Joshua Knobe & Jesse Bering: Percontations: Why Are We Religious?
Topics include:
How religious belief looks to a cognitive scientist
Are we hardwired to expect an afterlife?
Unbelievers’ puzzling concern for their dead parents.
Why everything seems to happen for a reason.
Do children look for symbolic meaning in everyday events?
The evolution of religion.
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April 13, 2009
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