xygalatas, D., 2013, Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions. Runehov, A. & Oviedo, L. (eds.). Springer, p. 860-861 2 p.Mental Culture: Classical Social Theory and the Cognitive Science of Religion
Xygalatas, D. (ed.) & McCorkle, W. (ed.), 2013, Durham: Acumen Publishing. (Religion, Cognition and Culture).Minimal-Counterintuitiveness Revisited: effects of cultural and ontological violations on concept memorability
Porubanova-Norquist, M., Shaw, D. & Xygalatas, D., 2013, In: Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion. 1, 2, p. 181-192 12 p.Přenos laboratoře do terénu: Využití smíšených metod během terénního studia náboženství
Xygalatas, D., 2013, In: Socialni Studia. 2013/2, 10, p. 15-25 11 p.Social Minds, Mental Cultures: Weaving Together Cognition and Culture in the Study of Religion
McCorkle, W. & Xygalatas, D., 2013, Mental Culture: Classical Social theory and the Cognitive Science of Religion. Xygalatas, D. & McCorkle, W. (eds.). London: Acumen Publishing, p. 1-10 (Religion, Cognition and Culture).The resource model and the principle of predictive coding: A framework for analyzing proximate effects of ritual
Schjødt, U., Sørensen, J., Nielbo, K. L., Xygalatas, D., Bulbulia, J. & Mitkidis, P., 2013, In: Religion, Brain, and Behavior. 3, 1, p. 79-86 8 p.What is Natural and Unnatural about Religion and Science
Xygalatas, D., 2013, In: Religion, Brain, and Behavior. 3, 2, p. 161-164 4 p.Effects of religious setting on cooperative behaviour. A case study from Mauritius
Xygalatas, D., 2012, In: Religion, Brain, and Behavior.Fire-walking in the Balkans: High Arousal Rituals and Memory
Xygalatas, D., 2012, Religion and Cognition through the Ages. Czachesz, I. (ed.). Leuven: PeetersPast, Present, and Future in the Scientific Study of Religion
Mccorkle, W. W. & Xygalatas, D., 2012, In: Religio: revue pro religionistiku. 20, 2, p. 149-154 6 p.The Burning Saints: Cognition and Culture in the Fire-walking Rituals of the Anastenaria
Xygalatas, D., 2012, London: Equinox Publishing. 256 p. (Religion, Cognition and Culture).Synchronized arousal between performers and related spectators in a fire-walking ritual
Konvalinka, I., Xygalatas, D., Bulbulia, J., Schjødt, U., Jegindø, E-M. E., Wallot, S., Van Orden, G. & Roepstorff, A., 17 May 2011, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108, 20, p. 8514-8519 5 p."Ethnography, Historiography, and the Making of History in the Tradition of the Anastenaria"
Xygalatas, D., 2011, In: History and Anthropology. 22, 1, p. 57-74 18 p.Quantifying collective effervescence: Heart-rate dynamics at a fire-walking ritual
Xygalatas, D., Konvalinka, I., Roepstorff, A. & Bulbulia, J., 2011, In: Communicative & Integrative Biology. 4, 6, p. 735-8 4 p."Can the Study of Religion be Scientific?"
