… Using naturalistically collected freelist data in the Tyva Republic of southern Siberia, I
offer the first formal assessment of the degree to which gods care about “morality.” In order to …

… cares about it and brought about our standards (see Bloom 2012; Teehan 2016 for deeper
… origin and diffusion of beliefs about gods’ minds, such as the Tyvan spirit-masters’ concern …

… in the Tyva Republic of southern Siberia, local “spirit-masters” are primarily angered when
people sully, pollute, and overexploit natural resources that “belong” to them (Purzycki 2011). …

… This study, however, lacked precise measures for our theoretically important components
of beliefs about gods’ minds—punishment, knowledge and moralism. Moreover, these studies …

… While there is considerable overlap between the moral concern ratings of both deities in
many sites (eg, in Inland Tanna, Maraj�, Mysore, and the Tyva Republic), there are sizable …

… separate mind from body, the idea of a mind without an … In the Tyva Republic of southern
Siberia, spirits are not … themes of human behavior (Purzycki & McNamara, 2016): how we treat …

… to reduce its lethality (“Our gods really are quite the same, you … I focus here on my own field
site of the Tyva Republic. … cultural evolution is the diachronic change in socially acquired mind…

… et al., 2016) that such gods not only contribute to human … participants’ views on the minds
of their gods (section 5.1). We … in the predicted direction (Tyva Republic and Pesqueiro for the …

… The present work investigates whether or not people in the Tyva Republic find others who
regularly participate in cairn practices as more trustworthy than those who do not engage in …

… gods’ minds very likely vary as a function of individual-level characteristics, including age,
status and prior knowledge (see eg, Purzycki, Citation2013a, Citation2016)… the Tyva Republic. …