FUNCTIONAL ORIGINS OF RELIGIOUS CONCEPTS: ONTOLOGICAL AND STRATEGIC SELECTION IN EVOLVED MINDS*

By Pascal Boyer. 2003

118 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Health

1. Joseph Henrich
2. Benjamin G. Purzycki
3. Aiyana K. Willard
4. Ara Norenzayan
5. Quentin D. Atkinson
6. Dimitris Xygalatas

In Social Psychology

1. Joseph Henrich
2. Aiyana K. Willard
3. Benjamin G. Purzycki
4. Ara Norenzayan
5. Emma Cohen
6. C. Apicella
7. Quentin D. Atkinson
8. Dimitris Xygalatas

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Joseph Henrich
2. Aiyana K. Willard
3. Benjamin G. Purzycki
4. Ara Norenzayan
5. Quentin D. Atkinson
6. Emma Cohen
7. Dimitris Xygalatas
8. C. Apicella

Citations in the corpus

• The evolution of religion and morality: a synthesis of ethnographic and experimental evidence from eight societies (2017, background): “Briefly, we note that some approaches argue that religion is largely a by-product of evolved cognitive adaptations (Atran, 2002; Barrett, 2004; Boyer, 2000; Kirkpatrick, 1999).”
• The cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion (2004, unknown): “So for Boyer, when we’re confronted with full-access strategic agents concepts, our passion for surprise and wonder is activated, and we take a special interest in them (Boyer 2000).”