Religion explained : the human instincts that fashion gods, spirits and ancestors
By Pascal Boyer. 2002
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- Believing, Bonding, Behaving, and Belonging (2011, background): “Atran and Norenzayan (2004; see also Boyer, 2001) advanced ideas from evolutionary psychology that are in favor of some “naturalness” and universality of the major aspects of religion across religions and societies.”
- Metaphors and the market: Consequences and preconditions of agent and object metaphors in stock market commentary (2007, background): “More specifically, cognitive theorists in several disciplines (Boyer, 2001; Wegner, 2002) have argued that people’s tendency toward anthropomorphic thinking about complex systems–such as the weather, the supernatural, and computers—reflects our application of the same schemas we use to interpret per”
- “Speak, Lord, Your Servant Is Listening”: Religious Priming Activates Submissive Thoughts and Behaviors (2009, background): “From an evolutionary psychology perspective, religious beliefs and practices also have functional implications for social life (Atran & Norenzayan, 2004; Boyer, 2001).”
- Beliefs about God, the afterlife and morality support the role of supernatural policing in human cooperation (2011, background): “Whilst some argue that religion is simply a cultural parasite (Blackmore, 1999; Dawkins, 1976, 2006; Dennett, 2006) or evolutionary by-product of other adaptive processes (Atran, 2002; Barrett, 2000; Boyer, 2001; Guthrie, 1993; Pyysiäinen & Hauser, 2010), others see it as providing fitness advantage”
- The functional architecture of human empathy. (2004, background): “(Boyer, 2001).”
- Prestige-biased cultural learning: bystander's differential attention to potential models influences children's learning (2012, background): “2003) or the properties of modern religions (Boyer, 2001; Henrich, 2009).”