Xygalatas, D., 2010, Chasing Down Religion: In the Sights of History and the Cognitive Sciences. Essays in Honour of Luther H. Martin. Pachis, P. & Wiebe, D. (eds.). Thessaloniki: Barbounakis"From Object to Human: Archaeology, Cognitive Science, and the Evolution of the Mind" (in Greek), preface to the Greek Translation of Steven Mithen, The Prehistory of the Mind
Xygalatas, D. & Panayotidou, O., 2010, Η Προϊστορία του Νου. Thessaloniki: Vanias, p. 7-18Review of N. Christakis and J. Fowler (2009), Connected: The Surprising Power of our Social Networks and How they Shape our Lives, Little, Brown and Company
Xygalatas, D., 2010, In: Journal of Cognition and Culture. 10, 3-4, p. 401-403Αναγωγισμός
Xygalatas, D., 2010, Μεγάλη Ορθόδοξη Εγκυκλοπαίδεια: The Great Othrodox Encyclopaedia. Strategikes ekdoseis, Vol. 1.Αναστενάρια
Xygalatas, D., 2010, Μεγάλη Ορθόδοξη Εγκυκλοπαίδεια: Great Orthodox Encyclopaedia. Athens: Strategikes ekdoseis, Vol. 1.Synchronization in Joint Action: From Tapping to Fire-walking
Konvalinka, I., Vuust, P., Xygalatas, D., Roepstorff, A. & Frith, C., 2009."Fire-walking and the Brain: The Physiology of High-Arousal Rituals"
Xygalatas, D., 2008, Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques. Bulbulia, J., Sosis, R., Harris, E., Genet, R., Genet, C. & Wyman, K. (eds.). Santa Margarita, CA: Collins Foundation Press, p. 189-195"Reductionism and the Scientific Study of Religion” (in Greek), preface to the Greek Translation of Pascal Boyer, Et L’homme Créa les Dieux
Xygalatas, D., 2008, Και ο Άνθρωπος Έπλασε τους Θεούς. Thessaloniki: Vanias, p. 9-25Firewalking in Northern Greece: A cognitive approach to high-arousal rituals
Xygalatas, D., 2007, 232 p. Queen's University Belfast, School of History and Anthropology, Institute of Cognition and Culture.“The Flying Spaghetti Monster and Religious Fundamentalism” (in Greek), preface to the Greek translation of: Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell
Xygalatas, D., 2007, Απομυθοποίηση. Thessaloniki: Vanias, p. 7-13“Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion” (in Greek), preface to the Greek Translation of Harvey Whitehouse, Modes of Religiosity
Xygalatas, D., 2006, Τύποι Θρησκευτικότητας. Thessaloniki: Vanias, p. 9-92Θρησκειολογικά Μελετήματα (Collected Essays on the Study of Religion):
Xygalatas, D. & Pachis, P., 2004, Thessaloniki: Vanias.Projects
Techne: Technologies of the Mind
Steenberg, M., Roepstorff, A., Højbjerg, C. K., Beek, M. V., Johannsen, N. N. & Xygalatas, D.
Velux Foundation
01/01/2011 → 29/10/2015
Physical and Psychological Health Consequences of Extreme Rituals
Xygalatas, D. & Khan, S.
01/01/2014 → 01/08/2014
Pain and Prosociality
Mitkidis, P., Xygalatas, D., A, K., Seitzberg, L. K., Skewes, J., Person, U., Wallot, S., Vase, L., Svensson, P., Roepstorff, A. & Castrillon Watanabe, E. E.
01/07/2013 → 31/12/2016
Measuring Social Interaction
Xygalatas, D., Mitkidis, P., Wallot, S. & McGraw, J. J.
Interacting Minds Centre seed funding
16/03/2013 → 31/12/2013
MALEXA: Mauritian Laboratory for Experimental Anthropology
Xygalatas, D. & Roepstorff, A.
01/10/2012 → …
Exploring the effects of rituals on identity fusion: A cross-cultural study
Xygalatas, D.
28/02/2014 → 01/09/2015
Effects of Ritualized Behavior on Anxiety
Xygalatas, D. & Lang, M.
