# Ara Norenzayan Back to [[Religion, Trust and Civilization]] · [[Research and Evidence]] · [[Authors/@Kristof_Poland/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - Kristof_Poland on God and Chesterton's Fence (2026-10-24)|Essay analysis]] **Role:** Social psychologist, University of British Columbia - Author of *Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict* (2013) ◻, the main statement of the hypothesis behind the essay's "anthropologists argue" line. - Co-author of Purzycki et al., *Nature* 2016 (field support) ✔ and of Shariff & Norenzayan 2007 (God-priming), which failed a preregistered replication in 2015 ✔. - Note: he is a psychologist; the essay says "anthropologists". Co-authors such as Purzycki and Henrich are anthropologists. Key: ✔ confirmed this session · ◻ standard knowledge, not opened this session · ⚠️ unconfirmed.