In Press
Kiper, J., & B. Kihara. Media platforms. In K. Seidel, M. Sapignoli, & E. Relano (Eds.), Law and Anthropology Encyclopedia. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
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Kiper, J., & Sosis, R. Anti-human rights movements in the Western Balkans: How economics, religion, and public policy empowered a new generation of authoritarianism. In V. Maltsev & N. Singh (Eds.), Economics, Religion and Public Policy. World Scientific Publishing.
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Kiper, J. A wicked problem for transitional justice: Negative representations of human rights in post-conflict cultures – notes from the field in the Western Balkans. In P. Hendrickson &E. McKendry-Smith (Eds.), Postconflict Resolutions and Representations. London: Jetstone Publishers.
Kiper, J., & Pittman, C. Decolonizing Europe and the problem of neonationalism. In P. Matos & L. Sansone (Eds.), Decolonizing Europe: National and Transnational Projects. Oxford: Berghahn Books.
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2025
The anthropology of propaganda: Threats, priorities, and limits. General Anthropology: 32(1): 28-33. https://doi.org/10.1111/gena.12132 PDF
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2024​
Kiper, J., & Mauro, N. The new anthropology of ritual. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion. https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.25039 PDF
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Kiper, J., & Mauro, N. An overview of Dimitris Xygalatas' Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion. https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.25206 PDF
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Kiper, J. Moral injury as a precondition for reconciliation: An Anthropology of veterans’ lives and peacemaking. Religions, 15(9): 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15091089 PDF
Rudnev, M., Buckwalter, W., Barr, K., Bencharifa, A., Clancy, R., Crone, D, Deguchi, Y., Fabiano, E., Fordeman, D., Guennoun, B., Halamova, J., Hashimoto, T., Homan, J., Kanovský, M., Karasawa, H., Kiper, J., Lee, M., Liu, X., Mitova, V., Nair, R., Pantovic, L., Porter, B., Quintanilla, P., Reijer, J., Romero, P., Singh, P., Tber, S., Wilkenfeld, D., Yi, L, Stitch, S., Barrett, C., Machery, E., & Grossman, I. (2024). Dimensions of wisdom perceptions across five continents. Nature Communications, 15(6375): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50294-0 PDF
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Porter, B., Barr, K., Bencharifa, A., Buckwalter, W., Deguchi, Y., Fabiano, E., Hashimoto, T., Halamova, J., Homan, J., Karasawa, K., Kanovský, M., Kim, H., Kiper, J., Lee, M., Liu, X., Mitova, V., Nair, R., Pantovic, L., Quintanilla, P., Reijer, J., Romero, P., Singh, P, Tber, S., Wilkenfeld, D., Stich, S., Barrett, C., & Machery, E. (2024). A puzzle about knowledge ascriptions. Nous: 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12515 PDF
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Kiper, J., & Sosis, R. (2024). The role of religion in the evolution of peace. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 47: e15. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23002480. PMID: 38224081 PDF
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2023
​Kiper, J., Lillie, C., Wilson, R.A., Knapp, B., Gwon, Y., & Harris, L. (2023). Dangerous speech: A cross-cultural study of dehumanization and revenge. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 23: 170-200. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340157 PDF
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Kiper, J. (2023). Religious hate propaganda: Dangerous accusations and the meaning of religious persecution in light of the cognitive science of religion. Religions, 14(2): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14020185 PDF
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Kiper, J. (2023). A systems theory of religion. Religion, Brain and Behavior: 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2023.2234454 PDF
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2022
Kiper, J. (2022). Belief in human rights: An opportunity for cross-cultural cognitive science. In J. Musolino (Ed.), The Cognitive Science of Belief (pp. 515-535). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. PDF
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Sosis, R., & Kiper, J. (2022). Sport as a meaning-making system: Insights from the study of religion. Religions, 13(10): 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13100915 PDF
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Kiper, J. (2022). Remembering the causes of collective violence in the Yugoslav Wars. Nationalities Papers, 52(1): 79-102. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2022.53 PDF
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Kiper, J., & Sosis, R. (2022). Rituals, propaganda, and social regulation: Totalism as a quasi-religious system. Slovak Ethnology, 70(2): 273-296. https://doi.org/10.61577/SN.2022.2.22 PDF
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Sosis, R., Shaver, J., Purzycki, B., & Kiper, J. (2022). Soul mates? Conflicts and complementarities in the evolutionary and cognitive sciences of religion. In J. Barrett (Ed.), Oxford Handbook for the Cognitive Science of Religion (pp. 349-370). New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190693350.013.17 PDF
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2021
Kiper, J. (2021). An obstacle to decolonizing Europe: White nationalism and its Cooption of Serbian Propaganda. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 30(2): 112-122. https://doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2021.300208 PDF
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Kiper, J., & Sosis, R. (2021). The roots of intergroup conflict and the co-option of the religious system: An evolutionary perspective on religious terrorism. In J. Liddie & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion (pp. 265-281). Oxford: Oxford University Press. PDF
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Kiper, J., Stich, S., Machery, E., & Barrett, H.C. (2021). Experimental philosophy. In D. Ludwig, I. Koskinen, Z. Mncube, L. Poliseli, & L. Reyes-Galindo (Eds.), Negotiating Local and Global Perspectives on Scientific Practice (pp. 61-74). New York: Routledge. PDF
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Vasilyeva, N., Smith, K.M., Barr, K., Kiper, J., Stich, S., Machery, E., Barrett, H.C. (2021). Evaluating information and misinformation during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence for epistemic vigilance. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43: 583-589. PDF
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2020
Kiper, J., Gwon, Y., & Wilson, R.A. (2020). How propaganda works: Nationalism, revenge and empathy in Serbia. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 20: 403-430. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340091 PDF
