2022
Brown, J., van Mulukom, V., Jong, J., & Farias, M. (forthcoming). Exploring the Relationship Between Church Worship, Social Bonding, and Moral Values. Archive for the Psychology of Religion
van Mulukom, V. & de Wet, M. (2022). The Importance of Narrative and Intuitive Thought in Navigating our Realities. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture 5(2), 61-64. DOI
Newson, M. van Mulukom, V., and Johns, S. (2022). Future orientation is associated with less lockdown rule breaking, even during large illegal gatherings. Futures 135: 102883. DOI
2021
Muzzulini, B. van Mulukom, V., Kapitány, R. & Whitehouse, H. (2021). Shared Flashbulb Memories lead to Identity Fusion: Recalling the Defeat in the Brexit Referendum Produces Strong Psychological Bonds among Remain Supporters. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. DOI
Brown, J., van Mulukom, V., Charles, S.J., & Farias, M. (2021). Do You Need Religion to Enjoy the Benefits of Church Services? Social Bonding, Morality and Quality of Life Among Religious and Secular Congregations. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. DOI
van Mulukom, V. (2021). The evolution of music as artistic cultural innovation expressing intuitive thought symbolically (commentary on ‘Music as a coevolved system for social bonding’ by Savage et al.). Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44:e91. DOI
Newson, M., Khurana, R., Cazorla, F., and van Mulukom, V. (2021). ‘I get high with a little help from my friends’ – how raves can invoke identity fusion and lasting co-operation via transformative experiences. Frontiers in Psychology 12:719596. DOI
van Mulukom, V. & Lang, M. (2021). Religious Experiences Are Interpreted through Priors from Cultural Frameworks Supported by Imaginative Capacity Rather Than Special Cognition. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion 7(1): 39-53. DOI
van Mulukom, V., Muzzulini, B., Rutjens, B. T., van Lissa, C.J., and Farias, M. (2021). The Psychological Impact of Threat and Lockdowns During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exacerbating Factors and Mitigating Actions. Translational Behavioral Medicine 11(7): 1318–1329. DOI
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: e0242546. 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. 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
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