Basic research is concerned with the structures and functions of creditions in interdisciplinary co-operation. Interest ranges from the biological and neuronal micro-level to the macro-level of the social, political, economic and religious spheres.

Saša Horvat:
The Neuroscience of Religious Experience: Between Subjectivity and Objectivity. In: Horvat, S., Roszak, P. (eds) The Neuroscience of Religion. New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion, 2025; vol. 21; 19–29. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02444-2_3 

Rüdiger J. Seitz, Hans-Ferdinand Angel & Ray F. Paloutzian:
‘The Meaning of Life: A Conceptual Belief Whose Implications Transcend Itself’. In: Horvat, S., Roszak, P. (eds) *Neuroscience of Religion*. New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion, 2025; vol. 21, 61–80. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02444-2_5

Andrea Vestrucci:
Belief Complexities and Modelling: An Interplay. In: Horvat, S., Roszak, P. (eds) Neuroscience of Religion. New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion, 2025; vol. 21, 197–228.  Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02444-2_12  

Sara Lo Presti, Martina Bonavita, Valentina Piga, Silvana Lozito, Fabrizio Doricchi & Stefano Lasaponara:
“Don’t stop believing” – Decoding belief dynamics in the brain: An ALE meta-analysis of neural correlates in belief formation and updating, in: Neuroscience & Biobehavioural Reviews (Volume 173, June 2025, 106153). PMID: 40228650 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106153

Hans-Ferdinand Angel:
‘Neuroscience and Religious Beliefs: Knowledge About Belief as the Missing Link’. In: Horvat, S., Roszak, P. (eds) *Neuroscience of Religion*. New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion, 2025; vol. 21, 101–127. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02444-2_7 

Sugiko Hanawa, Takayuki Nozawa, Motoaki Sugiura, Rui Nouchi, Ryoichi Yokoyama, Benjamin Thyreau, ... & Ryuta Kawashima:
The neural basis of coping strategies for boredom and their association with creativity. Thinking Skills and Creativity, (2025)57, 101794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2025.101794.

Rüdiger J. Seitz:
Free Will as a Conceptual Belief. The Contribution of Cognitive Neuroscience. In: Athina Lexutt and Volkmar Ortmann (eds.): Steed or Referee: ‘Free Will’ in Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. Leipzig. 2025, pp. 401–420

Lluis Oviedo:
‘The Value of Beliefs and Believing’, in: Lluis Oviedo: *The Believing Christian. Theology’s New Opportunities*. Palgrave Macmillan 2025, 151–176.

Rüdiger J. Seitz:
Formation and Articulation of Religious Beliefs. In: The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, (2025). https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2025.2497134 

Nina Dalkner, Eva Fleischmann, Anja Borgmann-Staudt, Christine Fürschuß, Stephanie Klco-Brosius, Katerina Kepakova, Jarmila Kruseova, Herwig Lackner, Gisela Michel, Andrea Mohapp, Eva Nagele, Anna Panasiuk, Melanie Tamesberger, Eva Z. Reininghaus, Karin Wiegele & Magdalena Balcerek:
Parenthood for childhood cancer survivors: unfounded fear of cancer development in offspring and related health behaviours. In: Frontiers in Psychology – section: Psycho-Oncology 2024. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1269216/full

Hans-Ferdinand Angel & Rüdiger J. Seitz:
‘Credition and the neurobiology of belief: the brain function in believing’. Vol. 2, No. 4, Academia Biology 2024; https://doi.org/10.20935/AcadBiol7359

Masato Takubo, Motoaki Sugiura, Ryo Ishibashi, Naoki Miura & Azumi Tanabe-Ishibashi:
How Disaster Prevention Videos Contribute to Tsunami Evacuation: Subjective Motivation and Risk-Sensitive Attitude in a Simulation Experiment. Journal of Disaster Research, 2024. 19(1), 94–104. https://doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2024.p0094