31/12/2014 → 30/12/2015
Activities
“Walking on Fire for Our Saints: Body and Mind in the Practice of the Anastenaria”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
“They’re on Fire! Making a Cognitive Sense of Greek Fire-walking Rituals”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
“Ritual: What Is It, How Does It Work?”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
“Ritual and Human Cognition: Fire-walking and Memory”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
“On Fire-walking. Extreme rituals in Europe”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
“Nationalism and Historiography: The case of the Greek Fire-walking Rituals”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
“Introduction to the Cognitive Study of Religion”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
“Fire-walking in the Balkans. High-Arousal Rituals and Memory”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
“Fire-walking in Greece: History and Present”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
“Fire-walking in Europe: Bringing the lab to the field”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
“Fire-walking in Europe: Bringing the lab to the field”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
“Fire-walking and the Brain: The physiology of High Arousal Rituals”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
“Fire-walking and Memory: Ritual Transmission in the Anastenaria”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
“Extreme Rituals”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
“Extreme Rituals and Motivation”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
“Cognitive Approaches in the Study of Ancient Greek Religion”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
“Bungee Jumping, Fire-walking, and Neurotransmitters. The Physiology of High-Arousal Rituals”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
“Bringing the Lab to the Field: Cognitive Science in Comparative Religion”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
“Body, Memory, and Motivation in Extreme Rituals. The Case of Greek Fire-walking”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
workshop in cognitive anthropology
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
member of PhD committee (External organisation)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Member)
meeting with publisher
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
meeting of the Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
fieldwork in Mauritius
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
fieldwork in Mauritius
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
fieldwork in Mauritius
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
fieldwork in Mauritius
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
field and business trip to Maritius
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Zygon (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
Workshop in Experimental Anthropology
Dimitris Xygalatas (Organizer)
Why do we perform rituals?
Dimitris Xygalatas (Invited speaker)
What is the link between religion and prosociality?
Dimitris Xygalatas (Invited speaker)
Victoria University
Dimitris Xygalatas (Visiting researcher)
The psychology of ritualized suffering
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
The future of higher education, and the changing face of research in the modern world
Dimitris Xygalatas (Organizer)
The Power of Ritual: Invited talk at the Costeas-Geitonas School
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
The Field as a Lab: Towards an Experimental Ethnography
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
The Experimental Study of Religion
Dimitris Xygalatas (Invited speaker)
The Experimental Anthropology of Religion: Bringing the Lab into the Field
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
The Cognitive Study of Religion in the Wild: Experimental Evidence from the Field
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
Tesis: Experimental approaches to intersubjectivity
Dimitris Xygalatas (Speaker)
Teori og Metode
Dimitris Xygalatas (Speaker)
Teori og Metode
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Technologies of the Mind workshop
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Tales from the Field
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
TED talk: The Power of Ritual
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Social and individual functions of extreme rituals
Dimitris Xygalatas (Invited speaker)
Social Psychology (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
Secretary General, International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Routledge (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
Ritual in the Nexus of the Study of Religion and Biblical Studies.
Dimitris Xygalatas (Speaker)
Ritual and well-being: measuring the impact of ritual in individual and group settings
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
Ritual and prosociality. Where cognition meets culture
Dimitris Xygalatas (Invited speaker)
Ritual and Social Dynamics: Measuring ritual behavior
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
Ritual and Cognition
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
Princeton University
Dimitris Xygalatas (Visiting researcher)
Photographic exhibition: "Extreme Rituals"
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Ph.D. seminar at the Section for Anthropology
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Perspectives on the scientific study of religion: The search for evidence
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Pedagogical training programme for assistant professors 2011 - Module 1
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Past, Present, and Future in the Scientific Study of Religion
Dimitris Xygalatas (Organizer)
PNAS (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
PNAS (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
P L o S One (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
P L o S One (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
P L o S One (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
Mixed Methods in the study of Extreme Rituals
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
Mixed Methods course
Dimitris Xygalatas (Speaker)
Mindlab AU Symposium
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Meeting with the Mauritian Minister of Tertiary Education, Science, Research and Technology, Rajesh Jeetah
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Meeting with the Department of Social Studies, University of Mauritius
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Meeting with Dr. Arjoon Suddhoo, Director of the Mauritian Research Council.
