Zach Buck
Graduate Student
Psychological Sciences
Concentration
Ecological Psychology
Advisor
Edward Large
Anticipated Graduation
2030
Education
Research Interests
Research focuses on the evolved psychology of ritual, religion, and aesthetics. Collective behavior and social cohesion, physiological synchrony, and altered states of consciousness
Recent Publications
Buck, Z. (2025). Neanderthal Burials. In: Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Religious Psychology and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38971-9_1337-1
Buck, Z. (2025). Durkheim’s Definition of Religion. In: Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Religious Psychology and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38971-9_1459-1
Buck, Z., Michalchyshyn, E., Nishat, A., Lisi, M., Huang, Y., Liu, H., Makarenka, A., Plyngam, C. P., Windle, A., Yang, Z., & Walther, D. B. (2024). Aesthetic processing in neurodiverse populations. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 166, Article 105878. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105878