Masato Takubo, Motoaki Sugiura, Ryo Ishibashi, Naoki Miura & Azumi Tanabe-Ishibashi:
A risk-scrutinising attitude is independent of a risk-sensitive attitude and may hinder an appropriate protective response: A tsunami simulation experiment. Journal of Disaster Research, 2024. 19(1), 81–93. https://doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2024.p0081

Hans-Ferdinand Angel:
In the Eye of the Hurricane: Between Secularisation and Extremism. Why churches, religious communities and politicians should be aware of credition. Graz 2024. https://unipub.uni-graz.at/obvugrveroeff/content/titleinfo/11315985

Patrick McNamara & Jordan Grafman:
Advances in brain and religion studies: a review and synthesis of recent representative studies, Front. Hum. Neurosci., Sec. Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 18 – 2024 (29 November 2024). https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2024.1495565

Yumi Hamamoto, Kentaro Oba, Ryo Ishibashi, Yi Ding, Rui Nouchi & Motoaki Sugiura:
Reduced body-image disturbance following body-image interventions is associated with changes in neural responses in regions involved in visual and social processing: a preliminary study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, (2024)15, 1337776. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1337776

Rüdiger J. Seitz, Raymond F. Paloutzian & Hans-Ferdinand Angel:
Manifestations, social impact, and decay of conceptual beliefs: A cultural perspective. In: Brain and Behaviour, (2024)14(4), e3470. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/brb3.3470

Andrea Révész, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Shungo Suzuki, Haining Cui, Shunsui Matsuura, Kazuya Saito, & Motoaki Sugiura:
Task-generated processes in second language speech production: Exploring the neural correlates of task complexity during. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, (2024) 46(4), 1179–1205. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263124000421 

Rüdiger J. Seitz:
Beliefs in Pain and Suffering: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach. In: Scientia et Fides 12(1)/2024, 51–71; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/SetF.2024.003

Hans-Ferdinand Angel:
Fluid Theodicy: God as representations in patterns of empathy, emotions, and conceptual belief. In: Scientia et Fides 12(1)/2024, 11–50; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/SetF.2024.002

Yi Ding & Motoaki Sugiura:
The psychological mechanisms of the ‘better-than-average’ effect in the moral and competence domains under self-enhancement and self-protection motives among young Japanese adults. Frontiers in Psychology, (2024)15, 1367568. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1367568

Sara Lumbreras:
‘Credition and Complex Networks: Understanding the Structure of Belief as a Way of Facilitating Interreligious Dialogue’, in: Andrea Vestrucci (ed.), *Beyond Babel: Religion and Linguistic Pluralism*. Springer Verlag. pp. 245–256 (2023). 

Rüdiger J. Seitz:
A Review of Mika Suojanen’s paper: ‘On the Meaning of Psychological Concepts: Is There Still a Need for Psychological Concepts in Empirical Science?’ (2023)

Rüdiger J. Seitz, Hans-Ferdinand Angel, Raymond F. Paloutzian & Ann Taves:
Editorial. Credition — An interdisciplinary approach to the nature of beliefs and believing. In: Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience – section: Emotion Regulation and Processing. 2023

Rüdiger J. Seitz:
Processes and Content of Belief. Neuroscientific Perspectives on Age-old Questions: In: Nervenheilkunde (Thieme-Verlag) 2023; 42: 294–304; 

Rüdiger J. Seitz, Hans-Ferdinand Angel & Raymond F. Paloutzian:
Bridging the Gap Between Believing and Memory Functions. In: Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2023, Vol. 19(1), 113–124.

Thomas G. Plante, Gary E. Schwartz, Julie J. Exline, Crystal L. Park, Raymond F. Paloutzian, Rüdiger J. Seitz & Hans-Ferdinand Angel:
Human interaction with the divine, the sacred, and the deceased: topics that warrant greater attention from psychologists. In: Current Psychology 2023.

Rüdiger J. Seitz & Raymond F. Paloutzian:
‘Beliefs Made It into Science: Believe It or Not’. In: *Function*, Volume 4, Issue 6. (2023)

Hans-Ferdinand Angel:
Pathways and crossroads to beliefs: Insights from a retrospective perspective. In: Frontiers in Psychology – section: Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. 2022.

Rüdiger J. Seitz, Hans-Ferdinand Angel, Raymond Paloutzian & Ann Taves:
Believing and social interactions: effects on bodily expressions and personal narratives. In: *Credition – An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Beliefs and Believing*. Special issue. In: *Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience* – section: Emotion Regulation and Processing. 2022.

Michael H. Connors & Peter W. Halligan:
Revealing the Cognitive Neuroscience of Belief. Special issue. In: Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience – section: Emotion Regulation and Processing. 2022.

Shihui Han:
Cultural differences in beliefs and believing about the self – A brain imaging approach. In: Credition – An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Beliefs and Believing. Special issue. In: Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience – section: Emotion Regulation and Processing. 2022

Gabriela Hofer, Valentina Mraulak, Sandra Grinschgl & Aljoscha C. Neubauer:
Less intelligent and unaware? Accuracy and Dunning–Kruger effects for self-assessments of different aspects of intelligence. Journal of Intelligence (2022), 10(1), Article 1. https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/10/1/10

 Eva Fleischmann, Frederike T. Fellendorf, Elena M. Schönthaler, Melanie Lenger, Lena Hiendl, Nina Bonkat, Jolana Wagner-Skacel, Susanne A. Bengesser, Hans-Ferdinand Angel, Rüdiger J. Seitz, Sophie Tietz, Eva Z. Reininghaus & Nina Dalkner:
Belief processes surrounding COVID-19 vaccination: An exploratory study investigating healthcare workers. In: Frontiers in Psychology – section: Public Mental Health 2022.

Aljoscha C. Neubauer & Gabriela Hofer:
Believing in one’s abilities: Ability estimates as a form of belief. In: Frontiers in Psychology – section: Cognition. 2022.

Gabriela Hofer & Aljoscha C. Neubauer:
(2022). How well do I know what I’m capable of? Or why it’s worth consulting others when assessing our talents. In-Mind Magazine, 1. https://de.in-mind.org/article/wie-gut-weiss-ich-was-ich-kann-oder-warum-es-sich-lohnt-andere-bei-der-einschaetzung-unserer

Leonhard Schilbach & Jennifer Pott:
Tracking and changing beliefs during social interaction: where computational psychiatry meets cognitive behavioural therapy. In: Credition – An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Beliefs and Believing. Special issue. In: Frontiers in Psychology – section: Cognition. 2022.

Irene Cristofori, Shira Cohen-Zimerman, Joseph Bulbulia, Barry Gordon, Frank Krueger & Jordan Grafman:
The neural basis of religious beliefs: evidence from brain lesions. In: *Credition – An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Beliefs and Believing*. Special issue. In: Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience – section: Emotion Regulation and Processing. 2022.

Jolana Wagner-Skacel, Sophie Tietz, Eva Fleischmann, Frederike T. Fellendorf, Susanne A. Bengesser, Melanie Lenger, Eva Z. Reininghaus, Marco Mairinger, Christof Körner, Christoph Pieh, Rüdiger J. Seitz, Hannes Hick, Hans-Ferdinand Angel & Nina Dalkner:
Believing Processes during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Analysis, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022.

 Karin Meissner:
Placebo, nocebo: Belief in the field of medicine. In: Credition – An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Beliefs and Believing. Special issue. In: Pharm. Treat. – section: Pharmacological Treatment of Pain. 2022.

Sabine Bergner, Robert Rybnicek & Karl Koschutnig:
Leadership and credition: Followers’ neural response to leaders who are perceived as transformational. In: Credition – An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Beliefs and Believing. Special issue. In: Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience – section: Emotion Regulation and Processing. 2022.

Sara Lumbreras:
The Synergies Between Understanding Belief Formation and Artificial Intelligence. In: Credition – An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Beliefs and Believing. Special issue. In: Frontiers in Psychology – section: Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. 2022.

Rüdiger J. Seitz:
Believing and Beliefs — Neurophysiological Underpinnings. In: Credition – An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Beliefs and Believing. Special issue. In: Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience – section: Emotion Regulation and Processing. 2022.

Peter Holzer:
Gut Signals and Gut Feelings: Science at the Interface of Data and Beliefs. In: Credition – An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Beliefs and Believing. Special issue. In: Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience – section: Emotion Regulation and Processing. 2022.

Sophie Tietz, Jolana Wagner-Skacel, Hans-Ferdinand Angel, Michaela Ratzenhofer, Frederike T Fellendorf, Eva Fleischmann, Christof Körner, Eva Reininghaus, Rüdiger J. Seitz & Nina Dalkner:
Belief processes during the COVID-19 pandemic in individuals with bipolar disorder: An exploratory study. In: World Journal of Psychiatry 12 (7), 2022, 929–943.

Rüdiger J. Seitz / Hans-Ferdinand Angel / Raymond Paloutzian:
‘Statements of Belief Involve Attribution’. In: Academia Letters 2022, Article 4624.

Davor Madzarevic:
Learning About Credition: Exploring the Barriers Between Basic and Applied Research. In: Credition – An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Beliefs and Believing. Special issue. In: Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience – section: Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. 2022.

Andrea Vestrucci, Sara Lumbreras & Lluis Oviedo:
Can AI Help Us to Understand Belief? Sources, Advances, Limits, and Future Directions. In: International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, 7(1), 2021, 24–33.

Philipp Kranabitl, Clemens Faustmann & Hannes Hick:
Decision-making for sustainable technical applications using the SMH approach. In: Sustainability, 13(16), 2021.

Sara Lumbreras, Lluis Oviedo & Hans-Ferdinand Angel:
The Missing Piece in Sustainability Indices: Accounting for the Human Factor. In: Sustainability, 13(21), 2021, 11796. 

Raymond Paloutzian, Rüdiger J. Seitz & Hans-Ferdinand Angel:
The Processes of Believing and Communicating with the Unseen. In: Thomas G. Plante / Gary Schwartz (Eds.): Human Interaction with the Divine, the Sacred, and the Deceased: Psychological, Scientific, and Theological Perspectives. London and New York: Taylor & Francis, Routledge 2021.

 Aljoscha C. Neubauer & Gabriela Hofer:
Self-estimates of abilities are a better reflection of individuals’ personality traits than of their abilities and are also strong predictors of professional interests. Personality and Individual Differences. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.109850

Rüdiger J. Seitz, Hans-Ferdinand Angel & Raymond Paloutzian:
The Process of Believing, Mental Abnormalities, and Other Matters of the Mind: Where Do They Come From? What Are They Good For? In: Journal for the Cognitive Science, 2021, 7(1), 54–72. 

Rüdiger J. Seitz:
Beliefs: A challenge in neuropsychological disorders. In: Journal of Neuropsychology 2021.

Hans-Ferdinand Angel:
A Process of Merging the Interior and Exterior Reality: A Brief Overview of the Structure of Credition. In: Maria-Teresa Teixeira, Moirika Reker & Aljoscha Berve (Eds): Mind in Nature. Bridging Process Philosophy and Neoplatonism, 2021, 201–219. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Sara Lumbreras:
‘Artificial Intelligence and Medicine: the Need for Interpretable Models’. In: TECHNO REVIEW. International Technology, Science and Society Review, 9(2), 2021, 97–102.

Hannes Hick, Hans-Ferdinand Angel, Philipp Kranabitl & Jolana Wagner-Skacel:
Decision-Making and the Influence of the Human Factor. In: Hannes Hick / Klaus Küpper / Helfried Sorger (Eds.): Systems Engineering for Automotive Powertrain Development, Springer 2020, 1–26.