# Ara Norenzayan **Entity class:** Person node **Domain:** Social psychology / cultural evolution / cognitive science of religion **Maturity:** Developing ## Definition **Ara Norenzayan** is a social psychologist whose work examines cultural evolution, religion, cooperation, conflict, and the role of supernatural monitoring in large-scale societies. ## Corpus Role [[wiki/Big Gods|Big Gods]] is the immediate book route. Its monitoring-and-cooperation framework informs [[blog/20261007 - The Prayers of Primates|The Prayers of Primates]], which compares moralizing high gods with a socially extended hierarchy while keeping that interpretation distinct from the book's full argument. ## Relationships - [[wiki/Cultural Evolution|Cultural Evolution]] - [[wiki/Gene-Culture Coevolution|Gene-Culture Coevolution]] - [[wiki/Big Gods|Big Gods]] - [[wiki/Human Animality|Human Animality]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts [[reminders/Evolution/Cultural Evolution Must Explain Religious Diversification by Ara Norenzayan|Cultural Evolution Must Explain Religious Diversification by Ara Norenzayan]]