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Meeting with Dr. Arjoon Suddhoo, Director of the Mauritian Research Council
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Masaryk University
Dimitris Xygalatas (Visiting researcher)
Masaryk University
Dimitris Xygalatas (Visiting researcher)
Masaryk University
Dimitris Xygalatas (Visiting researcher)
LEVYNA retreat
Dimitris Xygalatas (Organizer)
LEVYNA Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion
Dimitris Xygalatas (Visiting researcher)
KITLV Press (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
Journal of Ritual Studies (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
Journal of Religious History (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
Journal of Classical Sociology (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Editor)
Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Editor)
Joint PhD degree programme (External organisation)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Chairman)
International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion (External organisation)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Member)
International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion (External organisation)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Member)
IBACS opening conference
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Homo Experimentalis
Dimitris Xygalatas (Speaker)
Homo Experimentalis
Dimitris Xygalatas (Organizer)
Hokkaido University
Dimitris Xygalatas (Visiting researcher)
Greek Society for the Study of Culture and Religion (External organisation)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Member)
General Secretary of the Organizing Committee of the 1st Conference of the Greek Society for the Study of Culture and Religion (GSSCR)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Organizer)
Fieldwork in Mauritius
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Fieldwork in Mauritius
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Fieldwork in Mauritius
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Extreme Rituals: Experimental Anthropology and the study of ritual behaviour
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
Extreme Rituals: An Experimental Anthropology of Ritual Behaviour
Dimitris Xygalatas (Invited speaker)
Extreme Rituals: An Experimental Anthropology of Ritual Behaviour
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
Exploring the Effects of Rituals on Identity Fusion
Dimitris Xygalatas (Organizer)
Explaining Religion: Method, Theory & Experiment
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Experimenting with field experiments: moving the lab into the field in ethnographic research
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
Experimental anthropology and the study of religion
Dimitris Xygalatas (Invited speaker)
Experimental Methods in the Study of Cognition and Culture
Dimitris Xygalatas (Invited speaker)
Experimental Anthropology: Bringing the lab into the field
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
Experimental Anthropology Workshop
Dimitris Xygalatas (Organizer)
Experimental Anthropology
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
Experimental Anthropology
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
Executive Committee member, Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium (External organisation)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Member)
Ethnographic field trip
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Ethnographic field trip
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Ethnographic field trip
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Ethnographic Methods and Anthropological Analysis
Dimitris Xygalatas (Speaker)
Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Editor)
Duke University
Dimitris Xygalatas (Visiting researcher)
Danish School of Anthropology and Ethnography Mega-Seminar 2011: Reconsidering Ethnographic Comparison
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Current Directions in Psychology (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
Current Directions in Psychological Science (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
Current Anthropology (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
Cooperation, Conflict, and the Cultural Evolution
Dimitris Xygalatas (Speaker)
Cognitive and Evolutionary Approaches to Human Culture
Dimitris Xygalatas (Speaker)
Cognitive Science Society: Workshop on New Developments in the Cognitive Science of Religion
Dimitris Xygalatas (Other)
Cognitive Science Society meeting
Dimitris Xygalatas (Speaker)
Cognitive Science Society 2011 meeting
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Cognitive Science (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience Workshop 3 (CAARE)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Speaker)
Co-chair of the “Cognitive and Neuroscientific Studies of Religion” section of the XXth World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religion
Dimitris Xygalatas (Organizer)
Centre for the Sociology of Religion (CSR) meetings
Dimitris Xygalatas (Invited speaker)
CERC field experimental workshop
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
CERC experimental ethnographic workshop
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
CERC annual meeting
Dimitris Xygalatas (Speaker)
CERC Plenary Meeting
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
Bloomsbury (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
Being an international researcher at Aarhus University
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
Being an international researcher at Aarhus University
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (External organisation)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Member)
Archive for the Psychology of Religion (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
Archive for the Psychology of Religion (Journal)
Dimitris Xygalatas (Reviewer)
Anatolia College Science & Technology Annual Conference
Dimitris Xygalatas (Speaker)
Anatolia College Science & Technology Annual Conference
Dimitris Xygalatas (Speaker)
An experimental anthropology of ritual
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
APS Association for Psychological Science annual meeting
Dimitris Xygalatas (Speaker)
21st IAHR World Congress 2015
Dimitris Xygalatas (Organizer)
21st IAHR World Congress 2015
Dimitris Xygalatas (Speaker)
21st IAHR World Congress 2015
Dimitris Xygalatas (Organizer)
21st IAHR World Congress 2015
Dimitris Xygalatas (Organizer)
2015 annual Meeting, American Academy of Religion
Dimitris Xygalatas (Organizer)
2015 annual Meeting, American Academy of Religion
Dimitris Xygalatas (Speaker)
2015 annual Meeting, American Academy of Religion
Dimitris Xygalatas (Organizer)
(with U. Schjødt): “A Neurophenomenological Study of a Catholic Fire-walking Ritual”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
(with T. Lund, S. Jespersen, and I. Konvalinka) Are we in sync? Is inter-subject synchronization key to measure interaction – and how is it done?