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Kiper, J., & Sosis, R. (2020). The systemics of violent religious nationalism: A case study of the Yugoslav Wars. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 14(1): 45-70. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.38700 PDF
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Wilson, R.A., & Kiper, J. (2020). Incitement in an era of populism: Updating Brandenburg after Charlottesville. University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Public Affairs, 5(2): 57-121. https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jlpa/vol5/iss2/2 PDF
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Kiper, J. (2020). Toward an evolutionary-science based metaethics. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 10(1): 79-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2020.1787217 PDF
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Kiper, J. (2020). Knowing across cultures. Anthropology News. September 30, 2020. https://doi.org/10.14506/AN.1510
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2019
Kiper, J. (2019). How dangerous propaganda works. In P. Dojcinović (Ed.), Propaganda and International Criminal Law: From Cognition to Criminality (pp. 217-236). New York: Routledge. PDF
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Kiper, J., & DiVietro, S. (2018). When and when not to forgive. In S. DiVietro & J. Kiper (Eds.), Perspectives on Forgiveness: Contrasting Approaches to Concepts of Forgiveness and Revenge (pp. vii-xxv). The Netherlands: Brill. PDF
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DiVietro, S., & Kiper, J. (2018). Revenge and forgiveness in domestic violence intervention. In S. DiVietro & J. Kiper (Eds.), Perspectives on Forgiveness: Contrasting Approaches to Concepts of Forgiveness and Revenge (pp. 77-116). The Netherlands: Brill. PDF
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Kiper, J., & Sosis, R. (2018). Toward a more comprehensive theory of self-sacrificial violence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41: e26. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X18001802 PDF
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​Sosis, R., & Kiper, J. (2018). Sacred versus secular values: Cognitive and evolutionary sciences of religion and religious freedom. In T.S. Shah (Ed.), Homo Religiosis? Exploring the Roots of Religion and Religious Freedom in Human Experience (pp. 89-119). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. PDF
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Kiper, J., & Sosis, R. (2017). The Logic and location of strong reciprocity: Anthropological and philosophical considerations. In M. Li & D. Tracer (Ed.), Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Fairness, Equity and Justice (pp. 107-128). New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58993-0_7 PDF
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Kiper, J. (2016). Buddhist biology: Ancient eastern wisdom meets modern western science. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 6(1): 88-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2014.914077 PDF
Kiper, J., & Sosis, R. (2016). Shaking the tyrant’s bloody robe: Evolutionary perspectives on intergroup conflict, religion, and ethnic violence. Politics and Life Sciences, 35(1): 27-47. https://doi.org/10.1017/pls.2016.7 PDF
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Kiper, J., & Sosis, R. (2016). Why terrorism terrifies us. In M. Taylor (Ed.), Evolutionary Psychology and Terrorism: New Perspectives on Political Violence (pp. 102-123). New York: Routledge. PDF
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Kiper, J., & Sosis, R. (2016). The Roots of intergroup conflict and the co-option of the religious system: An evolutionary perspective on religious terrorism. In J. Liddie and T. Shackelford (Eds.), Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199397747.013.21 PDF
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​Kiper, J. (2015). Toward an anthropology of war propaganda. Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 38(1): 129-146. https://doi.org/10.1111/plar.12090 PDF
Kiper, J. (2015). War propaganda, war crimes, and post-conflict justice in Serbia: An ethnographic account. The International Journal of Human Rights, 19(5): 572-591. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2014.992882 PDF
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Kiper, J., & Meier, J. (2015). The problems and origins of big gods. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 5(4): 298-305. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2014.928355 PDF
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Purzycki, B., Kiper, J., Shaver, J., Finkel, D., & Sosis, R. Religion. (2015). In R.A. Scott & M. Stephens (Eds.), Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (pp. 1-16). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118900772.etrds0280 PDF
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Kiper, J., & Sosis, R. (2014). Moral intuitions and the religious system: An adaptationist account. Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, 1(2): 172-199. https://doi.org/10.1628/219597714X14025664303047 PDF
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Sosis, R., & Kiper, J. (2014). Why religion is better conceived as a complex system than a normative institution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37: 275-276. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X13003038 PDF
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Sosis, R., & Kiper, J. (2014). Religion is more than belief: What evolutionary theories of religion tell us about religious commitments. In M. Bergmann & P. Kain (eds.), Challenges to Religion and Morality: Disagreements and Evolution (pp. 256-276). New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199669776.003.0014 PDF
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Kiper, J. (2014). Trying not to try: The art and sciences of spontaneity. Journal of the Cognitive Science of Religion, 2(2): 164-169. https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.v2i2.25990 PDF
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Kiper, J. (2013). Why anthropology remains integral to cognitive science. Topics in Cognitive Science – Journal of the Cognitive Science Society, 6(1): 151-152. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12058 PDF
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Kiper, J. (2012). Do human rights have religious foundations? Religion and Human Rights, 7(2): 109-131. https://doi.org/10.1163/187103212X650077 PDF
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2011
Kiper, J. (2011). Henry Shue on basic rights: A defense. Human Rights Review, 12(4): 505-514. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-011-0197-8 PDF
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