He is currently president of the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion (www.iacsr.com) (July 2014-July 201), and co-editor of Religion, Brain & Behavior. He is a core member of the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study, a 20-year longitudinal study tracking over 15,000 New Zealanders each year (www.nzvalues.org). He is an associate investigator for Pulotu, a database of 116 Pacific cultures purpose-built to investigate the evolutionary dynamics of religion (www.abodeofthegods.org) Peter Turchin, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (adjunct in Anthropology and in Mathematics), University of Connecticut and Vice-President of the Evolution Institute.