Joseph A. Bulbulia is a Professor of Psychology in the Faculty of Science at
Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand.
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(2020-present). He was the Maclaurin Goodfellow Chair in the School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts at
University of Auckland
, mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work
, established = 1883; years ago
, endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021)
, budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021)
, chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant
, vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...
(2018-2020). He previously served as a Professor in the School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies at
Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand.
The university is well kno ...
(2000– 2017). 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 and is currently co-editor of
Religion, Brain & Behavior.
Bulbulia is one of four on the Senior Management Team of the
New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study
The New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study (NZAVS) is a longitudinal study conducted in New Zealand. The NZAVS was started in 2009 by Chris Sibley, a professor in psychology at the University of Auckland. The NZAVS was inspired by major social sur ...
, a 20-year longitudinal study tracking over 15,000 New Zealanders each year. He is an associate investigator for
Pulotu
Pulotu is the resting place of those passed on in the Polynesian narrative of Tonga and Samoa, the world of darkness "lalo fonua" (as opposed to the human world of light).
Tonga
In the Tongan narrative, Pulotu is presided over by Havea HikuleĘ ...
, 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.
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
Buffalo is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New York (behind only New York City) and the seat of Erie County. It is at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the head of the Niagara River, and is across the Canadian border from Sou ...
. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2001.
Awards and achievements
* 2016 Victoria University Research Excellence Award
* 2015 Co-editor, Religion Brain & Behavior
* 2014 President: International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion
* 2013 Editorial Advisory Board: Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
* 2011 Editorial Advisory Board: Journal of the Cognitive Science of Religion
* 2010-2012 Secretary General: International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion
* 2010-2014 Editorial Advisory Board: Religion, Brain & Behavior
* 2010-2012 Advisor: The Adaptive Logic of Religious Belief and Behaviour Group
* 2006 Distinguished Fellow: Religion Cognition and Culture Group, Aarhus University
* 2006-2010 Executive Committee: International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion
* 2006 Gæsteprofessor: Religion, Cognition, Culture Group: Aarhus University
* 2000 Faculty Fellowship, Stevenson Hall: Princeton University
* 1996-1999 Assistant Master, Stevenson Hall: Princeton University
* 1996 Melon Fellowship: Princeton University
* 1996 Bowen Merit Award: Princeton University
Peer-reviewed publications
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* Bulbulia, J. A., Shaver, J., Greaves, L., Sosis, R., and Sibley, C. G. (2015). Religion and parental cooperation: an empirical test of Slone's sexual signaling model. In Slone, D. and Van Slyke, J., editors, ''The Attraction of Religion: A Sexual Se-lectionist Account'', chapter 2, pages 29–62. Bloomsbury Press
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References
External links
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Joseph Bulbulia- School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts -
University of Auckland
, mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work
, established = 1883; years ago
, endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021)
, budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021)
, chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant
, vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...
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1968 births
Living people
People from Buffalo, New York
Harvard Divinity School alumni
Princeton University alumni
Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington