In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion

By Scott Atran. 2005

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Religious Behaviors, Badges, and Bans: Signaling Theory and the Evolution of Religion. (2006, background): “More or less independent literatures within economics (Berman 2000; Carr and Landa 1983; Iannaconne 1992, 1994), anthropology (Atran 2002, Atran and Norenzayan 2005), and philosophy (Bulbulia 2004a,b) have converged on what has been variously (and cumbersomely) called the club-goods model of…”
The Individual Risk Assessment of Terrorism (2012, background): “Indeed, Merari (2010, p, 221), in his large study of Palestinian suicide terrorists, found that “none whatsoever were alcohol or drug abusers (most of the suicides were members of extremist Islamic organizations, which have conducted a fierce struggle against drugs in the Palestinian society, and al”
Our Gods: Variation in Supernatural Minds (2011, background): “The similarities frequently suggest pan-human cognitive biases, whereas the differences are often considered to be merely cultural byproducts of evolved cognitive mechanisms ( Atran 2002; Atran & Norenzayan 2004; Boyer 2001; Kirkpatrick 2006, 2008).”
Toward an evolutionary social neuroscience of religion (2011, background): “The first account suggests that belief in God is a by-product of the evolutionarily adaptive ability to detect agency in the external world (Atran, 2002 ; Barrett, 2000 ).”
The burden of proof for a cultural group selection account (2014, background): “72 Atran, S. & Norenzayan, A. (2005) Religion’s evolutionary landscape: Counterintu-”
Does Religion Promote Trust? The Role of Signaling, Reputation, and Punishment (2005, background): “Economists (Berman 2000; Carr and Landa 1983; Iannaccone 1992, 1994), cognitive scientists ( Atran 2002; Bulbulia 2004a, 2004b), and evolutionary anthropologists (Cronk 1994; Irons 1996a, 1996b, 1996c; 2001, 2004; Sosis 2003, 2004; Sosis and Alcorta 2003) have converged in applying signaling theory”
The Representation of Agents in Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (2016, background): “Atran (2002) ties this closely to developmental work suggesting an early propensity of humans to attribute agency.”