2021
van Mulukom, V., Muzzulini, B., Rutjens, B. T., van Lissa, C.J., and Farias, M. (forthcoming). The Psychological Impact of Threat and Lockdowns During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exacerbating Factors and Mitigating Actions. Translational Behavioral Medicine preprint
van Mulukom, V. & de Wet, M. (forthcoming) The Importance of Narrative and Intuitive Thought in Navigating our Realities. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture.
van Mulukom, V. & Lang, M. (forthcoming). Religious Experiences Are Interpreted through Priors from Cultural Frameworks Supported by Imaginative Capacity Rather Than Special Cognition. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion.
van Mulukom, V. (forthcoming) The evolution of music as artistic cultural innovation expressing intuitive thought symbolically. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (commentary on ‘Music as a coevolved system for social bonding’ by Savage et al. & ‘Origins of music in credible signaling’ by Mehr et al.).
Charles, S. J., van Mulukom, V., Brown, J. E., Watts, F., Dunbar, R. I. M., Farias, M. (2021) United on Sunday: The effects of secular rituals on social bonding and affect. PLOS One. DOI
2020
Tasuji, T., Reese, E., van Mulukom, V., & Whitehouse, H. (2020) Band of Mothers: Childbirth as a Female Bonding Experience. PLOS One 15(10): e0240175. DOI
Charles, S. J., Farias, M., van Mulukom, V., Saraswati, A, Watts, F., Dein, S., Dunbar, R. I. M. (2020) Blocking mu-opioid receptors inhibits social bonding in rituals. Biology Letters 16, 20200485. DOI
van Mulukom, V., Patterson, R., & van Elk, M. (2020) Broadening Your Mind to Include Others: Links between serotonergic psychedelic experiences and maladaptive narcissism. Psychopharmacology 237, 2725–2737. DOI
Wiebels, K., Addis, D.R.., Moreau, D., van Mulukom, V., Onderdijk, K.E., & Roberts, R. P. (2020) Relational processing demands and the role of spatial context in the construction of episodic simulations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 46(8), 1424–1441. DOI
2019
van Mulukom, V. (2019). The Cognitive Science of Imagination and Religion. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion 5(1), 5-20. DOI
Geertz, A.W., van Mulukom, V., & Nielbo, K.L. (2019). The cognitive science of religion: Wherefrom, whereto? Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion 5(1), 1-4. DOI
2018
Coleman, T.J. III, Jong, J., & van Mulukom, V. (2018). Introduction to the Special Issue: What are Religious Beliefs? Contemporary Pragmatism 15(3), 279-283. DOI
2017
Farias, M., van Mulukom, V., Kahane, G., Kreplin, U., Joyce, A., Soares, P., Oviedo, L., Hernu, M., Rokita, K., Savulescu, J., Möttönen, R. (2017). Supernatural Belief Is Not Modulated by Intuitive Thinking Style or Cognitive Inhibition. Nature: Scientific Reports 7(1), 15100. DOI
van Mulukom, V. (2017). Remembering Religious Rituals: Autobiographical Memories of High-Arousal Religious Rituals Considered from a Narrative Processing Perspective. Religion, Brain & Behavior 7(3), 191-205. DOI
2016
Roberts, R.P., Wiebels, K., Sumner, R.L., van Mulukom, V., Grady, C.L., Schacter, D.L., Addis, D.R. (2016). An fMRI investigation of the relationship between future imagination and cognitive flexibility. Neuropsychologia 95, 156-172. DOI
van Mulukom, V., Schacter, D.L., Corballis, M.C., & Addis, D.R. (2016). The degree of disparateness of event details modulates future simulation construction, plausibility, and recall. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 69.2, 234-242. DOI
2013
van Mulukom, V.,Schacter, D.L., Corballis, M.C., & Addis, D.R. (2013). Re-Imagining the Future: Repetition Decreases Hippocampal Involvement in Future Simulation. PLoS One 8(7): e69596. DOI