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
(with J. Bulbulia): “Synchronous Arousal and Memory in a Spanish Fire-Walk”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
(with J. Bulbulia): “Religious Signalling in a Fire-walk”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
(with J. Bulbulia): “Fire-walking and the Evolutionary Theory of Games”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
(with J. Bulbulia): “Evolving Religious Coordination Through Cues”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
(with J. Bulbulia): “Evidence of Emotional but not Perceptual Episodic Memory in a Spanish Fire-Walking Ritual”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
(with I. Konvalinka, P. Vuust, A. Roepstorff, and C. D. Frith): “Synchronization in Joint Action: From Tapping to Fire-walking”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
(with E-M. Jejindoe): “Quantitative and Qualitative Methods: Thoughts from the Field”
Dimitris Xygalatas (Lecturer)
"New Movements in Religions. Theories and Trends", annual conference of the European Association of the Study of Religions
Dimitris Xygalatas (Participant)
the Vietnamese-German University
Dimitris Xygalatas (Visiting researcher)
Press clippings
Συνέντευξη με το δόκτωρα Δημήτριο Ξυγαλατά
Dimitris Xygalatas
15/03/2014
1 item of Media coverage
the Daily Planet show
Dimitris Xygalatas
13/09/2011
1 item of Media coverage
interview for the Religious Studies Project podcast
Dimitris Xygalatas
06/02/2014
1 Media contribution
interview for national circulation magazine
Dimitris Xygalatas
09/07/2015
1 Media contribution
Why Would Performing an Extreme Religious Ritual Make People More Generous and Prosocial?
Dimitris Xygalatas
15/07/2013
1 item of Media coverage
Why Do People Engage in Extreme Rituals?
Dimitris Xygalatas
13/09/2013
1 item of Media coverage
What Happened to the Ice Bucket Challenge?
Dimitris Xygalatas
25/07/2016
1 Media contribution
Visit of delegates from Aarhus University Denmark
Dimitris Xygalatas
08/02/2012
1 item of Media coverage
University of Oxford podcasts: Experimenting with field experiments
Dimitris Xygalatas
05/02/2014
1 item of Media coverage
Un ritual del fuego que une al pueblo en la Noche de San Juan
Dimitris Xygalatas
23/06/2011
1 item of Media coverage
Turns Out That the Ice Bucket Challenge Was a Hugely Effective Bonding Ritual
Dimitris Xygalatas
19/07/2016
1 Media contribution
Trial by fire
Dimitris Xygalatas
20/09/2014
1 item of Media coverage
The Ritual Species
Dimitris Xygalatas
27/08/2013
1 item of Media coverage
That was the year that was 2013
Dimitris Xygalatas
09/01/2014
1 item of Media coverage
TV interview for Mauritian Broadcasting Corporation
Dimitris Xygalatas
14/07/2015
1 Media contribution
Socialantropologi Fyrer Op Under Discovery Channel
Dimitris Xygalatas
11/10/2011
1 item of Media coverage
Smertefulde ritualer styrker fællesskabet
Dimitris Xygalatas
01/10/2013
1 item of Media coverage
Rituals: The power of pain
Dimitris Xygalatas
19/10/2012
1 item of Media coverage
Religious setting, not belief, makes you good
Dimitris Xygalatas
25/07/2013
1 item of Media coverage
Religion: is it always tribal?
Dimitris Xygalatas
16/07/2013
1 item of Media coverage
Religion as a product of the human mind
Dimitris Xygalatas
13/09/2009
1 Media contribution
Painful and extreme rituals enhance social cohesion and charity
Dimitris Xygalatas
18/06/2013
1 item of Media coverage
Painful and extreme rituals enhance social cohesion and charity
Dimitris Xygalatas
17/06/2013
1 item of Media coverage
Pain Really Does Make Us Gain
Dimitris Xygalatas
24/12/2014
1 item of Media coverage
More rituals for less stress in life
Dimitris Xygalatas
10/01/2016
1 item of Media coverage
Lidelse styrker fællesskabet
Dimitris Xygalatas
19/07/2013
1 item of Media coverage
Lidelse og sammenhold
Dimitris Xygalatas
22/07/2013
1 item of Media coverage
Le "Ice Bucket Challenge" de l'été 2014 a permis de réellement faire avancer la recherche
Dimitris Xygalatas
27/07/2016
1 item of Media coverage
LA ALFOMBRA DE BRASAS QUE UNE A UN PUEBLO ENTERO
Dimitris Xygalatas
19/06/2011
1 item of Media coverage
Interview on Newstalk Radio, Ireland, on fire-walking
Dimitris Xygalatas
05/05/2011
1 Media contribution
Interview for the national Mauritian newspaper L'express
Dimitris Xygalatas
14/10/2012
1 Media contribution
Interview for the MBC
Dimitris Xygalatas
20/07/2016
1 Media contribution
Interview for national circulation Spanish newspaper "El Mundo", on our paper published in PNAS
Dimitris Xygalatas
04/05/2011
1 Media contribution
Interview for national circulation Greek newspaper To Vima, on the Anastenaria
Dimitris Xygalatas
11/05/2011
1 Media contribution
Interview for Weekendavisen on fire-walking
Dimitris Xygalatas
11/04/2011
1 Media contribution
Interview for US Magazine Popular Mechanics, on our paper published in PNAS
Dimitris Xygalatas
10/05/2011
1 Media contribution
Interview for SNOB Magazine, Russia, on our paper published in PNAS
Dimitris Xygalatas
04/05/2011
1 Media contribution
Interview for Religion and Science Today
Dimitris Xygalatas
05/05/2011
1 Media contribution
Interview for Greek newspaper Typos tis Thessalonikis on fire-walking research
Dimitris Xygalatas
09/05/2011
1 Media contribution
Interview for Chemical & Engineering News, the magazine of the American Chemical Society, on fire-walking research
Dimitris Xygalatas
19/05/2011
1 Media contribution
In Mauritius, religious locations increase generosity
Dimitris Xygalatas
12/01/2013
1 item of Media coverage
Extreme rituals promote prosociality
Dimitris Xygalatas
23/06/2013
1 item of Media coverage
Extreme rituals enhance social cohesion
Dimitris Xygalatas
02/10/2013
1 item of Media coverage
Experimentální výzkum náboženství se rozvíjí na FF
Dimitris Xygalatas
24/01/2012
1 item of Media coverage
Dissonance in Pain
Dimitris Xygalatas
24/07/2013
1 item of Media coverage
Daily Planet
Dimitris Xygalatas
21/06/2011
1 Media contribution
DO ANTHROPOLOGISTS CONSIDER THE ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE AN 'EXTREME RITUAL'?
Dimitris Xygalatas
07/10/2014
1 item of Media coverage
Brændende gløder og korsfæstelser styrker fællesskaber
Dimitris Xygalatas
01/10/2013
1 item of Media coverage
Aarhus University Expedition Attracts Interest of Mauritian Government
Dimitris Xygalatas
22/02/2012
1 item of Media coverage