Neil Van Leeuwen

Florida State University — United States

Neuroscience · Life Sciences

19h-index1.3kcitations42works0.92yr avg
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Research Topics

Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment(15), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics(12), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(8), Religion and Society Interactions(8), Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology(7)

Publications42 total

Rational atheism revisited: a comment on <i>Disbelief</i> by Will Gervais
Religion Brain & Behavior·2025· 1 cited
On Religious Credences with Clear Contents that Contrast with Factual Beliefs and Fail To Motivate: a Response To Meskin &amp; Weinberg, Mugg, and Sullivan-Bissett
Philosophia·2025
Précis of Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity
Philosophia·2025
Evidence for multiple kinds of belief in theory of mind.
Journal of Experimental Psychology General·2025· 5 cited
Three questions on imagery and perception: A comment on Nanay's <i>Mental imagery</i>
Mind & Language·2025
Revisiting feeling of threat and agency detection: A preregistered virtual reality study.
Psychology of Religion and Spirituality·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Pennywise Parsimony: Langland-Hassan on Imagination
Analysis·2024
Group identity and the willful subversion of rationality: A reply to <scp>De Cruz</scp> and <scp>Levy</scp>
Mind & Language·2024Open Access
Religion as Make-Believe
Harvard University Press eBooks·2023· 14 cited
Revisiting feeling of threat and agency detection – a preregistered virtual reality study
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
The Puzzle of Belief
Cognitive Science·2023· 15 citedOpen Access
Two Concepts of Belief Strength: Epistemic Confidence and Identity Centrality
Frontiers in Psychology·2022· 13 citedOpen Access
To Believe Is Not to Think: A Cross-Cultural Finding
Open Mind·2021· 20 citedOpen Access
Imagining stories: attitudes and operators
Philosophical Studies·2020· 24 cited
"Think" and "believe" across cultures: A shared folk distinction between two cognitive attitudes in the US, Ghana, Thailand, China, and Vanuatu.
Cognitive Science·2020· 4 cited
Does think mean the same thing as believe? Linguistic insights into religious cognition.
Psychology of Religion and Spirituality·2018· 32 citedOpen Access
The Factual Belief Fallacy
Contemporary Pragmatism·2018· 26 cited
Seeking the supernatural: the Interactive Religious Experience Model
Religion Brain & Behavior·2018· 88 citedOpen Access
Seeking the supernatural: responses to commentary
Religion Brain & Behavior·2018Open Access
Interpreting Intuitions
Contributions to phenomenology·2018· 5 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Michiel van Elk(2), Kara Weisman(2), T. M. Luhrmann(2), Tania Lombrozo(2), Piotr Szymanek(2), Jana Nenadalová(2), Larisa Heiphetz(1), Casey Landers(1), Marcus McGahhey(1), Alejandro Vesga(1), Andrew Vierra(1), Jared Riggs(1)