Claire White
Journal Articles
White, C, et al. (2024) How Shared Suffering Bonded Britons Witnessing the Queen’s Funeral. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 16620.
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White, C. & Farias, M. (2023). Past Life Meditation Decreases Existential Death Anxiety and Increases Meaning in Life among Individuals Who Believe in the Paranormal. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 23, 338–356.
White, C., Marin, M. & Fessler, M.T. (2022). The Dead May Kill You: Do Ancestor Beliefs Promote Cooperation in Traditional Small-scale Societies? Journal of Cognition and Culture, 22, 294-323.
White, C. & Fessler, D.M.T. (2018). An Evolutionary Account of Vigilance in Grief. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 1, 34-42.
White, C., Kinsella, M. & Bering, J.M. (2017). How to Know You've Survived Death: A Cognitive Account of the Popularity of Contemporary Post-mortem Survival Narratives. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 1-21.
White, C. (2017). Who Wants to Live Forever? Explaining the Cross-Cultural Recurrence of Reincarnation Beliefs. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 17, 1-18.
Murray, D., Fessler, D.M.T., Kerry, N., White, C. & Marin, M. (2017). The Kiss of Death: Three Tests of the Relationship Between Disease Threat and Physical Contact Within Traditional Cultures. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38, 1, 63-70.
White, C., Marin, M. & Fessler, D.M.T. (2017). Not Just Dead Meat: An Evolutionary Account of Corpse Treatment in Mortuary Rituals. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 17, 1-23.
White, C. & Fessler, M.T., & Gomez, P. (2016). The effects of Corpse Viewing and Corpse Condition on Vigilance for Deceased Loved Ones. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37, 517-522.
White, C. (2016). The Cognitive Foundations of Reincarnation. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 1-23.
White, C. (2016). Cross-cultural Similarities in Reasoning about Personal Continuity in Reincarnation: Evidence from South India. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 6, 2, 130-153.
White, C. (2015). Establishing Personal Identity in Reincarnation: Minds and Bodies Reconsidered. Journal of Cognition and Culture. 15, 402-429.
White, C., & Fessler, D.M.T. (2013). Evolutionizing Grief: Viewing Photographs of the Deceased Predicts the Misattribution of Ambiguous Stimuli by the Bereaved. Evolutionary Psychology, 11, 1084-1100.
White, C., De Burgh, Fear, N., & Iversen, A. (2011). The Impact of Deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan on Military Children: A Review of the Literature. International Review of Psychiatry, 23, 1-8.
De Burgh, White, C., Fear, N., & Iversen, A. (2011). The Impact of Deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan on Military Families. International Review of Psychiatry, 23, 192-200.